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Marysville (Hardcover)
Tammy L. Hopkins, Henry Delamere
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R702
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Expressed through poetry, essays, and short stories, "Voices from a
Black Heart Speak" examines deep-seated beliefs, perspectives, and
emotional feelings derived from the cultural development of black
people in the United States.We live in a world where television
tells us what to want, how we want to live, and what we want to do.
We live in a world where fear of the unknown is to be feared and
that's considered normal. It may be considered normal and
acceptable, but it's totally irrational as our entire lives and
world is based on the unknown. We slide through life on a hope and
wish that our lives work out as we planned them. If we look at the
major earthquake in the Indian Ocean on December 26, 2004 that
created a Tsunami or Great Wave that killed over 100,000 people and
destroyed towns, cities and property in the billions in Asia, we
can realize the truth of the fact is that we live our lives in the
unknown from moment to moment. The one thing that sustains us is
our faith as we journey through life.
Paying full attention to the whole range of Shakespearean drama but
also looking closely at his two most significant predecessors, his
closest rival, his only known collaborator, and other writers who
influenced and carried forward the genres in which he worked, this
volume shows both the ways in which Shakespearean drama is typical
of its period and of the ways in which it is distinctive. This
collection offers practical suggestions for the integration of
non-Shakespearean drama into the teaching of Shakespeare.
This book focuses on female tragic heroes in England from c.1610 to c.1645. Their sudden appearance can be linked to changing ideas about the relationships between bodies and souls; men's bodies and women's; marriage and mothering; the law; and religion. Though the vast majority of these characters are closer to villianesses than heroines, these plays, by showing how misogyny affected the lives of their central characters, did not merely reflect their culture, but also changed it.
This book charts the major events of Stoker's life, which included
friendships with many of the major figures of the age and a high
public profile as manager of Henry Irving's Lyceum, and maps them
onto the contours of his literary career. It offers sustained
critical evaluation both of "Dracula" and also of Stoker's
lesser-known works, which prove to yield much interest when
reinserted into their original cultural contexts.
In 2008, the United States made history when it elected the
first African American to serve as its country's president. This
was a momentous occasion for both black and white Americans. "In
Somebody in the White House Looks like me," author Rosetta L.
Hopkins shares interviews of average people in the black community
to reveal how they felt about the election of a black president and
his inauguration and what their expectations of the new
president-elect were at the time.
Ms. Hopkins interviewed ordinary black people ages sixteen to
ninety-three of both sexes and from a broad occupational spectrum
to capture their feelings and thoughts about the election of the
first black president. Including original poetry and photos,
"Somebody in the White House Looks like Me" documents the
interviewees' emotions of joy or disbelief as they discuss their
recollections on the state of America today and in the past.
Recording the silent and unheard voices of everyday black people
whose opinions are often neglected, "Somebody in the White House
Looks like Me" recognizes that moment in time when the division
among the races was minimized for a greater good.
Marriage features to a greater or lesser extent in virtually every
play Shakespeare wrote - as the festive end of comedy, as the link
across the cycles of the history plays, as a marker of the
difference between his own society and that depicted in the Roman
plays, and, all too often, as the starting-point for the tragedies.
Situating his representations of marriage firmly within the
ideologies and practices of Renaissance culture, Lisa Hopkins
argues that Shakespeare anatomises marriage much as he does
kingship, and finds it similarly indispensable to the underpinning
of society, however problematic it may be as a guarantor of
personal happiness.
Marriage features to a greater or lesser extent in virtually every
play Shakespeare wrote - as the festive end of comedy, as the link
across the cycles of the history plays, as a marker of the
difference between his own society and that depicted in the Roman
plays, and, all too often, as the starting-point for the tragedies.
Situating his representations of marriage firmly within the
ideologies and practices of Renaissance culture, Lisa Hopkins
argues that Shakespeare anatomises marriage much as he does
kingship, and finds it similarly indispensable to the underpinning
of society, however problematic it may be as a guarantor of
personal happiness.
Christopher Marlowe: A Literary Life situates the individual works of Marlowe within the context of his overall literary career. Areas covered include: Marlowe's preference for foreign settings and his unusually accurate depictions of them; the importance of his scholarly background; his consistent portrayal of family groups as fissured and troubled; the challenge that his works posed to contemporary orthodoxies about religion, sexuality, and government; and the long and sometimes spectacular afterlife of his works and of his literary reputation as a whole.
This new Chronology allows for quick and easy retrieval of all the
major dates pertaining to Christopher Marlowe's life and career. It
also helpfully gives dates relevant to the real people and
historical events dramatized in his plays and to those who acted
in, produced them, the dates of publication of the works which he
used as sources, the dates of principal revivals of his works, and
the dates at which various key facts about his life and works were
later rediscovered.
Amateur astronomers interested in learning more about astronomical
spectroscopy now have the guide they need. It provides detailed
information about how to get started inexpensively with
low-resolution spectroscopy, and then how to move on to more
advanced high-resolution spectroscopy. Uniquely, the instructions
concentrate very much on the practical aspects of using
commercially-available spectroscopes, rather than simply explaining
how spectroscopes work. The book includes a clear explanation of
the laboratory theory behind astronomical spectrographs, and goes
on to extensively cover the practical application of astronomical
spectroscopy in detail. Four popular and reasonably-priced
commercially available diffraction grating spectrographs are used
as examples. The first is a low-resolution transmission diffraction
grating, the Star Analyser spectrograph. The second is an
inexpensive fiber optic coupled bench spectrograph that can be used
to learn more about spectroscopy. The third is a newcomer, the ALPY
600 spectrograph. The fourth spectrograph considered is at the
other end of the market both in performance and cost, the
high-resolution Lhires III. While considerably more expensive, this
is a popular and excellent scientific instrument, that allows more
advanced amateur astronomers to produce scientifically valuable
data. With all of these tools in place, the amateur astronomer is
well-prepared to forger deeper into the night sky using
spectroscopy.
This collection offers practical suggestions for the integration of
non-Shakespearean drama into the teaching of Shakespeare. It shows
both the ways in which Shakespearean drama is typical of its period
and of the ways in which it is distinctive, by looking at
Shakespeare and other writers who influenced and developed the
genres in which he worked.
This book focuses on female tragic heroes in England from c.1610 to
c.1645. Their sudden appearance can be linked to changing ideas
about the relationships between bodies and souls; men's bodies and
women's; marriage and mothering; the law; and religion. Though the
vast majority of these characters are closer to villainesses than
heroines, these plays, by showing how misogyny affected the lives
of their central characters, did not merely reflect their culture,
but also changed it.
Christopher Marlowe: A Literary Life situates the individual works
of Marlowe within the context of his overall literary career. Areas
covered include Marlowe's preference for foreign settings and his
unusually accurate depictions of them, the importance of his
scholarly background, his consistent portrayal of family groups as
fissured and troubled, the challenge that his works posed to
contemporary orthodoxies about religion, sexuality, and government,
and the long and sometimes spectacular afterlife of his works and
of his literary reputation as a whole.
This new Chronology offers a unique and accessible overview of key
dates relevant to Christopher Marlowe's life and works, and enables
readers to navigate their way through the various pieces of
evidence for the hotly contested dating of his plays and poems.
Since Marlowe's plays often focus on real historical figures,
details of their lives are also included to allow readers to see
what liberties Marlowe has taken in his dramatizations of their
lives.
This book charts the major events of Stoker's life, including
friendships with many of the major figures of the age and as
manager of Henry Irving's Lyceum, with his literary career. It
offers critical evaluation of Dracula and of Stoker's lesser-known
works, yielding much interest when reinserted into their original
cultural contexts.
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