![]() Many readings of Goblin Market focus on Laura as a guilty victim of her own willingness to be seduced, but Laura’s actions may also represent self-assertion of her own embodiment. The fruit itself is bought with a snip from the very body upon which it wreaks havoc. Her hair grays, her eyes sink, the color fades from her mouth, and Lizzie is left to tend to the domestic and agricultural tasks alone. When Laura snips a curl from the “gold upon her head” (123) in exchange for the fruits sold by the eponymous goblins, we see this doubling cease. This twindom, however, is dependent on their health. “Golden head by golden head” is how they rest together, “Like two wands of ivory / Tipp’d with gold for awful kings” (189-190). A pair of sisters in Christina Rossetti’s 1862 poem Goblin Market, the two girls presumably live alone on a homestead and are depicted as near-identical and of indeterminate age. ![]() The story of Laura and Lizzie begins with a lock of hair. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Roster: Adam Warlock, Bug, Cosmo, Drax the Destroyer, Gamora, Groot, Jack Flag, Mantis, Moondragon, Phyla-Vell, Rocket Raccoon, Star-Lordįirst Appearance: Guardians of the Galaxy #1 (2008) This new team includes its own present-day Marvel hero, in this case the erstwhile Avenger Simon Williams (using the codename Hollywood rather than Wonder Man). New recruits: Firelord, Hollywood, Mainframe, Phoenix (Giraud), Spirit of Vengeanceįirst Appearance: Guardians of the Galaxy Annual #2 (1992)īecause guarding the galaxy is a big job, Martinex eventually takes a break from the team in order to spearhead a second Guardians crew. The team roster is originally the same, but new members like Aleta Ogord, Replica and Talon join up as the series unfolds. New Recruits: Aleta Ogord, Replica, Talon, Yellowjacket (Rita DeMara)įirst Appearance: Guardians of the Galaxy #1 (1990)Įarly on, the original Guardians team only guest-starred in other comics, and it wasn’t until 1990 that they gained their own monthly series. Eventually, Marvel established these Guardians as dwelling in the alternate universe Earth-691, rather than the future of the core Marvel Universe. ![]() The original Guardians of the Galaxy were introduced as a team of heroes from the 31st Century, with the time-displaced Vance Astro serving as the team’s one link to the present-day Marvel Universe. Roster: Charlie-27, Major Victory, Martinex, Nikki, Starhawk, Vance Astro, Yondu Udontaįirst Appearance: Marvel Super-Heroes #18 (1969) ![]() ![]() The five books in this fun-to-read series But what happens when neither solution is what they expected? Can these siblings solve the mystery on their own or will they need to work together after all? And will the lemonade money ever be found? Humorous and emotionally engaging, this entertaining novel is full of ideas for creative problem solving, definitions of legal terms, and even analytical thinking. Her solution? Turn the playground into a full-blown courtroom with a judge, jury, witnesses. Evan Treski thinks fourth grader Scott Spencer is their prime suspect, so he challenges him to a game of basketball. Follow this brother-sister duo as they take justice into their own hands and explore the meaning of fairness, integrity, and repairing relationships on the playground and in business in this installment of the award-winning Lemonade War series. lemonade? Evan and Jessie are hot on the trail of the missing lemonade-stand money. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To make this review as accessible as possible, I want to give a brief explanation of what artificial intelligence is, and where it stands today.įundamentally, it is about teaching machines to think and act as humans do.Īt the atomic level, this is achieved by programming computers with neurons and patterns which, by obeying the laws of logic and physics, implement and perform functions. ![]() Maybe on computers, which can follow similar patterns, functions, and processes? Or, as he explains in his Ted Talk, “consciousness is a mathematical pattern.”įollowing this mindset, if intelligence and consciousness are just atoms moving around, then they can be replicated, right? This means that human existence - including our thoughts and feelings - can be boiled down to atoms and particles. The first thing you need to know about Max Tegmark is that he doesn’t think like the rest of us.Ī professor of physics at MIT and president of the Future of Life Institute, (FLI) he believes that at a fundamental level, “everything is simply matter and energy moving around.” ![]() ![]() ![]() Chigurh works for one set of drug runners. ![]() He chokes the deputy to death with his own handcuff chain and escapes. Meanwhile, a criminal named Anton Chigurh is arrested. If someone stole $2.4 million of your dollars, would you ever stop chasing him? Didn't think so. He realizes that these guys will be able to identify him from his vehicle, so he tells his wife to stay with her mother, and he too makes a run for it. ![]() They shoot at Llewelyn, who abandons his truck and runs. Drug runners have finished off the thirsty man, and they're still lurking in the area. How compassionate.Ĭompassion turns out to be a mistake. Llewelyn takes the money home to his wife, Carla Jean, but he returns to the scene of the crime later that night with a jug of water. The man asks for agua, but Llewelyn has no water to give. (Hey, it's the 80s.) Llewelyn takes the money and finds one wounded drug runner still alive. It seems a drug deal went wrong, and everyone died, leaving behind the drugs and the money-$2.4 million to be exact. ![]() He's out hunting antelope in the desert, but something else catches his eye: human corpses and abandoned vehicles. And an old sheriff sits around talking about how gosh-dern old he is. An arrested man violently kills a deputy and escapes. A Vietnam War vet finds a sack of drug money in the desert. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sperry first handled clay in 1945 while a G.I. Sperry incorporated broad and diverse influences including Asian ceramic traditions and Scandinavian ceramic trends. Sperry embraced clay as an artistic medium for expression and is stylistically affiliated with the group of Abstract Expressionist ceramic artists. ![]() His signature style became bold, crackled white on black bowls, platters, murals, and sculptures.Īt times, Sperry added bright colors, but primarily he worked in black and white. Sperry applied a heavy slip layer over a dark glaze that created a contrast with the surface to achieve his desired effects. Robert Sperry’s vessels are wheel thrown stonewares with dynamic surfaces of crawling or crackled glaze. 1950 BA University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canadaġ953 BFA School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinoisġ955 MFA University of Washington, Seattle, Washingtonġ955-1982 Faculty, University of Washington, Seattle, Washingtonġ954 Artist in Residence, Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, Montana ![]() ![]() As Civil grapples with her role, she takes India, Erica, and their family into her heart. Neither of the Williams sisters has even kissed a boy, but they are poor and Black, and for those handling the family's welfare benefits, that's reason enough to have the girls on birth control. ![]() At the Montgomery Family Planning Clinic, she intends to help women make their own choices for their lives and bodies.īut when her first week on the job takes her down a dusty country road to a worn-down one-room cabin, she's shocked to learn that her new patients, Erica and India, are children-just eleven and thirteen years old. Fresh out of nursing school, Civil Townsend has big plans to make a difference, especially in her African American community. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2007 Armstrong and Kightley adapted the play for schools, so that it can be performed with a large cast. In her New Zealand Listener review of the Auckland Theatre Company production, Natasha Hay called Niu Sila "a triumph." The original "two-hander" play Niu Sila, which is written for 2 actors to play 24 characters, is published by Playmarket, and The Tutor is published in the same book. ![]() ![]() In 2006 Armstrong and Oscar Kightley received the Arts Foundation of New Zealand Award for Patronage, for Niu Sila which they co-wrote. It premiered at Downstage Theatre, and went on to win the 2004 Chapman Tripp Theatre Award for Best New New Zealand Play. In 2004 Dave Armstrong and Oscar Kightley co-wrote the play Niu Sila, about the friendship between a Samoan and a Palagi boy in 1960s New Zealand. ![]() Good dialogue has a rhythm, so if you have a musical ear you can hear it when it works. Just about everything I have learnt about literary and dramatic structure has a parallel in classical music composition. His television writer credits include Spin Doctors, Seven Periods with Mr Gormsby, Great War Stories, and script editor for bro'Town. His work has featured on stage, radio and television. Dave Armstrong (born 1961) is a New Zealand playwright, screenwriter, trumpet player and columnist for The Dominion Post. ![]() ![]() Thurber's story follows Walter Mitty, a married man on a day trip to Waterbury, Connecticut with his wife. Everybody experiences those moments throughout the day when a word or a sound or a scent or memory stimulates a brief escape from reality into that realm of the imagination where all things are possible. No matter how famous, rich and successful one becomes, each and every human carries around with them a secret fantasy life. The secret to the enduring popularity of what is perhaps James Thurber’s most famous short story, “ The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"-published first in The New Yorker on Maand then reprinted in Thurber's 1942 collection My World - and Welcome to It-lies in a certain universality. ![]() ![]() Each has been given similar orders-to find and kill his counterpart. To counter this threat, the Headmaster, leader of the Nazis' elite sniper school, is flown to Stalingrad. Nicknamed the Hare, he's been put in charge of an impromptu sniper school, training both men and women to kill with chilling precision. ![]() The young Russian sniper's credo of "one man, one bullet" has established his reputation as the Red army's top long-distance assassin. ![]() These two marksmen are equally matched in both skill and tenacity. Through this twisted carnage stalk two men-one Russian, one German-each the top sniper in their respective armies. ![]() The combat is horrific, as victories are measured in meters and soldiers die in the smoking cellars and trenches of a ruined city. German soldiers call the battle Rattenkrieg, war of the rats. Robbins brings the reader right into the thick of this monumental battle, in a novel so authentic, it could almost be true. With razor-sharp prose and brilliant historical accuracy, David L. ![]() If Hitler's forces are not stopped, Russia will fall. For six months, Stalingrad is the center of a titanic struggle between the Russian and German armies, the bloodiest campaign in mankind's long history of warfare. Stalingrad, August 1942-the brutal siege of the city begins. ![]() |