![]() ![]() It portrays Lee long before the Civil War, when he was still part of the U.S. Still, Byrn is less troubled by another portrait of Lee at West Point. “He chose to betray his country in the defense of his right to subjugate the Black race, which now comprises a significant portion of the Army and officer corps.” Lee was not just a racist and a slave owner,” Byrn said in a research paper co-written with fellow West Point graduate Gabe Royal for the academy’s Modern War Institute. ![]() He’s also in favor of renaming places on the campus that are named for the general – Lee Barracks, Lee Gate, and Lee Road. “When I was a cadet, I didn’t really think a whole lot of the portrait itself or what it meant, that there was a man dressed in a Confederate uniform hanging up on the wall that was actively trying to break the United States apart,” Byrn said.īut in more recent years, as Byrn thought more about the portrait, he began calling for West Point to remove it. Lee in his gray Confederate uniform, a slave tending his horse in the background. He spent late nights studying in the library – underneath a giant portrait of Robert E. Former Army Captain Jimmy Byrn graduated from the U.S. ![]()
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![]() But first, you say he was not only the father of the essay but that 21st-century bloggers owe him too. Ramona Koval: Your enthusiasms for Montaigne is clear from the verve in your writing of his life and works, and I'm sure we're going to hear all about that soon, and the way you approached him was completely original, it seems to me. ![]() Sarah Bakewell is an acclaimed writer of course but she's also a part-time cataloguer of rare books at the National Trust in London. How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer, to give it the full title, has won Sarah Bakewell the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography in the United States, and the Duff Cooper Prize for non-fiction in the UK. In short, his enterprise was to try and tell us how to live and that's the title of a marvellous biography of Michel de Montaigne by our guest today. The man who was born in 1533 and died at the age of 59 wrote a collection of musings wrote a collection of musings he called his Essays, a book that was an instant bestseller and that even today speaks of sorrow, liars, fear and the force of imagination. ![]() ![]() Ramona Koval: By anyone's measure, the career success of Renaissance French nobleman Michel de Montaigne has been stupendous. ![]() ![]() ![]() I have had this audiobook in my library for several months. The narrator is fantastic, bringing all the characters to life. It's a great character piece, written by a master writer, which alone is worth the credit. It's predictable and unbelievable at times. There isn't enough tension, and the action is so sparse as to be nonexistent. Overall, this is a very good story, but not great. ![]() Caine pretty much keeps things localized on a ship. Again, I know it's unfair to compare this to "Winds of War", but that book had unbelievable settings, all over the world. The characters are almost cartoon-like (in a good way), and there aren't many different settings. Therefore, rich characters are a must, and this book has them! I haven't seen the broadway show, but I can imagine it's very similar to listening to the book. I mean, after all, you know just from the title what's going to happen by the end. ![]() Where this book excels is in character development. There isn't a lot of action, and you may fid yourself dozing off at times. I found Caine to be more fluffy and kid-friendly than I had expected. It will truly give you a feel for just how genius Wouk was. If you haven't read those two, I recommend you do before you read Caine. ![]() It may seem unfair to compare this book to those two MASTERPIECES, but such is the territory when you write the "War and Peace" of a generation. First off, this is NO "Winds of War" or "War and Rememberance", which Wouk is known for. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rather than run from it or resist it, we should embrace it, look to what the plants, animals, and genomes can teach us about adapting to survive and to thrive.” Her philosophy, based on Octavia Butler’s guiding philosophy of the Earthseed books, is that God Is Change. She is matter of-fact about the coming destruction we face-of our environment, of our resources, of our governments. “It was a revelation to discover adrienne maree brown’s Emergent Strategy. Ritchie, author of Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color ![]() Brown not only inspires me to resist, but to do in the most beautiful, joyful, creative, sustainable, collective and effective ways.” “Emergent Strategy is an examination of where our movements have been and an offering of a framework for resistance that is rooted in the miracles of nature, decentralized, collective leadership, and personal, relational, organizational, and movement-wide transformation. ![]() ![]() Spengler offered another division - three distinct phases: Magian (societies dominated by monotheism - Persian as well as Semitic religions), Apollonian (ancient Greece and Rome) and Faustian (the ‘modern Western societies’ of his time). The major cultures he identifies are Babylonian, Egyptian, Chinese, Indian, Mesoamerican (Mayan-Aztec), classical (Greek/Roman), Arabian and Western (European and American). Of particular interest to him were the characteristics of the separate and distinct cultures (established through developments in science, mathematics and the arts). ![]() ![]() First and foremost, his intention was to offer a world overview and on that basis to present and discuss the premise that the story of the history of man followed a fundamental pattern wherever on the globe it arose. His primary view was to reject the established Eurocentric paradigm (ancient/classical, Medieval - and, following the Renaissance - modern) and to take a totally new perspective. ![]() It was a huge undertaking by Oswald Spengler (1880-1936), formerly an unpublished historian and philosopher who set out to radically reconsider history - the rise and fall of world civilisations and their cultures. The Decline of the West - Volume 1 published in 1917, Volume 2 in 1922 - has exercised and challenged opinion ever since. ![]() ![]() ![]() When King Lord blood runs through your veins, though, you can't just walk away. In a world where he’s expected to amount to nothing, maybe Mav can prove he’s different. So when he’s offered the chance to go straight, he takes it. But it’s not so easy to sling dope, finish school, and raise a child. Suddenly he has a baby, Seven, who depends on him for everything. ![]() Until, that is, Maverick finds out he’s a father. Life’s not perfect, but with a fly girlfriend and a cousin who always has his back, Mav’s got everything under control. ![]() With this money he can help his mom, who works two jobs while his dad’s in prison. As the son of a former gang legend, Mav does that the only way he knows how: dealing for the King Lords. If there’s one thing seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter knows, it’s that a real man takes care of his family. International phenomenon Angie Thomas revisits Garden Heights seventeen years before the events of The Hate U Give in this searing and poignant exploration of Black boyhood and manhood. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Suffice it to say that it's the first project I encountered that clearly calls for an Ajax implementation.Īnd what about the regular Obviously it had the quality we've come to associate with the brand, and I hugely enjoyed myself, even though the conference ended on a slightly sad note when Joe announced he's pretty much retiring from web accessibility. My presentation will be a case study but I'm not going to tell you which case I'm going to study because it's still shrouded in secrecy and I haven't actually worked on the project yet. This conference will likely be smaller than the regular and that's good, because it will give everybody the chance to talk with everybody else (something I sorely missed in Austin, and to a lesser degree at the regular It will also have a strict focus on just one topic, and that one topic will be explained by world-class minds. The speakers' list reads like a Who's Who in current JavaScript development: Brendan Eich, Douglas Crockford, Derek Featherstone, John Resig, Jeremy Keith, Stuart Langridge, Mike Stenhouse, Dan Webb, Chris Heilmann, and humble me, with a few more to be announced soon. Sitemap contact Upcoming: Ajax conferenceĪt the tail end of 2007 Europe, Patrick Griffiths announced a brand new conference at which I'm going to Ajax, 19 and 20 November 2007 in London. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Most modern editions go back to the original text, however, and rightly so. Yes! the author of the Monk signs himself a LEGISLATOR! We stare and tremble.”) Lewis seems to have been surprised and hurt by the intensity of the criticism, and he progressively edited the later editions of his novel to remove the more contentious material. (The most famous attack upon him was by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in The Critical Review: “The author is a man of rank and fortune. ![]() The Monk was a runaway best-seller, but it was also savagely attacked as obscene and blasphemous – not least because, at the time of his novel’s publication, Lewis was a Member of Parliament. Lewis set out to write the “ultimate” Gothic novel, and he certainly succeeded. The Monk was published when Matthew Lewis was only nineteen years old and is very much a young man’s enthusiastic and rather reckless work. So – all care taken, no responsibility accepted! Welcome, all! This time around I will be tutoring Madeline (Squeak圜hu) in Matthew Gregory Lewis’s The Monk, from 1796.įor those of you who are planning on lurking, but who are not familiar with this novel, I feel that I should start by offering a general warning about its contents: this is a novel featuring sex and violence and horror, including several scenes that are fairly shocking and offensive even by modern standards. ![]() ![]() ![]() Not just television - this describes what we call 'the idiot box' (technology and media).īiological Warfare - first use of the concept in fiction Wells was convinced that Western socialists cannot compromise with Communism, and that the best hope for the future lay in Washington.Ī weapon that uses an atomic chain reaction as an explosive force.Īutomated Surface Measurement - 100 years before cgi needed itĪ mechanical method of accurately measuring a surface.Ī wall strip that rolls up automatically to let you through.Ī mechanical device able to excavate on its own. In 1934 he had discussions with both Stalin, who left him disillusioned, and Roosevelt, trying to recruit them without success to his world-saving schemes. He taught in private schools for four years, not taking his B.S. However, his interest faltered and in 1887 he left without a degree. Wells obtained a scholarship to the Normal School of Science in London and studied there biology under T.H. His father was a shopkeeper and a professional cricketer until he broke his leg. ![]() Herbert George Wells was born in Bromley, Kent. Wells wrote over a hundred of books, about fifty of them novels. ![]() Wells's best known works are The Time Machine (1895), one of the first modern science fiction stories, The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of the Worlds (1898). ![]() ![]() ![]() The world knew her age, where she was from, where she went missing and the date she disappeared. Her images were plastered all over lamp posts, airports, shopping centres, gyms, and her name and face were shared on television and radio all over the world. She had blonde hair and hazel eyes with a distinctive smudge on her right iris. ![]() Photo / SuppliedĮveryone recognised her face. We take a look at the timeline and suspects, including the involvement of prime suspect Christian Brueckner (top left), former Portuguese detective Goncalo Amaral (bottom left), and Madeleine's parents Gerry and Kate McCann. ![]() It is nearly 16 years since Madeleine McCann went missing from a Portuguese apartment on May 3, 2007. ![]() |