![]() ![]() "There have been several grants that have been applied for and we are looking to several of our federal partners for help."Ĭooper said the state will hold Pactiv Evergreen accountable. We also want to leverage all of the federal money that we can," he said. “We need to figure out exactly where the money needs to go here and what it can be used for. ![]() “I love this little town so anything that will keep this town going is appreciated,” she said.Ĭooper said the state of North Carolina is ready to help Canton more forward through financial support, work to bring new industry and small business to the town and health support for those who have lost their jobs. She was glad the governor came to highlight small businesses in Canton. ![]() “It felt pretty surreal but also you could feel how much the community was really saddened by it but also supportive of each other,” Cook said. Amanda Cook poses at Blue Moon Books in Canton. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Just a vague, vestigial knowledge of a world long gone. Some are less obvious than mine: shorts and a sweater, skirt and a blouse. We like to joke and speculate about our clothes, since these final fashion choices are the only indication of who we were before we became no one. The shirt is looking pretty macabre by now. ![]() His clothes are holey jeans and a plain white T-shirt. He points at my tie and tries to laugh, a choked, gurgling rumble deep in his gut. Before I became a zombie I must have been a businessman, a banker or broker or some young temp learning the ropes, because I'm wearing fairly nice clothes. I could almost pass for a Living man in need of a vacation. Just the grey skin, the unpleasant smell, the dark circles under my eyes. None of us are particularly attractive, but death has been kinder to me than some. My friend 'M' says the irony of being a zombie is that everything is funny, but you can't smile, because your lips have rotted off. It's funny because back when I was alive, I was always forgetting other people's names. Mine might have started with an 'R', but that's all I have now. We lose them like car keys, forget them like anniversaries. ![]() I'm sorry I can't properly introduce myself, but I don't have a name any more. ![]() ![]() ![]() Novy Mir editor Aleksandr Tvardovsky wrote a short introduction for the issue entitled "Instead of a Foreword".Īt least five English translations have been made. The book's publication was an extraordinary event in Soviet literary history, since never before had an account of Stalinist repressions been openly distributed. ![]() The story is set in a Soviet labor camp in the early 1950s and features the day of prisoner Ivan Denisovich Shukhov. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Russian: Один день Ивана Денисовича, romanized: Odin den' Ivana Denisovicha, IPA: ) is a short novel by the Russian writer and Nobel laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, first published in November 1962 in the Soviet literary magazine Novy Mir ( New World). ![]() ![]() ![]() "40 Years of Socialist Albania", an Albanian publication from 1984 describes how during his four-decade rule, he focused on rebuilding the country, which was left in ruins after World War II, building Albania's first railway line, raising the adult literacy rate from 5% to 98%, wiping out epidemics, electrifying the country and leading Albania towards becoming agriculturally self-sufficient. Less than two years after the liberation of the country, the monarchy was abolished, King Zog was deposed and Hoxha rose to power as the head of state of Albania. The Yugoslav Partisans assisted the Albanians. Hoxha was elected First Secretary in March 1943 at the age of 34. Following Italy's invasion of Albania, he joined the Party of Labour of Albania at its creation in 1941. He served as the 22nd Prime Minister of Albania from 1944 to 1954 and at various times served as foreign minister and defence minister as well.īorn in Gjirokastër in 1908, Hoxha became a teacher in grammar school in 1936. He was chairman of the Democratic Front of Albania, commander-in-chief of the armed forces from 1944 until his death. ![]() ![]() Enver Hoxha was an Albanian communist politician who served as the head of state of Albania from 1944 until his death in 1985, as the First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania. ![]() |