![]() ![]() Aside from her writing, Mary is also known for introducing and advocating for smallpox inoculation to Britain after her return from Turkey. After her return to England, Lady Mary devoted her attention to the upbringing of her family before dying of cancer in 1762.Īlthough having regularly socialised with the court of George I and George Augustus, Prince of Wales (later King George II), Lady Mary is today chiefly remembered for her letters, particularly her Turkish Embassy Letters describing her travels to the Ottoman Empire, as wife to the British ambassador to Turkey, which Billie Melman describes as "the very first example of a secular work by a woman about the Muslim Orient". During her time there, Lady Mary wrote extensively on her experience as a woman in Ottoman Istanbul. Lady Mary joined her husband on the Ottoman excursion, where she was to spend the next two years of her life. ![]() In 1712, Lady Mary married Edward Wortley Montagu, who later served as the British ambassador to the Sublime Porte. Born in 1689, Lady Mary spent her early life in England. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (née Pierrepont – 21 August 1762) was an English aristocrat, writer, and poet. ![]() Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull (father). ![]()
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The author of an LGBTQ-inclusive book at the center of several bomb threats and other controversies nationwide has defended the publication and thanked librarians for standing in solidarity with the principles of free speech. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Fanon, who had spent years in Algeria agitating for its liberation, was, at the time of the book’s publication, little known and dying from leukemia. Sartre wrote these incendiary words in a preface to “ The Wretched of the Earth,” an anti-colonial treatise by the French and West Indian political philosopher and psychiatrist Frantz Fanon. ![]() After all, such a killing eliminates “in one go oppressor and oppressed: leaving one man dead and the other man free.” Sartre, despised in France for his solidarity with Algerian anti-colonialists, wanted to goad people into seeing the “strip-tease of our humanism.” He wrote, “You who are so liberal, so humane, who take the love of culture to the point of affectation, you pretend to forget that you have colonies where massacres are committed in your name.” “Killing a European is killing two birds with one stone,” Jean-Paul Sartre wrote in 1961, seven years into France’s brutal suppression of the Algerian independence movement. ![]() ![]() ![]() 1920x1187px The words of Sir Grumpy III.1080x1920px Grumpy Cat, cats, kittens, kitten, funny, HD phone wallpaper.Lil BUB and Grumpy come by their looks naturally. 1650x1099px "Hello Fans!", grumpy cat, bonito, adorable, animal, sweet, SkyPhoenixX1, animals, kitty, kittens, sky, cat, cute, grumpy, funny, cats, kitten, HD wallpaper Grumpy Cat has disproportionately short front legs, which cause an unsteady gait and account for some of the awkward positions in which she’s photographed. ![]() 2560x1440px Lord Grumpy, grumpy cat, cat, abstract, animal, armor, SkyPhoenixX1, kitten, sword, knight, HD wallpaper. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Kenna tries to apologize to the Landrys, Ledger forbids her and explains that they remain in pain and are trying to heal without her presence. He was Scotty’s best friend, and he remains very involved in Diem’s life, but he and Kenna never formally met, and he doesn’t recognize her.Īs they continue to get to know each other, he figures out who Kenna really is, which leaves him conflicted, and she begins to rehabilitate herself with a low-paying grocery store cashier job. She had been pregnant with Diem at the time of the accident and only met her once.īack in town, Kenna has coffee alone at Ward’s Bar, where she intrigues the owner, Ledger Ward. ![]() However, Kenna is determined to reunite with her 4-year-old daughter, Diem, whom she lost custody of to Scotty’s parents, Grace and Patrick. Kenna had left the scene of the accident and, to this day, is considered to be a villain in her small town. Kenna Rowan is a 26-year-old woman who has been released from prison 5 years into a 7-year sentence for involuntary manslaughter involving the death of her former boyfriend, Scotty Landry, in a tragic car accident that occurred while they were intoxicated. To avoid the spoilers in this plot synopsis, skip to the Reminders of Him book review below. ![]() ![]() This Reminders of Him summary CONTAINS SPOILERS. ![]() ![]() Then again because of the variations in our individual brains, reality can be subjective. These tetra chromatic women actually see colors that others can’t. We learn that 15% of women have four color receptors, not three like the rest of us. Incognito is a book of answers and a book of questions. This writer has no science or medical background yet even he could understand (mostly) Eagleman’s text about our most current understanding of the human brain, a marvel of the universe that has begrudgingly revealed some its secrets to investigators and kept hidden so many more. Alien hand syndrome is one of many brain conditions detailed by David Eagleman in his heady book about the brain, Incognito. It could also be an actual manifestation of alien hand syndrome, a side effect of split brain surgery in which one hand has a mind of its own. ![]() ![]() Something out of a Jim Carey movie? Perhaps. It’s a ridiculous scenario, a man fighting with himself on a public sidewalk, one arm struggling with the other as the poor man screams at the offending hand over which he seems to have no control. As the offending hand draws the stolen éclair towards the horrified man’s mouth, his other hand grabs the arm with the éclair grasping hand and tries to force it back. Title: Incognito: The Secret Lives of the BrainĪn unremarkable looking man is walking by a bakery, looks through the window, breaks it with his fist, and grabs a chocolate éclair. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If she emphasizes her ignorance, describing herself as ‘a woman ignorant, weak and frail’ (ST chapter 6), this is likely to have been both out of genuine humility and so as to avoid her contemporaries’ unease with female learning, especially in theological matters.” - A.C. Julian is manifestly a woman of exceptional intelligence, and she shows not just an understanding of theology, the province learned male clerics, but a capacity for powerful new theological thought moreover, her prose, while owing much to speech, is distinctive and distinguished. so compelling and so rich in meaning that Julian understood them to come directly from God and to be messages not just to herself but to all Christians. ![]() Source: via “Julian of Norwich is the first writer in English who can be identified with certainty as a woman. Apparently at the point of death from a severe illness, for which she had earlier prayed as a means to be ‘purged by he mercy of God and afterwards to live more to God’s glory’ (chapter 2), she received a series of ‘showings’. Julian of Norwich (1342 – c.1416) Julian of Norwich (1342-c.1416), author of Revelations of Divine Love. ![]() ![]() ![]() Air Force-commissioned study of toddlers found that read-aloud triggered certain brain cells, strengthened existing synaptic connections, and created new brain cells and connections. The evidence is not just anecdotal: Led by Patricia McGee, Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Texas at San Antonio, a U.S. Consider this sentence from William Steig’s The Amazing Bone: “Later she sat on the ground in the forest between school and home, and spring was so bright and beautiful, the warm air touched her so tenderly, she could almost feel herself changing into a flower.” Children who regularly hear complex syntax like this develop a better command of language. All babies learn language by listening to spoken conversation. ![]() Let me give you the highlights.įirst, the academic and cognitive benefits. Entire doctoral theses have been written and hundreds of research studies conducted to quantify the value of read-aloud. Why am I so passionate about reading aloud? Besides being thoroughly enjoyable, it is the single best thing you can do to set your child up for success in school and life. ![]() If I didn’t insist on a break to do other things, I think Payton would be content to have me read until my voice gives out. ![]() Sometimes we read six or seven stories in one sitting. My granddaughter Payton deposits a pile of books in my lap and shuffles through them, deciding which she wants me to read first. ![]() ![]() ![]() (And I’d say it’s not always all that different today, in some ways.) That was enough to be put away, back then. She doesn’t want to get married and have babies. There is much unpleasantness as Louisa’s life goes from bad to really very bad, with most of the staff more jailers than nurses, and many of the other patients either insane or also put there by family who for some reason wanted to rid themselves of someone inconvenient.įor that is what Louisa is. Interspersed with what happens to her at Wildthorn Hall, we learn what’s been going on in her life up till now, and the reader begins to guess. She doesn’t at first know by whom or why, and she believes the ‘mistake’ will soon be rectified. ![]() Thus begins her nightmare, and Louisa discovers she’s been put in an asylum. Instead she finds herself at Wildthorn Hall, where they address her as Lucy Childs. 17-year-old Louisa Cosgrove is travelling to stay with the Woodvilles to be a companion to a young lady. Wildthorn was Jane Eagland’s first novel, and what an absolutely marvellous story it is! I’m so glad I read it, after being aware of Jane’s writing for several years. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One look at her face, and I knew right away she was not human. The image of her standing in front of my desk still burns in my mind. “who cares to whom my inexistent soul belongs to when I will go on living forever?”Īnd the answer to his question will take the reader to a surprising journey of faith, discovery, the mysteries of immortality and beyond time itself.Įternal Darkness, Blood King is a true feast for all vampire lovers, and a new take on the immortal lore with unexpected twists and turns that will leave the reader asking for more.Įnter into the darkness of the world of Renzo Von Klatas Meet Renzo Von Klatas, a proud immortal who across two centuries of blood and death wonders if there still is some shred of human emotion inside of him, when he faces the unexpected by an ancient evil force that seems to be as powerful as he is- an evil force with the perfect bait the secret of how to turn immortals back into mortals in exchange for Renzo's soul. It's evil versus evil in a showdown of wits and will when the most ancient and wicked of forces challenge the most powerful and ruthless of modern vampires. ![]() |