Our first week of mythology covered Greek and Roman mythology. We are in our first unit, which is mythology. I am currently teaching a ninth grade English class. And it all came across a little bit like personality types in the decades before Meyers-Briggs and Enneagram would take the kids of the 80s by storm. R-rated stories masquerading as historical text about the roots of literature and story-telling. My friends and I nicknamed each other from the Greek pantheon. Either way, closet nerd that I am, Mythology sparked a number of extracurricular exploits, or at least flourished them. It is unlikely that I read the entire thing, since it can be assigned in pieces and that is probably what my teacher did. I first read Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes by Edith Hamilton when I was in high school.
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He has been using a full cage for game play since the incident.Īfter splitting the first two games in Las Vegas, the top-seeded Golden Knights needed double overtime for a 5-4 road win in Game 3. Jets' Morrissey out for remainder of series against Golden Knights with lower-body injuryįorward Morgan Barron, who needed 75 stitches after taking a skate to the face in Game 1, used his regular visor at practice.Jets forward Ehlers not cleared to play in Game 3 of series with Golden Knights, coach says. "Everybody has to over some kind of adversity every playoff run that anyone has ever been on. "It's hard, it doesn't make it any easier," Schmidt said. Scheifele, the Jets' top scorer with 42 goals in the regular season, was forced to exit a few minutes into Game 4. Morrissey, one of the team's top puck movers, went down early in Game 3. "The back and forth forwards and is always a good indicator of how the guys are going that day and today is a good example." "We're a lot more crisp when guys at practice are into each other a little bit," he said. Schmidt said the approach can help minimize pressure. (John Woods/The Canadian Press)ĭespite being in elimination game territory, the Jets were a loose bunch at times during Wednesday's brisk 45-minute practice session. Winnipeg Jets forward Nikolaj Ehlers, pictured here during an April 2 game against the New Jersey Devils, hopes to return to the ice on Thursday after an upper-body injury left him on the sidelines for the team's first three playoff games. Listen in to hear more about becoming abolitionists, the lack of history of White resistance, Derecka’s own personal thought journey, and so much more. We really enjoyed this conversation - and learned so much - and hope you do too. We first heard about our guest today when we were all participating in the Edelweiss Book Fest as Editors’ Picks and couldn’t get her, or her book, out of our heads. While “abolition” has been a word largely associated with slavery, it has taken on a new meaning when it comes to the police in America. Yes, we know - this word is scary. Police reform can seem daunting. But Derecka Purnell not only understands that, but she has a framework for how we need to be thinking about this process, and what new structures can be built in its place. By using other well-known franchises as an example, she shows the rapid development of retail chains and a changing political course associated with racial-ethnic issues. Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America (Liveright, 2020) by Marcia Chatelain is a fascinating examination of the relationship between the fast-food industry, Black business owners, and the communities where they set up franchises after the Holy Week Uprisings of 1968. Chatelain notes that the chain’s controversial policy stance that was associated with an open bias towards the African American populations at certain times suggests a strong relationship between social and business dimensions. The author pays particular attention to McDonald’s, a fast-food restaurant chain, and discusses how the globalization agenda in business was associated with moods in society. Her book explores the complexities reflecting African Americans’ self-identity and the controversial nuances of social relationships through the prism of the franchise as a phenomenon that emerged in the second half of the 20th century. Chatelain introduces the key messages of her research. BOOK REVIEW: ‘Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America’ by Marcia Chatelain by WI Guest Author Februc.2020, Liveright 28.95 336 pages Your hand is in the bag again. The lecture delivered by Marcia Chatelain, a respected scholar specializing in history and, in particular, studies of racial ethnicity, is based on the analysis of her book called “Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America.” After she is introduced to the audience, Ms. The raid failed after ninety miles primarily due to conductor William Fuller, who chased after them and used another locomotive, the Texas, to catch them. Pittenger was one of the twenty-two Federal soldiers who made their way through the lines to Marietta, Georgia and took the train. The Great Locomotive Chase inspired one movie with Buster Keaton as William Fuller, the confederate conductor who chases after the stolen train, The General, and a Disney movie with Fess Parker as leader of the raid James Andrews, The Great Locomotive Chase. You can download and read it for free here or here. This is a book by William Pittenger which recounts his adventures as a member of the Andrews Raiding Party in the “Great Locomotive Chase” of April, 1862, along with his time as a prisoner of the confederates after his capture. You’re just seeing the version that succeeded.”Īs The Last of Us winds down its first season, Druckmann unpacked the rationale behind some of the TV show’s most interesting deviations from the original video game. Sometimes we’d have to say, ‘Oh, that changes too much,’ and have to go back and undo it. “If there was a change big enough, we’d take a step back and look at the whole season, or even past the first season. “We’d always talk about the knock-on effect: If we take this other road, what does it mean for the rest of the story?” says Druckmann. At times, the TV show offers nearly shot-for-shot remakes of scenes that appeared in the video game a decade ago at other times, it departs radically from the source material. With Druckmann, unusually, in a key leadership role for both the video game and the HBO series, the relationship between the two versions of the story has been fascinating to parse. “They’re enriching each other in a way I wouldn’t have predicted,” says Neil Druckmann, co-director of the acclaimed 2013 PlayStation 3 game and co-creator of the HBO series that recently got the phrase “Baby Girl” trending on Twitter. The season-one finale opens with Ellie’s birth and the death of Ellie’s mother, Anna (Ashley Johnson), a story hinted at but never fully told until now.Įven the man behind The Last of Us is surprised by the symbiotic relationship that has developed between the video game and its TV adaptation. I enjoyed my first lockdown-lift visit to a pub, in Bassingham. I hope you had a good Bank Holiday weekend and you and your family are well. If there is anything you’d like to ask, or want me to bring to Westminster, you can email me personally at: News and Greetings from Economic recovery is clearly vital and I believe we need to do this in a way that supports local business, local communities and our environment, with independence. It is not a time to centralise services such as planning, nor side-line local democracy. As we focus on recovery – it is essential that we don’t go backwards. I am endlessly inspired by the vision, commitment and resilience of our local community, and proud to be a part of it. I am currently the District Councillor for Cliff Villages and County Councillor for Bassingham & Welbourn, and am uncontested this May You can download my campaign leaflet here. I enjoy working with others to create cohesive, active communities where people have a high quality of life, and hope to have your support this May to continue working to help Lincolnshire thrive. Your local, Independent County and District Councillor I’m the group leader for the Lincolnshire Independents and Vice Chairman of the Local Government Association, which enables me to bring the voices of Lincolnshire right into the heart of Westminster. Oyeyemi ratchets up the horror as Jess begins to fear her jealous friend’s powers of invasion and destruction. But who is TillyTilly? A figment of Jess’s feverish brain, her alter ego, the expression of her angry or divided self? Even Jess begins to suspect her friend isn’t real, leading to TillyTilly’s revelation that Jess had a twin sister, Fern, who was stillborn. On a first family visit to Nigeria she meets Titiola-or TillyTilly-a friend who has magic powers but forbids Jess to talk about her: “Can’t you tell that I’m not supposed to be there.” Back home, Jess is first ill, then in difficulties again at school, so is thrilled when TillyTilly reappears, an ally who seems able to sneak invisibly into the homes of her enemies. Oyeyemi drip-feeds her problems: she has trouble eating in front of strangers, is bullied at school, takes refuge in cupboards and often resorts to screaming tantrums. Nervy and alienated, Jessamy finds the world too fast and expectant. Oyeyemi’s much-publicized debut, completed shortly before her 19th birthday, enters the troubled mind of Jessamy Harrison, the “half-and-half” daughter of a Nigerian mother and British father. A mixed-race eight-year-old girl is haunted by her imaginary friend, family secrets and the two cultures she inhabits. Their exchanges are very different from the present popular mode of communication “which is a time of people saying stuff to each other and none of it actually ever becoming dialogue.” “Autumn” emphasizes the importance of art and literature as a means of communicating when dialogue between different factions of society comes to an end. Together they debate ideas and create stories while witnessing the monumental changes happening in the society around them. It’s the story of a young woman named Elisabeth Demand and her friendship with Daniel Gluck, an elderly man who lived through the rise of fascism in Europe in the 1930s. She shows how while times might feel dire right now, it is simply a season in the turning of time. What Smith does in this novel is give a sense of perspective on this mood of all-encompassing gloom. Ali Smith is an author whose writing embodies absolute passion, invention and positivity – this is true despite her new novel “Autumn” beginning with the line “It was the worst of times, it was the worst of times.” Because she is writing about the contemporary including this year’s recent significant referendum where the UK voted to leave theEuropean Union, this statement playing upon Dickens’ famous opening accurately reflects the political and social feeling for many people in this country. Immersing herself in neural recordings of the interrogation, what she finds isn't Hunter but rather a panorama of characters within Hunter's psyche.Įmbedded in the memories of these impossible lives lies a code which Neith must decipher to find out what Hunter is hiding. Mielikki Neith, a trusted state inspector, is assigned to find out what went wrong. When suspected dissident Diana Hunter dies in custody, it marks the first time a citizen has been killed during an interrogation. Near-future Britain is a state in which citizens are constantly observed and democracy has reached a pinnacle of 'transparency.' Every action is seen, every word is recorded and the System has access to thoughts and memories. Random House presents the audiobook edition of Gnomon, written by Nick Harkaway, read by Ben Onwukwe. |