5/13/2023 0 Comments Hitler my part in his downfall![]() ![]() ![]() I know that we have been changed for a long time,we do not remember anymore how we were, but surely we remember that we were different. Wherever we were outside of Spain, we would suffer because we would have two homelands, I know, but here life is too much pressed us and humiliated us. We do not know is it more difficult that we are here or that we are not there. ![]() And our trouble is that we could not fully love this country, to which we owe becouse it has received us, accept us and provided us with shelter, nor could we hate the one who has unjustly took us away and expelled us as an unworthly sons. Now, threw us on the East, and life on the East is not easy for us or blessed, and the as much man goes further and gets closer to the sun's birth, it is worse, because the land is younger and more raw and people are from the land. More than three hundred years ago, brought us from our homeland, a unique Andalusia, a terrible, foolish, fratricidal whirlwind, which we can not understand even today, and who has not understood it to this day, scattered us all over the world and made us beggars to which gold does not help. “Ivo Andric, Bosnian chronicle (Quote about nostalgia, free translation from Bosnian lenguage) ![]()
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5/13/2023 0 Comments Neil gaiman terry pratchett death![]() ![]() "Whatever he was working on at the time of his death to be taken out along with his computers, to be put in the middle of a road and for a steamroller to steamroll over them all," Gaiman told The Times.įan reactions were mixed upon hearing the news. Later he tweeted a photo of the crushed drive, and announced it will be on display at the Salisbury Museum in in an exhibition called HisWorld (opens in a new tab), which will run from September to January.įollowing his death, longtime friend and author Neil Gaiman revealed Pratchett's wishes to UK publication (opens in a new tab) The Times (opens in a new tab). The name of the steam roller, according to the Guardian, is Lord Jericho and was manufactured by John Fowler & Co. "About to fulfill my obligation to Terry," Wilkins wrote with a photo of a hard drive in front of an antique steamroller at the Great Dorset Steam Fair. Longtime assistant Rob Wilkins tweeted photos of Pratchett's hard drive to their shared account on Friday. It took nearly 30 years, but the fantasy epic by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett will arrive onscreen in the form of a six-part mini-series debuting May 31. ![]() Unfinished works from artists, musicians, and authors get reworked and released all the time, so it's no surprise that Pratchett would want his unfinished stories to never be publicly released. Author Terry Pratchett has died and left us with some moving final tweets ![]() ![]() ![]() She married Gaither in 1962, and they began writing songs recreationally. There, she met Bill Gaither, who was teaching English at the time. Upon her graduation, she took a job at Alexandria Monroe High School as a French teacher. Her extracurricular activities at the college included participation in the Drama Club, Alpha Chi National College Honor Society and Sigma Tau Delta honor society. There, she triple majored in English, French, and Sociology. ![]() When Gloria graduated from Clare High School in Clare, Michigan, she attended Anderson University in Anderson, Indiana. She spent some of her childhood and high school years in the Battle Creek area of Michigan, working a brief time for the Kellogg Company. She was born Gloria Lee Sickal in 1942 in Michigan, a daughter of Pastor Lee Sickal and Dorothy Sickal. Since 1991, she has served as a performer, recording artist, songwriter, scriptwriter and narrator for the Gaither Homecoming series of television broadcasts, video and DVD releases, and audio recordings. She performed, traveled and recorded with the Bill Gaither Trio from 1965 through 1991. She is married to Bill Gaither and together they have written more than 700 songs. ![]() Gloria Gaither (born March 4, 1942) is a Christian singer- songwriter, author, speaker, editor, and academic. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Mary wollstonecraft a vindication![]() But because women tend to be given a haphazard education, they are not given adequate opportunity to develop their reason and attain virtue. She believes that although men and women generally have different duties in life, they should strive for identical virtues. ![]() ![]() Wollstonecraft rejects the common argument that men and women should aim to acquire different virtues. In her critique of contemporary views of women’s education, Wollstonecraft looks primarily at middle-class women and considers them first as “human creatures … placed on this earth to unfold their faculties.” She bases her argument on the belief that reason is what makes people human, that virtue is what distinguishes people from one another, and that virtue is attained through knowledge. Women are taught that romance is the primary goal of their lives, and they are not encouraged to develop their reason or virtue. Her argument is that if women are not “prepared by education to become the companion of man, she will stop the progress of knowledge and virtue.” Wollstonecraft believes that the neglect of women’s education has caused great misery. ![]() Mary Wollstonecraft writes A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in response to French politician Talleyrand-Périgord’s pamphlet on national education. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Frankenstein underground![]() Before the genre was diluted, however, the parody film had a fruitful life due in large part to legendary funnyman Mel Brooks, who built a career mostly directing parodies from the 1970s through his last film in 1995, Dracula: Dead and Loving It. Attempting to make a parody now in the shadow of these films alongside the financial stranglehold on them feels impossible. The death of this particular brand of comedy should not be surprising after the beating it took in the 2000s following a string of increasingly stupid films like Date Movie, Epic Movie, and Meet the Spartans from filmmakers Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg that essentially turned movie parody into a series of unconnected references to pop culture. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her second novel, A Northern Light, set in the Adirondacks of 1906, against the backdrop of an infamous murder, won the Carnegie Medal, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Borders Original Voices Award, and was named a Printz Honor book. The Rose trilogy continued with The Winter Rose and The Wild Rose. Jennifer’s first novel, The Tea Rose, an epic historical novel set in London and New York in the late 19th century, was called “exquisite” by Booklist, “so much fun” by the Washington Post, a “guilty pleasure” by People and was named a Top Pick by the Romantic Times. She grew up in New York State, in Lewis and Westchester counties, and attended the University of Rochester where she majored in English Literature and European History. She is a co-author of Fatal Throne, which explores the lives of King Henry VIII's six wives, for which she wrote the part of Anna of Cleves, Henry's fourth wife. Jennifer Donnelly is the author of thirteen novels - Poisoned, Stepsister, Lost in a Book, These Shallow Graves, Sea Spell, Dark Tide, Rogue Wave, Deep Blue, Revolution, A Northern Light, The Tea Rose, The Winter Rose and The Wild Rose - and Humble Pie, a picture book for children. ![]() ![]() ![]() So she'll have to start asking, WWSGD: What would a straight girl do? If word got back to her mom, she could face a lot worse than rejection. Either way, Yami isn't going to make the same mistake again. The thing is, it's hard to fake being straight when Bo, the only openly queer girl at school, is so annoyingly perfect. Granted, she's never been great at any of those things, but that's a problem for Future Yami. But at least here no one knows she's gay, and Yami intends to keep it that way.Īfter being outed by her crush and ex-best friend before transferring to Slayton Catholic, Yami has new priorities: keep her brother out of trouble, make her mom proud, and, most importantly, don't fall in love. ![]() ![]() Sixteen-year-old Yamilet Flores prefers to be known for her killer eyeliner, not for being one of the only Mexican kids at her new, mostly white, very rich Catholic school. Morris YA Debut Award Finalist * Goodreads Finalist for Best Teen Book of the Year * Walter Honor Award Winner * Pura Belpré Honor BookĪ sharply funny and moving debut novel about a queer Mexican American girl navigating Catholic school, while falling in love and learning to celebrate her true self. ![]() National Book Award Finalist * William C. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Get a life chloe brown book review![]() ![]() To “Get a Life.” That goal included riding a motorcycle, doing something bad, meaningless sex, etc. Chloe doesn’t like him one bit, Red doesn’t get why, but he reflects the feelings back to her.Ĭhloe had made a list to help her achieve her goal. ![]() The relationship between Chloe and Red starts off with a lot of tension. The dialogue felt a little bit wierd, but as I went on I got used to it, and that was just Chloe’s (the main character of the book, hence “Get a Life, Chloe Brown“) voice. I saw it and thought it’d be a cute little romance. ![]() I got this book on a whim at walmart the other night. ![]() ![]() ![]() Dr Simpson is already engaging with other scholars to discuss the significance of the book for Muslim scholars and interreligious dialogue. The book – for which Dr Simpson contributed the first chapter, “From Quantum Physics to Classical Metaphysics” – has been noted too for its ecumenical potential, being a philosophical work within the Abrahamic-Aristotelian tradition which crosses religious boundaries. ![]() It does so, he says, by “demonstrating how ‘the new Aristotelianism’ changes the philosophical landscape for a number of traditional topics, including God’s action within the world and the place of human beings within nature”. ![]() Neo-Aristotelian Metaphysics and the Theology of Nature (Routledge, 2021), co-edited with Dr James Orr (University of Cambridge, pictured left) and Professor Robert Koons (University of Texas) is an attempt, says Dr Simpson, “to build bridges between science, theology, and philosophy”. ![]() It is nonetheless a book that will prove “a hugely enjoyable read – even for those who will find themselves in disagreement,” says Professor Marmodoro. According to Anna Marmodoro, Professor of Metaphysics at the University of Durham, the book, Neo-Aristotelian Metaphysics and the Theology of Nature (Routledge, 2021), argues “that only a metaphysics developed on the basis of the Abrahamic-Aristotelian tradition can enable us to understand today’s world of science, the relation of God to it, and our place within it”: a thesis that is likely to stimulate debate. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Raise the titanic by clive cussler![]() ![]() Then he’s hired to help the miner Joshua Hayes Brewster smuggle a thousand pounds of the ore of “a rare element called byzanium” to the United States from Novaya Zemlya, the “hellhole” island in the Russian arctic where the miners really are. ![]() In the present day, Pitt discovers the diary of the Van Dorn Detective Agency’s top investigator, “perhaps the greatest detective of his-or any-generation.” Pitt reads that in 1911, Bell was hired to find out whether nine men have faked their deaths in the Little Angel mine disaster in Colorado. Cussler and Du Brul circle back to Cussler’s Raise the Titanic (1976) in the latest derring-do adventure featuring Isaac Bell ( The Cutthroat, 2017).ĭirk Pitt of the National Underwater and Marine Agency bookends the tale with the prologue and epilogue, but the story belongs to Bell. ![]() |