![]() ![]() ![]() Ephron still remembers the first day of her journalism class. She became a journalist because of her high school journalism teacher. Ephron started her career as a journalist for the New York Post and Esquire. “Nora Ephron is a screenwriter whose scripts for Silkwood, When Harry Met Sally, and Sleepless in Seattle have all been nominated for Academy Awards. Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die And all but 2 players would, in some way, be competing against their own team members rather than the opponent.” Only 2 of the 11 would know what position they play and know exactly what they are supposed to do. He says, "If, say, a soccer team had these same scores, only 4 of the 11 players on the field would know which goal is theirs. Then, Covey superimposes a very human metaphor over the statistics. * Only 20 percent fully trusted the organization they work for ![]() * Only 15 percent felt that their organization fully enables them to execute key goals * Only one in five said they had a clear "line of sight" between their tasks and their team's and organization's goals * Only one in five was enthusiastic about their team's and their organization's goals * Only 37 percent said they have a clear understanding of what their organization is trying to achieve and why “Stephen Covey, in his book The 8th Habit, decribes a poll of 23,000 employees drawn from a number of companies and industries. ![]()
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![]() They also note that Simon resented them all for various reasons. In Part Three, the four team up to compare notes and sense something is off with a student named Janae, who had been Simon's only friend. Bronwyn cheated by stealing tests to get an A in chemistry.) Bronwyn's sister Maeve hacks Simon's blog and starts to research him to get clues. Cooper, a baseball player, used drugs to improve his fastball. (Addy cheated on her boyfriend Jake with his best friend, TJ Forester. ![]() In Part Two, Simon's unpublished post goes up on an anonymous Tumblr account, revealing its trove of secrets. They're also the four other students who were in detention, and they quickly become the prime suspects in Simon's death (known as the Bayview Four). ![]() Simon writes a gossip blog, and it's discovered that he was about to post incriminating information about four students in the room (Bronwyn Rojas, Nate Macauley, Cooper Clay and Addy Prentiss). In Part One, Simon Kelleher, a high school student and loner at Bayview High, dies under suspicious circumstances from allergic reaction in detention. ![]() ![]() ![]() Emmons' riveting new sci-fi/fantasy thriller series. But a deadly threat hidden in plain sight may cost Ion more than just his freedom - it may cost him his life. ![]() Now he has sealed the fate of the Dimension, severing their connection to the real world, and locking himself inside forever. they’re normal.įorced to keep more secrets than ever before, Ion struggles to control his powers in the real world while commuting between realms - until his arch enemy starts a fight he can’t escape. He’s shocked to discover a whole world of people just like him - a world in another dimension, where things like levitation, shape-shifting, and immortality are not only possible. But when Hawk, the beautiful, mysterious girl next door unearths his darkest secret, Ion’s life is flipped upside-down. Running from his past and living in fear of being discovered, Ion knows he will never be an average college student. But when you’re capable of killing with your very thoughts, it’s hard to blend in with the crowd. All Ion Jacobs ever wanted was to be normal. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mason was the last Englishman ever to be killed by a totally unknown and uncontacted tribe. However, after four months, an unknown indigenous people found the group's trail, laid an ambush, and killed Richard Mason with arrows and clubs. The Brazilian mapping agency, IBGE, sent a three-man survey team to help map these unknown forests and rivers and gave the Expedition permission to name features it found. In 1961, with fellow Oxford graduates Richard Mason and Kit Lambert (who later managed The Who), he was part of the Iriri River Expedition into unexplored country in central Brazil. He was educated in the United Kingdom at Eton College, in Canada at McGill University, and read history at Oxford where he obtained a Doctor of Letters degree and became an honorary fellow of Magdalen College. John and his sister Louisa were brought back to London when he was two months old. So he sent John's mother, Alice Hemming, a journalist, on a cruise through the Panama Canal that ended in British Columbia. His father, Henry Harold Hemming, who had served in the First World War, likewise foresaw the Second, and wanted his son to be born in North America. ![]() Hemming, was born in Vancouver on the 5th of January, 1935. ![]() ![]() John Henry Hemming CMG FSA FRSL FRGS (born 1935) is a historian, explorer, and expert on the Incas and indigenous peoples of the Amazon basin. ![]() ![]() ![]() A theme that both The Dead by Jame Joyce and Things Fall Apart by Chinua share is masculinity, although both of these books share this theme masculinity is shown in various different forms. Although both of these stories are set in two drastically different places the themes can relate to each other in the same ways they also contrast from each other. The themes in Things Fall Apart are fate, tradition, masculinity and repression. Inside this clan a certain chain of events leads to the downfall of Okonkwo and his position in the clan. The second novel I will be looking at is Things Fall Apart, which is a book by Chinua Achebe that is about a man named Okonkwo who is in an African clan. Throughout The Dead, themes begin to reveal themselves, jealousy and masculinity/male pride, as well as anti-nationalism, death, and women. At this party, Gabriel has different encounters with several different people. The novel, The Dead by James Joyce begins with the character, Gabriel and his wife, Gretta arriving at an annual dinner party. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In a desperate attempt to be reunited with Romeo, Juliet follows the Friar’s plot and fakes her own death. With the help of her nurse, the women arrange for the couple to marry the next day, but Romeo’s attempt to halt a street fight leads to the death of Juliet’s cousin, for which Romeo is banished. Romeo and Juliet is an early tragedy by William Shakespeare about two teenage star-crossd lovers whose untimely deaths ultimately unite their feuding. Juliet who is due to marry her father’s choice plots to get out of it. A young lovesick Romeo Montague falls instantly in love with Juliet Capulet when they meet at a party and steal a kiss that bonds them forever. The Montagues and the Capulet’s have long been at war. This tale of forbidden young love is a timeless classic that you don’t want to miss.Īn age-old vendetta between two powerful families erupts into bloodshed. ![]() From historic feud to ill-fated union, Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet finds new significance this spring in the Liverpool Performing Arts Ensemble’s production of one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays. Romeo and Juliet is arguably one of the most famous plays of all time by one of the greatest writers, from the iconic storyline to using ground-breaking ideas. ![]() ![]() Don’t worry, the bonus Keefe hilarity will still be here when you’re ready! And now that I’ve sufficiently warned you-*pauses to give you one last chance to flee*- the pages you’re about to read cover what Keefe was up to during his recovery. If you haven’t read Nightfall yet, SPOILER ALERT! SPOILER ALERT! Even the rest of this paragraph isn’t safe, so if you snuck back here because you’re channeling your inner Silveny (KEEFE! KEEFE! KEEFE!), you might want to wait. And their greatest danger is not the warriors coming to destroy them-but the forbidden romance that’s grown between them. But unlocking his heritage will also unlock the memory Audra needs him to forget. He has a power to claim-the secret language of the West Wind, which only he can understand. When a hasty mistake reveals their location to the enemy who murdered both of their families, Audra’s forced to help Vane remember who he is. Even if it means sacrificing her own life. ![]() ![]() She’s also a guardian-Vane’s guardian-and has sworn an oath to protect Vane at all costs. She walks on the wind, can translate its alluring songs, and can even coax it into a weapon with a simple string of commands. Seventeen-year-old Audra is a sylph, an air elemental. And he has no idea if the beautiful, dark-haired girl who’s swept through his dreams every night since the storm is real. ![]() Seventeen-year-old Vane Weston has no idea how he survived the category five tornado that killed his parents. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Orphaned at age eleven, Raphael is determined to keep the deathbed promise he made to his father: become the greatest artist in history. Here, in Raphael, Painter in Rome, Storey tells of its creation as never before: through the eyes of Michelangelo’s fiercest rival-the young, beautiful, brilliant painter of perfection, Raphael. Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling is one of the most iconic masterpieces of the Renaissance. If you make a purchase I receive a small commission (at no additional charge to you)Īnother Fabulous Art History Thriller by the Bestselling Author of Oil and Marble, Featuring the Master of Renaissance Perfection: Raphael! All Amazon purchase links are affiliate links. ![]() A man who pursued perfection in his paintings. ![]() Raphael, Painter in Rome by Stephanie Storey features Michelangelo as a secondary character – not that he would ever consider himself such – and tells the tale of another great artist of that glorious time in art, Raphael. My AA is European History then I went on to finish in Art History with a concentration in the Renaissance – especially Michelangelo. I obviously love historical fiction but give me some art historical fiction and I may never stop reading. ![]() ![]() But when her father Russell shows up he brings with him information that Claire doesn't want to hear and that will challenge everything she thought she knew about herself. Things have settled down and Claire finds she has slipped back into a place of tightly sequestered sameness. ![]() Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Book DepositoryĪ magical new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Lost Lake, featuring characters from her beloved novel Garden Spells.įeaturing characters from her beloved novel, Garden Spells, Sarah Addison Allen's new novel picks up ten years after that eventful summer when Claire Waverly's wild half-sister Sydney returned to Bascom and Claire met her now-husband Tyler. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was the duped-by-hipsters types, but at that time enticed by marketing. In any case, the early adopters were neither "hipsters" nor more mature "engineer" types. It was literally the first language that came with a full blown, tens-of-millions, commercial hype campaign. Java got traction because of marketing to corporate departments, not because of "forward-thinking, high-skill people" driving it. ![]() Nah, I was there "at the time", and this is bad example. > Those millions of developers didn’t hop on the bandwagon just because Java was sitting there, it required a lot of forward-thinking, high-skill people to get off the ground. The dividing line between baldness and having your hair is also nonexistent, and yet both states exist and one can tell them apart if they see them. The dividing line between hipster programmers and “engineers” is nonexistent. ![]() |