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![]() ![]() The story ends with Elizabeth accosting Ronald for his ungratefulness and dancing off into the sunset. After the dragon falls asleep, Elizabeth rescues Ronald, who is ungrateful and only mocks her appearance before telling her to return when she looks more like a princess. Elizabeth tricks the dragon into tiring himself out by pointlessly breathing out fire and flying around the world. Until Callum Royal appears, plucking Ella out of poverty and tossing her into. After her mother’s death, Ella is truly alone. ![]() She’s spent her whole life moving from town to town with her flighty mother, struggling to make ends meet and believing that someday she’ll climb out of the gutter. ![]() Elizabeth dons a paper bag, the only garment not scorched by the dragon’s fire, and pursues the dragon. The Paper Princess Finds Her Way by Kleven, Elisa and a great selection of related books. Ella Harper is a survivora pragmatic optimist. Princess Elizabeth's plans to marry Prince Ronald are foiled after a fire-breathing dragon kidnaps the prince, destroying her castle and clothes in the process. Since it was first published in 1980 it has sold more than seven million copies worldwide. As a result, it has won critical acclaim from feminists, including an endorsement from the National Organization for Women, which sells the book on its website. The story reverses the princess and dragon stereotype. It was first published in 1980 by Annick Press and launched Munsch's career to the forefront of a new wave of Canadian children’s authors. ![]() The Paper Bag Princess is a children's book written by Robert Munsch and illustrated by Michael Martchenko. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Concocting a murder mystery featuring one of history’s most well-known figures is risky, and some scenes test the limits of plausibility. In an afterword, she separates fact from the fictional characters she created a three-page bibliography is appended. Debut novelist Blankman’s account of life in Munich prior to Hitler’s 1933 elevation to the chancellorship is completely engrossing. Gretchen refuses to believe it, but as she undertakes her own investigation, she realizes that many things she had accepted as truth are lies. ![]() Then Gretchen meets Daniel Cohen, a young reporter who has evidence that her father was not a Nazi hero, but a murder victim. Because of her father’s martyrdom, Gretchen’s family has enjoyed favored status among the Nazis she is now Hitler’s “favorite pet,” and her (terrifying) older brother works as one of his thuggish Brownshirts. Gretchen Müller has grown up in 1920s Germany believing her father sacrificed his life to shield “Uncle Dolf” from a fusillade of police bullets during Hitler’s failed 1923 attempt to overthrow the government. ![]() ![]() ![]() So check with your school / professor for preferences, then just be consistent. Proper notation procedure is to list the above elements in a consistent manner h owever, conventions vary widely (see academic examples below). When citing passages from the Summa, do not use page numbers (this would be like saying “Bible, p. Brief replies are given to the initial objections.A contrary response (reflecting Thomas’s thinking) from some authority is cited (indicated by sed contra – “On the contrary”).Plausible responses are listed as Objections (the adversus).The topic of the article is given in the form a question.Questions are dealt with in Articles, each made up of five sections: The Second Part of Part II has 189 Questions.The First Part of Part II has 114 Questions.Part III ( Tertia Pars) deals with Christ.Part II ( Prima / Secunda Secundæ) is in two parts dealing with Humanity and Morality.The Summa has three main divisions called Parts: Below I present my findings (all subject to change as Thomists from around the blogosphere send in suggestions!).Ĭiting the Summa is based on its structure, so let’s begin with that. This does not mean, however, that there are no wrong ways to do so. What I discovered is that there seems to be no authoritative answer. Having struggled with this issue for some time, I thought I would attempt to get a final answer as to how Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologiæ* is to be cited in academic writing. ![]() ![]() ![]() In petdom, as in so many other things, America is a nation divided: slightly more than half of all US households own a pet. When a friend’s pet would die and she’d call or come over to sob uncontrollably, I’d have to fight off the question, “Seriously? Over a dog?” From the outside, pet people are undeniably odd: they talk in unnaturally high-pitched voices, even when their pets aren’t around they spend lots of money on feathers and balls and plush beds they’ll never sleep on they voluntarily clean up animal poop. We also had a running joke about how my siblings had begged my parents for a dog and got me instead! Ah-ha-ha! Luckily for everyone, that plan failed.įor most of my life, though, I never understood pet people, because I wasn’t one. ![]() We did have pets, somewhat, when I was a child: a procession of goldfish (one brought home in a plastic bag from a Purim carnival, and two that followed when it died) and a Venus flytrap, which was named Zoe and was technically my sister’s. Okay, maybe not crippling depression and loneliness, considering CE didn’t begin until four years ago, but there’s no question that there was a void - a snuggle-shaped void waiting to be filled. The BCE years were a dark time, and largely a blur - there was depression, loneliness, a lack of snuggling. ![]() SOMETIMES I THINK MY LIFE IS DIVIDED into two distinct phases: the Before Cat Era and the Cat Era. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Some locations provide incredible returns, while others make it almost impossible to find a single property that profits. Real estate investing is one of the greatest vehicles to build wealth, but it doesn't make sense in every market. Live where you want, and invest anywhere it makes sense!Īre you interested in real estate investing but there is nothing to buy that makes sense where you live? Are you tired of seeing the amazing success of others investing in markets better suited for buy and hold real estate and wish that could be you? Do you want to take advantage of wealth building opportunities but are frustrated by the fact there just isn't any way to do that until the next market crash? ![]() ![]() ![]() Some of my colleagues argued for other candidates, such as Franklin Roosevelt or Churchill or Gandhi. Walter: I became interested in Einstein when I was editor of Time, and we were choosing the Person of the Century. What inspired you to write this book? Did you have a particular curiosity about what made him such a fascinating and iconic figure to so many people? Scott: Like Benjamin Franklin, there is an enormous body of work about Albert Einstein already. ![]() Isaacson even said, "I love BlogCritics," and "I'm happy to help." The downside was I was only allowed to ask five questions. I am still collecting my thoughts about it, which speaks volumes about the weight of the topics covered as well as how they affected me. I will follow this interview in a few weeks with a review of this excellent tome. Isaacson previously wrote biographies of Ben Franklin and Henry Kissinger. I had the great pleasure recently to interview Walter Isaacson, a former editor of Time, about his biography of Einstein. ![]() ![]() ![]() Although not up to the silly sublimity of their previous efforts-the pacing is a bit slack, and the ending slapdash-Rubin and Salmieri still score plenty of comic points with their deadpan riffs, offbeat asides, and singleminded hero who can’t catch a gooey, cheesy break. ![]() ![]() ![]() In between writing projects, he designs and collects. “So convenient, you could eat it in the bathtub.” The narrator-who is undoubtedly related to the same skewed logician who explained the dragon-taco connection in Dragons Love Tacos-decides that what Raccoon needs is a secret pizza party: “So folks don’t show up to bonk you with brooms” (something that happens to him with alarming regularity) and because “When you make something secret, you make it special.” There’s just one catch: Raccoon has to get the pizza, and he’s a wanted pizza thief. Adam Rubin is the 1 New York Times best-selling author of ten critically-acclaimed picture books, including the Those Darn Squirrels trilogy, Dragons Love Tacos, Dragons Love Tacos 2: The Sequel, Secret Pizza Party, Robo-Sauce and El Chupacabras (winner of the 2020 Texas Blue Bonnet award). Not only is the dialogue hilarious (well, monologue since raccoons dont talk, silly) but the illustrations are equally as hilarious. Now, I hope children will like the silliness of this book, because I sure did. He decides to throw a secret pizza party in his honor. All he wants in life is some pizza.” And who can blame him? Pizza is its own breed of perfect: “So beautiful, you could hang it on the wall of a museum,” (Salmieri mounts a slice between a Picasso and a Matisse). Narrator wants to help out poor Raccoon and his pizza obsession. ![]() ![]() ![]() During his trek, he observes the horrific changes to his world, following the full-on Martian invasion. ![]() In the wake of the initial attack and panic, the astronomer is separated from his family, and spends much of the book trying to reunite with them. Leathery, bear-sized, oily-skinned Martian creatures, weakened by our heavier gravity, slowly emerge from the cylinder but soon retreat back into their newly-assembled tripodal war machines for ground transport. The cylinder contains an advanced scout for an invasion force from the planet Mars.īefore long, heat rays emanate from a mirror atop the cylinder, devastating the crowds gathered nearby. Soon, a giant meteorite containing a cylinder lands in the rural countryside of Woking, Surrey. The book is told in an unnamed first person account (not too unlike Wells’ “The Time Machine”) by an astronomer in Victorian England who is invited to the local observatory to observe curious explosions on the surface of Mars. ![]() ![]() “Independence Day” 1996’s quasi-adaptation of H.G. the Flying Saucers,” or the 1996 quasi-remake “Independence Day ” not to mention its own various adaptations (the 19 WOTW movies, as well as a 2-season late 1980s television series). It was over 120 years ago that Herbert George Wells first published the seminal alien invasion story, “The War of the Worlds.” Like so many of Wells’ works (“The Time Machine,” “The Invisible Man,” “The Shape of Things To Come”) WOTW became a template for many such alien invasion stories to come, such as 1956’s “Earth vs. ![]() ![]() She zeroes in on Edward Fosca, a handsome, charismatic classics professor who has a cultlike following of beautiful female students (which included Tara) called the Maidens, a reference to the cult of Eleusis in ancient Greece, whose followers worshipped Demeter and Persephone. Mariana heads for Cambridge and, when the police arrest someone she thinks is innocent, starts her own investigation. Zoe has terrible news: Her close friend Tara has been murdered, savagely stabbed and dumped in a wood. Zoe is now studying at Cambridge, where Mariana and Sebastian met and courted. ![]() She’s galvanized out of her fog by a call from her niece, Zoe, who was raised by Mariana and Sebastian after her parents died. At 36, she’s a widow, reeling from the drowning a year before of her beloved husband, Sebastian. This book’s protagonist is Mariana, who has a busy practice in London specializing in group therapy. ![]() The author’s second novel features a psychotherapist as its main character, as did his 2019 debut, The Silent Patient (whose main character makes an appearance here). A blend of psychological mystery and gothic thriller puts a psychotherapist in pursuit of a serial killer on the campus of Cambridge University. ![]() |