He has this veneer, that he’ll sail through life and never lose. There are people one has known and then there are the people you don’t know, but who are quite prominent in the news cycle. “Oh, you know,” he purrs, his refined, almost old-fashioned voice more or less undisturbed by the years in LA. Who inspired this creep? Someone he knew at boarding school? He laughs. Every one in which he doesn’t cries out for his return. Every scene in which he appears is electrifying. Harris is the greatest television actor of his generation. A nouveau riche horror show in chinos and deck shoes, his character appears to have not a single redeeming feature: if you heard his booming, entitled voice at an airport check-in, you’d pray all the way to the gate not to find him in the seat next to yours. I n The Beast Must Die, a TV series adapted from a dusty 1930s thriller by Nicholas Blake (AKA the poet Cecil Day-Lewis), Jared Harris plays a man who may, or may not, have knocked down a child while driving his sports car too fast around the Isle of Wight.
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6/30/2023 0 Comments Harari sapiensIt is still in progress and may yet finish us all off. Then came a long process of unifying mankind and colonising the Earth until, finally, the scientific revolution began about 500 years ago. About 70,000 years ago, the cognitive revolution kickstarted our history, and about 12,000 years ago the agricultural revolution speeded it up. Harari organises humankind around four different milestones. The book’s surface is brilliantly clear, witty and erudite but its underlying message is dark. Instead, it offers a bravura retelling of the human story seasoned with more personal reflections on man’s tenancy of the planet. Was the invention of cooking the reason for man’s evolutionary success or was our facility for culture the key? Was the progress of humanity driven by kindness or by warfare and aggression? Did our earliest ancestors live in promiscuous communes, as depicted in Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá’s bestselling Sex at Dawn? Or in respectable monogamy, as argued in Lynn Saxon’s less successful Sex at Dusk? One of the charms of Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens is that it avoids such simplistic explanations. W here do we come from? Our insatiable curiosity about our origins has provoked a raft of different answers to that question. Learning Context | Procedure | Instructional/Environmental Modifications | Time Required | Resources | Assessment Plan | Student Work | Reflection LE Title: “Talking” to Author Jan Brett via E-mailĪuthor: Hilda C. It’s worth noting that some of Brett’s earlier books, such as Fritz and the Beautiful Horses and The Trouble with Trolls, have been re-illustrated and republished in newer editions. Here are her books in order of publication: Jan Brett is a beloved children’s author and illustrator known for her stunningly illustrated picture books that often feature animals as the main characters. Attention is drawn to the kinds of things students might want to tell the author. Anticipation of the author’s answer to the class e-mail is integral to creating interest throughout the unit. Students are told that they will have an opportunity to communicate with Jan Brett, via the e-mailing of a class letter. 6/30/2023 0 Comments Squadron supreme mark gruenwaldGuest-starring Captain America and featuring the end of a world at the hands of the Scarlet Centurion! Collecting SQUADRON SUPREME (1985) #1-12, CAPTAIN AMERICA (1968) #314 and SQUADRON SUPREME: DEATH OF A UNIVERSE. The Squadron characters were apparently already in play in Marvel - the core team members are each explicitly modeled on a famous DC character - and Gruenwald. And when the Squadrons foes flee to the Marvel Universe, which side will Captain America take Master writer Mark Gruenwald explores the ethics of justice in. Spectrum! The Whizzer! Nighthawk! What happens when the greatest heroes of an alternate world institute the Utopia Project, vowing to abolish war and crime, to eliminate poverty and hunger, and to cure death itself! Can they possibly succeed? And when do heroes stop being heroes? Mark Gruenwald explores the ethics of heroism in his best-known story. |