![]() ![]() ![]() Greek mythology has a God (theos or daemon) for every thought and emotion. ![]() Objects, animals, plants, places, etc have a spirit.īy ascribing human qualities and traits to, otherwise, abstract and inanimate concepts they were able to relate and make sense of mysteries of the world.Īncient Greeks weren’t that different, albeit more sophisticated since they weaved this concept to their stories and mythology. In fact, one of the most ancient beliefs that persisted until very recently is animism. They used myths and deities to map the world around them. See, mythology was deeply embedded into their daily lives. It might be hard for a modern human to comprehend the way ancient civilizations perceived these concepts. We have the tools to answer these questions with accuracy. Why we sleep, how much, how many dreams per night, etc. We have an abundance of information, research, and studies available online to dissect the very nature of our sleep and dreams. Nowadays, science allows us to explain various natural phenomena and biological processes. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Soon Gabriel learns why it's so dangerous for Meriwether to talk about his heroism in front of white people, and Gabriel's eyes are finally opened to the hard truth about Birdsong-and his understanding of what it means to be a hero will never be the same. ![]() Meriwether Hunter hadn't been around to push him out of harm's way.Īfter the accident, Gabriel and Meriwether become friends when they both start working at Gabriel's dad's auto shop, and Meriwether lets a secret slip: He served in the army's all-black 761st Tank Battalion in World War II. It all starts when he comes face-to-face with one of the worst drivers in town while riding his new bicycle-an accident that would have been tragic if Mr. But on his twelfth birthday, his point of view begins to change. The Coretta Scott King Honor-winning author tells the moving story of the friendship between a young white boy and a Black WWII veteran who has recently returned to the unwelcoming Jim Crow South.įor Gabriel Haberlin, life seems pretty close to perfect in the small southern town of Birdsong, USA. ![]() ![]() ![]() *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK IOLA LEROY *** ![]() You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title: Iola Leroy Shadows Uplifted This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. The Project Gutenberg EBook of Iola Leroy, by Frances E.W. At the age of sixty-seven, Harper published Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted, becoming one of the first African American women to publish a novel. Over the course of her life, Harper founded and participated in several progressive organizations, including the Women’s Christian Temperance Union and the National Association of Colored Women. In 1854, having established herself as a prominent public speaker and political activist, Harper published Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects, a resounding critical and commercial success. The following year, alongside chairman of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society William Still, she began working as an abolitionist in earnest, helping slaves escape to Canada along the Underground Railroad. ![]() ![]() In 1850, she began to teach sewing at Union Seminary in Columbus, Ohio. Born free in Baltimore, Maryland, Harper became one of the first women of color to publish a work of literature in the United States when her debut poetry collection Forest Leaves appeared in 1845. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) was an African American abolitionist, suffragist, poet, and novelist. ![]() ![]() ![]() That mindset allowed me to befriend people who were toothless, foul-smelling, crippled, rude or unable to communicate-people I would never associate with before. A mysterious process had freed me from judgment, expectations, worry and fear. Instead of feeling terrified, I felt at peace, and at times, blissful. A normal person in my place would feel frightened and alone, and many of the experiences I described are from a solitary perspective. ![]() In Detour from Normal, I was thrust from normalcy into a life of cold, heartless professionals and the tragically mentally ill. Joined at the hip in many regards, these novels are nonetheless as different as night and day in a certain respect: one is about being alone and the other is about being together. This morning, I pondered the differences between my two novels: Detour from Normal and The Road to Amistad. ![]() ![]() In Miles words, her story is political as well as personal: Sara Miles Ballantine $2495 Isbn 978 For the most part, Miles avoids the idealized and overly romantic haze that can surround stories like this and the result is a much more grounded and empowering book for those who read. Its the story of food pantries blossomed all over San Francisco, ministries of hospitality that have extended the table of the church far beyond the bounds of the sanctuary. Its about the out-working of that conversion in the feeding of the poorest and most marginalized in her home city. The beauty of Miles book is that this is more, far more, than a story of personal conversion. And nothing in Miles life, nor in the life of her congregation, would be the same again. In this act of eating Jesus, she discovered the beginning of a radical turn-around in everything that mattered to her. Miles, a left-leaning journalist, political activist and atheist, was not the most likely candidate for conversion to Christian faith, yet stumbling into a celebration of communion in an Episcopal church in San Francisco, Miles found an experience of profound change. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I cant claim it a life changer, but as a memoir of conversion centered at the table of God, its a book thats affirmed for me so much about faith, eucharist and church, and in the most compelling way. No doubt, one of the best reads for me in the past two years was Sara Miles Take this Bread: A Radical Conversion. Sara Miles, author of City of God, on her Faith & Background ![]() ![]() And the race is on in a fast paced heart thumping thriller. In this book the police are looking for a live victim, thinking that the killer is dead after being hit by a bus. When he abducts a woman first he sends home an ear, then the eyes and finally their tongue and left to die. You learn early on that he learned his lessons from his parents and grows up to become the 4MK or fourth monkey killer. The killer's story of his life from childhood up is told in the form of a very descriptive diary. In his mind killing a loved one will cause the person to suffer more knowing they are to blame. The women he kills are all somehow related to the person he really wants to get at. You have the protagonist aka the police and the antagonist who appears to be a very demented killer. This book is one of my better finds this year and the way it's written it looks like it could easily become a series with some very interesting characters. I don't know why but I always hesitate when I see a new unproven author but for a change I didn't and boy am I glad I didn't. This book is a must have book for anyone who loves a good mystery. ![]() ![]() ![]() One female philanthropist set up fellowships for women who wanted to work in astronomy at Harvard. Some of the stories I tell in my book are about the women who funded this effort, such as Anna Draper, who donated her fortune to Harvard astronomy, and Catherine Wolfe Bruce, who donated the money to build a telescope to photograph the sky of the Southern Hemisphere. Women played a huge role in making these discoveries possible. What role did women have in deciphering the glass universe? These plates mark the beginning of modern astrophysics. These plates enabled women to create a classification system for the stars and discover new objects. The glass universe is the main character of this story-half a million glass plates on which the Harvard photographs of stars were taken. ![]() We sat down with Sobel to discuss this important time in astronomy and her motivation behind telling this story. Sobel's book details the many accomplishments of these women, including funding new telescopes, inventing new classification systems for stars, and discovering a yardstick for measuring distances across space. ![]() ![]() On April 4, science writer Dava Sobel visited Caltech to give a talk about her recent book, The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars, which details the lives and accomplishments of a group of female astronomers and philanthropists at Harvard in the late 1800s. Technology Transfer & Corporate Partnerships ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It's both hilarious and moving to read Eleanor's most ungraceful attempts at self-improvement. The mantra's first sentence is the title of Semple's novel, today will be different. She's decided to get her life together and has created a mantra to say to herself when she wakes up in the morning. Timby's unusual name was suggested by an autocorrect error on Eleanor's iPhone. She's also worried she's not romantic enough with her husband, or present enough with their son Timby. That was many years ago, and now, having made no progress, she's dodging calls from her editor. She was also nominated for a prestigious graphic novel award that led to a book contract. Eleanor is a middle-aged mother, who earlier in life had success as the animation director for a popular TV show. ![]() Our guest, Maria Semple, has written a new comedic novel that takes place on one day in the life of its main character, Eleanor Flood. ![]() ![]() ![]() The show won Annie Awards for "Best Children's Series" twice in two years and Emmy Awards for "Outstanding Main Title Sequence", "Outstanding Children's TV Series" and "Outstanding Editing in a Daytime Program", tying the latter award with Animaniacs. The second season was released on December 14, 2020, and a film titled Hilda and the Mountain King premiered on Netflix on December 30, 2021. The world premiere of the first two episodes was at the New York International Children's Film Festival on February 25, 2018. ![]() ![]() Due to the positive response, the series was renewed for a second season on October 8, 2018. ![]() The series debuted on September 21, 2018, as a Netflix miniseries to critical acclaim. Though moving away from the wild and into a bustling city, Hilda still manages to befriend even the most dangerous of monsters. Produced by Silvergate Media and Mercury Filmworks, the series follows the adventures of fearless Hilda, an 11-year-old blue-haired girl who, along with her mother Johanna and her deerfox Twig, moves to the fictional city of Trolberg after their old residency in the outskirts of a forest is destroyed by a giant. Hilda is an animated streaming television series based on the graphic novel series of the same name by Luke Pearson. ![]() ![]() ![]() (“When his curtain goes up, he always puts on a different kind of show,” the critic Edmund Wilson wrote.) As William Souder writes in his fine new biography of Steinbeck, Mad at the World, the novelist was a born contrarian. For both better and worse, he never wrote the same book twice. The impetus for Wrath was similar, but drawing connections between experiences is a tricky business with Steinbeck. ![]() ![]() “I had not heard the speech of America, smelled the grass and trees and sewage, seen its hills and water, its color and quality of light,” he wrote. The second would lead to one of his last - 1962’s charming, angry and (in time) controversial Travels With Charley in Search of America.Īs Steinbeck writes in the opening pages of Charley, he missed the hands-on experience of witnessing the diversity of the country for himself. That first road trip resulted in his first major book, 1939’s The Grapes of Wrath. As he prepped his RV - nicknamed Rocinante, after Don Quixote’s horse - he recalled a similar trip he had taken in 1936, when he rigged a used bakery delivery truck, left his home near Monterey, California, and headed to the San Joaquin Valley to report on the desperate migrant farm workers flooding the region. In September 1960, John Steinbeck decided to hitch a trailer to a pickup truck, leave his home in New York, and take a road trip around the United States. ![]() |