![]() In other words, real imagination and creativity had to be a full-time occupation. In this slender volume, Mills writes about his work not as if it were a job for Mills, his work seemed to be an all-encompassing outlook on the world. Wright Mills’s The Sociological Imagination is a classic of social thought. ![]() In this lecture, Professor LaFleur helps us navigate through the book’s tangle of questions, answers, and observations by introducing us to the world of Confucius’s imaginative ideas about living in society.Īn outline of the content in this lecture: Imagination and Engagement Think about it, ponder it, and find elements of lasting reflection even in the simplest of daily activities. Live your work (and certainly don’t just work to live, if you can help it). He offers invaluable insights on how to live your life.ĭon’t just earn your keep and rest on your days off – look, learn, imagine, teach. Confucius’s critics dismissed him as a narrow-minded pedant, but he was anything but that. That one word sums up Confucius and the influence of his teachings. ![]()
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![]() ![]() It turns out the king’s son, Sebastian, wants something made for him nobody can know because Sebastian likes to cross-dress privately but doesn’t want to bring his family to shame.Īt first Frances is a little… weirded out (not exactly surprising for the time period they’re in) but she swears to keep his secret and they begin to become friends. ![]() Suddenly, Frances is whisked away with very little explanation with a vague suggestion of a job opportunity. She works as a seamstress with a bunch of other women and even though her life isn’t easy, she loves making beautiful clothes for people to wear. The story starts with a young woman named Frances who is quiet and reserved, but beneath the surface she’s filled with big dreams. ![]() The Prince and the Dressmaker is a period piece set in Paris, but it has a pretty modern feel and I don’t feel the author was that much of a stickler about accuracy. There’s nothing about it that is likely to blow anybody’s mind, the characters are endearing but not ones I particularly formed a strong relationship with. For me, this book was a cute, entertaining read that succeeded as a light-hearted distraction from my latest bout with severe anxiety. ![]() ![]() The odds of winning the case are low because it is in Mississippi. Carl Lee Hailey is Tonya’s father he gets revenge on the rapists by killing them with an M16 rifle that was illegally obtained.Ī 32-year old white lawyer named Jake Brigance agrees to represent Carl Lee, a black man who shot and killed two men who raped his daughter. She survives, so they’re caught by Sheriff Ozzie Walls who’s also black. They rape her and throw her off a bridge to see if she can survive. In the beginning of the novel, two white men named Billy Ray Cobb and Pete Willard kidnap a ten-year old black girl named Tonya Hailey. ![]() The story takes place during the 1980s and explores themes of racism, intolerance, and revenge. ![]() John Grisham’s 1988 novel A Time to Kill is about Jake Brigance, a lawyer in Mississippi who defends Carl Lee Hailey for killing two men. 1-Page Summary of A Time To Kill Overall Summary ![]() ![]() ![]() Powerless to intervene but determined to stay close to the unattainable tomb, the family returns to Luxor and prepares to continue their dig in the less promising West Valley-and to watch from the sidelines as Carter and Carnarvon "discover" the greatest Egyptian treasure of all time: King Tut's tomb. ![]() But Emerson's trickery has backfired, and his insistent interest in the site has made his rivals all the more determined to keep the Emerson clan away. ![]() Having been banned forever from the East Valley, Emerson, against Amelia's advice, has tried desperately to persuade Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter to relinquish their digging rights. Convinced that the tomb of the little-known king Tutankhamon lies somewhere in the Valley of the Kings, eminent Egyptologist Radcliffe Emerson and his intrepid wife, Amelia Peabody, seem to have hit a wall. ![]() ![]() ![]() Aided only by her worshipful friend Hely, Harriet crosses her town’s rigid lines of race and caste and burrows deep into her family’s history of loss. So it is that Robin’s sister Harriet-unnervingly bright, insufferably determined, and unduly influenced by the fiction of Kipling and Robert Louis Stevenson-sets out to unmask his killer. Twelve years later Robin’s murder is still unsolved and his family remains devastated. ![]() ![]() The setting is Alexandria, Mississippi, where one Mother’s Day a little boy named Robin Cleve Dufresnes was found hanging from a tree in his parents’ yard. “Destined to become a special kind of classic.” - The New York Times Book Review.From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Goldfinch comes an utterly riveting novel set in Mississippi of childhood, innocence, and evil. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Modernity, the novel seems to say, has rendered us like those production-line cars: we have lost our individuality and it has become more difficult to stand out. This is the world not only of the aeroplane but of the motorcar, which calls up Henry Ford, that pioneer of the production line and the man who (apocryphally) said that you can have his Model-T Ford car in any colour so long as it’s black. Eliot’s 1922 poem The Waste Land, a text that sets out to depict the modern world: a world of the metropolis (London, as with Eliot’s poem), motorcars, aeroplanes, and other recent phenomena. And if we were to attempt a comprehensive answer to the question, ‘What is Mrs Dalloway about?’, one could do worse than to answer, ‘The struggle to stand out as a meaningful individual in a world of fast-moving, faceless, and crowded modernity.’ Mrs Dalloway is, like another work of modernism, T. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Mills continues by underlining how essential this combining of ideas that he described really is-and how subjective (and sometimes even unacademic) it all feels.In other words, real imagination and creativity had to be a full-time occupation. In this slender volume, Mills writes about his work not as if it were a job for Mills, his work seemed to be an all-encompassing outlook on the world. Wright Mills’s The Sociological Imagination is a classic of social thought.In this lecture, Professor LaFleur helps us navigate through the book’s tangle of questions, answers, and observations by introducing us to the world of Confucius’s imaginative ideas about living in society.Īn outline of the content in this lecture: Imagination and Engagement ![]() Think about it, ponder it, and find elements of lasting reflection even in the simplest of daily activities. Live your work (and certainly don’t just work to live, if you can help it). He offers invaluable insights on how to live your life.ĭon’t just earn your keep and rest on your days off – look, learn, imagine, teach. Confucius’s critics dismissed him as a narrow-minded pedant, but he was anything but that. That one word sums up Confucius and the influence of his teachings. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Antislavery movements - United States - History - 19th centuryġ509535543 paperback Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.Politics and literature - United States - History - 19th century.His research in contemporary racial politics and political theory addresses problems of everyday racism, sovereignty, and violence. Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins, 1825-1911 Utz McKnight is chair of the Department of Gender and Race Studies and Professor of Political Science.Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins, 1825-1911 - Political and social views.Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins, 1825-1911 - Criticism and interpretation.Summary: "The first full account of a leading 19th century female writer and anti-slavery activist"- Subject(s): ![]() Contents: Frances Harper's poetic journey - Iola Leroy: Social equality - Trial and triumph: The public demand for equality - Sowing and reaping: Personal solutions and conviction - Minnie's Sacrifice and the poetic license - Conclusion: Of poems and politics. The first full account of a leading 19th century female writer and anti-slavery. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hose who have read the first two volumes of the Lumatere Chronicles will find this thrilling conclusion both heartbreaking and utterly satisfying. Marchetta builds on the reader’s knowledge of this world, adding rich sensory details to enhance the sense of place.A stand-out fantasy series. The plot is more straightforward, while the previous volumes’ excellent features-world-building, plotting, and characterization-continue to shine. ![]() ![]() Marchetta triumphantly concludes the trilogy that began with Finnikin of the Rock, as the kingdoms of Lumatere and Charyn attempt to bridge past atrocities through a new generation of leaders.One of the hallmarks of this series has been the complexity and attention Marchetta gives to both primary and secondary characters, creating a richly human cast of damaged but noble individuals.Readers who have fallen in love with Quintana, Froi, Finnikin, Isaboe, and others will eagerly seek out what fate has in store for them. ![]() Marchetta, known for her mastery of character, shows herself here to have conquered the intricacies of plot, worldbuilding and theme.Readers will have a hard time forgetting the complex, deeply human characters that populate this multifaceted narrative. ![]() ![]() ![]() It felt more like the traditional sci-fi novels that I usually stay clear off. To me, the sequel didn't feel as fresh or new or even original. ![]() Whereas in Dune Messiah, albeit the world has changed, it still feels oddly familiar. I was introduced to Arrakis, to the Atreides, the Harkonnens I saw the ornithopters, the Fremen stillsuits and the sandworms for the first time I started to grasp the complexity of this world that Frank Herbert created. Dune had the big advantage of everything being new. I didn't nearly love it as much as I loved Dune. Therefore, I knew that I had to give Dune Messiah a shot, to piece the puzzle together, and to get more answers. What would happen to Arrakis under his rule? To the Fremen? To the whole universe? I've heard many interesting takes on the series as a whole, and I am mainly interested in the philosophical questions of power, worship and human control over nature that it raises. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.And even though Dune had a somewhat closed ending, I was still curious to see where Paul Muad'Dib would end up. Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. ![]() It had been such a long time since I've read a chunky sci-fi/fantasy novel and I seriously didn't expect to love that book, its characters, the world building, and its plot as much as I did. Oh, man, where the fuck do I really even start? When I've read Dune last year I fell head over heels in love with it. ![]() |