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Coming Clean by Kimberly Rae Miller7/3/2023 ![]() She was unable to invite friends over since, within a few years, the new place "started to resemble the remnants at the bottom of a garbage can." A broken boiler and broken pipes created a soggy mess of the entire house, where only one of three bathrooms worked and, then, only intermittently. When fire did break out and all was lost, including Miller's pets, she felt nothing but guilt (her pets weren't supposed to die), which quickly turned to anger as their new house soon became consumed by her father's relentless need to collect. A fire would destroy the rats, fleas, piles of junk, newspapers, clothes, cracked picture frames, broken radios and unopened boxes of stuff that filled every square inch of their house. ![]() "Every night before I went to sleep… for the things I wanted most in life: new dolls, a best friend, and for my house to burn down," writes the author in this gripping, graphic re-telling of her childhood growing up with a father obsessed with hoarding. ![]() Actress and writer Miller chronicles her father's obsessive need to collect things. ![]()
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Open secrets alice munro analysis7/3/2023 ![]() ![]() She is an intuitive writer, who is less likely to be concerned with problems of form than with clarity and veracity. Most critics, however, treat it as short fiction.Īlice Munro has been compared to Ernest Hemingway in the realism, economy, and lucidity of her style, to John Updike in her insights into the intricacies of social and sexual relationships, to Flannery O’Connor and Eudora Welty in her ability to create characters of eccentric individualism, and to Marcel Proust in the completeness and verisimilitude with which she evokes the past. On the other hand, some reviewers, including author John Gardner, have suggested that the stories in her collection published in the United States as The Beggar Maid are so intricately related that that book might be viewed as a novel. She has published one book that is generally classified as a novel, Lives of Girls and Women (1971), but she herself prefers to view it as a group of linked stories. ![]() However, the line between long and short fiction is sometimes blurred in her writings. ![]() By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on OctoĪlice Munro (born 10 July 1931) is first and foremost a writer of short fiction. ![]()
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![]() Louis, Missouri, after years of obscurity, at age 33 he became famous with the success of The Glass Menagerie (1944) in New York City. He moved to New Orleans in 1939 and changed his name to "Tennessee," the state of his father's birth. Thomas Lanier Williams III, better known by the nickname Tennessee Williams, was a major American playwright of the twentieth century who received many of the top theatrical awards for his work. This edition of The Glass Menagerie also includes Williams's essay on the impact of sudden fame on a struggling writer, "The Catastrophe of Success," as well as a short section of Williams's own "Production Notes." A new introduction by the editor of The Tennessee Williams Annual Review, Robert Bray, reappraises the play more than half a century after it won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. ![]() The Glass Menagerie (in the reading text the author preferred) is now available only in its New Directions Paperbook edition. Since its premiere in Chicago in 1944, with the legendary Laurette Taylor in the role of Amanda, Menagaerie has been the bravura piece for great actresses from Jessica Tandy to Joanne Woodward, and is studied and performed in classrooms and theatres around the world. As Williams's first popular success, it launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career, of our pre-eminent lyric playwright. No play in the modern theater has so captured the imagination and heart of the American public as Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie. ![]()
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![]() ![]() This book is one of the best-selling children’s books of all time. The Cat in the Hat entertains two small children on a rainy day with wild hijinks. ![]() – Subsidiary of Grupo Nutresa, Junior League of Abilene, Lauren Engineers & Constructors, The City of Abilene, The Crowe Group, Inc. John’s Episcopal School & Abilene Christian Schools, Fehr Foods, Inc. Glenn Cummins, Arrow Ford, T & T Family Foundation, Joe Ed Canon, In honor of Paige & Lola from Pat & Ralph McCleskey, Hunter’s Texas Stone, Abilene Reporter News, The Children of Abilene ISD, Wylie ISD, St. Sponsors:īobbie Anderson Gee, Lila & Bill Senter, Sydney & Evelyn Niblo, Carolyn & Harwell Barber,Callie & Lee Hampton, Miss Brooke Miers, Julie & Buddy Napier, Robert (Bob) & Ardis Gillette, Lynn & Carl Roeder, Donna & Chester Dougherty, Jane and Bob Milstead, Tom Taylor family in memory of Eileen Taylor Massey, Marilyn Ann Caldwell, Senter Realtors, In loving memory of Jimmy Farrington, Scott & Jill Bishop, Pete & Martha Hinman, Grandchildren- The Berry’s, Logan, Sam, Abby, Tom, Wes, Will & Brook, John R. ![]() The book chronicles the plight of the environment and the Lorax, which speaks for the trees against the greedy Once-ler. ![]()
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Arsenic and adobo7/3/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Lila Macapagal, the narrator of Manansala's outstanding debut and series launch, notices two unwelcome customers at Tita Rosie's Kitchen, a Filipino restaurant run by her aunt in Shady Palms, Ill., where Lila has moved after a devastating breakup with her fianc. Armed with the nosy auntie network, her barista best bud, and her trusted Dachshund, Longanisa, Lila takes on this tasty, twisted case and soon finds her own neck on the chopping block… With the cops treating her like she's the one and only suspect, and the shady landlord looking to finally kick the Macapagal family out and resell the storefront, Lila's left with no choice but to conduct her own investigation. But when a notoriously nasty food critic (who happens to be her ex-boyfriend) drops dead moments after a confrontation with Lila, her life quickly swerves from a Nora Ephron romp to an Agatha Christie case. She's tasked with saving her Tita Rosie's failing restaurant, and she has to deal with a group of matchmaking aunties who shower her with love and judgment. When Lila Macapagal moves back home to recover from a horrible breakup, her life seems to be following all the typical rom-com tropes. The first book in a new culinary cozy series full of sharp humor and delectable dishes-one that might just be killer. ![]()
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Goddess of filth by v castro7/3/2023 ![]() ![]() In fact, the goddess emboldens Fernanda, a straight-laced, straight-A, virgin to seek out the pleasure she is too scared to acknowledge. The “inhabitant” is the eater of sin, sucking secrets out of people, or outright destroying them. ![]() My book club discussed whether Goddess of Filth is even about possession, a common subgenre in horror movies and books. It is Lourdes who comes up with the idea to contact a professor of languages who knows Nahuatl and figure out what Fernanda’s “inhabitant” is saying. In contrast, the other character Casto focuses on is Lourdes, who continues working at Sonic, a fast food restaurant, after high school. Fernanda, who is preparing for college in the fall, starts acting weirdly, very sexual despite being a virgin, smearing black lipstick around her mouth, speaking in Nahuatl, and sitting on the lawn naked. ![]() We were five Chicanas living in San Antonio, Texas, one year out of high school.Īfter they form the circle, they call upon an old spirit to come to them. The summary includes a quote that captures the beginning nicely:įive of us sat in a circle doing our best to emulate the girls in The Craft, hoping to unleash some power to take us all away from our home to the place of our dreams. ![]() For the horror book club I lead I chose a short book for December, knowing that everyone gets more busy. ![]()
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Essential labor angela garbes review7/2/2023 ![]() ![]() A first-generation Filipino-American, Garbes shares the perspective of her family's complicated relationship to care work, placing mothering in a global context-the invisible economic engine that has been historically demanded of women of color. ![]() In Essential Labor, Garbes explores assumptions about care, work, and deservedness, offering a deeply personal and rigorously reported look at what mothering is, and can be. In response to the increasing weight placed on mothers and caregivers-and the lack of a social safety net to support them-writer Angela Garbes found herself pondering a vital question: How, under our current circumstances that leave us lonely, exhausted, and financially strained, might we demand more from American family life? The Covid-19 pandemic shed fresh light on a long-overlooked truth: mothering is among the only essential work humans do. From the acclaimed author of Like a Mother comes a reflection on the state of caregiving in America, and an exploration of mothering as a means of social change. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Cheltenham UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. Educating Economists: The Teagle Discussion on Re-evaluating the Undergraduate Economics Major. “What Economics Majors Think of the Economics Major.” In D. “Expect the Unexpected”: Narrative Pleasure and Uncertainty Due to Chance in Survivor. ![]() “A Survey of Principles Instructors: Why Lecture Prevails.” The Journal of Economic Education 45:360–375. “The Economics of Seinfeld.” The Journal of Economic Education 42:317–318. “Lesson Plans for Teaching Economics with The Big Bang Theory.” Journal of Economics Teaching 3:162–184. “Teaching Economics Using Historical Novels: Jonathan Harr’s the Lost Painting.” The Journal of Economic Education 43:269–281. ![]() “How Much Money Do Survivor Contestants Make?” Cinemablend.Ĭotti, C., and M. “A Little More Than Chalk and Talk: Results from a Third National Survey of Teaching Methods in Undergraduate Economics Courses.” Journal of Economic Education 39:273–286.Ĭhichizola, C. “Teaching Economics at the Start of the 21st Century: Still Chalk and Talk.” American Economic Review 91:446–451.īecker, W.E., and M. “Chalk and Talk: A National Survey of Teaching Undergraduate Economics.” American Economic Review 86:448–454.īecker, W.E., and M. “Teaching Economics in the 21st Century.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 14:109–119.īecker, W.E., and M. ![]() “Research on Teaching Economics to Undergraduates.” Journal of Economic Literature 53:285–325.īecker, W.E. “Big Paychecks for ‘Survivor’ Cast Members.”Īllgood, S., W.B. ![]()
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![]() He asks them to surrender the stone or be arrested. Holmes informs the count of his knowledge about his criminal activities and the witnesses he has, who will implicate the Count. The count tries to strike on the effigy misunderstanding it to be Holmes when Holmes goes out to meet him. Holmes gives a note to the Watson with instructions for Scotland Yard and asks him to leave immediately. Holmes and Watson hide in the bedroom as Count is shown into the living room. Billy, soon after, comes and informs of Count Sylvius requesting a visit. Holmes comes and updats Watson on the new facts of the case. Holmes fears that the two might be planning to kill him by shooting him thorugh his window and so has a very life-likemwax effigy of him installed in his window. Count Sylvious is clever and cunning, while Sam is just the loyal muscle-man. They discuss Holmes’ new case of finding the Mazarin stone and the two men who may have possibly stolen it, Count Sylvius and Sam Merton. Watson is shown in Holmes’s quarters by Billy, a young help. ![]() ![]() The stories were published in different magazines at different times and were later compiled in the The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes in 1927. The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes has twelve stories of the adventures of Holmes and Watson, mostly in their later years. Written by Ruchika Thukral, SARANSH THUKRAL We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]()
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Bobby Green by Amy Lane7/2/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Headquartered in Cherry Hill, N.J., Commerce Bancorp (NYSE: CBH) has more than $40 billion in assets and, in 2005, achieved a 27% increase in core deposits, a 34% increase in net loans and total asset growth of 26%. Their commitment to invest in higher education such as our athletic program will help us advance our goals," said Terry Mohajir, FAU Associate AD for Development.Ĭommerce Bank, "America's Most Convenient Bank," is a leading retailer of financial services with nearly 400 convenient stores in New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Washington, D.C., Virginia and southeast Florida. ![]() "We can't express enough our appreciation of Commerce Bank to support and sponsor our third-annual auction for athletic scholarships. Commerce Bank has joined efforts to raise funds for student-athlete scholarships by sponsoring the event and NFL Great Bob Kuechenberg has agreed to speak. As the auction approaches, two exciting things have happened. Boca Raton, FL - Florida Atlantic University's Third Annual Owl Club Auction will take place this Saturday in the FAU Arena. ![]() |