7/2/2023 0 Comments Rage becomes herOn the flip side, the societal and cultural belittlement of our anger is a cunning way of limiting and controlling our power. Yet our anger is a vital instrument, our radar for injustice and a catalyst for change. We’ve been told for so long to bottle up our anger, letting it corrode our bodies and minds in ways we don’t even realize. Yes, yes it would.Ĭontrary to the rhetoric of popular “self-help” and an entire lifetime of being told otherwise, our rage is one of the most important resources we have, our sharpest tool against both personal and political oppression. We are harassed, told we are asking for it, and asked if it would kill us to smile. Women are angry, and it isn’t hard to figure out why. After all, women have a lot to be angry about.” (Gloria Steinem)Ī transformative audiobook urging 21st-century women to embrace their anger and harness it as a tool for lasting personal and societal change. “How many women cry when angry because we've held it in for so long? How many discover that anger turned inward is depression? Soraya Chemaly’s Rage Becomes Her will be good for women, and for the future of this country.
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History īy the fall of the Galactic Republic in 19 BBY, many of the ancient academies had been shut down for decades, with the Council of First Knowledge preferring the central teachings of the Coruscant Temple. In addition to the traditional academies established by the Order, the Exploration Corps maintained several spacefaring mobile academies such as the Chu'unthor so that roaming the galaxy and exploring new worlds could be achieved while still teaching traditional doctrine. Some were located on or near Force wellsprings or places significant to the Order like crystal caves or nexuses of dark-side energies that needed constant monitoring. Many academies had been established during the Old Sith Wars and were located in the Galactic Rim. The size of the school varied from world to world: some as small as a single clan of younglings, others as large as the main academy housed within the Jedi Temple of Coruscant. However, at all sanctioned academies, a group of Jedi Masters would instruct Initiates to the Order in the ways of the Force. Mainstreaming the majority of teachings at the Temple, certain practices were permitted to vary from world to world. Overseen by the Council of First Knowledge, each academy was governed by an advisory Council appointed by their superiors on Coruscant. Seraji captures the thoughts and emotions of a young boy and creates a moving portrait of the history and customs of the Persians and life in Iran." - Publisher's Weekly. "Seraji's wonderful coming-of-age story is at times funny and sweet as well as thought-provoking and heart-wrenching." - Booklist. The violent consequences awaken him to the reality of living under a powerful despot, and lead Zari to make a shocking choice. But the bliss of Pasha and Zari's stolen time together is shattered when Pasha unwittingly acts as a beacon for the Shah's secret police. He also hides a secret love for his beautiful neighbor Zari, who has been betrothed since birth to another man. In a middle-class neighborhood of Iran's sprawling capital city, 17-year-old Pasha Shahed spends the summer of 1973 on his rooftop with his best friend Ahmed, joking around one minute and asking burning questions about life the next. That is why he liked to call himself “half an American.” He never stopped admiring the achievements of the new nation in the sciences. In addition, Humboldt envisioned the improvement of international relations through free trade, and therefore favored projects such as an inter-oceanic canal. He used his influence in Prussia to have a law passed that prohibited the ownership of slaves, thereby signaling his opposition to slavery to American leaders. The debate over the slave question caused Humboldt to increase his criticism of American politics. were centered around three topics: the spread of slavery and its consequences in terms of the maintenance of the Union the mining of gold as compared with Russia the possibilities of building a canal between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Humboldt's interests with regard to the U.S. Between Humboldt and Albert Gallatin, the Swiss-born Secretary of the Treasury, a lasting friendship developed based on common interests, e.g., in monetary questions. Jefferson appreciated Humboldt's scientific achievements Humboldt found Jefferson's Notes on Virginia a model of how to describe a region. More importantly, President Jefferson invited him to Washington where he supplied the government with the latest statistical and geographical facts about New Spain (Mexico). In Philadelphia, he met the leading scientists of the country. Alexander von Humboldt paid a short visit to the United States at the end of his famous travels in the New World. It's such an incredible insight into a disturbed mind. The fact that he wrote this and then PUBLISHED it amazes me, his innermost thoughts and fantasies (some of them, shall we say, very unconventional) laid bare for the world to see. This book is such an utterly transparent self-reflection that it is impossible to read without feeling as if you are an intruder in Mr. So I left it completely alone for 6 months, and now I can be sure that my original assertion was correct. I am prone (I'm sure like many of you) to resort to superlatives immediately after finishing a book. I finished this book about 6 months ago and instantly declared that it was the most moving and disturbing book that I had ever read. 7/1/2023 0 Comments The great alone reviewIn Leni’s tale, readers discover Alaska’s “great and terrible gift,” namely that people who encounter the state will learn who they really are and what they will do to survive. The Great Alone, an epic tale spanning the years 1974-2009 and filled with many surprising plot twists and turns, captures the majesty and beauty of Alaska. Though he continually rants about the dangers of the outside world, Leni realizes that “the biggest danger of all was in her own home.” But when winter arrives, the isolation and long hours of darkness exacerbate Ernt’s fragile mental state and violent outbursts. Initially, the family is excited about their fresh start, especially when they are warmly welcomed by the locals who teach them survival skills. Impulsively he decides to move with his wife, Cora, and Leni to a remote community in Alaska off the grid and far from what he considers to be the prying eyes of the United States government. In 1974, Ernt loses yet another job in a series of failures. Thirteen-year-old Leni can barely remember a time when her family experienced happiness and stability-before her father Ernt returned from six years as a prisoner of war in the Vietnam War a changed man, volatile and unpredictable. ThiruppAvai is eulogised as GodhOpanishad since it summarises the sacred meanings of the Upanishads. ANDAL shows us the way to observe the Vratam in a spirit of Bridal Mysticism to gain the Lord's ParamAnugraham to serve Him forever at His Supreme abode. This feeling state ( bhAvanai) ripened and led to the divine thirty paasurams of ThiruppAvai. This book contains the description of this ritual and the teachings of Goda in a conversational format.ĭuring the observance of this ritual, ANDAL considered SrivilliputthUr as the Vrindavan in the north, the girls of Her birthplace as the Gopis and Herself as one of the Gopis and the temple of Vadapatra Saayee as the home of King Nanda and Vadapatra Saayee as Lord KrishNa Himself. She joined with the young milkmaids to observe this noble ritual. The essence of ThiruppAvai is that ANDAL observed the month- long ritual called pavai-vratam to perform eternal service to Perumal and thereby gain the ultimate fruit of gaining Lord Krishna as Her husband. Thiruppavai - Goda's Gita: Volume 1, 2 & 3 & 4
6/30/2023 0 Comments The silent patient bookPerhaps what appealed to me the most in this novel was its premise: a murder by a mentally ill artist that never spoke after the crime. In this article, I’m going to break down the characters and plot, and explore the ending and an alternate meaning of the Silent Patient. Who doesn’t love thrillers mixed with a bit of Psychology (foreshadowing)? So, after a few hours of searching, I found it in the library catalog: The Silent Patient, by Alex Michaelides. I chose psychological thriller to read first for the sole reason that it sounded– for lack of a better word– cool. There are two genres of the kind: psychological thriller and contemporary. For my goal, I decided to read books that are in genres that I never read before. Honestly, I took the assignment to be more of an ultimatum than a goal. The first Homework assignment that she gave us as a class was to write a goal that we had in ELA. What originally compelled me to start reading “The Silent Patient” was my ELA teacher, Ms. 6/30/2023 0 Comments The mammoth hunters seriesIn The Mammoth Hunters, Ayla, Jondalar, and Ayla's horse and it's foal, start the trek back to Jondalar's tribe. Ayla saves Jondalar and nurses him back to health, and for the first time is introduced to Cro-Magnon society. Ayla's cave lion, when grown, leaves her and later ends up attacking Jondalar and his brother, injuring the former and killing the latter. Meanwhile, an eighteen year-old cro-magnon man, Jondalar, and his brother set out from their camp for a years-long journey. In the second novel, Ayla sets up home in a cave, where she befriends and trains a cave lion cub and a horse. Ayla is trained as a medicine woman but, due to the actions of a Neanderthal man who hates her, is exiled from the tribe. The Neanderthals cannot communicate vocally and have access to racial memory, that is to say, the collective memory of the Neanderthal peoples. Ayla deals with fundamental differences between herself and the Neanderthals. In the first book, Ayla, a young cro-magnon child, is orphaned and later adopted by a tribe of Neanderthals who refer to themselves as the clan. The story takes place in prehistoric Europe, during the last ice age. The Mammoth Hunters is the third novel in the Earth's Children series, so you're dutifully warned of spoilers for the first two books. Subject/Genre: Prehistoric Society/Historical Fiction |