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The Frances G. Barrett Memorial Creative Writing Contest is held annually at Henry Ford College to honor the memory of the English Department's first department chairperson. The contest promotes and celebrates the creative writing of students at Henry Ford College.
Topics: Poetry, Creative Writing, Henry Ford College, Barrett Contest
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Dec 5, 2016
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Excerpt from James Baldwin's "Notes of a Native Son" as read by Ron Butler for Blackstone Audio. Audio used for ADA compliance.
Topics: Harlem, Notes of a Native Son
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May 1, 2016
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2014 Frances G. Barrett Writing Contest Award Ceremony at Henry Ford Community College at the Liberal Arts Auditorium.
Topics: Barrett Awards, Henry Ford Community College
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Frances G. Barrett Writing Contest Ceremony at Henry Ford Community College in 2013 at the Liberal Arts Auditorium.
Topics: Barrett Awards, Henry Ford Community College
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Apr 28, 2016
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Thursday, April 21, 2016 Barrett Award Ceremony at Henry Ford College in the K-14 Liberal Arts Auditorium. Awards given for HFC student winners of the Barrett Writing Contest and of the Colter Poetry Contest.
Topics: Barrett, Henry Ford College
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Aug 22, 2015
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Aug 22, 2015
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Scott Martelle provides his journalistic assessment of the unemployment situation in Detroit up to 2012, when he published his book, Detroit: A Biography.
Topics: Jobs, Detroit, Unemployment
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Feb 21, 2015
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AudioGo 1995 unabridged reading of "Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin, narrated by Tamara Walters, part of Great Classic Women's Fiction series.
Topic: story of an hour
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Read by Stacy Keach for Recorded Books in 2009, published originally in 1924 in The Transatlantic Review, this first of Hemingway's Nick Adams stories, republished by Charles Scribner's Sons in New York in the book In Our Time, along with several other Nick Adams stories, in 1925, we are introduced to young Nick as he travels with his father, Dr. Adams, to an Indian camp, where a young woman needs help with a difficult birth.
Topics: Indian camp, Nick Adams, In Our Time
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AudioGo and Sound Library excerpt from Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin, with Dion Graham reading "Sonny's Blues," a story about two brothers in Harlem in 1957.
Topic: Sonny Blues Harlem 1957
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Symphony Space and WNYC Timeless Classics Selected Shorts reading by Marian Seldes of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" for educational purposes.
Topics: shirley jackson, short story, the lottery, marian seldes
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Topic: favorites
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Mary Norton's classic tale of little people who help to teach a "boy" much about courage, integrity, sacrifice, friendship, respect, and love.
Topic: fantasy little people
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Narrator recounts grandparents and parents immigration to Detroit and working at Ford Motor Company.
Topics: Ford Motor Company, Acculturation
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Narrator recounts grandparents and parents immigration to Detroit and working at Ford Motor Company.
Topics: Detroit, Ford Motor, Acculturation
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Journalist Scott Martelle reads from his comprehensive and very readable "biography" of Detroit, from its settlement, to its role in state government, to its industrial rise and fall, and its future potential to be a thriving metropolis again, Martelle gives an objective account of the Motor City.
Topic: Detroit Biography
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Set in depression-era Mississippi, the story of a young girl coming to realize the wisdom of her elders, her own strength and the strength of her family, as they overcome the complex challenges underlying why both whites and blacks were victim to the economics of slavery and sharecropping.
Topics: Depression, Racism, Mildred D. Taylor, Logan family, Children's Literature
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Flint native, Christopher Paul Curtis's first novel won him acclaim for this heartwarming story of an African American family that must come to face some of the most difficult challenges at the height of the Civil Rights movement in America, universal issues learned and told through the wit and humor of a nine year old narrator.
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Topics: Civil Rights, Watsons Birmingham, Christopher Paul Curtis
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Beverly Cleary's classic story about the son of a single mom who works as a caterer and is trying to complete her college education at a community college reveals the power of writing to resolve daily challenges of childhood while also revealing the strength of character a boy did not know he has.
Topics: Childrens Literature, Beverly Cleary, Dear Mr Henshaw
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May 14, 2011
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Published in 1956, Philip K. Dick's science fiction short story questions the idea of free will in a society so concerned with preventing crime that it incarcerates people based on the prediction of three extra-sensory "pre-cogs," individuals who have had their ESP so developed that they can see crimes before they happen. The story became adapted into a movie by Steven Spielberg in 2002.
Topics: Minority Report by Philip K. Dick, ESP science fiction short story
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Published in 1963, Pierre Boulle's science fiction novel about an astronaut crew being stranded on a planet of monkeys was the inspiration for the 1968 Planet of the Apes movie directed by Franklin J. Shaffner, starring Charleton Heston. While the more famous movie has the astronaut discover that he has not landed on a foreign planet but has landed back on Earth centuries later to a world where monkeys rule and humans have become slaves and servants, the class inequality and evolutionary themes...
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Topics: Pierre Boulle, Monkey Planet, Planet of the Apes, BBC radio Planet of the Apes
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Barrett Awards Committee
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Henry Ford Community College English and World Languages Division Barrett Creative Writing Awards Ceremony held in 2011 in Dearborn, Michigan. Winners are published in Michigan Ave. Creative Arts Journal: http://www.hfcc.edu/english/michiganave
Topics: Barrett Award, Creative Writing, HFCC, English and World Languages, Dearborn, Michigan Ave
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Rick Deckard is a bounty hunter assigned to "retire" rogue androids masquerading as humans, but discovers there may be nothing that really separates the android from the human, for the one distinction, empathy, is revealed to be its own virtual reality in a post-acopolyptic world where trying to feel for any living thing becomes a highly prized commodity.
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Topics: virtual reality, empathy machine, androids
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Dana is a young college graduate who also happens to be African American and newly married to Kevin, who happens to be white. They are about to celebrate the bi-centenniel of American Independence in 1976 when she is time warped back to the antebellem South in the early 1800s where she discovers she must repeatedly save a sometimes ruthless slave-holder in order to save her family lineage and thus insure she will eventually be born.
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Topics: slavery, antebellum, time travel, bi-centennial, inter-racial marriage, Black history
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Henry Ford Community College English and World Languages Division Barrett Creative Writing Awards Ceremony held in 2008 in Dearborn, Michigan. Winners are published in Michigan Ave. Creative Arts Journal: http://www.hfcc.edu/english/michiganave
Topics: Barrett Award, Creative Writing, HFCC, English and World Languages, Dearborn, Michigan Ave
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