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What you have heard is true7/8/2023 ![]() “The Colonel,” collected in “The Country Between Us” (1981), begins with an elegant dinner at a colonel’s home (rack of lamb, green mangoes) and ends with him emptying a grocery sack full of human ears onto the table - ghastly trophies from a dirty war. Until the publication of this memoir, Forché’s experiences in El Salvador - seven “extended stays” between 19 - have mostly stayed distilled in her poetry. She had heard Gómez’s name before, when she traveled to Spain to translate the poems of his cousin Claribel Alegría, though nobody could say for sure whether Claribel’s cousin was working with the Salvadoran guerrillas or with the C.I.A. Forché was 27 at the time, a Midwesterner living in San Diego, with a budding reputation for her work. In “What You Have Heard Is True,” Forché traces how this initial encounter with a stranger irrevocably changed the course of her art and her life. Within a few days he persuaded Forché to make her first trip to El Salvador, just as the country was on the verge of civil war. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The person who issued this cryptic statement was none other than Gómez himself - Leonel Gómez Vides, a coffee farmer from El Salvador who showed up in Southern California on the doorstep of the poet Carolyn Forché in 1977, with a bundle of papers under his arm and his two young daughters in tow. ![]()
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怒月 by Robert A. Heinlein7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() In the first section of the narrative, a stormy meeting takes place at a Sacramento Sector Guild Hall of the technicians working "down inside", among the very noisy great rotors which keep the moving roads going. The fictional social movement he calls "functionalism" (which is unrelated to the real-life sociological theory of the same name), advances the idea that one's status and level of material reward in a society must and should depend on the functions one performs for that society. Heinlein's themes are technological change and social cohesion. The story is set in the near future, when "roadtowns" (wide rapidly moving passenger platforms similar to moving sidewalks, but reaching speeds of 100 mph) have replaced highways and railways as the dominant transportation method in the United States. It was selected for The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, 1929–1964 anthology in 1970. " The Roads Must Roll" is a 1940 science fiction short story by American writer Robert A. ![]() "The Roads Must Roll" was originally published in the June 1940 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. ![]()
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Ks komireddi7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() He argues that the missteps of the nation’s founders, the mistakes of Nehru, the betrayals of his daughter and her sons, the anti-democratic fetish for technocracy inaugurated by Narasimha Rao and carried to the extremes by Manmohan Singh-all of them laid down the road on which Hindu nationalists rode to absolute power. Komireddi charts the unsound course of Indian nationalism: its cowardly concessions to the Hindu right, convenient distortions of India’s past and demeaning bribes to India’s minorities. ![]() In this blistering critique of post-Independence India from Nehru to Modi, K.S. ![]() The ‘invisible threads’ Nehru said held together an improbable union divided by language, religion and ethnicity have snapped under the burden of Modi’s Hindu-supremacist rule. Under Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party, India has undergone the most total transformation since 1991. ![]()
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Anna covered in blood7/8/2023 ![]() Ranch staff members are now required to ride in pairs and are encouraged to carry arms. And since these were breeding bulls, hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of future calves were lost too.įinding these young Herefords in this remote country can sometimes take the ranch's experienced cowboys days. The animals are worth around $6,000 each. Marshall says these young livestock were just reaching their top value as breeding bulls. His red coat is as shiny as if he were going to the fair, but he's bloodless and his tongue and genitals have been surgically cut out. Weirdly, there are no signs of buzzards, coyotes or other scavengers. The bull looks like a giant, deflated plush toy. The forest is hot and still, apart from a raven's repeating caw. And the carcass is still there," Marshall says.Ĭoming upon one of the dead bulls is an eerie scene. "Then we'll get out and take a little walk to where one of the bulls was found. ![]() The ranch's vice president, Colby Marshall, drives his truck down a U.S. They're moving the cattle from one vast, sage-studded range to another.įive young purebred bulls mysteriously showed up dead on the ranch this past summer, drained of blood and with body parts precisely removed. Cowboys whistle and talk low to their eager herding dogs. In the early morning light, dust from hooves creates a fog at Silvies Valley Ranch in remote eastern Oregon. ![]() It was among several killed and mutilated this summer in eastern Oregon. ![]() The crumpled carcass of a bull lies on U.S. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Nevertheless, this entry still deserves a string 4.3 / 5 star rating from me. But I think this purpose was achieved by sacrificing the pacing of the second half of the story. I understand that the author tried to create suspenses in the story by dropping boms and plot twists. The journey to retrieve the Horn of Gylindora was draggy to me as I think certain events during the journey are rather unnecessary. I thought certain explanations were rather rushed and not explained in greater detail. Unpredictability is what I love most in a fantasy series. Again there are some plot twists which I did not see them coming. Both of them without a doubt are my favourites in this entry. Sullivans The Riyria Revelations, HEIR OF NOVRON: Its a wholesome ending, an ending that made me ache for. Sullivans complete Riyria Revelations, an epic tale of treachery and adventure, sword fighting and magic, myth and legend. ![]() Modina and Arista’s characterization shone throughout the book. Nils reviews the final instalment in Michael J. This boxed set includes bestselling author Michael J. ![]() Firstly, I had to say this is a decent conclusion to the series. Second half of it was okay to me as I had some problems with the pacing. But they didn’t account for Royce and Hadrian finally locating the Heir of Novron-or the pair’s desire to wreak havoc on the New Empire’s carefully crafted scheme.īook 3 of the Riyria Revelations: Heir Of Novron. ![]() On the high holiday of Wintertide, they plan to execute two traitors (Degan Gaunt and the Witch of Melengar) as well as force the Empress into a marriage of their own design. The New Empire intends to celebrate its victory over the Nationalists with a day that will never be forgotten. ![]()
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My rest and relaxation7/7/2023 ![]() There is nothing she truly enjoys in life, and existence is a burden. She claims her motives are not suicidal-she simply prefers unconsciousness to consciousness. Despite her many advantages, she is deeply unhappy in her life and, at 26, utterly ambitionless cynical and misanthropic to her core, she has no desire to live.ĭesperate to escape the misery of her daily life, the narrator begins a new personal project: to sleep as much as humanly possible over the next 12 months. With an art history degree from Columbia and a sizable inheritance from her deceased parents, the narrator lives a life of ultimate privilege-she is young, beautiful, wealthy, and plainly intelligent. In June 2000, the novel’s unnamed narrator is working as an assistant at an upscale gallery in Manhattan. ![]() ![]() This study guide cites the 2019 Penguin Books paperback edition of the text. ![]()
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Adrienne maree brown holding change7/7/2023 ![]() Krista Tippett, host: “What a time to be alive,” adrienne maree brown has written. ![]() This conversation shines a light on an emerging ecosystem in our world over and against the drumbeat of what is fractured and breaking: working with the complex fullness of reality, and cultivating old and new ways of seeing, to move towards a transformative wholeness of living. Our younger listeners have asked to hear adrienne maree brown’s voice on On Being, and here she is, as we enter our own time of evolution. ![]() A “scholar of belonging.” A “scholar of magic.” She grew up loving science fiction, and thought we’d be driving flying cars by now and yet, has found in speculative fiction the transformative force of vision and imagination that might in fact save us. A student of change and of how groups change together. “Right now we are in a fast river together - every day there are changes that seemed unimaginable until they occurred.” adrienne maree brown and others use many words and phrases to describe what she does, and who she is: A student of complexity. “What a time to be alive,” adrienne maree brown has written. ![]()
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Colm toibin the blackwater lightship7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Surprised, because she was unaware that he was even gay. Helen, the principal character, is surprised to hear that her younger brother, Declan, is dying of AIDs. A sparsely written and deeply unfunny novel told in Toibin’s signature style. It’s a story about dying, about bringing together an estranged family through pain, but it’s the silences that drew me in, kept me near the rural scenery of Wexford and the modern spirit of Dublin. This quiet novel was the perfect companion, for it allows you to listen to the sounds of the countryside, the buzzing of insects, the crashing of waves. Winter hadn’t yet arrived and the leaves outside bobbed gently in a light breeze. I read Colm Toibin’s The Blackwater Lightship by the window of my Brooklyn apartment during a calm and lukewarm afternoon. ![]()
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Foucault on discipline7/6/2023 ![]() 144-145) and the excerpt from Hunt and Wickham (1994) helpful.įoucault’s disciplinary power is a mechanism of power that does not use force or coercion to obtain compliance, but instead relies on everyday institutions and interactions to allow individuals to govern their own behaviour. Finally, explain the relationship between this mechanism of disciplinary power and law. Then explain how it exemplifies disciplinary power, drawing on Pavlich (2011) and other relevant sources. ![]() Briefly introduce your example – with reference to supporting sources. The following post was written by Zahra Sunderani, a CRIM 3305 Law & Society student:įood for Thought: Select a contemporary example of a mechanism of disciplinary power. ![]()
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The tragical history of dr faustus7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Signing the pact in his own blood, Faustus bargains his soul to Lucifer in exchange for 24 living years with Mephistopheles as his slave. University of Wittenberg scholar Faustus earns his doctorate, but his insatiable craving for knowledge and power leads Faustus to try his hand at necromancy in an attempt to conjure Mephistopheles out of hell. Burton would not appear on stage again until he took over the role of Martin Dysart in Equus on Broadway ten years later. The film is a permanent record of a stage production that Burton starred in and staged with Coghill at the Oxford University Dramatic Society in 1966. It starred Burton as the title character Faustus, with Elizabeth Taylor appearing in a silent role as Helen of Troy. ![]() The first theatrical film version of a Marlowe play, it was the only film directed by Burton or Coghill, Burton's Oxford University mentor. Doctor Faustus is a 1967 British horror film adaptation of the 1588 Christopher Marlowe play The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus directed by Richard Burton and Nevill Coghill. ![]() |