He is currently working on a book project entitled "Flowers on the Tree of Poetry: The Moral Economy of Literature in Buddhist Sri Lanka. His most recent book is Therigatha: Poems of the First Buddhist Women (Harvard University Press, 2015). His research centers on Theravada Buddhism in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia, Pali language and literature, Buddhist ethics, and literature in Buddhist culture. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities in the Committee on the Study of Religion and the Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies from 1996 to 2001. Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-285) and index. Text in Pali with English translation on facing page. Responsibility translated by Charles Hallisey. Earlier, he taught in the Department of Theology at Loyola University in Chicago, and at Harvard University, where he was John L. Therigatha : poems of the first Buddhist women. He joined the Faculty of Divinity in 2007–08 after teaching at the University of Wisconsin as Associate Professor in the Department of Languages and Cultures of Asia and the Religious Studies Program since 2001. Video recording available post-event on YouTubeĬharles Hallisey is the Yehan Numata Senior Lecturer on Buddhist Literatures at the Harvard Divinity School. These women were thers, the senior ones, among. Registration required (with active Stanford ID Cards) The Thergth, composed more than two millennia ago, is an anthology of poems in the Pali language by and about the first Buddhist women.
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It was the right moment for Spencer to have a library cat. “A 1950s matinee idol, suave and cool,” according to the smitten Myron. He was also a handsome devil, with a lustrous orange-and-white coat and huge golden eyes. Always, he exhibited exemplary behavior – “calm, patient, dignified, intelligent, and above all, outgoing.” They named him Dewey (naturally) and he lived the rest of his 19-plus years in Spencer’s library.ĭewey greeted patrons when they arrived at the door, snoozed on the shelves, snuggled in the laps of readers, and attended all meetings and story hours. She and her staff revived him – and decided to keep him. Myron, the former director of the Spencer, Iowa, public library, tells the true story of the tiny, frozen kitten she found pushed through the book-return slot one bitter-cold January morning in 1988. Sure enough, the little guy had crawled his way right into my heart. Instead, I made it to the last page and I was crying when I got there. I picked this book up dubiously, expecting a big, gooey cinnamon roll of a read – way too sticky-sweet to merit more than a few bites. That pretty well also describes my experience with Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron with Bret Witter. “A dog leaps immediately into your heart. The day a stray cat unexpectedly arrived in our dog-centric home, my ardently cat-loving cousin Jeanne had a word of advice. Foucault expresses strong dislike and anger in regards to what in his view was moral hypocrisy in modern psychiatry (Foucault 265). The latter book was created in a Parisian hospital. Foucault’s views on prisons and psychiatric hospitals are clearly evident in his books The History of Madness published in 1961, and in Discipline and Punish that was published 14 years later, in 1975. He shows how negative societal rules have damaged human moral norms, as well as the oppresing role the government plays. He expresses how the elite dominate the less fortunate memebers of the society by means of their power and influence. In the book, Discipline and Punishment, Foucault focuses on the issues of domination and power. The main concern of Foucault consists in the way technology has influenced quest for power among the ruling class in the society, and also the reason as to why the society is violating the rules of government. The main theme of the book is the struggle that people lead against those who have power in the society, in other words, against wealthy and influential people. There are various books written by Foucault one of them is Birth of the Clinic which was published in 1963. Most English translations do not keep the Russian spelling, which is odd as the name is an occasional part of the poetry, not least in its final line it has, in other words, a key role in the rhythm. I imagine that even the decision not to Anglicise the hero’s name to Eugene took time. It’s taken 15 years to get round to the famous verse-novel about the bored, hapless aristo Yevgeny Onegin, but then the first English translation didn’t appear until 1881, 50 years after the work had been completed, so perhaps we should appreciate the difficulty of the exercise (the next English translation didn’t appear until 50 years after that). P ushkin Press has finally done it: it has published the key work of the writer it is named after. I like this activity because students get to choose events they feel are most important in the literary work and standout to them. This allows students to use more space when drawing/coloring pictures. There are no text boxes for the pictures. I also provided a copy of one template that indicates where the pictures should be written. This simply forces students to be selective with their words when they write their short description. The lined space for the fifth event is limited. The spacing ranges from single space, space and a half, and double space. Each copy has different line spacing to accommodate the different level of writers (or penmanship). This worksheet is one page however, there are three different copies. There is enough space for students to list five major events. I enjoy having students draw and color their art. Students will also draw a picture of each event. Beginning at the bottom left of the page, students will number each major event in the literary work and write a short description of the event. This worksheet has a staircase pattern that moves from the bottom left to the upper right of the paper. This plot graph is presented in landscape view. they might lose their hearts in the process. Because if this isn't paradise, and it isn't a vacation - that only leaves one option. And an unfortunate episode with Viagra tea - and there's one thing Jace knows for sure: He should never have agreed to Grandma Nadine's suggestion in the first place. Now he's stuck with her at some lame couple's retreat and trying his hardest to fight the attraction only a woman like Beth could invoke. Then again, he can't remember much of anything other than the way her skin felt beneath his hands. Jace isn't looking for commitment - he believes he made that clear when he left the wedding with Beth. And what should have been a one night stand turns into a six day adventure when Grandma whisks them off to Hawaii to save them from the ensuing media firestorm. The biggest problem? She can't seem to remember anything about the night before except for crying into a box of cookies, and she's pretty sure Grandma Nadine slipped something in her drink. until she wakes up in a hotel bed next to a sexy as sin state senator she re-connected with at a wedding the previous night. Boring Beth Lynn has always lived up to her nickname. Boring Beth Lynn has always lived up to her nickname until she wakes up in a hotel bed next to a sexy as sin state senator she re-connected with at a wedding the previous night. From #1 NYT Bestselling Author Rachel Van Dyken, comes the third and final book in the bestselling Bet Series. Title The Dare Author Rachel Van Dyken Publication Date JSeries The Bet, 3. In time, she became a creative vice president at the high-profile McKinney & Silver, in Raleigh. Karon went on to have a highly successful career in the field, winning awards for ad agencies from Charlotte to San Francisco. She advanced in the company after leaving samples of her writing on the desk of her boss, who eventually noticed her talent. Karon married as a teenager and had a daughter, Candace.Īt 18, Karon began working as a receptionist for a Charlotte, N.C. 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Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! is a wonderful, whimsical musical based upon the classic Dr. Original Production Conceived and Directed by Jack O’BrienĪmerica’s favorite holiday fable returns for its 19th joyous year, and we’ve added a week!ĭr. The Old Globe and University of San Diego Shiley Graduate Theatre Program. Community Group Readings and Performances. And in literature this can be a bit annoying since the timeline can feel muddled but at the same time it is a more natural way of talking and thinking for the characters. Another are time descriptive where as vague as we humans often are a time can be described half a year that was two months to almost a year because our time memory often are quite loose. Like a colour if the shade are a in between a few different words can be used without the shade described changing. Usually in literature we acknowledge quite unnatural often that we used another word that definitely can be used but can mean something different. The thing is for the most time the details that I often gets hung up over with Sherwood's writing are details that either can have several descriptors so it's quite likely even with one character choosing a few different that are not necessarily indicative the same mental image on their own but together actually gives a more full image. still I'm nitpicking because I enjoy Sherwood's stories so well, and Toma and Amato always deliver so gripping narration. And a time where I get jarred out of the scene by a detail i either missed or forgotten. Still their could be a bit more editing both on the performance (a few time I'm pretty sure a lines are read with the wrong voice). I love Sherwood's sweet, humorous and light while including darkness. |