![]() ![]() This is an essay we have become all-too familiar with by reputation rather than by reading. Neither, of course, did Henry David Thoreau, author of the 1849 essay “ Civil Disobedience,” a document that every student of Political Philosophy 101 knows as an ur-text of modern democratic protest movements. But I see no moral reason to condemn people for fighting injustice, provided their cause itself is just. ![]() The question that presents itself to any opposition is what is to be done? Go underground? Sabotage? Take up arms? The likelihood of success in such cases-depending on the belligerence of the opposition and the capabilities of the government-varies widely. The present is rife with examples of oppressive governments. History is rife with examples of oppressive governments. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Michael Ghebriel - Friday 2/17 Sunday 2/19ĭonnie Sarabia - Saturday 2/18 Sunday 2/19 Giselle Gomez - Thursday 2/16 Sunday 2/19Ĭadiz Salazar - Friday 2/17 Saturday 2/18īrendan Weeks - Thursday 2/16 Saturday 2/18 Layla Valenzuela - Friday 2/17 Sunday 2/19 Shelby Devoy - Thursday 2/16 Saturday 2/18 Isabela Gutierrez - Saturday 2/18 Sunday 2/19 Parker Lee - Thursday 2/16 Saturday 2/18īridgette Sanders - Friday 2/17 Sunday 2/19 ![]() Matthew Ellersick - Thursday 2/16 Sunday 2/19 Matthew Chavez - Thursday 2/16 Saturday 2/18 THE CASTįor The Importance of Being Earnest, all four performances will feature different cast combinations. ![]() Hilarious and romantic complications ensue. Algernon, seeing an opportunity, assumes Ernest’s identity and sneaks off to woo Cecily. Cecily believes that Ernest is Jack’s wayward brother. Algernon Moncrieff is surprised to discover that his affluent friend, Ernest is actually named Jack Worthing. ![]() ![]() I mean, it's very uncomfortable when you first start. It feels like a woodpecker is in your skull. They put this sort of a big magnet on your head and you're sitting in this, it's almost like a dentist chair, and the magnet is working. Because I have treatment-resistant depression and I have tried just every medication and all of the therapies and all of the different stuff, my psychiatrist had recommended transcranial magnetic stimulation. Like in the past, some medications would work, but they would only work for maybe a year or two. a certain number of treatments and they just have not worked. So treatment-resistant depression is basically any depression where you have had. On treatment-resistant depression and transcranial magnetic stimulation treatments ![]() And then my latest book is Broken (In the Best Possible Way), which is a collection of essays. And then I wrote sort of a coloring book when I was having a bad sort of mental health time and I needed to do something other than regular writing, and that was called You Are Here. And then my next book was Furiously Happy, which also did equally well. And then I had my first book, Let's Pretend This Never Happened, which was a memoir and it inexplicably was a No. ![]() I started on the Houston Chronicle and then I decided to have my own blog called "The Bloggess" because I kept getting in trouble for cursing. I have been blogging since my daughter was two, so what's that? Fourteen years ago. On her trajectory from blogger to bestselling author and bookstore proprietor ![]() ![]() ![]() He decides not to scare people, and in doing so, it could be said that he is stripped of what makes him a monster. Metaphysics is brought into the story of Leonardo by having him change his goals midway through the story. ![]() ![]() This raises the question as to why Leonardo lacks the ability to preform like the rest of his society and what the possible outcomes of not fitting in could be. ![]() In the story, Leonardo deals with the inability to scare someone, and in a society of monsters, Leonardo finds himself socially confused–he just doesn’t have the “know-how’ to instill fear into others. However, the book also raises issues dealing with metaphysics and social/political philosophy. The most dominant philosophical issue in Leonardo the Terrible Monster is philosophy of mind, regarding the nature of fear and the relationship between responsibility and desire. Read aloud video by AHEV Library Guidelines for Philosophical Discussion When he is unable to scare the biggest “scaredy-cat” in town, he is able to realize that being a friend to someone is more important than being a monster, and that friends accept you for all you have to offer. Leonardo, the Terrible Monster is the story of Leonardo, a monster unable to scare people. Questions for Philosophical Discussion » Summary This story explores questions about the nature of fear and the relationship between responsibility and desire. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() IF YOU’VE BOUGHT this book, then you’re either dating a zombie or thinking about dating a zombie. Because all of a sudden she’s convinced a conspiracy is afoot at the drug company and it seems to go all the way to the top! Worst of all, the human male appears to have impaired her ability to think clearly. Now Hattie, the consummate professional, is acting like a single girl at the end of the twentieth century: self-conscious, klutzy and unable to form a coherent sentence without babbling. ![]() Granted access to the inner sanctum of zombaceuticals, she meets an actual, living, breathing M-A-N. Her practical how-to impresses the CEO of the largest drug company in the world, and before she knows it, Hattie, a reporter for a downmarket tabloid that specializes in conspiracy theories, is sitting down with the woman who single-handedly invented the zombie-behavioral-modification market. So she writes “The Girls’ Guide to Dating Zombies” to help her fellow single women navigate the zombie-relationship waters. Hattie Cross knows what you’re thinking: Zombie sex? Epercent of human males into zombies, it’s statistically impossible to meet–let alone date–the remaining 0.00001 percent. I usually figure out what the plot is about halfway through and then have to go back to the beginning and write it in. ![]() ![]() To add to her stress, she is not the only fledgling at the House of Night with special powers: when she discovers that the leader of the Dark Daughters, the school’s most elite group, is misusing her Goddess given gifts, Zoey must look deep within herself for the courage to embrace her destiny with a little help from her new vampyre friends. ![]() Zoey discovers she has amazing powers, but along with her powers come bloodlust and an unfortunate ability to Imprint with Heath, who just doesn t know how to take no for an answer. ![]() She has been chosen as special by the vampyre Goddess, Nyx. It sucks to begin a new life, especially away from her friends, and on top of that, Zoey is no average fledgling. That is, if she makes it through the Change and not all of those who are Marked do. The next, she s Marked as a fledgling vampyre, forcing her to leave her ordinary life behind and join the House of Night, a boarding school where she will train to become an adult vampyre. One minute, sixteen year old Zoey Redbird is a normal teenager dealing with everyday high school stress: her cute boyfriend Heath, the school’s star quarterback who suddenly seems more interested in partying than playing ball her nosy frenemy Kayla, who s way too concerned with how things are going with Heath her uber tough geometry test tomorrow. ![]() Enter the dark, magical world of the House of Night, a world very much like our own, except here vampyres have always existed. ![]() ![]() Horn Book Fanfare ( Enchantress from the Stars), 1971 Junior Literary Guild selection ( Enchantress from the Stars), 1970ĪLA Notable Children's Books ( Enchantress from the Stars), 1970 Read a FAQ page about Sylvia Engdahl and her books. She is a strong advocate of space colonization and in addition to a widely-read space section of her website she created the site (now located at which contains quotations about why humankind must expand into space. ![]() She has also published an updated and expanded edition of her nonfiction book The Planet-Girded Suns, now subtitled Our Forebears' Firm Belief in Inhabited Exoplanets, and three ebooks of collected essays. Her five latest novels, a duology and a trilogy, are for adults. ![]() ![]() ![]() is for younger readers than the others and was a 1971 Newbery Honor book, winner of the 1990 Phoenix Award of the Children's Literature Association, and a finalist for the 2002 Book Sense Book of the Year in the Rediscovery category. The one for which she is best known, Enchantress from the Stars. Sylvia Engdahl is the author of eleven science fiction novels, six of which were originally published as Young Adult novels but are also enjoyed by adults. ![]() ![]() ![]() The second book, Crossed, was published in November 2011, and Reached, published November 2012, completed the trilogy.Ĭondie's Matched trilogy takes place in a futuristic, dystopian world in the present-day United States, known simply as the Society. Foreign rights were sold to 30 countries before publication. ![]() The Matched novel has been optioned to the Walt Disney Company for a film adaptation. This helped the novel reach a national audience. Previously working with a small, Utah-based publisher ( Deseret Book Co.), Condie took her manuscript to Penguin Random House, after being advised to do so from her director at Deseret Book. The novel Matched was published by Dutton Penguin in November 2010 and reached number three on the Children's Chapter Books bestseller list in January. The Society seems to be formed after an apocalyptical global warming event. The Matched trilogy is a young adult, dystopian fiction series written by American author Ally Condie, set in a centrally governed society. Print ( hardcover and paperback), audiobook, e-book ![]() ![]() In a letter to Joyce dated April 23, 1906, Richards singled out for criticism certain passages in “Two Gallants,” “Counterparts” and “Grace” that he thought offensive to public taste. Originally he had 10 stories in mind: “The Sisters,” “An Encounter,” “The Boarding House,” “After the Race,” “Eveline,” “Clay,” “Counterparts,” “A Painful Case,” “Ivy Day in the Committee Room,” and “A Mother.” Toward the end of 1905, before he sent the collection to the London publisher Grant Richards, Joyce added two more stories-“Araby” and, what was then the final story, “Grace.” During 1906, he wrote “Two Gallants” and “A Little Cloud,” which he submitted to Richards along with a revision of “The Sisters,” thus expanding the number of stories to 14.Īlmost immediately after agreeing to bring out the stories, however, Richards began to voice objections to portions of Joyce’s writing. ![]() It was a searing analysis of Irish middle- and lower-middle-class life, with Dublin not simply as its geographical setting but as the emotional and psychological locus as well. Though he finished the final story, “The Dead,” in spring of 1907, difficulties in finding a publisher and Joyce’s initial refusal to alter any passage thought to be objectionable kept it from being published by Grant Richards until 1914.įrom their inception, Joyce intended the stories to be part of a thematically unified and chronologically ordered series. This is the title that Joyce gave to his collection of 15 short stories written over a three-year period (1904–07). ![]() ![]() ![]() Jake takes short trial trip to see if Al is crazy or not. It's as though if he changes the past and did not do it correctly, he gets a "do-over." Also interesting is the fact that, no matter what he has done to change the past when he time travels, once he comes back to 2011 and returns to 1958 again, everything he did to change the past resets itself, as though it is the first time he has entered the past. No matter how long he stays in the past (and has stayed there for as long as five years), in the present-day of 2011, he finds that he is only actually gone for two minutes when he returns. When stepping down his back staircase into the time portal, Al always comes upon the same day and year, no matter how many times he has been there. He tells Jake there are few things he must know if he takes on this task to change history on his own, since he (Al) cannot accomplish it, though he has tried once. He decides to tell Jake about the portal and tells him his idea of stopping the JFK murder and perhaps changing history and avoiding the killing of thousands of young men involved in the Vietnam war. Al decides that he should do something more important with his ability to time travel, but he is getting old and now has terminal cancer. ![]() |