Hardy in speeches and interviews when talking about who or what helped shaped her into the award-winning reporter she is today and wondered if others had similar stories. How did we get here? Roberts began to reflect on how often she mentioned her fifth-grade teacher Mrs. Underpaid, overworked, and with ever-increasing responsibilities to shoulder, teachers left the profession in droves, resulting in mass staff shortages at schools nationwide that continue to this day. By that time, educators had spent more than a year figuring out not only the best approaches to virtual schooling, but also how to keep students engaged and academically on-track-all while attempting to safeguard their own mental and physical health and, for some, help their own kids navigate Zoom school. In 2021, ABC News journalist Deborah Roberts felt compelled to find a way to celebrate some of our country's most crucial-and under-appreciated-professionals: teachers.
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There are bell-exempt scholars, an exception made so they could pursue knowledge without freaking out the humans they're working with (so they're pretending to be fully human). They all have to wear a bell on them to show they are saarantrai, or dragons in human form. But when they become humans, they get all the emotions and mushy feels that come with humanity, and it makes them highly uncomfortable. They were emotionless, creepy, and logical. I loved the dragons! Or rather, their human forms. However, both harbor deep grudges for the other, which puts a half-human, half-dragon in an awkward place. She lives in a world where dragons and humans have always warred with each other, but a few decades ago, they signed a treaty for the two species to live in peace. Seraphina refers to the protagonist, Seraphina, a half-human, half-dragon. However, the 'First Mother' who bestowed the powers on the mistresses says her name comes from Tilottama, the "most beautiful apsara of rain god Indra’s court.” The mistress will lose her supernatural powers if she succumbs to falling in love with a human. She thought her name came from ‘til’, which is a ‘gold brown’ sesame seed and which ‘fried in its own oil restores luster when one has lost interest in life.” In essence, according to her name, Tilottama is a “life-giver, and restorer of health and hope.” Tilo completed her training for special powers at a beautiful, metaphysical island where the waters were filled with blue lotuses and serpents sang. She has been ordained as a Mistress of Spices as she was the “ one in whose hands the spices sang back.” Being immortal, she inhabits an old woman's body as shopkeeper, but the man who falls in love with her will be able to see how beautiful she really is through her eyes. Tilo, short for Tilottama, is an Indian immigrant who owns and runs an Indian grocery store in Oakland, California. Activist Leymah Gbowee was labelled the “Liberian Lysistrata” after the western press picked up on the fact that the women’s movement in Liberia had staged such a strike in its efforts to end the civil war in 2002. Lysistrata, performed by a male cast to a (probably) largely male audience, is a comedic fantasy, not a feminist call to armsīut the play, performed by a male cast to a (probably) largely male audience is a comedic fantasy, not a feminist call to arms. This idea is often identified as deriving from Aristophanes’ comedy Lysistrata, in which the women of war-plagued Greece decide to withhold sex from their men until peace is established. One passage, for example, deals with the sex strike as a tool of resistance. Morales does not write only about stories from mythology as such, but also about the myths the modern world has created from classical texts. The subtitle is “The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths”. Now, modern day stressors like a bottomless To-Do List or a conflict at work are not the same sorts of life-threatening stressors they used to be when our only goal as a species was survival, but the body responds the same way: fight, flight, or freeze. When the body perceives a threat, there are physiological reactions: the heart rate increases, blood flow spikes, stress hormones like adrenaline are released, and the body becomes poised to respond in one of three ways: fight, flight, or freeze. Here’s what I learned that I would love to share with everyone I know and love:īy now, most of us are familiar with the idea that our sympathetic nervous system is our body’s response to stressors. I found myself reacting aloud, “Yes!,” “That’s right!,” and “Tell me about it!” So, at the next stop, I ordered the book for myself and for my sister. What these sisters had learned in their research on stress and burnout was remarkable. Nagoski and Nagoski shared a way to understand stress and burnout that I had never encountered and I felt encouraged by their research and recommendations. On a long drive, I was listening to Unlocking Us with Brene Brown and this episode featured sisters Emily and Amelia Nagoski, authors of Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle. “Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.” ― Maria Augusta von Trapp **Many thanks to NetGalley, Atria, and Lia Louis for a ARC in exchange for an honest review! Now available as of 12.6!** As she investigates just who could be doing this, Natalie finds herself on an unexpected journey toward newfound love for herself, for life, and maybe, for a special someone. She’s lost motivation, faith in love, in happiness…in everything.īut when someone begins to mysteriously leave the sheet music for her husband’s favorite songs at the station’s piano, Natalie begins to feel a sense of hope and excitement for the first time. And she can only bring herself to play music at a London train station’s public piano where she can be anonymous. She works, sleeps (well, as much as the sexually frustrated village foxes will allow), and sees friends just often enough to allay their worries, but her life is empty. Two and a half years later, Natalie is still lost. But when her husband suddenly dies, all her hopes and dreams instantly disappear. Sparkly and charming Natalie Fincher has it all-a handsome new husband, a fixer-upper cottage of her dreams, and the opportunity to tour with the musical she’s spent years writing. A heartwarming novel about hope after loss as a young widow receives mysterious messages of love from the author of Eight Perfect Hours. Rainbow Six: Covert Ops, is a stand-alone expansion pack of Rogue Spear. This allowed the addition and/or customization of all game content, allowing new operatives, weapons, maps, missions, etc. When a mod was activated, its content would take priority over the default game content. With the mod system, mods could be used without overwriting, as they were installed into a separate folder within the installation and could be turned on or off. Previous releases of the Rainbow Six series did not have this system, and using a mod required overwriting existing game content. With the release of Urban Operations, a built-in mod system was added to manage user-made " mods" or modifications. Urban Operations was re-released by KAMA Digital Entertainment in South Korea - this new edition included two exclusive missions and two new weapons. It added eight new maps and five classic Rainbow Six maps from the original game, as well as three new weapons. It was developed and published by Red Storm Entertainment. Rogue Spear Mission Pack: Urban Operations, released on April 4, 2000, was the first expansion for Rogue Spear. Rogue Spear focuses on realism, planning, strategy, and teamwork. The counter-terrorist unit, RAINBOW, is pitted against global terrorist organizations that in some cases have taken hostages & are said to have armed themselves with weapons of mass destruction. Later, she would be the neglected wife of an esteemed critic and teacher, Stanley Edgar Hyman, who all but flaunted his adulteries under her nose. Jackson was the ungainly, rebellious daughter of a socialite mother who never stopped nagging her about her weight or appearance. Franklin presents her as the classic square peg: a woman who didn’t easily fit in to midcentury America and a writer who can’t be neatly categorized. An engaging, sympathetic portrait of the writer who found the witchery in huswifery.Ĭritic Franklin ( A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction, 2010) ably captures both the life and art of Shirley Jackson (1916-1965) in this sharp biography. With wit, intelligence, and an unflinching eye, Landis and Clifford offer the definitive document of cinema's most intense and shocking moments as they came to life at a legendary place. His now legendary fanzine Sleazoid Express has been a go-to guide for grindhouse film enthusiasts for several years. Both a travelogue of the infamous grindhouses of yore and a comprehensive overview of the sleaze canon, Sleazoid Express offers detailed reviews of landmark exploitation classics and paints intimate portraits of directors whose notorious creations played the back end of triple bills for years on end. Bill Landis (1959 - 2008) was an exploitation film expert and author. In Sleazoid Express, Landis and Clifford reproduce what no home video can - the experience of watching an exploitation film in its original fight-for-your-life Deuce setting. For dedicated lovers of extreme cinema, buying a movie ticket on the Deuce meant putting your life on the line.Īuthors Bill Landis and Michelle Clifford came to know those grindhouses better than anyone else, and although the theaters were gone by the mid-1980s, the films remained. If the gore epics, women-in-prison films, and shockumentaries showcased within their mildewed walls didn't live up to their outrageous billing, the audience shouted, threw food, and even vandalized the theaters. In a bygone era, when Times Square was crammed with porn shops, gun stores, and drug pushers, disenfranchised moviegoers flocked to the grindhouses along 42nd Street. Warning: Watch your wallets and stay out of the bathroom! In doing so, she can more fully account for the cultural (and even political) significance of narrative memories of Glyndwr than would have been possible in a more "purely historical" approach. Thus, in her study she shows how folklore and history commingle, how history becomes folklore and folklore becomes history. What Elissa Henken brings that is new to this quest are the training and research methods of a folklorist in addition to the demanding methodology of the historian. Those who are not specialists will perhaps remember this Owain as Shakespeare's Glendower, but historians have long sought to get at the "real" Glyndwr behind this biased image. In this recent book on the extraordinary late medieval hero Owain Glyndwr, she has extended her research to one of the most significant culture heroes in all Welsh secular history, and she has once again produced a work that will point the direction for further research for many years to come. For over a decade, scholars interested in the early history, hagiography and folklore of Wales have recognized Elissa Henken's books on Welsh saints' lives as the definitive treatments of their subject. |