![]() ![]() The scene" stories that add love and humor to his final creations. Hear first hand how Gijsbert works with real people and animalsĪs his models for his books…and the many challenges that entails. See for yourself how his forty acres of paradise inspires him to createįrom start to finish, see the unique way GijsbertĬreates a picture book. Subject of their children’s picture book, Adopted by an Owl, illustrated by GijsbertĮnjoy a behind the scenes look at Gijsbert’s studio, his farmĪnd his family. The true story of their friendship is the Human interaction throughout the seasons. This program documents the natural history and Natural Michigan prairies, as well as creating and saving wetlands.įor thirteen years the farms resident Great Horned Owl, How Gijsbert and Robbyn turned their forty acres intoĪ natural habitat - from creating butterfly and bluebird habitat to establishing Presentation richly depicts Kenya's exotic wildlife and diminishing habitat. Program Overview Programs with Gijsbert Programs with RobbynĪ slide presentation on Gijsbert's three-week stay asĪrtist-In-Residence on this wild Lake Superior island.Ī culmination of the artist's expeditions to Kenya. Please inquire about prices and availability. Programs offered to libraries, community and group events. ![]()
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6/10/2023 0 Comments A Lady Awakened by Cecilia Grant![]() ![]() But how can he resist this siren in widow’s weeds, whose offer is simply too outrageously tempting to decline? Determined she’ll get her money’s worth, Theo endeavors to awaken this shamefully neglected beauty to the pleasures of the flesh-only to find her dead set against taking any enjoyment in the scandalous bargain. Theophilus Mirkwood ought to be insulted. But could a lady’s sweet surrender open their hearts to the most unexpected arrival of all. ![]() Forsaking all she knows of propriety, Martha approaches her neighbor, a London exile with a wicked reputation, and offers a strictly business proposition: a month of illicit interludes. After all, if she has an heir on the way, her future will be secured. Newly widowed and desperate to protect her estate and beloved servants from her malevolent brother-in-law, Martha Russell conceives a daring plan. ![]() In Cecilia Grant’s emotionally rich and deeply passionate Regency romance debut, a deal with a rumored rogue turns a proper young woman into. ![]() ![]() ![]() If solid reasons can be given for Christianity, however, everything changes. ![]() Harris writes, “The primary purpose of this book is to arm secularists in our society, who believe that religion should be kept out of public policy, against their opponents on the Christian Right” (p. Harris claims that religious faith cannot be based on reason therefore, if we want a rational public policy, religion should be excluded. To frame the discussion, the host asked, “Since religion is based on faith and not reason, should it have a say in public policy?” The question the host posed committed the fallacy of “the complex question,” whereby one assumes what needs to be proved, and then asks a question based on that assumption. National Public Radio recently aired a program to discuss Sam Harris’s Letter to a Christian Nation. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Threading my prayer rug![]() ![]() ![]() At the same time, however, she’s refreshingly candid about the mistakes she’s made and the lessons she’s learned one short story she tells is about how she talked to her youngest son, who was in tears, about why having a Christmas tree wasn’t important because they were Muslim… and then admitting she realized there was no harm in it when she visited her son many years later, as an adult, and saw a small Christmas tree in his home. Rehman’s experiences are excellent examples of how one can honor religious and cultural traditions in a different and changing world, while staying open minded and occasionally improvising with good intentions. Threading My Prayer Rug is half stories of the author’s life: her upbringing and arranged marriage in Pakistan as well as the new realities she and her family have to handle when she moves to the US, half a world away from her childhood community. It was one of those books that I found I plowed through as I learned more about her faith, her life, and how the two have diverged and connected through the years. I read far, far less nonfiction because I tend to assume that nonfiction narratives are weaker, but occasionally I’m reminded that this is certainly not a universal truth – especially with Threading My Prayer Rug, a memoir by Pakistani-American Sabeeha Rehman. ![]() Most of us, I’m sure, have a preference between fiction and nonfiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() 15 years in ConstantinopleĤ Cassiodorus Retires to monastery of Vivarium, at Squillace, Italy Several works, including Variae (c. Rhetorical skills win him position at court of Theoderic. 583) Politician, scholar, educator Classical education. Gaul, upper class Studied rhetoric in Rome Held various government positionsĢ Tacitus: Germania Various works, including: Histories Annals De Origine et Situ Germanorum (Germania)ģ Cassiodorus Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus (c. ![]() 117) Historian"- Presentation transcript:ġ Tacitus: Germania Cornelius Tacitus (c. In Tacitus: First literary works origine et situ Germanorum (the Germania ), both reflecting his personal interests. Presentation on theme: "Tacitus: Germania Cornelius Tacitus (c. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is important to note that AO3 is explicitly assessed, therefore you must make precise and interesting links to contextual factors. This, however, might help you construct your argument. As you will be able to see from the mark scheme below, AO4 (comparison) is not assessed here, so you do not need to compare the two poems. You must think carefully about which other poem you choose. One will be named, but the other is your choice. In the examination, you must discuss two poems from this collection. He intended this collection of poetry to examine the world with ‘sad-eyed realism’, to present what his contemporary society was really like. ![]() ![]() The title of the collection, therefore, suggests that Larkin wants his reader to avoid Ophelia’s fate. The title refers to a speech made by Ophelia in Hamlet, in which she claims she was the ‘more deceived’, implying that she has been misled by Hamlet. Larkin’s collection The Less Deceived was published in 1955. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Rama ii clarke![]() ![]() But this one had elements that hit close to home for me. ![]() Normally, if I really don’t like a book, I just move on with my life. Clarke also won the Nebula Award of the Science Fiction Writers of America in 1972, 19, the Hugo Award of the World Science Fiction Convention in 19, and in 1986 became Grand Master of the Science Fiction Writers of America. Campbell Award for his novel Rendezvous With Rama. He is past Chairman of the British Interplanetary Society, a member of the Academy of Astronautics, the Royal Astronomical Society, and many other scientific organizations.Īuthor of over fifty books, his numerous awards include the 1961 Kalinga Prize, the AAAS-Westinghouse science writing prize, the Bradford Washburn Award, and the John W. He is best known for the novel and movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, which he co-created with the assistance of Stanley Kubrick.Ĭlarke was a graduate of King's College, London where he obtained First Class Honours in Physics and Mathematics. He spent the first half of his life in England, where he served in World War Two as a radar operator, before emigrating to Ceylon in 1956. Sir Arthur Charles Clarke was one of the most important and influential figures in 20th century science fiction. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Angry Arthur by Hiawyn Oram![]() ![]() How could Arthur (and his mother, it must be said) have stopped a tiny conflict (he wants to watch television but it’s already bedtime) from escalating into something (far far) worse. ![]() In fact it wasn’t enough until his anger had become (via a hurricane, a typhoon, and an earth tremor) a universequake – and the earth and the moon and the stars and the planets and Arthur’s country, his town, his street, his house and his bedroom were nothing more that tiny bits in space.Īnd by that time of course, Arthur had forgotten what had made him angry in the first place! ‘That’s enough,’ said his mother, after he had wrecked the house. On that fated day, he had decided he wanted to stay up beyond his bedtime to watch one of his favourite programmes.Īnd, you’ve guessed it he did. Like many small boys (and small girls) Arthur likes to watch T.V. ![]() We read a book the other day (how many posts begin with those few words, I wonder we read a LOT of books in Class 1b!) Angry Arthur, by Hiawyn Oram. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a job for the Goondas that finally brings Tina back to the Greyhill estate, giving her the chance for vengeance she’s been waiting for. With revenge always on her mind, Tina spends the next four years surviving on the streets alone, working as a master thief for the Goondas, Sangui City’s local gang. ![]() Greyhill’s personal study, she knows exactly who’s behind it. So when her mother is found shot to death in Mr. But Tina soon learns that the Greyhill fortune was made from a life of corruption and crime. Her mother quickly found work as a maid for a prominent family, headed by Roland Greyhill, one of the city’s most respected business leaders. After fleeing the Congo as refugees, Tina and her mother arrived in Kenya looking for the chance to build a new life and home. In the shadows of Sangui City, there lives a girl who doesn’t exist. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Indecent play![]() ![]() ![]() In 1923, the cast and producer of “God of Vengeance’’ were arrested and subsequently convicted on obscenity charges. It’s no slight to Vogel’s sharply etched characterizations and resonant dialogue to say that the story of “Indecent’’ is most expressively told through stage pictures that amount to a kind of visual poetry (a joyful embrace by the lovers during a rainfall, hands opening to release clouds of sand that represent both dust and ash), bodies in motion (the wonderfully fluid choreography is by David Dorfman), and faces that are inscribed with the variegated facets of human emotion and experience. Written by Paula Vogel and directed by Rebecca Taichman - the term “dream team’’ doesn’t seem out of place - “Indecent’’ is a richly textured work whose galvanizing event is a real-life Broadway production that was whipsawed by the forces of censorship in the 1920s because it included a lesbian relationship. Seldom has theater’s soul-nourishing quality, its power to endure and to help us endure across the generations, been more stirringly evoked than in the gravely beautiful, quietly moving, altogether exquisite “Indecent.’’ ![]() |