![]() If you do, they’ll give you the worst punishment they can think of, which is sending you outside. Even pre-apocalypse objects are forbidden (you may find it hard not to laugh when characters regard a Pez dispenser like it’s the Necronomicon) among the gravest crimes one can commit is simply saying that they want to go outside. The outside world, they’re told, is toxic, and to survive in the silo they abide by all sorts of byzantine rules.įor one, no one talks about what happened before the silo. In them, you learn about the community of people who live in a massive underground silo that reaches 144 levels deep into the Earth. The first one is the one you can watch now, with the two episodes currently streaming on Apple TV Plus. This means that there are two versions of Silo. The trouble is, Silo goes about solving it one way, before kind of changing its mind and doing it another way. Get this, though: In Apple TV Plus’ Silo, people live in one. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Entire buildings just for grain or missiles, depending on the local economy? Wild stuff. I’m a city kid mostly, and silos? They might as well be Stonehenge. Personally, when I hear about a show called Silo, I get real jazzed. ![]()
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![]() ![]() This is done through both thematic and linguistic analyses of Iliad and Odyssey using the Loeb library side-by-side English and Greek editions of the epics, which allows for analysis of both general character themes in translation and specific vocabulary and extract-based gendered language in the poems. ![]() ![]() This essay seeks to relate these two topics (one long-standing, one modern) by engaging the following question: ‘To what extent do Homer’s negative portrayal of Helen in the Iliad and positive portrayal of Penelope in the Odyssey reflect Ancient Greek gender roles and expectations of women?’ In the following sections, Homer’s epics and gender roles in Ancient Greece will be related by first establishing existing gender expectations as we know them in Ancient Greece, and then a detailed analysis of the Homeric epics which serves to explicitly render the underlying support they give to these expectations. In recent years, progress in feminism and questioning of traditional norms has led to an elevated sense of awareness for gender issues in various forms of media, including literary text. Homer’s epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, have long been (and continue to be) cited as one of the most influential works in Western history. ![]() ![]() ![]() Our brains aren’t equipped to handle all this data at once while also learning new things about ourselves or others. This obsession with efficiency has spiraled out of control since we are constantly bombarded with information from apps on our phones and websites like Facebook. ![]() The system as a whole is seen as more important than the individual. However, after the Industrial Revolution came an obsession with efficiency and multitasking over deep thinking. For example, it used to be that a person’s intelligence was measured by their ability to sit quietly and solve complex problems (the literary mind). In his book, Carr discusses how the Internet has changed our definition of intelligence. However, these benefits come at a cost: We are trading in valuable skills for a type of intelligence that is adapting us to computers instead of vice versa. In today’s digital age, we have more access to information than ever before and feel like we’re more connected with each other. ![]() Nicholas Carr’s book The Shallows examines the effects of technology on our minds. 1-Page Summary of The Shallows Overall Summary ![]() ![]() ![]() Their inability to hire Black laborers whom they had previously enslaved. Hiring out and relocation of enslaved people from eastern North Carolina to ChathamĬounty, N.C., during the American Civil War. In the Haitian slave trade in the 1790s and later in the internal slave trade and Resistance by people enslaved on the Pettigrews’ plantations trafficking of people Of slavery a thwarted uprising by enslaved people in Hillsborough, N.C. Pettigrew family, particularly Charles Pettigrew (1744-1807), Ebenezer Pettigrew (1783-1848),Ĭharles Lockhart Pettigrew (1816-1873), and William S. Eighteenth and nineteenth-century correspondence with white members of the Pettigrew (1818-1900), a white Episcopalian minister and plantation ![]() White (Active 1820-1880), Moses (Activeġ856-1858), and Henry (Active 1856-1858), who were enslaved men serving as overseersįor William S. Included are letters written betweenġ8 that were dictated by Malichi J. and Tyrrell County, N.C., and copies of original poetry by George Moses Horton,Ī Black man enslaved in Chatham County, N.C. The collection contains documentation of the people enslaved by the white Pettigrewįamily on their rice plantations, Bonarva, Belgrade, and Magnolia, in Washington County, 16.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 9,230 items) ![]() ![]() ![]() Five novels, one collection of shorter work.Īnd yet - those are all books with their champions, who would fight tooth and nail to defend the honor and relevance of their preferred book of Portis’s. With Portis, we have six books left to remember him by. Most writers of Portis’s stature could fill shelves in a library: you’d have to be an obsessive fan or a scholar to know all of Mark Twain’s works Philip Roth’s “Zuckerman” novels alone nearly outnumber Portis’s published books Toni Morrison put out nearly a dozen novels to go along with her children’s books and collected non-fiction, not to mention her work as an editor, two plays and a libretto. By that measure, the bibliography of the late Charles Portis - who died on Monday at the age of 86 - was far from huge, especially considering his influence in American literature. Five books, released over the course of 46 years. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() According to Clayton, Kipling and his friend Mr. He used to tell a story about his meeting with another author who wrote about Gloucester fishermen – Rudyard Kipling ( Jungle Book, Captains Courageous). His home was built from materials from an abandoned warehouse in South America, which an ancestor had obtained on a voyage.Ĭlayton spent much of his spare time, as both a child and an adult, on the waterfront listening to stories that would later be incorporated into his writing. ![]() He was born in Gloucester on Jand lived in the city at 251 East Main Street his entire life except during World War I when he served in the Army Air Force. It was built by an ancestor from an old warehouse brought back from a voyage to South Africa. Clayton Stockbridge lived his entire life at 251 East Main St. ![]() ![]() ![]() This introductory novel in Archer's ambitious series The Clifton Chronicles includes a cast of colorful characters and takes us from the ravages of the Great War to the outbreak of the Second World War, when Harry must decide whether to take up a place at Oxford or join the navy and go to war with Hitler's Germany. But then an unexpected gift wins him a scholarship to an exclusive boys' school, and his life will never be the same again.Īs he enters into adulthood, Harry finally learns how his father really died, but the awful truth only leads him to question, was he even his father? Is he the son of Arthur Clifton, a stevedore who spent his whole life on the docks, or the firstborn son of a scion of West Country society, whose family owns a shipping line? The epic tale of Harry Clifton's life begins in 1920, with the words "I was told that my father was killed in the war." A dock worker in Bristol, Harry never knew his father, but he learns about life on the docks from his uncle, who expects Harry to join him at the shipyard once he's left school. ![]() ![]() Since the cultural stories we read to children in their formative years have a powerful influence on their lives, Tatar emphasizes the importance of interrogating and reinterpreting these bedtime tales. ![]() After examining how fairy tales were converted into children's literature, the author investigates the acculturation of heroines in such stories as Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast, and concludes with meditations on violence, cannibalism and conflicts between parents and children. Children's literature, Maria Tatar maintains, has always been more intent on producing docile minds than playful bodies. In this book she explores how adults mistreat children, focusing on adults not only as hostile characters in fairy tales themselves but also as real people who use frightening stories to discipline young listeners. When fairy tales moved from workrooms, taverns, and the fireside into the nursery, they not only lost much of their irreverent, earthy humor but were also deprived of their contestatory stance to official culture. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Hansel and Gretel try to eat the witch's gingerbread house in the woods, are they indulging their uncontrolled cravings and destructive desires, or are they simply responding normally to the hunger pangs they feel after being abandoned by their parents? Challenging Bruno Bettelheim and other critics who read fairy tales as enactments of children's untamed urges, Maria Tatar argues that it is time to stop casting the children as villains. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They have not been out of print since their publication, and have inspired two film adaptations ( 19), an opera, a stage musical, and an actual Willy Wonka Candy Company. The Charlie books are tremendously popular, often considered classics of children’s literature.Why is it news that the author had a different vision of Charlie than the one that was published?.He wins a “golden ticket” to tour the fantastical-and phantasmagorical-factory of confectioner Willy Wonka. Charlie is an exceedingly poor, exceedingly kind boy who lives with his parents and grandparents.The books are generally appropriate for ages 8-12 or grades 3-7. Dahl planned to write a third book, but did not finish it before he died in 1990. Charlie Bucket is the hero and main character in Roald Dahl’s books Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964) and its sequel, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (1972).Photograph by Pablo RM, courtesy Wikimedia. Behold a golden ticket and Wonka chocolate bars from the 2005 film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Teachers, scroll down for a quick list of key resources in our Teachers Toolkit, including great media literacy guides from our partners. Why does diversity in children’s literature make a difference? Charlie Bucket, the hero of Roald Dahl’s famous book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, was originally written to be a “little black boy,” according to Felicity Dahl, the author’s widow. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Finally I nod, turn, and go to the kitchen.Īs I measure out coffee grounds, I can hear murmurs and low laughter coming from the living room. ![]() I stand there, struggling for a response, and come up blank. The other part instantly feels chagrined, the way I do at school when I’ve forgotten to do the extra credit math problem, or at home when I shove my newly laundered clothes into a drawer unfolded. Fact is, I usually do make tea for Mom when she comes in late. My face heats and I take an involuntary step back. “Seems to me,” he says, “you’re the kind of girl who’d make the coffee herself and let her mama relax.” She whirls toward the kitchen, but before she can take a step, Clay Tucker comes up to me, putting his hand on my shoulder. Instead, she gives that little girlish laugh again, toys with a pearl earring, and says, “I’ll just make coffee.” In fact, she’s barely dated at all.īut Mom doesn’t do her usual thing, glance at her watch, say, “Oh, goodness, look at the time,” and politely shove him out the door. ![]() He walks around slowly, examining the gigantic paintings of landscapes on the white, white walls, taking in the so-puffy-you-can’t-sit-on-it beige couch and the immense armchairs, finally settling into the one in front of the fireplace. She’s proud of our house, renovates rooms all the time, tweaking the already perfect. “Just invites a man to put his feet up after a long hard day.” Mom beams. ![]() |