5/26/2023 0 Comments Exodus 1958![]() ![]() ![]() He derived his surname from Yerushalmi, meaning "man of Jerusalem." (His brother Aron, Leon Uris' uncle, took the name Yerushalmi) "He was basically a failure," Uris later said of his father. William spent a year in Palestine after World War I before entering the United States. His father, a Polish-born immigrant, was a paperhanger, then a storekeeper. Leon Uris was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Jewish-American parents Wolf William and Anna (Blumberg) Uris. His two bestselling books were Exodus, published in 1958, and Trinity, in 1976. ![]() "He went from failure to failure." Uris a Leon Marcus Uris (AugJune 21, 2003) was an American novelist, known for his historical fiction and the deep research that went into his novels. ![]() Leon Marcus Uris (AugJune 21, 2003) was an American novelist, known for his historical fiction and the deep research that went into his novels. ![]()
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![]() People unfamiliar with Scripture often assume that women play a small, secondary role in the Bible. The women of the Bible lived timeless stories-by examining them, we can understand what it means to be a woman of faith. In pairing their stories, Shannon helps us reflect not only on the meaning of each individual's life, but on how they relate to each other and to us"-Publisher marketing. In, Fox News Channel's Shannon Bream opens up the lives of sixteen of these Biblical women, arranging them into pairs and contrasting their journeys. The first person to witness Jesus' resurrection was Mary Magdalene, who promptly became the first Christian evangelist. The Bible contains warriors like Jael, judges like Deborah, and prophets like Miriam. ![]() But in fact, they were central figures in numerous Biblical tales. ![]() About the Book "People unfamiliar with Scripture often assume that women play a small, secondary role in the Bible. ![]() 5/26/2023 0 Comments Cobain on Cobain by Nick Soulsby![]() ![]() ![]() We hear more from bassist Krist Novoselic (the only other member of Nirvana from start to finish) than we do from Cobain, and we hear from early band members such as Chad Channing and Jason Everman. The book tracks Nirvana's career from inception to that last fateful day, and includes interviews with the band that sometimes don't even include the frontman. As a suicide note, the letter is bizarre - for just one example, he says, "I have a goddess of a wife who sweats ambition and empathy and a daughter who reminds me too much of what I used to be, full of love and joy, kissing every person she meets because everyone is good and will do her no harm." Doesn't this just show the confused and lost state of Cobain? Why kill yourself if you love your wife and daughter? "Cobain on Cobain" is full of interviews showing the paradoxical emotions that the musician felt about his life and career. The last entry in "Cobain on Cobain" is his suicide note to the world, where he declared that life wasn't fun anymore. Feels great but also a little spooky to finish this book exactly 22 years to the day after Kurt Cobain was found dead in his home of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When she arrived, she found, to her surprise, that the door was open. Little Red Riding Hood had run after flowers, and did not continue on her way to grandmother’s until she had gathered all that she could carry. He got into her bed and pulled the curtains shut. Each time she picked one she thought that she could see an even more beautiful one a little way off, and she ran after it, going further and further into the woods. Anyway, it is still early, and I’ll be home on time.“ And she ran off into the woods looking for flowers. She thought: „If a take a bouquet to grandmother, she will be very pleased. It is very beautiful in the woods.“ Little Red Riding Hood opened her eyes and saw the sunlight breaking through the trees and how the ground was covered with beautiful flowers. ![]() You are walking along as though you were on your way to school in the village. Then he said: „Listen, Little Red Riding Hood, haven’t you seen the beautiful flowers that are blossoming in the woods? Why don’t you go and take a look? And I don’t believe you can hear how beautifully the birds are singing. ![]() The wolf thought to himself: „Now there is a tasty bite for me. You must know the place,“ said Little Red Riding Hood. We baked yesterday, and they should give her strength.“ – „Little Red Riding Hood, just where does your grandmother live?“ – „Her house is a good quarter hour from here in the woods, under the three large oak trees. „And what are you carrying under your apron?“ – „Grandmother is sick and weak, and I am taking her some cake and wine. ![]() 5/26/2023 0 Comments Jack kerouac reading on the road![]() ![]() Readers today may find these things repellent, George-Warren acknowledges, but it is only one aspect of the complicated and often contradictory author.Īs much as Kerouac benefited from his privilege, elsewhere he rails against it. Holly George-Warren, author of a forthcoming authorised Kerouac biography, says he depicted women as “objects of the male gaze and little else”, and drew from racist tropes in “romanticising the ‘other’” – for instance when Sal and Dean see freedom in the way that Mexican people live. Kerouac explored gender, sexuality, and queerness openly in his work during a time when to do so was very rare Holly George-Warren, Kerouac biographer Moreover, sixty-five years since publication, the misogyny of On the Road looks overt, even gleeful: Moriarty’s “awfully dumb” 16-year-old wife Marylou is instructed “to make breakfast and sweep the floor” within the first three pages. Kerouac himself was a white, university-educated man who returned from his travels to have his meals cooked and his washing done by his mother. His alter ego Sal Paradise may have been inspired by his time working on a farm in California, for example, but he always had the option of returning home, or of being sent money by his aunt. ![]() To some, he is an aspirational iconoclast to others he is the face of white male privilege. ![]() Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardianīut insofar as Kerouac is invoked as a symbol, his meaning is not uniformly understood. ![]() An enduring brand … Christian Dior’s Kerouac sweatshirt, on a catwalk printed with the first draft of On the Road. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sam has left his master for dead after a battle with the giant spider, Shelob but Frodo is still alive-now in the foul hands of the Orcs. Gandalf has miraculously returned and defeated the evil wizard, Saruman. Merry and Pippin, captured by Orcs, escape into Fangorn Forest and there encounter the Ents. Aragorn, revealed as the hidden heir of the ancient Kings of the West, has joined with the Riders of Rohan against the forces of Isengard and takes part in the desperate battle of the Hornburg. ![]() One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.Īs the shadow of Mordor grows across the land, the Companions of the Ring have become involved in separate adventures. ![]() This edition of The Return Of The King includes the complete appendices and index for The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Tolkien's classic epic fantasy, The Lord of the Rings. ![]() ![]() ![]() His readings in towns too small for a newspaper or otherwise limited in their news (“low information voters”) come from The Carthage Banner and The Clifton Record, The Dallas Herald, The Times of India and the New York Times. ![]() ![]() Hanks is Captain Jefferson Kirby Kidd, late of the Third Texas Infantry, a man who has to travel his own “Blue Bellies” (Federal troops) occupied state with a copy of his “Loyalty Oath.” The “late unpleasantness” is an open sore in unreconstructed Texas. There are hints of “The Searchers” in this quest to take a child “home,” and a whiff of Mark Twain’s story and attitudes in its tale of a well-spoken man making his way by doing readings from the world’s newspapers as entertainment to the locals.Īnd in the hands of Tom Hanks and his “Captain Phillips” director, Paul Greengrass, this adaptation of a Paulette Jiles novel becomes a Western parable for these “troubled times,” a story of race and unrepentant racism, men of violence who won’t give up that violence and the power of a free press to rectify that. ![]() “News of the World” is a stately, almost old-fashioned Western saga about a widowed Civil War veteran trying to do right by one orphaned girl in 1870 Texas. ![]() 5/25/2023 0 Comments I am jazz by jessica herthel![]() ![]() ![]() Their unique condition makes integrating in the school a challenge. The following essay is a detailed presentation of my findings regarding this important topic.Ĭhildren with gender dysphoria deserve our compassion and deserve to be treated with dignity and kindness, just like all other children. Broadly, endocrinology is the study of hormones and glands and the diagnosis and treatment of diseases involving these hormones and glands. I am a board-certified physician in Rocklin, California specializing in Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism. I have read the book I Am Jazz and examined the book’s relationship to childhood gender dysphoria and its implications for adolescence and adulthood. They also asked this for the benefit of their school district, given that the topic of childhood gender dysphoria would be discussed at their upcoming school board meeting. Recently, a group of parents asked me to review the book I Am Jazz to determine whether, from a medical point of view, it is suitable for children to read. ![]() 5/25/2023 0 Comments Maria ingrande mora![]() ![]() Acts of terrorism, conflicting castes, and meals of rotted fruit underscore the struggle. Grit, grime, and steampunk tinkering define a landscape that could easily serve Oliver Twist or Blade Runner. Plus, the head of those misfits, Reed, is the most beautiful boy Nate has ever wanted to kiss. So Nate conceals his genetics for self-preservation and to prevent the merry band of misfits he lives with from being accused of unwittingly harboring him. Liberated but orphaned, Nate faces other threats: GEMs die without a special remedy, and a street gang hunts GEMs to harvest them. Nate’s parents refused to let the privileged class vampirically use him, and they smuggled him out of Gathos-dying in the process. When lung-rot threatened the upper echelon of Gathos City, GEMs (Genetically Engineered Medi-tissue) like Nate were bioengineered for their restorative blood. ![]() A genetically engineered boy struggles to survive a dystopia and win over the boy he adores. ![]() 5/25/2023 0 Comments Rogue patrick radden keefe![]() International élites could place their fortunes beyond the reach of tax authorities in their own countries. Since 1713, when the Great Council of Geneva banned banks from revealing the private information of their customers, Switzerland had thrived on its reputation as a stronghold of financial secrecy. They were investigating a data theft from the bank. ![]() Officers questioned Falciani at a nearby station. As the Swiss police escorted him from the building, he insisted that he had done nothing wrong. He had grown up in Monaco, where as a young man he had worked as a croupier at the Casino de Monte-Carlo, and developed an excellent poker face. He was a computer technician who helped supervise security systems for the handling of client data. for eight years, initially in Monaco and then in Geneva. ![]() He was on the staff of the company’s private Swiss bank, which serves clients who are wealthy enough to afford the minimum deposit-half a million dollars-required to open an account. Falciani, who was thirty-six, worked for H.S.B.C., then the largest bank in the world. ![]() Photograph by Moises Saman / Magnum for The New YorkerĪ few days before Christmas in 2008, Hervé Falciani was in a meeting at his office, in Geneva, when a team of police officers arrived to arrest him. Hervé Falciani, who took client data from H.S.B.C., was indicted in Switzerland, jailed in Spain, and celebrated in France. ![]() |
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