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FAHRENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury This One, with Gratitude, Is for DON CONGDON
FAHRENHEIT 451 by Ray Bradbury This one, with gratitude, is for DON CONGDON. FAHRENHEIT 451: The temperature at which book-paper catches fire and burns PART I: THE HEARTH AND THE SALAMANDER IT WAS A PLEASURE TO BURN. IT was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head, and his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history. With his symbolic helmet numbered 451 on his stolid head, and his eyes all orange flame with the thought of what came next, he flicked the igniter and the house jumped up in a gorging fire that burned the evening sky red and yellow and black. He strode in a swarm of fireflies. He wanted above all, like the old joke, to shove a marshmallow on a stick in the furnace, while the flapping pigeon- winged books died on the porch and lawn of the house. While the books went up in sparkling whirls and blew away on a wind turned dark with burning. Montag grinned the fierce grin of all men singed and driven back by flame. He knew that when he returned to the firehouse, he might wink at himself, a minstrel man, Does% burntcorked, in the mirror. Later, going to sleep, he would feel the fiery smile still gripped by his Montag% face muscles, in the dark. -
The Complete Stories
The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka a.b.e-book v3.0 / Notes at the end Back Cover : "An important book, valuable in itself and absolutely fascinating. The stories are dreamlike, allegorical, symbolic, parabolic, grotesque, ritualistic, nasty, lucent, extremely personal, ghoulishly detached, exquisitely comic. numinous and prophetic." -- New York Times "The Complete Stories is an encyclopedia of our insecurities and our brave attempts to oppose them." -- Anatole Broyard Franz Kafka wrote continuously and furiously throughout his short and intensely lived life, but only allowed a fraction of his work to be published during his lifetime. Shortly before his death at the age of forty, he instructed Max Brod, his friend and literary executor, to burn all his remaining works of fiction. Fortunately, Brod disobeyed. Page 1 The Complete Stories brings together all of Kafka's stories, from the classic tales such as "The Metamorphosis," "In the Penal Colony" and "The Hunger Artist" to less-known, shorter pieces and fragments Brod released after Kafka's death; with the exception of his three novels, the whole of Kafka's narrative work is included in this volume. The remarkable depth and breadth of his brilliant and probing imagination become even more evident when these stories are seen as a whole. This edition also features a fascinating introduction by John Updike, a chronology of Kafka's life, and a selected bibliography of critical writings about Kafka. Copyright © 1971 by Schocken Books Inc. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Schocken Books Inc., New York. Distributed by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. -
“What One Word Best Describes the United States of America and Why?”
“What one word best describes the United States of America and why?” 5th Annual Pueblo Home of Heroes Association Essay Contest Winning Stories 2013 Sponsored by the Pueblo Home of Heroes Association and the Pueblo City-County Library District 2013 Pueblo Home of Heroes Association Essay Contest “What one word best describes the United States of America and why?” March 2013 The Pueblo Home of Heroes Association in cooperation with the Pueblo City-County Library District is pleased to announce the winners of its fifth Pueblo Home of Heroes Association Essay Contest. The following guidelines were required: All entries must be typed. Elementary School level – grades 4 and 5: 300-500 words Middle School level – grades 6–8: 400-700 words High School level – grades 9–12: 500-1,000 words The judges were: Doyle Cooper, Darren Cooper, Joann Fry, Andy Hauk, and Jim Stuart. There were a total of 255 entries: 91 at the elementary level, 60 at the middle school level and 104 at the high school level. The Pueblo Home of Heroes Association and the Pueblo City-County Library District wish to thank the teachers and parents for encouraging their students and children to participate in this essay contest. It was clear to the judges that the contest achieved its purpose of encouraging students to think about the foundation of our freedom and the ongoing cost in lives and effort to maintain this most precious right. 2013 Pueblo Home of Heroes Association Essay Contest Honorable Mentions Elementary School Dustin Medina Corwin International Magnet School – Ms. Jaime Quinn Kristina Aguilar Corwin International Magnet School – Ms. -
Negotiating Images of the Chinese: Representations of Contemporary Chinese and Chinese Americans on US Television
Negotiating Images of the Chinese: Representations of Contemporary Chinese and Chinese Americans on US Television A Thesis Submitted to School of Geography, Politics, and Sociology For the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Cheng Qian September, 2019 !i Negotiating Images of the Chinese: Representations of Contemporary Chinese and Chinese Americans on US Television ABSTRACT China's rise has led to increased interest in the representation of Chinese culture and identity, espe- cially in Western popular culture. While Chinese and Chinese American characters are increasingly found in television and films, the literature on their media representation, especially in television dramas is limited. Most studies tend to focus on audience reception with little concentration on a show's substantive content or style. This thesis helps to fill the gap by exploring how Chinese and Chinese American characters are portrayed and how these portrayals effect audiences' attitude from both an in-group and out-group perspective. The thesis focuses on four popular US based television dramas aired between 2010 to 2018. Drawing on stereotype and stereotyping theories, applying visual analysis and critical discourse analysis, this thesis explores the main stereotypes of the Chinese, dhow they are presented, and their impact. I focus on the themes of enemies, model minor- ity, female representations, and the accepted others. Based on the idea that the media can both con- struct and reflect the beliefs and ideologies of a society I ask how representational practice and dis- cursive formations signify difference and 'otherness' in relation to Chinese and Chinese Americans. I argue that while there has been progress in the representation of Chinese and Chinese Americans, they are still underrepresented on the screen. -
After the Rain
After the Rain Dir: Takashi Koizumi, Japan/France, 1999 A review by Shulamit Almog, University of Haifa, Israel After the Rain is Takashi Koizumi's feature film debut, made in 1999, Shoji Ueda and Takao Saito as cinematographers. Akira Kurosawa wrote the screenplay, and Takashi Koizumi, who pays the late Japanese master a tribute in this film, attempted to make a film from Kurosawa's script, as he would have wished. The tribute quality of the film manifests itself most eminently when one puts After the Rain alongside Rashomon, Kurosawa's 1950 masterpiece, that is still possibly the best known Japanese film outside Japan. On the face of it, there is not much in common between the sombre, infinitely intriguing Rashomon and the delightful, lighthearted and light flooded After the Rain. In actual fact, there is a delicate web of links and connections between those two articulations, that correspond with each other. In both films most characters participate in several forms of judging, formal and informal, external and internal. They all judge and are being judged, cast adjudication and are subjected to it. In Rashomon a formal trial is depicted, alongside the internal ones. In After the Rain there is no formal trial, but all characters involved perform continuous ethical judgments of themselves and others. Rashomon begins in rain and ends with rain. Three people, who find shelter from the rain under the Rashomon gate, engage in narration. Two crimes -- a murder of a Samurai and rape of his wife -- are presented four times, in four different ways. The people at the gate renarrate the story of the formal judgment, where the different versions were first narrated, and, while doing so, judge the narrators, the characters of the narrative, and themselves. -
Maximum Ride T H E ANGEL EXPERIMENT
Maximum Ride T H E ANGEL EXPERIMENT James Patterson WARNER BOOKS NEW YORK BOSTON Copyright © 2005 by Suejack, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review. Warner Vision and the Warner Vision logo are registered trademarks of Time Warner Book Group Inc. Time Warner Book Group 1271 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020 Visit our Web site at www.twbookmark.com First Mass Market Edition: May 2006 First published in hardcover by Little, Brown and Company in April 2005 The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author. Cover design by Gail Doobinin Cover image of girl © Kamil Vojnar/Photonica, city © Roger Wood/Corbis Logo design by Jon Valk Produced in cooperation with Alloy Entertainment Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Maximum Ride : the angel experiment / by James Patterson. — 1st ed. p.cm. Summary: After the mutant Erasers abduct the youngest member of their group, the "bird kids," who are the result of genetic experimentation, take off in pursuit and find themselves struggling to understand their own origins and purpose. ISBN: 0-316-15556-X(HC) ISBN: 0-446-61779-2 (MM) [1. Genetic engineering — Fiction. 2. Adventure and adventurers — Fiction.] 1. Title. 10 9876543 2 1 Q-BF Printed in the United States of America For Jennifer Rudolph Walsh; Hadley, Griffin, and Wyatt Zangwill Gabrielle Charbonnet; Monina and Piera Varela Suzie and Jack MaryEllen and Andrew Carole, Brigid, and Meredith Fly, babies, fly! To the reader: The idea for Maximum Ride comes from earlier books of mine called When the Wind Blows and The Lake House, which also feature a character named Max who escapes from a quite despicable School. -
The Backcountry Singer Note
The Backcountry Singer Note: This book is explicitly intended as a trail song guide for Camp Manito-wish YMCA, though the contents herein do not necessarily reflect the values or beliefs of Camp Manito- wish YMCA or its staff. All Rights remain with the authors. Table of Contents - Page Title 1 Break Out the Oars 2 The River Malign 3 Easy Chair (You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere) 4 Big Yellow Taxi 5 The Circle Game 6 We’re Going To Be Friends 7 Wagon Wheel 8 Build Me Up Buttercup 9 Halo 10 Just The Way You Are 11 A Thousand Miles 12 You Belong With Me 14 Love Story 16 Breaking Free 17 Party in the U.S.A. 18 Call Me Maybe 19 Hey Soul Sister 20 How Far I’ll Go 21 Let It Go 22 A Whole New World 23 Colors of the Wind 24 Part of Your World 25 Do You Want To Build A Snowman? 26 Out of The Woods 27 All Star 28 Accidentally In Love 29 Walking on Sunshine 30 Love Yourself 31 Baby 32 Rolling in the Deep Table of Contents (continued) - Page Title 33 Royals 34 Someone Like You 35 Firework 36 Most Girls 37 Rather Be 38 She Will Be Loved 39 Payphone 40 Let It Be 41 Here Comes the Sun 42 Blackbird 43 What Makes You Beautiful 44 Perfect Day 45 I Want It That Way 46 Hey There Delilah 47 Skinny Love Break Out The Oars Curt Peacock - Break out the oars, course set for Manito-wish, Swing on the oars, got to get to Manito-wish, Had a good trip, now let a rip for home. -
Limitless-Love.Pdf
Kenneth Copeland Publications January February March April May June July August September October November December Limitless Love A 365-Day Devotional ISBN © 2011 Kenneth Copeland and Gloria Copeland Gloria January 1 A Life Worth Living “By this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments. The one who says, ‘I have come to know Him,’ and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him; but whoever keeps His word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him: the one who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk in the same manner as He walked.” 1 John 2:3-6, New American Standard A great many people claim to know God. They call themselves Christians and say, “The LORD told me this…” or “The LORD told me that….” Yet, it’s not just what we say that proves we know Jesus, it’s how we live. The Bible says if we are abiding in Him, we will live as He lived. How did Jesus live? First and foremost, He lived a life of love. Jesus didn’t live for Himself. He didn’t seek to do His own will. He lived to do the will of His Father. He lived to pour out His life for others. You might say it this way: Jesus lived to give Himself away. Worldly people don’t understand that kind of life. They’ll warn you against it. They’ll say, “If you live like that, you’ll be miserable…. -
Better Angel
BETTER ANGEL By Richard Meeker New York, NY : Greenberg, 1933 Production Note – This copy was reproduced from an imperfect original by a double-key process. Pagination does not match that of the original. Historical Note – Richard Meeker was the pseudonym of Forman Brown, 1901-1996. Better Angel 2 PART ONE Better Angel 3 I Kurt Gray was thirteen years old, but as he sat in the broad chair pulled close to the square front window, he seemed still a little boy. Partly it was the light; partly it was the way in which one thin leg was tucked under him, and his chin dug into his fist. Folded together over his book he seemed smaller than he was. It was early March. Patches of graying snow thatched the earth outside; and a gray sky, tarnished with gold from a sun gone down behind the grove of oaks opposite, gave to the light a pale, cold, honey-colored translucence that was thin and clear and yet liquid and winey. The room was in deep shadow, and the boy, his head bent almost to the pages of the book, strained his eyes over it with such a silent intentness that he seemed grown to the heavy chair and to the dim and aqueous atmosphere of the room. The faint sounds of rattling dishes and his mother's step in the kitchen could not break through into his consciousness. "Now Herakles," he read, "though his warriors were ready and urging him to be off on the long-awaited quest for the fleece, refused to set sail until Hylas was found. -
Orthodoxy- G.K.Chesterton (Pdf)
ORTHODOXY BY GILBERT K. CHESTERTON John Lane Company 1908 This book is in the public domain. PREFACE THIS book is meant to be a companion to “Heretics,” and to put the positive side in addition to the negative. Many critics complained of the book called “Heretics” because it merely criticised current philosophies without offering any alternative philosophy. This book is an attempt to answer the challenge. It is unavoidably affirmative and therefore unavoidably autobiographical. The writer has been driven back upon somewhat the same difficulty as that which beset Newman in writing his Apologia; he has been forced to be egotistical only in order to be sincere. While everything else may be different the motive in both cases is the same. It is the purpose of the writer to attempt an explanation, not of whether the Christian Faith can be believed, but of how he personally has come to believe it. The book is therefore arranged upon the positive principle of a riddle and its answer. It deals first with all the writer’s own solitary and sincere speculations and then with all the startling style in which they were all suddenly satisfied by the Christian Theology. The writer regards it as amounting to a convincing creed. But if it is not that it is at least a repeated and surprising coincidence. GILBERT K. CHESTERTON. CONTENTS I—Introduction in Defence of Everything Else ................................................................. 5 II—The Maniac................................................................................................................ 8 III—The Suicide of Thought........................................................................................... 17 IV—The Ethics of Elfland .............................................................................................. 26 V—The Flag of the World.............................................................................................. 37 VI—The Paradoxes of Christianity ............................................................................... -
Light in August
William Faulkner LIGHT IN AUGUST LIGHT IN AUGUST WILLIAM FAULKNER VINTAGE BOOKS A DIVISION OF RANDOM HOUSE/NEW YORK 1 William Faulkner LIGHT IN AUGUST VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION, JANUARY 1972 Copyright 1932, by William Faulkner Copyright Renewed 1959 by William Faulkner All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Random House, Inc., New York. Distributed in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published by Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, in 1932. ISBN: 0-394-71189-0 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 67-12716 MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 2 William Faulkner LIGHT IN AUGUST PUBLISHER’S NOTE The text of this edition of Light in August has been photographed from, and is therefore identical with, a copy of the first printing. Publication date was October 6, 1932. 3 William Faulkner LIGHT IN AUGUST Contents Contents 4 Chapter 1 5 Chapter 2 16 Chapter 3 26 Chapter 4 34 Chapter 5 44 Chapter 6 51 Chapter 7 62 Chapter 8 71 Chapter 9 83 Chapter 10 91 Chapter 11 96 Chapter 12 105 Chapter 13 117 Chapter 14 130 Chapter 15 138 Chapter 16 147 Chapter 17 159 Chapter 18 168 Chapter 19 179 Chapter 20 188 Chapter 21 199 About the Author 205 4 William Faulkner LIGHT IN AUGUST Chapter 1 SITTING beside the road, watching the wagon mount the hill toward her, Lena thinks, ‘I have come from Alabama: a fur piece. All the way from Alabama a-walking. A fur piece.’ Thinking although I have not been quite a month on the road I am already in Mississippi, further from home than I have ever been before. -
The Last Olympian
THE LAST OLYMPIAN Percy Jackson and the Olympians – Book 5 Rick Riordan ONE I GO CRUISING WITH EXPLOSIVES The end of the world started when a pegasus landed on the hood of my car. Up until then, I was having a great afternoon. Technically I wasn't supposed to be driving because I wouldn't turn sixteen for another week, but my mom and my stepdad, Paul, took my friend Rachel and me to this private stretch of beach on the South Shore, and Paul let us borrow his Prius for a short spin. Now, I know you're thinking, Wow, that was really irresponsible of him, blah, blah, blah, but Paul knows me pretty well. He's seen me slice up demons and leap out of exploding school buildings, so he probably figured taking a car a few hundred yards wasn't exactly the most dangerous thing I'd ever done. Anyway, Rachel and I were driving along. It was a hot August day. Rachel's red hair was pulled back in a ponytail and she wore a white blouse over her swimsuit. I'd never seen her in anything but ratty T- shirts and paint-splattered jeans before, and she looked like a million golden drachmas. "Oh, pull up right there!" she told me. We parked on a ridge overlooking the Atlantic. The sea is always one of my favorite places, but today it was especially nice—glittery green and smooth as glass, as though my dad was keeping it calm just for us. My dad, by the way, is Poseidon.