![]() ![]() The Afterlives of Kathleen Collins showcases how Collins used filmmaking, writing, and teaching to assert herself as a poly-creative dedicated to asking and answering difficult philosophical questions about human being and living. The Afterlives of Kathleen Collins: A Black Woman Filmmaker's Search for New Life explores the global significance and futurist implications of filmmaker and writer Kathleen Collins. In addition to her two films, Stallings examines the broad and expansive and varying forms of writing produced by Collins during her short life time. Stallings narrates how Collins, as a Black woman writer and filmmaker, sought to change the definition of life and living. In this critically imaginative study of Collins, L.H. However, her achievements in filmmaking were part of a greater life project. Beginning with her short film The Cruz Brothers and Miss Malloy and her feature film Losing Ground, Collins explored new dimensions of what narrative film could and should do. ![]() Kathleen Collins (1942-88) was a visionary and influential Black filmmaker. ![]() An absorbing portrait of a groundbreaking Black woman filmmaker. ![]()
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![]() ![]() First, Friedman has a contribution to make to philosophical debates on freedom, and the link between political and economic freedom. Friedman’s work on freedom is worth engaging for a number of reasons. Despite this influence, there remains a dearth of scholarship on Friedman’s social and political philosophy, particularly among philosophers and political theorists. ![]() and throughout the world, even by agencies, such as the IMF, that Friedman himself opposed. This work, perhaps more than any other, provides the central and agenda-setting talking points for so-called neo-liberal political and economic reforms championed by the Republican party in the U.S., the Conservative Party from the time of Thatcher in the United Kingdom ( Childs, 2006 Reitan, 2003), Instead, he produced some of the most influential philosophical work on the role of government in a free society. Friedman did not restrict his writing to technical questions in economic theory. After John Maynard Keynes, Milton Friedman is arguably the most influential economist of the twentieth century. ![]() ![]() ![]() such as finance, agriculture, poverty reduction, low carbon, health, and digital innovation". He also stressed the need to develop "new growth drivers. Speaking to regional leaders, Xi said the countries must "fully unleash the potential of traditional cooperation in economy, trade, industrial capacity, energy and transport," according to a state media readout. The region is also a crucial link in China's trillion-dollar global infrastructure project, the Belt and Road Initiative. ![]() The Chinese leader is hosting the leaders of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan at a summit in Xi'an in northern China this week - a meeting Beijing has said is of "milestone" significance.īeijing says trade with Central Asia reached $70 billion in 2022 and expanded 22 percent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2023. Xian: Xi Jinping called on China and Central Asia to "fully unleash" their potential in trade, economic and infrastructure cooperation Friday, as he wrapped up a landmark summit with heads of state from the strategically vital region. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() These explanations tell only half the story. In short, the cause for the rupture is not what Israel is it’s what Israel does. Most explanations pin the blame on Israel’s handling of its conflict with the Palestinians, Israel’s attitude toward non-Orthodox Judaism, and Israel’s dismissive attitude toward American Jews in general. Since Israel’s founding seventy years ago, particularly as memory of the Holocaust and of Israel’s early vulnerability has receded, the divide has grown only wider. ![]() Relations between the American Jewish community and Israel are at an all-time nadir. From National Jewish Book Award Winner and author of Israel, a bold reevaluation of the tensions between American and Israeli Jews that reimagines the past, present, and future of Jewish life ![]() ![]() ![]() Like 2001, 3001: The Final Odyssey attempts to predict humanity's future, this time trying to scope the details of an entire millennium of our future - which, unfortunately, does not work out very well. ![]() The Final Odyssey answers all prior questions and adds a few of its own. Some of these questions were answered in 2010: Odyssey Two and its sequel, 2061. When 2001: A Space Odyssey was released in the late '60s, the special effects sparked the imagination of a generation, along with an interesting plot and questions left by the hulking, black monolith at the end of the movie. Clarke, is the fourth in a long and well-noted line of books bearing the Odyssey name. The recently published 3001: The Final Odyssey by Arthur C. ![]() ![]() ![]() McBride’s subsequent books include the novel Miracle at St. When his eye landed on Mommy, he’d nod as if to say, “Oh, it’s just Sister Jordan” then he’d slip back into his spiritual trance. He’d coolly run the eye in a circle, gazing around at the congregation of forty-odd parishioners to see where the whirring noise was coming from. One eye would pop open with a jolt, as if someone had just poured cold water down his back. He’d sit behind his pulpit in a spiritual trance, his eyes closed, clad in a long blue robe with a white scarf and billowed sleeves, as if he were prepared to float away to heaven himself, until one of Mommy’s clunker notes roused him. ![]() Owens, our minister, would get up from his seat and stop the song. It sounded so horrible that I often thought Rev. Up, up, and away she went, her shrill voice climbing higher and higher, reminding us of Curly of the Three Stooges. Here in The Color of Water is McBride describing the way that the most important person in his life, his mother, sang in their house of worship: ![]() ![]() A MAJOR FEATURE of the African-American writer James McBride’s books - beginning with the memoir The Color of Water (1995), a tribute to his white mother - is the large dose of humor injected into subjects that are, on the face of things, deadly serious if not sacred. ![]() ![]() ![]() India's untouchables have been forced to accept and eat joothan for centuries, and the word encapsulates the pain, humiliation, and poverty of a. 'Joothan' refers to scraps of food left on a plate, destined for the garbage or animals. A document of the long-silenced and long-denied sufferings of the Dalits, Joothan is a major contribution to the archives of Dalit history and a manifesto for the revolutionary transformation of society and human consciousness. Omprakash Valmiki describes his life as an untouchable, or Dalit, in the newly independent India of the 1950s. Valmiki shares his heroic struggle to survive a preordained life of perpetual physical and mental persecution and his transformation into a speaking subject under the influence of the great Dalit political leader, B. ![]() India's untouchables have been forced to accept and eat joothan for centuries, and the word encapsulates the pain, humiliation. Although untouchability was abolished in 1949, Dalits continued to face discrimination, economic deprivation, violence, and ridicule. Omprakash Valmiki describes his life as an untouchable, or Dalit, in the newly independent India of the 1950s. ![]() India's untouchables have been forced to accept and eat joothan for centuries, and the word encapsulates the pain, humiliation, and poverty of a community forced to live at the bottom of India's social pyramid. ![]() "Joothan" refers to scraps of food left on a plate, destined for the garbage or animals. Omprakash Valmiki describes his life as an untouchable, or Dalit, in the newly independent India of the 1950s. ![]() ![]() Gifts poured through the gates for weeks, coming not only from the greatest families living in the land of Yamato, but also from as far away as Silla and Tang. Servants from the palace went down the mountain to offer rice, fish, and sake to the poor in Heijo-kyo. Yet in celebration of Hirotsugu’s birth, his father, Umakai, sent an order to his bailiff to decree half a day off for all workers. These were the days when finishing the paddy field work was paramount, lest next year’s crops be affected. It was late May, close to the final days of planting the rice. The uguisu sang from dusk until dawn, and a crane appeared in the palace garden and didn’t leave for five days. ![]() Chapter 1: Kagerō Kagerō: The quivering appearance of the mist rising from the hot surface of the ground” On the day Fujiwara no Hirotsugu was born, Mount Kasuga was covered in golden shimmering kagerō rising from the ground to cloak the mountain in mist. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gladys’s passion for cooking and all things foodie is front and center in the narrative, as it has been in the last two books. And to think you're poisoning your children with that view. Um, lady, that girl is not the evil one you are. ![]() The ppl who gave this few stars had a problem with one of the characters being revealed as lesbian. I won't read on if Dairman decides to keep going, unless she completely changes the pov to that of Charissa, Parm, or Sandy.ĮTA - I looked at some of the other reviews. but wait, isn't that how it's *supposed* to work? Gladys complaining because she "only" has three good friends bothered me, too. A random snarky comment about Rolanda learning a lot about Shakespeare only because she joined Drama Club. Too much romance, imo, for 12 yo seventh-graders. And I did have to keep telling myself "suspend disbelief read it like a fairy tale." Very glad of the satisfying ending to the trilogy.īut there were random problems, too. I found them to be repetitious & wordy and am glad I'm done. ![]() I do think there's a lot of appeal and good values in these for kids. ![]() As with the other entries in the series, I'm rounding up a half star from my true opinion. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A magical rift in time-space brings these two worlds clashing together, and the young boy Pug and his soldier friend Tomas are thrown into the ensuing maelstrom of invasion and epic battle, before embarking on a more fundamental magical journey towards the very roots of evil itself. Feist's genius was inventing another sword and sorcercy realm based more closely on eastern models, the Empire of Tsuranuanni, as vast as Ancient China, as formalised and devoted to the arts of war as a samurai Japan. Midkemia is a Tolkienian realm, a European- Medieval series of kingdoms in which magic is prominent, and where men share the earth with dwarves and elves. His "concept" was to bring together two (and later, more) whole, intricately realised fantasy worlds. ![]() When Raymond Feist's enormous novel was published, critics called it "the best new fantasy concept in years", and Feist has refined and explored that concept over a dozen novels. Like a venerable patriarch, Magician stands at the head of a great tribe of fantasy writing. ![]() |