That early, firsthand experience with the interplay of race and history informs much of Gordon-Reed's work, including her compulsively readable new book, "The Hemingses of Monticello," in which she traces the family history of Sally Hemings, the slave who had a 38-year relationship with Thomas Jefferson. But we had this notion that blacks, whether you wanted to be or not, were going to be judged. "I had a sense of being on display," says Gordon-Reed, remembering also how her grandmother went to a fancy Houston department store and bought her granddaughter a new wardrobe, so she would make a good impression on the white students and their families. Board of Education had passed a decade earlier, the school district of Conroe, Texas, where Gordon-Reed lived in 1963, operated under a system called "freedom of choice." Gordon-Reed's mother, a teacher at the "black" school, and her father, a local businessman, knew that "freedom of choice" really meant de facto segregation, so to challenge it they insisted that their daughter attend the "white" school. When she was in first grade, Annette Gordon-Reed made history.
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Replete with the voices and experiences of ordinary women, Hope in a Jar is a richly textured account of how women created the cosmetics industry and cosmetics created the modern woman. From New York's genteel enameling studios to Memphis's straightening parlors, Peiss depicts the beauty trades that thrived until the 1920s, when corporations run by men entered the lucrative field, creating a mass consumer culture that codified modern femininity. Walker-in shaping a unique industry that relied less on advertising than on women's customs of visiting ("Avon calling") and conversation. She highlights the leading role of black and white women-Helena Rubenstein and Annie Turnbo Malone, Elizabeth Arden and Madame C. How did powder and paint, once scorned as immoral, become indispensable to millions of respectable women? How did a Victorian "kitchen physic," as homemade cosmetics were called, become a multi-billion-dollar industry? In Hope in a Jar, historian Kathy Peiss gives us a vivid history in which women, far from being pawns and victims, used makeup to declare their freedom, identity, and sexual allure as they flocked to enter public life. Mathematician Hari Seldon uses psychohistory to predict the fall of the vast Galactic Empire, subsequently founding the Foundation of scientists and Second Foundation of psychologists, which both endeavor to limit the impact that the fall of the empire will have on its inhabitants. Dick would perhaps make the idea famous with Minority Report, Foundation engages with it on a huge scale. The original Foundation Trilogy centers on the concept of psychohistory, a science that allows people to predict future events. Never before filmed for television or theaters, Apple has commissioned a series based on Foundation for its growing Apple TV+ service, and it looks like fans are in for something unique. With themes of politics, history, and war, an argument could be made that no series stood more dominant than Isaac Asimov’s Foundation. Clarke to Frank Herbert’s Dune series, the sweeping science-based space opera once dominated the literary landscape. There are many books considered foundational to modern science fiction. The story is a memoir written by a special ed teacher. Reading again as an adult and as an educator who works with at risk children I was horrified. It's reminiscent of "A child called It" because of its extreme depiction of a child in severe abuse and neglect. I remember reading this story as a child and being engrossed in it. This is the remarkable story of their journey together-an odyssey of hope, courage, and inspiring devotion that opened the heart and mind of one lost child to a new world of discovery and joy. With patience, skill, and abiding love, she fought long and hard to release a haunted little girl from her secret nightmare-and nurture the spark of genius she recognised trapped within Sheila's silence. Everyone thought Sheila was beyond salvation-except her teacher, Torey Hayden. A survivor of horrific abuse, she never spoke, never cried, and was placed in a class for severely retarded children after committing an atrocious act of violence against another child. Six-year-old Sheila was abandoned by her mother on a highway when she was four. This beautiful and deeply moving tale recounts educational psychologist Torey Hayden's battle to unlock the emotions of a troubled and sexually abused child who, with the help of Hayden, was finally able to overcome her dark past and realise her full potential. He has forgotten when he last slept, but he knows that in the coming hours he will make life or death decisions. Peters receives a phone call from a nurse, who sounds desperate, but Dr. He also brought controversial ethical and social issues affecting the medical profession to the attention of the general public. He decided to concentrate on medical suspense thrillers, mixing intricately plotted murder and intrigue with medical technology. When it did not do particularly well, he began an extensive study of other books in the genre to see what made a bestseller. Cook began writing the book while serving on a submarine, basing it on his experiences as a medical resident. Peters becomes a doctor he is destroying himself as a person due to extensive work and concerns.ĭr. It is an insider's perspective of the medical world. Viscount Raoul de Chagny, who has been in love with Christine since childhood, visits her after the miraculous performance, but she pretends to not remember him. The managers soon receive their own demands from the Opera Ghost. The retiring managers Poligny and Debienne relay the ghost's demands and threats to the new managers Moncharmin and Richard, who think the Opera employees are playing an elaborate joke. Many young dancers claim to see the Opera Ghost lurking about, and when they hear news of stagehand Joseph Buquet's sudden death, they fear the ghost has struck. The story itself begins on the night of the Opera’s gala performance where Christine Daaé unexpectedly dazzles the audience. By tracing the ghost’s life and movements, the narrator says they can explain the disappearances, deaths, and accidents that occurred 30 years prior. His investigation proves that this phantom was really a man with an incredible talent for illusions. The Prologue opens with the narrative’s frame: The narrator says they will explain the mysterious incidents at the Opera House through the existence of the "Opera Ghost". Form-the ways materials were wielded and came to coalesce-was believed to be the most important way to make an artistic statement. During the age of Abstract Expressionism, content was considered anathema. But viewers would not necessarily know this just by looking. Only upon further study of Mitchell’s oeuvre would one be able to discover its referent: cypress trees in the Grandes Carrières district of Paris, which the artist frequented.įor Mitchell, trees acted as symbols of mortality and stand-ins for her loved ones. In Grandes Carrières (1961–62), for example, a swirling mixture of burnt umber, mint green, and deep blue looms before the viewer, appearing to float above, or stand before, a messy white background dripped and splashed with yellow. But trees were among the constants in her oeuvre. The basis for Mitchell’s “central images” changed depending on her locale, her mood, and the company she kept. “Clement Greenberg said there should never be a central image so I decided to make one,” Mitchell once said, referring to the art critic who was Abstract Expressionism’s most vocal exponent. A number of Mitchell’s canvases stand apart from that style, however, featuring at their core swirling masses that appear to vibrate with life. The greatest defenders of Abstract Expressionism preferred a style that has been termed all-over abstraction-think of the vast drip paintings of Jackson Pollock or the epic, elegiac black-and-white canvases of Franz Kline. ©Estate of Joan Mitchell/Photo Aimee Marshall/Art Institute of Chicago Riya is a pop diva, one of the global icons of the nation who also harbours dark secrets like her own issues with multiple sclerosis and drug addiction. Sydney is a demi-goddess moonlighting as a nail artist in this town, while biding her time to wreck havoc and claim her revenge on the mankind - for having forgotten the old gods like her. Tau whom her mother claims to have raped her, when she was hardly 11. Nomvula, a young girl from the village outside the town who's blessed with secrets by the Gods themselves and who's secretly enamoured by this older man Mr. The narrative spools out from five different POVs all of them unique and absolutely compelling by themselves: Muzi, a young teenage on the cusp of his adulthood with his confused feelings for his best friend Elkin. Set in the distant future, around 2160 the story is set in the town of Port Elizabeth in South Africa. John loves Dan, who teaches history at Gravesend Academy, as Dan becomes like a real father to him. A brokenhearted John spends half of his time with his grandmother and the other half the time with his stepfather, Dan Needham. Owen accidentally kills Tabitha Wheelwright, John’s mother, with a foul ball during a baseball game. The Wheelwrights are an old and distinguished Gravesend family (the original John Wheelwright was one of the founding fathers) where as Owen’s family are not. One of the greatest mysteries in John’s life is the identity of his father John was conceived during a “fling” his mother had while traveling to Boston. Tabby, in return, treats Owen as though he were her own son, going so far as to intervene with his parents on Owen’s behalf to ensure his attendance at the prestigious Gravesend Academy. John remembers Owen’s love for his mother, Tabitha Wheelwright, as bordering on a crush. His skin is luminous and his voice high and nasally. He remembers his best friend, Owen Meany, as the boy who killed his mother and restored John’s faith in God. 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