![]() ![]() Many of these people, including two key characters in Barnes’s novel, were gay or identified as what was then termed an invert (someone whose gender identity did not match their biological sex). This Paris only emerged at night, flocking to the bars to drink and to enjoy just being around other people who couldn’t be themselves during the day. But underneath the bright, glittering world that these writers lived in and wrote about was a different Paris, a dark Paris full of outcasts and social deviants. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, and James Joyce. Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood is set in 1920s Paris-the same Paris that saw the rise of Ernest Hemingway, F. ![]()
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7/5/2023 0 Comments Book the color of law![]() ![]() “They made separate projects for whites, and separate projects for blacks. “Under the New Deal and during The Depression, segregated housing projects were built for working class families,” Rothstein said. ![]() On September 6 th, during his Office for the Advancement of Research (OAR) Book Talk, Rothstein made sure that the audience at John Jay College knew both the history and facts behind how our federal, state, and local governments explicitly segregated our country.ĭating the start of residential segregation to the 1930s, Rothstein explained how it began with the public housing program created under the 1937 Housing Act. “Without government requirements, rules and regulations, we would not have been able to create the segregated landscape that we have today,” said Rothstein. ![]() But, in Professor Richard Rothstein’s new book The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, he offers up solid evidence proving that this belief is a myth. Many people believe that residential segregation in America is caused by “de facto segregation” (a separation of groups occurring from natural conditions or preferences), instead of resulting from “de jure” segregation (segregation by law). ![]() ![]() This is a book that I would love a map for! And yes, this is a spin-off, but it was such a complete world, plot and characters that there was no need for previous books (but you should read the Remnant Chronicles because they are fantastic!). I really wanted a map so I could place all the locations mentioned in the story physically since I am a visual person. The world building was amazing and layered, with all the regions and wars as well as histories and people so lovingly craftes. Banding together (both emotionally and literally by shackles- even though they are enemies- Kazi and Jase have to find their way home and to the truth of their people's conflict. When the two have an altercation in streets, they never anticipated being kidnapped by slavers. ![]() Jase has just lost his father and now became the ruler of his people, spending his first night as ruler wallowing in his grief and alcohol. Kazi has the opportunity to redeem herself by going on a mission of importance for the Queen, the person who has so much undeserving faith in her. ![]() ![]() ![]() But now, she was chosen by the Queen to be one her elite guards, but an impulsive move may coast her that. Kazi grew up on the harsh streets, becoming a thief to survive- a dang good one, at that. My thoughts jumped, my own words taunting me, The thing about a mark is they’ve created lies in their head, a story they’ve invented that they desperately want to believe, a fantasy that merely needs to be fed. ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments Glow by amy kathleen ryan![]() ![]() Right now, I am all about the dystopian books. In one pivotal moment, Waverly and Kieran are separated, and find themselves at the helm of dangerous missions, where every move has potentially devastating consequences, and decisions of the heart may lead to disaster. The New Horizon’s leaders are desperate to populate the new planet first, and will do anything to get what they need: young girls. Still, there’s a part of Waverly that wants more from life than marriage, and she is secretly intrigued by the shy, darkly brilliant Seth.Suddenly, Waverly’s dreams are interrupted by the inconceivable – a violent betrayal by the Empyrean's sister ship, the New Horizon. Part of the first generation to be successfully conceived in deep space, she and her boyfriend Kieran will be pioneers of New Earth. Waverly knows she must marry young in order to have children who can carry on the mission, and Kieran, the handsome captain-to-be, has everything Waverly could want in a husband. The Empyrean is the only home 15-year-old Waverly has ever known. If a violent battle destroyed the only world you’ve ever known, would you be brave enough to save who was left? Would love be strong enough to survive the fight? Either way, there’s no turning back. ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments Ayn rand's novels![]() Finally, an archipelago of European readers and admirers emerges which is testament to Rand's impact on European art and politics.Ĭlaudia Bruhwiler has accomplished something utterly remarkable in Out of the Gray Fog. However, a look at her publication history and reception shows that many factors played a role why her work found fewer European than US readers. Her apparent lack of success with European readers is often explained by allegedly different reading tastes. This book lifts the "gray fog" cast over her relationship with Europe, retracing the changing perception of the continent in both her fiction and thought. Even though Rand was born in pre-revolutionary Russia, she is nowadays considered anAmerican phenomenon, whose reach ends at the Atlantic shore. ![]() ![]() The same could be said of the way Europe features in her own biography and in the general perception of her persona. “As to Europe-keep it in a gray, ominous, evil fog.”-Ayn Rand (1905–1982) thus commented on the role of Europe in her key novel, Atlas Shrugged (1957). ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments Five days in london may 1940![]() ![]() Lukacs covered some of the same turf in The Duel, yet this new work focuses on these five days with a microscopic view. Though Churchill did not win the war in May 1940, as Lukacs puts it, he ""did not lose it"" then. Neither the United States nor the Soviet Union had yet entered the war, but Churchill resolved to fight ""till Hitler is beat or we cease to be a state."" Lukacs draws heavily on newspapers and public opinion research of the time to re-create the rapid series of events that turned the tide, swaying both the citizenry and the War Cabinet to rally behind Churchill. ![]() The British public, ill-informed about this reality, remained apathetic, and the War Cabinet was divided over what action to take. ""Thus he was never closer to victory than during those five days in May 1940."" A quarter-million British troops were trapped by the Germans at Dunkirk. Eminent historian Lukacs (Thread of Years, etc.) delivers the crown jewel to his long and distinguished career with this account of five days-May 24-28, 1940-""that could have changed the world."" Lukacs posits that it was during those five days in London ""that Western civilization, not to mention the Allied cause in WWII, was saved from Hitler's tyranny."" A grand view, to be sure, but the consequences are not in dispute: ""Had Britain stopped fighting in May 1940, Hitler would have won his war,"" writes Lukacs. ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments Love story erich![]() ![]() Five ways John and Lestrade didn't meet, and the way that they did. Orphan_account Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Love Story - Erich Segal, Boondock Saints (Movies), House M.D., Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008), Castleįor this prompt on the kinkmeme. When We Woke Up that Morning (We Had No Way of Knowing) ![]() ![]() ![]() The Enormous Crocodile tries four different versions of secret plans and clever tricks, to try to snag a young, juicy child to eat. The Enormous Crocodile attempts and fails at numerous attempts to capture and eat the fat, juicy children, mostly because of the interference of other animals along the way. In fact, they wish horrible things on him, as he moves along the riverside, plotting his “secret plans and clever tricks” for capturing children. ![]() He sets off on a quest to find some of these savory delights, but not with the well wishes of the other animals. The other animals around him, however, are inclined to disagree. He thinks they are scrumdiddlyumptious in their thickness and juiciness, and should be devoured in one giant gulp. The Enormous Crocodile lives in “the biggest brownest muddiest river in Africa” and has an insatiable appetite for young children. Here, find the order of events and major characters of the book. This Roald Dahl Enormous Crocodile study guide is going to help keep track of the various characters and major events of this beloved children’s tale. ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments The book the way i used to be![]() ![]() Simon Willison suggests thinking of LLMs as a “ calculator for words”-something that can do useful things with text-rather than as a general-purpose intelligence or smart person. Those caveats aside, ChatGPT is clearly helpful for a range of tasks. Thus, naively treating LLMs like a really smart and knowledgeable person is likely to backfire. We expect that someone who can spout lines from Shakespeare, explain quantum computing, and give a proof of the prime number theorem in rhyming verse would also be able to count. The metacognitive ability to know what you don’t know is underdeveloped in these applications.Īnother expectation we have is that verbal fluency tracks other aspects of intelligence. Large language models, however, routinely violate this expectation by providing fluent answers that may be totally wrong. ![]() ![]() Feeling like you’re talking to a real person encourages you to rely on conversational expectations that may not hold with a machine.įor instance, we generally expect that most people do not make up facts. Part of the difficulty is that ChatGPT’s human-like conversation abilities can be deceptive. ![]() Using applications like ChatGPT requires some care. Today, I’m rounding up some of those suggestions and trying to synthesize the advice for when (and when not) to use these tools for learning. Recently, I asked readers here to share how they’re using large language models ( LLMs) like ChatGPT to learn and study. ![]() ![]() ![]() This book describes various adventures that duo had encountered on journeys, often with a comic tone. In 1990 the book Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine was published. Douglas and Mark found that they enjoyed the journey, and each other's company, to such a degree that they decided to spend a year travelling the globe in search of other endangered animals. In 1985 the Observer Colour Magazine paired up Mark Carwardine and Douglas Adams and invited them to travel to Madagascar in search of the aye-aye, a strange and little known nocturnal lemur thought to be on the edge of extinction. ![]() Mark Carwardine is a British zoologist, a leading and outspoken conservationist, and a prolific broadcaster, columnist and photographer. Adams was the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Douglas Noel Adams was an English author, scriptwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist. ![]() |