![]() And then suddenly.you have this epiphany that there's more to the world than just you and what you want or even who you are." ![]() ![]() Like a sunrise or a clear blue day or the most extraordinary piece of glass. It doesn't make you forget yourself, but totally the opposite.It connects you with everything and fills you with awe that you share the same space with something that glorious. "Maybe we don't have the same definition about what's beautiful. Here's an example of a conversation revolving around beauty in Justina Chen Headley's award-winning novel NORTH OF BEAUTIFUL: With the onslaught of media stating that everyone should look a certain way, it's hard when a person doesn't fit that mold, especially during the high school years. It's true that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. ![]() What is beauty? Ask 100 people, get 100 different answers. ![]()
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By using the Platform and the Atome Services, you agree to be bound by these Terms and are deemed to have executed these Terms electronically. ![]() Please read these Terms of Service (“Terms”) carefully. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The historian Joseph Crespino explains, "In the twentieth century, To Kill a Mockingbird is probably the most widely read book dealing with race in America, and its main character, Atticus Finch, the most enduring fictional image of racial heroism." As a Southern Gothic novel and Bildungsroman, the primary themes of To Kill a Mockingbird involve racial injustice and the destruction of innocence. Atticus Finch, the narrator's father, has served as a moral hero for many readers and as a model of integrity for lawyers. The plot and characters are loosely based on Lee's observations of her family, her neighbors and an event that occurred near her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, in 1936, when she was ten.ĭespite dealing with the serious issues of rape and racial inequality, the novel is renowned for its warmth and humor. ![]() To Kill a Mockingbird has become a classic of modern American literature a year after its release, it won the Pulitzer Prize. In the United States, it is widely read in high schools and middle schools. It was published in 1960 and was instantly successful. ![]() To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by the American author Harper Lee. ![]() ![]() ![]() He worked the plate for World Series Game 7 in 1991, when Minnesota's Jack Morris pitched a 10-inning shutout to beat Atlanta 1-0. But he persevered and resumed a career of excellence.ĭenkinger umpired in many of his era's big games. ![]() And now it´s part of history.'ĭenkinger received threatening notes in the offseason, and the FBI investigated. 'Nobody wants to have the call that I did in the World Series,' Denkinger told the AP in 2014. The Royals won 11-0 the following night for the championship. ![]() Louis had a 3-2 Series lead over Kansas City and was ahead 1-0 in the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 6, three outs from the title, when pinch-hitter Jorge Orta led off with a slow bouncer to the right side.įirst baseman Jack Clark ranged to field the ball and flipped a sidearm toss to reliever Todd Worrell covering the bag.ĭenkinger signaled safe but replays showed Worrell caught the throw on the base ahead of the runner.Īfter Steve Balboni's single, a bunt, a passed ball and an intentional walk, pinch-hitter Dane Iorg looped a two-run single into right field for a 2-1 walk-off win that forced Game 7. ![]() Louis Cardinals manager Whitey Herzog, left, is ejected by home plate umpire Don Denkinger, center, during Game 7 of the baseball team's World Series against the Kansas City Royals in 1985 ![]() ![]() A team of City experts is exploring options to replace it with a smaller base that would no longer operate as a fountain. The Water and Parks & Recreation bureaus teamed up to salvage as much stone as possible and cover the site in gravel.īut the historic fountain would be difficult to rebuild. The Regional Arts & Culture Council has stored the elk safely and fully restored it with funding from the City’s arts insurance policy.Ĭity officials went to great lengths to preserve the base and fountain, too. ![]() ![]() To protect the statue, the City’s nonprofit arts partner removed it on July 2, 2020. Protestors lit several fires in the fountain’s troughs and destroyed portions of the granite. Nine years later, as a racial justice reckoning swept the United States, downtown Portland became a focal point for nightly protests. The elk’s antlers were damaged by protestors during the Occupy Movement of 2011. ![]() A crane removes the Thompson Elk from downtown Portland following damage sustained during protests. ![]() ![]() This injury would later cause him to be almost entirely blind. Because of the lack of medical technology, Thurber lost his eye. Once, while playing a game of William Tell, his brother William shot James in the eye with an arrow. ![]() Thurber had two brothers, William and Robert. Thurber described his mother as a "born comedienne" and "one of the finest comic talents I think I have ever known." She was a practical joker, on one occasion pretending to be crippled and attending a faith healer revival, only to jump up and proclaim herself healed. His father, a sporadically employed clerk and minor politician who dreamed of being a lawyer or an actor, is said to have been the inspiration for the small, timid protagonist typical of many of his stories. Both of his parents greatly influenced his work. Thurber and Mary Agnes (Mame) Fisher Thurber. Thurber was born in Columbus, Ohio to Charles L. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Santie Claus, why? Why are you taking our Christmas tree? Why?”.“Well, I hate to disagree with you, but not only IS there such a person, here I am to prove it.”. ![]()
![]() ![]() Lizzie reminds Bridget of her mentally disabled sister, Cara, for whose condition she feels responsible. Bridget’s fiance, Liam, wants her to quit, but she’s reluctant to leave a well-paid job. Bridget’s grateful for her friendship and help with chores, but she finds Lizzie’s sleepwalking, spying, and screaming matches with her father deeply upsetting. ![]() ![]() Lizzie, lonely, unstable, and combative, has attached herself to Bridget, following her when she leaves the house. Interest in Lizzie Borden, tried and acquitted in the brutal 1892 murder of her father and stepmother, has never flagged this fictional retelling depicts the unsolved crime from the perspective of the family’s live-in, Irish-immigrant maid, Bridget Sullivan.Īndrew Borden rules his household through tightfisted micromanagement and intimidation his second wife, Abigail, passive and reclusive, communicates via written lists Emma, Lizzie’s older sister, is seldom home. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Before her strange dreams and her special brand of persistence had helped rescue his brother. William Rose had told Quinn she was making a mistake that lying to her family and friends and risking everything to visit his family in a world where she didn't belong was only going to lead to heartache.īut that was before - before she'd dropped everything to be there for him when he needed her. Now, with her mother not talking, her best friend mad at her for disappearing, and her boyfriend, Zander, suspicious and confused, Quinn is left with only one person to turn to. What she wasn't prepared for was seeing her mother calmly sitting there, waiting for her return, as if Megan Robbins somehow knew the secret, too.Īnd she really wasn't prepared to have her mother not speaking to her, not sharing whatever she knows. After all, she'd disappeared for two days without warning to visit the world on the other side of the Dusk Gate that nobody else knows exists. ![]() Quinn Robbins was prepared for her mother to be angry. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Post-modernist examination of textual versus metaphorical literary significance In tune with the allusions to Narcissus, the world is contained within itself and has become a egotistical system moving toward a chaotic sense of orderlessness. As Grant comments, "Sorting,' therefore, becomes an absolutely central metaphor, and the fact that Oedipa singles this concept out for objection is an indication of her intuitive grasp of her own predicament." The closed system will move toward entropy in the same manner that the entire universal system will, both existentially and rationally. ![]() By dividing the two types of molecules into different compartments so that heat is created and maintained, the molecules do not have a chance to share properties until an equilibrium is reached. The sorting inherent in the machine would actually preserve a world able to remain heterogeneous. In Maxwell's Demon, Nefastis created a machine which works directly with Pynchon's theme of entropy. In thematic terms, entropy represents Pynchon's concern with our culture's movement toward intellectual inertia. The process of entropy leads to the inevitable progression of a closed system to patterned, chaotic sameness. ![]() |