![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Nevertheless, the love and respect shown between Kioko and his grandfather is both universal and sweetly evident.Ī young spinach hater becomes a spinach lover after she has to grow her own in a class garden. The author’s note, drawing upon his Kenyan experiences, will amuse adults, but the full point of the story may elude youngsters, who are likely to be just as literal-minded as Kioko. Oil paintings provide realistic details of contemporary rural Kenya but include a few spreads in which the animals humorously take on anthropomorphic characteristics. He maturely tells the man that he is paying for the fare-beating goat, but in return, the conductor must give the dog back his money. The boy asks his grandfather for a cash birthday present and then hands it to the conductor. Kioko interrupts his grandfather when confronted with silly ideas like animals talking and riding matatus, but as his grandfather describes a ride during which the dog never got his proper change, a sheep paid his fare exactly and a goat ran off without paying at all, the boy begins to understand both animal and human behavior. ![]() While the pair take a ride on the boy’s fifth birthday, Kioko asks why dogs run after matatus. Grandfather uses the opportunity to tell a story about why dogs chase after, sheep ignore and goats run away from the vans. A modern Kenyan folktale about the colorful vans that carry people, animals and supplies underpins a story about Kioko, an astute but literal-minded boy, and his grandfather. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Timely is one word for "How to be Perfect." Engaging and meaningful are two more. "It’s mind-blowing to me that the next thought in your mind isn’t, 'OK, what will the effect of my action be on the people around me?' And the answer, pretty obviously, is well, those people might get sick and die.” You’re not thinking about how your action affects other people," he says by phone. ![]() "Every time someone was saying, 'I’m not wearing a mask because I believe in freedom,' it's like you’re only thinking about half of the equation there. Yet even Schur, a two-time Emmy winner and really smart guy, finds it difficult to understand the choices made by some Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic. Schur's new book, "How to be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question," covers in funny, thoughtful and sometimes provocative ways what he learned from doing research on philosophy for the series. ![]() His latest project expands on that quest. Michael Schur created NBC's "The Good Place," the acclaimed sitcom about how to become a better person, even after death. ![]() ![]() Transformed by the horrors he witnessed from Omaha Beach to the Nuremberg Trials, British war correspondent Ian Graham has become a Nazi hunter. When she is stranded behind enemy lines, Nina becomes the prey of a lethal Nazi murderess known as the Huntress, and only Nina’s bravery and cunning will keep her alive. When the Nazis attack the Soviet Union, she risks everything to join the legendary Night Witches, an all-female night bomber regiment wreaking havoc on the invading Germans. ![]() In the aftermath of war, the hunter becomes the hunted…īold and fearless, Nina Markova always dreamed of flying. ![]() “ If you enjoyed “The Tattooist of Auschwitz,” read “The Huntress,” by Kate Quinn." The Washington Postįrom the author of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling novel, THE ALICE NETWORK, comes another fascinating historical novel about a battle-haunted English journalist and a Russian female bomber pilot who join forces to track the Huntress, a Nazi war criminal gone to ground in America. Named one of best books of the year by Marie Claire and Bookbub ".compulsively readable historical fiction… powerful novel about unusual women facing sometimes insurmountable odds with grace, grit, love and tenacity.” - Kristin Hannah, The Washington Post ![]() ![]() ![]() Rather, we share the stage with many bad actors. ![]() Everyone else remains stuck in the basement.įeminism for the 99 percent is among the social forces that have leapt into this breach. By definition, the principal beneficaries are those who already possess considerable social, cultural, and economic advantages. In treating women simply as an „underrepresented group,” its proponents seek to ensure that a few privileged souls can attain positions and pay on a par with the men of their own class. Rather than seeking to abolish social hierarchy, it aims to „diversify” it, „empowering” "talented" women to rise to the top. Its real aim is not equality, but meritocracy. ![]() Centered in the global North among the professional-managerial stratum, it is focused on „leaning-in” and „cracking the glass ceiling.” Dedicated to enabling a smattering of privileged women to climb the corporate ladder and the ranks of the military, it propounds a market-centered view of equality that dovetails perfectly with the prevailing corporate enthusiasm for „diversity.” Although it condemns „discrimination” and advocates „freedom of choice,” liberal feminism steadfastly refuses to address the socioeconomic constraints that make freedom and empowerment impossible for the large majoritiy of women. But far from providing the solution, liberal feminism is part of the problem. The mainstream media continues to equate feminism, as such, with liberal feminism. ![]() ![]() Born out of wedlock in New England to doting mother Mae (Nina Dobrev) and wealthy married businessman Alex (Josh Taylor), Sarah has her idyllic childhood cut short when her spiteful father cuts them off financially, plunging Mae into prostitution and consumption. The first of several ungainly flashbacks reveals that this so-called fallen woman, formerly named Sarah, never had far to fall. Its prize attraction, meanwhile, is Angel (Cowen), a flaxen-haired veteran of the scene at barely 20 years of age, so in demand that daily lotteries are held for her services. It patly underlines the script’s scene-setting in 1850s California, where mangy-looking prospectors pan for gold in the riverbed before heading back to the rowdy streets of Pair-o-Dice, where the brothel run by imperious madam Duchess (Famke Janssen, haughtily gliding above it all) is the main game in town. “All that glitters is not gold,” we are reminded. As if to signal its goodwill toward secular viewers - if not any kind of aversion to cliché - the film opens on a quote not from the good book but from Shakespeare. ![]() ![]() While they never actually tell a direct lie about this, they are definitely not open about it, and a couple of grown-ups keep the secret for them as well. In one case, a couple of girls slip out of their house at night when they're supposed to be in bed. In general, the children of Swallows and Amazons are about as moral heroes as you could ask for, honorable and responsible, with only a couple of exceptions. ![]() The six children proceed to have grand adventures as they plot the downfall of 'retired pirate Captain Flint', the Blackett's inattentive uncle. While on their grand adventure, they meet the Blackett girls, Nancy and Ruth, who sail the pirate ship the Amazon. When the Walker family spend their summer in the British lake country, they beg to be allowed to sail their small boat, Swallow, and camp out on a small island in the center of the lake. ![]() A charming sea adventure with a noble crew. ![]() ![]() ![]() Versions of such tales, including the origins of Gandalf and the other Istari (Wizards), the death of Isildur and the loss of the One Ring in the Gladden Fields, and the founding of the kingdom of Rohan, help expand knowledge about Middle-earth. Unfinished Tales provides more detailed information about characters, events and places mentioned only briefly in The Lord of the Rings. Each tale is followed by a long series of notes explaining inconsistencies and obscure points.Īs with The Silmarillion, Tolkien's son Christopher edited and published Unfinished Tales before he had finished his study of the materials in his father's archive. Thus some of these are incomplete stories, while others are collections of information about Middle-earth. Unlike The Silmarillion, also published posthumously (in 1977), for which the narrative fragments were modified to connect into a consistent and coherent work, the Unfinished Tales are presented as Tolkien left them, with little more than names changed (the author having had a confusing habit of trying out different names for a character while writing a draft). ![]() Many of the tales within are retold in The Silmarillion, albeit in modified forms the work also contains a summary of the events of The Lord of the Rings told from a less personal perspective. Tolkien that were never completed during his lifetime, but were edited by his son Christopher Tolkien and published in 1980. Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth is a collection of stories and essays by J. ![]() ![]() The plan is the result of his desire to possess Bandeira's most important symbols of power: his horse, his saddle, and his woman with the bright red hair. Little by little, Otálora becomes more greedy and ambitious, taking more risks, making more decisions, and befriending Bandeira's body guard, Ulpiano Suárez, to whom he reveals his secret plan to take Bandeira's place as leader of the group. Having earned Bandeira's trust and gratitude, Otálora joins his band of gaucho smugglers. While searching for this Bandeira, he participates in a knife fight and blocks a lethal blow intended for the man he discovers later to be Bandeira himself. ![]() He heads for Uruguay with a letter of introduction for Azevedo Bandeira, a local caudillo. The story deals with the life of a young compadrito from Buenos Aires, Benjamín Otálora, who has killed a man and must leave the country. It was first published in the magazine Sur (#145) in November 1946 and appears in the 1949 short story collection The Aleph. " The Dead Man" (original Spanish title: "El Muerto") is a short story by Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges. ![]() Short story by Jorge Luis Borges "The Dead Man" ![]() ![]() ![]() He said to Petey that he "had a nice place" before proceeding to break the dishes, saying it was Petey's fault they got broken. He was invited to breakfast by Lil' Petey and 80-HD, much to Petey's dismay. Grampa knows how Petey's tail became flat, but that information has not been revealed. He abandoned Petey's mother, who was sick and later died, which left Petey an orphan. When Petey was a kitten, he was abusive towards him, seeing as he described young Petey as a "crybaby" when he met him again as an adult. Not a lot is known about Grampa in the past. Also he is reckless, immature, and does not show respect for others and their belongings. ![]() ![]() He is also shown to be incredibly rude to his grandson when he refused to hear Lil' Petey's life story of meeting Flippy. Grampa is an evil, selfish, arrogant, careless, abusive, and irresponsible father, by having no love for Petey whatsoever. He has 6 whiskers (he pulled one off in Dog Man: Fetch-22 when he switched places with his son, which he now has 5), a stubble from a shaved beard, and his skin color is slightly darker than Petey, to show his age and distinguish him from his son. Grampa has a ginger striped body with a complete tail, unlike Petey. Petey and Li’l Petey no longer associate with him. He's a selfish, egotistical meanie who currently resides in Cat Jail. Official Description (can be found in Mothering Heights) 1 Official Description (can be found in Mothering Heights). ![]() ![]() It is guaranteed to do the same to her readers., With remarkable even-handedness, Deborah Baker reveals the terrible costs of belonging exacted by two very different, battling cultures. The life story of Maryam Jameelah seems to have alternately fascinated, disturbed, and unsettled Deborah Baker. The story is telling is like a hall of mirrors in a fun house-full of so many distortions that the truth can come only in glimpses. is a cogent, thought-provoking look at a radical life and its rippling consequences., profoundly disorienting biography. If you like a biography with a twist, The Convert is for you., stellar biography that doubles as a mediation on the fraught relationship between America and the Muslim world. An important, searing, highly readable and timely narrative., This book is a beautiful illustration of a profoundly unique person, Maryam Jameelah. ![]() ![]() Opens the door to the vital questions of how radical Islam has impacted the world, and what part converts such as Jameelah have played. ![]() |