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![]() These transport the reader to eighteenth-century London and the dynamic venues where art and celebrity converged with culture and commerce. This richly researched study draws on a wide variety of period sources, from newspaper reviews and satirical pamphlets to caricatures and paintings by Reynolds and Lawrence as well as Thomas Gainsborough, George Romney, and Angelica Kauffman. McPherson considers this increasing interest in theatrical and artistic celebrities and explores the ways in which aesthetics, cultural politics, and consumption combined during this period to form a media-driven celebrity culture that is surprisingly similar to celebrity obsessions in the world today. ![]() ![]() ![]() Likewise, artists such as Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Lawrence figured prominently outside their studios―in polite society and the emerging public sphere. Popular actors in Georgian London, such as David Garrick, Sarah Siddons, and John Philip Kemble, gave larger-than-life performances at Drury Lane and Covent Garden their offstage personalities garnered as much attention through portraits painted by leading artists, sensational stories in the press, and often-vicious caricatures. In this volume, Heather McPherson examines the connections among portraiture, theater, the visual arts, and fame to shed light on the emergence of modern celebrity culture in eighteenth-century England. ![]() ![]() It takes Lib far too long to realize what the audience gets immediately - that Anna's older brother hasn't emigrated to America, but is dead. Of course, she wants to believe in the credulity of the nun until it becomes obvious that Sister Michael is just as concerned for the child's welfare, and as willing to see the reality of her starving. ![]() It began to sour for me when Lib's willful arrogance became too wedded to the needs of story. This is a good story that had great potential. Even her nickname "Lib" seems to stand in for the subtle tides sweeping away old dogmas that she, as a woman, trained in medicine, unencumbered by faith, seem to embody. Lib's observations about the Irish Catholicism practiced around her are those of a woman confident in her view of the real world, forced to deal with a superstitious, insular, obscure faith that would rather see a little girl die than admit the truth of her starving. ![]() She is also a woman touched by death in war and in peace, and it has seemingly robbed her of her faith at a time when advancing currents of knowledge and social change are upsetting the old verities of the church. ![]() She has a distinctive pedigree, having trained in the Crimean War with Florence Nightingale. Lib is a very English woman plopped down into the middle of post-Potato Famine Ireland in 1859. ![]() ![]() ![]() "He doesn't recall any parents or adult figures. "At this time, we don't know how long he's been in the state forest or how he got here," said New Jersey State Park Police Chief Tony Aurigemma. ![]() ![]() Park rangers, along with local police, found the boy, thin and clad in tattered clothes, in a makeshift campsite three hours later. "At first I worried it was a bear, but then we caught sight of him running, clear as day." "We were cleaning up from our picnic when we heard a rustling in the woods," Mr. The boy-who speaks and understands English but has no knowledge of his name-was first spotted by Don and Leslie Katz, hikers from Clifton, N.J. "It's like Mowgli in the 'Jungle Book' movie," Westville Police Deputy Oren Carmichael said. Even more bizarre, authorities have no idea who the boy is or how long he had been there. WESTVILLE, N.J.-In one of the most bizarre cases in recent history, a wild-haired young boy, estimated to be between six and eight years old, was discovered living on his own in the Ramapo Mountain State Forest near the suburb of Westville. ABANDONED "WILD BOY" FOUND IN THE WOODS Huge Mystery Surrounding Discovery of "Real-Life Mowgli" ![]() ![]() ![]() The title refers to Ilus, a planet rich in lithium, and the mining rush that follows. The Spanish never found cities of literal gold, but they did find many resources to extract, as well as the ruins of much older civilisations. The Seven Cities of Cíbola (or Gold) were mythical cities of the Americas filled with gold and other riches, which the Spanish colonists search in vain for. ![]() The title refers to the characters passing through the protomolecule's ring gate and the rapid forced braking they experience and the destruction that follows. Abaddon's GateĪbaddon is a Hebrew name for the abyss or pit of destruction, as well as an angel personifying the same. The title refers to the project which created hybrid human-protomolecule soldiers and the war fought with and over them. Caliban's WarĬaliban is a half human, half monster character from Shakespeare's play The Tempest. At the beginning of the series the protomolecule is mostly treated as a terrifying alien threat, an incurable disease that turns humans into "vomit zombies" and breaks the laws of physics as it somehow flies the asteroid Eros until it crashes onto Venus. The title refers to the waking of the long-dormant protomolecule from Phoebe, moon of Saturn. The Leviathan is a sea monster in Judaism, most well known from its appearance in the Book of Job. ![]() ![]() After her father’s death, her step-mother signs the two youngest girls up for apprenticeships and leaves the hat shop work to Sophie. ![]() Sophie Hatter is the eldest of three girls and believes since she is the elder of the siblings, she will not find a fortune. Her characters are colorfully crafted into outlandish yet believable people that progress into their final forms beautifully. Jones did a fantastic job writing an inspiring story about a powerful wizard, an unassuming girl and those connected to them. This alone makes reading the book worth is for those who have seen the movie but want to experience even more of the story and characters. Jones’ novel holds a few secrets not featured in the Ghibli film. What many have missed or long forgotten was that the story of Howl and Sophie was originally a book published in 1986. When most people hear the words ‘Howl’s Moving Castle’ and their minds immediately go to the Studio Ghibli film. ![]() For this monthly Bago Book Review, I continue though the fantasy genre by looking at the infamous Howl’s Moving Castle novel from Diana Wynne Jones. ![]() ![]() ![]() Is eternal life a blessing or curse? That is what young Winnie Foster must decide when she discovers a spring on her family's property whose waters grant immortality. Build vocabulary with pre-reading and during-reading activities. Focuses reading with guiding "Questions to Think About". You will have the freedom to: cut and paste any portion of the text into your own document, to extract and post pages and activities on your class website, to e-mail parents and your students individual pages form the eBook, to project the eBook contents on a whiteboard, and more!Ĭontents Include: Teacher and student support materials, reproducible student activity sheets, an end-of-book test, and an answer key.Įach reading guide divides the novel into six manageable units. ![]() ![]() The eBook is an electronic version of a Saddleback book that you can download to your computer and manipulate to fit your instructional needs. Series Name: Focus on Reading: Reproducible Reading Guides ![]() ![]() ![]() Martin, who calls them the "original Game of Thrones." How’s that for marketing? I haven’t watched any of the show and although we have the books (my son is a huge fan), I’m daunted by the investment of time it will take to read them. These books are more than fifty years old but the English translations are being re-released with a foreword and recommendation by George R.R. These French historical novels set in the Middle Ages begin with Philip the Fair and the demise of the Knights Templar and take the reader through to the start of the Hundred Years War. (It is historical fiction, after all.) So I’m thrilled to have come across Maurice Druon’s The Accursed Kings series. But I really love historical novels where the history is the focus, even if there’s a little embellishment of the facts to enliven the story. And I enjoy novels that sidestep the history that’s going on in the background to present a nice love story or mystery. I love historical novels that plop me right down in the middle of serious history. ![]() ![]() ![]() Everyone can enjoy Batman on the big screen and the beauty of what they're doing now with Batman on the big screen, particularly Matt Reeves’s rendition is I think Warner Bros. “First and foremost, Matt Reeves, like every filmmaker before him who has touched the bat character, I tip my hat to … by virtue of the fact that they took one of my favorite characters and brought him to life in a milieu that is more mainstream. “You know, every time I see a Batman movie, this is my first overt thought: ‘God, that's better than any Batman movie that I could ever make,” Smith said of the Matt Reeves-directed, Robert Pattinson-starring reboot that opened this weekend with sterling reviews and a robust $128.5 million debut. So naturally we got Smith’s thoughts on The Batman while speaking to him this week as he announced plans for his first annual SModcastle Film Festival. Kevin Smith never got to make his Superman movie, but the self-proclaimed “clown prince of Comic-Con” remains one of the most high-profile, ardent comic book movie fanboys in Hollywood. Kevin Smith (C) poses with characters dressed in costume at Burt Ward's Hollywood Walk of Fame Star ceremony on Jan. ![]() ![]() But one slip, one wrong landing, a missed grip, and everything they built can come tumbling down, damaging both their professional and personal lives. Lucia Franco 4. They try to disentangle themselves, but the tension between coach and gymnast mounts, engulfing them both in a forbidden world of deception and passion.The one place where they should never feel alive, is where they find complete absolution. ![]() As Adrianna fights to regain her focus, he pushes her body to the extreme, leaving her mentally and physically exhausted.Kova underestimates Adrianna's endurance, and gravitates more toward her, despite his internal battle raging within to stay away. Punished for Coach Konstantin Kournakova's overwhelming desires, she's reeling with resentment while she sits out the first meet of the season. ![]() The move to World Cup Academy of Gymnastics is the greatest challenge Adrianna Rossi has encountered. ![]() ![]() ![]() |