![]() ![]() There, alongside other talented artists such as Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) and Chuck Jones (animator on the “Looney Tunes”), Geisel set to work to create the beloved character the trio dubbed Private Snafu.ĭoing away with the basic, often cheesy films of 1917-18, the Private Snafu cartoon took on the war with slapstick, often raunchy humor.Īnd while Geisel made most of his war contributions from the safety of “Fort Fox” in California, he did briefly experience life on the front lines. Army’s Information and Education Division. ![]() Under the direction of Frank Capra (“It’s A Wonderful Life”), Geisel offered up his services to the U.S. Career soldiers, however, found the films unhelpful, and young recruits found them boring,” according to the National Archives.Įnter Geisel, who, before the war, worked as a writer and illustrator. “Training films were used during World War I, but became even more popular during World War II. Army.Īs Americans turned citizen-soldier, the Army found themselves in a quandary - how could the service turn the youth of America into fierce, trained soldiers? ![]() Seuss, was honing his rhyming skills on a somewhat different audience - the U.S. Seuss Took On Germany With Cartoons Closeīefore the children of the world read about one fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish, Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. ![]()
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I’m going to share 20 safe, proven answers you can give when the interviewer asks “why did you leave your last job?” Why Employers Ask This Question Or maybe you think you’ve got a pretty solid reason for why you left your last job, but you want to make sure. One of the most common interview questions you’ll face: “Why did you leave your last job?” Maybe you left under odd circumstances and don’t want to share the whole truth. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It's an evening of theatrical storytelling in revue format, with monologues, dialogues, and multiple voice narration, enhanced through the use of live piano underscoring, which provides fluidity, charm, and emotional texture, and seven optional original songs. This tightly woven adaptation has earned standing ovations from Singapore to Prague- from L.A. Based on Robert Fulghum's best-selling books, Kindergarten takes a funny, insightful, heartwarming look at what is profound in everyday life. ![]() ![]() I studied English at the University of York, and after graduation taught English as a foreign language in Finland.Īt around this time I began to write the poems which formed my first poetry collection, The Apple Fall, and to publish these in magazines. I began by listening to and learning by heart all kinds of rhymes and hymns and ballads, and then went on to make up my own poems, using the forms I’d heard. Poetry was very important to me from childhood. ![]() ![]() You also come to understand very early that stories hold quite different meanings for different listeners, and can be recast from many viewpoints. In a large family you hear a great many stories. My father was the eldest of twelve, and this extended family has no doubt had a strong influence on my life, as have my own children. I was born in December 1952, in Yorkshire, the second of four children. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is copiously illustrated with examples of my own and my clients' journeys of recovering. This book is a practical, user-friendly self-help guide to recovering from the lingering effects of childhood trauma, and to achieving a rich and fulfilling life. If you felt unwanted, unliked, rejected, hated and/or despised for a lengthy portion of your childhood, trauma may be deeply engrained in your mind, soul and body. Many survivors grow up in houses that are not homes - in families that are as loveless as orphanages and sometimes as dangerous. I can see now that I am not bad, defective or crazy.or alone! The causes of Cptsd range from severe neglect to monstrous abuse. An often echoed comment sounded like this: At last someone gets it. I felt encouraged to write this book because of thousands of e-mail responses to the articles on my website that repeatedly expressed gratitude for the helpfulness of my work. I also wrote it from the viewpoint of someone who has discovered many silver linings in the long, windy, bumpy road of recovering from Cptsd. I have Complex PTSD and wrote this book from the perspective of someone who has experienced a great reduction of symptoms over the years. Print Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving: A Guide and Map for Recovering from Childhood Trauma ![]() ![]() ![]() Robert Goldthwaite Carter and a detail of five men mounted a rear guard action against the Comanches, and the remainder of the unit retreated. The cavalry fought their way clear, but suffered the loss of one cavalryman, the sole Army fatality of the entire campaign. As the pursuing cavalry reached the top of a hill on the top of the canyon, they found a much larger party of Indians, who were waiting in ambush. ![]() The next morning, a unit of cavalry set off down the canyon in pursuit of Indians who were seen driving what appeared to be stolen cavalry horses. Late that evening Quanah Parker personally led a small Comanche force which stampeded through the cavalry camp, driving off sixty-six horses. In the afternoon of October 9, 1871, the cavalry force reached the White River and Blanco Canyon. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His Hollywood screen writing credits include “Castaway” and “Apollo Thirteen.” Some of you may have read recently his splendid editorial on the virtues of mandatory national service. Bill is an intelligent man, directly experienced in the ways of war and the ways of the world. I invited my friend Bill Broyles to lunch. “But Hippolochus / Bore me, and I am proud he is my father./ He sent me to Troy with strict instructions / To be the best ever, better than all the rest, / And not bring shame on the race of my fathers….” (Homer, Iliad 6.211-215 Lombardo translation)Ī few years back, very wealthy donors wanted to back a project to promote Hellenic culture in the United States. “Do you know what a man is? Is not / birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, manhood, / learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, / and such like, the spice and salt that season a man?” (Shakespeare, “Troilus and Cressida”) ![]() The Iliad Gets Lost in Hollywood’s Translation ![]() ![]() ![]() Se il confronto/conflitto tra le due grandi potenze, gli States e la Russia, risulta oggi archiviato (di certo non lo era venti anni fa, al tempo della pubblicazione di questa antologia), altri problemi geopolitici, come l'islamismo, risultano ancora più attuali. Se certe visioni risultano oggi superate, e altre decisamente fuori fuoco, alcune assumono decisamente l'aspetto di vere e proprie profezie: Sterling è uno con i piedi per terra, un osservatore molto attento e molto perspicace. ![]() L'obiettivo che l'autore si pone in questi undici racconti è di dare vita ad altrettante visioni di futuro, rigorose e concrete. Alla fantascienza visionaria e ipertecnologica di Gibson, che preferisco, si affianca quella più sociologica e geopolitica di Sterling. E dire che lui è proprio il padre cofondatore del genere che più amo, il cyberpunk. Non so davvero perché, ma non riesco ancora a farmi piacere Sterling come vorrei. ![]() ![]() ![]() “When in competition,” the narrator tells us, “women need to eliminate rivals and be unsparing in their hatred.” In the end, of course, no one wins, and Sindelarat spends the remainder of her short life pregnant, trying to produce a male heir to the throne. In this version Sindelarat is no innocent, and gains her advantage over her sisters through a pact with dark forces and the exploitation of her superior beauty. The first story, “The Blind Woman Without a Toe”, establishes the terrain: it is a re-telling of the Cinderella story, transposed onto an Indonesian setting (Cinderella is now Sindelarat), and told from the perspective of one of the “evil stepsisters”, now a blind, vagrant old woman. Apple and Knife is a riot of disobedient women, including vengeful, neglected wives, prostitutes and saucy dancers, a village abortionist shunned as a witch, and a host of more supernatural, randy and ravenous devil-women.Īpple and Knife is the Indonesian author’s first short story collection to be translated into English, and its mode, in both form and content, is a kind of Frankensteinian, gruesome and unruly hybridity. ![]() ![]() In her author acknowledgments, Intan Paramaditha thanks “the first disobedient woman” – her mother – who “inspired many of early stories”. A collection of playful and provocative short stories by Intan Paramaditha ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Every Muslim whose health and finances permit it must make at least one visit to the holy city of Mecca, in present-day Saudi Arabia. The simplicity of his surroundings is an indication of piety the emphasis here is on the prince's spiritual nature rather than the opulence of his costume or surroundings (which is the case in many royal Mughal portraits see The Mughal Court and the Art of Observation ). The prince is barefoot as a gesture of humility before God. This illustration shows a Mughal prince praying on a mat that features an arch recalling the shape of a prayer niche ( mihrab), symbolic of the gateway to Paradise. (33.2 x 22.9 cm) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rogers Fund, 1925 (25.138.2) Portrait of Prince Muhammad Buland Akhtar, known as Achhe Sahib, at Prayer: Folio from an album, 17th century painter: Hujraj India ink and opaque watercolor on paper 13 1/16 x 9 in. During Ramadan they share the hunger and thirst of the needy as a reminder of the religious duty to help those less fortunate.įig. Through this temporary deprivation, they renew their awareness of and gratitude for everything God has provided in their lives-including the Qur'an, which was first revealed during this month. During the daylight hours of Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, all healthy adult Muslims are required to abstain from food and drink. ![]() |