![]() ![]() ![]() Ethnography in Tacitus is thus not a study or presentation of ethnic groups, but a subversion of a classical historical style and methodology by Tacitus to present “case-studies”, real world examples of the political and moral argument that Tacitus is attempting to make throughout all of his works. However, in each of these cases Tacitus presents the culture, practices, and institutions of various ethnic groups in such a way so as to demonstrate and thereby prove a political or moral point. Agricola, while ostensibly a panegyric on his father-in-law, Gnaeus Julius Agricola, also contains ethnography on the various peoples of ancient Britain. Tacitus’ Germania serves as ethnography on the various Germanic peoples. Tacitus, in his various works, presents several examples of what can be termed “ethnographies”, works whose purpose is to inform the reader of the various customs and living conditions of groups that are otherwise foreign to the reader. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Return of the Duelist: Special Edition, Rise of Destiny, Rise of Destiny. Readers of the preceding Hyperion novels will want to find out how everything turns out, but this volume does not stand steady on its own. Elemental HERO, Elemental Lord, Elementsaber, Empowered Warrior, Endymion. Simmons veers from plot summary and vague philosophy to some well-crafted action sequences. Her larger message, however-an argument for the existence of love as a physical component of the universe on a par with electromagnetism and gravity-never gains substance. Her few concrete initiatives, including stopping certain misuses of technology and instituting political and religious freedom across the galaxy, seem plausible. Also problematic is Aenea's explanation of her messianic purpose. Because his plotting has been so complex in the previous Hyperion books and because his cast of characters has grown so large, Simmons is forced to devote considerable space simply to recounting and explicating past events. The technological miracle of faster-than-light travel is shown to have a dark side that could destroy the universe. ![]() ![]() ![]() The resurgence of the dying Catholic Church after it discovers how to resurrect the dead turns out to have even more significance than its leaders realize. Is the adolescent girl Aenea actually the new messiah? What is the real nature of that enigmatic killing machine, the Shrike? What are the renegade TechnoCore's true plans for humanity and the galaxy? What destiny will Raul Endymion find among the stars? All the questions are finally answered in this concluding fourth volume of Simmons's award-winning Hyperion saga (Endymion, etc.). ![]() ![]() He thinks that she and Betty have conjured spells. Abigail denies that she and the other girls were participating in witchcraft, but Parris suspects she is lying. Parris says that he saw her and Betty dancing "like heathen," Tituba moving back and forth over a fire while mumbling unintelligibly, and an unidentified female running naked through the forest. ![]() Parris, distraught and troubled because he knows that Abigail has not been entirely truthful regarding her activities in the woods, confronts Abigail. The town physician, Doctor Griggs, who has not been able to determine why Betty is ill, suggests witchcraft as a possible cause. After Parris came out of the bushes, Betty lost consciousness and has remained in a stupor ever since. ![]() Prior to the opening of the play, Parris discovered Betty, his niece Abigail, and Tituba, his black slave from Barbados, dancing in the forest outside of Salem at midnight. ![]() The Crucible begins in the house of Reverend Samuel Parris, whose daughter, Betty, lies unconscious in bed upstairs. ![]() ![]() ![]() Why did the wife of a popular teacher kill herself? What happened to the previous scholarship student, whose place Jane took? Why does Lucien’s brother, Jack, seem to dislike her so much?Īs Jane begins to piece together the answers to these puzzles, she must find out why she was brought to Birch Grove-and what she would risk to stay there… The more she learns about Birch Grove’s recent past, the more Jane comes to suspect that there is something sinister going on. She even starts tutoring the headmistress’s gorgeous son, Lucien. There, for the first time, Jane finds herself accepted by a group of friends. Through hard work and determination, she manages to win a scholarship to the exclusive Birch Grove Academy. ![]() ![]() Orphaned at the age of six, Jane Williams has grown up in a series of foster homes, learning to survive in the shadows of life. Genre: gothic, paranormal romance, young adult ![]() ![]() They represent the drama of the private face perpetually laughing at, and through, the public one. ![]() As Stephen Spender wrote in a review, "Vidal's essays celebrate the triumphs of private values over the public ones of power. In 1993, his volume United States: Essays, 1951-91, received the National Book award. Often published first in such journals as the New York Review of Books and the Times Literary Supplement, they were collected at regular intervals between the novels. But Vidal never looked back.ĭespite his output as a novelist and playwright, many critics considered Vidal's witty and acerbic essays his best work. After 9/11 and the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, he returned to centre stage with a series of blistering pamphlets and public pronouncements that led many, including his former friend Christopher Hitchens, to pounce on him. ![]() His public career spanned seven decades and included 25 novels, numerous collections of essays on literature and politics, a volume of short stories, five Broadway plays, dozens of television plays and film scripts, and even three mystery novels written under the pseudonym Edgar Box. ![]() Gore Vidal, the American writer, controversialist and politician manqué, who has died aged 86, was celebrated both for his caustic wit and his mandarin's poise. ![]() ![]() ![]() We have all been guilty of spouting these or similar words in anger - “I could kill you” - without ever intending their true meaning. In fact, Brown’s book proves that sometimes jokes can go too far, and words spoken and actions done in anger can escalate into unnecessary violence. Will the kids consider her a hero or a monster? The thing is, even Valerie doesn’t know which one she might be.Ī humor columnist for The Kansas City Star, Jennifer Brown’s debut novel is anything but humorous. After a summer of seclusion, including a stay in a mental health ward, it’s time for Valerie to head back to school. When it’s over, Valerie herself has been shot while unconsciously saving another student Nick is dead. As classmates dive for cover, it becomes apparent that Nick is targeting kids from a “hate list” she created. Expecting him to confront a bully about breaking her MP3 player, Valerie - along with the rest of the student body - is stunned when Nick pulls out a gun and begins shooting. ![]() ![]() One spring morning, Valerie Leftman follows her boyfriend, Nick, into the commons area of their high school. ![]() ![]() ![]() Burns kicked another penalty to give the Highlanders a slim lead at the break. ![]() The sides then traded tries, Jona Nareki’s effort answered by Jahrome Brown and Daniel Lienert-Brown’s answered by Darcy Swain. ![]() It was a scratchy start from both sides, but the Highlanders had the better of the early play and opened the scoring through a Burns penalty.īut their issues in exiting started immediately as the Brumbies were on the attack straight away and scored the first try through a strong Len Ikitau effort. They will be back in New Zealand for their final three games, two at home against the Rebels and Reds, before visiting the Blues in the final round of the regular season. They are, however, just three points outside of the top eight and the Highlanders now head into the final three weeks needing to put their best foot forward to sneak into the postseason. It was an important game for both sides, with the Brumbies looking to maintain their place in the top four down the final stretch of the season, while the Highlanders are at risk of missing the playoffs.Ĭonceding three tries in the final 20 minutes not only proved costly in the game, but also on the ladder for the Highlanders as they saw their record fall to 3-8, with the 16-point margin dropping them below the Melbourne Rebels to sit second-bottom on the leaderboard. The trend continued with the Highlanders’ two second-half tries, before the hosts put their foot down in the final 20 minutes to blow the visitors away. ![]() ![]() Press, 2013), Robert Penn Warren’s Who Speaks for the Negro, (Yale Univ. Blight’s newest books include annotated editions, with introductory essay, of Frederick Douglass’s second autobiography, My Bondage and My Freedom (Yale Univ. He previously taught at Amherst College for thirteen years and for seven years was a public high school teacher in his hometown, Flint, MI. ![]() Blight is Class of 1954 Professor of American History and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. ![]() Saturday, May 21 01:40 - 03:25 PM Session 7 History, Preservation, and Public Reckoning in Museumsĭavid W. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() On his way, Brown faith was first tested when he came across an older traveler with a staff that wriggles like a snake, and the older traveler offers to give him the staff, but Brown could not touch it because he believes that snakes are symbols of the devil. Goodman Brown regrets leaving his wife and her facial expression was not encouraging to him because she fears that her dream about his journey might come through. “What a wretch am I to leave her on such an errand! She talks of dreams, too” (Hawthorne line 20). The purpose of this scene is that Hawthorne reveal how the aspect of dream was acknowledge from the beginning of the story. Hawthorne creates a scene on the street of Salem village, where Goodman Brown was saying goodbye to his wife Faith. He believes in God and he trusted everyone around him. Goodman Brown was a God-fearing man in a puritan society and his faith was tested on a one-night journey in a dream state. Hawthorne uses his story to escape reality. He was from a puritan stock, and he changed his last name, so that he cannot be associated with his past generation. According to Bloom’s Literature, Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts. In the short story “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Goodman Brown’s journey to the mysterious forest was a dream. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jefferson's startling observation registered a turn in the nation’s course, a pivot from the national purpose of the founding toward the threat of disunion. His vision of a cataclysm to come proved prescient. I considered it at once the knell of the union." The notes of alarm in Jefferson's comment speak of the fear aroused by the recent crisis over slavery in his home state. Instead they turned south, their interests aligning more and more with their section.In 1820 Thomas Jefferson observed of sectionalism: "Like a firebell in the night awakened and filled me with terror. It also alienated Virginians from a national government that had neglected their defense. Tidewater masters had long dreaded their slaves as "an internal enemy." By mobilizing that enemy, the war ignited the deepest fears of Chesapeake slaveholders. ![]() They enabled the British to escalate their onshore attacks and to capture and burn Washington, D.C. As guides, pilots, sailors, and marines, the former slaves used their intimate knowledge of the countryside to transform the war. The runaways pressured the British admirals into becoming liberators. Over many nights, hundreds of slaves paddled out to the warships seeking protection for their families from the ravages of slavery. ![]() Frederick Douglass recalled that slaves living along Chesapeake Bay longingly viewed sailing ships as "freedom’s swift-winged angels." In 1813 those angels appeared in the bay as British warships coming to punish the Americans for declaring war on the empire. ![]() |