![]() ![]() Hobbes, named for the 17th-century British philosopher Thomas Hobbes, appears to most of the strips’ characters as a stuffed animal, but from Calvin’s perspective, he is a living, breathing-sometimes even dangerous-tiger. Six-year-old Calvin, named after the 16th-century theologian John Calvin, has a vivid imagination an aversion to homework, chores, and girls and a penchant for discussing the meaning of life. Watterson won the National Cartoonists Society’s prestigious Reuben Award for “Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year” in both 19. This is only the second exhibition devoted to Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in 2,400 newspapers worldwide at the height of its popularity. Exploring Calvin and Hobbes revisits the beloved comic strip created by Bill Watterson from 1985-1995. The exhibition will feature original Calvin and Hobbes dailies and Sundays as well as specialty pieces by Watterson from his collection of more than 3,000 originals housed at the BICLM. ![]()
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![]() ![]() A document of the long-silenced and long-denied sufferings of the Dalits, Joothan is a major contribution to the archives of Dalit history and a manifesto for the revolutionary transformation of society and human consciousness. Valmiki shares his heroic struggle to survive a preordained life of perpetual physical and mental persecution and his transformation into a speaking subject under the influence of the great Dalit political leader, B. In Joothan, Omprakash Valmiki deals with the issue of humiliation meted out to the Dalits by Indian society, no matter where they lived. Although untouchability was abolished in 1949, Dalits continued to face discrimination, economic deprivation, violence, and ridicule. India's untouchables have been forced to accept and eat joothan for centuries, and the word encapsulates the pain, humiliation, and poverty of a community forced to live at the bottom of India's social pyramid. "Joothan" refers to scraps of food left on a plate, destined for the garbage or animals. Omprakash Valmiki describes his life as an untouchable, or Dalit, in the newly independent India of the 1950s. Foreword, by Arun Prabha Mukherjee Preface to the Hindi Edition Introduction, by Arun Prabha Mukherjee Joothan Glossary.Bibliography Includes bibliographical references. ![]() ![]() This is one of those stories that should be sad, but is actually pretty uplifting. (4.5 stars) - I can do all things through Christ Who strengthens me Is it possible that they will see beyond their surface irritations and fall in love?īooks in the Cowboy Mountain Christmas series: So, of course it was Poppy who had delivered the church’s supper to his ranch when the Snowstorm of the Century hit, closing down all roads and stranding two people who can barely stand each other together for a week. He couldn’t think of a person he would be less inclined to be snowed in with. Poppy, with her perpetual smile and positive attitude irritates him to no end. ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, he fell in with the wrong crowd and saw just how rotten life can be. She will not allow the surly West Barclay to steal her joy.Īfter West Barclay lost his parents in a car accident, he spent some time in foster care. But it took a major tragedy in her life for her to overcome her natural negative tendencies and develop a happiness attitude. ![]() Everyone thinks Poppy Kyle is naturally happy and positive. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 8 3/4" H x 6" W x 1" D.ĬONDITION: Overall good condition. Inscription to front end paper reads "Sincerely/Langston Hughes/This book is presented to/Richard Martin Turner, 3rd/For academic achievement and integrity/By the Charleston Association of /June, 1952/Charleston,/1951.". Hardcover octavo, 335 top blue edged pages, hardbound in grey cloth with red stamping to front cover and spine, blue lettering to spine, includes original pictorial dust jacket wrapped in mylar. Case Study: Carroll Cloar (Janu– April 10, 1993)Īuthor Signed and Inscribed, THE BIG SEA: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LANGSTON HUGHES, published by Alfred A.Case Study: Anna Catherine Wiley (Knoxville, TN, 1879-1958).Case Study: Richard Jolley (Knoxville, TN).Case Study: Great Road Pottery of East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia.Items that are not a fit for Case auctions. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Many of its details were drawn from her mother's family's experience as migrant workers, and one character, Dane, was based on brother Carl. As always, the author proved her toughest critic: "Actually," she said, "it was an icky book, saccharine sweet."Ī year later, while on a paltry $10,000 annual salary as a Yale researcher, McCullough – just "Col" to her friends – began work on the sprawling The Thorn Birds, about the lives and loves of three generations of an Australian family. She finally returned to her craft in 1974 with Tim, a critically acclaimed novel about the romance between a female executive and a younger, mentally disabled gardener. She found jobs first in London and then at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.Īfter her beloved younger brother Carl died in 1965 at age 25 while rescuing two drowning women in the waters off Crete, a shattered McCullough quit writing. Planning become a doctor, she found that she had a violent allergy to hospital soap and turned instead to neurophysiology – the study of the nervous system's functions. She flourished at Catholic schools and earned a physiology degree from the University of New South Wales in 1963. Raised by her mother in Wellington and then Sydney, McCullough began writing stories at age 5. Colleen Margaretta McCullough was an Australian author known for her novels, her most well-known being The Thorn Birds and Tim. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sappho came from the island of Lesbos and was known for her lyric poetry, written to be sung while accompanied by a lyre. Sappho (630 – 570 BC) was considered the greatest female poet of ancient Greece. Punch described it as “marbellous,” a play on the words marvelous and marble.”. This painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1881 and was highly praised by critics. ![]() The ancient text tells the story about Sappho, and her companions listen rapturously to the poet Alcaeus as he plays a “kithara.” This painting was inspired by a passage by the ancient Greek poet Hermesianax (about 330 BC), which is set on the island of Lesbos, in the late 7th century BC. In the background, the Aegean Sea can be seen through the trees. The white marble seating is based on the “Theater of Dionysus” in Athens, but the artist has replaced the original inscribed names of Athenians with the names of Sappho’s friends. Sappho is paying close attention to the performance, resting her arm on a cushion which bears a laurel wreath, intended as a gift for the performer. “Sappho and Alcaeus” by Lawrence Alma-Tadema depicts the poet Alcaeus of Mytilene playing the kithara for the poet Sappho, accompanied by several of her female friends. “Sappho and Alcaeus” by Lawrence Alma-Tadema ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As an act of violence threatens to tear apart the entire program, and the erotic pull between them grows irresistible, Paradise is tested in ways she never anticipated-and left wondering whether she's strong enough to claim her own power.on the field, and off.", Craeg, a common civilian, is nothing her father would ever want for her, but everything she could ask for in a male. And that's before she falls in love with a fellow classmate. the Dhestroyer, is having serious problems in his own life. The schooling is unfathomably difficult, the other recruits feel more like enemies than allies, and it's very clear that the Brother in charge, Butch O'Neal, a.k.a. It's a good plan, until everything goes wrong. Her strategy? Join the Black Dagger Brotherhood's training center program and learn to fight for herself, think for herself.be herself. Ward.Paradise, blooded daughter of the king's First Advisor, is ready to break free from the restrictive life of an aristocratic female. "item_description" : "The legacy of the Black Dagger Brotherhood continues in this gripping spin-off series from #1 New York Times bestselling author J.R. ![]() ![]() ![]() This option is influenced by the author’s biography, as well as by his own relationship with the memory burden of socialism in today’s post-Cold War world. ![]() In order to describe this narrative structure as an emergent subgenre of the postmodern maximalist novel, we coined the term ‘maximalist autofiction.’ We then discussed Cărtărescu’s option for maximalist autofiction and the effects this literary choice has had on his representation of Romanian late socialism. ![]() The novel is an ample, paranoid, metaphysical, and counterfactual autobiography that uses a late-communist backdrop to create a metaphorically skewed representation of the self and the world. This article studies the fictionalization of late Eastern-European socialism in contemporary Romania, namely the literary projection of the 1980s in Mircea Cărtărescu’s autofictional novel Solenoid (2015). ![]() ![]() How to Read John Milton’s Paradise Lost, Book 4.Considers first how Milton, the blind poet, describes indescribable things then resumes the story with the debate in Hell and then addresses a conversation between God and his Son, to ask how God can know what will happen without causing it to happen, and how God and Milton give characters traits suited to their circumstances. ![]()
![]() High school was back in New York City, but by the time I went to college (Brown University in Rhode Island), my family was living in Washington, D.C. ![]() ![]() I was born in Hawaii, moved from there to New York, spent the years of World War II in my mother’s hometown: Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and from there went to Tokyo when I was eleven. I was a solitary child who lived in the world of books and my own vivid imagination.īecause my father was a career military officer - an Army dentist - I lived all over the world. That left me in-between, and exactly where I wanted most to be: on my own. Little brother Jon was the only boy and had interests that he shared with Dad together they were always working on electric trains and erector sets and later, when Jon was older, they always seemed to have their heads under the raised hood of a car. My older sister, Helen, was very much like our mother: gentle, family-oriented, eager to please. ![]() "I’ve always felt that I was fortunate to have been born the middle child of three. ![]() |