![]() ![]() Therefore, for both group’s enjoyment, Lewis created in his novels a solid mythology all its own for the Narnian world, and in the books also created an anthological story of how his myth filtered down throughout Narnian history. Lewis wrote his seven-part series for children, The Chronicles of Narnia, he realized that not only the children in on Earth going to read the stories, but children in future generations of Narnia will also enjoy the stories as they pass down. Stories told to children as they prepare for bed act also as vehicles for transportation of imagination, and when the book opens, a journey begins. ![]() The wonder of opening a book feels very similar to the experience of opening a wardrobe door and finding oneself in another world. ![]()
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In this method, the flow separation due to stall is modeled in a vortex lattice framework as an effective reduction in the camber, or “decambering.” For each section of the wing, a parabolic decambering flap, hinged at the separation location of the section, is calculated through iteration to ensure that the lift and moment coefficients of the section match with the values from the two-dimensional viscous input curves for the effective angle of attack of the section. The method is intended for use in design, modeling, and simulation. ![]() A low-order method is presented for aerodynamic prediction of wings operating at near-stall and post-stall flight conditions. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His final report on the Bari casualties was immediately classified, but not before his breakthrough observations about the toxic effects of mustard on white blood cells caught the attention of Colonel Cornelius P. Eisenhower acted in concert to suppress the truth, insisting the censorship was necessitated by military security.Īlexander defied British port officials and heroically persevered in his investigation. He quickly diagnosed mustard gas exposure, but was overruled by British officials determined to cover up the presence of poison gas in the devastating naval disaster, which the press dubbed “little Pearl Harbor.” Prime Minister Winston Churchill and General Dwight D. Caught in the surprise air raid was the John Harvey, an American Liberty ship carrying a top-secret cargo of 2,000 mustard bombs to be used in retaliation if the Germans resorted to gas warfare.Īfter one young sailor after another began suddenly dying of mysterious symptoms, Lieutenant Colonel Stewart Alexander, a doctor and chemical weapons expert, was dispatched to investigate. ![]() On the night of December 2, 1943, the Luftwaffe bombed a critical Allied port in Bari, Italy, sinking seventeen ships and killing over a thousand servicemen and hundreds of civilians. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This book was very highly recommended to me, and I did like it. Hoping to cram as much life into her last few months as possible, and makes a list of all the things she hopes to accomplish before she dies. There is nothing the doctors can do for her, and she is told she probably won’t live to see her next birthday. ![]() Sixteen year old Tessa has a fatal form of leukemia. The newly released feature film Now Is Good, starring Dakota Fanning, is based on Jenny Downham's intensely moving novel. Tessa’s feelings, her relationships with her father and brother, her estranged mother, her best friend, and her new boyfriend, are all painfully crystallized in the precious weeks before Tessa’s time runs out.Ī Publishers Weekly Best Children’s Book of the YearĪn ALA-YALSA Top Ten Best Book for Young Adults Of “normal” life, Tessa tastes new experiences to make her feel alive while her failing body struggles to keep up. Fighting back against hospital visits, endless tests, and drugs with excruciating side effects, Tessa compiles a list. ![]() For the many readers who love The Fault in Our Stars, this is the story of a girl who is determined to live, love, and to write her own ending before her time is finally up. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s entirely possible you have heard of this title already. ![]() You see, I just finished The Lord of the Rings audiobooks and I needed something that wasn’t literal days long to unwind with. Much like a strong esspresso, I found that Legends and Lattes was a perfect cure for a recent hangover, an audibook one that is. But setting up your own coffee shop in a town that has never even heard of the stuff? Still, Viv has a magical stone and a dream, as well as a succubus for an assistant manager, and no gangsters, cinnamon bun shortages or ward-casting academics will stop her from bringing coffee to Thune. Retiring from a life of adventuring, especially when you’re an orc with a greatsword called “Blackblood”, is never easy. ![]() ![]() ![]() The plot? Interesting in its bare bones- a girl being set up/harassed/bullied as revenge because they think she sent them to prison, and one of them is in love with them? Fascinating, and it's handled well. In fact, I'm still reading it even though it's annoying the crap out of me. And now every last one of her nightmares will come true. Because you see, three years ago she put a few of my high school friends in prison, and now they’re out. The opportunity is too good to be true as well as the timing. Until my brother leaves for the military, and I find Rika alone at college. I can always feel the fear rolling off of her, and while I haven’t had her body, I know that I have her mind. She looks down when I enter a room and stills when I am close. ![]() My brother’s girlfriend grew up hanging around my house and is always at our dinner table. ![]() Her name is Erika Fane, but everyone calls her Rika. He’s bad, and the dirt I’ve seen isn’t content to stay in my head anymore. Now, I’ve graduated high school and moved on to college, but I haven’t stopped watching Michael. The things that he did, and the deeds that he hid…For years, I bit my nails, unable to look away. The star of his college’s basketball team and now gone pro, he’s more concerned with the dirt on his shoe than me. He is handsome, strong, and completely terrifying. ![]() My boyfriend’s older brother is like that scary movie that you peek through your hand to watch. My nightmares, however, became my obsession. I was told that dreams were our heart’s desires. ![]() ![]() Rousseau that he hung over his writing desk. The only picture in Kant's otherwise sparsely decorated home was a portrait of Order to continue his study of Rousseau's Emile. That Kant, who never interrupted his daily routine, gave up his daily walk in (1770), Rousseau Juge de Jean-Jacques (1776),Īnd Considerations on the Government of Poland (1771). He died in 1778, after completing several more books, including his Confessions Rousseau eventually returned to France, where ![]() (1762), and a series of more minor works (including important letters onĪnd the Social Contract were condemned and burned, forcing Rousseau toįlee to England. Second Discourse (on inequality, 1755), his novel Julie (1760), his treatise on education ( Emile, 1762), the Social Contract In succeeding years, Rousseau published several works, most notably his Ringing moral indictment of the Enlightenment. On the Origin of the Arts and Sciences, which won the prize for that year ![]() Morals.” Rousseau’s answer to that question – a decisive No – was his Discourse Restoration of the Sciences and Arts has contributed to the purification of Was born in the Calvinist city-state of Geneva ![]() ![]() ![]() There is a major theme that is demonstrated in this book, which is the huge gap of respect between the males and females in it. ![]() In this book, we are introduced to an unfamiliar way of life or culture. She waited days, weeks, and months until he came back, and when he did, her life was changed forever. Without saying a word to the man, he gave her his card and told her that he would be back someday. Later, an American man came to the house, saw her and told her that he could save her life. ![]() She fell in love with the language, but then had to see the boy leave. As time went by, Lakshmi grew closer to her housemates, and met a boy that would teach her English. Unaware of what would happen to her in this place, she was eager to begin working. She wanted to leave for a labor job but instead was brought into a house by a woman named Mumtaz. The novel Sold by Patricia McCormick is about a young woman named Lakshmi forced into sex slavery. ![]() ![]() ![]() And with them, the knowledge that the Chinese had circumnavigated the globe a century before Magellan, reached America seventy years before Columbus, and Australia three hundred and fifty years before Cook. And so the great ships were left to rot and the records of their journey were destroyed. ![]() Their journey would last for over two years and take them around the globe but by the time they returned home, China was beginning its long, self-imposed isolation from the world it had so recently embraced. Their mission was 'to proceed all the way to the end of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas' and unite the world in Confucian harmony. ![]() The ships, some nearly five hundred feet long, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. On 8 March 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. ![]() ![]() “Poverty persists because some wish and will it to.” In other words, poverty exists because people who are not poor - by that I mean people like me who have a roof over our head and don’t have to worry about where our next meal is coming from - want it to exist. And the explanation he comes up with is both simple and deeply provocative: “Tens of millions of Americans do not end up poor by a mistake of history or personal conduct,” he writes. This is the paradox that Matthew Desmond explores in Poverty, By America. If the American poor founded a country, that country would have a bigger population than Australia or Venezuela. ![]() With all this wealth, all this bounty, all this stuff - why is there so much hardship and suffering? Roughly one in nine Americans live in poverty. We have supermarkets with 50 different brands of potato chips and mega-mansions sprouting like buffalo grass across the prairie and TVs the size of barns. ![]() |