Yael leaned on her mother and strangers alike until her knees ached (and long, long after). No room to sit, no air to breathe, no food to eat. The train groaned and bent under their weight, weary from all of its many trips. There were five thousand souls stuffed into the train cars-thick and deep like cattle. This deception becomes more difficult when Felix, Adele’s twin brother, and Luka, her former love interest, enter the race and watch Yael’s every move.īut as Yael grows closer to the other competitors, can she be as ruthless as she needs to be to avoid discovery and stay true to her mission? Read Excerpt A survivor of painful human experimentation, Yael has the power to skinshift and must complete her mission by impersonating last year’s only female racer, Adele Wolfe. The resistance has given Yael one goal: Win the race and kill Hitler. Yael, a former death camp prisoner, has witnessed too much suffering, and the five wolves tattooed on her arm are a constant reminder of the loved ones she lost. The prize? An audience with the highly reclusive Adolf Hitler at the Victor’s ball in Tokyo. To commemorate their Great Victory, they host the Axis Tour: an annual motorcycle race across their conjoined continents. The year is 1956, and the Axis powers of the Third Reich and Imperial Japan rule. From the author of The Walled City comes a fast-paced and innovative novel that will leave you breathless.
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Though the cat doesn’t belong to them, the couple develops a proprietary feeling for the cat as their lives become more centered around its visits. The optical illusions created by the reflections of passersby walking through the narrow lane create fleeting patterns of life that vanish into thin air, and the couple dubs the path “Lightning Alley.” One day, a small cat appears in the couple’s garden, and the man discovers that the young child of a neighboring family has adopted the tiny creature and named it Chibi. The terms of their lease preclude children and pets, so the couple works in semi-isolation from their home, a section of which abuts a tall wooden fence with a knothole separating the grounds from a narrow alley. The husband and wife, who lease a guesthouse on the grounds of an old estate in Tokyo, have lived quietly since quitting their corporate jobs to work as independent contractors, but though they spend more time together in their tiny space, they seem to communicate less and less. The simplest of relationships often elicit the most complex emotions, as two freelance editors discover in an eloquent tale written by poet and essayist Hiraide and translated by Selland. A winner of Japan’s Kiyama Shohei Literary Award captures life’s ephemeral nature in a tender narrative about a Tokyo couple’s attachment to a neighbor’s cat. Textile, the Uneasy Media / by Ganaele Langlois Sidewalks of Concrete and Code / by Shannon MatternĤ. Transporting Blackness: Black Materialist Media Theory / by Armond TownsĢ. Introduction: A Feminist Media is the Message / by Sarah Sharma with Rianka Singhġ. Preface: The Centre on the Margins / by Sarah Sharma The volume demonstrates how power dynamics are built into technological media and how media can be harnessed for radical purposes. Among other topics, the contributors extend McLuhan’s discussion of transportation technology to the attics and cargo boxes that moved Black women through the Underground Railroad, apply McLuhan’s concept of media as extensions of humans to analyze Tupperware as media of containment, and take up 3D printing as a feminist and decolonial practice. This volume showcases essays, experimental writings, and interviews from media studies scholars, artists, activists, and those who work with and create technology. They argue that while McLuhan’s theory provides a falsely universalizing conception of the technological as a structuring form of power, feminist critics can take it up to show how technologies alter and determine the social experiences of race, gender, class, and sexuality. The contributors to Re-Understanding Media advance a feminist version of Marshall McLuhan’s key text, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, repurposing his insight that “the medium is the message” for feminist ends. Re-Understanding Media: Feminist Extensions of Marshall McLuhan The latter was by Takahata, establishing him as a more dramatically grounded artist as compared to Miyazaki’s literal flights of fancy. (See also: The 100 best anime movies of all time.)Įntering the ’90s, the two Ghibli founders went toe-to-toe with Porco Rosso and Only Yesterday. And it wasn’t long before producer Takahata wore the director’s hat, crafting the somber Grave of the Fireflies, which played as a double feature with Totoro in Japan. ( Nausicaa, which we’re including on this list, was made before Ghibli’s founding but has been culturally adopted as part of of filmography.) Miyazaki has been Studio Ghibli’s global champion, and rounded out the rest of the ’80s with My Neighbor Totoro and Kiki’s Delivery Service. Studio Ghibli has been gently revolutionizing the animation world since 1986, combining an endearing and empathetic worldview with rousing adventure. That was the year of their debut feature, Castle in the Sky, which heralded the superstar team of Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata. (Photo by Dimension Films/courtesy Everett Collection) All Studio Ghibli Movies Ranked by Tomatometer Labor in the farm was provided by the local squatters from the Kikuyu community. She lived in a huge coffee plantation that was about 6,000 acres in size. She arrived from Denmark to marry her spouse and settled in a farm located 10 miles from the colony`s capital, Nairobi. The book mainly describes the author`s life in Africa where she lived and called home for close to 20 years. Most of these settlers were attracted to this offer, including Isak Dinesen (Karin Blixen) and moved to the colonial protectorates. The colonial governments promised these settlers huge tracts of land and availability of cheap labor for the any production process that they would engage in while at the farm. The author, Isak Dinesen and other European settlers moved to Africa to look for a new and better life away from home (Enloe, 2000). As a foreigner living in Africa, the author of Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass supports the colonial system that was imposed by the British colonial in British East Africa now know as Kenya. Many higher education institutions employ student support staff tasked with implementing strategies to improve student wellbeing and mental illness. The incidence of mental illness is greatest among young adults, and those enrolled in higher education may be particularly vulnerable compared to the general young adult population.
The One and Only Ivan was hailed as a best book of the year by Kirkus, School Library Journal, and Amazon, demonstrating it is a true classic in the making. But when he meets Ruby, a baby elephant taken from the wild, he is forced to see their home, and his art, through new eyes. Instead, Ivan occupies himself with television, his friends Stella and Bob, and painting. He hardly ever thinks about his life in the jungle. Having spent 27 years behind the glass walls of his enclosure in a shopping mall, Ivan has grown accustomed to humans watching him. It’s a fun way to keep your child entertained and engaged while not in the classroom. This acclaimed middle grade novel is an excellent choice for tween readers in grades 5 to 6, especially during homeschooling. Inspired by the true story of a captive gorilla known as Ivan, this novel is told from the point of view of Ivan himself. This stirring and unforgettable novel from renowned author Katherine Applegate celebrates the transformative power of unexpected friendships. Winner of the Newbery Medal and a number one New York Times best seller In 2267, an ecological restoration team travels 4,000 years into the past to gather data to use in restoring a river ecosystem after climate change and other ecological disasters have forced most humans underground. Robson (A Human Stain) creates a high-tech far-future world radically altered by climate change and plague. When she gets the opportunity take a team to 2000 BC to survey the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, she jumps at the chance to uncover the secrets of the shadowy think tank that controls time travel technology.Īt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. She's spent her entire life restoring river ecosystems, but lately the kind of long-term restoration projects Minh works on have been stalled due to the invention of time travel. Minh is part of the generation that first moved back up to the surface of the Earth from the underground hells, to reclaim humanity's ancestral habitat. In 2267, Earth has just begun to recover from worldwide ecological disasters. From Kelly Robson, Aurora Award winner, Campbell, Nebula, and Theodore Sturgeon finalist, and author of Waters of Versaillesĭiscover a shifting history of adventure as humanity clashes over whether to repair their ruined planet or luxuriate in a less tainted past. with a delicious tension carefully developed among the wonderful characters." -The New York TimesĮxperience this far-reaching, mind-bending science fiction adventure that uses time travel to merge climate fiction with historical fantasy. When they find out who there coach is it ends up to be Coach Ed Powers. Tarik, Danny, and Will are on the same team but Ty isn’t. SettingĤ Danny, Will, Ty, and Tarik get to camp Right Way and get assined to basketball team and coaches. Right Way is located in Maine by a town called Cedarville. 2: Camp Right Way, it’s a basketball camp that Ty, Danny, Will, and Tarik go to. Main Charactersġ: Danny and his friends hometown, Middletown. Ty is one of the best basketball players in Middletown. Ty: Ty is from Middletown like Tess, Danny, and Will. Tarik meets Ty, Danny, Will, and Tess at camp Right Way. SOMETIMES! Tarik: Tarik has is own language that Will really wants to learn but the language is really hard to learn. Will is a pretty good basketball player, nice person…. Richie Walker: Danny’s dad, made the NBA in a lottery pick, is super serious about basketball. Great athlete, loves to hang with the ‘guys’, and not in the lovy dovey way. Tess Hewitt: Tess is an encouraging girl. Danny is a leader and descendent to play in the NBA. 2 Danny Walker: 13 year old Danny Walker is really passionate for basketball despite is height. Once you finish it, go back and read whatever you want. If you are not planning to read it, stop too, I encourage you to do so. If you haven't read yet "Hopscotch" and you are thinking of doing it, stop here, do not continue reading. With this way of reading, what Julio Cortázar intended was represent the chaos, the chance of life and the indisputable relationship between what is created and the hand of the artist who makes it. His loose sequence structure allows different readings, and therefore different interpretations. "Hopscotch", published in 1963, is a fundamental reference of Hispanic American literature. Those of us who have already gone through that, have obligatorily read "Hopscotch" in our young days and then we have read it again (surely there are many of us, I include myself) a few years later, we have realized not only the importance of this book in the history of literature but also in how different it is from the majority. The youngest who read this article are sure you are thinking about "Hopscotch", the fundamental work of Julio CortazarLike that "tostón" book that Literature teachers send at some point in the institute. |