![]() ![]() This makes the reader’s fascination and interest in the world of magic as new and real as Harry’s. Rowling does a great job writing this story with an omniscient third-person narrative but still keeping the narrator wherever Harry is for a major part of this book. While this book is memorable for a plethora of reasons, some elements of Rowling’s writing triumph as winners.ĭiscovering the Story World and Magic as a Metaphor The genius of this book is using the protagonist Harry’s discovery of this world to parallel the readers’.įurthermore, despite several hardships and literally being an orphan who never knew love, Harry still recognizes love and affection when he sees it. The world of magic slowly builds itself as we read through the book. Since it is the first book in this series, we are introduced to an entirely new world in this book. ![]() ‘ Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone‘ is a very engaging read for children and adults alike. ![]()
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![]() Kamtekar’s excellent choice of material allows for the presentation of competing views on much-debated issues and reveals the complexity of these dialogues, while challenging the reader to think afresh about old questions and to raise new ones. By paying attention to the literary and the philosophical elements of the Platonic texts, leading classical philosophers investigate a variety of issues, such as Socrates’ revolutionary religious ideas, the relationship between historical events and the Platonic texts, the interplay between politics and religion, and the possible tension between legal and moral ordinances. ![]() This collection of twelve essays presents us with some of the best recent scholarship on Plato’s Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito. ![]() ![]() ![]() That was Friday, the start of the secular holiday season. In summary, Black Friday was good news for our recovering US economy. stores grew 6.3 percent to a record $1.52 billion on the day after Thanksgiving. And the Walmart chain said that sales at its U.S. ![]() According to CNN, retail stores took in $7.2 billion in sales on Friday, up 4.8 percent from a year earlier. In case you’re wondering, by all initial indications, Black Friday was a busy and successful day. ![]() Maybe some of you went shopping with millions of other Americans. To generate those sales, many retailers opened their doors at 6AM and some very eager consumers even camped out in the parking lot to get the best early bird specials. The traditional start to the holiday shopping season generates as much as 40 percent of annual revenues and nearly all the year’s profits for key gift destinations such as toy stores and apparel chains.” () One article that I read explained that, “Black Friday gets its name from the hope that on that day merchants’ financial statements will move out of the red and into the black. On Friday, retailers hosted Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving when the mad rush of the commercial Christmas season gets into full steam. This week marked a transition on our calendars. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() From a young age, she witnessed the woo-woo’s sinister effects when she was six, Lindsay and her mother avoided the dead people haunting their house by hiding out in a mall food court, and on a camping trip, in an effort to rid her daughter of demons, her mother tried to light Lindsay’s foot on fire. Lindsay Wong grew up with a paranoid schizophrenic grandmother and a mother who was deeply afraid of the “woo-woo” - Chinese ghosts who come to visit in times of personal turmoil. In this jaw-dropping, darkly comedic memoir, a young woman comes of age in a dysfunctional Asian family who blame their woes on ghosts and demons when they should really be on anti-psychotic meds. ![]() ![]() Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.COVID-19 Portal While this global health crisis continues to evolve, it can be useful to look to past pandemics to better understand how to respond today.Student Portal Britannica is the ultimate student resource for key school subjects like history, government, literature, and more.This Time in History In these videos, find out what happened this month (or any month!) in history.#WTFact Videos In #WTFact Britannica shares some of the most bizarre facts we can find. ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() Haynes previously reimagined the Oedipus story in her 2017 novel The Children of Jocasta. Now Haynes, who has a background in classics, provides a bold choral retelling of the Iliad that’s panoramic and playful yet makes a serious comment on war and its true cost. From the Odyssey Madeline Miller’s Circespotlights the sorceress who detains Odysseus on his way back from Troy both are shortlisted for the Women’s prize. Pat Barker gave Briseis, a minor character in Homer’s epic, a powerful narrative voice of her own in The Silence of the Girls. Recently we’ve seen a wave of novels that offer a new slant on its male-centred vision. H omer’s Iliad, as Natalie Haynes notes in the afterword to A Thousand Ships, is rightly regarded as “one of the great foundational texts on war and warriors, men and masculinity”. ![]() ![]() ![]() This became a significant problem by the time of the Lincoln administration, which saw the building regularly filled with people "on all conceivable errands, for all imaginable purposes." Some would gain access by climbing through windows. ![]() Lobbyists for example could wait in the hallways of the building to petition the president. ![]() Until the late 19th century, the White House maintained an open door policy with the public having access to the corridors and lobbies of the building. Many of the intruders were "pranksters or harmless people with mental illnesses" however, some have entered with the intention of harming people. Despite security measures (such as a fence), there have been some people who have still managed to gain unauthorized access to the White House. Security is primarily provided by the United States Secret Service. Their group had turned up uninvited and bypassed security to enter a state dinner.Įxtensive measures are used to protect the White House as the official residence ( Executive Residence) and office space ( West Wing) of the president of the United States, and grounds. President Barack Obama greeting the Salahis in the Blue Room of the White House in November 2009. ![]() ![]() Gibson depicts Constanta’s secret desire for freedom mingled with weary longing for a husband that may exist only in her mind in rich prose that keeps the reader hooked from start to brutal end. Gibsons sensational novel is the darkly seductive tale of Draculas first bride, Constanta. ![]() Dracula is manipulative and cruel the source of the psychological horror that runs throughout the book. A Dowry of Blood left me breathless Alexis Henderson, author of The Year of the Witching This is my last love letter to you, though some would call it a confession. The account only becomes more complicated when Dracula begins taking on new consorts, enmeshing the reader within a web of relationships acutely affected by the dubious blessing of immortality. She recounts her experience with Dracula from the moment he turned her into a vampire, detailing a love doomed from the start. “A Dowry of Blood” is an epistolary novel written from the perspective of Dracula’s first wife, Constanta. ![]() Many have played with the concept of vampires, from Twilight’s sparkly take on the vampires in the romance fantasy camp to the introspective “Interview With a Vampire.” Dracula himself has featured in many retellings since Bram Stoker brought him to life in 1897, but to date, there is only one popular novel told from the perspective of one of his wives. : A Dowry of Blood: 100 Customer Satisfaction Guaranteed The book shows some signs of wear from use but is a good readable copy. ![]() Vampires are a pop culture staple, with Dracula reigning supreme among these creatures of the night. ![]() ![]() In so doing they provide a valuable guide that will help everyone make sense of the new and potentially catastrophic situation in which we now find ourselves. They examine the scientific evidence and show how its findings, often presented in a detached and abstract way, are connected to people's ordinary experiences - joining the dots, as it were, between the Anthropocene and our everyday lives. In this important book, Pablo Servigne and Rapha l Stevens confront these issues head-on. ![]() Yet we now have a great deal of evidence to suggest that we are up against growing systemic instabilities that pose a serious threat to the capacity of human populations to maintain themselves in a sustainable environment. ![]() What if our civilization were to collapse? Not many centuries into the future, but in our own lifetimes? Most people recognize that we face huge challenges today, from climate change and its potentially catastrophic consequences to a plethora of socio-political problems, but we find it hard to face up to the very real possibility that these crises could produce a collapse of our entire civilization. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Moreland, Ga., in Coweta County, moved the house where he was born to the town square and turned it into a museum filled with Caldwell's books and personal belongings. But in Augusta, the famous novel's setting and the region that inspired his most significant works, there's nothing honoring or commemorating him even 75 years after the book was published.That's because the book, hailed as a protest of the capitalistic and political systems during the Great Depression, made Tobacco Road synonymous with rural squalor.Caldwell wrote "Southern gothic" books that sold over 80 million copies in 43 languages.Since he died in 1987, the University of Georgia Press reissued 11 of his works. Erskine Caldwell's "Tobacco Road" is considered an American classic. ![]() |