![]() Martin Luther King Jr., core values comprise the content of your character that provides the spiritual force to your ability to lead. MacArthur’s speech was about core values, the unassailable principles for which you are responsible and by which you keep the arc of your life on a straight and noble course. ![]() They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn.” “Duty, honor, country: Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. ![]() Little did anyone know that his speech that day would go down as one of the greatest in American history: ON MAY 12, 1962, an aging Douglas MacArthur left his hotel for the United States Military Academy at West Point to accept the Slyvanus Thayer Medal, the highest honor bestowed by the military academy. ![]()
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5/12/2023 0 Comments A tale for the time![]() ![]() Across the Pacific, we meet Ruth, a novelist living on a remote island who discovers a collection of artifacts washed ashore in a Hello Kitty lunchbox-possibly debris from the devastating 2011 tsunami. ![]() A diary is Nao's only solace-and will touch lives in ways she can scarcely imagine. But before she ends it all, Nao first plans to document the life of her great grandmother, a Buddhist nun who's lived more than a century. In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying. "A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be." ![]() Description A brilliant, unforgettable novel from bestselling author Ruth Ozeki, author of The Book of Form and Emptinessįinalist for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award ![]() ![]() Having read this during October, in the midst of my annual Halloween Horror Movie Marathon, it took me longer to finish than it otherwise would have. There are twists and secrets abounding and with the close of each chapter, more questions need answers and always Miss Winter insists that we wait for the whole story to be told. ![]() But once it gets going (around when Vida and Margaret meet), it roars ahead full at speed. ![]() There was nothing off-putting about the beginning but I was 20% in before I felt it pick up. I honestly can't share much more about the plot without spoilers and I wouldn't want to.Īdmittedly it gets off to a bit of a slow start. The novel spans years and generations and uncovers dark secrets. While Miss Winter tells her story, Miss Lea also ventures out to verify the facts as best she can. The story switches between Miss Lea's story (in the present) and the recounting of Miss Winter's story (in the past). Now elderly and ailing she is ready to draw the curtains back and tell the truth to Miss Lea. Miss Winter, a famous and reclusive author, has created intricate stories about herself for years, never telling the truth of her past. In her spare time she writes biographies which is how she comes to the attention of Vida Winter. ![]() Margaret Lea is the child of a rare books seller and his wife. Think Wuthering Heights, Rebecca, and Jane Eyre (which even plays a cameo). A gothic novel in the classic tradition done right. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Kindred neanderthal book review![]() ![]() ![]() Our perception of the Neanderthal has changed dramatically, but despite growing scientific curiosity, popular culture fascination, and a wealth of coverage in the media and beyond, are we getting the whole story? The reality of 21st-century Neanderthals is complex and fascinating yet remains virtually unknown and inaccessible outside the scientific literature.īased on the author’s first-hand experience at the cutting edge of Paleolithic research and theory, this easy-to-read but information-rich book lays out the first full picture we have of the Neanderthals, from amazing new discoveries changing our view of them forever, to the more enduring mysteries of how they lived and died, and the biggest question of them all: their relationship with modern humans. Since their discovery 150 years ago, Neanderthals have gone from the losers of the human family tree to A-list hominins. This book sheds new light on where they lived, what they ate, and the increasingly complex Neanderthal culture that researchers have discovered. In Kindred, Neanderthal expert Rebecca Wragg Sykes shoves aside the cliché of the shivering ragged figure in an icy wasteland, and reveals the Neanderthal you don’t know: our ancestor who lived across vast and diverse tracts of Eurasia and survived through hundreds of thousands of years of massive climate change. This book shoves aside the cliché of the shivering ragged figure in an ice wasteland to tell the complex and fascinating true story of the Neanderthal. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Little red riding hood perrault![]() ![]() Perrault’s version is longer and is written as a conventional story, whereas Dahl chose to present it as a poem, resulting in the depth of description being more extensive in Perrault. ![]() Dahl’s adaptation share most of these conventions so as to remain recognisable as the story of Red Riding Hood, despite the obvious subversive elements.īoth versions share the same settings, namely the woods and the grandmother’s house. ![]() Crago observes that ‘while individual functions may be omitted from the narrative sequence in any given tale, the remaining functions still occur in the same order’ (2008, p.166). In terms of genre conventions, key elements remain the same with minor adjustments or omissions. ![]() By analysing narrative and genre conventions, as well as historical representations of children and childhood, we can observe the progression of fairy-tales through time and cultural changes. Though they follow the same story and share a few basic details, the plots are different and have arguably opposite endings. The differences between Perrault’s “original” Red Riding Hood and Dahl’s adaptation are marked, but there are notable and often surprising similarities as well. Illustration for Roald Dahl’s LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD AND THE WOLF by Quentin Blake ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Candacy taylor green book![]() It was a resourceful and innovative solution to a horrific problem.Ĭandacy Taylor writes in her introduction, “The Green Book was published during a time when car travel symbolized freedom in America, but since racial segregation was in full force throughout the country, the open road wasn’t open to all. The Green Book listed hotels, restaurants, gas stations, and other businesses that were safe for black travelers. Published from 1936 to 1966, the Green Book was hailed as the “black travel guide to America.” At that time, it was both dangerous and difficult for African Americans to travel, because black travelers couldn’t eat, sleep, or buy gas at most white-owned businesses. ![]() The first book to explore the historical role and residual impact of the Green Book, a travel guide for black motorists used for decades when traveling through segregated America. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson![]() ![]() Reluctantly, because Johnson has always been an elusive figure, one of the last of the marginal masters. ![]() “Tree of Smoke” is a soulful book, even a numinous one (it’s dedicated “Again for H.P.” and I’ll bet you a bundle that stands for “higher power”), and it ought to secure Johnson’s status as a revelator for this still new century - a prediction I voice confidently but reluctantly, and with a little disappointment and dismay. It comes with the armor and accoutrements of a Major Novel: big historical theme (Vietnam), semi-mythical cultural institution (military intelligence), long time span (1963-70, with a coda set in 1983) and unreasonable length (614 pages), all of which would be off-putting if this were not, in fact, a major novel, and if Johnson’s last big book hadn’t been the small collection of eccentric and addictive short stories called “Jesus’ Son” (1992). ![]() Good morning and please listen to me: Denis Johnson is a true American artist, and “Tree of Smoke” is a tremendous book, a strange entertainment, very long but very fast, a great whirly ride that starts out sad and gets sadder and sadder, loops unpredictably out and around, and then lurches down so suddenly at the very end that it will make your stomach flop. ![]() ![]() ![]() Add it to your annual family traditions or classroom activities. It is hailed to be a new holiday classic. ![]() ![]() This 2014 Gold Medal Moonbeam Holiday book winner grows with popularity every year. Will Santa be able to deliver the presents to the upside-down trees using his blueberry blue reindeer? Find out and start a new tradition that will leave everyone engaged and laughing out loud to the end of this funny story. Adults and kids will all be giggling at the silly adventure Santa finds himself on. It is beautifully illustrated with colorful and whimsical artwork. This delightful rhyming twist on a classic makes a great holiday read aloud for the entire family. What if it happened to Santa on his most important day of the year?Just how wrong can it really go for Santa? Have you ever had one of those days when everything that could go wrong did? ![]() ![]() ![]() It was my grandmother’s recipe from Denmark, and focusing on making them perfect gave me time to think. ![]() Puffed balls of dough, fried and powdered in sugar, traditionally served for breakfast, but screw it. Monday night I came home and spent two hours making æbelskivers for dinner. ![]() Worrying about my reaction in the conference room? Chasing me down? What were we doing? I knew I’d overreacted, but honestly? So had he. To say my interaction with Max at the park had been odd would be an understatement. I looked around me as if it were possible to collect together the heart I’d nearly spilled all over the grass. Looking to all the world as if she were returning from nothing but a brisk walk through the park. I watched her walk away, head straight and shoulders back. I could only nod, for fear I’d let loose a litany of frustration over her publicity rules, particularly after she’d just climbed into my lap beneath a tree.Īfter a lingering look, she stretched and kissed my jaw once, carefully. “We probably shouldn’t walk back together.” She stood, wiping the grass from her knees and skirt. My mood shifted immediately from warm and intimate to resigned business-as-usual. After a long pause, she whispered, “I should get back.” Her face straightened and she nodded thoughtfully. But why would I want to be dishonest with you?” “Do you ever lie?” she asked, eyes searching mine. ![]() ![]() ![]() The insider added Khloé’s mum Kris Jenner, 67, was “keen” on the pair choosing the name, but it took Khloé “a little while to settle on (it.)” “Some in the family were leaning more towards Robert, because it honours her dad and her brother (Rob Kardashian.)” ![]() The reality star, 38, has remained quiet about what she called the boy after she had him via surrogate in August 2022 with her on-off basketball player ex, 31, in July, but she revealed in a September 2022 episode of the ‘Kardashians’ the name of her son with her 31-year-old was “gonna start with a T”.Ī source told The US Sun about being told the full name is a tribute to her late lawyer dad Rob, who died from cancer in 2003 aged 59: “There was talk about whether it should be Tatum Robert or should it be Robert Tatum. Khloé Kardashian and Tristan Thompson’s son is reportedly named Tatum Robert. Khloé Kardashian and Tristan Thompson’s son is reportedly named Tatum Robert ![]() |