“Your passions are the biggest drivers of your success”, according to social entrepreneur, educationist and ambassador for change, Ntsako Mhlanga. They are as motivated by my professional side as they are by behaviour - how I choose to take up space in society.” But I was wrong – learners take who you are in society to heart as well. The realisation that she has the ability to be inspirational came as a surprise to her: “I always thought that my life and career were two separate spaces. I would like to see the children I work with emerge from their circumstances even though it seems difficult,” she says. Maphutha believes that everyone deserves to live with dignity, irrespective of their financial circumstance. That, in turn, inspires her to be the best that she can be. “I also learnt that poverty can be a state of mind the children that we interact with are full of life and have dreams, despite their socioeconomic status.” Her work at the Bopedi Hope Foundation has taught her to interact with people on a different level. Maphutha did a Bachelor of Education at the University of Johannesburg and she says that helps reach the school children she works with from a place of understanding. Their goals include providing free sanitary towels in all public spaces. Charmaine Maphutha established Bopedi Hope Foundation with two other women and together they provide school shoes, clothing, toiletries, sanitary towels and other necessities to girls in need.
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If I’d reviewed the book right then, it would have pitched between a confused “WTF was that?” and a disappointed “How could he do that to me?”įortunately, I didn’t have time to write anything right away because, as the days passed, I couldn’t get the book out of my head and I started to understand what Ben Elton had really done. I was so surprised that, as I finished the book, I found myself feeling angry at Ben Elton for having broken the implicit contract between writer and reader about the type of experience I’d signed up for. What I got was initially a lot of fun but finally became something brutal, depressing, and horribly plausible. I bought “Time And Time Again” because Ben Elton wrote it and because the cover art (unlike the title) is original and intriguing. If the objection is based on the use of antiquated forms, one might offer the same objection in order to drop Shakespeare from the curriculum as it is no longer standard. Does this text create confusion and set bad examples? Cons of Teaching Huckleberry Finn: What are the main objections from educators, students, and parents? The use of dialect is a distraction.Īs teachers we want our students to be able to code switch and use standard, academic English, so why would we teach a novel where even the narration is in dialect? The dialects in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are regional, informal, and antiquated. My mentor teacher’s best advice was that a teacher must always be prepared to justify every pedagogical decision. Every time a school district drops the novel from the curriculum, the national debate is renewed.Įven if you are required to teach the novel, examining the pros and cons of teaching Huck Finn enables you to avoid conflict and successfully defend your decisions. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and controversy go together like, well, Huck and Jim. It is essential that a teacher weigh the pros and cons of teaching Huckleberry Finn and make mindful choices. Stories of ghost hauntings popularized by the Warrens have been adapted as or have indirectly inspired dozens of films, television series, and documentaries, including several films in the Amityville Horror series and the films in The Conjuring Universe. According to the Warrens, the official website of the NESPR, Viviglam Magazine and several other sources, the NESPR uses a variety of individuals, including medical doctors, researchers, police officers, nurses, college students, and members of the clergy in its investigations. The Warrens were among the first investigators in the Amityville haunting. They claimed to have investigated well over 10,000 cases during their career. They authored many books about the paranormal and about their private investigations into various reports of paranormal activity. In 1952, the Warrens founded the New England Society for Psychic Research (NESPR), the oldest ghost hunting group in New England. Lorraine professed to be clairvoyant and a light trance medium who worked closely with her husband. Edward was a self-taught and self-professed demonologist, author, and lecturer. Edward Warren Miney (Septem– August 23, 2006) and Lorraine Rita Warren ( née Moran Janu– April 18, 2019) were American paranormal investigators and authors associated with prominent cases of alleged hauntings. Galleymore mentioned how a few years ago when she was writing the book, she met a marine biologist who opposed the idea of “being at one with nature.” He said that every time we have an opportunity to become one with nature, “perhaps we risk losing our responsibility to it.” Galleymore’s poetics, then, are an excavation into “how close / to come to nature without being eaten,” (a line from her poem, “Once”). A poet interested in ecopoetics and the environmental humanities, she read from her poetry collection “Significant Other,” as well as some of her newer works. Hailing all the way from Birmingham, England, Galleymore opened the night by sharing that this was her first reading in the United States. The space resembled a kind of cistern, in which Galleymore and Calvocoressi explored themes of animalism, absence, grief, wonder, and tenderness. In place of the typical shelves that crowd the room, Cambridge residents of all ages packed into the Grolier Poetry Book Shop as Isabel Galleymore and Gabrielle Calvocoressi - two Radcliffe Fellows working on full-length poetry collections - stood behind the microphone. But to Gabrielle Calvocoressi, a cistern is a vessel through which a poem collects and holds itself. A cistern is a kind of collection system, typically located on the roof to collect rainwater. Another was Adrian Mitchell's version of Ovid's Metamorphoses-namely, Shapeshifters ( Frances Lincoln, 2009). Two were Rosemary Sutcliff's versions of the Iliad and the Odyssey-namely, Black Ships Before Troy ( Oxford, 1993) and The Wanderings of Odysseus ( Frances Lincoln, 1995). He has illustrated retellings of classics for young people. Non-Tolkien books he has illustrated include Faeries (with Brian Froud), Lavondyss by Robert Holdstock, The Mabinogion (two versions), Castles by David Day, The Mirrorstone by Michael Palin, The Moon's Revenge by Joan Aiken, and Merlin Dreams by Peter Dickinson. Tolkien that he has illustrated are the 1992 centenary edition of The Lord of the Rings, a 1999 edition of The Hobbit, the 2007 The Children of Húrin, the 2017 Beren and Lúthien, the 2018 The Fall of Gondolin, and the 2022 The Fall of Númenor. Lee has illustrated dozens of fantasy books, including some non-fiction, and many more covers. Tolkien's fantasy novels, and for his work on the conceptual design of Peter Jackson's film adaptations of Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film series.Īlan Lee was born in Middlesex, England, and studied at the Ealing School of Art. He is best known for his artwork inspired by J. Illustration, painting, conceptual designĪlan Lee (born 20 August 1947) is an English book illustrator and film conceptual designer. The seers of the Upanishad had the same idea about the Veda and frequently appealed to its authority for the truths they themselves announced and these too afterwards came to be regarded as Sruti, revealed Scripture, and were included in the sacred Canon. The name given to these sages was Kavi, which afterwards came to mean any poet, but at the time had the sense of a seer of truth, the Veda itself describes them as kavayaÕ satyasrutah, seers who are hearers of the Truth and the Veda itself was called, sruti, a word which came to mean revealed Scripture. Hymns to the Mystic Fire SRI AUROBINDO Foreword I N ANCIENT times the Veda was revered as a sacred book of wisdom, a great mass of inspired poetry, the work of Rishis, seers and sages, who received in their illumined minds rather than mentally constructed a great universal, eternal and impersonal Truth which they embodied in Mantras, revealed verses of power, not of an ordinary but of a divine inspiration and source. Printed by Offset at All India Press Pondicherry, India. Published by Sri Aurobindo Memorial Fund Society, Pondicherry. Special Edition of One Hundred Sets on Handmade Paper. VOLUME NO.11 Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library. A lot, however, has happened since – including the second wave, the emergence of scary new variants, and the roll-out of vaccines. Concluding his narrative last autumn, Ferguson predicts the Covid-19 pandemic will be remembered not in the same league as the 1918 Spanish influenza, but rather the (now largely forgotten) Asian flu of 1957. Another problem with this book is that it is already outdated, said Mark Whitaker in The Washington Post. Stream or download thousands of included titles. When not playing with such grand concepts, he indulges in tiresome liberal-baiting – describing Black Lives Matter as a “contagion”. Doom The Politics of Catastrophe By: Niall Ferguson Narrated by: Niall Ferguson Length: 16 hrs and 35 mins 4.5 (92 ratings) Try for 0.00 1 credit a month to use on any title, yours to keep (you’ll use your first credit on this title). Was the pandemic a black swan (an unexpected event that catches humanity unawares), a grey rhino (an obviously dangerous event that people nonetheless do nothing about), or a dragon king (an event that flattens civilisation)?įerguson says it was a grey rhino. His book, however, is an unconvincing blend of “statements of the readily apparent” and laborious theorising. In January 2020, as he reminds us on the opening page, he predicted that it would create a global pandemic, and “was regarded as eccentric”. Ferguson has one good reason to claim to be an authority on catastrophes, said David Aaronovitch in The Times: he was quick to grasp the seriousness of Covid-19. Travel the world with nothing but hand luggage.īut it’s not easy being bad, even when you’ve written step-by-step guidelines on how to do it correctly.Have meaningless but thoroughly enjoyable sex. After almost-but not quite-dying, she’s come up with seven directives to help her “Get a Life”, and she’s already completed the first: finally moving out of her glamorous family’s mansion. a flawless balance of humor, heat, sweetness, and depth, and I loved every page.” – Helen Hoang, USA Today bestselling author of The Bride TestĪ witty, hilarious romantic comedy about a woman who’s tired of being “boring” and recruits her mysterious, sexy neighbor to help her experience new things -perfect for fans of Sally Thorne, Jasmine Guillory, and Helen Hoang!Ĭhloe Brown is a chronically ill computer geek with a goal, a plan, and a list. Mailhot is hardly a nobody today, but she sought to carve a name for herself in the literary world on her own terms. Growing up, Mailhot drew inspiration from “any poetry could comprehend,” including Emily Dickinson’s “I am nobody who are you?” She memorized and recited the poem, which reads “I’m Nobody! Who are you? / Are you-Nobody-Too?” and laments over the dreariness of being “somebody.” While she didn’t know it at the time, this writing would eventually grow into “Heart Berries,” Mailhot’s collection of essays about growing up on British Columbia’s Seabird Island Reservation, grappling with her own mental health struggles, her heritage and her relationship with her parents. Those are some of the first words that Terese Marie Mailhot jotted down in her journal while undergoing treatment in a mental hospital a few years ago. “I feel stuck in something feminine and ancestral in its misery.” Our January pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club “Now Read This” is Terese Marie Mailhot’s memoir “Heart Berries.” Become a member of the book club by joining our Facebook group, or by signing up to our newsletter. |