To pose questions, spur action and in the author's own words, "Intercourse is search and assertion, passion and fury and its form-no less that its content-deserves critical scrutiny and respect." This is what the book exactly aims to do. Dworkin stops being female in this book and suggests that all women must begin to stop being women as constructed by men, for their integrity and survival. It is disturbing light, and she makes no excuse for casting it. Intercourse compels its readers to rip open their bodies and minds and examine them under the stark illumination Dworkin beams. While it is "easy" to read having been written in a lucid, scholarly manner without being highbrow, the book is difficult to comprehend. In this book, the author questions and challenges the value and meaning that men and women attach to Intercourse. In her new preface (1997) Dworkin describes her book as "…a book that moves through the sexed world of dominance and submission…" and rightly so. Intercourse, Dworkin's monumental book on the complexities of sex, now on its tenth anniversary edition, remains as forceful today as when it first appeared in 1987.
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The logical thing to do would be to leave this debacle in Vegas to stay, but they decide to ride out the storm for a while. They're gradually taking small steps into a relationship and things are going well until they wake up in each other's arms in a luxury suite in Las Vegas, fully clothed with nothing but a valid marriage license as an explanation. The attraction isn't one-sided, either Angelique is so taken with Donnie that she kisses him on New Year's Eve, although she can't understand why she did it. She's changed quite a bit over the years, something Donnie doesn't want to acknowledge because he'd also have to admit that he's attracted to her. But over the years they've learned to at least tolerate each other, especially since Angelique has moved from her hometown of Atlanta to Detroit where the other Cochrans live. Donnie even coined a nickname for Angelique that describes her personality perfectly he calls her Evilene. They took an almost instant dislike to each other and have bickered and battled their way through Until the End of Time, My One and Only Love and Let it Be Me. Angelique Deveraux and Adonis "Donnie" Cochran have hated each other ever since Lucky in Love, the book in which her oldest brother Clay married his only sister, Bennie. Douglas Kenyon has chosen 42 essays that have appeared in the bimonthly journal Atlantis Rising to provide readers with an overview of the core positions of key thinkers in the field of ancient mysteries and alternative history. In Forbidden History writer and editor J. Edited by Atlantis Rising publisher, J.Contains 42 essays by 17 key thinkers in the fields of alternative science and history, including Christopher Dunn, Frank Joseph, Will Hart, Rand Flem-Ath, and Moira Timms. Challenges the scientific theories on the establishment of civilization and technology Nicholson and Saito, the commandant, are quickly involved in a faceoff. He watches as a column of British prisoners, led by Nicholson, marches into camp whistling "The Colonel Bogey March." Shears is already in the camp we've seen him steal a cigarette lighter from a corpse to bribe his way into the sick bay. The film is set in 1943, in a POW camp in Burma, along the route of a rail line the Japanese were building between Malaysia and Rangoon. By the end of "Kwai" we are less interested in who wins than in how individual characters will behave. Like Robert Graves' World War I memoir, Goodbye to All That, it shows men grimly hanging onto military discipline and pride in their units as a way of clinging to sanity. "The Bridge on the River Kwai" (1957) is one of the few that focuses not on larger rights and wrongs but on individuals. Most war movies are either for or against their wars. Luna describes exercises that the reader can use to discern their wishes and talents. Most people have no idea what their “must” is or what they were born to do. Luna gives us pointers on how to recognize and overcome them. The “shoulds” we have internalized are often hard to decipher. From childhood on, we grow up to conform to the standards of others. This part of the book explains how “should” is placed on us all the time. Needless to say, Luna advocates for following our “must” and not the “should”, admitting that “must” is the much harder road to follow. “Must” comes from inside us: it is who we are and what we like, our authentic self. She argues “should” is the conventional way - how other people or society tell us we should live. We arrive at this crossroads over and over again. The first one “The Crossroads” describes her central theme: “There are two paths in life: Should and Must. The book is divided into four short parts. Luna is a designer and painter and incorporates many colorful illustrations in the text. It’s a quick and easy read, and yet it contains enough depth to make us think and reconsider options and choices. The Crossroads of Should and Must, Find and Follow your Passion by Elle Luna is worth picking out of the crowd. Books about how to find your passion seem to be a dime a dozen these days. Some tales, such as "The Funeral" (1955) and "The Doll that Does Everything" (1954) incorporate zany satirical humour at the expense of genre clichés, and are written in an hysterically overblown prose very different from Matheson's usual pared-down style. Several of his stories, like "Third from the Sun" (1950), "Deadline" (1959) and "Button, Button" (1970) are simple sketches with twist endings others, like "Trespass" (1953), "Being" (1954) and "Mute" (1962) explore their characters' dilemmas over twenty or thirty pages. Between 19, Matheson produced dozens of stories, frequently blending elements of the science fiction, horror and fantasy genres. The tale of a monstrous child chained in its parents' cellar, it was told in the first person as the creature's diary (in poignantly non-idiomatic English) and immediately made Matheson famous. His first short story, "Born of Man and Woman," appeared in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1950. He married in 1952 and has four children, three of whom ( Chris, Richard Christian, and Ali Matheson) are writers of fiction and screenplays. In 1949 he earned his bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri and moved to California in 1951. He then entered the military and spent World War II as an infantry soldier. Born in Allendale, New Jersey to Norwegian immigrant parents, Matheson was raised in Brooklyn and graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School in 1943. Rose Trappes, hypatia reviews online, a journal of feminist philosophy, 2017 Replete with metaphors and imagery, Vintges contributes an original and detailed understanding of feminist ethical and political life projects that embraces a global plurality of critical and creative feminisms." "Vintges's A New Dawn for the Second Sex represents a valuable addition to feminist scholarship. Magda Guadalupe dos Santos, VirtuaJus- Belo Horizonte, v.13 2017 Her book certainly provides her readers with profound and relevant issues for the present era, especially for the refinement of the dialogical dimension between cultures and the various customs outlined in her book." " book interacts in a very innovative way with the thinking of Simone Beauvoir and Michel Foucault. Deniz Durmus, Simone de Beauvoir Studies 30 (2019) (.) Vintges’s work is a timely intervention and an invaluable contribution to the scholarship on understanding the plurality of feminist practices, especially in non-Western geographies." "One of the most important contributions of A New Dawn for the Second Sex is that it captures the current tensions in feminist discussions regarding the colonial and imperial legacy of Western feminism. Also in 1985 at Treasury, he implemented the pilot program for the nation's first semi-automated telephone information system known as TeleTax. This was used as the national model after 1987. in Computer Science from Brooklyn College in 1987, passing his CPA exam in the same year.Īfter college, Parris became a tax expert and technology consultant in preparation for a career in museum administration.Īt the United States Department of Treasury, he co-created with Juan Rivera the first procedures and public contact training program for Taxpayer Service Division in 1985, originating in Brooklyn District. Treasury Department's Advanced Business Communications program in 1985 and received his M.S. in Accounting from Brooklyn College in 1983 graduated from the U.S. In their Augedition, Long Island Business News placed Ben Parris in the Top Ten of their Who's Who in Technology list.īen Parris graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn did coursework in English from Columbia University in the 1980s received his B.S. As an educator and technology consultant, he has won national awards. Benjamin Jason Parris is an American author, educator, and museum planner best known as the creator of Wade of Aquitaine. Coss) is so fervent that he feigns interest in a development deal to secure the invitation. Among the crowd is Katsumi Hosokawa ( Ken Watanabe), a Japanese businessman whose love of opera (and Ms. Julianne Moore (with Renée Fleming’s voice) is cast against type as an opera singer named Roxane Coss, who has begrudgingly traveled to an unnamed South American country to give a private concert for the president and a group of elites. True to its name, the film “Bel Canto” strikes a delicate balance between forbidden romance and hostage thriller, eschewing clichés to reveal a tender love story that is as much about the human condition as the power of music. From the Italian for “beautiful voice,” bel canto strips away ornamental staccato runs and trills in favor of a simpler, more graceful soprano. The musical term bel canto refers to a lighter, smoother style of operatic singing, as opposed to the florid coloratura style for which Maria Callas was famous. His story was brought to life by artist Lane Smith, 59. The book’s framed-by-the-press angle came from reading tabloids like the New York Post in the 1980s, Scieszka said. It was during that year that Scieszka’s passion for reimagining tales produced “The True Story Of The 3 Little Pigs!,” a story about empathy and the power of interpreting from different perspective s. I also loved that my 2 nd graders’ response to almost any question I would begin to ask them was, ‘I didn’t do it.’ So having the wolf tell his side of the story combined all those loves.” “ I love the oldest tales – myths, fables, legends, fairy tales,” Scieszka said. He also spent time “mashing up my adult favorites and the history and forms of writing for kids,” Scieszka said. While there, he took a year off to read the likes of Jorge Luis Borges and Thomas Pynchon. Scieszka told me he eventually landed a job teaching at an alternative elementary school where there were no grades. He painted apartments in the Upper East Side to make money. Scieszka had just moved from Michigan to New York City to pursue a master’s in fiction writing at Columbia University. The story behind “The True Story Of The 3 Little Pigs!” begins in the 1980s. |