![]() ![]() It seems a definite shift occurred around 1500 concerning our attitude towards Nature and the Earth.She argues that a more rigid, violent,and paternalistic culture came to dominance at that time, virtually crushing the older more wholistic and maternalistic culture. She looks most pointedly at records from mining charters form the time period in question as well as works previous to that. ![]() ![]() Merchant wonderfully tells the compelling tale of how Western civilization in Europe began seeing the Universe as a dead thing rather than a living being- a pile of resources to be exploited rather than a mother figure to be nourished and nurtured. What a fascinating and enlightening book. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Vivienne does not tell Willie the identity of the man, but she does give Willie a hint: Willie knows that she is descended from Templeton’s founder-Marmaduke Temple-through two lines of ancestry, but Willie’s connection to her father gives her a third even more obscure family link to Marmaduke. However, after Willie returns home, Vivienne says that she actually does know the identity of Willie’s father, and that it is a man in Templeton. Vivienne was sexually liberal when she was younger, and she told Willie that she did not know the identity of Willie’s father. Willie was raised by her single mother, Vivienne. She has returned to her hometown of Templeton, New York to wait and see whether she will be expelled from her graduate program. She had an affair with a married professor named Primus Dwyer, which led to an altercation between Dwyer’s wife and Willie. ![]() Wilhelmina “Willie” Upton is a 28-year-old archaeology graduate student at Stanford University. ![]() The town of Templeton, New York is based on the town of Cooperstown, New York. Some of the novel’s characters are based on characters created by American writer. The novel is preceded by a brief author’s note. The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Groff, Lauren. ![]() ![]() ![]() He intended to show his strength by running away, however it wasn’t the right way which can helps him to be free. But he failed to realize that fate will always chase him to wherever he goes, and he has not reached the realization that he should deal with the problems he is facing at present and solve the problems with his father and his isolation at school. Kafka feels the sense of escaping the community, from the situation he is trapped in, and he feels the need for escaping in order to be “the world strongest fifteen-year-old”. However, Kafka was not mature at that time and he was dealing with a lot of emotions, therefore, he can’t fully understand what Crow said to him. The message which Crow is trying to convey to Kafka is that fate is inevitable, and no matter what Kafka does and how hard he tries to escape from it, he can not run away from it. In the text, fate is described as “a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions”, and Crow said to Kafka that “you change direction but the sandstorms chase you”. It was not wise to run away, and Crow used a sandstorm to symbolize that fate is inevitable. Crow was playing the role of guiding Kafka to think logically and not to be overwhelmed by his emotion during his journey. He should face the problem and face his fear, not avoid them. When Kafka was about to run away, the boy named Crow was trying to tell him that running away will not help him to gain the initiative of his life, and running away will not change his fate. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Some come looking for money or romance or home. Like all good love songs, the stories in Hong Kong Noir are dark.Everyone in Hong Kong Noir is on the move. The history of Hong Kong, once a fishing village, encompasses piracy, the opium trade, prostitution, corruption, espionage and revolutionary plots grist for the 14 dark tales in Hong Kong Noir. What better way to tie together the present and the past-the living and the dead-than through ghost stories? Hong Kong Noir digs below the financial centre's gleaming surface to unearth stories of the city's ghosts and spirits.The stories touch on major points in Hong Kong modern history: the horrors of Japanese occupation, post-war poverty, the economic boom under the British, the city's return to Chinese sovereignty, and the tensions of the 2014 'umbrella movement' occupation of key thoroughfares by pro-democracy activists. ![]() ![]() Fitzgerald, this book is a masterful take on the jazz age. It is important for young adults to read, especially because of the society we live in today. Bradbury also highlights the dark side of technology. This book teaches everyone about the conflict of free-thinking versus censorship. Guy Montag, is a fireman that questions the policy of book burning and undergoes intense suffering because of his actions. It is set in a society that burns books in order to control unhappy concepts and dangerous ideas. Here are five books that are essential to read.įahrenheit 451 is a dystopian novel by Ray Bradbury. There are lots of amazing books that students can read to fulfill their lives and obtain knowledge. Making time to read as a college student can be challenging but it’s not impossible. Less than half said it was out of pleasure. According to a study conducted by Barnes & Noble, 65% of college students read between 1-3 hours a week. ![]() ![]() GR Level: I, Lexile Level: 250, Grade: 1, Publisher: HarperCollins, 1999, Genre: Picture Book, Children’s Fiction, Pages: 32 ![]() ![]() Recommended to anyone, parent or child, worried about development schedules. I found Robert Kraus's text quite humorous, especially the depiction of Leo's father and his worried watching, and thought the illustrations by José Aruego, whose artwork I am familiar with from various folkloric retellings he has been involved in, were colorful and appealing. The simple story here gently drives home the point that everyone is on their own schedule, and that it shouldn't be a cause of undue concern when one child develops a skill at a different time than another. Originally published in 1971, this classic picture-book addresses a common childhood (and parent) concern: the feeling that one's development, either overall or in some specific area, is delayed, because it doesn't happen at exactly the same time as it does with one's peers. After much worried watching, his father eventually let him be, and then. ![]() ![]() His father wondered aloud what the problem was, but his mother counseled patience, declaring that he would bloom when it was his time. He didn't learn to read and write when the other baby animals did, and he couldn't draw, eat neatly, or speak when they could. ![]() ![]() ![]() A former elementary school teacher, he now writes and paints full time. He is also the illustrator of With a Little Help from My Friends by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Henry Cole has written and illustrated more than 150 books for children, including Spot, the Cat And Tango Makes Three Oink? and Little Bo in France. Harvey also wrote the book for the play Kinky Boots, which won the 2013 Tony for Best Musical. Children know him as the Easter Bunny from the Emmy-winning Elmo Saves Christmas. He has made numerous TV appearances, including an Emmy-nominated appearance on Cheers and on a classic episode of The Simpsons as Homer’s assistant, Karl. While they like to play baseball, he wants to put on the halftime show. ![]() While they like to build forts, he loves to bake cakes. Doubtfire and Independence Day, and he lent his trademark gravelly voice to Disney’s Mulan as Mulan’s soldier friend. The Sissy Duckling Harvey Fierstein, Henry Cole (Illustrator) 3.94 606 ratings118 reviews Elmer is not like the other boy ducklings. Film audiences know him best for his scene-stealing antics in Mrs. In 1983, he received two Tonys for writing and starring in Torch Song Trilogy, received a third Tony the following year for writing La Cage aux Folle, and another in 2003 for Best Actor in Hairspray. Harvey Fierstein is a four-time Tony Award-winning writer, actor, and gay-rights activist. ![]() ![]() American Republic: human stronghold where Senator Clark was from.Canterbury: where Alphonse and Nina lived, able to give aid to Greybriar.Edinburgh, Scotland: where Gareth had his castle and home.Bordeaux: site of a slaughter of vampires when Clark attacked there.Equatoria: the land where Adele is from, a human stronghold.Empire Equatoria, which is located where Egypt used to be. ![]() ![]() Much of the world is run by vampires-humans want to take it back.Human princess with magical powers, untapped.~ Goodreads | The Greyfriar Lead's Species At first, she has only one defender-a mysterious Greyfriar who roams freely in dangerous vampire regions. This fragile equilibrium is threatened, then crumbles after a single young princess becomes almost hopelessly lost in the hostile territory. One hundred fifty years later, the great divide still exists fangs on one side of the border, worried defenders on the other. In 1870, monsters rise up and conquer the northern lands, As great cities are swallowed up by carnage and disease, landowners and other elite flee south to escape their blood-thirsty wrath. Vampire predators run wild in this exciting steampunk adventure, the first in an alternate history trilogy that is already attracting attention. "combines horror, romance, action, adventure, politics, war, steampunk, and satire with such ease that you don’t even realize you are reading a book outside your comfort zone because it blends so perfectly.". ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is the traditional pattern of a Petrarchan sonnet, one of the two major sonnet forms. ‘Sonnet 43’ is classified as a sonnet because it contains fourteen lines of poetry and has a fixed rhyme scheme of abba abba cdcdcd. It becomes clear at the end that her love is a spiritual one as much as it is a romantic one. She hopes that God will allow her to love her partner even in death. As the poem progresses the language becomes more figurative with the poet making various nature-based comparisons in order to depict her love accurately and movingly.ĭeath comes into the poem at the end as the speaker talks about the length and durability of their relationship. She addresses her listener, likely her husband Robert Browning, and tells him that there are many reasons why she loves him and that she’s going to list them out. She loves him with all of her beings, and she hopes God will grant her the ability to love him even after she has passed.īrowning engages with themes of love/devotion and relationships in ‘Sonnet 43’. From the first lines, it’s clear that this is going to be a love poem. She tells her lover just how deeply her love goes, and she also tells him how she loves him. In the poem, the speaker is proclaiming her unending passion for her beloved. It is easily one of the most famous and recognizable poems in the English language. Sonnet 43′ by Elizabeth Barrett Browning describes the love that one speaker has for her husband. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ye expects to be tortured for the letter, but to her surprise, she instead is brought to a mysterious mountain called Radar Peak. ![]() However, the letter backfires, drawing the government’s ire, and a panicked Bai frames Ye for the entire thing. Bai wants to write to the Chinese government and urge them to slow the rate of their deforestation, and Ye offers to transcribe the letter for him. When she befriends reporter Bai Mulin, Ye learns that humans are rapidly destroying Earth’s environment. Her father, a theoretical physics professor named Ye Zhetai, has been tortured to death for his allegedly anti-Communist beliefs, and her mother, Shao Lin, was among his torturers.Ī few years later, Ye Wenjie has been sent to a Mongolian labor camp, where she spends her days cutting down trees. It’s the height of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, and for college student Ye Wenjie, the world is falling apart. ![]() |