![]() ![]() "Letters: 1905-1962," which might be subtitled "Mrs. "Self-Portrait" reprints an interview she did in 1956 with The Paris Review, part of a famed ongoing series of conversations ("Writers at Work") conducted with the best of twentieth-century writers. The introduction of two new sections is intended to provide the richest possible sense of Parker herself. "A Dorothy Parker Sampler" blends the sublime and the silly with the terrifying, a sort of tasting menu of verse, stories, essays, political journalism, a speech on writing, plus a catchy off-the-cuff rhyme she never thought to write down. At the heart of her serious work lie her political writings dealing with race, labor, and international politics. ![]() ![]() But a variety of fresh material has also been added to create a fuller, more authentic picture of her life's work. In this new twenty-first-century edition, devoted admirers will be sure to find their favorite verse and stories. The second revision in sixty years, this sublime collection ranges over the verse, stories, essays, and journalism of one of the twentieth century's most quotable authors. ![]()
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![]() He condemns wasteful spending and often reiterates the idea that people who make themselves useful will be valued in society, no matter the color of their skin. ![]() At Tuskegee, he insists not only that students learn and practice a trade, but also that they grow their own food, construct their own buildings, and build their own furniture. Even as a child, he expresses admiration for these traits, praising his mother for making him a cap for school rather than going into debt to purchase one. ![]() ![]() Washington is a strong advocate of self-reliance and believes that individual merit will bring success regardless of one's race. For this reason he chooses to work in education rather than politics, believing he "would be helping in a more substantial way by assisting in the laying of the foundation of the race through a generous education of the hand, head, and heart" (32). He sees industrial education as key, as it gives students the skills to make a living and to be of value in their communities. ![]() From an early age, Washington views school as a paradise, a way to escape ignorance and to become equipped to help others. First and foremost, Up from Slavery is a book about the power of education to transform lives. ![]() ![]() ![]() I definitely recommend this book it is for those who are ready to learn about the cartography of poetry and place. Read for the insertions of family history, the objects that build a memory, and the way an island culture wields its own power. ![]() Their island is used primarily as a military base for the U.S army. This designation entitles Guamanians to American citizenship but not the right to vote. Guhan is an unincorporated territory of the United States. The line breaks, periods, italics, spaces and the poetry in/between it all needs attention, just as much as the sanctity and act of reclaiming need attention. from unincorporated territory lukao is anti-colonial, as the title makes clear. To read this book is to learn how to read it. When actions perpetrated by defense groups are mentioned in the text, they exist to reveal how, historically and currently, Guahan has been slowly yet forcefully stripped of its culture, power, language, people and beauty. Constitution, which is seemingly official and devoid of acknowledging its harmful benevolence. Perez presents articles from the legal language of the U.S. ![]() Considering the playful and experimental form of the poetry, we see and feel the confusion as well as the agitation that surrounds an experience of reading and familiarizing ourselves with this nation whose control and sovereignty is in constant flux. "from Unincorporated Territory " by Craig Santos Perez uses text to paint a picture of the past of Guahan (Guam), a nation/place/location/home and its relationship to colonizing countries like the U.S., Spain and Japan. ![]() ![]() ![]() The homeschool approach of past generations is gone-including the stigma of socially awkward kids, conservative clothes, and a classroom setting replicated in the home. This growing online community of mothers and families want their children to receive a quality education at home by challenging their intellectual abilities and nurturing their sense of curiosity, joy and awe-the essence of a positive childhood. 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We also follow Cassandra, a princess of Troy with the gift of foresight but the curse that none would believe her. I was instantly swept up in her narrative and felt sympathy and heartbreak for her plight. Clytemnestra, wife of Agamemnon and mother of Elektra, was by far my favorite of the storylines. Though the title would have you thinking this story is centered on one woman, it actually follows three separate women during the time of the Trojan War. So I'm a bit flummoxed that Elektra didn't turn out to be the reading experience I was hoping for. ![]() The tales of passion and tragedy, war and loss, glory and triumph always hit the right spot for me. I cannot hope for the future, for I know what it is to become.Whenever I'm in a reading slump and I need something to shake me out of my funk, Greek mythology is what I reach for. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mary Jane was one of those girls who always wanted to pretend she was a mother and who always wanted Ramona to be the baby. Quimby, would it be all right if Beezus and I take Ramona to kindergarten?” she asked. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next. ![]() “I’m not pestering,” protested Ramona, who never meant to pester. ![]() “Come Mama!” urged Ramona, pausing in her singing and skipping. Today she was going to learn to read and write and do all the things that would help her catch up with Beezus. No longer would she have to sit on her tricycle watching Beezus and Henry Huggins and the rest of the boys and girls in the neighborhood go off to school. “This is a great day, a great day, a great day!” she sang, and to Ramona, who was feeling grown up in a dress instead of play clothes, this was a great day, the greatest day of her whole life. Ramona went on with her singing and skipping. ![]() The people who called her a pest were always bigger and so they could be unfair. No matter what others said, she never thought she was a pest. I’m singing and skipping,” said Ramona, who had only recently learned to skip with both feet. She was standing by the front window waiting for her friend Mary Jane to walk to school with her. “Then stop acting like a pest,” said Beezus, whose real name was Beatrice. “I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She's also the founder of, a Writer's Digest 101 Best Websites for Writers Site, and a founder of the First Five Pages Workshop to help writers begin their journey to publication. Martina Boone is the award-winning author of the romantic southern gothic Heirs of Watson Island series, including COMPULSION, PERSUASION, and ILLUSION from Simon & Schuster, Simon Pulse and the Celtic Legends Collection of novels set in Scotland, Cornwall, and Ireland beginning with LAKE OF DESTINY. She's also the founder of, a Writer's Digest 101 Best Websites for Writers Site, and a founder of the First Five Pages Workshop to help writers begin their journey to. ![]() ![]() ![]() At the same time, however, it also shows that any resistance is inherently limited, as alternative ways of living for women at the time simply did not exist.Īs a heroine, Dorothea is deeply sympathetic. ![]() Through Dorothea, the novel implicitly critiques the oppressive expectations society places on women. As a result, she becomes confused about what she really wants and makes some bad life decisions that only serve to further isolate her from her true self and desires. This is explored most notably through the novel’s central character, Dorothea Brooke, who dreams of a grand, intense, and meaningful life that is fundamentally incompatible with the role society has prescribed for her. ![]() While men are also expected to live up to gendered ideals, Middlemarch mostly focuses on the way that such expectations are particularly restrictive and suffocating for women. ![]() George Eliot’s Middlemarch is set in a fictional Midlands town in the early nineteenth century, an environment in which typical gender roles are very are strictly enforced. ![]() ![]() ![]() He planned to plaster them on every wall and telephone pole in Italy, as an admonition to GIs to ‘ack like sojers.’” ![]() “He wanted, so help me,” Mauldin remembered, “to take the original drawing and have thousands of huge poster copies printed. Army newspaper Stars and Stripes, a flesh-and-blood colonel entered the newspaper’s office and presented Mauldin with what he thought was a brilliant idea. The day after the cartoon appeared in the U.S. When we ain’t fightin’ we should ack like sojers.” As a young, fresh-scrubbed corporal levels his gaze at them, Willie says, “He’s right, Joe. In the midst of it, twenty-one-year-old cartoonist Bill Mauldin, assigned to the regiment’s K Company, did a drawing of the two infantrymen who were his main subjects, Willie and Joe, slouching against a ruined doorway and looking utterly bone-weary-so disheveled you could almost smell them. ![]() In late September 1943, the 45th Infantry Division’s 180th Regiment was in Naples, embroiled in the brutal, soul-deadening fighting typical of Italy at that time. Bill Mauldin’s timeless characters captured the lot of the common soldier of World War II-and every war. ![]() |