![]() ![]() The lowest point is when he is dubbed ‘Cancer Boy’ and is the subject of some cruel memes. When he’s forced to wear a hat to protect his skin, has a goopy eye and starts to lose his hair kids begin to give him a wide berth. He’s just one of the many kids who don’t seem to know how to react to Ross. His best friend Abby is sticking by him, but the third member of their group Isaac, has gone silent and is never around. Ross has a rare form of cancer and faces surgery and radiation therapy that may or may not save his vision or his life. After discovering an alarming lump above his eye, his life has been a series of appointments, tests and then a devastating diagnosis. Twelve-year-old Ross Maloy just wants to be a normal seventh grader but that’s not on the cards. ![]() It’s a heart-warming story about vulnerability, survival and dealing with a terrifying diagnosis. Rob Harrell’s semi-autobiographical middle grade novel is thought-provoking and will challenge young readers. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The central question that I am asking is what issues on modernity and tradition did Soseki write about and was Soseki more inclined to the traditional side or modern side. Natsume Soseki is commonly referred by his given name (or rather pen name), Soseki, so searching for “Soseki” in DfR of JSTOR collections is more accurate. In 1907, Soseki rejected his professorship and started to work for Asahi newspaper, where most of his works were published. Between 19, he wrote fifteen novels, including one unfinished. In his works, he mainly focused on the pain and solitude that modernity brought to Japanese. He was aware of the superficiality of Japanese westernization and aimless imitation of the west. Soseki became mad in London, and started to question the idea of modernity. The Japanese government sent him to study in England from 1901 to 1903, but this became his most unpleasant years. Therefore, he became a scholar in English literature. He loved Chinese literature, but studying English was a fashion at his time. ![]() Natsume Soseki, born in 1867, the year before the Meiji Restoration, was a Japanese author whose works characterized the perplexity of Japanese during the era of rapid westernization. A Short Introduction of Natsume Soseki Soseki’s Portrait on the old version of Japanese 1000 yen note ![]() ![]() ![]() Header: Henry VIII (detail), after Hans Holbein the Younger, probably 17th century, based on a work of 1536, © National Portrait Gallery Perhaps these go some way to explain his behaviour and gradual decline. Henry was a ‘golden youth’ before a great series of losses and misadventures took their toll. ![]() He was a paradox: a strong ruler, yet an anxious, insecure man. It could be said that in many ways Henry VIII made our modern world. The break with Rome, the Reformation and the Dissolution of the Monasteries had profound and lasting effects. Many of his actions as king still resonate today. Two years later Henry’s beloved mother Elizabeth of York died and his protective father Henry VII kept his precious heir cossetted and restricted. Henry was once a vivacious little boy, adored and indulged until his elder brother Arthur’s death placed a huge, unexpected burden on this second son. But it is too easy to think of Henry VIII simply as the terrible monster of his bloated old age, shuffling painfully through Hampton Court Palace. ![]() Infamously, he sent two of his wives, Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, to their deaths on the executioner’s block at the Tower of London. Henry VIII’s reign (1509-47) is usually remembered for the King’s six wives and his legendary appetite. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sometimes when you are young your surroundings affect you deeply, but you are in the midst of it and you know somehow your home is not like other kid's homes, but you deal with it as there is no alternative, especially if you have no other family and your father does not live with you. I loved this play probably even a bit more now than then, as I can look back clearly at my dysfunctional childhood with an extremely damaged, abusive and unstable mother. ![]() I re-read his Pigman for the first time since the early 70s and it was great. Now it was time to move on to Paul Zindel a huge favorite of my as a tween and young teen. Judy Blume's Deenie was fine, but when I got to Forever, I was bored stiff and stopped. The Beverly Clearly ones gave me a slight smile, the Frances Lattimore ones which I adored in the late 60s were nice to read again, but were clearly dated. I decided to re-visit some of the books I loved as a young person to see how well they've traveled. I read this book for the first time over 40 years ago when it was a recent book and remember liking it but never having read it again in all these decades gone by. ![]() ![]() Percy Jackson and the Olympians The Lightning Thief ![]() The hero would subsequently use Medusa's severed head to defeat Poseidon's ferocious sea monster saving his future wife, Andromeda, in the process. At first, these two children were trapped inside her after she was turned into a monster but were later born from her blood when Perseus beheaded her while the Gorgon was asleep. Medusa had two children with Poseidon, Chrysaor, who was born from her neck, and another child, Pegasus. Medusa's sisters were eventually made immortal, though they do not have the power to turn people to stone like her. Eventually, she ended up living in a cave far from civilization with just her sisters, Stheno and Euryale, the three were called the Gorgons. The girl's hair was turned into serpents and any mortal who would look upon her gaze would turn to stone. As a result of the two getting romantic at the foot of the statue of her, the infuriated and disgusted Athena cursed Medusa, much to Poseidon's horror and dismay. He took her to a town's temple for Athena. Despite being warned about sea gods by her sisters, she was actually flattered that Poseidon liked her. Poseidon was bitter at Athena for recently turning his beloved Koroneis into a raven, so he decided to get back at her by becoming obsessed with the beautiful girl. ![]() ![]() Medusa was a daughter of Phorcys and Keto, and was once a priestess of Athena. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The scholars hear out his story, but when he lights the lightbulb, they become terrified and huddle against the walls, trembling together. Equality stops their murmurs by telling them he has brought them the greatest gift ever presented to mankind, and they listen to him while he tells them the story of the invention of the lightbulb, the tunnel, and his incarceration in the Palace of Corrective Detention. The scholars are angry and scared that a street sweeper should have interrupted their meeting. He addresses them in a loud voice and in greeting.Ĭollective, the oldest and wisest of the scholars, asks Equality who he is, and Equality gives him his name and tells him he is a street sweeper. As he enters, the scholars turn to him, but they do not know what to think. The shapeless forms of the scholars are huddled around a long table. ![]() ![]() The first thing he notices is the sky shining in the windows and a painting on the wall, depicting the twenty men who invented the candle. He recounts the events of the day: he is able to walk right into the meeting of the World Council of Scholars because there are no guards to stop him. He feels that he has aged a lifetime in this day. Equality writes from the forest to which he has fled that he has abandoned hope and believes he will sleep on the grass for a few days until the beasts come to eat his body. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now that's a backstory! Elsewhere, Theroux makes it clear that he believes Nussimbaum is most probably the single author of the novel: "Mr. Reading through Paul Theroux's afterword to Ali and Nino, I saw this:īut how had this Central Asian come to write his book in German and publish it in Berlin? Was he an exile, and if so, was this a pen name? It turns out that it was indeed a pen name, possibly shared by two people, one an Austrian baroness, Elfriede Ehrenfels, and the other an emigre Jew from Azerbaijan, Lev Nussimbaum, who had converted to Islam and taken the name Essad Bey and lived in Berlin and Vienna. It's called the Montclair Book Center, and it turns out it's pretty good - three floors, two storefronts, new and used books, and surprisingly well organized.Īmong other things, I came across two novels by a writer I'd never heard of, Kurban Said. ![]() Friday is my non-teaching day, so I went down to Montclair to check out what I think is the nearest used bookstore to my current apartment. ![]() ![]() Lenkiewicz's drawings and paintings often reference iconic imageries, including those by Albrecht Dürer, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, and Hieronymus Bosch. His works primarily deal with the appropriation of language and mythology by juxtaposing elements such as religious figures, pop culture icons, literary characters and motifs. Lenkiewicz’s works have since then been exhibited internationally, including Tate Britain and All Visual Arts in London, Triumph Gallery in Moscow, Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille, as well as in Dublin, Hamburg, Berlin and Venice. Richard Dyer described the exhibition as 'an iconographic investigation into the power inherent in certain images and events, and the mythos associated with them'. Lenkiewicz exhibited 33 drawings including 3 large-scale works at his first major exhibition, Nu-Trinity, at Dickinson in 2007. Lenkiewicz was educated at University of York, graduating in 1989 with a degree in Philosophy. He is of German-Polish-Jewish descent, with his great-grandfather being Baron von Schlossberg, court painter to King Ludwig II of Bavaria. ![]() Wolfe von Lenkiewicz was born in Dartmoor, England, England, in 1966 to Celia Norman and the British painter Robert Lenkiewicz. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His shirt is faintly damp against his skin. ![]() ‘If it’s all the same to you, I think I’ll stick with knocking it.’ ‘Like throwing yourself out of aeroplanes.’ ‘How about a luxury spa in Bali? We could lie around on the sand … spend hours being pampered … long relaxing nights … ’ Her voice is husky, testament to their missed hours of sleep. She throws them down on the bed, stretches her caramel-coloured arms above her head. ‘Do we really have to do something that involves trekking up mountains, or hanging over ravines? It’s our first proper holiday together, and there is literally not one single trip in these that doesn’t involve either throwing yourself off something or –’ she pretends to shudder ‘– wearing fleece.’ She is probably slightly too old to pout, but they’ve been going out a short enough time for it still to be cute. He stands there, enjoying the brief flashback, rubbing the water from his hair with a towel. She is wearing one of his T-shirts, and her long hair is tousled in a way that prompts reflexive thoughts of the previous night. When he emerges from the bathroom she is awake, propped up against the pillows and flicking through the travel brochures that were beside his bed. ![]() ![]() He is a Pulmonary and Critical Care physician at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine with expertise in severe emerging viral infections, clinical research, and international health. William A Fischer, II, MD, serves as an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine. Questions or comments for NETEC? Contact us at Transmission Interrupted on the web at /podcast. Join us for an in-depth analysis of the science and myths surrounding Ebola in popular culture. ![]() Together, they will explore the science behind the virus, including its transmission, approaches to treatment and care, and the accuracy of its portrayal in the TV series and the book. Billy Fischer to discuss the portrayal of Ebola Virus Disease in the 2018 Jack Ryan TV series and Richard Preston’s 1994 novel, The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story. ![]() ![]() In episode two of the Pathogens in Pop Culture series, hosts Lauren Sauer and Rachel Lookadoo welcome guest Dr. ![]() Pathogens in Pop Culture: Jack Ryan, The Hot Zone, and Ebola ![]() |