Time came, perhaps, all so soon, when our thoughts over-leaped that narrow boundary when there was some one (very dear, we thought then, very beautiful, and absolutely perfect) wanting to the fulness of our happiness when we were wanting too (or we thought so, which did just as well) at the Christmas hearth by which that some one sat and when we intertwined with every wreath and garland of our life that some one's name. Time was, with most of us, when Christmas Day encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for us to miss or seek bound together all our home enjoyments, affections, and hopes grouped everything and every one around the Christmas fire and made the little picture shining in our bright young eyes, complete.
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5/29/2023 0 Comments Seraphina rachelMost dragons in Goredd, Seraphina’s country, are required to wear a bell on their shoulder, although scholarly dragons are exempt.įrom Seraphina’s narration, we learn that her father Claude had no idea his wife Linn was a dragon until Linn died giving birth to Seraphina. A truce exists between the two species but there is also a lot of tension and bigotry. In this world, dragons are a logical, emotionless species, but they can take human shape and while doing so, experience human emotions – something they guard against vigilantly. The secret of her maternity is one she must hide at all costs. Sixteen year old Seraphina Dombegh, the heroine of the novel, is the child of a human father and a dragon mother. Your debut YA fantasy, Seraphina, set in a world based Renaissance Europe, is both a coming of age story and a tale of a clash between two species. 5/29/2023 0 Comments A light in the attic shelWipe the board off with a Kleenex when you finish with a problem and are ready to start a new one.Īssessment: Multiplication, Division, Addition, and Subtraction If the sheet tells you to compute a problem using divide and the number 3 with an answer of 15, then you write 15 in the second blank and try to figure out a divide problem using the number three and write it in the first. If the sheet says to compute the answer of 45 divided by 3, then you write the problem in the first blank of the poem on the poster board and then work the problem and write the answer in the second blank. Procedures for students to follow: Use the problem sheet for the questions. Materials needed: Poster board or 12 x 18 tag paper TEKS addressed by this activity: Math 4.3 and 4.4 5/29/2023 0 Comments Bell hooks transgressionTeaching To Transgress takes this critical stance about the ways in which our world is structured, and considers how this applies to teaching at university. If you’re not familiar with her, bell hooks is a black, female, American academic who has spent her career thinking and writing about how our current system, a white capitalist patriarchy, can be critiqued and challenged – she’s possibly most famous for her book Ain’t I a Woman? which highlighted the ways in which feminism excluded black voices, which current debates about intersectionality are indebted to. It’s a fairly short read, but very thought provoking. We have a hard copy available in the library, and you can also access the PDF online from the University of Texas. One of my favourite books about teaching was published 25 years ago, but the issues it raises are still very relevant today it’s Teaching To Transgress, by bell hooks (Routledge, 1994). Whilst I’m sure many of you will be using the summer to catch up with your research and writing, or to have a well-deserved break, this might also be a good opportunity to take some time to do some reading about teaching. The days are longer, travelling on the Tube has become unbearable, and City has become empty and quiet – this can only mean one thing: summer has arrived. While preserving the integrity of Graham's original text, this revised edition includes updated commentary by noted financial journalist Jason Zweig, whose perspective incorporates the realities of today's market, draws parallels between Graham's examples and today's financial headlines, and gives readers a more thorough understanding of how to apply Graham's principles. Over the years, market developments have proven the wisdom of Graham's strategies. Graham's philosophy of "value investing" - which shields investors from substantial error and teaches them to develop long-term strategies - has made The Intelligent Investor the stock market bible ever since its original publication in 1949. The greatest investment advisor of the twentieth century, Benjamin Graham taught and inspired people worldwide. The Classic Text Annotated to Update Graham's Timeless Wisdom for Today's Market Conditions Now available for the first time in paperback! 5/28/2023 0 Comments Narwhal and jellyThere are six books in the series, which started with Unicorn in the Sea! But they can be read in any order.ĭiscover more graphic novels for kids on our blog. The two might not have a lot in common, but they do they love waffles, parties and. There are even some narwhal facts in the books too! The adventures of the cartoon narwhal and jellyfish exploring the ocean together are all about the power of imagination, friendship and positivity. Author/ illustrator Ben Clanton describes them as in between a graphic novel and a picture book, which makes them ideal for kids starting out on their reading journey. Join happy-go-lucky Narwhal and no-nonsense Jelly the jellyfish, as these unlikely best friends discover the whole wide ocean together. The Narwhal and Jelly books are perfect for new readers aged 5+, with their short comic-strip stories and silly jokes. The two might not have a lot in common, but they do they love waffles, parties and adventures. Through engaging close readings and an accessible use of theory, this book exposes the problems embedded in the ways critics have used ideas of language, literature, structuralism, and semiotics, and sets out a new and more theoretically sound way of understanding how comics communicate. It has become an axiom in comic studies that "comics is a language, not a genre." But what exactly does that mean, and how is discourse on the form both aided and hindered by thinking of it in linguistic terms? In Comics and Language, Hannah Miodrag challenges many of the key assumptions about the "grammar" and formal characteristics of comics, and offers a more nuanced, theoretical framework that she argues will better serve the field by offering a consistent means for communicating critical theory in the scholarship. 5/28/2023 0 Comments Book of Hours by Kevin YoungYet this interlude becomes another kind of sublime keening when read in concert with the other books: sedulous charting of the birth process-“Expecting,” “Ultrasound,” “First Kick,” “Quickening,” “Crowning,” “Rooting,” “Beasting,” “Teething”-resonates with the experience of burying the dead. DuBois called “the unvoiced longing toward a truer world.” Grief after the sudden death of Young’s father pervades the poems, while “(Confirmation),” a surprising and necessary celebration of birth midway through, holds space for life within the encroachments of profound loss. Visually buried and aurally silent, the parenthetical titles evoke what W.E.B. More than 180 pages long, Kevin Young’s Book of Hours comprises four “books”-“(Domesday Book),” “(The Book of Forgetting),” “(The Book of the Body),” and “(Book of Hours)”-with an interlude, “(Confirmation),” bisecting the volume. 5/28/2023 0 Comments Aniara martinsonThis is a large holo-deck type of room which contains an iridescent ceiling and wide floor space for a group of users to lie down on ‘Mima pillows’. She is in charge of a special area called the Mima. The character we follow is a woman known as the Mimaroben or MR, (Emelie Jonsson). They are promised a delightfully luxurious three-week voyage, complete with spas, shopping malls, bars, nightclubs and gourmet restaurants, before reaching their new home on Mars. The film opens as the passengers are welcomed aboard the enormous spaceship named Aniara. This film adaptation of the epic poem is the first feature by Swedish filmmakers Pella Kagerman and Hugo Lilja. The craft suffers an accident which results in it drifting helplessly into deep space, forcing the materialistic, consumerist passengers to deal with the realization that they may never be found or rescued and to confront thoughts about their place in the universe. It tells of a giant spacecraft transporting humans from a dying, ravaged Earth to a new colony on Mars. ‘Aniara: A Revue of Man In Time and Space’ was an epic science fiction poem published in 1956 by Swedish author and Nobel Prize winner Harry Martinson. Starring: Emelie Jonsson, Bianca Cruzeiro, Arvin Kananian Writers: Pella Kagerman (as Pella Kågerman), Hugo Lilja, Harry Martinson (poem) Ren Zelen stared into space and saw the future as she watched Aniara.ĭirectors: Pella Kagerman (as Pella Kågerman), Hugo Lilja Ariès is most famous for his statement that "in medieval society, the idea of childhood did not exist". Even today, Ariès remains the standard reference to the topic. This book stands pre-eminent in the history of childhood, as it was essentially the first book on the subject (although some antiquarian texts were in existence prior to this). He is known above all for his book L’Enfant et la Vie Familiale sous l’Ancien Régime (1960), which was translated into English as Centuries of Childhood (1962). Paradoxically, during Ariès' life, his work was often better known in the English-speaking world than it was in France itself. However, he also cooperated with many left-wing French historians and did so especially closely with Michel Foucault, who wrote his obituary. Ariès likewise contributed to La Nation française, a royalist review. He was initially close to the Action française, but with time distanced himself from it, viewing it as excessively authoritarian-hence his self-description as an "anarchist". His most prominent works regarded the change in the western attitudes towards death.Īriès regarded himself as a "right-wing anarchist". Ariès has written many books on the common daily life. |