5/19/2023 0 Comments Fox in a box dr seuss![]() Here, the skit was part of a job: that of a "famous tweetle beetle statistician. The tweetle beetle skit was featured in The Hoober-Bloob Highway, a 1975 CBS television special. In 1996, Publishers Weekly noted that it was the 25th-best-selling hardcover children's book of all time, with 2.95M copies sold. Kirkus Reviews considered it an "amusing exercise for beginning readers", but noted that the tongue-twisters made little sense when removed from the context of their illustrations. He then thanks an astonished Fox for all the "fun" and takes leave. Finally, as Fox gives Knox an extended dissertation on "Tweetle Beetles" who fight each other with paddles while standing in a puddle inside a bottle on a noodle-eating poodle, a fed-up Knox interrupts and pushes him into the bottle, calling it a "tweetle beetle noodle poodle bottled paddled muddled duddled fuddled wuddled fox in socks". As the book progresses, Fox describes each situation with rhymes that progress in complexity, with Knox periodically complaining about the difficulty of the tongue-twisters. After taking those four rhyming items through several permutations, more items are added (chicks, bricks, blocks, clocks), and so on. ![]() The book begins by introducing Fox and Knox along with some props (a box and a pair of socks). It features two main characters, Fox (an anthropomorphic fox) who speaks almost entirely in densely rhyming tongue-twisters and Knox (a yellow anthropomorphic dog) who has a hard time following up Fox's tongue-twisters until the end. ![]()
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5/19/2023 0 Comments Dewey and democracy![]() If its resistance is greater than the force of the blow struck, it remains outwardly unchanged. The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain themselves by renewal. ![]() Chapter One: Education as a Necessity of LifeĬhapter Two: Education as a Social FunctionĬhapter Five: Preparation, Unfolding, and Formal DisciplineĬhapter Six: Education as Conservative and ProgressiveĬhapter Seven: The Democratic Conception in EducationĬhapter Nine: Natural Development and Social Efficiency as AimsĬhapter Fourteen: The Nature of Subject MatterĬhapter Fifteen: Play and Work in the CurriculumĬhapter Sixteen: The Significance of Geography and HistoryĬhapter Seventeen: Science in the Course of StudyĬhapter Twenty: Intellectual and Practical StudiesĬhapter Twenty-one: Physical and Social Studies: Naturalism and HumanismĬhapter Twenty-two: The Individual and the WorldĬhapter Twenty-Three: Vocational Aspects of EducationĬhapter Twenty-four: Philosophy of EducationĬhapter Twenty-five: Theories of Knowledgeġ. ![]() ![]() ![]() A 'classic' medieval melodrama that sounds like all the Saturday serials you ever saw feverishly reworked by the Marx Brothers." -Newsweek "One of the funniest, most original, and deeply moving novels I have read in a long time." -Los Angeles Times, PRAISE FOR THE PRINCESS BRIDE " swashbuckling fable is nutball funny. ![]() A 'classic' medieval melodrama that sounds like all the Saturday serials you ever saw feverishly reworked by the Marx Brothers." - Newsweek "One of the funniest, most original, and deeply moving novels I have read in a long time." - Los Angeles Times, PRAISE FORTHE PRINCESS BRIDE " swashbuckling fable is nutball funny. PRAISE FOR THE PRINCESS BRIDE " swashbuckling fable is nutball funny. ![]() 5/19/2023 0 Comments The leavenworth case book![]() ![]() ![]() It moved in surges, like a roller coaster on a series of drops and high-banked turns. The slope of the terrain, shaped like a funnel, squeezed the growing swell of churning snow into a steep, twisting gorge. Somewhere inside, it also carried people. Others it captured and added to its violent load. The avalanche, in Washington’s Cascades in February, slid past some trees and rocks, like ocean swells around a ship’s prow. Moving about 7o miles per hour, it crashed through the sturdy old-growth trees, snapping their limbs and shredding bark from their trunks. Within seconds, the avalanche was the size of more than a thousand cars barreling down the mountain and weighed millions of pounds. Snow shattered and spilled down the slope. Somewhere above, a pristine meadow cracked in the shape of a lightning bolt, slicing a slab nearly 200 feet across and 3 feet deep. The very thing the 16 skiers and snowboarders had sought - fresh, soft snow - instantly became the enemy. The snow burst through the trees with no warning but a last-second whoosh of sound, a two-story wall of white and Chris Rudolph’s piercing cry: “Avalanche! Elyse!” ![]() 5/19/2023 0 Comments The Diabolic by S.J. Kincaid![]() ![]() Nuanced social commentary and philosophical musings give thematic weight to a story grounded in a passionate, tragically antagonistic relationship. The intrigue- and betrayal-packed plot never feels like twists for the sake of twists because character decisions are rooted in their complex, often contradictory, emotions. ![]() In doing so, they uncover some of the empire’s deepest secrets. But, unable to go along with Tyrus’ cruelty, Nemesis and Anguish must leverage every connection they have to enable Tyrus’ opponents to take him down. As “Nemesis lives” has been taken up as a rallying cry by those opposing the tyrant, she loses anonymity and returns to Tyrus, who finds he misses her, in exchange for medical care for Anguish. Meanwhile, Nemesis, left by Neveni after Nemesis botched an assassination attempt on Tyrus, lives in hiding in a desolate mining colony with the only other surviving Diabolic, Anguish, who’s dying. ![]() Rather than a traditional start (either a recap or where the previous left off), the book opens with Tyrus’ boyhood, when he makes a personally painful decision for the greater good, with ramifications that set him on the path that finds him, 15 years later, a mad tyrant declared to be a God-Emperor. After narrowly surviving The Empress (2017), Nemesis is pulled back into imperial intrigue to stop a madman. ![]() 5/19/2023 0 Comments Sparknotes pride and prejudice![]() ![]() ![]() This conversation between Charlotte and Elizabeth highlights one of the primary reasons why Elizabeth clings for so long and so stubbornly onto her. That is very true, replied Elizabeth, and I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine. In confining the action of her novels to these settings, Austen implies that intense psychological drama can still unfold even within a small and seemingly uneventful world. If I may so express it, he has a right to be proud. For women like the Bennet sisters, opportunities to experience the world around them were relatively limited, and most of their lives were confined to the residences and private parties of a small circle of family and friends. The action moves between a few different locations in England, including Brighton, London, and the counties of Hertfordshire, Derbyshire, and Kent, but there is little detailed description of the geographic settings. Since the novel was written and revised between 17, we can assume Austen sets the novel at about the same time she was writing. ![]() The exact dates are unclear, but we know the action takes place some time during the Napoleonic Wars (1797-1815) because Austen references soldiers and regiments. Elizabeth is not impressed by mere wealth or. She is keen and perceptive, but Elizabeth's pride in that very ability engenders a prejudice that almost hinders her happy future with Darcy. Pride and Prejudice is set in England at some point in the very late 1700s-early 1800s. The novel's protagonist and the second oldest of her five sisters, Elizabeth Bennet is lively, quick-witted, sharp-tongued, bold and intelligent. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That’s a lot to deal with for a sheltered fourteen-year-old farm boy. Instead, he allows himself to be pulled deeper and deeper into Diana's world, doing crazy things like breaking into an insane asylum, traveling through waterfalls, confronting a Fourteenth-Century warrior, battling an old hag, and, worst of all, lying to his parents. Should he have run the other way when Diana showed him the things she can do with her mind and the amulet of crystals around her neck? No one would blame him if he did. Should he have told his parents instead of Widow McNeally and two of his sisters? Possibly. Should he have turned Diana over to the authorities instead of sneaking her home and hiding her in the loft of his barn? Maybe. His choices from that moment forward turn his life upside-down. During the ensuing hunt, those blasted boots caused him to break a priceless statue, freeing a girl named Diana, who had been trapped in stone for centuries. He thought he was okay with it all, really! However, something made him trip that bully of a classmate at the museum, making him number one on the goon’s hit-list. Even if Father and Mother are strict and detached, at least he has his eleven sisters and Widow McNeally on his side. ![]() It's not his fault that his only shoes are work boots, and that his wardrobe consists of overalls and thin T-shirts. Rendition Conducive To Books The Founder's Curse (New Zigon #1)John can't help that his last name is Brown or that he is a farmer. ![]() 5/18/2023 0 Comments Johannes cabal the detective![]() ![]() Assisted by his necrotic and neurotic brother Horst, and despite being warned that Satan only bets on a sure thing, Johannes “borrows” the devil’s Carnival of Discord (“dedicated to taking the souls of the unwary”) and begins a merry romp over a strange landscape. It turns out that hell is perhaps bureaucracy run amok, because each putative condemned soul (aka “damnee”) needs to sign a Voluntary Damnation Form. Because this ratio seems favorable to the devil, he agrees to the new bargain. At the very gates of hell, facing a damnable stack of forms to fill out, Cabal strikes yet another deal with the devil: He’s off the hook if he can get 100 souls to sign on the dotted line and turn themselves over to Satan within a year. But wait a minute-you know how these things work. ![]() Now his time is up, and Satan would like to reclaim his own. ![]() Years ago Johannes Cabal sold his soul to the devil in exchange for becoming a necromancer, hence acquiring the ability to raise the dead. Ham-fisted debut tries to get laughs from damnation. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In Bring back the King, Helen explains the cutting-edge science that makes the resurrection of extinct animals a very real possibility, and highlights her choices from eras gone by, from the King of the Dinosaurs, Tyrannosaurus rex, to the King of Rock 'n' Roll, Elvis Presley, From dinosaurs to Dodos, Neanderthals to rock legends, Bring Back the King explains how the burgeoning field of DNA science is being used to help resurrect not just individual animals but entire species from their stony graves. ![]() If you could bring back one living being from the whole of the history of time, what would you choose? Comedian and former stem-cell biologist Helen Pilcher has thought about this problem, a lot. ![]() ![]() ![]() *Naya's mom though sounds a bit like mine. So that's why it boggles my mind that people do this PURPOSELY! What thrill could you possibly get by feeling weak and shaky and like your about to pass out? BEEN THERE! DONE THAT! And that was not from an eating disorder but by a medical condition that I couldn't control. So I can't foresee myself punishing MYSELF by starving myself. Life punishes us in SO MANY ways, it's not even funny. *I* just don't understand how that works. *I will NEVER EVER EVER understand for the LIFE of me though how people can give themselves anorexia. *Then I tried to think back to her on the Fresh Prince but couldn't quite pull that appearance up. Not realizing that Redd Foxx came to the end of his career while on set for the show. *I slightly remembered The Royal Family & thankfully there were some episodes of it on YouTube to refer too. Back then I thought she was a little doll. *However, I do remember her as Gwendolyn from Family Matters. ![]() And frankly well to me it looked kind of corny when it initially aired that is. ![]() Because of the trillion shows on my watch list. * I tried to get into Glee but didn't quite. All listed in a journal-type way of what this sassy lady is sorry and not sorry for. It talked about her childhood roles, her high school days, her transition into adulthood, her years on Glee, her family's ups and downs, her relationships, and finally her marriage and child. This was the biography of Naya Rivera's life. ![]() |