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The Underground Abductor by Nathan Hale6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() Here is the true tale of a remarkable African American woman, told as a story filled with danger, espionage, and even humor. ![]() ![]() She would go down in history as a hero and spy who helped hundreds of American slaves run away and find freedom by following the Underground Railroad. Once there, she changed her name to Harriet Tubman. After years of backbreaking labor and the constant threat of being sold and separated from her family, she escaped north to freedom. Meet Underground Railroad abductor Harriet Tubman in this installment of the New York Times bestselling graphic novel series!Īraminta Ross was an enslaved woman born in Delaware. Thrilling, bloody, action-packed stories from American history.” - New York Times “These books are, quite simply, brilliant. ![]() Goodnight moon book author6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She combined her literary talent with the study of child development. The book features a singsong rhythm and a slightly irregular rhyming pattern. Author Margaret Wise Brown had the unique ability to see the world through a childs eyes. The bunny is being put to bed by an elderly bunny who is not identified as anything other than a “quiet old lady,” but seems to be either a grandmother or a doting and kindly nanny. Instead, it describes the going to bed ritual of a small bunny, who surveys all the objects of its surrounding green room and then bids goodnight to each object in turn. Brown based her work on her studies at the Bank Street’s Cooperative School for Student Teachers, where she learned about child development and realized how interested young kids were in the “rhythm, sound quality, and patterns of sound,” more even than the meaning of the words themselves. It is considered a classic of children’s literature, and marks the transformation of stories from the kind of moralizing carried over from the nineteenth century to the here-and-now storytelling featuring experiences familiar to children’s own lives that became prevalent in the middle of the twentieth century. Children’s author Margaret Wise Brown published her short bedtime story Goodnight Moon in 1947, and it has remained a wildly popular, bestselling, often imitated book ever since. ![]() Clive barker candyman book6/9/2023 ![]() ![]() There is nothing funny about sexual assault, but there is something a bit funny about a man being banned from touching muscles. In 2006, Liverpool Magistrates’ Court for a Sexual Offences delivered a Prevention Order against Aki banning him from touching, feeling or measuring muscles and asking people to do squat exercises in public. ![]() ![]() I’m not from Merseyside, but there was something about the Purple Aki story that fascinated me. He had been charged with multiple counts of indecent assault, harrassment, witness intimidation, threatening behaviour and even manslaughter. Akinwale Arobieke was actually serving his second stint in prison at the time. Some lad on a messageboard thread on Liverpool Legends in 2006Įven then (2004ish) there was enough information on the internet to confirm that Purple Aki was no mere urban legend. The stories of ol’ purple i used to hear was that he offered a choice of pop or slash, either get P slashed on one ass cheek and A on the other, or get ya ass popped. ![]() He gives relentless chase to anyone who dares refuse, and when caught these escapees are offered a choice, “Pop or slash.” This imposing figure appears out of the shadows telling young men to let him feel their muscles. Purple Aki is a big scary lad whose skin is so dark it supposedly looks purple. ![]() Gale e christianson6/9/2023 ![]() Written by top scholars and writers, each biography examines the personality of its subject as well as the thought process leading to his or her discoveries. Oxford Portraits in Science is an on-going series of scientific biographies for young adults. Own career, he was an authentic genius with all too human faults. ![]() Quarrelsome, quirky, and not above using his position to silence critics and further his This biography also allows us to see the personal side of Newton, whose life away from science was equally fascinating. After his return toĬambridge, Newton's genius was quickly recognized and his reputation forever established. Away from his colleagues and professors, Newton embarked on one of the greatest intellectual odysseys in the history of science: he began to formulate the law of universal gravitation, developed the calculus, and made revolutionary discoveries about the nature of light. ![]() ![]() In 1665, when an epidemic of the plague forced Cambridge University to close, Isaac Newton, then a young, undistinguished scholar, returned to his childhood home in rural England. ![]() The importance of earnest6/9/2023 ![]() Lady Bracknell returns and refutes the engagement. However, she accepts his proposal, and he makes a mental note to be rechristened Ernest. ![]() Unfortunately, she explains that she really wants to marry someone named Ernest because it sounds so solidly aristocratic. While Algernon distracts Lady Bracknell in another room, Jack proposes to Gwendolen. Algernon explains that he cannot attend Lady Bracknell's reception because he must visit his invalid friend, Bunbury, but he offers to arrange the music for her party. He visits an imaginary invalid friend named Bunbury when he needs an excuse to leave the city. While devouring all the cucumber sandwiches, Algernon confesses that he, too, employs deception when it's convenient. Algernon finds it curious that Jack has announced himself as "Ernest." When Jack explains that he plans to propose marriage to Gwendolen, Algy demands to know why Jack has a cigarette case with the inscription, "From little Cecily with her fondest love." Jack explains that his real name is Jack Worthing, squire, in the country, but he assumes the name "Ernest" when he ventures to the city for fun. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jack Worthing (a friend of Algy's) arrives first. Algernon's aunt (Lady Bracknell) and her daughter (Gwendolen Fairfax) are coming for a visit, but Mr. The play begins in the flat of wealthy Algernon Moncrieff (Algy) in London's fashionable West End. ![]() The master algorithm6/9/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() As you read, you’ll learn how machines will one day be like the human brain, how there is no such thing as a perfect algorithm, and how a Master Algorithm is on its way to being created. This means that our future can be run by technology, changing the way we live and interact with each other. Computers can learn from large sets of data that we may not even realize is getting collected. With all the technology of today, machines may one day even become smarter than the human brain. Today, scientists, computer engineers, and more are working towards a machine that can do exactly what the human brain does: learn. Even more astonishing is how little role parents play in teaching the brain to go through this transformation, as it largely does it all on its own. How the Quest For the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World.Īccording to Pedro Domingos, one of the greatest mysteries of the universe is not how it begins or ends, or what infinitesimal threads it’s woven from, it’s what goes on in a small child’s mind: how a pound of gray jelly can grow into a seat of consciousness. ![]() Sin city by frank miller6/8/2023 ![]() ![]() The series art was noteworthy for its unique aesthetic, drawn almost entirely in black and white, with occasional bright splashes of color (red, yellow, blue, or pink) to highlight certain characters. A longtime fan of film noir, especially the films of James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart, Miller wanted to bring that same tone to Sin City, an anthology of stories set in the fictional Western town of Basin City (aka Sin City). ![]() Miller cut his teeth in the 1980s on Marvel Comics' Daredevil series and DC Comics' The Dark Knight Returns. ![]() Given that Miller wants the series to rate a hard "R," streaming seems the most likely option. The agreement comes with a first season guarantee, pending a partnership with one of the major networks or streaming platforms. Miller just inked a deal with Legendary Television for the project, and apparently a similar agreement is close to completion with Robert Rodriguez, who collaborated with Miller on the film adaptions of the comic series in 20. We're getting a TV adaptation of Sin City, Frank Miller's series of neo-noir comics inspired by crime pulp fiction, Deadline Hollywood reports. ![]() Lyddie online book6/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Struggling against poverty since her father left the family four years ago, ostensibly to find work that would benefit his wife and four children, Lyddie has worked tirelessly to ensure the family’s survival. In rural Vermont in 1843, Lyddie Worthen’s life is irrevocably changed when she is ousted from her family home by her emotionally unstable mother. ![]() It is an account of child labor that includes themes of corporate exploitation of underage workers, as well as discussions of the enslavement of human beings, a teenage pregnancy, a character’s confinement in a psychiatric hospital, and continued attempts by a factory supervisor to sexually assault the underage female employees he oversees. This guide is based upon the Puffin Books Trade Paperback Edition published in 2015.Ĭontent Warning: This novel contains depictions of children experiencing hunger, poverty, neglect, and financial abuse at the hands of their family. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s very poetic, dreamy and beautiful, though often fragmented and edging towards stream-of-consciousness in parts. It took me a while to settle into the rhythm of Mailhot's writing in Heart Berries. You should have thought before you made a crazy Indian woman your lover. As she writes, she discovers her own true voice, seizes control of her story, and, in so doing, reestablishes her connection to her family, to her people, and to her place in the world. Her unique and at times unsettling voice graphically illustrates her mental state. Mailhot trusts the reader to understand that memory isn't exact, but melded to imagination, pain, and what we can bring ourselves to accept. The triumphant result is Heart Berries, a memorial for Mailhot's mother, a social worker and activist who had a thing for prisoners a story of reconciliation with her father―an abusive drunk and a brilliant artist―who was murdered under mysterious circumstances and an elegy on how difficult it is to love someone while dragging the long shadows of shame. ![]() Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder Terese Marie Mailhot is given a notebook and begins to write her way out of trauma. ![]() Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. ![]() |