![]() He has also edited a documentary history of the entire national park system called America’s National Park System: The Critical Documents (1995 and 2nd edition 2016). The units are Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks with co-author William Tweed (1990 and 2nd edition 2016) Cumberland Island National Seashore (2004) Joshua Tree National Park (2016) and Channel Islands National Park (2020 with co-author Timothy Babalis). ![]() His books include four administrative histories each of which is an analysis of a specific park’s establishment and the evolution of its management issues. During that time, he has written or edited eight books and numerous articles and book chapters on the history of the national park system and many of its units. He also has been a researcher for the History Division of the National Park Service since 1985. Lary Dilsaver, a native Californian, is Professor Emeritus of Historical Geography at the University of South Alabama. ![]() Department of Earth Sciences, University of South Alabama, USAĭr. ![]() ![]() Lecture #13: The Evolution of the American National Park System ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() But it's a far leap to conclude that the sex act in and of itself mandates a lower status for women. The selected fictional works, in particular, demonstrate that men are often uncomfortable with their own sexuality and frequently hostile to women. It is this inherent inequality, says Dworkin, that has inspired the body of canon and civil law that codifies the inferiority of women and has also produced a language that frequently demeans women, plus much literature that reinforces what is accepted as woman's essential ""inferiority."" In developing her thesis, Dworkin cites numerous sources: Holy Scripture, Moses Maimonides, Leo Tolstoy, Gustave Flaubert, Kobo Abe, Isaac Bashevis Singer, etc. The male, she says, takes the female as an imperialist nation subdues a colonial people. Both sexes, she says, regard copulation as a possession by the male of the female. To Dworkin the sex act is ""an act of invasion and ownership"" which, in itself, renders the male dominant, the female subordinate. ![]() A noted feminist argues that the root cause for female oppression is-hang on-sexual intercourse. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The untrusting man with a killer's eyes, along with his group of escaped prisoners, Civil War reenactors, and a strange, quiet child with a tattooed forehead make him uneasy. Plans change however, and when his plane is shot down and those that survived are ambushed all seems lost until a thin, bearded man called Jonathan Fisher comes to their rescue. Through retreat and defeat at every turn he has been given one final mission: To take a group of survivors to the mountains of New Mexico where the last American stronghold lies. Lieutenant Miguel Alverez is a broken man. Even an unlikely alliance between sworn enemies may not be able to stop what's coming. ![]() A threat is kept, and a weapon known as The Grey Sheet is deployed as a final desperate attempt at victory. Attackers must now defend their own borders and alliances crumble as greed consumes the strong. War has spread throughout the world and the Metti virus consumes every continent. ![]() ![]() I felt alive, the way you do after saying something you’ve kept to yourself for a real long time. My skin still tingled with an adrenaline rush, and I had a fresh memory of Russ’s warm, strong thighs pinning me against the bed and the wall. A hate that deep spooked me.Īfter the fight, I gathered up the plaster shards in an old shirt and rested them on my desk. Insults aside, the message I got from him destroying my Jesus was Russ hates me more than he loves Christ. Taping the floor was the first time he’d acknowledged my existence in a whole month. ![]() Since late August, we’d made it a point to stay apart. ![]() In September I’d overheard him on the phone asking somebody, “What’d I do wrong that they put me in with a fat coon?” As if I wasn’t there, as if I wasn’t that fat coon. My Jesus couldn’t have fallen and broken into that many pieces. Behind a pile of my dirty clothes, I saw the shattered remains of the little statue I prayed to every night. I’d come home that evening to find he’d shoved all my belongings into one corner and divided the room with a long strip of red tape. Russ broke my Jesus in October of 1988, during midterms freshman year at Central Florida Christian College in Kissimmee. Later, Russ got a shiner on account of my elbow. ![]() By that time, the RA had heard the commotion from down the hall and rushed into our dorm room to pull us apart. ![]() ![]() Until I mail a manuscript out I'm never sure that I'm through with it." I try to write what I myself think a good book, one that satisfies me. Every one of his carefully wrought stories and novels undergoes at least three drafts, occasionally as many as 10. In fact, Wolfe is nothing if not an artist, a perfectionist. Such disciplined energy recalls that of the great but often slapdash Victorian novelists or of many writers of pulp science fiction. "The latest," he says, "is the first in a series on industrial robots." There he edits, buys some 25 free-lanced articles a year, and writes a major cover story every few months. In itself this may sound like a lot of work-even before you realize that Wolfe also puts in a full day as a senior editor at Plant Engineering Magazine in Barrington, Illinois, a Chicago suburb. "Usually it takes between an hour and a half and three hours," he explains over the phone, but sometimes he's still working at midnight. ![]() Before he goes to bed that day he will have written five pages. January 30, 1983ĮVERY MORNING between 5 and 5:30 Gene Wolfe sits down at one of his two IBM typewriters. ![]() ![]() By MICHAEL DIRDA MICHAEL DIRDA is science fiction editor of Book World. ![]() ![]() ![]() Fifty years later, however, the values of the monarchy and of the people it serves have changed, and the monarchy is no longer the dominating force it once was. ![]() He is well rewarded by the emperor, and his son and grandson remain connected with the leaders of the country and benefit from this relationship. Straddling the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, The Radetzky March uniquely combines the color, pomp, pageantry, and military maneuvering of the last days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire with the more modern political and psychological insights of the twentieth century, giving this short book a panoramic geographical and historical scope with fully rounded characters you can truly feel for.įollowing the fortunes of three generations of the Trotta family, the novel opens with the story of the grandfather, whose battlefield actions in the mid-nineteenth century save the life of the man who becomes Emperor Franz Josef. This is a masterpiece to be savored, celebrated, and shared. ![]() ![]() And the rest, as they say, is history.Ī riotously funny new picture book from the author of The Day the Crayons Quit and The Day the Crayons came Home, Drew Daywalt, and New York Times bestselling illustrator, Adam Rex. When ROCK collides with SCISSORS from the village of Junk Drawer, and the ferocious PAPER, who hails from the Empire of Mum’s Study, an epic and hilarious battle ensues. Little did he know that at that very moment two more warriors were setting forth with the very same idea. So he went in search of a worthy opponent. ROCK was undefeated in battle, and yet, he felt unfulfilled. Long ago in the Kingdom of Backgarden lived a fearsome warrior named ROCK. You’ve played the game…now read the book. The Legend of Rock Paper Scissors reveals the epic tale behind everyone’s favourite playground game! ![]() Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processesĪ laugh-out-loud funny new children’s book from the author of The Day the Crayons Quit. ![]() Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary subjects ![]() ![]() ![]() And, for the first time, she has her father's attention all to herself. There are milkshakes, shopping sprees, a theme park, and all the junk food she isn't allowed to eat under her mother's watchful eye. Every pit stop promises a new delight for Dolly and her favourite plastic horse, Clemesta, who she's brought along for the adventure. The first days on the road are incredibly exciting. It has been a while since her dad has spent time with her, just the two of them, and so when he scoops her up and promises to take her on the adventure of a lifetime, Dolly is thrilled. When we first meet seven-year-old Dolly, she immediately grabs us with a voice that is both precocious and effervescent. From "a master of slow-burn suspense" (Shelf Awareness), a simmering family drama about a father and daughter who embark on a road trip through the American South - but what they're leaving behind is as important as what lies ahead. ![]() ![]() ![]() Following Aristotle’s appraisal, many prominent authors including Voltaire, Frederich Nietzsche, and Sidmund Freud reacted at length to the play’s themes of incest and patricide. ![]() Aristotle praises the play in his Poetics for having an exemplary, well-constructed plot, one which is capable of inspiring fear and pity not only in its audience but especially in those who have merely heard of the story. Jocasta commits suicide, Oedipus blinds himself, takes leave of his children, and is led away. When Creon returns Oedipus begins investigating the death of his predecessor, Laius, and discovers through various means that he himself was the one who had unknowingly killed Laius and then married his own mother, Jocasta. In the play Oedipus, King of Thebes, upon hearing that his city is being ravaged by fire and plague, sends his brother-in-law Creon to find a remedy from the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi. at the Great Dionysia, a religious and cultural festival held in honor of the god Dionysus, where it won second prize. Sophocles, first produced the play in Athens around 430 B.C. ![]() It is known by a variety of title (the most common being Oedipus Rex), including Oedipus the King and Oedipus Tyrannus. ![]() Sophocles’s Oedipus Rex is probably the most famous tragedy ever written. ![]() ![]() When someone dies, it really affects me, and it really affects the other nurses too because, deep down, like me, they're nurturers. It comes in waves, and lately we've had a lot. They have more heart than they let on.Īnd then there's death. A lot of the nurses here share that trait. I'm highly sensitive to what other people are thinking and feeling. I admire their composure, because I'm an empath. ![]() The nurses here run around at a hundred miles a minute, all the while projecting to everyone that they are cool, calm, and collected. The hospital job is important because it's a front-row seat to the reality of nursing. I'm struggling with the dual responsibilities of attending class during the day and working as a nursing assistant at night. My interest in becoming a professional caregiver sparked, I toyed with the idea of becoming a doctor-until I shadowed one and found out how little time doctors spend with patients.Īnd I want the human interactions, so I chose nursing.īut nursing school, I'm finding, is hard. Growing up, I watched my mother take good care of my extended family, especially my grandmother. Angela is a traveling nurse and currently lives in California. After graduating from nursing school, she did an externship at a cardiovascular ICU. ![]() ![]() Angela was born in New York City and grew up in Virginia Beach. ![]() |