Category Archives: Books & Literature

A love story, inside a lecture on race, wrapped in an exploration of cultural differences between the USA and Nigeria

Posted on January 10, 2014 by Ron Pavellas

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 →

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In Praise of German Culture

Posted on September 22, 2012 by Ron Pavellas

Learned Through My Father My father was a Germanophile even though we haven’t any family history rooted in the Germanic peoples, except for a Dutch ancestor who emigrated to Nieuw Amsterdam in the 17th Century. Dad belonged to the German Club … Continue reading →

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