Sam miller blackfish city6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() A labyrinth of geothermal heating pipes crisscrosses the city and armies of drones operated by both the shareholders and rampant crime syndicates mean that nearly every inch of the floating city can be surveilled by camera. The wealth and power within the palindromic city of Qaanaaq are consolidated to a powerful few known as shareholders, whose identities are allowed to be kept anonymous. With very little in the way of unique inner lives, the characters seem to exist merely to blurt out extensive backstory and hugely expository dialogue used to propel a melodramatic plot that borrows liberally from the most contrived bits of The Matrix, Blade Runner and Star Wars universes. Miller creates an elaborate and intriguing floating Arctic city run almost entirely by advanced technology, only to populate it with garish yet depthless characters. ![]() Miller’s dystopian novel Blackfish City bites off more than it can chew. ![]()
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Books like the power of now6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() At present, he gives lectures all over the world. Since then, he has devoted himself to explaining, integrating, deepening this change, and sharing his practical experience to others. ![]() The experience, at that time, completely changed Tolle’s life. ![]() Since then, he has been living in a state of serenity and peace. However, just when he was on the brink of complete despair, an unexpected experience miraculously liberated him. In his youth, Tolle also suffered from depression, anxiety and at times was even suicidal. The author of this book is the world-famous spiritual mentor, Eckhart Tolle. Do you agree? What kind of emotional pain have you experienced in your life? How can we face our pain and be free from it? Perhaps, you can find the answer in the Power of Now. German philosopher, Arthur Schopenhauer, believes that the life of an individual is a constant struggle. According to the Global Emotions Report conducted by the analytics company Gallup, over the years, the social negative mood index of global respondents has increased year by year, and people around the world are more depressed, angry, and scared than ever. This leads to frequent occurrences of depression, anxiety, and other mental disorders. In recent years, people’s pace of life is accelerating, and the pressure of competition is also increasing. Today, we will introduce you to the book Power of Now. ![]() Ground Zero by Alan Gratz6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() In early 2020, Afghanistan once more fell into control of the Taliban and despite public promises to be a more open-minded version of that regime, within weeks of taking complete control Afghan women were once again denied all the right to pursue ambitions such as those expressed by Reshmina. Reshmina’s ambition itself becomes symbol of much greater poignancy within the context of what we now know happens after the events in the book. This combination of factors serves to make teaching a symbol of rebellion against the rigidity of Afghan patriarchy. When she tells her brother of her ambitions, his reply is to question why she is bothering learning English since no Afghan husband would ever allow her to work. ![]() Her own teacher is an Australia woman, unbound by marriage. Reshmina is learning English with the expressed hope that doing so will one day make it possible for her to become a teacher. It will prove to become more than that, however, as it also encompasses symbolic meaning related to innocence and the movement into experience and maturity. The stuffed doll that Brandon picks up in the underground mall beneath the Twin Towers without even realizing it is forwarded as a symbol of luck. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. ![]() These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() Gathering blue lowry6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When Matt returns from Christopher’s new home, he says that the new community has blue everywhere, and makes it clear that this community’s most noticeable quality is the compassion of its citizens for one another. While she’s alive, she sings a song about how blue never lasts. Kira’s mother, Katrina, who’s one of the few compassionate people in the village, dies of sickness. This is exactly what Lowry intends: blue symbolizes love and compassion. Because the robe is an explicit symbol of the society of the village, this would suggest that blue symbolizes an emotion that is particularly lacking among the guardians and the villagers. Blue is almost entirely missing from the robe. Yellow and orange are angry, hot colors (mostly because of their association with fire), while green and yellow are more peaceful (on the robe, they indicate eras of calm and happiness). ![]() As Kira becomes more familiar with the art of weaving, she comes to understand that different colors correspond to different emotions, and, conversely, that some feelings have a particular “color.” (This way of looking at color is called synesthesia). ![]() Clare louise bennett6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Another reason to love lists: because they illuminate a way of thinking. and beneath the shelf the shining pots and valiant colanders and glinting utensils.”īennett mentions these and elsewhere, more exotic items of food and clothing, not only for the joy of the sounds and shapes they make, but also for the little short, sharp pangs of desire they induce, the little fires they set off in some deep pocket of the brain. It doesn’t take much for Bennett to let one unfurl. At one point, she scans with obvious, epicurean delight an array of “little bottles and jars and ramekins” on a set of imaginary kitchen shelves, “each holding their own delectable though not always readily detectable specimen, capers, for example, capers, cornichons, cockles, truffles, tamarind, nutmeg, goose fat, juniper berries, olives, oregano, lavender. ![]() |