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![]() “I was taught about the denial of the right to vote behind the Iron Curtain in Europe,” Moses later said. ![]() Martin Luther King Jr.’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Atlanta but found little activity in the office and soon turned his attention to the SNCC. Moses didn’t spend much time in the Deep South until he went on a recruiting trip in 1960 to “see the movement for myself.” He sought out the Rev. He went on to earn a master’s in philosophy at Harvard University. Moses then took part in a Quaker-sponsored trip to Europe and solidified his beliefs that change came from the bottom up. ![]() While attending Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y., he became a Rhodes scholar and was deeply influenced by the work of French philosopher Albert Camus and his ideas of rationality and moral purity for social change. Once in Harlem, his family sold milk from a Black-owned cooperative to help supplement the household income, according to “Robert Parris Moses: A Life in Civil Rights and Leadership at the Grassroots,” by Laura Visser-Maessen. ![]() But like many Black families, the Moses family moved north from the South during the Great Migration. ![]()
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![]() Buoyed by the popularity of Doré's edition of The production was an immediate artistic and commercial success. Masterpieces of literature reflects the extent to which Dante hadĪttained popular appeal in France by the 1860s.įinding it difficult to secure a publisher willing to take on theĮxpense of producing the expensive folio edition the artist envisioned, Doré himself financed the publication of the firstīook of the series, Inferno, in 1861. Interest in Dante was confined to the episodes of Paolo and Francesca (Inf.5) and Ugolino (Inf.33), the 19th century saw an expansion of interest in Dante's work which resulted in numerous translations of the Commedia intoįrench, critical studies,newspapers, and specialized journals, and over 200 works of painting and sculpture between 1800-1930.ĭoré's choice of Dante'sInferno as the first of his proposed series of illustrated Placement of Dante's Commedia at the top of this list reflects the poet's popularity within mainstream French culture by the 1850s. ![]() Series he referred to as the "chefs-d'oeuvre de la littérature." InĪddition to Dante, Doré's list of illustrated great works included Homer, Ossian, Byron, Goethe, Racine, and Corneille. ![]() ![]() Planned by Doré as early as 1855, the Dante illustrations were the first in a Gustave Doré's (1832-1883) illustrations and Dante's Divine Comedy have become so intimately connected that even today, nearly 150 years after their initial publication, the artist's rendering of the poet's text still determines our vision of the Commedia. ![]()
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Adirondack Tragedy by Joseph W. Brownell6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Brownell and Enos deliver a fascinating day-by-day account of the events leading to the death of Grace Brown, the media hyped, sensational trial of Chester Gillette, and the cultural immortalization of an Adirondack Tragedy.Īdirondack Tragedy features 32 black and white photos, 16 maps and drawings, and the never before published reproduction of the original "last letter" of Grace Brown to Chester Gillette from the archives of the Hamilton College Library. The story of Chester and Grace was the inspiration for Theodore Dreiser’s novel An American Tragedy and the Hollywood movie A Place in the Sun. Made famous by a media frenzy fueled by the sensational newspaper reporting of 1906, this "crime of the century" seeped into the American culture. Relive the heart-wrenching story of one of the most famous crimes in New York’s history the murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette at Big Moose Lake. ![]()
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Marx by Peter Singer6/28/2023 ![]() If you’re an educated Marxist or a big-brained philosopher, feel free to sound off with criticisms. Some caveats: I have no formal education in economics, politics or sociology, and this is my first real engagement with Marxist thought. I try to skip most of the historical discussion of how Marx’s ideas developed and jump right to the place where they ended up. To keep it to a reasonable length, I’m only covering chapters 1-7, which describe Marx’s intellectual background and development. To that end, this effortpost summarizes my notes on the book Marx: a Very Short Introduction by Peter Singer, which itself is a summary of Marx’s big ideas. ![]() Since communism and socialism are big topics of discussion 'round these parts, I figure it would be helpful to get more background on where these ideas come from. ![]()
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All quiet on the western book6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() The 1930 American adaptation, directed by Lewis Milestone, won two Academy Awards. Three film adaptations of the book have been made, each of which was lauded. ![]() All Quiet on the Western Front sold 2.5 million copies in 22 languages in its first 18 months in print. The book and its sequel, The Road Back (1930), were among the books banned and burned in Nazi Germany. The novel was first published in November and December 1928 in the German newspaper Vossische Zeitung and in book form in late January 1929. The book describes the German soldiers' extreme physical and mental trauma during the war as well as the detachment from civilian life felt by many upon returning home from the war. All Quiet on the Western Front ( German: Im Westen nichts Neues, lit.'Nothing New in the West') is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I. ![]()
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Looking After The Ashes by Kopi Soh6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() I especially liked the description of “pintu pagar” in the Peranakan household and what was its purpose. “The House of Little Sisters is full of very familiar cultural elements. Through a twist of fate, Ah Mei finds a solution that will keep her and Hassan together, at the same time gaining agency that will secure her own future as an uneducated servant girl in British Malaya. She becomes Hassan’s Polar Star, and the young lovers must find a way to stay together. Ah Mei also meets and falls in love with Hassan Mohamed, an Indian-Muslim and an aspiring poet, breaking every clause in the rule book of love in 1930s British Malaya. Through Ah Lian, Ah Mei discovers the plight of the mui tsai, who are both helpless and powerful, and uncovers a shameful secret lurking in the shadows of the Lee house. There she encounters the spirit of Ah Lian, a mui tsai, who paid the ultimate price for her mistake. At the Lee household, Lim Mei Mei’s life education begins. She has been sold to the family as a mui tsai, an indentured servant girl. It’s August of 1931 in Singapore, sixteen-year-old Lim Mei Mei (Ah Mei) arrives at the home of Eminent Mister Lee on the eve of the Hungry Ghost Month. ![]()
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Bound to You in Japan by Amelia Danver6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() The contrast between him and Alec is like night and day. He is kind, but severe when it comes to disciplining her. ![]() Could he ever give her up, knowing that the fate of the world is at stake? *** 19-year-old university student "Cathy" Cathryn Johnson is bought by a new Shujin, her new Yakuza Master, and has to serve him in this foreign land. Alec is once again torn between the desire to keep Cathy by his side, or serving his country. The Brotherhood's web of conspiracy runs deeper than any previous intel provided by the CIA assets within or without the country. But what awaits him in Japan is nothing like he could ever imagine. When the Hostage Rescue Team failed in their rescue op, and Cathy was whisked away to Japan, Alec abandoned all reasons and went rogue, taking on a new assignment of his own in Osaka, Japan, in order to find her. Now he is completely and utterly obsessed with the sweet girl. In the second installment of the Brotherhood series, 29-year-old "Alec" Alexandre Kitamura Sousa was once a ruthless, calculating, and efficient CIA field agent until his assignment brought his world colliding with Cathy's. ![]()
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Legend gemmell novel6/28/2023 ![]() His final novel was Fall of Kings, which was finished after his death by his wife, Stella. He went to have a successful career, with only one novel not making bestseller status – White Knight, Black Swan, a crime thriller he wrote under the pen name of Ross Harding. Following his third novel, Waylander, Gemmell became a full-time novelist.ĭavid Gemmell became a published novelist with the novel Legend, which he had started in 1976. Now widely regarded as one of the finest writers of heroic fantasy, he. All of his novels are Sunday Times bestsellers. His Drenai and Rigante books are all published as Bantam Press hardcovers and Corgi paperbacks. His cancer was a misdiagnosis, but the novel ended up being published as Legend. Published in 1984, David Gemmell 's first novel, Legend, has become a classic. Then, after being diagnosed with terminal cancer, he went back to writing, as his goal was to have at least one novel published before he died. Gemmell began trying to write in the ’70s, but the end result was not quite what he desired. ![]() He is the author of the Drenai Saga and Sipstrassi series. David Gemmell (1948-2006) was an English author of heroic and historical fantasy novels. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The longest stretch of reading without some sort of graphic element is two pages. The book is well-stocked with pen-and-ink doodlings by cartoonist Laura Park that mimic the look of notebook creations by actual sixth-graders. The lingo is casual and humorous, and as self-aware as one might expect from an 11-year-old. Not only is Rafe’s plight relatable, so is the manner in which he expresses it. ![]() “Middle School” has a keen appreciation of kids’ insecurities and an even more astute understanding of what might propel boy readers through a book. “Are you basically a pretty good, pretty decent person? Says who? Says you? Says your ‘rents? Says your sibs?”Īfter showing the readers a pen-and-ink drawing of himself sporting a bowl cut, polo shirt and backpack worn safely on both shoulders, he asks, “We still friends, or are you out of here? Hey - don’t go - all right?” “ Inside, what are you like?” Rafe asks toward the tail end of the first chapter of a book that’s framed as a bid for friendship. Co-written by Chris Tebbetts, this fictional autobiography is a natural companion to Jeff Kinney’s “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” series, plumbing, as it does, the depths of tween angst in a self-deprecating confessional style that occasionally asks questions of the reader. ![]()
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Stanislaw lem kindle6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() With this knowledge, Terl can communicate with Jonnie and force the captive human to mine gold. Jonnie uses the machine to learn the alien’s language as well as Psychlo mining techniques–a pivotal event in the story’s plot. ![]() ![]() While the first commercial CDs would be released the same year Battlefield Earth was published, it would be another 13 years before video CDs and later DVDs would be broadly available for consumer use. The user places disks on various subjects onto a rod on top of the machine–similar to putting a CD in a boom box–and listens to the text as audio combined with images on a screen. In Battlefield Earth, which was first published in 1982, the evil Psychlo Terl gives the book’s hero, Jonnie Goodboy Tyler, a “learning machine.” ![]() |