John Marshall: Citizen, Statesman and Jurist, a 2004 Drinko Academy project supported by the West Virginia Humanities Council, by Marshall University, and by Mary and Churchill Hodges, was distributed free of cost to all high schools, public libraries, and institutions of higher education in the State of West Virginia. The Drinko Academy has also produced sound recordings and films. Other authors whose works have been published through the assistance of the Drinko Academy include Jean Edward Smith, Lisle Brown, Maurice Harmon, Ancilla Bickley, Carrie Eldridge, Wade Gilley, Sam Clagg, and Jack Dickenson. The Drinko Academy has provided financial assistance for and/or published more than thirty scholarly works, the majority of which have been written by Distinguished Drinko Fellows. Because John Drinko repeatedly attributed his success in life to the excellent instruction he had received as an undergraduate at Marshall, he asserted that the establishment of the Distinguished Drinko Fellows program was as a way of repaying that debt to the faculty. When John and Elizabeth Drinko established the Academy in April, 1994, one of their key objectives was to create a body of Distinguished Drinko Fellows comprised of the most accomplished members of the Marshall University faculty. Over the course of the last twenty-five years, the Drinko Academy has supported extensive scholarship and creative production.
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6/29/2023 0 Comments King 11 22 63Jake decides to move according to the plan and try to save the president, he also tries to save Harry’s family from being killed, but he soon discovers that changing time has consequences of equal value as changing past events. Al shows Jake a portal he can travel through, and on confirming it was not a hoax, Al tells Jake of his plan to stop the assassination of John F. On arriving at Al’s diner the following day, Jake is perplexed to see an aged Al who explains that he had traveled into the past back to September 9, 1958. Two years later, Jake meets Al, a diner owner who asks to meet him the next day. Jake asks his students to write an essay on the day that changed their lives and moved when he reads the story of Harry Dunning, the limping school janitor whose drunk father murdered his mother and siblings and injured him, leaving him with a limp. The story of ’11/22/63′ begins with Jake Epping, a divorced Lisbon Falls high school English teacher teaching a GED class to adult students. With the jaw-dropping realistic depiction of events and an in-depth definition of characters, ’11/22/63′ holds its place as a sci-fi masterpiece. ’11/22/63′ is a science fiction time traveling book that shows an alternate version of history where the change of a past event ruins the fabric of time. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books.Īristotle 1994-2000 (350 BC). Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. Blank Fictions: Consumerism, Culture and the Contemporary American Novel. Postmodernism in Contemporary American Fiction”. Finally, Palahniuk departs from the minimalist style he used in his earlier and most well-known fiction in favor of a heterodiegetic and omniscience narrative voice that, combined with multiple internal focalizations, endorses a plural, non-categorical understanding of reality.Ī Letter on Justice and Open Debate. Secondly, he uses explicit metafictional references to Fight Club and to other literary works and critical theories to warn about the dangerous effects that the power of narrative can have. First, he creates a satirical story that exposes the condition of American politics, the dangers of radicalized political correctness, and the present risks of populist revolutions. To reach his purposes, the novelist combines three stylistic strategies. This work addresses Chuck Palahniuk’s novel Adjustment Day as a satirical critique of the political radicalization of the USA and as a warning about the dangerous ideological effects narratives may have on our posthumanist understanding of reality. Chuck Palahniuk, categorical thinking, posthumanism, Fight Club, Adjustment Day, Borges Abstract 6/29/2023 0 Comments You had me at hola book 2Fans of workplace romances will love this tension as the two rehearse together and pretend the attraction isn’t there. It follows Jasmine and Ashton, two actors trying to keep things professional on set while they really just want to tear each other’s clothes off. You Had Me at Hola is a fun rom-com set in the world of telenovelas. As Jasmine and Ashton settle into their new roles, the heat between them is undeniable, but is it worth Jasmine breaking her new rules? While she tries to answer that question, she might find out that Ashton has some rules of his own–all to guard a very big secret. But Jasmine has concocted Leading Lady Rules to keep her career on track: leading ladies do not end up on tabloid covers, they don’t need a man to be happy, and they definitely don’t date their new costars. She’ll be acting opposite Ashton Suárez, seasoned telenovela actor and major cutie–albeit, a slightly cold cutie. This is a way to support indie bookstores & the work I put into this blog!Īfter being trashed all over tabloids for a messy breakup, up-and-coming actress Jasmine Lin Rodriguez is ecstatic to start over on a new soap opera. Note: I am an affiliate of and will receive a small commission if you choose to purchase via the above link. 6/28/2023 0 Comments Jesus of nazareth reza aslanAfter that the discussion went downhill, recording the anchor’s ignorance (bias?) of Islam, and the author’s vigorous self-defense as scholar, who just happens to be a Muslim. Zealot recently shot to the top of the best seller list due to a notorious interview on Fox News, where Lauren Green began by asking the author why a Muslim would write about Christianity’s founder. His book is for the general audience with the express purpose of prying the historical Jesus away from the Christ of Christianity (120, 215-216). He now claims to be more devoted to Jesus than ever–a “committed disciple” (xx) of the “real Jesus”–not the “Jesus of faith.” Aslan thinks his portrait of Jesus, hidden behind layers of theology and centuries of interpretation, may in fact be more accurate than what the Gospels present (xxviii). After two decades of rigorous research into the origins of Christianity he concluded he had previously been duped, and returned to Islam (xix). Reza Aslan grew up in a nominally Muslim family in Northern California, and converted to Christianity at age thirteen. I have been interested in how rights categories emerge and evolve and what is at stake in those articulations. My research, teaching and ethical commitments are to a robust study of rights, law and political discourses as they are culturally and geopolitically entangled. I teach and advise students in both programs as well as in the International Studies program (including with the Human Rights Minor). I am an interdisciplinary scholar, trained in political & feminist theory and area studies and jointly appointed in Slavic and East European Languages & Cultures and Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies. Department of Government, University of Texas, 2000 Department of Government, University of Texas, 2005 with Graduate Certificate in Women's and Gender Studies 6/28/2023 0 Comments Aaron oliver only a monsterThe other thing I loved about this book was the romance. It made me want to go and roam around the back streets of London in nineties clothes and explore the back alleys. Len allows you to question the morality of what the monsters do to access their powers yet makes you want to still want them to succeed. It was so interesting to see the various time eras that the duo travel to and seeing how they changed their clothing and how they interacted with the various people throughout. Len creates a solid structure for her time travel rules as soon as it is introduced making it so easy to understand which shows how much research went into this book. One of my favourite parts of this story was the time travel aspect. Whilst being hunted by the prophesised hero they are forced to flee to the 1990’s Joan is forced to figure out whether she wants to be part of the world of monsters or not. When Joan Chang-Hunt discovers that she is a monster after a horrific event she is forced to ally with Aaron Oliver who is part of a century long feud with the Hunt family. Following a world where Monsters exist with human appearances where their power is to travel through time by touching the back of a human’s neck and stealing part of their lifespans. 6/28/2023 0 Comments Lexie by Audrey CouloumbisThe Couloumbises craft a poignant and plainspoken account of the everyday impacts of a vast war and the importance of small victories. Inspired by the courage of their cousin Lambros, a soldier who has escaped capture, Petros finds his own ways to contribute, including helping drop notes to spread war news he also has an uneasy relationship with the German commander, who is something of a supportive presence but still the enemy. When Lexie and her father get to the beach, he surprises her with his new girlfriend and her two sons meeting them. This will be the first time for them to go to the beach without her mother with them. Her parents are divorced, and she is going to the beach with her father. The family fears that their ties to America (the boys' father ran a store there, but they returned to Greece when it went bankrupt) will make them a target, and they hide all signs (such as American toys and clothing) that they are anything but an ordinary Greek family. Lexie by Audrey Couloumbis Book Summary: Lexie is a ten year old girl. Their rural life is interrupted when Nazis invade and a German commander takes up residence in their home. Twelve-year-old Petros and his older brother, Zola, live in the small town of Amphissa. ) collaborates with her husband, Akila, to tell a story inspired by his family history in Greece during WWII. The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear. Newbery Honor–winning author Audrey Couloumbis ( Getting Near to Baby 6/27/2023 0 Comments Dark money mayerThey have a bigger budget and payroll than the Republican National Committee, yet they’re private citizens.” “They’ve built up something that hasn’t really existed before in the country’s politics, which is a huge, multi-state, private political machine,” says Mayer about the Kochs. In her book, Mayer traces the history of the family and its political strategies, and examines the rise of untraceable “dark” money in the political system. The two brothers, the scions of Koch Industries, have spent decades funding conservative candidates and causes. Mayer, a staff writer for The New Yorker, worked for more than three years on the book, an expansion of an article she wrote on Charles and David Koch for The New Yorker in 2010. Host Marcia Franklin talks with investigative journalist Jane Mayer, the author of Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right. Alongside her older sister, Hurona, she’ll journey from the only home she’s known and realize that the world is much more complicated than she’d ever imagined. Packed with surprising twists and a cast of courageous characters, this gripping novel encourages readers to stand up for justice and challenge the status quo. /rebates/2fshop2fproduct2fthe-last-cuentista-newbery-medal-winner-by-donna-barba-higuera3fID3d14717385&. 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