![]() ![]() One term Julian discusses is especially crucial to our work: accommodation. It’s full of important information and insight focusing on what we called “paranoid parenting” in the book. ![]() If you care about the decline in mental health among young people, which Jonathan Haidt and I discuss in “ The Coddling of the American Mind” (COTAM), be sure to check out this month’s cover story for The Atlantic magazine, “ The Anxious Child and the Crisis of Parenting ,” by Kate Julian - a deep dive into what is causing the spike in anxiety among children. Special thanks to Jonathan Haidt for his feedback and edits. EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second part of a multi-part series updating developments since the publication of “ The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting up a Generation for Failure” (2018). ![]()
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![]() ![]() his main haunt has been the area surrounding a railroad overpass near Fairfax Station, Virginia frequented by party goers, the now infamous "Bunny Man Bridge." The Legendįor more than 25 years stories of the Bunny Man have been kept alive primarily amongst our teenage population. Although he has been reported as far south as Culpepper, Virginia. By the 1980s the Bunny Man had become an even more sinister figure with several gruesome murders to his credit. His infrequent and widespread appearances tended to occur in secluded locations and usually tell of a figure clad in a white bunny suit armed with an ax threatening children or vandalizing property. ![]() By 1973 the so-called "Bunny Man" had been reported in Maryland, and the District of Columbia. Silly as this may sound at first, the Bunny Man has been a fixture of local legend for at least 30 years. There is a story that a man dressed as a bunny haunts the residential neighborhoods around our nation's capital. Fairfax County Public Library Introduction ![]() ![]() ![]() Miller’s debut novel will resonate with any reader who’s ever craved the power that comes with self-acceptance. But Matt doesn’t realize there are many kinds of hunger… and he isn’t in control of all of them.Ī darkly funny, moving story of body image, addiction, friendship, and love, Sam J. All he needs to do is keep the hunger and longing at bay. ![]() Matt decides to infiltrate Tariq’s life, then use his powers to uncover what happened to Maya. So what is lunch, really, compared to the secrets of the universe? Maybe even the authority to bend time and space. The knack of tuning in to thoughts right out of people’s heads. The ability to see things he shouldn’t be able to see. Matt’s hardworking mom keeps the kitchen crammed with food, but Matt can resist the siren call of casseroles and cookies because he has discovered something: the less he eats the more he seems to have. The hunger clears his mind, keeps him sharp-and he needs to be as sharp as possible if he’s going to find out just how Tariq and his band of high school bullies drove his sister, Maya, away. His stomach stabs and twists inside, pleading for a meal. Miller (Bought) - Matt hasn’t eaten in days. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It will come as no surprise that Penkov’s New Europe doesn’t look or sound very new. ![]() East of the West is his first book, a collection of short stories dealing with the lives of Bulgarians in Europe and America. His writing career has since progressed from an MFA in creative writing to a job teaching creative writing at the University of North Texas and a position as the fiction editor of the American Literary Review. Penkov was born in Bulgaria - then still very much Old Europe - in 1982 and came to the United States as a student in 2001. At which point, as an old woman in one of Miroslav Penkov’s stories says, Bulgaria came to an end. In a famous comment made in the lead-up to the Iraq war in 2003, then Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld took a dig at countries such as France and Germany as representing “Old Europe.” “New Europe,” we later learned, designated the (allegedly) more pro-American, post-Communist countries of Eastern Europe: new members of NATO and the European Union - countries such as Bulgaria.īulgaria entered NATO in 2004 and the EU three years later. ![]() ![]() ![]() And there is only one woman who can bring them to their knees… They are a dangerous duke, a fierce lord, and an infamous earl-dark, bold, brave men who know exactly what they want. Be warned that Byrne’s historicals can be rather dark and graphic, so check content warnings. But is their friendship powerful enough to beat the devil?Īll Scot and Bothered by Kerrigan Byrne is $1.99! This is book two in the Devil You Know historical romance series. With help from some unlikely allies, Abby embarks on a quest to save Gretchen. And Abby is not about to let anyone or anything come between her and her best friend. And as the strange coincidences and bizarre behavior start to pile up, Abby realizes there’s only one possible explanation: Gretchen, her favorite person in the world, has a demon living inside her. But when they arrive at high school, things change. But also very gross, so be prepared.Ībby and Gretchen have been best friends since fifth grade, when they bonded over a shared love of E.T., roller-skating parties, and scratch-and-sniff stickers. ![]() This particular horror story is a love letter to the 1980s and to the power of friendship between women. ![]() RECOMMENDED: My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix is $2.99! This is a Kindle Daily Deal and Amazon just dropped their movie adaptation on Prime Video. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This powerful tribute to Civil War nurse Clara Barton and her heroic efforts during the Battle of Antietam reveals how she earned the name "The Angel of the Battlefield," and shows the beginnings of her journey as one of our country's greatest humanitarians and the founder of the American Red Cross.ĭuring the Civil War, Clara Barton-one of the first women to receive permission to serve on a battlefield-snuck her supply wagon to the head of a ten-mile wagon train to deliver provisions to the Antietam Battlefield. ![]() ![]() The same was true for Americans in 1789 and beyond. history textbook in high school or college, or (more recently) on the website of the National Archives or another website that has published it. If you’ve read it-and it’s likely you have-you probably encountered the text in the back of a U.S. Millions of Americans have viewed the document since it went on display in the 1950s.īut like the copies of the Declaration and the Constitution that sit alongside it in the Rotunda, the parchment text of Bill of Rights is not meant to be readable. ![]() ![]() Standing in the Rotunda of the National Archives Building in Washington, DC, Liz and Jesse stood looking over the case at the parchment engrossed with twelve amendments to the Constitution signed in 1789 by the Speaker of the House, Frederick Muhlenberg, the President of the Senate, John Adams, and the clerks of each House of Congress. ![]() ![]() Last week as I was listening to Ben Franklin’s World, I was struck by the way in which Liz Covart and her guest, Jessie Kratz, talked about the Bill of Rights. Today’s post accompanies “Creating the First Ten Amendments,” episode 260 of Ben Franklin’s World and part of Doing History 4: Understanding the Fourth Amendment. ![]() ![]() ![]() Circumstances of an imperious nature, which it is unnecessary to relate here, had prevented him from taking service with the gallant army that had fought the disastrous campaigns ending with the fall of Corinth, and he chafed under the inglorious restraint, longing for the release of his energies, the larger life of the soldier, the opportunity for distinction. Being a slave owner and like other slave owners a politician he was naturally an original secessionist and ardently devoted to the Southern cause. Peyton Farquhar was a well-to-do planter, of an old and highly respected Alabama family. ![]() Follow your in-class notes, your notes on narratives, or your own interpretation of the text to leave thoughtful comments. ![]()
![]() ![]() Īt the 26th Lambda Literary Awards in 2014, Nevada was a shortlisted nominee in the Transgender Fiction category, and Binnie won both the Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award and the MOTHA award for "outstanding contribution to the transgender cultural landscape". The novel's plot centres around Maria, a trans woman leaving New York after a break up, and is intended to primarily address a transgender audience. ![]() She attended Rutgers University and graduated in 2002 after majoring in English and psychology.īinnie's debut novel, Nevada, was published by Topside Press in 2013. Early life īinnie was born and raised in New Jersey. Imogen Binnie is an American transgender novelist who made her debut with the publication of Nevada in 2013. ![]() ![]() department store, where he was the head window trimmer. Morton, who invented the display for the Weinstock, Lubin & Co. Frank Baum, Amy Reading has discovered that it was the work of Chas. Who was this woman? Where was the rest of her? Who were the window-gazers, staring at her fleshless body with such longing? And who engineered the display to attract all these passers-by? Although many have attributed the display in Sacramento to L. ![]() They crowded against the glass so forcefully the owners had to install iron bars to prevent the windows from shattering. Shoppers gathered on the sidewalk to marvel at the “vanishing lady,” gazing in awe as she disappeared and then reemerged. When she re-emerged, she wore a new millinery concoction. At regular intervals, the woman sank into the pedestal, and vanished. She jutted out her square jawbone, showing off an elaborately festooned head piece. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of OzĪt the turn of the twentieth century, in a department store window in Sacramento, the head, neck, and shoulders of a young woman floated, bodiless, above a pedestal. ![]() … they came to a big building, exactly in the middle of the City, which was the Palace of Oz, the Great Wizard.” – L. ![]() … Everyone seemed happy and contented and prosperous. Green candy and green pop-corn were offered for sale, as well as green shoes, green hats and green clothes of all sorts. “ Many shops stood in the street, and Dorothy saw that everything in them was green. ![]() |