![]() ![]() Rachel is suddenly and powerfully entranced by Miriam-by her sundaes and her body, her faith and her family-and as the two grow closer, Rachel embarks on a journey marked by mirrors, mysticism, mothers, milk, and honey. Rachel is content to carry on subsisting-until her therapist encourages her to take a ninety-day communication detox from her mother, who raised her in the tradition of calorie counting.Įarly in the detox, Rachel meets Miriam, a zaftig young Orthodox Jewish woman who works at her favorite frozen yogurt shop and is intent upon feeding her. At night, she pedals nowhere on the elliptical machine. By day, she maintains an illusion of existential control, by way of obsessive food rituals, while working as an underling at a Los Angeles talent management agency. ![]() Rachel is twenty-four, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. ![]() Book Description: A scathingly funny, wildly erotic, and fiercely imaginative story about food, sex, and god from the acclaimed author of The Pisces and So Sad Today. ![]()
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![]() Then give them a time limit to see which group can make the biggest and/or most stable building. Give each student or group of students a certain number of marshmallows and toothpicks. Heart-shaped marshmallows, which are readily available around Valentine’s Day, along with toothpicks make a great STEAM building activity. They are quick and easy to prepare! Check out the huge variety of options on DLTK-Growing Together. There are so many options – bird, bunny, crab, hippo, dog, elephant, and the list goes on. One tried-and-true activity that kids love for Valentine’s Day is making heart animals. Of course, the day will include the traditional snacking and exchanging of valentine cards, but here are 10 ideas that have been teacher-tested and are ready to implement in your classroom for Valentine’s Day. ![]() ![]() Most teachers are merely surviving on this day! However, there are some activities that teachers can incorporate into this fun-filled day to enrich the day for students and to help the teacher maintain their own sanity. It is something like combining Halloween and Christmas. ![]() Right? Wait! Valentine’s Day? Actually, the excitement level for kids is at an all-time high on February 14th. Each and every year, all teachers anxiously await Valentine’s Day! The best of all days! It is a day of complete classroom harmony and inspirational teaching moments. ![]() ![]() ![]() One day, on the subway ride home, he glimpses three beautiful women dressed as mermaids. Whenever Julián goes to the swimming pool with his grandmother, he dreams of being a mermaid. ![]() “If the world tells you how you are going to be treated, you are in trouble.” Both the vulnerability and the courage of that world-telling are in direct proportion to our sense of otherness - to how far the teller diverges from society’s centuries-old, dogma-proscribed, limiting ideas about the correct way to be a human being.Ī lovely celebration of the courage to tell the world who you are comes in Julián Is a Mermaid ( public library) by Jessica Love - a sweet story of loving acceptance and the jubilant inner transformation that takes place when one is welcomed to be and to dream beyond society’s narrow templates of being and dreaming. “You’ve got to tell the world how to treat you,” James Baldwin argued two decades later in his fantastic forgotten conversation about identity with anthropologist Margaret Mead. ![]() Cummings offered in his advice to aspiring artists. “To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight,” E.E. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1982, Kawakubo's collection "Destroy" was heavily criticised. Throughout the 1980s, its clothes often were associated with a distressed and punk-oriented style. Kawakubo's heavy use of black distressed fabrics, and unfinished seams were viewed negatively by French critics. In 1981, the company had a debut show in Paris. The brand's name was inspired by Françoise Hardy's 1962 song " Tous les garçons et les filles", particularly from the line " Comme les garçons et les filles de mon âge." The brand became successful in Japan in the 1970s and a menswear line was added in 1978. The name translates as "like boys" in French. It is written in Japanese as コム・デ・ギャルソン ( Komu de Gyaruson). The label was started in Tokyo by Rei Kawakubo in 1969 and established as a company in 1973. Comme des Garçons for H&M tuxedo jacket, 2009 ![]() ![]() Also included is Catwoman- When in Rome, a sequel to Batman- The Long Halloween Together, these three works are considered some of the most acclaimed graphic novels ever created from one of the greatest creative partnerships ever. ![]() Batman- Haunted Knight-Taking place on the most evil of holidays, Halloween, the Dark Knight Detective confronts his deepest fears as he tries to stop the madness and horror created by Scarecrow, the Mad Hatter, The Penguin, Poison Ivy and The Joker. He faces multiple threats, including the seeming return of a serial killer called Holiday. Witnessing his city's dark evolution, the Dark Knight completes his transformation into the city's greatest defender. Batman- Dark Victory-Once a town controlled by organized crime, Gotham City suddenly finds itself being run by lawless freaks, such as Poison Ivy, Mr. ![]() Working with District Attorney Harvey Dent and Lieutenant James Gordon, Batman races against the clock as he tries to discover who Holiday is before he claims his next victim each month. Batman- The Long Halloween-Taking place during Batman's early days of crime-fighting, this classic mystery tells the story of a mysterious killer who murders his prey only on holidays. ![]() ![]() ![]() His books include Teatro Grottesco, Noctuary, and The Nightmare Factory. Thomas Ligotti is a contemporary American horror author and reclusive literary cult figure. When I first read Lovecraft around 1971, and even more so when I began to read about his life, I immediately knew that I wanted to write horror stories. ![]()
![]() ![]() Not only that, he’s never shared them with anyone, so how could Daryus have known? Between Eric’s confusion and lack of experience, Soren has his work cut out not only training Eric, but convincing him that this is real and that Eric doesn’t ever need to go back to his old world. His pony fantasies are just that – fantasies. When Eric appears in his stall, Soren believes that day has finally come.Įric can’t believe the stables he finds himself in are real. ![]() He enjoys his work a lot and one day hopes to have a pony of his own as a reward for all the good work he’s done and to celebrate the payment of his debt. ![]() Soren is a groom of human ponies who is working off his debt to a demon by training men in pony play. A second meeting at a bar one night, leads Eric through a door into a world where he suddenly finds himself as the ‘pony’ of groom Soren. Daryus promises he can offer Eric all his fantasies come true. At least that is, until he meets Daryus at a conference. Eric Martin is a successful businessman, but he’s lonely, he’s stressed, and there’s something missing from his life. ![]() ![]() ![]() Based on years of research, this marvelous history argues that a Chinese fleet-official ambassadors of the emperor-arrived in Tuscany in 1434, where they were received by Pope Eugenius IV in Florence. From that date onward, Europeans embraced Chinese intellectual ideas, discoveries, and inventions, all of which form the basis of western civilization today.įlorence and Venice of the early fifteenth century were hubs of world trade, attracting traders from across the globe. But now bestselling historian Gavin Menzies makes the startling argument that in the year 1434, China-then the world's most technologically advanced civilization-provided the spark that set the European Renaissance ablaze. Textbooks tell us that it came about as a result of a rediscovery of the ideas and ideals of classical Greece and Rome. The brilliance of the Renaissance laid the foundation of the modern world. The New York Times bestselling author of 1421 offers another stunning reappraisal of history, presenting compelling new evidence that traces the roots of the European Renaissance to Chinese exploration in the fifteenth century ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a privilege, as well, to pay tribute to a very special person, who was present at the creation of the peace process in Northern Ireland and who did so much to make it possible, my sister, Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith. ![]() The following are excerpts from remarks made by Senator Kennedy and each of the recipients. Senator George Mitchell, chairman of the peace talks. The recipients of the Profile in Courage Award were Nobel Peace Prize laureate John Hume, Social Democratic and Labour Party Gerry Adams, Sinn Fein John Alderdice, Alliance Party of Northern Ireland Malachi Curran, Northern Ireland Labour Party David Ervine, Progressive Unionist Party Gary McMichael, Ulster Democratic Party Monica McWilliams, Northern Ireland Women’s Coalition Nobel Peace Prize laureate David Trimble, Ulster Unionist Party and former U.S. The presentation of the Profile in Courage Award to a non-American was unprecedented at the time. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award was presented to eight political leaders of Northern Ireland and the American chairman of the peace talks in recognition of the extraordinary political courage they demonstrated in negotiating the historic Good Friday Peace Agreement in April 1998. ![]() ![]() In the mid-thirteenth century, Thomas of Cantimpré classified fairies into neptuni of water, incubi who wandered the earth, dusii under the earth, and spiritualia nequitie in celestibus, who inhabit the air. This may be roughly equivalent to later concepts such as the Seelie and Unseelie. Germanic lore featured light and dark elves ( Ljósálfar and Dökkálfar). A group of fairies is called a “spark.” For instance, “the spark of fairies moved so quickly they looked like a flash of lightning.”Įarly classifications of fairies Classifications – which most often come from scholarly analysis, and may not always accurately reflect local traditions – typically focus on behavior or physical characteristics. ![]() ![]() Fairies, particularly those of Irish, English, Scottish and Welsh folklore, have been classified in a variety of ways. ![]() |