7/8/2023 0 Comments Poirot dentist![]() ![]() Brighton’s frivolous outdoor revelry is sharply contrasted by the interior shot of the dying Anthony Gascoigne. ![]() ![]() Finally and most importantly, it makes the references to the dead man’s teeth seem natural and consistent with the rest of the story, and serves to slightly conceal the vital clue. Second, Poirot’s aching bicuspid makes a convenient excuse for him to meet with Bonnington a second time, so he can hear the news of Henry Gascoigne’s death in Christie’s original, they meet again randomly on the Tube. First, it provides some insight to Poirot’s character which is reiterated elsewhere in the series (he hates going to the dentist). Doing this scores a couple of script writing points. – Making Poirot’s friend Bonnington his dentist also. I haven’t done an episode review for awhile now, so here’s one I’ve been mulling over in the last few days. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In form, the story resembles a fairy tale in featuring wild coincidences and turns of fortune, but Austen is determined to lampoon the conventions of romantic stories, down to the utter failure of romantic fainting spells, which always turn out badly for the female characters. This is clear even from the subtitle, "Deceived in Freindship and Betrayed in Love", which undercuts the title. Love and Freindship (the misspelling is one of many in the story) is clearly a parody of romantic novels Austen read as a child. ![]() The instalments, written as letters from the heroine Laura, to Marianne, the daughter of her friend Isabel, may have come about as nightly readings by the young Jane in the Austen home. It was dedicated to her cousin Eliza de Feuillide, known as "La Comtesse de Feuillide". Written in epistolary form like her later unpublished novella, Lady Susan, Love and Freindship is thought to be one of the tales she wrote for the amusement of her family. They contain, among other works, Love and Freindship, written when she was 14, and The History of England, written at 15. These still exist, one in the Bodleian Library and the other two in the British Museum. While aged 11–18, Austen wrote her tales in three notebooks. Love and Freindship is a juvenile story by Jane Austen, dated 1790. ![]() 7/8/2023 0 Comments Fry bread kevin noble maillard![]() ![]() Why do you think American Indian Residential Schoolsexisted? Why did the teachers change their students' names and make them learn English? Why were they punished for speaking their own language?**.What does the author mean when he writes about " the long walk?".What food traditions does your family observe during special occasions or holidays? Do any of these traditions have cultural or religious meaning?.Does your family know anyone that is Native or Indigenous to America?.How do you think Native and Indigenous people lived in America before explorers came from Europe?*.Fry bread is made from simple ingredients. Why do you think Native or Indigenous people chose these ingredients for this recipe?.What does the author mean when he writes about " stolen land?".What favorite foods does your family serve for special occasions or holidays? Do any of these foods have any special meaning?. ![]() 7/8/2023 0 Comments Complete cthulhu mythos tales![]() ![]() The Complete Cthulhu Mythos Tales is one of Barnes & Noble's Collectible Editions classics. This special edition of The Complete Cthulhu Mythos Tales also includes the collectible poster "Cthulhu Rising" by cover artist John Coulthart, which measures 16 x 20 inches and is suitable for framing. Joshi, the world's leading authority on H.P. ![]() The Complete Cthulhu Mythos Tales collects 23 of Lovecraft's greatest weird tales, including "The Call of Cthulhu," "The Colour out of Space," "The Dunwich Horror," "The Shadow over Innsmouth," and "The Shadow out of Time." It also features six collaborative "revisions" through which Lovecraft expanded the scope of his dark mythology, as well as an Introduction by scholar S. Lovecraft's greatest contribution to supernatural literature: a series of stories that evoked cosmic awe and terror through their accounts of incomprehensibly alien monsters and their horrifying incursions into our world. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Rafe by rebekah weatherspoon![]() ![]() There's a difference between narrating and reading. Honestly, the male voices aren't working for me either. ![]() Honestly I'm not a fan of the voices used for Rafe's step-mom or Sloan's mother. These are both Black Educated women Sloan a Doctor and Xeni an educator, so why does the voices/diction used for Xeni come across to me as (and I hate to say this), a hood-rat? This is so disappointing to me. The one thing that really doesn't work for me is the voice/diction for Xeni. ![]() The story in general it okay but the narration is not working for me. So this is one I'm going to have to come back to at another time. Once I start a book I have to finish it no matter how much it's not working for me. I need to see if anyone else was struggling through this like me. I don't typically read reviews prior to or during a read or a listen, but I had to with this one. ![]() ![]() ![]() Stephanie and I are both Berkley Books authors, but we lived on opposite sides of the country and had never met. And in the interests of full disclosure, you get the full story of this author friendship so that you understand why I am telling you to buy this book, and why I am not just saying that because she’s my friend. My friend Stephanie Dray has a book out today called “Daughters of the Nile,” and yes, I’m going to pimp the hell out of it. ![]() On the other hand, I know that if I do that, there’s a decent chance people won’t believe me when I say “This book is awesome!” because “She’s just saying that because her friend wrote it.” On the one hand, I want to pimp the hell out of their book because I want it to do well. I always face a bit of a dilemma whenever an author friend’s book is released. ![]() ![]() ![]() He is also the creator of The Creech, a Sci-Fi/Horror comic published by Image Comics. Other popular comics work includes Marvel Comics’ X-Force and Quasar (as well as a slew of one-shot titles). Prior to that, he was best known for his 80 issue run on Image Comics' Spawn, created by Todd McFarlane. Greg Capullo is a self-taught Illustrator and the current artist on the best-selling and highly acclaimed Batman series for DC Comics. He teaches at Columbia University and Sarah Lawrence University and lives in New York with his wife, Jeanie, and his son, Jack Presley. ![]() ![]() He has also been published in Zoetrope, Tin House, One Story, Epoch, Small Spiral Notebook, and other journals, and has a short story collection, Voodoo Heart, which was published by Dial Press. His works include Batman, All-Star Batman, Batman: Eternal, Superman Unchained, American Vampire, and Swamp Thing. Scott Snyder is a #1 New York Times best-selling writer and one of the most critically acclaimed scribes in all of comics. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Against empathy review![]() ![]() ![]() It also demonstrates the power of empathy. For 3+ years, since Paul wrote his first Against Empathy article, I've continuously invited him to a recorded on camera dialogue to talk about our contrasting views, but he dares not.Īs with all critics of empathy, I enjoy reaching out and empathizing with their views, feelings and experiences, it is how conflict mediation, connection, growth and creativity happen. I read the book and all of Paul Bloom's related articles. These interviews are available on our website. ![]() As a leader in this effort, I have also interviewed well over 300 experts on empathy from all fields including education, science, academics, arts, therapy, conflict mediation, interfaith, human-centered design, etc. Our center is working to make empathy a primary social value. I'm Edwin Rutsch, the director of the Center for Building a Culture of Empathy. Paul Bloom dares not dialogue on camera with anyone knowledgeable about the topic of empathy. Articles or papers that are critical of empathy. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments All the birds singing![]() ![]() Both Don and the useless police officer to whom she reports the crime suggest she should go to the pub to try to meet a man. An independent woman, she lives alone in a house bought from an older man Don and tends her few sheep. In her search for the sheep killer we’re aware that Jake is seen as an outsider by her community and chooses to be so. ![]() Written in chronological reverse, we gradually understand more and more about Jake’s past which help us to understand her present: why she shuns the company of men and why she sleeps with a hammer under her pillow ‘as a comfort’. As she attempts to find out who did this, the Australian narrative, which alternates with the British story, takes us back into her past. The novel starts on the island, when the main protagonist, a young woman named Jake Whyte, finds one of her sheep deliberately killed, eviscerated in the most brutal way. A book of two parts, it is set on an unnamed island off the coast of Britain and in rural Australia. All the Birds, Singing is Evie Wyld’s second novel and won her the Miles Franklin Award and the Encore Award in 2014. ![]() ![]() ![]() There are a lot of sides to Arnold's writing that are worth exploring - tho, his sometimes tongue-in-cheek style of narration has left me wondering more than a few times which point he was trying to make. Having revisited with Arnold over the past couple of weeks, the best I can say is that I am glad I have read the book without the pressing agenda of writing a piece of coursework about it. Back then, I read the book with the purpose of finding arguments for and against different aspects of "culture" and whatever that meant, but I never got the time to read what Arnold actually had to say beyond his eternal buzzwords of "sweetness and light", both which are still as vague as ever. I had first read the book way back when I was at university. Matthew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy was an odd book to come back to in these times of talk about making things "great" again. Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration. But what is greatness?- culture makes us ask. ![]() |