![]() I can write an essay, but I will never write like Tom Wolfe. I learned to play the guitar, but I will never play like Eric Clapton. Not that I don’t believe in “talent”, I think I have just enough “talent” to know what it is and what it isn’t. Because we don’t value drawing in that way, most of us (who haven’t been told that we have “talent”) stop drawing at about age 9 or 10 and our drawing skills freeze at that level. Drawing is a method of understanding and dealing with information about the world around us, a means of solving problems and changing perceptions. “Everybody can’t be an artist, why teach them drawing?” But everyone can’t be a writer, why teach them writing? Just like writing, drawing has applications and benefits that go beyond its use by professionals. We live in a culture (at least in America) that doesn’t value drawing as a worthwhile skill in the general sense. ![]() ![]() I have long been a firm believer in the idea that drawing is a skill that can be taught and not a magical gift bestowed on some individuals and denied others. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Since then the book has sold over 2 million copies in the English language and has been reprinted over 50 times. In January 1893 she recorded in her diary, "Night started a new story that I shall call Seven Little Australians." Later that year, she finished the book, parcelled it up and sent it off to a publisher in Melbourne. Ethel kept diaries for a remarkable 62 years, recording the details of her full and eventful life. She showed a great love of literature while at school and in her late teens launched a literary and social magazine in Sydney with her sister Lilian Turner. ![]() It has been translated into at least 11 languages, per Born in England in 1870, Ethel Turner came to Australia with her mother and sisters when she was 10 years old. Born in England in 1870, Ethel Turner came to Australia with her mother and sisters when she was 10 years old. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Of course, one can enjoy the novel without knowing the precise definition of a gentleman, or what it signifies that a character drives a coach rather than a hack chaise, or the rules governing social interaction at a ball, but readers of The Annotated Pride and Prejudice will find that these kinds of details add immeasurably to understanding and enjoying the intricate psychological interplay of Austen’s immortal characters. Use the pop-up arrow buttons, your mouse scroll wheel, or your left and.
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![]() Steve wondered how many domestic horses would have left the cool water as Flame had done. Hot as he was, thirsty as he was, this wild stallion would drink very little when overheated. Duncan!Īs always, Flame marveled when after a few swallows, Flame left the pool to rejoin his band. Honestly that is the best parenting so far in the entire series. Speaking of the horses, the colt that we agonized over so much in the last book never did end up going home with Steve or more accurately his parents gave his dumb plan a giant thumbs down and said they were either paying for a horse or for him to jaunt off to the Caribbean every summer and Steve chose the latter. This year, Pitch is off in New York working on his endless hero-worship Conquistador research, so Steve is alone on the island, which as far as he’s concerned is the way life should be: just him, Flame, and the weird Blue Valley herd of horses. ![]() ![]() This is the third Island Stallion book, and the third summer that Steve Duncan is spending on Azul Island. ![]() Two aliens from another world enter the secret valley of Azul Island and offer Steve an opportunity for Flame to compete against the world’s fastest race horses. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Through anecdotes about scientific history and startling facts that seem too extraordinary to be true-the DNA in one person, if stretched out, would measure billions of miles and reach beyond Pluto-Bryson draws the reader into his subject. ![]() Bryson ( The Road to Little Dribbling), known for his travel narratives and, more recently, popular scientific works, turns his humorous and curious eye to the human body. ![]() ![]() ![]() But with Becca still picking up the pieces from when her world was blown apart years ago and Brett just barely holding his together now, they begin to realize they have more in common than they ever could have imagined. Acting like the perfect couple isn't easy, though, especially when you barely know the other person. It's the perfect solution: he gets people off his back for not having a meaningful relationship and she can keep up the ruse that she's got a boyfriend. ![]() ![]() ![]() When he overhears Becca's lie, Brett decides to step in and be the mystery guy. As captain of the football team and one of the most popular guys in his school, he should have no problem finding someone to date, but he's always been more focused on his future than who to bring to prom. But when her former best friend teases her for not having had a boyfriend, Becca impulsively pretends she's been secretly seeing someone. It's been years since seventeen-year-old Becca Hart believed in true love. A fun, flirty teen debut from Wattpad phenom Alex Light about a fake relationship and real love. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Though the narrative contains elements of what Levy terms the “morality play” of slavery-rapacious masters, self-important quadroons and brutal overseers all make their requisite appearances-it does not attempt to explain slavery’s existence and eventual collapse. Fixing her gaze on 19 th century Jamaica, Levy crafts her historical novel as the tale of a formerly enslaved woman with a story “that lay so fat within her breast that she felt impelled, by some force which was mightier than her own will” to pass it on to her descendants (3). In her explanatory essay, “The writing of The Long Song,” Andrea Levy describes her fifth novel as an attempt to “breathe back the life of ordinary people into the skeleton of recorded events.” 1 The Long Song relegates documented History to the margins of personal experience, reminding readers throughout that history is not only “made,” but lived. ![]() ![]() ![]() Finally Parker examines the small but fatal flaws in the execution of Philip's Grand Strategy, assesses the response of the king and his ministers to their failures, and questions whether the outcome might have been different with other policy options, another ruler, or a different strategic culture. He then explores the surviving documentation (from the Habsburgs, their allies, and their adversaries) on the formation of strategy in three crucial case studies: Philip's unsuccessful efforts to maintain his authority in the Netherlands, his defective peacetime management of foreign relations with Scotland and England, and his failed Armada campaign against England. Geoffrey Parker begins by defining the characteristics of Spain's strategic culture: the king's distinctive system of government, the "information overload" that threatened to engulf it, and the various strategic priorities and assumptions used to overcome the disparity between aims and means. The author investigates the strengths and weaknesses of Philip's strategic vision, the priorities that underlay his policies, the practices and prejudices that influenced his decision-making, and the external factors that affected the achievement of his goals. ![]() ![]() ![]() From 1556 until his death in 1598, Philip II of Spain ruled the first global empire in history, yet no one so far has analyzed precisely how he accomplished this feat. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Lovecraft.ĭirector Roger Corman’s The Haunted Palace is based on H. Cosmic Horror Films from the 1900s The Haunted Palace (1963) This film was based on a short story by H. ![]() Lovecraft, encompassing a wide range of far-out-there films. Lovecraftian movies or cosmic horror films have a long tradition in Hollywood and have evolved to represent a genre larger than just the writing of H. At The Mountain of Madness written in 1931 is one of H.P Lovecraft’s most famous stories. The scholarly protagonist(s) doomed to an untimely end, an uncanny creature out to kill, and a general sense of terror that when seeking knowledge in the world, all you learn is that you will not survive. One of the earliest examples of a Lovecraftian film, The Trollenberg Terror (1958), includes all the telltale tropes of a weird story. Body horror and scientific exploration gone awry are staples of Lovecraftian movies pictured above is a still from the 1985 film Re-Animator. Cosmic horror showcases our small role in the vast cosmos and explores plots around the dangers of scientific discovery, insanity, body horror, psychedelic/weird monsters, and existence itself as the source of horror. ![]() Lovecraft is considered the inventor of cosmic horror, a genre of horror storytelling that focuses on cosmic and existential dread. ![]() |