![]() Some readers may feel overwhelmed by the constant interruptions from Jason's internal voices, yet the cacophony underscores Jason's frustration and helplessness. ![]() When his father disappears, Jason risks soliciting help from a group of newfound friends from school. Structured as a conversation between Jason and his outspoken internal chorus (which includes sympathetic Aunt Bee from the Andy Griffith Show, the antagonistic Crazy Glue, and even a laugh track), the novel draws readers inside the psyche of a troubled teenager to experience the chaos, panic, and isolation he feels each day. But imagined friends can't help Jason with the problem he inherited after his mother's death: taking care of a mentally ill father, whose condition is worsening. "Ever since the fifth grade, I've had this imaginary audience in my head who follow me around and watch me like I'm the star in a movie," explains 15-year-old Jason, who narrates this intense novel from National Book Award Medalist Nolan (Dancing on the Edge). ![]()
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I have the characters’ hopes and dreams all settled in my head. ![]() Then I grab my laptop and start to write. I normally let the idea simmer in my head for a few days while I get to know the characters. When I first start a new book, I have a general idea of what I want the story to be about though I’m not big on outlining. When invite them into our lives and become friends with them.īut what happens when the characters want to take over the story? Well, then you have a tug of war on your hands, and you never know who will win in the end. Though writing can be very isolating, we authors have our characters to keep us company. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Less than stellar labor market outcome for Japanese women may be due to the possibility “that work other than full-time and regular employment is a better fit for the circumstances and preferences of some working women” and that they choose jobs which enable them to “balance employment with non-work obligations” (2017). although the number of working women has increased, most are not engaged in career-track jobs the number of women in executive or managerial positions, as well as high level government jobs, lags far behind that of other industrialized nations (Shim, 2018). Although Japanese women are highly educated and in good health, this representsĪn all-time low for Japan and might be seen as a setback. more In the Global Gender Gap 2020 Report, which tracks gender parity in education, health, politics, and economic participation, Japanese women were ranked 121st out of 153 (World Economic Forum, 2019), lagging far behind other Asian countries such as the Philippines, which came in at 16, Singapore, which ranked 54th, and Thailand in 75th place. In the Global Gender Gap 2020 Report, which tracks gender parity in education, health, politics. ![]() ![]() ![]() Has she somehow been transported into Pride and Prejudice, or is it just a dream? As Kelsey tries to discover what’s happening to her, she must also discover her own heart. She falls asleep reading Darcy’s letter to Lizzy and awakens to find herself in an unfamiliar place that looks and sounds suspiciously like her favorite book. After a particularly gaffe-filled evening around Mark, Kelsey is in desperate need of inspiration from Jane Austen. No matter how Kelsey tries, she always seems to say the wrong thing. From then on, she always seems to run into him when she least expects it. One night at a party Kelsey meets handsome Australian bartender Mark Barnes. After a bad breakup, she retreats into her favorite novel, Pride and Prejudice, wishing she had some of the wit and spirit of Elizabeth Bennett. She makes no secret of her love for TV, movies, and, most especially, books. Kelsey Edmundson is a geek and proud of it. ![]() ![]() The disconnect between ground realities and its portrayal in the story is too wide. Ibrahim’s writing does not bring to fore the harrowing harsh realities of slavery. The first one was Yellow Wife by Sadeqa Johnson, and I must say, Yellow Crocus comes nowhere close to it. This is the second book I have read this year on the same topic. When Mattie and Lisbeth meet after 9 years in a different place, under different circumstances, the reunion is bitter sweet. ![]() Their lives undergo remarkable changes and they are separated when the civil war looms closer to home. An unexpected relationship blossoms between the two characters, which enhances as time passes. Though resentful at first, Mattie soon grows fond of Lisbeth. At 19, Mattie’s employers force her to hand-over her newborn son to another woman so she can become a wet-nurse to little Elizabeth. ![]() The novel follows Lisbeth (Elisabeth) Wainwright, daughter of a wealthy plantation owner, and Mattie, an enslaved black woman who works and lives on the plantation. Yellow Crocus by Laila Ibrahim is a story set in pre-civil war America (1800s) in the plantations of Virginia. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mr Johnson was referred to the police by the Cabinet Office on Wednesday over events in Chequers and Downing Street following a review of his official diary as part of the official COVID inquiry. ![]() "I think it's ridiculous that elements in my diary should be cherry-picked and handed over to the police, to the privileges committee without even anybody having the basic common sense to ask me what these entries referred to." The former prime minister was confronted by Sky News about the allegations as he made his way through the Dulles International Airport in Washington following a brief tour of the US.Īsked if he broke the rules he told Sky's US correspondent James Matthews: "This whole thing is a load of nonsense from beginning to end. ![]() Boris Johnson has insisted fresh claims he broke lockdown rules are "total nonsense" and that elements of his ministerial diary were "cherry-picked and handed to police". ![]() ![]() Until recently, Thurman’s work was not as widely known or studied among white Christian communities as it deserved to be. Howard Thurman, an unorthodox mystic and prophet, served as a spiritual mentor to civil rights leaders in the mid-century black freedom struggle. ![]() The work became an intellectual pillar for the burgeoning civil rights movement in the 1950s. What does Jesus offer to a people who live with their backs against the wall? This is the question with which Howard Thurman began his landmark work, Jesus and the Disinherited, in 1949. He was one of the principal architects of the modern, nonviolent civil rights movement and a key mentor to Dr. ![]() Howard Washington Thurman (1899–1981) played a leading role in many social justice movements and organizations of the twentieth century. ![]() ![]() Ībout Wagstaff numbers, there are only Cycles so the LLT does not work here. ![]() ![]() Often, small trees are attached to cycles.Ībout Mersenne and Fermat numbers, the DiGraph is made of one unique big Tree and of many Cycles, with length dividing. Such a DiGraph is made of Trees and Cycles. The complete graph is called a DiGraph under modulo a prime number (see Shallit & Vasiga work). All the possible seeds and the intermediate values that are crossed build a Tree (2 branches lead to 1). There are many possible seeds that can be used but only a small number of fixed (independent of q or n) seeds are known. Using the LLT means that we travel from a seed (4 for Mersennes 5 for Fermats) to 0 after steps for a Mersenne and steps for a Fermat. However, there exist tests that can show that a Wagstaff number is a PRP (Probable Prime), or not. ![]() ![]() These Maths deal with Mersenne, Wagstaff and Fermat numbers, and with primality tests for these numbers.Ībout Mersennes, the « Lucas-Lehmer Test for Mersenne numbers » (LLT in short) is the most efficient primality test ever built for any number.Ībout Fermats, the Pépin test is usually used however I’ve produced a primality test for Fermats that makes use of a LLT with 5 as seed, and I’ve recently discovered that Kustaa Inkeri provided in 1960 a proof of such a LLT with 8 as seed.Ībout Wagstaff numbers, no efficient primality test is known yet. ![]() ![]() The first “Flash Gordon,” created by American cartoonist Alex Raymond and published on January 7, 1934, also sold for $480,000 in 2020. It also tied the record for most valuable original newspaper strip ever sold at auction. The comic strip broke the previous “Calvin and Hobbes” auction record, which was set in September when a February 1992 hand-colored daily strip sold for $216,000. Now, one lucky fan can revisit the comic strip’s magic again and again: An unnamed buyer purchased a hand-colored “Calvin and Hobbes” Sunday strip that ran on May 24, 1987 for $480,000 during Heritage Auctions’ Comics & Comic Art Signature sale, the auction house revealed in a statement. ![]() The final strip of “Calvin and Hobbes” ran in 1995, and as animation writer Charles Solomon said on NPR a decade later, they left behind a hole that “no strip has been able to fill.” From the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, newspaper readers around the world followed the antics-and surprisingly poignant musings-of 6-year-old Calvin and his anthropomorphic tiger best friend, Hobbes, in Bill Watterson’s beloved daily comic strip. ![]() |