Marx worked as foreign correspondent for several U.S. After the failed revolution of 1848 in Germany, in which Marx participated, he eventually wound up in London. He and Engels founded the Communist League in 1847 and published the Communist Manifesto. After being expelled from France at the urging of the Prussian government, which "banished" Marx in absentia, Marx studied economics in Brussels. Educated at the Universities of Bonn, Jena, and Berlin, Marx founded the Socialist newspaper Vorwärts! in 1844 in Paris. His father, born Jewish, converted to Protestantism shortly before Karl's birth in response to a prohibition newly introduced into the Rhineland by the Prussian Kingdom on Jews practicing law. Marx was born in Trier, a city then in the Kingdom of Prussia's Province of the Lower Rhine. (University of Jena, 1841) was a social scientist who was a key contributor to the development of Communist theory.
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Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable, even necessary, alienation can be. My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a powerful answer to that question. It’s the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility what could be so terribly wrong? But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn’t just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend, Reva. Our narrator should be happy, shouldn’t she? She’s young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman’s efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes. Through the enduring themes of sci-fi, we can examine the zeitgeist’s cultural context and ethical questions. Sci-fi brings out the best in our imaginations and evokes a sense of wonder, but it also inspires a spirit of questioning. It’s also remarkably porous, allowing for some overlap with genres like fantasy and horror. Now, two centuries later, sci-fi is a sprawling and lucrative multimedia genre with countless sub-genres, such as dystopian fiction, post-apocalyptic fiction, and climate fiction, just to name a few. Some scholars argue that science fiction as we now understand it was truly born in 1818, when Mary Shelley published Frankenstein, the first novel of its kind whose events are explained by science, not mysticism or miracles. Science fiction’s earliest inklings began in the mid-1600s, when Johannes Kepler and Francis Godwin wrote pioneering stories about voyages to the moon. Today, we call those dreams science fiction. And what remarkable dreams they are-dreams of distant worlds, unearthly creatures, parallel universes, artificial intelligence, and so much more. Since time immemorial, mankind has been looking up at the stars and dreaming, but it was only centuries ago that we started turning those dreams into fiction. 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover (Paul Simon) * s BAR.26 Miles (Santa Catalina) (The Four Preps) s BAR. If you look up the number 55 on the MEDLEYS page, you'll see that I suggest that the song be combined with "Goody Goody," and/or "I Want to Be Happy." For example, after "All I Do Is Dream of You," you see the number 55. Go to the MEDLEYS page, look up the number, and you'll see what medley (or medleys) I've suggested for that song. THE NUMBERS following the song title refer to the medleys that I've suggested that the song be included in. You can then e-mail them so that copies can be made for your audiences. Cut and paste, add or subtract verses, and assemble songsheets of many of the songs on this site. SPECIAL FEATURES - For players who lead singalongs for organizations, parties, families and/or friends, I have two special features:īy playing MEDLEYS, you can group songs together according to key, tempo, theme, etc., thereby lengthening them, and making singalongs flow more smoothly.ĭownload LYRICS for songsheets. BARITONE UKE PLAYERS: Click on BAR for the baritone uke arrangement in the same key (tuning DGBE). Songs marked with an * are suitable for beginners. Uke sings along with songs marked with an s. They are to be used for educational and/or medicinal purposes only. Uke Songs These song arrangements for the ukulele are provided by Doctor Uke for his students and/or patients. As historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez demonstrates, American evangelicals have worked for decades to replace the Jesus of the Gospels with an idol of rugged masculinity and Christian nationalism-or, in the words of one modern chaplain, with "a spiritual badass." Trump is hardly the first flashy celebrity to capture evangelicals' hearts and minds, having followed the path blazed by, among others, John Wayne, Oliver North, and Mel Gibson. This book title, Jesus and John Wayne (How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation), ISBN: 9781631495731, by Kristin Kobes Du Mez, published. While we assume the religious right has pragmatic reasons for backing Trump, in truth he represents the fulfillment of evangelicals' most deeply held values. Yet in 2016 he won 81 percent of the white evangelical vote, and continues to rely on white evangelicals as his base of support. Summary: "A scholar of American Christianity answers perhaps the most bewildering question of our time: Why are evangelicals "the Donald's" most fervent supporters? Donald Trump is a libertine who lacks even basic knowledge of the Christian faith. You will not be disappointed!!” – review from Goodreads My Review of My First Travel Books: The Seven Natural Wonders of The Earth by Anna Othitis “Another gem from this consistent author. A great way to get children interested in the geography of the world and the delights of travel.” – review from Amazon “Beautifully illustrated, amazing little ‘first travel’ adventure book for children. We took a trip around the world without leaving the house! We saw things and places we will probably never see in real life.” – review from Amazon Originally from Zimbabwe, Africa, her home port is now Wanaque, New Jersey, and she has flown across the world in her travels. This is Anna Othitis’s second trip with Captain Frankie and the crew. Captain Frankie is waiting for you to book your ticket, safely stow your bags, and open your eyes to the beautiful places created for all of us to visit in My First Travel Books. Follow Captain Frankie on his adventures…Ĭome join the adventures of Captain Frankie and the Angelic Airlines flying angel as they travel across the world to the Seven Natural Wonders of the Earth. "I'm delighted and surprised when fragments of these beautiful images come back to me in my painting." "It was overwhelming to see the room-size landscapes and towering stone sculptures, and then moments later to refocus on delicately embroidered kimonos and ancient porcelain," she says. The detail in my work helps to convince me, and I hope others as well, that such places might be real."Īs a student at the Boston Museum School, she spent hours in the Museum of Fine Arts. Now I try to recreate that feeling of believing that the imaginary place I'm drawing really exists. She says, "I remember the special quiet of rainy days when I felt that I could enter the pages of my beautiful picture books. During the summer her family moves to a home in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts.Īs a child, Jan Brett decided to be an illustrator and spent many hours reading and drawing. Jan lives in a seacoast town in Massachusetts, close to where she grew up. With over thirty three million books in print, Jan Brett is one of the nation's foremost author illustrators of children's books. Followed by Logan Corelli detailing his ghostly experiences and investigations. Parapsychology & Magic/ Haunted America Monday - ApDean Radin discussed the relationship of magic to parapsychology.Tyler Rogoway revealed the history of the F-117 Nighthawk stealth fighter. Power of Intention / Stealth Technology Sunday - FebruDean Radin discussed magic as a natural aspect of reality.Followed by Angelia Sheer on UFO cases and high strangeness. Consciousness & Psychic Phenomena / UFOs & High Strangeness Monday - JScientist Dean Radin shared updates on the Global Consciousness Project and psychic phenomena.Art Bell: Somewhere in Time Saturday - NovemArt Bell: Somewhere in Time returned to 11/27/01 when Dean Radin talked about consciousness and the mind. Followed by professor and author James L. Intentions & Thoughts / Understanding the Afterlife Thursday - NovemScientist Dean Radin discussed his experiments showing that thoughts are things, and how we can use magical powers to lead more fulfilling lives.Dean Radin discussed the power of the mind. Art Bell: Somewhere in Time Saturday - NovemArt Bell: Somewhere in Time traveled back to November 27, 2001, when Dr.Supernormal: Science, Yoga, and the Evidence for Extraordinary Psychic Abilities.The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena.Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality. Set at the peripheral, adult side of the Marvel universe where ladies do lunch and individuals actually swear, have sex and suffer from chronic period pains, it's a journey during which Jessica Jones finally comes to terms with the fact that she's been not a failure but a victim of one wretched bastard's callous and cruel objectification and - anyway, you'll have to wait for book four. She wakes up in the morning and hates what she did, so she wanders around from bar to bar, drinking as much as she can and sleeping with whoever will have her. Night after night Jessica wanders around from bar to bar drinking whatever she can and sleeping with whoever will have her. She could have given and gotten a great deal more except that something so harrowing happened to her years ago when she was once a cape that it's set her down a self-perpetuating spiral of self-loathing. It's the messed-up life of a woman who cares and who gives as good as she gets. The finest series ever published by Marvel, this isn't superheroes at all. Many of the questions bring up interesting information that has not been published elsewhere, and readers will delight in discovering some of the secrets behind their favorite movies and theme parks. The book is divided into chapters that each cover an aspect of Disney history, including Disneyland, Walt Disney World, Disney films, Disney television, and Disney characters. Dave also answered questions for the Disney Fan magazine in Japan. They focus on telling you what we think will be interesting for you, a college student and English learner, so use them to help you find the right. The column was renamed Ask Dave and moved to the Disney Magazine and then online. These posts are all short (<180 words) introductions/reviews of books in the EL library. Welcome to the EL Book Introductions series. "Ask Dave" questions have come from Disney enthusiasts the world over, and have covered topics ranging from Cinderella's last name (Tremaine) to the number of triangles covering the surface of Epcot's Spaceship Earth (11,324 facets comprising 954 triangles.) Over 1,100 questions have been fielded by Dave, and this book is a compendium of the most interesting and revealing of those queries. EL (48) Disney Trivia from the Vault, by Dave Smith. In the ensuing thirty years, his column has continued through multiple publications, including Disney Magazine, the on-line "Disney Insider," and most recently the D23 website. A treasure trove of Disney trivia by Dave Smith, Chief Archivist Emeritus of the Walt Disney Archives! Beginning with the July 1983 issue of Disney Channel Magazine, Dave Smith began answering Disney trivia questions from viewers of the Disney Channel. |