Praise the slightest improvement and praise every improvement. Ask questions instead of giving direct orders. Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person. Call attention to people's mistakes indirectly. Begin with praise and honest appreciation. Be sympathetic with the other person's ideas and desires. Try honestly to see things from the other person's point of view. Let the other person feel that the idea is his or hers. Let the other person do a great deal of the talking. Get the other person saying "yes, yes" immediately. If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically. Show respect for the other person's opinions. The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it. Make the other person feel important - and do it sincerely. Talk in terms of the other person's interests. Encourage others to talk about themselves. Become genuinely interested in other people. Arouse in the other person an eager want. Fundamental Techniques in Handling People 1. This is well worth listening too! Main points are.
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I particularly like how the author describes what she smells and hears upon boarding the ship. This tale centres around the linguist aboard who goes by the name of Calendula a talented young woman who uses all her senses. This is a very short SciFi story about 30 minutes of reading in which we get an introduction to ‘The Synthesis Series’, and a brief insight into the very varied crew on board the ‘Fluorescent Lightingale’. To buy on click HERE Rose Reviews ‘Synthesis : Pioneer’ ‘Synthesis : Pioneer’ (A short-story prequel to Synthesis:Weave) To check out my reading progress visit my Goodreads page click HERE It is October, almost November and I am currently reading Book 77. So now I have another BIG Challenge to post all the ones I have read so far this year. Oh my goodness I cannot believe how long I have left posting my Goodreads Challenge books for 2017. It was a long-standing and friendly argument. It all goes together in our bellies anyway. We can just put it all together in the pot, Matty insisted. The man laughed at Matty’s concoctions and tried to teach him, but Matty was impatient and didn’t care about the subtlety of herbs. So Matty swept the wooden floor each day and straightened the bedcovers: neatly on the man’s bed, with haphazard indifference on his own, in the room next to the kitchen. He cleaned the homeplace, though cleaning bored him. He lived with the blind man, the one they called Seer, and helped him. His face was becoming manly, he thought, though childishly he still enjoyed making scowls and frowns at his own reflection. Or, moving back in the high grass, he could see himself reflected in the glass pane. Once he had stood only to its sill, his forehead there, pressing into the wood, but now he was so tall he could see inside without effort. Sometimes, standing outside the homeplace, he measured himself against the window. Matty was no longer a boy, but not yet a man. There was something he needed to do, a thing that scared him. He wished he were grown so that he could decide when to eat, or whether to bother eating at all. MATTY WAS IMPATIENT to have the supper preparations over and done with. But there are several female characters: Ange is his girlfriend, Masha is an ally, Carrie is an enemy, and Flor is his campaign office boss.ĭoes Homeland represent a good balance of male and female characters or is it biased? Why?Īre the male and female characters fairly represented? Explain? Marcus Yallow, Homeland’s protagonist, is a male. Some words that you might use for inferring meanings include: Explain how readers could use context to infer the meanings of unfamiliar words. Because Marcus is a young adult, some words are specific to young adult culture. I often hear from teachers who want to know if there are any curricular materials they can use in connection with my books, and several of them have shared their own guides with me, but this one stands out as an unusually comprehensive and thoughtful one.īecause communications technologies are central to Homeland‘s plot, the novel contains many tech-oriented words that might be unfamiliar to some readers. I’m immensely grateful to Anderson for his good work here. Neil Anderson from the Association from Media Literacy (which has a great-sounding upcoming conference) has produced an excellent study guide for my novel Homeland (the sequel to Little Brother) - Anderson’s guide encourages critical thinking about politics, literary technique, technology, privacy, surveillance, and history. High-school English study guide for Homeland The Bolsheviks came to power and hailed the proletariat as the ruling class of the new way of life. The character of Sharikov was created by Bulgakov as a reaction to the events taking place in Russia at that time (the 1920s and 1930s of the 20th century). Polygraph Polygraphovich brazenly demands the right to live in the professor’s apartment, reports him to the authorities with false accusations, and even threatens him with a revolver. Having become a full-fledged citizen, he thinks it is his duty as “a working-class element” (Bulgakov) to persecute his class enemies, Professor Preobrazhensky and Dr. He applies for a passport, gets a job as a catcher of stray cats, and decides to get married. Sharikov boldly declares to everyone that he is a working-class hero fighting for his rights. Most importantly, Polygraph Polygraphovich retains an accurate “sniff” on the class enemy who turned out to be his creator, Professor Preobrazhensky. According to Professor Preobrazhensky, he is nothing but a scoundrel (Bulgakov). The character of the human donor manifests itself in Sharikov’s unrestrained drunkenness, impudence, rudeness, blatant savagery, and immorality. Polygraph Polygraphovich inherited all bad qualities from his human donor, Klim Chugunkin, a thief and a freeloader. “Masters of the Air” also now marks the second Spielberg/Apple TV+ collaboration, after the anthology “Amazing Stories.” It’s also the third international drama series that the streaming service will offer, along with “Pachinko” and “Shantaram.” Like its predecessors, “Masters of the Air” was originally an HBO project the cable network put the limited series in development back in January 2013, a few years after the success of “The Pacific.” (“Band of Brothers” won six Emmys and “The Pacific” won eight, with both winning the Outstanding Miniseries category.) Steven Spielberg Is ‘Proud’ of ‘Indiana Jones 5’: ‘I Thought I Was the Only One’ Who Could Make These The prose is lyrical without feeling like it’s overdone. It lasts a matter of months, but in those months Ann Patchett manages to make one care about a dizzying array of characters, hostages and terrorists alike. The hostage situation in Bel Canto reminds me of this subtle transformation. It’s one of the many subtle, long-term arcs that contribute to Buffy’s greatness. It becomes a running joke, in fact, how harmless he is, and gradually Spike transforms from villain to non-entity to ally. He spends a good deal of that season tied up in Xander’s basement. With a chip in his head that causes him intense pain if he harms humans, Spike is neutralized as a threat. He’s a cold and ruthless antagonist, but then in season four he gets metaphorically declawed. One of the villains in the second season is a vampire named Spike. One of my favourite shows is Buffy the Vampire Slayer (I could get into why, but then we’d be here all day). Join Rob Spence and Andrew Biswell for an extended discussion of the novel in our podcast. Read more about Nothing Like The Sun in these articles by Victoria Brazier, exploring Burgess’s writing of the novel and his distinctive approach to his use of language within it - as a well as reading from Anthony Burgess himself. Nothing Like The Sun is one of Burgess’s most fully realised creative engagements with Shakespeare, an inspiration that continued to the end of his life. Yet the energy and extravagance of the novel are exhilarating and the whole is profound, engrossing, and ultimately hugely rewarding. The language is dense and allusive, and the style – consciously modelled on Joyce’s Ulysses, with streams of consciousness and wordplay – is rich and challenging. Written in a version of Elizabethan English, it is wildly inventive, full of bawdy humour and references to Shakespeare’s poems, plays and the texture of its historical setting.īurgess described writing the novel as ‘the hardest I had ever undertaken’. Othing Like The Sun: A Story of Shakespeare’s Love-Life was published in 1964 to mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth.īeginning with Shakespeare’s early life, the novel follows Will as he grows up both romantically and artistically. The story was actually a novelized biography of Tirto Adhi Soerjo, a pioneer of journalism within the Indonesian modern anticolonial movement. The novels centre upon the live of Minke, an educated Indonesian journalist who was involved in anti-colonial activism against Dutch colonialism in the early 20th century. Buru Quartet consists of four novels: This Earth of Mankind, Child of All Nations, Footsteps, and House of Glass. It is widely known that Pramoedya’s best work is his Buru Quartet: a tetralogy of novels written by Pramoedya during his imprisonment in Buru Island. Even though Pramoedya was more renowned for his literary works, he has made a long-lasting contribution to Indonesian social and political thought, which could be categorized in three themes: (1) a rethinking of postcolonial identity (2) a critique of nativism, colonialism, and authoritarianism and (3) a contribution of Indonesian perspective of socialist realism in arts and literature. He was a productive writer, both before his arrest in 1965 and even after his release from jail in 1987. He was a political prisoner during Soeharto’s purge of the Indonesian Communist Party (1965-1978), having previously worked as Editor of Lentara, a cultural supplement of Bintang Timur, and was a prominent member of the communist-leaning People’s Institute of Culture (Lembaga Kebudayaan Rakyat/LEKRA). Pramoedya Ananta Toer is an Indonesian novelist, historian (noted for his works on Indonesian Chinese ethnicity and the history of revolution), as well as journalist. Bates Scholarship one of the Michigan’s most sought after and prestigious scholarships. For her undergraduate studies, she had studied law at Michigan Law after she became the recipient of the Henry M. Milan went to University of California Berkeley, where she got her masters in theoretical physical chemistry. Publishers Weekly named her second novel “Trial by Desire” the Best Book of 2010. She has made the shortlist for Best First Historical Romance from RT Reviewer’s Choice and has been a RITA Award finalist. The author went on to become a USA Today and New York Times bestselling author, with her subsequent novels receiving starred reviews from the likes of Booklist and Publishers Weekly. Milan’s debut novel was “Proof by Seduction”, that was first published in 2010 to critical acclaim and much commercial success. Courtney Milan is a pseudonym for Heidi Bond an American author best known for writing historical romance, and more recently contemporary romance novels. |