![]() ![]() Kaa never made fun of Mowgli any more, but accepted him, as the other Jungle People did, for the Master of the Jungle, and brought him all the news that a python of his size would naturally hear. Skin-changing always makes a snake moody and depressed till the new skin begins to shine and look beautiful. Kaa, the big Rock Python, had changed his skin for perhaps the two-hundredth time since his birth and Mowgli, who never forgot that he owed his life to Kaa for a night’s work at Cold Lairs, which you may perhaps remember, went to congratulate him. ![]() Jacala’s mouth, and the glut of the Kite,Īnd the hands of the Ape, and the Eyes of Man. That have never been filled since the Dews began. ![]() These are the Four that are never content, ![]()
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![]() ![]() Resentful as he sometimes was of the heavy burdens heaped on his small shoulders, he nonetheless adored his parents, who passed on to him their own passionate engagement with life. ![]() Uhlberg’s first language was American Sign Language, the first sign he learned: “I love you.” But his second language was spoken English-and no sooner did he learn it than he was called upon to act as his father’s ears and mouth in the stores and streets of the neighborhood beyond their silent apartment in Brooklyn. Quite a challenge for a young boy, and one of many he would face. ![]() ![]() Such were the kinds of questions that Myron Uhlberg’s deaf father asked him from earliest childhood, in his eternal quest to decipher, and to understand, the elusive nature of sound. “Does it rise and fall like the ocean? Does it come and go like the wind?” “Does sound have rhythm?” my father asked. By turns heart-tugging and hilarious, Myron Uhlberg’s memoir tells the story of growing up as the hearing son of deaf parents-and his life in a world that he found unaccountably beautiful, even as he longed to escape it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What is the difference between story and plot? What is the difference between plot summary and plot interpretation? How do you analyze the relationship between the main plot and a subplot? What are the purposes of literary elements and literary techniques? What are the writer’s literary devices and reader’s literary devices? How do you recognize and appreciate ways in which writer use language, structure and style to achieve his intended effects on the reader? How do you shift from mere appreciation of a literary text to critical literary appreciation? How do you engage in literary analysis & what is the purpose? What is the difference between topic and theme and how do you arrive at the theme? How do you compare the theme and the moral message? How do you develop an interpretation of a work of literature (drama, poetry and prose) and what is the purpose? How do you present critical appreciations or your individual responses to literary texts composed in different forms and in different periods and cultures? How do you know your individual response is valid? What are the differences between Critical Literary Appreciation, Literary Criticism, and Literary Theory? Why should there be a Literary theory at all? ![]() ![]() ![]() They enslaved the Incas and other natives to do their dirty work. The early part of the book, Open Veins of Latin America, depicts how Spanish conquistadors raped South America of gold and silver in the 1600s. OPEN VEINS OF LATIN AMERICA, EDUARDO GALEANO, 1971 What follows is only a partial set of notes from my reading, but it summarizes the book’s overall message. Open Veins reveals how the game has been played and how it continues to be played. Social upheaval around the world reflects the troubles in Latin America, yet the strategies used by the power brokers remain the same. ![]() We have the recent ousting of Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff by a political coup, which was vehemently protested by the popular electorate. Now we have the death last week of Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, who was simpatico with Chavez. ![]() ![]() I chose this seven-year interval to show how events do grow on themselves, and issues never die. I’ve been keeping journals in one form or another throughout my life. This superb 1971 work of investigative journalism is the book that then Venezualan leader Hugo Chavez gave President Barack Obama. Seven years ago this month, I finished reading Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent, by Eduardo Galeano. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There’s big pressure now for Andrews to repeat, even before we canonize her article of virtu. The book is a treasure of a book, and Andrews is without doubt running with the big dogs without first having to be pushed to the back of the pack. came running out of his box & made it necessary that the rest of us know Andrews and the quirky title of her first novel, Who is Maud Dixon? We didn’t until some bleary-eyed editor in a cubicle at publisher Little, Brown and Co. So why do we need to know anything more or anything at all about Andrews from Brooklyn? And, like Andrews, most of them are writing a novel or screenplay, America’s commonest leisure pastime. Despite and including the past tense, this will be a description of a few thousand women living in Brooklyn. ![]() Alexandra Andrews is a Generation X wife and mother living in Brooklyn, N.Y., and is described as having been a journalist, editor and copywriter. ![]() ![]() Trudeau’s most popular book is Doonesbury's Greatest Hits: A Mid-Seventies Revue. the history of journalism awards, the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning went to a comic strip: Garry Trudeaus nationally syndicated Doonesbury. ![]() Colorful and peppered with witticisms and puzzles, this book captures the mayhem of 2020-2021 perfectly by packaging many of the cartoons of those years neatly into one volume. Trudeau has books on Goodreads with ratings. Trudeau sums up the irony, humor, and horror of the 2020 presidential election and its aftermath. 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As always, Sean Murphy’s artwork complemented by Dave Stewart’s colors is worth the price of admission alone.īroken into several intersecting segments, Batman: Beyond the White Knight #4 focuses on the Joker’s daughter Jackie, Terry, Bruce, and Duke to our pleasure. The creator’s iteration of the mythos pays reverence to the source material in a wholly satisfying manner while paving new narrative paths. ![]() ![]() However, it is nice to see Terry take center stage for Murphy’s take on the Batman Beyond mythos. That’s not to say that Bruce doesn’t have some work to do in this issue. The result is utterly enthralling as Sean Murphy provides meaningful answers to several of the series’ questions while posing even more. ![]() Compelling and action-packed, Batman: Beyond the White Knight #4 sidelines Bruce Wayne in favor of placing the rest of the Bat-Family in the spotlight. ![]() ![]() She thought the same thing every morning as she opened her eyes. 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For starters, you’ll successfully de-escalate the tension in your conversation with your daughter. I believe school and your health are important and if you don’t get enough sleep, you’ll sacrifice both your grades and your mental and physical health.” It might take a little more time and emotional involvement, but it offers a variety of benefits in return. And even if the party is perfectly safe, I think it’s unwise for you to stay out late on a school night because you will be tired and grumpy the next day. Rather than saying, “Because I said so,” explain, “Because I don’t think it’s safe for you to go to a party where there is no adult supervision and likely underage drinking. So instead, try practicing verbal judo by taking a little extra time to connect with your daughter and explain the problem. ![]() |