![]() ![]() He is drawn to the charismatic voice of Kurtz, which he comes to know through stories told by others about him, and ultimately has a personal encounter with him following incidents of violence and psychological terror. Before he reaches Kurtz, Marlow encounters other agents living on the edge, inured to the suffering of the Africans, while Marlow sees their humanity and questions his own darkness within. As Marlow slowly travels up river on a steamer toward Kurtz's remote outpost, he sees increasing evidence of the Europeans' brutal treatment of the local African tribesmen, worked and starved to death as they plunder their own lands serving the white man's insatiable quest for ivory. ![]() Charles Marlow, an experienced British seaman, takes a casual trip down the Thames River in London and recounts for his fellow passengers an earlier journey he made to the Congo, charged by his employer, a Belgian trading company, to collect ivory as well as a European ivory trader named Kurtz, who has gone rogue. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In the previous two films, it was clear Rocket had some deep emotional trauma, but he always refused to talk about it. The film delves into Rocket’s past and explains his origins as an experiment from the High Evolutionary (Chukwudi Iwuji). ![]() A perfectly fitting quote to describe his role comes from another anthropomorphized animal character, Lylla the otter (Linda Cardellini), who tells him, “Oh, my beloved raccoon, didn’t you know that this story has been yours all along?” However, while the film sees all the Guardians finding their place in the galaxy, Rocket (Bradley Cooper) arises as the undeniable heart and center of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 provided a satisfactory ending for the team as a whole. As the conclusion to James Gunn’s trilogy, Vol. 3 premiered on May 5, 2023, and is one hell of an emotional sendoff for the unlikely team of misfits who worked their way into the hearts of Marvel fans beginning almost a decade ago. ![]() ![]() ![]() New York Times Book Review, Ross MacDonald on Where Noir Lives in the City of Angels Jackie Ishida's grandfather had a store in Watts where four boys were killed during the riots in 1965, a mystery she attempts to solve. Vallaire Wallace in Electric Lit on The Novel That Shows Us How to Face our Past to Change Our Future Stephanie Cha (of the LARB) in GQ on The Greatest Crime Novelists on Their Favorite Crime Novels EverĪ story about injustice dressed up as a detective novel, Southland reminds us that activism is both an ongoing project and a deeply personal choice. ![]() ![]() It's a powerful book, one that I think about often, as well as a huge influence on my work. The central mystery is the death of four black boys in a Japanese-American man's store during the Watts Rebellion of 1965. It's a brilliant, ambitious, moving literary crime novel about two families in South Los Angeles and their tangled history between the 1930s and the 1990s. I'm an LA native with a lot of love for LA crime fiction, but instead of preaching to the noir choir about The Long Goodbye, I'd like to gush about Southland by Nina Revoyr. ![]() ![]() ![]() For days the dark sky had promised, but refused to deliver, the relief of a cooling rain. A pale charcoal sky hung low over the lake and the tall pine trees surrounding the navy-blue water like giant sentries. THE HEAT WAS OPPRESSIVE, settling down on the village of Lakeside, smothering it like a wet woolen blanket. ![]() As the ghost attempts to take over her life, Megan just hopes she can make it through her party alive. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Diane Hoh including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection. As Megan worries about her friend, a spirit appears in her mirror: the ghost of a girl who died decades before, on her sixteenth birthday. Two escape with minor injuries, but one is rushed to the hospital in critical condition. As the car makes a sharp turn, the steering malfunctions, and the girls fly headlong into a utility pole. By the time her party starts, though, boys will be the last thing on her mind. While Megan tries on her party dress, three of her friends go for a ride to the lake. For months she’s been secretly in love with her best friend, Justin, but she’s afraid to tell him how she feels. ![]() Megan Logan’s sixteenth birthday party is in eleven days, and she still doesn’t have a date. On the eve of her “sweet sixteen” birthday, a girl meets a ghost with a tragic past ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The only way her father can be freed is if she travels with Rasmus into the mythical underworld to rescue him. A mysterious man, Rasmus, tells Hanna the truth: her father was a powerful shaman who went into Tuonela, the Realm of the Dead, in order to barter for more life, and has been held captive by Tuoni, the God of Death. Being in the enchanting land of ice and snow feels miles away from Hanna's busy life back in Los Angeles, especially under the complicated circumstances.īut when Hanna discovers that her father's body is missing, that's when things really get weird. When twenty-four-year old Hanna Heikkinen's estranged father dies, she reluctantly makes the trip to Northern Finland for his funeral. In order to save my father, I have to marry the God of Death. ![]() ![]() ![]() The two fall in love, but their happiness comes to a tragic end. On the island of Carthage, Aeneas meets Queen Dido who shelters his people. The journey to the west coast of Italy is full of adventure, love, betrayal and suffering. ![]() The Trojan Prince Aeneas, defeated and depressed, leads his remaining citizens to a new land and a new destiny foretold by the Gods. The story begins after the Greeks have destroyed the city of Troy. In it, he recounts in vivid imagery the legendary origin of the Roman Empire. ![]() One of the classics of all time, The Aeneid was Virgil's last and greatest work. This is a BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Virgil's sweeping epic, starring Ralph Fiennes as Aeneas and Derek Jacobi as the Narrator. The Aeneid by Virgil (Dramatisation)(BBC Radio Collection) This magnificent poem, in the modern translation by Cecil Day Lewis, is superbly read by David Collins. Finally reaching Italy, their leader, Aeneas, is forced to fight a bitter war against the natives to establish the foundations from which Rome is destined to rise. The epic tells the story of a group of refugees from the ruined city of Troy, whose attempts to reach a promised land in the West are continually frustrated by the hostile goddess Juno. ![]() The masterpiece of Rome's greatest poet, Virgil's Aeneid has inspired generations of readers and holds a central place in Western literature. ![]() ![]() ![]() The bat costs one dollar more than the ball. Our lazy mind can lead us to errors and affect our intelligenceĪ bat and ball cost $1.10. ![]() ![]() ![]() It deals with conscious activities of the mind such as self-control, choices and more deliberate focus of attention.Ģ. System 2 is what we think of when we visualize the part of the brain responsible for our individual decision-making, reasoning and beliefs. What do you do? You probably immediately and automatically shift your attention toward the sound. You can experience this system at work when you hear a very loud and unexpected sound. System 1 is the part of our brain that operates intuitively and suddenly, often without our conscious control. These two characters are the impulsive, automatic, intuitive System 1, and the thoughtful, deliberate, calculating System 2. Our behavior is determined by two different systems - one automatic and the other considered.Thinking, fast and slow explains how decisions are made, why certain judgment errors are so common and how we can improve ourselves.ĭaniel Kahneman, PhD, won the nobel prize in Economics in 2002 for his important contribution in psychology & behavioral economics. ![]() ![]() ![]() Within a few short years a child is walking, talking, and able to feed himself. The information that the child unconsciously absorbs from his surroundings in the early years is used to construct and create himself. Maria Montessori referred to this period as the 'unconscious creation'. The child does this naturally, and without thought or choice. From birth to three years they use their senses (hands, eyes, ears, nose, and tongue) to soak in everything that surrounds them. A baby is born without language, and with few skills other than their survival instinct. Young children are a testament to the mind's awesome ability to absorb. ![]() The "absorbent mind" refers to the mind's capacity to take in information and sensations from the world that surrounds it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And since she stillĬontrolled the rights to her Poppins books, my efforts at getting a Intensely disliked Walt Disney’s 1964 version. Wanted to make a sequel to Mary Poppins, and I was assigned to developīut as the new movie, Saving Mr. It was 1988, and I’d been a vice president at Disney for two years.įrom the time I got there, studio president Jeffrey Katzenberg had Travers herself.įormer Disney vice president of production Marty Kaplan describes how this deadlock resulted in the sequel film being put into limbo for decades until her death (and agreement from her family and the trustees of her 'literary estate') allowed Disney to regain the rights to exercise full creative control. Disney were keen to make a follow-up to Mary Poppins as early as 1982 but the movie ended up in a glorious legal mess because of legal clauses on both sides that required creative agreement from both Disney and P.L. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() More stories like this, please! Read the Alpha & Omega Series by Patricia Briggsīriggs writes the books in third-person, so we get both Charles and Anna’s perspectives-perspectives that are further, fascinatingly divided into the characters’ human sides and wolf sides, which are sometimes at odds. In the world Briggs has created, this is basically a superpower, and it’s especially cool to see a superpower story where the protagonist’s chief ability is related not to more traditionally masculine traits like physical strength, but a more traditionally feminine trait like a skill at navigating interpersonal social dynamics. ![]() Omega werewolves have the helpful ability to calm dominant werewolves. When Charles is sent to Chicago to solve a problem, he meets Anna, and recognizes her not only as his mate, but as a rare kind of werewolf: an omega. As the 200-year-old son of the leader of the North American werewolves, Charles serves as chief enforcer under his father’s rule. ![]() |