![]() ![]() Belligerent grunts and muffled curses thickened the air as the two men grappled viciously. By the time they reached it, the room was already in a shambles, with a small table overturned, books strewn across the floor, and a porcelain vase shattered. Together the two women rushed downstairs, crossed the entrance hall, and ran full bore to the library. “Hang it,” Kathleen muttered, “he’s told him.” “If he had, we would hear bellowing and things breaking, and-”Īt that moment, an unholy clamor erupted downstairs: swearing, shattering, cracking, rattling, a heavy thud, a violent tumble. “He hasn’t yet,” Kathleen said, striding from the room while Helen dashed after her. Winterborne may have told him already,” Helen said in dismay. “Good God,” Kathleen exclaimed, leaping to her feet. If Devon refuses, he’ll tell him that he has no choice but to consent since I’m no longer a virgin.” ![]() “Yes, but after that, he’s going to ask for Devon’s approval of our engagement. “What? I thought you said he’d come to apologize.” ![]() Kathleen looked at her alertly, setting aside the napkin. Winterborne is going to tell him tonight.” ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() What is the media’s responsibility?Author and anti-apartheid activist Alan Paton once said of the Monitor, “It gives no shrift to any belief in the irredeemable wickedness of man, nor in the futility of human endeavor.”In addition to reporting acts of kindness, perhaps a next step is to see the world through a lens of kindness. ![]() But can this elevation only happen with stories of kindness? Must the rest of the news abandon us to despair?The world is asking us to consider that question deeply. She defined kindness and heroism as “moral beauty,” which “triggers ‘elevation’ – a positive and uplifting feeling” that “acts as an emotional reset button, replacing feelings of cynicism with hope, love and optimism.”The study suggested this happens when one watches a news story about kindness after watching ones about bombings, cruelty, and violence. They support “the belief that the world and people in it are good.” And they provide “relief to the pain we experience when we see others suffering.”It was her fourth point that stuck with me. A week ago, a British researcher published an article titled “Stories of kindness may counteract the negative effects of looking at bad news.” As you might imagine, I was intrigued.Kathryn Buchanan of the University of Essex shared four main takeaways from her research: Stories of kindness remind us of our shared values. ![]() ![]() Peter Martell has spent over a decade reporting from palaces and battlefields, meeting those who made a country like no other: warlords and spies, missionaries and mercenaries, guerrillas and gunrunners, freedom fighters and war crime fugitives, Hollywood stars and ex-slaves. Three years after independence, South Sudan was lowest ranked in the list of failed states. ![]() First Raise a Flag details one of the most dramatic failures in the history of international state-building. This is the story of an epic fight for freedom. Many have fought, but South Sudan did the impossible, and won. It was an extraordinary, unprecedented experiment. ![]() Half a century later, with millions massacred in Africa's longest war, the continent's biggest country split in two. When South Sudan's war began, the Beatles were playing their first hits and reaching the moon was an astronaut's dream. ![]() ![]() ![]() European Bulletin of Himalayan Research, 32, 84–108.Ĭlaigue, P. Plight of the Igus: Notes on Shamanism among the Idu Mishmis of Arunachal Pradesh, India. Accessed on 28th November 2020.Ĭhaudhuri, S. The institutionalization of tribal religion: Recasting the donyi-polo movement in Arunachal Pradesh. European Bulletin of Himalayan Research, 25/26, 15–60.Ĭameron, E., et al. Memories of migration: Notes on legends and beads in Arunachal Pradesh, India. ![]() Hence, the article aims to study the practice of Shamanism among the Adis to have a glimpse into their indigenous worldview. ![]() However, its relevance as a tradition even in the time of modern medicine, digital communication, and science and technology cannot be undermined. Shamanism as practiced by many tribes of Arunachal has been viewed either as part of a well-developed cultural philosophy or reduced to just sorcery. This problem in cultural representation seeks for an urgent re-examination of native cultures with the need for epistemological reconsideration. ![]() The study of these communities has resulted in exoticization of cultural traditions, practices, and symbols, often invoking an air of mystery and wonder around them, diverting or distorting cultural meanings, as Esther Syiem says, ‘culled out of context and exhibited as some kind of intangible relic that pre-existed existence’ (Syiem in India International Centre Quarterly 43, 80–88.). The cosmologies of native communities have the reputation of being almost impalpable with pre-literate beliefs. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sasha finds it impossible to enter the inner family sanctum, she is shut out, and she can barely understand the Stocktons strange rules, culture and rituals. They live in the family home at Pineapple Street at Brooklyn Heights, where any effort by Sasha to clear the house of its clutter or make any changes is stymied. ![]() Sasha signed the prenup and married into the family, her husband Cord's life revolves around his family, his priority, he works with his father, Chip, in their real estate investment firm, and rubs his mother, Tilda's feet. She gave up working at Goldman Sachs to bring up her 2 young children, Poppy and Hatcher with the family relying on Malcolm's salary, their circumstances becoming more difficult when their economic security and lifestyle come under threat. ![]() Darley is the eldest daughter who preferred to lose her family money rather than have her beloved husband, Malcolm, sign the expected prenup. Taking a human and compassionate approach, the author gently examines and sheds light on some of the issues affecting the extremely rich through the lives and thoughts of 3 women. ![]() Jenny Jackson writes a delightfully entertaining character driven novel that immerses the reader into the Stockton family members, their rarefied social circles, and well connected lives of unimaginable wealth and privilege that comprises the New York world of one percenters. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Bryce begins to develop feelings for Juli, who begins to have mixed feelings about him. Her father gives her a painting of the tree.Ĭhet gets to know Juli while helping her work on her lawn. She becomes very depressed afterwards, as the tree let her see the world in a more enlightened way. One day, it's cut down by a group of landscapers so a house can be built there, despite Juli's opposition. ![]() There's a large, old sycamore tree that Juli loves which no one understands. In 1963, Bryce's grandfather Chet Duncan moves in with the family. After finding out Bryce and Sherry broke up, she thought she could have Bryce back. Bryce's best friend, Garrett, takes an interest in Sherry and tells her the truth about Bryce asking her out she doesn't take it well.įrom Juli's perspective, Bryce returned her feelings, but was shy. By the sixth grade, Bryce tries to get rid of Juli by dating Sherry Stalls, whom Juli despises. In 1957, when second-graders Bryce Loski and Julianna "Juli" Maryellen Baker first meet, Juli knows it's love, but Bryce isn't so sure, and tries to avoid Juli. ![]() ![]() ![]() “If the function of a writer is to reveal reality,” Maxwell Perkins wrote Hemingway after reading the manuscript, “no one ever so completely performed it.” Greater in power, broader in scope, and more intensely emotional than any of the author’s previous works, it stands as one of the best war novels of all time.įeaturing early drafts and manuscript notes, some of Hemingway’s writings during the Spanish Civil War, and three previously collected stories of his on the subject of war, as well as a personal foreword by the author’s son Patrick Hemingway, and a new introduction by the author’s grandson Seán Hemingway, this edition of For Whom the Bell Tolls brings new life to a literary master’s epic like never before. ![]() ![]() In his portrayal of Jordan’s love for the beautiful Maria and his superb account of El Sordo’s last stand, Hemingway creates a work at once rare and beautiful, strong and brutal, compassionate, moving, and wise. Robert Jordan is a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain. Published in 1940, For Whom the Bell Tolls tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. ![]() Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from “the good fight,” and one of the foremost classics of war literature in history. The book draws inspiration from Hemingways time as a war. In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war for the North American Newspaper Alliance. For Whom the Bell Tolls is an unembellished, blunt commentary on the nature of war and death. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They faced formidable resistance within their own communities even as they willingly took on new roles: “In bed,” Hartman writes of one lesbian couple, “it seemed like it was only the two of them in the world, in the vast stillness of the deep of night. In one Philadelphia area, for instance, “more than half the women in the ward were single, widowed, or separated, and this imperiled the newly fledged black family”-imperiled it because so many of those unencumbered women were determined to live on their own terms, having begun a journey to freedom that was ongoing. ![]() The population, writes the author, was young and in many cases disproportionately female, with liberating follow-on consequences. Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route, 2007, etc.) examines the many ways in which (mostly) young black women tried to live their lives within the confines of new urban enclaves such as Harlem and West Philadelphia, from which Italian and Jewish immigrants had moved on and into which newcomers from the South were streaming. A provocative study of urban African-American women a century and more ago.Ĭharacterizing her work as an “account of the wayward,” literary scholar Hartman (English/Columbia Univ. ![]() ![]() Following successful sign in, you will be returned to Oxford Academic.Do not use an Oxford Academic personal account. When on the institution site, please use the credentials provided by your institution.Select your institution from the list provided, which will take you to your institution's website to sign in.Click Sign in through your institution.Shibboleth / Open Athens technology is used to provide single sign-on between your institution’s website and Oxford Academic. This authentication occurs automatically, and it is not possible to sign out of an IP authenticated account.Ĭhoose this option to get remote access when outside your institution. ![]() Typically, access is provided across an institutional network to a range of IP addresses. ![]() If you are a member of an institution with an active account, you may be able to access content in one of the following ways: Get help with access Institutional accessĪccess to content on Oxford Academic is often provided through institutional subscriptions and purchases. ![]() ![]() Janet Maslin of The New York Times praised the direction, writing and music score, but criticized the darker elements and stated that "83 minutes is a long time for an adult to think about mice". A DVD version has yet to be released in the United States, but it was released on DVD in Japan. The film was first released on RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video on VHS in 1985 and re-released in 1991 in the United States. Together they manage to form a family and destroy the rat empire. They rediscover the elephant and seal, who are somewhat broken down. With the aid of a psychic frog, the mice escape and meet other animals on a quest to become free and independent self-winding toys. Once transported to the dump, they become enslaved by Manny the rat, who runs a casino and uses broken wind-up toys as his slave labor force. They accidentally fall off the counter and end up in the trash. ![]() The child mouse proposes staying at the shop to form a family, which the other toys ridicule. ![]() ![]() After being unpacked, they discover themselves in a toy shop where they befriend a toy elephant and toy seal. The mouse and his child are two parts of a single small wind-up toy, which must be wound by a key in the father's back. The Mouse and His Child is a 1977 animated film based on the 1967 novel of the same name by Russell Hoban. ![]() |