![]() ![]() ![]() Paul is also the publisher at Ford Street Publishing, a children’s specialist publishing everything from picture books to young adult literature. Paul has been short-listed for many awards and has won the Inaugural Peter McNamara, Aurealis, A Bertram Chandler and William Atheling awards. The Beckonin g is his first adult horror novel. His latest book is Rich & Rare , an anthology of Australian stories and poems. ![]() His trilogy The Earthborn Wars was published in the US by Tor. He has also written The World of Grrym trilogy with Danny Willis. He is best known for his fantasy and science fiction titles: The Jelindel Chronicles (Dragonlinks, Dragonfang,Dragonsight and Wardragon ), and The Quentaris Chronicles – co-edited with Michael Pryor – (my own novels in the series being Swords of Quentaris, Slaves of Quentaris, Dragonlords of Quentaris, Princess of Shadows, The Forgotten Prince, Vampires of Quentaris and The Spell of Undoing ). Paul Collins has written many books for younger readers. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Throughout many of his stories appear the same irregular and fascinating themes: morbidity, powerful yet inexplicable anxiety, reanimation, and “over acuteness of the senses.” (Thorn). ![]() In fact, “few literary topics seem more conducive to psychological analysis than the short stories of Edgar Allan Poe. The merit of the short stories of Poe in the psychological analysis of the human mind has been ever recognized. In this paper, this significant theme is analyzed in one of the most celebrated fictions of Poe, “The Tell-Tale Heart” and it is most relevant to regard the story as the best illustration to the psychological concerns of this master craftsman in the American literary history. Therefore, one of the most important research areas concerning the fictions of Poe’s fictions involves the questions such as how the author uses the psychology of the characters in his fiction and what makes them most relevant in literary circles. “After all the attacks and denigration, after all the emphasis on his dubious metaphysics or even more unfortunate personal pathology, we can still go to Poe’s fiction for illumination that writers of a more psychologically sophisticated era are oddly handicapped from providing.” (Shulman 245-262). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The regimes of both leaders tortured and killed political opponents and relied on a dreaded civilian militia known as the Tonton Macoutes. he once-feared dictator known as “Baby Doc” spent his late years in relative obscurity in the leafy hills above the Haitian capital.ĭuvalier was the son of Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier, a medical doctor-turned-dictator who promoted “Noirisme,” a movement that sought to highlight Haiti’s African roots over its European ones while uniting the black majority against a mulatto elite in a country divided by class and color. ![]() Here are excerpts from the Huffington Post.ĭuvalier, looking somewhat frail, made a surprise return to Haiti in 2011, allowing victims of his regime to pursue legal claims against him and prompting some old allies to rally around him. Jean-Claude Duvalier, the self-proclaimed “president for life” of Haiti whose corrupt and brutal regime sparked a popular uprising that sent him into a 25-year exile, died Saturday of a heart attack, announced his attorney Reynold George. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1533, at the age of 14, Catherine married Henry, the second son of King Francis I and Queen Claude of France, who would become Dauphin of France upon the death of his elder brother Francis in 1536. ![]() Ĭatherine was born in Florence to Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino, and Madeleine de La Tour d'Auvergne. The years during which her sons reigned have been called "the age of Catherine de' Medici" since she had extensive, if at times varying, influence in the political life of France. ![]() She was Queen of France from 1547 to 1559 by marriage to King Henry II and the mother of French kings Francis II, Charles IX, and Henry III. Caterina Maria Romula di Lorenzo de' MediciĬatherine de' Medici ( Italian: Caterina de' Medici, pronounced French: Catherine de Médicis, pronounced 13 April 1519 – 5 January 1589) was a Florentine noblewoman born into the Medici family. ![]() ![]() ![]() That being said, this is a really good book because it takes a disturbing topic and shows how friends and family play a big part in helping an abused person to recover. Boy Toy has intermittent flashbacks to when Josh was twelve.some of them have very graphic content so I would only recommend this for mature audiences. It's easy to see how a sexual abuse victim feels responsible, which is probably one point that Lyga wants to make. I sympathized with Josh because he's under the impression that having sex with his teacher was his fault. Lyga writes about a very controversial subject in an informative and sensitive way. And all he really wants to do is graduate and move to a town where no one knows about his past. Plus, the girl that Josh thought he lost forever is talking to him again. ![]() Now it's five years later and his teacher is getting out of jail. When Josh was only twelve, his teacher sexually abused him. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was varied enough to feel fresh, but there were enough familiar elements to the cast that I got to do that geeky little smile/nod thing quite a bit. In my opinion, Neil Gaiman did a great job with this retelling. Of course, their backstories are quite different, but everyone (with a few exceptions) is recognizable pretty much immediately. So, basically, this is our Marvel characters in 1602. ![]() ![]() Something happened that caused the superheroes of our time to be born hundreds of years early. If you don't already know, the premise is this: And I'm mentioning that now because I don't think a casual graphic novel reader will enjoy this as much as someone who knows all of the characters. However, I simply hadn't read enough comics at that point to fully understand everything. It felt like a very cool What If kind of thing, the art was pleasant, and I understood most of what I was reading. I read this back in 2009 and liked it quite a bit. ![]() ![]() Maleficent gave Maleficent a different, tragic backstory and a level of nuanced character development that was missing from the original film - but it also missed why the original Maleficent is so iconic. Related: Every Disney Live-Action Remake, Ranked From Worst To Best Maleficent, a fiercely powerful horned sorceress who transforms into an equally terrifying dragon, has endured for over sixty years since Sleeping Beauty - and her popularity has even outpaced the original movie. Maleficent's predilection for skulking around a crumbling, abandoned castle in the middle of the Forbidden Mountains (as well as cursing infants because of an invitation snub) is the embodiment of campy villainy. ![]() Her outrageously campy and powerful voice performance by Eleanor Audley elevates her from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' Evil Queen. ![]() ![]() Instead of the standard depiction of witches and hags, she's animated by Marc Davis as a striking combination of a femme fatale and a vampire bat. ![]() Maleficent immediately stood out from Disney's other villains due to her design. ![]() ![]() And thirdly it is naturalistic because an “ought” is derived from an “is”: what “is” the happiest state of affairs is the one we “ought” to create. It is teleological because the calculation concerns consequences which result from pursuing the end or telos of pleasure or happiness. Utilitarianism is an empirical philosophy because it claims happiness or pleasure can be measured and calculated and then applied to real-life situations. ![]() There are three features of utilitarian philosophy: Utility means “usefulness”, as the claim of the Utilitarian philosophers such as Bentham ((1748-1832) and Mill (1806-1873) is that their philosophy is useful for two reasons: it helps define what is good and it helps us make decisions on a personal level by examining the consequences of our choices, and on a collective level by giving us an indicator of welfare for society. ![]() ![]() This handout is a much reduced summary of the detailed treatment of three forms of utilitarianism (Bentham, Mill and Singer) in my book Utilitarianism and Situation Ethics. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I worked for Disney for about 10 years, and made connections with other people in children’s publishing, such as Calista Brill (who had been at Disney before First Second Books started up.) When the Disney work ended, I did freelance book design for First Second and other publishers like Scholastic, and so when I had an idea for my first kids book, Hippopotamister, I already had a way in to pitch it to people. Graduating from art school with a portfolio that was mostly comic book-related design work soon led to a job doing design and production on comics for Disney Adventures Magazine. I went to School of Visual Arts in NYC for graphic design, but while I was there I started self-publishing comics with a friend, Dave Roman. ![]() After getting in trouble for it (the school and parents didn’t like that kids were giving me their lunch money for the art) my mom told me about copyrights, and so I created my own comic book characters and started selling photocopies of them. As some readers may already know, I got my start making comics as a little kid, by selling drawings of Garfield in third grade. John Patrick Green: Hi, Betsy! Thanks for having me. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Each volume contains a superb introduction with textual and critical commentary by renowned classicist Bernard Knox. Here again, Fagles has performed the translators task magnificently, giving us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery. If The Iliad is the worlds greatest war story, then The Odyssey is literatures greatest evocation of every mans journey through life. Combining the skills of a poet and scholar, Robert Fagles brings the energy of contemporary language to this enduring heroic epic. Book Synopsis Gripping listeners and readers for more than 2,700 years, The Iliad is the story of the Trojan War and the rage of Achilles. About the Book This beautiful gift set of Robert Fagles award-winning translations of Homer brings the energy of contemporary language to these enduring heroic epics. ![]() |