![]() ![]() ![]() I last read The Symposium at university decades ago. Aristotle, his extremely influential student, also tutored Alexander the Great of Macedonia. Plato also contributed to ethics, metaphysics, and epistemology. Plato of the most important western exerted influence on virtually every figure and authored the first comprehensive work on politics. Alongside his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the western science. This classical mathematician and student started the first institution of higher learning in the western world. ![]() ![]() Philosophy of Saint Thomas Aquinascombined Neoplatonism with the doctrines of Aristotle within a context of Christian thought. Plotinus and his successors at Alexandria in the 3rd century developed Neoplatonism, a philosophical system, based on Platonism with elements of mysticism and some Judaic and Christian concepts. Platonism, the philosophy of Plato, especially asserts the phenomena of the world as an imperfect and transitory reflection of ideal forms, an absolute and eternal reality.Īristotle began as a pupil of Plato. The Republic, the best known of these many dialogues with Socrates, mentor, as the central character, expounds idealism of noted Greek philosopher Plato and describes a hypothetical utopian state that thinkers rule he taught and wrote for much his life at the Academy, which he founded near Athens around 386 BC. ![]()
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They were astounded to learn that the commonly-held belief that the earth is round, and that it orbits the sun were relatively recent, and that for the greater part of man’s existence, it was understood that a flat earth is orbited each day by the sun. During the work of preparing the holdings for uploading to the computers, some of the library staff happened to look at the documents, and were intrigued by what they found. The intention was to help preserve them from deterioration, and to enhance the Library’s capability to make the contents readily available to users around the country. The immediate cause of the Second Renaissance was the decision of the Library of Congress to copy all of its extensive holdings into a newly installed cloud computing system. ![]() This status had been conveyed upon it by the fact that the original documents had been destroyed during the ravaging of the libraries of Europe in the first and second world wars. Its geographic location was associated with the fact that the Library of Congress, in the nation’s capital, had become the largest single repository of copies of the works of the ancients. in the middle of the Twenty-First Century. The rebirth of knowledge of the ancients, known as the Second Renaissance, originated in Washington, D.C. ![]() ![]() ![]() 'What did she mean?' Nancy asked." (page 11) "'When I asked (one of the waitresses) why she was dissatisfied, she said it was because the inn was- was haunted!' Narrator: "She, of course, is going to turn out to be evil." "(Aunt Hazel) was followed by a younger woman who had an angry look on her rather pretty but petulant face." (page 8) why do you care? If she wanted you to know every single little thing that worried her, she'd tell you herself, not invite you to snoop around. "For a fleeting moment Nancy again detected a worried look in the young woman's eyes. "As Helen admired the attractive colonial-style bedroom, Nancy noticed a look of anxiety in Emily's eyes. 'Helen is engaged to Jim Archer, who has a position with an oil company overseas, and Nancy- well, she's mighty busy these days.'" (page 6) "'Now don't go making up to my friends, John,' Emily teased. ![]() Nancy: "I recently contracted the plague, so I think it's best that you keep your distance." "'Emily! Pretend I'm hugging you,' Nancy said with a laugh." (page 5) "Fortunately, (Helen and Nancy) were excellent swimmers." (page 2) Isn't 'Elite Drug Store' kind of an oxymoron? "'My friend Phyl told me on the phone just half an hour ago that she'd talked with you, Nancy, at the Elite Drug Store in River Heights.'" (page 1) Nancy's evil twin runs amok (as if one of them wasn't bad enough!) as our young sleuth descends into paranoia, convinced that anyone caught knowing obscure facts about lilacs must be plotting her demise. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The network’s stock and trade is just that, true crime, but Jones’ stands out because she approaches each story not from a sensational viewpoint, but as a reporter. She does that often on “True Crime With Aphrodite Jones,” her ID show. I used to say ‘My books were my children, but now I feel like I can’t help but feel like someone has to take the responsibility to reach out to our kids.” That’s one of the reasons I am drawn to things like CRC (which fights online child predators) that try to rescue our kids. ![]() I feel the children of today are my children, and my responsibility. That’s one reason I’m so passionate about what I do. “I wouldn’t have kids be a part of that, because my work was such a large part of my life. Killer,” “Cruel Sacrifice” and “All She Wanted,” on which the Oscar-winning “Boys Don’t Cry” was based. “Part of the reason I don’t have kids is that I’ve spent 25 years of my life doing crime writing,” says Jones, author of “The F.B.I. Still, the South Florida-based former journalist, who spoke at an event at Boca Raton’s Child Rescue Coalition last week, admits that she finds herself drawn to stories about kids, even though she doesn’t have any of her own – a conscious choice. Writer, commentator and host of her own show on Investigation Discovery, Aphrodite Jones doesn’t just write about crimes by and against children. ![]() ![]() ![]() For this reason, one of the main tools of the early feminist movement was ‘consciousness raising’ (see p. ix) which is expressed in how women are “victimized, exploited, and, in worse case scenarios, oppressed.” This system does not rely primarily on outright coercion but on socializing everyone, both men and women, into “sexist thinking”: “we all need to be clear that we are all participants in perpetuating sexism until we change our minds and hearts, until we let do of sexist thought and action and replace it with feminist thought and action” (p. hooks’ main target is the patriarchy, a system of “male domination” (p. ![]() ![]() What places hooks’ radical/visionary feminism in the stream of ‘critical theory’ is its insistence that people are oppressed not only by violence and coercion, but -perhaps more fundamentally- by ideologies, ways of thinking about the world and of conceptualizing the social order. ![]() Feminism is for Everybody certainly stands in this critical tradition, although there are distinct contrasts between hooks’ radical feminism and the ideology of contemporary critical theorists, particularly in how they understand the dichotomy between oppressed and oppressor groups. In their book Beyond Critique, Bradley Levinson and his co-authors identify feminism as one of the many “critical theories” that have developed since the seminal work of Karl Marx. ![]() ![]() Together, Lem and Tobin try to capture a shot of the elusive beast on film and end up finding more than they ever could have even imagined. At least until she can figure out her escape plan. He invites her to be his Assistant for the summer and she reluctantly agrees. And then she meets Tobin Sky, the CEO of Bigfoot Detectives, Inc. How can anyone possibly be expected to make lemonade out those rotten lemons?Įverything is different and Lem just wants to go back home. And the people here actually believe he’s real and hiding somewhere out in the pine filled forests. Not to mention one woolly beast lurking in the woods.Ī ginormous wooden statue of the ugly thing stands right at the center of town like he’s someone real important, like the mayor or something. With tall pines instead of skyscrapers and dirt instead of sidewalks. How do you make lemonade out of having to leave everything you know in San Francisco to move to the small town of Willow Creek, California and live with a grandfather you’ve never even met? In a town that smells like grass and mud and bugs. But what if those lemons are so big that you forget how? When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. Nine-year old Lemonade Liberty Witt doesn’t know the answer to that question, except what her mom taught her. What do you do when you lose everything that means anything? ![]() Published by Crown Books for Young Readers on May 2nd, 2017 ![]() ![]() Thursday, JBlog Tour: Lemons by Melissa Savage Posted by Rashika Lemons by Melissa Savage ![]() ![]() ![]() Ravi and the sitar were excuses although they were a very important part of it, it was a search for a spiritual connection.” It occurred to me only much later that I had been lifted into the mountains on the last gasp of the same cultural tide, upstairs in my suburban bedroom in the early 1980s, listening to old Bob Dylan records and reading stories of my climbing heroes high in the faraway, mythical Himalaya. That was part of the reason I went to India. ![]() “After I had taken LSD,” George Harrison recalled, “a lingering thought stayed with me, and the thought was “the yogis of the Himalayas”. . . The Beatles studied transcendental meditation here in 1968 with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, turning on millions of young Westerners to eastern spiritual practices. It was still raining as we drove north in a bus, stopping for a night in Rishikesh on the banks of the swollen Ganges. ![]() The monsoon was still strong and in those days, a quarter of a century ago, parts of Delhi flooded more readily many lower-lying streets were submerged in brown water. In the late summer of 1995 I flew to India for my first experience of climbing in the Himalaya. ![]() We three gods as mountains will reside in the earth for the benefit of mankind.” The Earth asked Vishnu, “Why do you come in the form of mountains and not in your own form?” Vishnu replied: “The pleasure that exists in mountains is greater than that of animate beings, for they feel no heat, nor cold, nor pain, nor anger, nor fear, nor pleasure. ![]() ![]() ![]() There was Shawn, of course, who was there to see not only her and Meghan, but Thomas and Mitchell and the dozens of other dancers who he'd become friends with through his sister. Most of them were strangers, but her eyes quickly found familiar faces. Every time the girls spun, their skirts flared, making them look like perfect little pastel circles.Īfter a moment, however, she looked out at the audience. Rowen crept out on the thin walkway, enjoying an aerial view of the dancers. You'll be nothing but a patch of blackness to them-don't worry. "You can see the audience and the dancers," Mitchell said, showing her where to crouch. She followed him up a metal ladder and across a narrow walkway, into a section above the stage that she'd never been to before. "Come here," Mitchell whispered in her ear, tugging at her arm. It didn't help that she was offstage until well into the second act, so she'd already sat through the first hour of the performance, cheering on her friends and listening as the audience applauded for them. ![]() ![]() Rowen had never, ever been this nervous before a performance in Avalon. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Hopkins is so fluent when it comes to taking social taboo’s and throwing them in our face. Honestly Hopkins will gut you in the best possible way. This book will leave you feeling dirty and raw. If you are reading this book thinking you’re going to get a ‘happily ever after’ you have never read Hopkins. ![]() This is where she meets Ethan a boy who shows her how special and how cherished she is. ‘ Due to un-saintly behavior Pattyn is sent for the summer to her Aunt’s house where she learns about love, acceptance and humanity. Her father shows more love to the bottle then her family, only laying with his wife for a chance to breed a son. I am happy that I got the chance to reread this book because it is by far one of my favorite work’s of Hopkins.īurned follows Pattyn who is a Mormon girl struggling with religion, family, and romance. I am a very rare re-reader only because my list of book to read is well over 500 (I kid you not check out my Goodreads). I read this book originally back in high school. Genre: Contemporary, Young Adult, Religion, Poetry/Prose, AbuseĮllen Hopkins is basically a literary god who deserves all the praise she is given. ![]() |