![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Truth loves nothing better than simplicity of truth: that is the lesson Columbe Josse ought to have learned from her medieval readings. But if you dread tomorrow, it's because you don't know how to build the present, and when you don't know how to build the present, you tell yourself you can deal with it tomorrow, and it's a lost cause anyway because tomorrow always ends up becoming today, don't you see?” ![]() But just by observing the adults around me I understood very early on that life goes by in no time at all, yet they're always in such a hurry, so stressed out by deadlines, so eager for now so they needn't think about tomorrow. Nor must we forget that these old people were young once, that a lifespan is pathetically short, that one day you're twenty and the next day you're eighty. We mustn't forget that our bodies decline, friends die, everyone forgets about us, and the end is solitude. And where's the joy in these final hours that they ought to be making the most of? They're spent in boredom and bitterness, endlessly revisiting memories. “We mustn't forget old people with their rotten bodies, old people who are so close to death, something that young people don't want to think about (so it is to homes that they entrust the care of accompanying their parents to the threshold, with no fuss or bother). ![]()
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![]() ![]() The Door of No Return, a historical verse novel set in Ghana in 1861, told from the perspective of 11-year-old Koffi, was inspired by Alexander's visits to Ghana. He is a regular contributor to National Public Radio's Morning Edition program. Īlexander runs the Bookinaday program to introduce children to writing and publishing. He won a 2020 Newbery Honor for his illustrated poem The Undefeated. Books Īlexander's picture book Acoustic Rooster and His Barnyard Band was selected for the 2014 "Michigan Reads! One State, One Children's Book" program. His father was a scholar and book publisher and his mother was an educator so he was always surrounded by books.Īlexander attended Virginia Tech, where he began premedical studies before taking a writing class with award-winning poet Nikki Giovanni. ![]() Kwame Alexander (born August 21, 1968) is an American writer of poetry and children's fiction.Īlexander was born in Manhattan, New York, and grew up in Virginia. ![]() ![]() This entry, with its obvious culprit and standard-issue plot, shows that giving a character fur or wings is no substitute for an original, well-rounded personality. Vera investigates, even though Orville warns her to stay out of police business. Could this be the final resting place of Julia, a moose who disappeared some years earlier? It doesn’t take long for Vera’s budding sweetheart, Deputy Orville Braun (a bear), who has learned his detecting skills from The Big Book of Policing, to make Joe, Julia’s moose husband, suspect number one. Broadhead (a snake), slithers up and determines that the remains belong to a moose. ![]() Vera Vixen (a fox), intrepid reporter for the Shady Hollow Herald, is at Cold Clay Orchards interviewing the rabbit workers about the coming harvest when bunnies Ralph and Peter uncover the bones of a large mammal. ![]() The pseudonymous Black’s lame sequel to Shady Hollow revisits the village of Shady Hollow, whose inhabitants amount to clichéd humans in animal form. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() About immigration, American roadside attractions, and seedy motels. About cold snaps in Wisconsin, and a coming storm that has nothing to do with the weather. ![]() This is a novel about fading Old Gods and rising New Gods. The tale is the map that is the territory.” The most accurate map possible would be the territory, and thus would be perfectly accurate and perfectly useless. The more accurate the map, the more it resembles the territory. You see? The way one describes a story, to oneself or to the world, is by telling the story. “One describes a tale best by telling the tale. This time, it was still all those things, but in the best possible way: As a novel, it’s incredibly ambitious, and trippy, and weird, but everything that’s written is there for a reason and it wouldn’t be the same book if one of the many stories that appear irrelevant to the big picture at first glance were left out. I read it for Shadow’s story, and was let down by the climax I found the plot incoherent at times, confusing, odd, often seemingly pointless. I liked it well enough back then, but mostly for the underlying idea and Neil’s British balls of steel that dared to tackle the topic of American belief-but I didn’t get it, not really. I re-read this in preparation of the TV show, and well… I’m not sure what was different compared to when I first read it some four years ago (maybe nothing, maybe everything), but it all just fell into place so seamlessly. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mattel has sold over a billion Barbie dolls, making it the company's largest and most profitable line. Barbie has been an important part of the toy fashion doll market for over six decades and has been the subject of numerous controversies and lawsuits, often involving parodies of the doll and her lifestyle. īarbie is the figurehead of a brand of Mattel dolls and accessories, including other family members and collectible dolls. American businesswoman Ruth Handler is credited with the creation of the doll using a German doll called Bild Lilli as her inspiration. Barbie is a fashion doll manufactured by American toy company Mattel, Inc. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He shows how to practise such noble precepts in journalism, law and politics. Gandhi takes Truth to another level: to say as you think and to do as you say. It seems at times Gandhi places so much emphasis on moral and spiritual development that science and medicine are deemed irrelevant.One still has to marvel at Gandhi's tact and ability, even if only for a while, to bring together communities across locations, languages and creeds. His experiments with diet, medicine and education leave much to be desired. Some of the ideas here about simple living, while not revolutionary to Indian culture, are admirable. Written in instalments from 1925 to 1929, Gandhi's autobiography charts his train of thought throughout his time in Africa and the beginnings of Satyagraha in India. ![]() ![]() ![]() Okonkwo is scarred by the humiliation and shame he suffers as a result of his father’s general failure to live up to the ideals of his society. Okonkwo is the novel’s main character and its tragic hero. African societies were rather made up of different sorts of individuals with qualities, motivations, and actions that anyone around the world could relate to. The vast range of characters typifies Achebe’s point about the multi-dimensionality of traditional Africans as opposed to the one-dimensional representations of Western writers. We have submissive wives but also authoritative and imposing women who carry out the will of the gods. His characters are drawn from a wide variety of personalities and types, from the cruel and violent to the humane and peaceful, from the toxic masculine to the effeminate. In ‘Things Fall Apart,’ Chinua Achebe’s quest to present an authentic and functioning traditional African society sees him create characters that embody both the strength and flaws of this society. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Reuven Malter lives in Brooklyn, he’s in love, and he’s studying to be a rabbi. Urn:lcp:isbn_0449239365250:lcpdf:1b13ac67-80bc-4008-bff7-f835522c5852 Hardcover 385.39 55 Used from 2.99 2 New from 385.39 14 Collectible from 19.50 In a passionate, energetic narrative, The Promise brilliantly dramatizes what it is to master and use knowledge to make one’s own way in the world. ![]() ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 00:01:14 Boxid IA40041202 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier (p.195-6) Potok gives me more to think about when these grad students are discussing 'The Death of a Salesman', where the hero of this modern tragedy is the common man. ![]() ![]() ![]() Why? Why did only a few Asian countries learn the right lessons from SARS and MERS? While populist leaders certainly performed poorly in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, Niall Ferguson argues that more profound pathologies were at work-pathologies already visible in our responses to earlier disasters. ![]() ![]() Yet in 2020 the responses of many developed countries, including the United States, to a new virus from China were badly bungled. But when disaster strikes, we ought to be better prepared than the Romans were when Vesuvius erupted, or medieval Italians when the Black Death struck. and wars, are not normally distributed there is no cycle of history to help us anticipate the next catastrophe. Pandemics, like earthquakes, wildfires, financial crises. ![]() Setting the annus horribilis of 2020 in historical perspective, Niall Ferguson explains why we are getting worse, not better, at handling disasters.ĭisasters are inherently hard to predict. "All disasters are in some sense man-made." ![]() ![]() ![]() While visitor restrictions may be difficult for residents and families, it is an important temporary measure for their protection. The new measures are CMS’s latest action to protect America’s seniors, who are at highest risk for complications from COVID-19. It directs nursing homes to significantly restrict visitors and nonessential personnel, as well as restrict communal activities inside nursing homes. The measures take the form of a memorandum and is based on the newest recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). ![]() Newest guidance based on CDC recommendationsĪs part of the broader Trump Administration announcement today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced critical new measures designed to keep America’s nursing home residents safe from the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). ![]() |