Author Archives: Ron Pavellas
A love story, inside a lecture on race, wrapped in an exploration of cultural differences between the USA and Nigeria
Last year I read Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimananda Ngozi Adiche. It was well-written and engaging, and informative about a part of the world I knew little of: Nigeria and the Nigerian Civil War. More recently I viewed … Continue reading
The World’s Largest Islands
Quick! Think of all the big islands in the world. Is Australia an Island? No, it’s a continent. How do we know this? It’s just a matter of definition. Conventionally, “continents are understood to be large, continuous, discrete masses of … Continue reading
Posted in Geography
Tagged Australia, Baffin Island, Banks Island, Borneo, Devon Island, Ellesmere Island, Greenland, Helluland, Sakhalin, Sulawesi, Sumatra
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The Pavellas Perspective 