![]() ![]() Throughout the city's "museum of neglect"―its swaths of abandoned buildings, its miles of urban prairie―he tracks both the blight and the signs of its repurposing, from the school for pregnant teenagers to a beleaguered UAW local from metal scrappers and gun-toting vigilantes to artists reclaiming abandoned auto factories from the organic farming on empty lots to GM's risky wager on the Volt electric car from firefighters forced by budget cuts to sleep in tents to the mayor's realignment plan (the most ambitious on record) to move residents of half-empty neighborhoods into a viable, new urban center. With an eye for both the darkly absurd and the radically new, Detroit-area native Mark Binelli has chronicled this convergence. ![]() ![]() Urban planners, land speculators, neopastoral agriculturalists, and utopian environmentalists―all have been drawn to Detroit's baroquely decaying, nothing-left-to-lose frontier. But the city's worst crisis yet (and that's saying something) has managed to do the unthinkable: turn the end of days into a laboratory for the future. Once America's capitalist dream town, Detroit is our country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the farthest. ![]()
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![]() He finished his primary and secondary education in Concord before completing his undergraduate education at Harvard. Which of Thoreau's ideas were presented in the text? Check the two boxes that best apply. Brief Biography of Henry David Thoreau Henry David Thoreau was born on Jin Concord Massachusetts, to John Thoreau, a pencil maker, and Cynthia Dunbar. ![]() With this context, what idea can you expect to find in Thoreau's essay "Civil Disobedience"? disapproval of government involvement Which main point do you anticipate Thoreau will make in his essay? Citizens should not support a government that does unethical things. Based on Thoreau's transcendental beliefs, why might he have written an essay opposing the war? to explain the individual's responsibilities within a corrupt society Consider what you know about transcendental beliefs, Thoreau's response to the Mexican-American War, and the details surrounding the war. Which of the following statements explains one of the reasons Thoreau opposed the Mexican-American War? He believed that the war was fought to add more slave states to the United States. ![]() ![]() ![]() Things get weird quick though when Flo has close to what everyone thought was a nervous breakdown. The weekend at Flo's aunt's house was anything but enjoyable though, at first we see them start to get to know each other, talking about their lives and what they do for a living while playing drinking games. This is a confession she wasn't expecting and while Claire has done nothing wrong, Nora finds herself angry and resentful towards her. When Claire finally tells her the reason why she has invited her, Nora is completely blindsided. When Claire arrives, Nora finally gets to aske her face to face why would she reach out after such a long time, especially when Nora picked up and disappeared without giving anyone any explanation and without saying goodbye. Nora hasn't spoken to Claire in 10 years though, and the reason why she was invited to the Hen was still a mystery to her. ![]() ![]() ![]() This groundbreaking and widely acclaimed novel tells an unforgettable story about love, loss, and redemption. There, he connects with a misfit group of aspiring heroes, and together these unlikely heroes become friends and begin to uncover a plot to kill the superheroes. An openly gay film producer and novelist, Moore wrote Hero after finding queer characters in comic books largely mistreated and wanted to present a more positive image. But joining the League opens up a new world to Thom. And he's been asked to join the League - the very organization of superheroes that disowned Hal. ![]() The last thing in the world Thom wants is to add to his father's pain, so he keeps secrets. Plus, his father, Hal Creed, was one of the greatest and most beloved superheroes of his time until a catastrophic event left him disfigured and an outcast. They've picked up on something different about Thom. ![]() Even though Thom Creed's a basketball star, his high school classmates keep their distance. Funny, exciting novel about a teenage boy growing up with two secrets: one, that he has superpowers - two, that he's gay. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The remaining 250 pages are insulting not only to the reader but also to the characters, who are meant to represent Starfleet and The Vulcan Academy’s best and brightest and yet are too dense to figure out who the obvious culprit is. I was able to correctly guess the murderer and their motive within the first 20 pages. With no official law-enforcement body on the virtually crimeless Vulcan, Kirk must take the investigation into his own hands and until the killer is caught, Amanda’s life is imperilled.Īs others have said, the mystery itself is laughable. Soon enough, patients start dying – the cause is written down to a catastrophic equipment failure, but Kirk suspects foul-play. Spock’s mother Amanda also happens to be undergoing the same treatment and Kirk is quickly drawn into the complex web of Spock’s familial drama. land on Vulcan to seek out an experimental medical treatment for a wounded Ensign in critical condition. Jean Lorrah’s Original Series novel The Vulcan Academy Murders promises a murder mystery, a family drama and a nuanced exploration of Vulcan society and culture, but fails to deliver on all fronts. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Īfter Resident Evil 5 (2009) and Resident Evil 6 (2012) received mixed reviews, the franchise returned to survival horror with Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (2017) and Resident Evil Village (2021), which used a first-person perspective. With Resident Evil 4 (2005), the franchise shifted to more dynamic shooting action, achieved acclaim and influenced the evolution of the survival horror and third-person genres, popularizing the "over-the-shoulder" third-person view. It is credited for defining the survival horror genre and returning zombies to popular culture. ![]() The first Resident Evil was created by Shinji Mikami and Tokuro Fujiwara and released for the PlayStation in 1996. Resident Evil is the highest-grossing horror franchise. The franchise has expanded into other media, including a live-action film series, animated films, television series, comic books, novels, audio dramas and merchandise. It consists of survival horror, third-person shooter and first-person shooter games, with players typically surviving in environments inhabited by zombies and other frightening creatures. Resident Evil, or Biohazard in Japan and Southeast Asia, is a Japanese horror game series and media franchise created by Capcom. ![]() ![]() ![]() Winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, The Bamboo Stalk is a “ celebrated novel in the Arabic-speaking world.” In 2016, it was adapted into TV series but was banned in Kuwait due to its provocative theme. Caught between two worlds, Jose grapples with his identity. A few years later, however, he is summoned to Kuwait. Rashid has to send Josephine and the child, now 2 months old, back to the Philippines. At the time, Josephine already bears their child, which angers Rashid’s mother. But while Josephine is from a poor family, Rashid is from an affluent clan and his family is not in favor of the couple’s marriage. There he meets Rashid, and they secretly get married. Josephine flies for Kuwait to work as a maid. It was first published in Arabic in 2013 and translated into English in 2015. ABNKKBSNPLAko is a 2001 autobiography by Filipino author Bob Ong his first and most popular work. The Bamboo Stalk, which is a bestseller in Kuwait, touches on this global issue. ![]() Many poor Filipina women go to the Middle East, among other places, to work as domestic workers, often finding themselves in abusive workplaces. ![]() ![]() ![]() This series is unfortunately beginning to lose its danger.Buy - if you are already invested in the Frontiers Saga and want to know what happens next and you can't borrow the book.Borrow - if you are already invested in the Frontiers Saga.Pass - if you are looking for complicated character development or political intrigue. ![]() Almost being destroyed by a Battleship and then having 7 of those troops take the ship? Yeah right. A Show of Force (2015) The Weak and the Innocent (2015) That Which Other Men Cannot Do (2015) Publication Order of Frontiers Saga: Rogue Castes Books. 30 troops taking on the command post and staff of an entire occupying force? I don't think so. Ryk Brown is an American author and creator of The Frontiers Saga. ![]() Now that we are at the core cast of characters it appears that they are going to remain.Brown just about broke the suspension of disbelief when the Gatazhak came in and swept everyone clean and took Earth back. Long lost is the anticipation of the imminent destruction of the Aurora and the death of her crew. ![]() You had to keep your eyes and ears open, and on occasion, take the time to reflect upon your experiences, both big and small, for every one of them has something to teach you. Liberation is a quick, enjoyable read that discusses how the Aurora and her crew deal with a Jung-occupied Earth.The rest of the review is a spoiler -While I am still enjoying Brown's saga of the Aurora and her crew, I am getting a bit annoyed at how easily they are getting out of scrapes. My father once told me that life itself was the best education. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s the sound of the words – and since I’m lucky enough to have studied ancient Greek, that’s something that I think really lies at the heart of the poetry. It’s the uniqueness of the epithets – ‘the wine-dark sea’, ‘swift-footed Achilles’, and all the other well-known collocations. It’s the rhythm of the ancient Greek poetry, written in a dialect that would have sounded old-fashioned even by the time democracy came to Athens in around 500 BC. In the end, you’re reading Homer’s Iliad, and if you just want to cut to the chase and get to the content of the story then you will get the same timeless tale whichever translation you pick: the famous story of Achilles’ rage, the devastating siege of Troy, and Hector’s tragic death.īut, to me at least, the Iliad is so much more than just its plot. ![]() Well, the answer to that is yes – and no. How on earth are you supposed to pick one – and aren’t they all translations of the same text anyway?ĭoes it really matter which one you choose? ![]() It can be disorientating to say the least when you walk into a bookshop and see the sheer numbers of different translations of the Iliad on the shelf. ![]() ![]() For Captain Jean-Luc Picard, defending the future has never been so important, or so personal-and the wrong choice will cost him everything for which he has struggled and suffered.įor Captain William Riker, that choice has already been made. ![]() An audacious plan could stop them forever, but it carries risks that one starship captain is unwilling to take. The soldiers of Armageddon are on the march, laying waste to worlds in their passage. The third and final novel in an epic crossover trilogy uniting characters from every corner of the Star Trek universe, revealing the shocking origin and final fate of the Federation's most dangerous enemy-the Borg. ![]() |