6/10/2023 0 Comments Alice in wonderland wording![]() ![]() If you a fan of "Alice in Wonderland" let me know! I'd love to know your thoughts.Īmbiguity makes readers question their understanding of the text. International Journal of Arts & Sciences Paper Publication, "Alice in Wonderland & Alice through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll: Do Words Have Meaning? Lacanian Theory on Carroll’s Writing": ![]() "Alice in Wonderland Presentation" by Angela Hart: "Alice in Wonderland" Handout by Angela Hart: In the video, I mentioned my academic presentation, here are some links if you are interested in more information. Thank you for watching and don't forget to subscribe to my BookTube channel! Please let me know if you have any questions or thoughts on the subject matter. Today, I am discussing the "Ambiguity of Words" in the two texts (in the video above). I have spent a great deal of time analyzing and reading both of them. ![]()
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6/10/2023 0 Comments The good earth buck![]() ![]() This is a beautiful, lyrical story that paints a vivid, cyclical picture of life in another time and place. We also see the virtues and the faults of capitalism, as it existed around the turn of the 20th century. It's not a world that's always kind, especially to girls and women, but it's a world that was. All of her characters, including the protagonist, are flawed people, and she writes about them without judgment, but truthfully. The language is simple and direct, and beyond a few quaint turns of phrase, doesn't feel at all dated. In some ways, this novel could describe the life of peasant people anywhere. Buck writes with simple but eloquent brush strokes, and the world and culture she describes are fascinating. ![]() Yet, his new life only brings him new problems, which keep coming as the years pass. Set in agrarian, pre-Revolution China, the book tells the tale of impoverished farmer Wang Lung, who, through hard work and a stroke of good luck, goes from being a poor man on the edge of starvation to a rich one with much land and a large family. Though written in 1931, The Good Earth hasn't lost a bit of its timeless power and beauty. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Riders by Jilly Cooper![]() ![]() ![]() I thought the beginning was a bit slow going - it took me about 75 pages to really get into it. Fun and dirty and silly and full of memorable characters. My Anglophelia's been starving, however, and I had to feed it: Goodreads was right - this is the perfect summer read. I purchased the book, bravely but in shame, unable to meet the eyes of the sales clerk behind the register. What's not to like? Then I went to my local Barnes & Noble, found the only copy in stock and was instantly dismayed by the book's heft (more than 900 pages!) and its ridiculous cover art depicting a huge close up of tight, white riding pants stretched taut over a voluptuous woman's ass, cupped by a man's hand. Lots of cavorting around the English countryside. ![]() I picked up this book on the recommendation of last month's Goodreads newsletter, which said Riders was a solid summer read. Well, well, well, what a lovely surprise. ![]() ![]() And even though the lyrics of the song are, “Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me,” I am hearing, Let it begin in me. Hegel says, “Each man hopes and believes he is better than the world which is his, but the man who is better merely expresses this same world better than the others.” Mahalia Jackson sings as if it is the last thing she intends to do. ![]() ![]() ![]() Perhaps that is the definition of genius. Perhaps Mahalia, like Paul Celan, has already lived all our lives for us. VAT may change during checkout, depending on the country of. It is as if her voice has always been dormant within us, waiting to be awakened, even though “it had to go through its own lack of answers, through terrifying silence, (and) through the thousand darknesses of murderous speech.” Her clarity of vision crosses thirty years to address intimately each of us. In the auditorium a room full of strangers listened to Mahalia Jackson sing “Let There Be Peace on Earth” and stood up and gave a standing ovation to a movie screen. We have just seen George Wein’s documentary, Louis Armstrong at Newport, 1971. I am not sure how to respond to all this. ![]() Mahalia Jackson never finished the eighth grade, or Mahalia’s genius is based on the collision of her voice with her spirituality. I am uncomfortable with his need to make this distinction because his inquiry begins to approach subtle shades of racism, classism, or sexism. Week Eight: 27 March 2014 Claudia Rankine titles her exploration of America during the dawn of the twenty-first century and her discovery of the self Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric. The man I am with is trying to make a distinction. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Sheryl sandberg book lean in![]() ![]() ![]() Sandberg’s experience navigating the complex and socially sensitive world of international economics has proven useful as she and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg work to strike a balance between helping Facebook users control privacy while finding ways to monetize its most valuable asset: data.Īt TEDWomen in 2010 Sandberg made the bold decision to talk about the experience of being one of very few women at the C-level of business. It’s a massive job, but one well suited to Sandberg, who not only built and managed Google’s successful online sales and operations program but also served as an economist for the World Bank and Chief of Staff at the US Treasury Department. Today she manages Facebook’s sales, marketing, business development, human resources, public policy and communications. ![]() Long before Sheryl Sandberg left Google to join Facebook as its Chief Operating Officer in 2008, she was a fan. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Two for the dough book![]() ![]() And if the assignment calls for an automobile stakeout for two with the woman who puts his libido in overdrive, Morelli's not one to object. Much to the family's chagrin, Stephanie and Granny may soon have the elusive Kenny in their sights.įast-talking, slow-handed vice cop Joe Morelli joins in the case, since the prey happens to be his young cousin. So Stephanie uses Grandma as a cover to follow leads, but loses control when Grandma warms to the action, packing a cool pistol. ![]() With her bounty hunter pal Ranger stepping in occasionally to advise her, Stephanie staggers kneedeep in corpses and caskets as she traipses through back streets, dark alleys, and funeral parlors.Īnd nobody knows funeral parlors better than Stephanie's irrepressible Grandma Mazur, a lady whose favorite pastime is grabbing a front-row seat at a neighborhood wake. He's fresh out of the army, suspiciously wealthy, and he's just shot his best friend. 38, Stephanie is after a new bail jumper, Kenny Mancuso, a boy from Trenton's burg. Now Stephanie's back, armed with attitude - not to mention stun guns, defense sprays, killer flashlights, and her trusty. It's Stephanie Plum, New Jersey's "fugitive apprehension" agent (aka bounty hunter), introduced to the world by Janet Evanovich in the award-winning novel One for the Money. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Atalanta by Jennifer Saint![]() ![]() Jennifer Saint places Atalanta in the pantheon of the greatest heroes in Greek mythology, where she belongs.Ī Most Anticipated Book ( Goodreads, Cosmopolitan, Reader’s Digest, BookRiot, Tor.com, The Nerd Daily, Gizmodo, SheReads, Beyond the Bookends, BookTrib., and more!) ![]() Can Atalanta carve out her own legendary place in a world of men, while staying true to her heart?įull of joy, passion, and adventure, Atalanta is the story of a woman who refuses to be contained. As she is swept into a passionate affair, in defiance of Artemis's warning, she begins to question the goddess's true intentions. ![]() The Argonauts' quest for the Golden Fleece is filled with impossible challenges, but Atalanta proves herself equal to the men she fights alongside. When Artemis offers her the chance to fight in her name alongside the Argonauts, the fiercest band of warriors the world has ever seen, Atalanta seizes it. Raised by a mother bear under the protective eye of the goddess Artemis, Atalanta grows up wild and free, with just one condition: if she marries, Artemis warns, it will be her undoing.Īlthough she loves her beautiful forest home, Atalanta yearns for adventure. When Princess Atalanta is born, a daughter rather than the son her parents hoped for, she is left on a mountainside to die. ![]() From the beloved, bestselling author of Elektra and Ariadne, a reimagining of the myth of Atalanta, a fierce huntress raised by bears and the only woman in the world’s most famous band of heroes, the Argonauts ![]() ![]() When I was reading this book, I thought that his stories and characters were a little too colorful and a little too perfect to be true. ![]() He comes across as the type of person who might be fun to have a beer with, but, afterwards, he'd probably make fun of you behind your back. Sedaris plies his trade.īut, I just don't care for David Sedaris. I am exactly the target demographic for the witty, petty misanthropy with which Mr. Hell, I even like listening to This American Life on NPR. I look at myself in the mirror and practice being droll. I enjoy reading personal essays about poignant and humiliating events in people's personal lives. I am a sarcastic Generation Xer with an overdeveloped sense of irony. ![]() It was somewhat of an existential struggle for me to reach this conclusion because I'm exactly the kind of person who should like David Sedaris. I have stared deep into the cockles of my heart, and forced myself to come to the only obvious-but-unpopular conclusion. ![]() ![]() Educated at Dartmouth College, upon graduation he went west to build railroads in northern Sent him to New York to live with his paternal grandmother and extended family, who raised him to become an abolitionist. He was born in Florida in 1834 to a Connecticut steamboat captain and a local 14-year-old girl from a slaveholding family. ![]() Wood was both an uncommon man and a typical Union officer. With his colonel sickĪnd his lieutenant colonel’s having resigned, he was now its effective commander. His previous letter was dated May 8, and in the intervening weeks he and his regiment had fought four sharp battles. Infantry regiment sat down in his tent to write a long letter to his wife. As Union artillery units began a day of shelling the rebel stronghold at Vicksburg, Maj. Monday, May 25, 1863, broke hot and thick over the southern end of the Mississippi Delta. ![]() Disunion follows the Civil War as it unfolded. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Brainwashed by Tom Burrell![]() ![]() “Our insistence that we have broken free from the negative propaganda is wishful thinking. ![]() I wrote this book to serve as a catalyst for deprogramming society from the myth that blacks are innately inferior to whites.” – Tom Burrell Here are Ten Quotes from the book, Brainwashed:ġ. Brainwashed, to my knowledge, is the very first book that talks about the selling of race-based inferiority from both a historical and contemporary marketing perspective, and its devastating impact on both blacks and whites. “As the former founder and CEO of one of the top ad agencies in the country, I bring more than 45 years of advertising and marketing expertise with black consumers and social behaviors to the table. In 2010, Burrell authored the now classic book Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority. ![]() His award-winning work acknowledged the purchasing power of the African American community and literally changed the face of American advertising. ![]() Marketing Communications Pioneer, Tom Burrell, born March 18, 1939, is a recognized leader and change-agent credited with revolutionizing the use of positive and realistic images of African Americans in television advertising. ![]() |