![]() But I was hooked immediately and knew this was going to be the tale of my kind of woman: intelligent, determined and unwilling to let anyone or anything stand in her way. That is a hard thing to qualify, so you may just have to go with me on that idea. ![]() Not only is it about a strong historical woman whose story really hasn’t been told, the tone or “voice” of the book strongly matched my own. I wanted to know what readers (and Amazon’s algorithm) thought the books have in common.Īs it turns out, that was identifiable right away. (There is a little science in there I didn’t understand, but it is not at all overwhelming.) Over the next year or so it kept showing up in various places and when it appeared in the “People Also Bought” section on the Amazon pages for my books, I knew I had to read it. I remember seeing it reviewed in the New York Times when it first came out, but because I don’t give a hoot about science, I didn’t read it. I am SO not a math and science person, but I think The Other Einstein may well end up as my favorite book of 2017. ![]()
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![]() Guidance on how to raise crops in pots all year long.Information on designing for small spaces-and making food gardens beautiful.Profiles of 21 container-friendly crops. ![]() Her book, loaded with helpful illustrations, includes: If what you want is a garden big enough to line a windowsill, she's got you covered there. By applying select growing practices, and managing for square inches rather than square feet, she has come up with instructions for growing a small-scale farm on your patio, your stoop, or in your dining room. In this, her third easy-to-use gardening guide, Tucker describes how to cultivate bountiful container food gardens in pots, planters, and raised beds.Ĭlimate activist and farmer Acadia Tucker fell in love with container gardening after glimpsing its potential to produce food-lots of food. Regenerative farmer Acadia Tucker proves it's possible to grow food without land. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nabeel decides to buy each of his family members something special to wear for the holiday. The fast is over, and tomorrow the celebration of Eid will begin. Finally, George joins in the Eid festivities to mark the end of his very first Ramadan.” Nabeel’s New Pants – An Eid Tale by Fawzia Gilani-Williams Then, George helps make gift baskets to donate to the needy, and watches for the crescent moon with the man in the yellow hat. ![]() George helps Kareem with his first fast and joins in the evening celebration of tasting treats and enjoying a special meal. “ It’s the first day of Ramadan, and George is celebrating with his friend Kareem and his family. ![]() With lush illustrations that evoke Islamic art, this beautiful story offers a peek into modern Muslim culture-and into the ancient roots of its most cherished traditions.” It’s Ramadan, Curious George by Hena Khan & H.A. “… this sweet tale follows Yasmeen, a seven-year-old Pakistani-American girl, as she celebrates the Muslim holidays of Ramadan, “The Night of the Moon” ( Chaand Raat ), and Eid. ![]() ![]() ![]() He described the everyday texture of life at the front, from freezing cold, rats, lice and terrible food, to horrific mutilations and murders. In it, he set out his stall, emphasising tactical errors and blunders, drawing the reader's attention to the hordes of terrified, disgusted deserters. And so I tried to cut away parts of it - tell them what a trench smelt like and what dead GIs smelt like and so forth."įor his friend Edmund Keeley, a retired Princeton English professor, Fussell's classic literary study, The Great War and Modern Memory (1975), is without question his most important work. "American readers needed someone to tell them what war was really like," he says, "because by the 1970s the romanticising of the second world war had already begun. ![]() The horrors inflicted by and on ground troops, Fussell believes, are almost never acknowledged. ![]() If darkness had mercifully hidden them from us, dawn disclosed them with staring open eyes and greenish white faces." "Until that moment," he writes in his memoir Doing Battle (1996), "the only dead people I'd seen had been Mother's parents." But now, in the forest where he had been ordered to rest after a botched attack, there were "dozens of German boys in greenish grey uniforms, killed a day or two before by the company we were replacing. Drafted into the American infantry 18 months before, he had been in France just a few weeks and this was his first night in the line. On November 11 1944, Paul Fussell woke up surrounded by corpses. ![]() ![]() ![]() A Raisin in the Sun is mostly about the second kind of dream, whereby an examination of the influences of being black is made in considering a community that is discriminated against. The types of dreams may not be necessarily exclusive to each other but it is evident that the material aspect of the dream is likely to hamper and obstruct the realizing of the spiritual dream which is certainly more important. The second perspective is about the vision of a quality life which entails a spiritual bend of mind by way of living a life of integrity, decency, and dignity. The paper will analyze the character roles from two perspectives the first is about the American dream regarding material prosperity and upward mobility. ![]() This paper will study the important characters in the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry in the context of the substance of the dreams that they have. ![]() ![]() I hoped the words could work subliminally. She wrote: “I wanted a driving, rhythmic track to run simultaneously with speeches, so they didn’t have to be listened to. I could not have imagined all the ways in which it would force me to rethink myself.” Lizzie Borden originally planned to name Born in Flames after Les Guérillères, before settling on the title of the song Mayo Thompson wrote for her film. But as I really had no answers, the work presented itself to me as an open experiment. I wanted to follow its questions into visual language and radical feminist transformation. I was and still am enthralled with its way around language and form. ![]() In relation to her film Oriana, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz reflected: “I have been in love with this text for a very long time, since I first read it at nineteen. “They say, If I take over the world, let it be to dispossess myself of it immediately, let it be to forge new links between myself and the world.” -Monique Wittig, Les GuérillèresĪs part of UC Berkeley’s conference on Monique Wittig (1935–2003), we present two feature film responses to Les Guérillères, Wittig’s 1969 experimental novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() The dialogue can be clunky, but Thompson has a great eye for the moment, and the pages fly by as Craig meets Raina at church camp, falls in love and questions his faith. ![]() ![]() It’s a childhood cloaked in snow, in which money is ever tight and Christ ever present, and school is a hostile place. First-time readers expecting an instant showstopper may wind up disappointed: the book unspools gradually over 600 black-and-white pages as young Craig negotiates life, sharing blankets unwillingly with his younger brother and reverently with his girlfriend Raina. But Thompson’s autobiographical tale of family life and young love in the American midwest has never before received an official UK release. Blankets has been garlanded with praise since its publication in 2003, winning an Eisner award and regularly featuring in lists of the best graphic novels of all time. ![]() ![]() ![]() 4.5 The Beast Within: A Tale of Beauty's Prince.4.4 Beauty and the Beast: Belle's Royal Wedding.4.2 Beauty and the Beast (Marvel Comics).4.1 The New Adventures of Beauty and the Beast.3.1 Disney's Sing-Along Songs: The Twelve Days of Christmas.2.2 Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas. ![]() To that end, the Beast’s narrative arc emphasizes the film’s moral that “true beauty comes from within." In contrast to the original fairytale, Disney’s iteration of the character was developed as a callous, almost-villainous force whom steadily redeems himself throughout the story. The Beast is based on the titular creature from the folklore on which the film is based. Only by loving another and earning their love in return, would the spell be broken. As punishment for his cruel behavior, the prince was cursed by a mysterious Enchantress and transformed into a hideous beast. A young prince who once lived a pampered life, he was notoriously selfish and unkind in his youth. The Beast is the male protagonist of Disney's 1991 animated feature film, Beauty and the Beast. As the years passed, he fell into despair, and lost all hope, for who could ever learn to love a beast?” ―Excerpt from the opening narration of Beauty and the Beast If not, he would be doomed to remain a beast for all time. “ If he could learn to love another, and earn her love in return by the time the last petal fell, then the spell would be broken. ![]() ![]() Uniting the three is a keen desire to feel, and be recognized as, fully human-emotionally and sexually fulfilled, connected to their families and communities, and free of the grip of past traumas. Ranjana’s son Prashant, a Princeton freshman, harbors misgivings about his major and life trajectory. Ranjana, a 40-something aspiring writer, has suspicions about her husband’s fidelity, is disappointed by her friendships with other Indian women, and has doubts about her self-worth. Harit, an emotionally stunted middle-aged department store clerk, disguises himself in a sari to convince his nearly catatonic mother that her beloved daughter is still alive. Spanning a remarkable range of cultural milieus, Satyal’s second novel ( Blue Boy, 2009) tells the intersecting stories of three Indian immigrants living in a Cleveland suburb. ![]() struggle to find self-acceptance and meaningful relationships. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It serves to remind people of an important and often overlooked moment in the women's rights movement."- Seattle Weekly " The Story of Jane is a piece of women's history in step with feminist theory demanding that women tell their own stories. ![]() Laura Kaplan, who joined Jane in 1971, has pieced together the histories of the anonymous (here identified only by pseudonyms), average-sounding women who transformed themselves into outlaws."- Cleveland Plain Dealer Wade decision, most women determined to get abortions had to subject themselves to the power of illegal, unregulated abortionists.But a Chicago woman who happened to stumble across a secret organization code-named 'Jane' had an alternative. "In the four years before the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe vs. ![]() |