![]() ![]() All strove for personal excellence, and success became contagious. Each team helped develop innovative ideas, new tactics, and new strategies. ![]() The unique story of the Barb begins with its men, who had the confidence to become unbeatable. And in a fascinating twist, he uses archival documents from the Japanese Navy to give its version of events. Fluckey has drawn on logs, reports, letters, interviews, and a recently discovered illegal diary kept by one of his torpedomen. This is a gripping adventure chock-full of "you-are-there" moments. At the same time, the Barb did far more than merely sink ships-she changed forever the way submarines stalk and kill their prey. Under the leadership of her fearless skipper, Captain Gene Fluckey, the Barb sank the greatest tonnage of any American sub in World War II. The thunderous roar of exploding depth charges was a familiar and comforting sound to the crew members of the USS Barb, who frequently found themselves somewhere between enemy fire and Davy Jones's locker. ![]()
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When I started senior year at my new school, I wasn’t prepared to call him Mr. ![]() I had no idea that my happiness would remember its own bliss. ![]() I had no clue that his voice would make my hurts forget their own sorrow. I didn’t plan to stumble into Joe’s bar and have Daniel’s music stir up my emotions. When I arrived to Edgewood, Wisconsin I didn’t plan to find him. It was easy to call us forbidden and harder to call us soulmates. ![]() ![]() ![]() I think I understand the intent of this book but I’m not entirely sure that the way in which the story is delivered to all of us as readers fulfils that intent. To be honest, I’m still really not sure how I feel about the whole book and I’ve given myself 24 hours after completing it to really think about it. Do you see how this is going? But I wasn’t always that way. He did it in a restaurant where I was having dinner with another man, another married man. He was a gluttonous man and when his blood came out it looked like the blood of a pig. I drove myself out of New York City where a man shot himself in front of me. I don’t think I’ve ever done this before, but I’m going to do a complete lift and shift of the official blurb for this book ![]() ![]() Instead, they may be forced to choose among patients, who will live and who will die. In a crisis such as the COVID-19 epidemic, the lack of adequate medical resources may make it impossible for doctors to do everything possible to save each patient. Triage is the process of determining the priority of patients' treatments based on the severity of their condition or likelihood of recovery with and without treatment it has the goal of increasing the number of survivors. Other choices can and should be made.Ĭrisis Standards of Care: Planning Guidance for the COVID-19 Pandemic provides guidance for physicians making decisions on patient care in a crisis. The choices made by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in Crisis Standards of Care: Planning Guidance for the COVID-19 Pandemic attempt to avoid bias, but nevertheless are affected by bias. ![]() The social norms that devalue people of age and disability are choices. ![]() ![]() ![]() There were five to start with, but I invited a sixth. I’m not sure what I would do all day without the voices in my head. It lends a new perspective to consider that a “normal” individual might not have access to an inner dialog. So you could have a pleasant voice, a crazy voice, a depressed voice, an evil voice, or a nagging voice. Quite the opposite, in fact, as my psychology education strongly suggested that our inner dialog is often the root of many mental health problems. ![]() I didn’t think my internal voice was a design option. And on some days I have to remind it to use its inside voice. How do they think? Decide? Or, more importantly,-judge others?ĭescartes said, “I think therefore, I am.” And while we may assume other creatures “think,” without language, I’ve always considered the uniquely human version of “thought” to be inseparable from “words.” I can’t fully wrap my head around the idea of a silent brain. In the business of my daily life, I consider internal dialog as the essence of “me.” It seems that inside their heads, they don’t talk to themselves. I read several articles recently that revealed some people do not have an inner voice. ![]() ![]() Description:Official website for Betsey Lewis, author, internationally-renowned. The Butterfly Lion Description : Farm boy The magical sequel to War Horse, soon to be a major motion picture. ![]() This study utilizes a critical multiculturalist lens to challenge the ways in which gender variance is represented in children’s literature and the reasons that young gender-variant male protagonists achieve-or do not achieve-communal acceptance. Prophecy 2022 and Beyond: The Butterfly in the Hurricane: Lewis. While texts featuring gender-variant male characters engage in topics that are far too often shoved into the proverbial closet, what is yet to be determined is the degree to which they adequately reflect the complexity of (gender) identity and to what extent such picture books can counter narratives related to traditional ‘‘masculinity.’’ The purpose of this paper is to critically examine picture book representations of gender variance, as exhibited by male characters, in order to determine the books’ potential for exploring issues of social justice with elementary-age students. Amazon.in: Buy Butterfly Lion Book Online at Low Prices in India Butterfly Lion Reviews & Ratings Skip to main content. Read Butterfly Lion book reviews & author details and more at Amazon.in. Over the past fifty years, children’s picture books have made great strides toward literary equity by including more perspectives from and stories about marginalized groups, such as those whose gender identities do not conform to heteronormative standards. Amazon.in - Buy Butterfly Lion book online at best prices in india on Amazon.in. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jacket is very good, with mild darkening to rear panel and moderate darkening to the spine and three minuscule chips (largest is 1/8" x 1/8") from head and heel of spine dust jacket illustration by Charles White. The interior is superb-strong hinges, flexible paper, and pages that are free of any marking, stains or other damage. ![]() Book is in very fine condition: book is clean and square, binding tight, corners not bumped slight creasing at head and heel of spine with no fabric damage, portions of end pages have slight darkening as though news clippings were kept there otherwise the book is near fine or better. 8-3/8" tall 363 pages one- piece medium-brown cloth binding, gilt lettering on spine (title & author only), front board plain plain ivory end pages untrimmed fore edge. ![]() Stated First Edition ("Published December 1951 / First Edition"), presumed First Printing (because the price printed on front dj flap is"$5.00", indicating that this was part of a limited signed first edition because the first trade printing was priced $2.50). Self published by Howard Fast, New York, 1951. ![]() ![]() ![]() Maybe there's a way to escape their crushing debt, expose the bank and the scam, and make a few bucks in the process. And when they learn that their school is one of a chain owned by a shady New York hedge-fund operator who also happens to own a bank specialising in student loans, the three realise they have been caught up in The Great Law School Scam.So they begin plotting a way out. They all borrowed heavily to attend a law school so mediocre that its graduates rarely pass the bar exam, let alone get good jobs. ![]() As third-year students, they realise they have been duped. But these days these three disillusioned friends spend a lot of time hanging out in The Rooster Bar, the place where Todd serves drinks. Law students Mark, Todd and Zola wanted to change the world - to make it a better place. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mrs Pankhurst made the heartbreaking decision to leave her family and her life as Peter. Mrs Pankhurst made the heartbreaking decision to leave her family and her life as Peter (pictured left and right on her wedding day) ![]() 'She had limits on her food, by the time she was 17 she was so malnourished her teeth fell out.' 'She was adopted at a few weeks old into a very abusive, alcoholic family in Footscray in the early 1950s, forced to live in a purpose-built bungalow out the back, purposefully excluded,' Mrs Krasnostein told Daily Mail Australia. Sarah Krasnostein, the author of The Trauma Cleaner, followed Mrs Pankhurst through her daily routine of cleaning the most confronting and putrid scenes imaginable, while also chronicling her early years that shaped her into the 'brave woman' she is now. Her life, though, was filled with pain and heartbreak, growing up in the rough suburbs of Melbourne with a highly-religious upbringing and struggling with the torment of not fitting in and not knowing who she was. Sandra Pankhurst has worked as a trauma cleaner for more than two decades after noticing a void in the market after becoming one of Australia's first female funeral directors. A transgender woman who was adopted into an abusive family, forced to live a malnourished life in a backyard shed and worked in brothels across Australia has found solace in the most unlikely of professions. ![]() ![]() A chance encounter introduces Bron to The Spike, a free-spirited performance artist who quickly becomes the object of Bron’s affection. He’s an ex-prostitute from Mars, blonde, tall, chiseled, and an expert in meta-logics, a concept that Delany explained was merely a “pseudo-scientific rationale.” This “reasonably happy man” exudes masculinity in every facet of his existence, even down to his name. ![]() It’s no coincidence that the male protagonist in this story, Bron Helstrom, is a tribute to all the other protagonists that typify the genre of science fiction. Samuel Delany took Le Guin’s futuristic idea of utopia and turned in into a heterotopia, or “other place,” exploring just how idyllic a world with an endless supply of solutions really is. It was created in response to The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia, by Ursula K Le Guin. ![]() Triton cannot be discussed without naming the novel of its inspiration. Like Trouble on Triton, he transcends the normal limits and boundaries that confound our modern day ideas of sexuality and society within his writing. Chip Delany, as he’s lovingly referred to by the many who admire his work, is one of the most brilliant figures within modern fiction, taking the genre of science fiction to new levels. What Delany reveals about sexuality and gender in Trouble on Triton, is that even in a world of endless possibilities and titillations, where all are liberated from twenty-first century Puritanism, society continues to perpetuate a criteria for sexuality. ![]() ![]() The future seems… ambiguous, to say the least in Samuel R. ![]() |