![]() The book is the source of the well-known phrase " the medium is the message". He noted that all media have characteristics that engage the viewer in different ways for instance, a passage in a book could be reread at will, but a movie had to be screened again in its entirety to study any individual part of it. More controversially, he postulated that content had little effect on society-in other words, it did not matter if television broadcasts children's shows or violent programming. McLuhan states that "a light bulb creates an environment by its mere presence." He describes the light bulb as a medium without any content. A light bulb does not have content in the way that a newspaper has articles or a television has programs, yet it is a medium that has a social effect that is, a light bulb enables people to create spaces during nighttime that would otherwise be enveloped by darkness. McLuhan pointed to the light bulb as an example. ![]() ![]() The book is considered a pioneering study in media theory. He suggests that the medium affects the society in which it plays a role mainly by the characteristics of the medium rather than the content. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man is a 1964 book by Marshall McLuhan, in which the author proposes that the media, not the content that they carry, should be the focus of study. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() In piecing together the story of Grace's life and death through the letters, Mattie comes to understand and solve many of the problems standing in the way of her own happiness and independence. ![]() Out of that need was born the character of Mattie Gokey, the sixteen-year-old hotel employee who witnesses Grace's body being pulled from the lake the evening after Grace asks her to burn her love letters. She felt a genuine grief which was alleviated through writing Grace's story and giving it fresh meaning. Upon reading the transcripts of Chester Gillette's trial and hearing Grace's voice through the letters used as evidence, the presence of the young woman haunted Donnelly. What captured Donnelly's imagination, however, was Grace herself and how she could have been any nineteen-year-old girl. Dreiser's novel, An American Tragedy, renders the couple's plight as a dark outcome of the American dream gone awry. Her firsthand account, reinforced by Donnelly's reading of Theodore Dreiser's novel concerning the same murder, stirred Donnelly's curiosity. Donnelly's great-grandmother had been working at a hotel on the lake when the murder took place. Jennifer Donnelly grew up on the outskirts of the Adirondacks hearing tales and ballads of the 1906 murder of Grace Brown, a pregnant nineteen-year-old drowned by her lover in Big Moose Lake. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments The Rebel Pirate by Donna Thorland![]() ![]() Now branded a pirate herself, Sarah will do what she must to secure her family's safety and her own future. Then a Patriot mob destroyed her fortune and Wild played her false by marrying her best friend and smuggling a chest of Rebel gold aboard her family's ship. Before Boston became a powder keg, she was poised to escape the stigma of being a notorious pirate's daughter by wedding Micah Wild, one of Salem's most successful merchants. Sarah Ward never set out to break the law. But when one of the ship's boys turns out to be a lovely girl, with a loaded pistol and dead-shot aim, Sparhawk finds himself held hostage aboard a Rebel privateer. Sparhawk's duty is clear: confiscate the cargo, impound the vessel and seize the crew. The ship he's boarded is carrying ammunition and gold.into a country on the knife's edge of war. ![]() James Sparhawk, Master and Commander in the British Navy, knows trouble when he sees it. "Let Donna Thorland sweep you back to the American Revolution, into a world of spies, suspense, skullduggery, and sex."- New York Times Bestselling Author William Martin 1775, Boston Harbor. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Rage by julie anne peters![]() ![]() ![]() This did not sit well with me, and from the novel perspective was inconsistent with her character. I was disappointed with the protagonist and her reactions, not so much what she allowed to happen to herself, but what she allowed to happen to others. I found some of the character reactions a bit unreal, and rushed, but others have said that. In the end it didn't, and left me with an unhappy ending, not really sure what the protagonist learned from the experience. I kept hoping that an alternative to Reeve would appear in the story. It is very well written and narrated, with a lot of insight into topics and issues raised. This caused me to stop listening for a bit, get my courage up and then continue again. I was interested in the story, but it was clear it would not end well, from the onset. It covers some dark topics which includes violence, abuse, and volition (in the sense of taking advantage of someone). The story is interesting and captivating. ![]() There are many reviews of this on goodreads, so I wont detail out a full review here. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Monkey business by sarah mlynowski![]() ![]() This was an entertaining story about a girl who becomes so fixated on fame that she forgets what’s really important in life. ![]() ![]() The rule is the girls have to be single and ready to mingle, so Sunny has to keep her relationship with Steve a secret. There’s Brittany, who drinks a lot Erin, who hooks up with lots of guys and Michelle, who becomes Sunny’s confidante. Her father’s girlfriend helps her land a spot on a new reality TV show called Party Girls, which films a group of four women at a bar on a Saturday night. Sunny quits her job in Florida to move to New York to be with boyfriend Steve, who owns a restaurant. But how does she end the battle of Me vs Me? But in Phoenix she doesn't have a job, she's comfort eating and biting her nails, and of course she has to deal with Alice. Soon she decides that New York life maybe isn't for her - her best friend has started dating Cam, her flatmate is psycho. Suddenly Gabby is leading a double life - each morning, she either wakes up in Phoenix planning a wedding (or watching her overbearing mother-in-law Alice do it) or in New York being a TV producer. When Cam proposes to Gabby Wolf on the eve of her leaving for a dream job in New York, she wishes on a star that she didn't have to choose between a fiance and her job. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s important to be kind to yourself through this process and take as much time for self-care as you need. Go through the personal stuff last: This is likely to be the hardest category of things to go through - in fact, even Magnusson was unable to let go of some letters and photographs. If you want tidy drawers, it's probably worth learning how to fold clothes like Marie Kondo. ![]() There are plenty of clothes storage ideas our there and fabulous closet organizers to boot. While all your clothes are out, it’s also a prime time to get your dresser and closet organized. Donating your things will make getting rid of them easier, as you will know that they will bring joy to someone else. ![]() So it's no wonder Marie Kondo also advocates beginning with clothing. Clean out your clothes: For most people, clothes are also pretty easy to part with. This is the best place to start, as you’ve probably hidden these items away for a reason. Start with what you can’t see: If you have under-bed storage or above-the-closet cubbies that are full of forgotten belongings, chances are you won’t miss anything there. Here’s the order we’d recommend working in: We’re not talking about the physical heavy lifting here - you’ll want to work your way up to the things that will be most emotional to look through and part with. Start by creating a Death Cleaning to-do list, organized by types of belongings and in order of easiest to hardest to go through. (Image credit: Wayfair) How to do Swedish Death Cleaning Build a step-by-step ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Papers,, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library Biographical NoteĮdwin Herbert Lewis, rhetorician, novelist, and poet, was born in Westerly, Rhode Island, in 1866. This collection, the preferred citation is: Lewis, Edwin Herbert. The collection also includes the words to the University of Chicago "Alma Mater" which Lewis wrote in 1894. Correspondents include Rabindranath Tagore and George Carman. The Edwin Herbert Lewis Papers contain correspondence, diaries, notebooks, manuscripts, teaching materials, offprints, photographs, and memorabilia. Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research CenterĮdwin Herbert Lewis, writer and rhetorician. ![]() © 2006 University of Chicago Library Descriptive Summary Title: University of Chicago Library Guide to the Edwin Herbert Lewis Papers 1886-1939 ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments The colour of magic first edition![]() ![]() “I’m truly humbled by it all and blown away. He initially set a target of £250,000 but, after he hit that in 2013, he turned to what he called the “magic million” mark.Īs well his daily tours of Sheffield’s suburbs and city centre, he has taken part in 1,038 races – always pushing the pram he bought for his late daughter in 1961.Īnd he is one of the few figures who transcends Sheffield’s football divide as he is welcomed outside both Wednesday and United grounds on matchdays. John Burkhill is celebrating hitting his £1 million fundraising target (PA/Macmillan) ![]() He was inspired by the death of his wife, June, to cancer in 1993 – a year to the day after they lost their daughter, Karen, during a routine procedure. Mr Burkhill, who lives in the Handsworth area of the city, began fundraising for Macmillan in 2007. He spends his days bringing colour to the city’s streets, with his decorated pram, trademark green wig and giant foam hand, collecting cash as he chats with everyone he meets. John Burkhill, 84, has become one of the best-known characters in Sheffield. ![]() John Burkhill – The Man With The Pram – is one of Sheffield best-known characters.Ī pensioner who has dedicated his life to raising £1 million for Macmillan Cancer Support as The Man With The Pram said he is “humbled” and “blown away” after hitting his target. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Be Here Now by Ram Dass![]() Forty years later, it’s still part of the timeless present. Be Here Now continues to be the instruction manual of choice for generations of spiritual seekers. ![]() ![]() Through these teachings, Ram Dass has shared a little piece of Maharaj-ji with all who have listened to him.īe Here Now, Ram Dass’ monumentally influential and seminal work, still stands as the highly readable centerpiece of Western articulation of Eastern philosophy, and how to live with joy and love a hundred percent of the time in the present, luminous or mundane. Ram Dass teaches that through the Bhakti practice of unconditional love we can all connect with our true nature. Ram Dass’ spirit has been a guiding light for three generations, carrying along millions on the journey. In India, he met his guru, Neem Karoli Baba, affectionately known as Maharaj-ji, who gave Ram Dass his name, which means “servant of God.” Everything changed then – his intense dharmic life started, and he became a pivotal influence on a culture that has reverberated with the words “Be Here Now” ever since. He continued his psychedelic research until that fateful Eastern trip in 1967, when he traveled to India. Richard Alpert, a prominent Harvard psychologist and psychedelic pioneer with Dr. Ram Dass Here and Now Podcast Ram Dass first went to India in 1967. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments The awakening armstrong novel![]() ![]() Lyle’s creations? What about Brady and Liz, permanently removed from this study? Murdered. What about Simon and Derek, who’d already known what they were? How could they be part of this study? But Derek clearly was, if what Brady said was right. ![]() ![]() So they put us into a group home and told us we were crazy? Drugged us? That made no sense. We needed to ease you into the truth and ensure you didn’t harm yourselves or anyone else in the meantime.” But for others, such as you, your powers came too quickly. You and the others are part of that study. “Yes, instead allowing them to grow up as human, assimilating into human society without anxiety over the upcoming transition. One of the Edison Group’s theories is that it might be easier if our children don’t know of their future.” Adolescence is the most difficult time for us, as our powers begin to manifest. “Being a supernatural is both a blessing and curse. “Okay, so we’re part of this experiment….” I said. I know how that must sound, but I assure you, it’s a noninvasive study, using only benign psychological therapy.”īenign? There was nothing benign about what had happened to Liz and Brady. A pleasant smile erased the look and he eased back in his chair. His chin lifted, not much, just enough of a reaction to tell me I’d caught him off guard and that he didn’t like it. ![]() |