![]() ![]() Gould proposed that given a chance to "rewind the tape of life" and let it play again, we might find ourselves living in a world populated by descendants of Hallucigenia rather than Pikaia (the ancestor of all vertebrates). All of the Burgess animals, Gould argues, were exquisitely adapted to their environment, and there exists little evidence that the survivors were any better adapted than their extinct contemporaries. However most of these phyla left no modern descendants. Gould argues that during this period just after the Cambrian explosion there was a greater disparity of anatomical body plans ( phyla) than exist today. He based his argument on the extraordinarily well preserved fossils of the Burgess Shale, a rich fossil-bearing deposit in Canada's Rocky Mountains, dating 505 million years ago. Gould's thesis in Wonderful Life was that contingency plays a major role in the evolutionary history of life. Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850-1927), who discovered the Burgess Shale, with his children Sidney Stevens Walcott (1892-1977), and Helen Breese Walcott (1894-1965). ![]()
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![]() She thought she could hear her aunt breathing, but she wasn’t sure. ![]() She pulled herself together and scurried over to her aunt. Immediately after Kate Partridge and her aunt Hannah are attacked, and Kate is raped, “Kate sat back on her heels and tried to catch her breath. Description settles into clichés - “Hannah was a good egg when she let her hair down’’ “ looked like a fashion plate.’’ This limited vision shortchanges the characters’ experiences, both physical and psychological. She liked to disappear, even when she was in the same room as other people.’’ This limited voice often entails a correspondingly limited vision. Her views were her own, and educators did not always appreciate free thought. ![]() Her family was taking her out of Mount Holyoke Seminary she was needed at home and she hadn’t been happy at the school. The result is passages that sound as if they were lifted from a children’s chapter book, with age-appropriate restrictions on vocabulary and syntax: “Emily went for a walk on her last day at school. Simplicity degenerates into simplification. ![]() In the less effective stories here, the folk-tale form exhibits the defects of its virtues. ![]() ![]() Originally from England, he is now an American citizen, living in Southern California. ![]() He has authored or co-authored books, including the Wall Street Journal Bestseller, Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter (Harper Business, June 2010), and journal articles. He has taught at companies t Greg McKeown is a business writer, consultant, and researcher specializing in leadership, strategy design, collective intelligence and human systems. Greg is currently CEO of McKeown, Inc., a leadership and strategy design agency. The World Economic Forum inducted Greg into the Forum of Young Global Leaders. in Communications (with an emphasis in journalism) from Brigham Young University and an MBA from Stanford University. Greg McKeown is a business writer, consultant, and researcher specializing in leadership, strategy design, collective intelligence and human systems. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The writing here is so rhythmic that it’s almost hypnotic. Little kids who look tired.” “It all felt very unsettling” to him. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. At one point, Charlie starts going to the mall simply to try and figure out why people go there. ![]() What makes Chbosky’s stream of consciousness style more beautiful than that used in Suicidal Tendencies’ hardcore punk song “Institutionalised”, for example, is the lyrical, philosophical nature of the prose. Along the way, Chbosky intelligently explores stock YA themes such as mental health, substance abuse and sexuality, whilst simultaneously reminding the reader about how exciting it is to be young and idealistic. These letters catalogue Charlie’s attempts to “participate”, as he wanders wide eyed through a series of house parties and Rocky Horror Picture Show productions with his new, older friends. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky is narrated by Charlie, the titular ‘wallflower’, in a series of letters that he writes to a stranger, beginning the night before he starts his freshman year of high school in 1991. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Among these evil geniuses, however, women materialise as well. The pantheon of iniquitous masterminds appears to be immensely thronged with male characters such as the Miltonian Satan, the Shakespearean Richard III or the Conradian Kurtz. This paper will analyse the story's traditional gothic and folklore elements and how Le Fanu subverts Victorian sexual politics through a vampire story. With this, he aims at questioning Victorian sexual politics. Le Fanu creates a vampire story by combining traditional gothic elements and Irish folklore. Later we learn that Carmilla is a vampire and all the girls in the surrounding area and Laura become ill because of her visits at night. This story is about a relationship between a young woman, Laura who lives in a remote castle in Austria and a stranger, Carmilla who comes to stay for three months. It is assumed that he was inspired by Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "Cristabel" (1816). Le Fanu's story paved the road for Dracula and other vampire stories. Carmilla is the only vampire story in this book and it has been accepted as one of the most important works of vampire fiction. It is within a collection of stories published under the title, "In a Glass Darkly". The story "Carmilla" was written by the Irish writer Sheridan Le Fanu in 1872. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The National Hockey League was organized at the Windsor Hotel in Montreal on November 26, 1917, after the suspension of operations of its predecessor organization, the National Hockey Association (NHA), which had been founded in 1909 in Renfrew, Ontario. The NHL is the fifth-wealthiest professional sport league in the world by revenue, after the National Football League (NFL), Major League Baseball (MLB), the National Basketball Association (NBA), and the English Premier League (EPL). The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) also views the Stanley Cup as one of the "most important championships available to the sport". The NHL is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada and is considered to be the top ranked professional ice hockey league in the world, with players from 18 countries as of the 2022–23 season. The Stanley Cup, the oldest professional sports trophy in North America, is awarded annually to the league playoff champion at the end of each season. The National Hockey League ( NHL French: Ligue nationale de hockey-LNH, French pronunciation: ) is a professional ice hockey league in North America comprising 32 teams-25 in the United States and 7 in Canada. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lyddie is sent to work at Cutler's Tavern as a housemaid, and Charlie is sent to work at the Baker's mill. She learns how to weave and other similar tasks. Charlie jokes about her horrible spelling, which becomes an inside joke, "We can stil hop" instead of "We can still hope". ![]() While at the house, they receive a letter from their mother, who tells them she signed them up for jobs in the village and they have been hired out as indentured servants. She takes Lyddie's younger siblings Rachel and Agnes with her Lyddie and her brother Charlie refuse to leave because they believe their father will return. Lyddie's mother sees the bear as the devil and moves in with her sister, Clarissa, and her husband, Judah. ![]() Lyddie must perform her parents' duties, as her father left for the gold rush and her mother is insane. Throughout the rest of the book, Lyddie's troubles are often represented as "bears". The bear leaves with no one harmed, but some of their possessions broken. Lyddie saves the family by staring down the bear long enough for her family to climb up to the loft. Lyddie, a 13-year-old girl and her family, are in their cabin in 1843 when a bear enters. When thirteen-year-old Lyddie and her younger brother are hired out as indentured servants to help pay off their family's debts, Lyddie is determined to find a way to reunite her family. Set in the 19th century, this is a story of determination and personal growth. Lyddie is a 1991 novel written by Katherine Paterson. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Unless, of course, for some asinine reason they decided to do something as pointlessly inexplicable as changing the sublime perfection of the ambiguous ending that served to explain nothing in favor of an ending which not only clarified every last mystery, but did so in an excruciatingly calculated focus-group demonstration of pure emotional manipulation lacking any sense of coherence with anything that came before. There was absolutely, positively no way that even a moderately talented filmmaker could possibly screw up the greatest gift King ever gave Hollywood. Topping everything off with being based on the latter 20th century’s most elusive literary rarity: a great ending to a Stephen King story. All built upon a foundation of never getting to know for sure what is really going on. Opportunities for terrifying special effects nestled up against intense dramatic confrontations between apocalyptic evangelical Christians and paranoid conspiracy theorists. The story had it all: it was a heartbreaking domestic tragedy of a family torn apart taking place within a who-will-survive disaster epic. The plot was narrowed down to the bone so that multiple characters didn’t have to be composited and intricately integrated subplots would not require complete elimination. It was perfectly constructed for adapting into a movie. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But he is losing himself, and that is a problem just as dangerous as her secret, that still lurk in the shadows, a threat to the Brandon Family waiting to erupt. In every one of Shane's seductive demands, Emily can taste and feel, his torment, his struggle to save his family and not lose himself. Driving her to new limits, pushing her to accept a part of him that even he cannot. There is another war brewing though, and that one, is inside him, his battle between right and wrong, light and dark, and in the heat of the night, it is Emily he turns to for escape. His brother only thought he knew what dirty meant. His brother is desperate to rule the empire and this means war and all gloves are off. To save his family empire from the grip of the drug cartel, Shane is pushed to the edge of darkness, forced to make choices he might never make. Wall Street meets the Sons of Anarchy in Bad Deeds, the smoldering, scorching next novel in the explosively sexy Dirty Money series from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones. ![]() ![]() ![]() She lives in New York with two children, a husband and two cats. She has written for The New York Times, Parents Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, Ladies Home Journal, Town & Country, More, Reader’s Digest, Mademoiselle and other publications and has been an adjunct professor of journalism at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and an instructor of creative writing at the New School University. ![]() Her awards include the American Library Association Best Book of the Year, New York Public Library Best Book for the Teenaged and the Children’s Literature Council’s Choice. This was followed by My Brother's Keeper in 2005, about a boy struggling with his brother's addiction and Sold in 2006. Her first novel for teens was Cut, about a young woman who self-injures herself. ![]() from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1986 and an M.F.A. She graduated from Rosemont College in 1978, followed by an M.S. Patricia McCormick is a journalist and writer. ![]() |