![]() ![]() After the hearing he goes to see Jake Brigance, a local lawyer who helped his brother, Lester Hailey, before. Carl Lee is in the audience and decides to take revenge on the two bastards who hurt his daughter so much. During the preliminary hearing there is determined that there is enough evidence to bind the defendants over to the grand jury. Meanwhile the two boys, Billy Ray Cobb and Pete Willard are caught, and they have confessed. Tonya is transported to the hospital and her condition is critical. Tonya told her mother what happened and when Carl Lee hears it he is shocked and determined to take revenge. She calls her husband at work and when he comes home he finds his little girl on the couch in the living room with a crowd of relatives huddled around her. When she isn't home two hours later her mother gets worried. On her way to the grocery store, the little, 10-year old, black Tonya is abducted by two white boys who rape her. When a black father kills the two white boys who raped his daughter, the whole town is divided, whether he should be punished for that, or not. ![]()
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![]() Below I will walk through it stanza by stanza, and then I will present a new partial musical setting of it that makes intertextual connections with scripture. One of the poems from this volume is “The Agony,” a meditation on the suffering that Christ bore out of love for humanity. It has been in print continuously ever since. On his deathbed he gave his friend Nicholas Ferrar a manuscript of all the poems he had written throughout his life, telling him to publish it if he thought it might “turn to the advantage of any dejected poor soul,” and if not, to “burn it for I and it are less than the least of God’s mercies.” Thankfully, Ferrar chose the former, and The Temple was published posthumously in 1633. ![]() He was appointed to a small rural parish near Salisbury, where he served for only three years before contracting tuberculosis at age thirty-nine. After a short career in oration and then politics, he shifted courses to become a pastor. Born in Wales, he studied rhetoric at Cambridge University, becoming fluent in Latin and Greek and beginning an avocation of writing verse. ![]() ![]() ![]() A staple of English literature curricula, George Herbert (1593–1633) is one of the best religious poets of any era. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Honestly, it wasn’t an easy book to read but oh my gosh it is such a powerful and reflective book of our current political and social landscapes.Īce of Spades is a thriller, a mystery and realistic novel all in one. I was on the edge of my seat while reading this and often had my head in my hands and heart in my mouth. My main concern was how on earth the author could give me a satisfactory ending that was still realistic and boy, did Faridah deliver. It is thrilling, twisty and kept me guess right up until the last page. Can Devon and Chiamaka stop Aces before things become incredibly deadly? My thoughtsĪce of Spades is heartbreakingly devastatingly yet as I was reading I knew that this is the reality for so many people and young people. Shortly after the announcement is made, though, someone who goes by Aces begins using anonymous text messages to reveal secrets about the two of them that turn their lives upside down and threaten every aspect of their carefully planned futures.Īs Aces shows no sign of stopping, what seemed like a sick prank quickly turns into a dangerous game, with all the cards stacked against them. After all, not only does it look great on college applications, but it officially puts each of them in the running for valedictorian, too. ![]() ![]() When two Niveus Private Academy students, Devon Richards and Chiamaka Adebayo, are selected to be part of the elite school’s senior class prefects, it looks like their year is off to an amazing start. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I have heard the story told so often by one or another of the Preble family that at times it seems I, also, must have looked on as the Old Peddler carved me out of his piece of mountain-ash wood. The narrative unfolds through the eyes of a tiny wooden doll named Mehitabel (Hittie), who was carved early in the nineteenth century from the magical wood of the Mountain Ash tree by a peddler for a little girl, Phoebe Preble, who lives on Great Cranberry Island in Maine, during a winter when her father was away at sea. In 1999, Susan Jeffers and Rosemary Wells updated, simplified, and rewrote Hitty's story, adding an episode about Hitty's experiences in the American Civil War. ![]() The book is told from the point of view of an inanimate doll named Hitty (short for Mehitabel), who was constructed in the 1820s and has since traveled around the world, through many different owners. It won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1930. Hitty, Her First Hundred Years is a children's novel written by Rachel Field and published in 1929. ![]() ![]() In so doing they provide a valuable guide that will help everyone make sense of the new and potentially catastrophic situation in which we now find ourselves. They examine the scientific evidence and show how its findings, often presented in a detached and abstract way, are connected to people’s ordinary experiences – joining the dots, as it were, between the Anthropocene and our everyday lives. ![]() In this important book, Pablo Servigne and Raphaël Stevens confront these issues head-on. Yet we now have a great deal of evidence to suggest that we are up against growing systemic instabilities that pose a serious threat to the capacity of human populations to maintain themselves in a sustainable environment. ![]() ![]() What if our civilization were to collapse? Not many centuries into the future, but in our own lifetimes? Most people recognize that we face huge challenges today, from climate change and its potentially catastrophic consequences to a plethora of socio-political problems, but we find it hard to face up to the very real possibility that these crises could produce a collapse of our entire civilization. ![]() ![]() ![]() He and his wife, who live in Washington, DC, have three children - a college senior, a college sophomore, and a high school sophomore.more His books have won multiple awards and have been translated into 39 languages. WHEN has spent 4 months on the New York Times bestseller list and was named a Best Book of 2018 by Amazon and iBooks.ĭan's other books include the long-running New York Times bestseller A Whole New Mind and the #1 New York Times bestsellers Drive and To Sell is Human. Pink is the author of six provocative books - including his newest, When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing. He and his wife, who live in Washington, DC, have three children - a college senior, a college sophomore, and a high school sophomore. Dan's other books include the long-running New York Times bestseller A Whole New Mind and the #1 New York Times bestsellers Drive and To Sell is Human. WHEN has spent 4 months on the New York Times bestseller list and was named a Best Book of 2018 by Amazon and iBooks. ![]() ![]() ![]() In ‘There Will Come Soft Rains,’ Teasdale uses a few interesting symbols. Spring will come whether humans are there or not. While this is, in part, a depressing message, Teasdale concludes the poem in such a way that the speaker can’t help but feel at peace with this image of nature, ever-lasting and independent. In fact, if humanity destroys itself, “Not one” kind of non-human life would care that it had occurred. The latter, conflict, is mentioned in the seventh line of the poem when the poet talks about “war.” It alludes to the fact that nature, from birds to trees, don’t know and don’t care about human conflict. In ‘There Will Come Soft Rains,’ the poet engages with themes of nature and conflict. Additionally, they would not notice if every person on the planet disappeared, so little do humans fit into their world. ![]() It would not impact them in the slightest. The second half of the poem describes how nature and “Spring” would not notice if all of humankind was at war. ![]() The wind, trees, and creatures of the world are in alignment and are content with one another. There are birds circling, singing out their “shimmering sound,” as well as frogs croaking in pools of water at night. The poem begins with the speaker describing a number of scenes of peace. “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Sara Teasdale describes the Earth as if it would be without humankind and the lack of regard that Nature and Spring hold for human life. ![]() ![]() ![]() Paranoia might have made Kaplan wary of accepting three venture capital infusions from Kleiner, Perkins, Caulfield & Byers, which pressured the company to turn out a product before it was humanly possible. The 200 employees who worked overtime for six years with the hopes that their stock options would make them richĪre working elsewhere, some still harboring resentment toward Kaplan and AT&T.ĭuring an interview this week, Kaplan said his major mistake was "not being sufficiently paranoid." The money EO had raised - $40 million from venture capitalists and large corporations - is spent. Less than 10,000 units of the company's product were ever shipped. Today, everything from GO is gone, with the exception of a few thousand EOs that are gathering dust in AT&T's closets and a couple that Kaplan has kept for note taking. In 1987, Kaplan formed GO, whose major product was the EO (Latin for go) Personal Communicator, a thin, tablet-shaped portable computer. Instead of typing, a user would write on the screen. Working at Lotus Development Corp., Kaplan got the idea that the next generation of computers would be hand-held digital notepads. ![]() ![]() ![]() In practice, the schools were successful in cutting children off from their cultures, if the children survived at all-mortality rates were extremely high due to poor conditions, inadequate medical care, and unwillingness on the part of school officials to quarantine or treat the huge number of students infected with tuberculosis. Milloy has argued that the goal of these schools was to "kill the Indian in the child" by removing children from their families, forbidding them to speak their native languages or practice their religious beliefs, and in theory, preparing them to assimilate into mainstream Canadian society. ![]() ![]() Though the Canadian residential school program came into its full power in the 1860s and '70s (after the passage of the Indian Act and an amendment that made attendance at residential or day schools mandatory for Indigenous children), efforts to assimilate Indigenous populations into European colonial society had been going on since the French arrived in New France in the 17th century. ![]() ![]() ![]() He's not surprised when fellow Sidewinder Nick O'Flaherty stays with him in New Orleans. Īfter barely surviving a shootout in New Orleans, Sidewinder medic Kelly Abbott has to suffer through a month of recovery before he can return home to Colorado. He's very surprised, though, when Nick humors his moment of curiosity and. ![]() Nor is he surprised when Nick travels home with him to help him get back on his feet - after all, years on the same Marine Force Recon team bonded the men in ways that only bleeding for a brother can. ![]() After barely surviving a shootout in New Orleans, Sidewinder medic Kelly Abbott has to suffer through a month of recovery before he can return home to Colorado. ![]() |