![]() ![]() ![]() A number of them attended school, and when they relocated to Oklahoma, they formed a Republic that created numerous social institutions, including common education in the Choctaw language. The Choctaws, living in what is now Mississippi, attained a writing system in the 1820s as a result of intensive missionizing and intermarriage with whites. The southern tribes, the Mixteca, had writing, after all, and we have a bit of the stupendous lyrical literature that was left unburned when the Spanish chose to rid humanity of indigenous cultural artifacts. (How would we know? What’s the difference between a war chant and a poem?) One group that, to my reckoning, clearly composed lyrical poetry was the Uto-Aztecans. It is not clear that native Americans composed much poetry. I am a linguist and scholar of the Choctaw language who comes to translation indirectly. When working in a native American language, these problems are, frankly, insuperable, but we are not thereby let off the hook. ![]() These challenges increase when poetry is involved: not only must the meaning emerge, but the product must sound like something that could count as a poem. The challenges of translating from one language to another are well discussed and lamented. Featured Art: Sunset on the Sea by John Frederick Kensett ![]()
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![]() ![]() "He's trying to puncture this American hypocrisy of how you could have such a huge and growing slave system and (a) society that says it's dedicated to liberty and to freedom and even to equality," said David Blight, a history professor at Yale and author of the Pulitzer-prize winning biography, "Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom." In what some historians consider the greatest antislavery speech, Douglass cited the Bible, evoked Shakespeare and touted the Constitution as a “glorious liberty document” that is “entirely hostile to the existence of slavery.” The sunlight that brought life and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me. ![]() “The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me. The Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society had invited Douglass to speak on the Fourth of July, but he declined because, as he explained to an audience of roughly 600 free, white people: On the heels of America’s 76th birthday, Frederick Douglass, a renowned orator, abolitionist and former slave, criticized the United States for celebrating its political freedom while millions of Black Americans were still enslaved.ĭouglass delivered his “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” speech July 5, 1852, at the historic Corinthian Hall in Rochester, New York. ![]() ![]() ![]() Raymond, an unsavoury friend, is eventually arrested for assaulting his mistress and asks Meursault to vouch for him to the police.
![]() ![]() ![]() Where the state fails, private capital succeeds – like a smiling, self-sufficient firefighter saving a cat that has been marooned in a tall tree by some feckless government bureaucrat.Īnd yet Bloomberg's ostensible do-goodery suggests an emerging future of billionaire versus billionaire, vying for the hearts and minds of the American people, and the fate of the planet itself. And, on paper, it seems to address the climate calamity Trump is inviting in ducking out of the Paris agreement. It's the sort of widely publicized, good Samaritan selflessness that wealthy benefactors such as Bloomberg excel at. Mega-billionaire and former mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg barely missed a beat, offering to personally foot the $15-million bill accounting for the U.S.'s financial commitment to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. ![]() Basically the instant after Donald Trump issued his intent to backpedal out of the Paris climate accord, salvation emerged in the likeliest of places. ![]() ![]() The Strange Case of William Mumler, Spirit Photographer is the definitive resource for this unique and fascinating moment in American history and provides insights into today’s ghosts in the machine. Mumler’s case was an early example of investigative journalism intersecting with a criminal trial that, at its essence, set science against religion. ![]() Kaplan also contributes two extended essays, which offer a historical perspective of the Mumler phenomena and delve into the sociocultural and theoretical issues surrounding this vivid ghost story. Barnum’s famous indictment of Mumler in Humbugs of the World. ![]() ![]() In The Strange Case of William Mumler, Spirit Photographer, Louis Kaplan brings together, for the first time, Mumler’s haunting images, his revealing memoir, and rich primary sources, including newspaper articles and P. Mumler’s insistence that his work brought back the dead led to a sensational trial in 1869 that was the talk of the nation. Skeptics, however, called it a fraudulent trick on the gullible, taking advantage of the grieving at a time of suffering and loss. The practice came to be known as spirit photography, and some believed Mumler was channeling the dead. Faint images of the dearly departed lurked in the background with the living, like his well-known photo of the recently assassinated Abraham Lincoln comforting Mary Todd. In the 1860s, William Mumler photographed ghosts-or so he claimed. The Strange Case of William Mumler, Spirit Photographer Louis Kaplan University of Minnesota Press, 2008 - History - 264 pages 1 Review Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks. ![]() ![]() ![]() Illegal aliens, labor problems, political corruption and prison abuse all mix into the intrigue. Contreras and her mentor Lotty, the activist doctor, never waver further, unexpected support comes from an advocate for political prisoners and an inner-city priest. ![]() Things get even murkier when Robbie shows up at V.I.'s house and the PI is arrested and herself shipped off to Coolis to await bail. Then one of Lacey's childhood friends is found drowned. ![]() ![]() Vic gains access to the Baladine enclave-where no one but the Baladine son, Robbie, seems concerned about Nicola's death. Nicola was serving time for stealing a $50,000 necklace from her employers, the Baladines, owners of Carnifice Security, which operates state prisons. A hostile cop barges in the next day to question Vic about the ""hit-and-run"" of Nicola Aguinaldo, who seems to have escaped from the medical ward of Coolis, a privately operated prison in northwestern Illinois. swerves to avoid hitting an injured young woman, who later dies. Warshawski's first outing in five years begins with a party celebrating the TV debut of her reporter friend Murray Ryerson and attended by Lacey Dowell, Chicago native and star of Mad Virgin films. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, Albala, who teaches at two private realist art schools in the Seattle area, has focused on transforming iconic sites of colossal destruction into beautiful evocations of sunlight, color, wind and air. With the advance of photojournalism, the recording tasks of painters, as in World War I and II, became increasingly irrelevant and superfluous. This ingenious juxtaposition of these two sheds light on how representational artists can respond to our troubled world - or blissfully ignore and escape from it. ![]() Another way of putting it: McCormick channels California impressionism in all its glory Albala has become a contemporary artist. One continues to plunge into a bucolic, completely cut-off landscape fantasy world the other is also obsessed with the past, but has grafted on the horrors of war. Two widely admired academic realists, Mitchell Albala and John McCormick, show a selection of new work alongside one another. Mitchell Albala, "Apparition," 2013, oil on canvas, 22 x 28" ![]() ![]() ![]() Truth told, he had been trying to cover up a little depression since Lan’s death. He could see that, from their point of view, this would appear to be odd behavior. It honestly felt like I was reading a summary of what happened rather than reading about events unfolding. Worse, that narrator felt very detached from the story. ![]() There are multiple POVs, but the voice didn't change much between the characters, so it just felt like the same omniscient narrator throughout. Get comfy, because I have so many feelings that I ended up spending an entire lunch break ranting about this book to the admin at my job, and he only cares about dad books, like, the ones about submarines and, I don't know, World War I trench warfare.įirst and foremost, the writing style is very much not for me. So, keep in mind that my review may be influenced by such a dizzyingly steep let down. A dog who was a very good boy, yes he was! I was ready to give this book 5 stars before I even opened it up. ![]() ![]() In 1981, she published her first novel, Irish Thoroughbred. Post schooling, she got her first writing opportunity in February 1979, during a blizzard. She had formed a strong bond with writing in her formative years and took her passion as her career. ![]() As the family was comprised of passionate readers, she inclined reading and writing from childhood days. Maybe you know about Nora Roberts very well, but do you know how old and tall is she and what is her net worth in 2023? If you do not know, we have prepared this article about details of Nora Roberts’s short biography-wiki, career, professional life, personal life, today’s net worth, age, height, weight, and more facts. ![]() To date, she has written around 209 novels with more than four hundred million print copies sold all across the world. She was born to Irish descendent parents. Novelist (Genre: Romance, suspense, and fantasy)Įleanor Marie Robertson, popularly called as Nora Roberts, is an acclaimed American novelist in romance, suspense, and fantasy genre. ![]() ![]() ![]() Local wildlife is abuzz with rumors of Seattle's dangerous new predators. is left with no choice but to abandon his old life and venture out into a wild and frightening new world with his trusty steed Dennis, where he suddenly discovers that the neighbors are devouring one other. His tried-and-true remedies-from beak-delivered beer to the slobbering affection of Big Jim's loyal but dim-witted dog, Dennis-fail to cure Big Jim's debilitating malady. starts to think something's not quite right. But when Big Jim's eyeball falls out of his head, S.T. ![]() "those idiots"), and enjoying the finest food humankind has to offer: Cheetos (R). S.T., a domesticated crow, is a bird of simple pleasures: hanging out with his owner Big Jim, trading insults with Seattle's wild crows (i.e. ![]() About the Book One pet crow fights to save humanity from an apocalypse and the world that follows in this uniquely hilarious debut from a genre-bending literary author.īook Synopsis A finalist for the 2020 Thurber Prize for American Humor! " The Secret Life of Pets meets The Walking Dead" in this big-hearted, boundlessly beautiful romp through the Apocalypse, where a foul-mouthed crow is humanity's only chance to survive Seattle's zombie problem (Karen Joy Fowler, PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author). ![]() |