![]() ![]() ![]() Liturgical music belongs in church, not on pop radio, and artists who fuse the two are guilty of sacrilege. ![]() Traditionally, west European culture has drawn distinct divisions between the secular and the sacred in music. She looks at Pentecostalism and black secular music, minstrelsy and its portrayal of black religion, the black church, "crossing over" from gospel to R&B, images of the black preacher, and the salience of God in the rap of Tupac Shakur. Reed examines the link between West-African musical and religious culture and the way African Americans convey religious sentiment in styles such as the blues, rhythm and blues, soul, funk, and gangsta rap. Analyzing lyrics and the historical contexts which shaped those lyrics, Teresa L. Winner of the 2004 ARSC Award for Best Research in Recorded Rock, Rhythm & Blues or Soul, The Holy Profane explores the strong presence of religion in the secular music of twentieth-century African American artists as diverse as Rosetta Tharpe, Sam Cooke, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Earth, Wind & Fire, and Tupac Shakur. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It seems to express that she lifted his spirits and washed away his feelings of loneliness. If autobiographical, "Eulalie" may be referring to Poe's relationship with his wife Virginia. The poem uses Poe's frequent theme of " the death of a beautiful woman," which he considered to be "the most poetical topic in the world." The use of this theme has often been suggested to be autobiographical by Poe critics and biographers, stemming from the repeated loss of women throughout Poe's life, including his mother Eliza Poe and his foster mother Frances Allan. The woman's love here has a transformative effect on the narrator, taking him from a "world of moan" to one of happiness. The poem is a bridal song about a man who overcomes his sadness by marrying the beautiful Eulalie. " Eulalie," or " Eulalie - A Song," is a poem by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in the July 1845 issue of The American Review and reprinted shortly thereafter in the Augissue of the Broadway Journal. ![]() Original manuscript for "Eulalie" with Poe's signature ![]() ![]() Naomi Sumner, programmer extraordinaire, creates a virtual world to train AIs. How does a mind develop? The same way it always has: through evolution. But all that is just a warm-up for the main event: the development of a conscious artificial mind. copyright, the threat of hacking, and government regulation. THREE LAWS LETHAL embraces this future in all of its glory: the life-and-death choices of the Trolley Problem, lawsuits and human fault, open source vs. We all know self-driving cars are coming it’s just a matter of how many problems we manage to trip over on the way there. In my new novel THREE LAWS LETHAL, I do it through self-driving cars. Will Hertling proposed one possible avenue in AVOGADRO CORP: through algorithms developed to improve human communication. It might be the most important question on the modern philosopher’s unanswered list, and it’s certainly the most fascinating. I asked David to write a guest post for my blog, which you’ll find below. ![]() I’ve been waiting excitedly for this book to become available, and now it is. ![]() While reading I frequently stopped to screenshot passages I loved to send them back to David. I was even more delighted when I read the draft, and found a compelling, thoughtful, and philosophical science fiction thriller about what it means for AI to be alive. ![]() ![]() In Greek mythology, they are three frightful sisters that spin the threads of men's lives and decide their fate. The act of spinning is also related to the three Fates. ![]() It also shows that though weaving is "women's work," it is a source of power and agency for Penelope. Later, Penelope uses the guise of spinning a shroud to protect her from suitors, showing the significance of weaving to the female experience. Throughout the text, Atwood associates the telling of the female narrative with the act of weaving and spinning. Penelope refers to her own story in relation to weaving when she says that she will "spin a thread of her own" (4). The idea of weaving and spinning is a key motif in this text. ![]() ![]() Buy Study Guide The Spinning Wheel (Motif) ![]() ![]() ![]() This was also very sad for Annie because her mother would no longer tell her stories in the way she used to. Moreover, she unreasonably claimed that there was no time to clean her daughters trunk anymore. You just cannot go around the rest of your life looking like a little me. She said, Its time you had your own clothes. Probably she wanted Annie to be less dependent on her, but in doing so, she disconcerted her daughter: she unexpectedly asserted that Annie was too old to wear dresses made out of the same cloth as her. However, in seeing that her daughter was on the verge of becoming a young lady, Annies mother became suddenly detached. These stories pleased Annie so much that she always yearned to clean the trunk with her mother it was in such paradise that Annie lived. Moreover, she tenderly told stories about Annie while cleaning Annies trunk, which was full of souvenirs of Annies childhood. John even made sure Annies dresses were made out of the same cloth as hers. Both were so attached to each other that Mrs. She also included Annie in everything: she did the shopping, prepared lunch and supper and made the washing in the company of her daughter. ![]() ![]() In doing so, Annies mother bathed affectionately different parts of Annies body. Many times, both, mother and daughter took baths together. Undoubtedly, Annie Johns mother was a very devoted parent: she showed great love for her daughter and paid a lot of attention to Annie. ![]() ![]() This book will make it, and its creator, fully accessible for the first time. For anyone interested in creativity, productivity and innovation, the Netflix culture is something close to a holy grail. ![]() From unlimited holidays to abolishing financial approvals, Netflix offers a fundamentally different way to run any organisation, one far more in tune with a fast-paced world. With INSEAD business school professor Erin Meyer, he will explore his leadership philosophy – which begins by rejecting the accepted beliefs under which most companies operate – and how it plays out in practice at Netflix. No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer goes into the details of Netflixs corporate culture of Freedom and. ![]() Finally Reed Hastings, Netflix Chairman and CEO, is sharing the secrets that have revolutionised the entertainment and tech industries. They are part of a unique cultural experiment that explains how the company has transformed itself at lightning speed from a DVD mail order service into a streaming superpower – with 125 million fervent subscribers and a market capitalisation bigger than Disney. These are some of the ground rules if you work at Netflix. ![]() Adequate performance gets a generous severance. ![]() ![]() ![]() Among the items that were new to me: that Franklin investigated ways to make flatulence less odorous, and that Davy Crockett went down at the Alamo carrying a copy of Franklin's ''Autobiography'' in his jacket. ![]() It is a thoroughly researched, crisply written, convincingly argued chronicle that is also studded with little nuggets of fresh information. But anyone assuming that ''Benjamin Franklin: An American Life'' is aimed at the coffee table would be dead wrong. ![]() Isaacson wrote this book while serving as managing editor at Time and then as head of CNN, both full-time jobs that presumably left little opportunity for travels back to the 18th century. Now Walter Isaacson joins the list with a full-length portrait virtually assured to bring Franklin's remarkable career before a sizable readership. ![]() Brands produced a well-received cradle-to-grave life of Franklin, then Edmund Morgan came forward with a beguilingly Boswellian character study of the great American sage. John Adams, Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson appeared to be the chief beneficiaries of this trend until recently, when Benjamin Franklin moved into contention. For reasons that no one has adequately explained, those prominent Americans often mythologized and capitalized as Founding Fathers, or alternatively demonized as the deadest-whitest-males in American history, have surged into vogue over the past decade. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She continued with more novels, including Red Leaves, Eleven Hours, The Bronze Horseman, The Bridge to Holy Cross (also known as Tatiana and Alexander), The Summer Garden and The Girl in Times Square (also known as Lily). Through word of mouth that book was welcomed by readers all over the world. Her dream was put on hold as she learned English and overcame the shock of a new culture.Īfter graduating from university and after various jobs including working as a financial journalist and as a translator Paullina wrote her first novel Tully. Growing up in Russia Paullina dreamt of someday becoming a writer. At the age of ten her family immigrated to the United States. Paullina Simons was born in Leningrad, USSR, in 1963. ![]() ![]() ![]() Introduction: The American Janus of medicine and race - pt. Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-484) and index This book reveals the hidden underbelly of scientific research and makes possible, for the first time, an understanding of the roots of the African American health deficit.-From publisher description New details about the government's Tuskegee experiment are revealed, as are similar, less well-known medical atrocities conducted by the government, the armed forces, and private institutions. It shows how the pseudoscience of eugenics and social Darwinism was used to justify experimental exploitation and shoddy medical treatment of blacks, and a view that they were biologically inferior, oversexed, and unfit for adult responsibilities. ![]() ![]() Starting with the earliest encounters between Africans and Western medical researchers and the racist pseudoscience that resulted, it details the way both slaves and freedmen were used in hospitals for experiments conducted without a hint of informed consent-a tradition that continues today within some black populations. The first comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans. ![]() ![]() ![]() The old man ran up a debt with them and then sold me to cover his losses. They are not people you mess with, yet my dad did. Their deals are as sordid as their business, and their reputation is enough to bring a grown man to his knees, forcing him to beg for mercy. Ryder, Garrett, Kenzo, and Diesel-The Vipers. So, now that I have finished the book I thought I share my thoughts on Den of Vipers by K.A. It was a bit of a shock and outside my normal realm of reading. And the accounts I saw this book popping up on normally read fantasy, so I thought it was along those lines… Nope. I didn’t read the book summary or look at any other details. Honestly, the only thing I knew going into this book was that it was spicy and there’s something with a bottle. Then my mind kept going “yeah but Den of Vipers, what is that about? You keep seeing it on TikTok and quickly scrolling past.” And my curiosity got the better of me. When picking the next book to read, I was going to go for something else. These help support the blog, so I can keep creating content. This post may contain affiliate or referral codes, for which I receive a small compensation and you get a discount in exchange. ![]() |