![]() Thus the United States seized control of the world market for cotton, the key raw material of the Industrial Revolution, and became a wealthy nation with global influence. Through forced migration and torture, slave owners extracted continual increases in efficiency from enslaved African Americans. Until the Civil War, Baptist explains, the most important American economic innovations were ways to make slavery ever more profitable. ![]() In the span of a single lifetime, the South grew from a narrow coastal strip of worn-out tobacco plantations to a continental cotton empire, and the United States grew into a modern, industrial, and capitalist economy. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in bondage of their full legacy.Īs historian Edward Baptist reveals in The Half Has Never Been Told, the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove the evolution and modernization of the United States. ![]() ![]() ![]() Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution-the nation’s original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America’s later success. ![]()
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![]() ![]() While flying, they notice multiple fires burning on the mountainside, and the Raven claims these to be the work of Trolls. There, she is visited by the Great Raven, and convinces him to take her and Frida for a flight across Trolberg. ![]() It ends with Hilda being send to her room. Back home, Frida calls and asks if Hilda can sleep at her house tonight, but Johanna refuses, leading to another argument between her and Hilda. One day, Johanna has enough and demands to spend some time with Hilda, so the two go for a picnic (which is almost ruined when they can’t find a good spot). In the days that follow, Hilda goes on many more adventures, either alone or with her friends, and keeps making up excuses to Johanna. ![]() One even took his goat.īack home, Hilda covers up her adventure with the lie that she was at David’s house all day. A farmer there tells Hilda that there are unusually many Trolls outside the walls. Hilda finally manages to save the house when they are already outside the walls of Trolberg. The story begins with Hilda and Twig chasing after a creature that looks like a patch of land with legs. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Planet Police by Natalie Vellacott![]() ![]() ![]() Now there have only been a couple of times that I have posted or reblogged a review that I did not write myself. ![]() After reading a review of Animal Farm by a fellow Goodreads member, Natalie Vellacott, I realized that it was a novel that I should add to my list of recommended fiction. If you haven’t already checked it out, you can see my current list of fiction I believe every Christian should read, which I continue to add to as titles come to mind or are brought to my attention. I find the most worthwhile fictional works were published before the 20th century, and certainly before about 1950. However, I do feel there is merit to reading good fiction, which unfortunately is becoming more difficult to come by in this day and age. Animal Farm by George Orwell “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”Īlthough I enjoy reading fiction and read a fair amount of it (I earned my degree in English, after all), I recommend more non-fiction here on my site because for the most part, non-fiction tends to be more profitable to the mind and soul. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments The widow of pale harbor![]() Noemí suspects that her cousin’s strange thrall is tied to the house. Everything was heavy, even the air, and a musty scent lingered along the hallways.”īetween the misogyny and racism exhibited by Catalina’s husband and his family, as well as the treacherous conditions in El Triunfo, Noemí’s isolation, fear, and frustration increase with each new day. “The house, so quiet, with its curtains drawn, was like a dress lined with lead. ![]() Catalina herself is catatonic-seemingly drained of her youthful essence. ![]() When she arrives at High Place, her cousin’s looming house, Noemí finds it cold and unwelcoming, with secretive and eccentric residents. When glamorous socialite Noemí Taboada receives a frantic letter from her cousin Catalina, she puts aside her glittering life in Mexico City and journeys to El Triunfo, a lonely, fog-shrouded mining town high in the mountains. ![]() One wonderful example of this is found in Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Jason reynolds patina![]() ![]() However, since most of the students at the private charter school are from wealthy, white families, Patina has problems fitting into the school's general population. She loves to run, and she is making friends on the team. Patina is a member of the track team at her new school, Chester Academy. So, she still feels the need to do so, even though her aunt and uncle have taken over that responsibility. ![]() Patina's life is very different now because she has spent the past few years taking care of Maddy. Since their father is deceased and their mother is not able to take care of them, Patina and her younger sister Maddy now live with their Uncle Tony and Emily, his wife. Patina's biological mother has lost both legs due to diabetes. Patina OverviewJason Reynolds' novel, Patina, is the second installment of his Track series and the stand-alone story of Patina Jones. ![]() ![]() ![]() Public interest in fanciful tales of African exploration was at its height, and the book was an instant hit it made Verne financially independent and got him a contract with Jules Hetzel's publishing house, which put out several dozen more works of his for over forty years afterward. ![]() The book gives readers a glimpse of the exploration of Africa, which was still not completely known to Europeans of the time, with explorers traveling all over the continent in search of its secrets. It is the first Verne novel in which he perfected the "ingredients" of his later work, skillfully mixing a plot full of adventure and twists that hold the reader's interest with passages of technical, geographic, and historic description. Much more down to earth-figuratively, if not literally, than his later works, his heroes here encounter no lost civilizations, no anachronistic dinosaurs, and no extraordinary perils beyond that which actual explorers of the era might have met on a balloon voyage across the Dark Continent. ![]() ![]() Five Weeks in a Balloon: Illustrated with 78 original illustrations from Riou and Montaut (1867), from the english edition of 1869.įive Weeks in a Balloon, or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen (French: Cinq semaines en ballon) is an adventure novel by Jules Verne. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Trend analysis of imported malaria in London observational study 2000 to 2014. Rees E, Saavedra-Campos M, Usdin M, Anderson C, Freedman J, de Burgh J, Kirkbride H, Chiodini P, Smith V, Blaze M, Whitty CJM, Balasegaram S. Use of malaria rapid diagnostic tests by community health workers in Afghanistan: cluster randomised trial. Leslie T, Rowland M, Mikhail A, Cundill B, Willey B, Alokozai A, Mayan I, Hasanzai A, Baktash SH, Mohammed N, Wood M, Rahimi HU, Laurent B, Buhler C, Whitty CJM. The changing aetiology of eosinophilia in migrants and returning travellers in the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, London 2002-2015: An observational study. 2018 Nov 27 16(1):218.īarrett J, Warrell CE, Macpherson L, Watson J, Lowe P, Armstrong M, Whitty CJM. and Plasmodium malariae infections imported to the UK between 19. Geographical and temporal trends and seasonal relapse in Plasmodium ovale spp. ![]() Nabarro LEB, Nolder D, Broderick C, Nadjm B, Smith V, Blaze M, Checkley AM, Chiodini PL, Sutherland CJ, Whitty CJM. Malaria control stalls in high incidence areas. Clinical and Diagnostic Features of 413 Patients Treated for Imported Strongyloidiasis at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, London. Ming DK, Armstrong M, Lowe P, Chiodini PL, Doherty JF, Whitty CJM, McGregor AC. UK vaccines network: Mapping priority pathogens of epidemic potential and vaccine pipeline development. Noad RJ, Simpson K, Fooks AR, Hewson R, Gilbert SC, Stevens MP, Hosie MJ, Prior J, Kinsey AM, Entrican G, Simpson A, Whitty CJM, Carroll MW. ![]() ![]() ![]() There was almost no postmortem degeneration of the gastric mucosal epithelium, and hypercontracture of the smooth muscle layer was observed. Zinc staining was strongly positive in all layers. The gastric mucosa was gray–brown, with sclerosis present in all gastric wall layers. Liver cirrhosis with cloudy yellow ascites was observed, however, there were no clear findings of gastrointestinal perforation. The patient’s blood zinc concentration on arrival was high at 3030 μg/dL. However, he developed hypotension and severe metabolic acidosis and died. Except for tachycardia, his vital signs were stable at presentation. After drinking the solution, he developed vomiting, abdominal pain, and diarrhea, and called for an ambulance. Here, we present the results of an administrative autopsy performed on a 70-year-old man who ingested zinc chloride solution and died. Some individuals experience shock after ingesting large amounts of zinc chloride, resulting in fatality. ![]() Ingestion of large amounts of zinc chloride causes corrosive gastroenteritis with vomiting, abdominal pain, and diarrhea. ![]() ![]() ![]() And it took a second death - the obvious murder of the Symmingtons' maid - for the officials to realize she had been right about the first murder. ![]() Angela Symmington, the wife of local solicitor Edward Symmington, is found dead after receiving a letter. However, not long after Miss Marple's arrival at Lymstock, the poison pen letters take a murderous twist. Maude Calthrop, summons her old friend, Miss Jane Marple, to help the police find the letters' writer. Unbeknownst to the Bartons and other citizens of Lymstock, the vicar's wife, Mrs. After settling in and meeting their neighbors, the two siblings become the latest victims of a series of anonymous poison pen letters. A brother and sister from London named Gerry and Joanna Burton purchase a house in the small, quiet town of Lymstock in order for Jerry to fully recover from injuries received in a plane crash. "THE MOVING FINGER" is basically a murder mystery set in a small English town. Before I express my opinion of it, I might as well reveal its plot. In the end, I found myself viewing the 1985 television movie, due to it being part of a box set of Jane Marple movies. When I first learned about the 1985 adaptation of the film, I did not bother to get my hands on a video or DVD copy. In fact, I have difficulty in viewing it as mediocre. I do not regard it as one of the author's more remarkable works. I am not a fan of Agatha Christie's 1942 novel, "The Moving Finger". ![]() ![]() I might as well put my cards on the table. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book draws on the authors' experience teaching, writing curricula, and designing programs for thousands of first-year college students over decades. ![]() Professors Andrea Malkin Brenner and Lara Schwartz guide first-year students and their families through the transition process, during the summer after high school graduation and throughout the school year, preparing students to succeed and thrive as they transition and adapt to college. In fact, up to one third of first-year college students will not return for their second year-and colleges are reporting an increase in underprepared first-year students. Academic standards and expectations are different from high school families aren't present to serve as "scaffolding" for students and first-years have to do what they call "adulting." Nothing in the college admissions process prepares students for these new realities.Īs a result, first-year college students report higher stress, more mental health issues, and lower completion rates than in the past. Students and parents often arrive on campus unprepared for what college is really like. The transition from high school-and home-to college can be stressful. ![]() ![]() The first practical guide of its kind that helps students transition smoothly from high school to college ![]() |