5/23/2023 0 Comments Harlem by Walter Dean Myers![]() ![]() Louis Took the bus from Holly Springs Hitched a ride from Gee's Bend Took the long way through Memphis The third deck down from Trinidad A wrench of heart from Goree Island A wrench of heart from Goree Island To a place called Harlem Harlem was a promise Of a better life, of a place where a man Didn't have to know his place Simply because He was Black They brought a call A song First heard in the villages of Ghana/Mali/Senegal Calls and songs and shouts Heavy hearted tambourine rhythms Loosed in the hard city Like a scream torn from the throat Of an ancient clarinet A new sound, raucous and sassy Cascading over the asphalt village Breaking against the black sky over 1-2-5 Street Announcing Hallelujah Riffing past resolution Yellow, tan, brown, black, red Green, gray, bright Colors loud enough to be heard Light on asphalt streets Sun yellow shirts on burnt umber Bodies Demanding to be heard Seen Sending out warriors From streets known to be Mourning still as a lone radio tells us how Jack Johnson Joe Louis Sugar Ray Is doing with our hopes. They took the road in Waycross, Georgia Skipped over the tracks in East St. ![]()
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5/23/2023 0 Comments JET Ambushed by J.E. Vassar![]() ![]() 21 Faryab Province: one police officer killed In Sar-i-Pul Province, the Taliban attacked Korak-e-Arabia village security outposts in the provincial capital, killing four security forces and wounding 10 others.įeb. Four militia members and one civilian were also wounded in the battle. The deadliest attack took place in Balkh Province, where a Taliban red unit attacked a security outpost in Para Barat village of Charkint District, killing five pro-government militia members and two civilians. Although American and Taliban officials agreed to a seven-day reduction in violence beginning on Sunday, The Times confirmed 12 separate attacks that resulted in casualties between the start of the temporary truce and Thursday evening. ![]() 21-27, 2020Īt least 34 pro-government forces and seven civilians were killed in Afghanistan during the past week. Both sides routinely inflate casualty totals for their opponents. Similarly, the reports do not include Taliban claims for their attacks on the government unless they can be verified. The report includes government claims of insurgent casualty figures, but in most cases these cannot be independently verified by The Times. ![]() It is necessarily incomplete as many local officials refuse to confirm casualty information. The following report compiles all significant security incidents confirmed by New York Times reporters throughout Afghanistan for the month. ![]() ![]() ![]() Bryce uses the gate in the Eternal City in an attempt to travel between worlds and travel to Hel to find help. The ending of House of Sky and Breath left us with quite the cliffhanger, and a huge reveal. So happy reading babes! There’s a LOT of pages to catch up on, but as your resident fan girl, trust me when I say it is well worth the reading time! You can definitely read the Throne of Glass Series without reading any of Maas’s other books, but after House of Sky and Breath, you’ll need to be up to date on the Crescent City books to be fully informed. ![]() House of Sky and Breath confirmed a long-believed fan theory that there would be a cross-over between SJM’s other series. Maas books connected? Yes! We can now verify that they are. Once you’ve got them finished, come on back and let’s deep dive together! I’m just going to start this post off with a spoiler-warning! If you have not read the Throne of Glass series, The ACOTAR series, or The Crescent City series, please go read them. *This post may contain affiliate links, meaning we earn a small commission if you make a purchase through links on our site. ![]() ![]() But the book has the merit to show one side of the discussions we don’t hear about that much: the extremes. Who Rules the World? is polemical and wasn’t written to my taste. ![]() Still, my goal isn’t to make you read books because I like them but because they bring something to the debate, so here we go. The style was too much for me and I’ve found the content really redundant. I didn’t enjoy reading the book at all, to be honest. Having said that, if you are into current global politics (with an emphasis on United States foreign policy), Who Rules the World? could be interesting to you. World and US politics are complex these days, and Noam Chomsky has one big question to ask: Who Rules the World? Warning: Chomsky’s answers are provocative and sometimes complex, which makes the book a one-of-a-kind controversial piece on U.S. Chomsky’s Who Rules the World?: the bottom line ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Bright side book![]() ![]() She’s a successful young architect from Northern England with an adorable smile, sarcasm for days, and an unparalleled trusting heart. ![]() And a heart as big, and generous, as they come. The question is, Will it all be enough to save him?įranco Genovese is the drummer for world renowned American rock band, Rook. Luckily for Toby, Alice brings things out in him that no one else ever has.Īs the two sides of Toby’s story are revealed, and the full reality comes into view, truth is gained, unlikely heroes emerge, and improbable alliances prove that kindness is fundamentally human. It’s difficult to see your own worth when you’re the villain in your story. When Alice Eliot moves in downstairs, she offers Toby some light in his dark world.Īt a crossroads and barely hanging on, it’s hard to have perspective. He trades maintenance work in exchange for room and board.Įvery day he fights demons no one else can see. Seventeen-year-old, self-proclaimed asshole, Toby Page, is alone. The surface reality that’s presented to the world… You are here: Home › Books Books The Other Side released June, 2019 ![]() ![]() ![]() Around this time, Zachariah gives Charlotte a knife called a dirk, a weapon with which to protect herself. ![]() Apparently he beat one of the crewmembers until the poor guy lost his arm. ![]() Zachariah tells Charlotte about Captain Jaggery's misconduct on the Seahawk's last voyage. She also meets Zachariah, a lowly black cook who's generous and kind, but whom Charlotte doesn't think she should associate with, as she believes him to be her "inferior" (5.1). She likes him immediately, and he asks her to be his eyes and ears (read: he wants her to spy for him, not undergo complicated surgery). On board, Charlotte meets Captain Jaggery, a fastidiously dressed man with impeccable manners. Also important: before the boat leaves the dock, Charlotte sees a shadowy figure steal aboard the ship. Against her gut feeling, and the warnings of a couple of the crewmembers, Charlotte makes the journey anyhow. The other two families who were set to join her on the voyage don't show up, for whatever reason. ![]() Grummage, is about to board a ship called the Seahawk. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle opens in Liverpool during the summer of 1832 where Charlotte, accompanied by Mr. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle Summary Part I ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Helmet novel by shakespeare![]() ![]() End of the month then?” These were not the slow-cooked stories and intricately intertextual fables of the modern art novel. ![]() ![]() “What have you got for us this month, Will?” the players asked him, and, thinking quickly, he’d say, “I thought I’d do something with the weird Italian story I mentioned, the one with the Jew and the contest.” “Italy again? All right. ![]() As the “ordinary poet” of a working company of players, he sought plots under deadline pressure rather than after some long, deliberate meditation on how to turn fiction into drama. Retelling Shakespeare’s stories, albeit in honor of the four-hundredth anniversary of his death, seems an odd enterprise at first, given that Shakespeare grabbed his stories more or less at random from Holinshed’s history of Britain and Plutarch and old collections of Italian ribald tales. The novelists include Howard Jacobson, who has done “The Merchant of Venice” (as “Shylock Is My Name”) Anne Tyler, who’s done “The Taming of the Shrew” (as “Vinegar Girl”) and now Margaret Atwood, doing “The Tempest” (as “Hag-Seed”). The revived Hogarth Press, in London, with ambition and audacity and what must also be a very large fund for advances, has commissioned a series of novels by famous novelists that retell tales from Shakespeare. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Achebe books![]() ![]() The book continues to live: High school kids and college students read it for class, while African novelists read it to pursue its ideas and themes. ![]() Not only did it sell - nearly 10 million copies, in 50 languages - this slim, understated volume became the one African novel to break, unambiguously, into the often impenetrable Western canon. The book eventually released, “Things Fall Apart,” became a critical hit in Britain as well as the first African novel to break through to the English-speaking world. These pages, after several rejections, later found their way to a sympathetic publisher. ![]() The manuscript sat untouched for months, until a colleague rescued it during a visit to Britain. About a half-century ago, a shy young Nigerian man, who had grown up reading Dickens and “Pilgrim’s Progress,” put his handwritten novel in the mail to a typing service in London. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Original nexus mike baron![]() ![]() We can’ t comment on this suspension beyond what is stated in this message. ![]() ![]() No further action is required on your part. Once a project is suspended it cannot resume funding. Original Nexus by Mike Baron, December 1986, Graphitti Designs edition, Paperback in English Original Nexus (December 1986 edition) Open Library It looks like you're offline. This means that all funding has been stopped and backers will not be charged for their pledges. 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He went on to share Kickstarter’s message to him and his team: ![]() ![]() ![]() Some of those reasons are noted here:įurthermore, tears seem to be a primary way for individuals, over a range of developmental periods, to express and regulate primary emotions such as sadness, anger, frustration, and joy. Tears have many biological and psychological bases that have been discovered through research. Those are damaging expectations in the face of how tears function for emotional and mental well-being throughout our lifetime. It's as if, after a certain age, the child should know how to regulate tears and the underlying reasons for which one cries, or as if tears are only indications of what babies do. ![]() I left that experience reflecting on countless other times that I've heard such phrases. As all the other children turned to look, the teacher firmly stated, "You're not a baby any more." The little boy was struggling to hold in his tears because there was no safe space for the acceptance of those tears, nor inquiry as to what prompted them and their importance. ![]() I overheard the teacher demand, in front of the class, that the student stop crying. Recently, I was working with an elementary-level class, and one of the children began to cry when conflict erupted between him and another child. ![]() |