![]() ![]() Together we will engage in some contemplative practice and study selected films. ![]() Students will write formal literary analysis,and narrative criticism. ![]() Texts will include Toni Morrison’s Sula, Audre Lorde’s Zami, Marguerite Duras’ The Lover, Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy, Patricia Powell’s The Pagoda, and Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran. We will take a critical and transnational approach to issues of race, class, gender, sexuality, ability, and religion. In this course we will read and discuss literary novels that feature women who defy social norms: daring survivors, scholars, “whores,” queers, artists, “madwomen,” servants, revolutionaries. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Their brother, indeed, was the only one of the party whom she could regard with any complacency. The sisters, on hearing this, repeated three or four times how much they were grieved, how shocking it was to have a bad cold, and how excessively they disliked being ill themselves and then thought no more of the matter: and their indifference towards Jane when not immediately before them restored Elizabeth to the enjoyment of all her former dislike. Bingley's, she could not make a very avourable answer. To the civil inquiries which then poured in, and amongst which she had the pleasure of distinguishing the much superior solicitude of Mr. ![]() ![]() 138541 Orgulho e Preconceito - Capítulo VIII Jane AustenĪt five o'clock the two ladies retired to dress, and at half-past six Elizabeth was summoned o dinner. ![]() ![]() PPK's Facebook page has nearly 90,000 likes and some of PPK's forum threads attract over 100,000 interactions. The latest, Isa Does It, focuses on dinners and desserts suitable for weeknight cooking. Between them Chandra Moskowitz and Romero have published eight books including Vegan Pie in the Sky, Vegan Vengeance and Appetite for Reduction. These days, Post Punk Kitchen has evolved into a much more professional-looking site, with monthly recipe blogs and a shop. ![]() Perhaps reflecting the scarcity of information available for vegans at the time, the site attracted an eager audience and soon the Post Punk Kitchen's message board was brimming. It began when a couple of friends from New York City's punk scene - Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero, filmed six vegan cooking videos in 2003 and posted them online. If you haven't heard of the Post Punk Kitchen, well, you're probably not a vegan. ![]() Vegan blackbean burgers, from Isa Does It, Hachette Australia. ![]() ![]() ![]() But the crises converging upon the trillion puppeteers of the Fleet of Worlds go far beyond even the onrushing armadas. ![]() If the fallen civilization of the Ringworld can no longer be despoiled of its secrets, the puppeteers will be forced to surrender theirs-everyone knows that they are cowards. Something must justify the blood and treasure that have been spent. Now, without warning, the Ringworld has vanished, leaving behind three rival war fleets. For decades, the spacefaring species of known space have battled over the largest artifact-and grandest prize-in the galaxy: the all-but-limitless resources and technology of the Ringworld. The explosive finale to the Ringworld and the Fleet of Worlds series. Categories Adult Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy ![]() ![]() ![]() As experiencing stress is part of normative development during adolescence, interventions focusing on the reduction of stress may be experienced by adolescents as a low-threshold and appealing way to address their psychological needs. Ī promising avenue to reach adolescents with psychological needs is by focusing on stress. Intervening in the school-context may be particularly beneficial to schools as well-being and mental health have been positively associated with academic functioning. An environment particularly suitable to help vulnerable adolescents is the school environment. ![]() Addressing psychological needs at an early stage, for instance to deal with stress and stress-inducing factors, is of crucial importance to prevent the development of mental health problems, school dropout and dysfunction later in life. Stress also has a negative effect on academic performance and can result in school absenteeism or dropout. At the same time, adolescence is a period of increased stress sensitivity, which contributes to adolescents’ increased risk for mental health problems, such as burnout, depression, anxiety and externalizing problems and which may negatively affect the well-being of adolescents and later developmental outcomes. During adolescence many changes occur simultaneously, including puberty and the transition to high school. ![]() ![]() Adolescence is a phase of rapid growth and development in physical and psychological domains. ![]() ![]() ![]() Together, this pair of Keegan's novellas pack a one-two punch. It is a beautiful companion to last year's Booker-shortlisted Small Things Like These, her Christmas story and morality tale that makes Dickens' Christmas Carol and Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Match Girl seem like glitter-dusted fairy tales. It appeared in a slightly abbreviated version in The New Yorker, but this new standalone volume is the first publication of the full text in the U.S. Since its original publication in 2010, Foster has become part of the school curriculum in her native Ireland. If she has published anything that isn't perfect, I haven't seen it. Keegan's output is scarce and her stories are as spare as they are heartrending, whittled down to the essential. She shares their keen sense of empathy, eye for the telling detail, and deep attunement to the moral issues raised by meanness and suffering for witnesses as well as the afflicted. ![]() Claire Keegan has been compared to the Russian author Anton Chekhov and fellow Irish writer William Trevor. ![]() ![]() ![]() Georgie’s father was a rather staid duke, but her mother, an actress, is notorious traipsing across the continent, entering into liaison after liaison (and sometimes marriage) with various wealthy and scandalous men. ![]() ![]() ![]() She has certain privileges as a royal, but she is also dirt poor, and her royal cousins feel perfectly comfortable assigning her less “regular” tasks… and often, while she’s doing these special favors, corpses turn up. Although this means her actual chances of ascending the throne are worse than John Goodman’s was in that 1990s movie King Ralph, Georgie is still frequently on-call for social and magisterial duties, and afforded much scrutiny. Our first-person narrator, Georgiana Rannock, is the daughter of an aristocrat, and about thirty-eighth in line for the throne. The two I’ve read are further into the series. The first book is Her Royal Spyness, and I haven’t read it. There is plenty I like and plenty I don’t like. I’ve now read two from Her Royal Spyness. Rhys Bowen has at least two series going the Molly Murphy series, mysteries set at the turn of the 20th century in New York, and Her Royal Spyness, set in Britain in the 1930s. ![]() ![]() ![]() The German government has agreed to release a British subject from prison, but only if he is handed over to a family member. ![]() ![]() On a fine yet chilly morning, as she walks towards Fitzroy Square-a place of many memories-she is intercepted by Brian Huntley and Robert MacFarlane of the Secret Service. Its early 1938, and Maisie Dobbs is back in England. Book Synopsis Working with the British Secret Service on an undercover mission, Maisie Dobbs is sent to Hitlers Germany in this thrilling tale of danger and intrigue-the twelfth novel in Jacqueline Winspears New York Times bestselling series that seems to get better with each entry (Wall Street Journal). Because the mans wife is bedridden and his daughter has been killed in an accident, the Secret Service wants Maisie-who bears a striking resemblance to the daughter-to retrieve the man from Dachau, on the outskirts of Munich. About the Book Its early 1938, and Maisie Dobbs is back in England. ![]() ![]() ![]() The story focuses on the way in which the world is different for the man and his backstory without the removed items. The story proceeds through successive days with new things being removed each day: after phones, then movies, clocks, and finally cats. The items are removed at the end of that day, giving the man one last day ostensibly to enjoy them before they disappear from the world. The "devil" tells the man that if he agrees that one type of thing, chosen by the devil, will be removed from the world (as if it had never been), then the man can have another day of life instead of dying the next day. As he despairs and wonders who will miss him when he dies, he returns home to find a doppelganger of himself, who claims to be the devil. Plot Īn unnamed young man, living alone and working as a postman, is given a terminal diagnosis of brain cancer. It was released in Japan by Toho on May 14, 2016. If Cats Disappeared from the World ( 世界から猫が消えたなら, Sekai kara neko ga kietanara) is a 2016 Japanese drama film directed by Akira Nagai, starring Takeru Satoh and Aoi Miyazaki and based on the novel Sekai kara Neko ga Kieta nara by Genki Kawamura. ![]() ![]() ![]() The series consists of the following books: The Books of Blood by Barker are some of the most fascinating and spine-tingling novels we’ve picked up to date. ![]() With that said, let’s see what the best Clive Barker books actually are.īarker’s Books of Blood series is one of the most famous works of the author. The most notable award Barker has received to this date is the Inkpot Award, in 1991. Clive attended Dovedale Primary School and Quarry Bank High School, before going to the University of Liverpool, where he primarily studied English and Philosophy.Ī notable part of Clive’s early life was, when aged only three, he bore witness to the French skydiver Leo Valentin who, during the course of a performance in Liverpool, slowly fell to his eventual death. ![]() |