![]() ![]() The Salem witch scare had complex social roots. Further, the court permitted the use of psychological pressure and even torture to obtain confessions and ruled that anyone who confessed, identified fellow witches, and repented would go free. The special court set up in Salem allowed the use of "spectral evidence": testimony from victims of a vision that they had of the person who was tormenting them. But when England revoked Massachusetts's charter in 1685, it threw the judicial system into disarray. ![]() In previous witch trials, judges had imposed high standards of proof which resulted in a majority of the accused being acquitted. What was unique about the Salem witch trials was the number of people who were accused and convicted. During the seventeenth century, some 32 people were executed for witchcraft in the American colonies. In the half century before the Salem trials, more than 80 people were put on trial for witchcraft in Massachusetts and Connecticut alone. Constitution, a Philadelphia mob killed an accused witch. ![]() ![]() As late as 1787, outside of Independence Hall where the framers were drafting the U.S. In continental Europe, where witch hunts were much more common than in America, thousands of people were executed, often isolated and impoverished older women who were regarded as a drain on community resources. Most people in the early modern world believed in the existence of witches who gained supernatural power by signing a pact with Satan. The Salem witch trials were not a unique event. ![]()
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6/5/2023 0 Comments Scott mccloud making comics![]() ![]() Swing by the presentations page for more info. Nevertheless, I’ve continued to do my lectures and workshops, albeit virtually in some cases. ![]() I still haven’t gotten Covid as of this writing-fingers crossed!-but the pandemic at large did keep us home for big stretches of 2020-2022. Oh, and I’m also working on a big secret project we hope to announce in the coming months! It’s a preposterously ambitious full color project covering the evolution and biology of vision principles of visual perception demonstrations of how visual elements behave in the mind’s eye best practices for clarity, explanation, and effective rhetoric and some personal reflections on our family’s experiences with blindness. The book has taken me years so far, but I sincerely believe it’ll be worth it. ![]() The second draft of my (neurotically-tight) layouts ran 571 pages, and I’m determined, as I plow through my third-and hopefully final-draft, to make it substantially shorter and less rambling. ![]() I’m still working feverishly on my massive book about visual communication. Yeah, yeah, nobody reads site blogs anymore, but I have a lot to talk about-more than can fit in a tweet-and this seemed as good a place as any to put it all into words… Nursing room sign, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. ![]() 6/4/2023 0 Comments Wenjack by joseph boyden![]() ![]() ![]() These lessons are intended as a starting place for educators, to help you envision ways in which you might bring Indigenous literatures, as well as ways of knowing, being, and doing, into your teaching contexts. As this website was designed with Undergraduate Programs in Education instructors, as well as teachers in mind, connections to UPE courses have been flagged on each lesson plan. With audiences ranging from Pre-Kindergarten to Post-Secondary, lesson plans across this resource address a wide range of school subject areas, inclusive approaches, and Indigenous education topics, such as the revitalization of Indigenous languages. ![]() Our team collaborated with new teachers, alumni of the Werklund School of Education’s Bachelor of Education program, to create teaching and learning plans for texts in this website. ![]() ![]() Inside youll find: -25,000+ first names and surnames, and their meanings, listed by origin -Names and surnames from more than 45 countries -A reverse lookup of names by mea Book Synopsis The Ultimate Guide to Choosing Character Names The Writers Digest Character Naming Sourcebook is a one-of-a-kind resource specifically designed with the writer in mind. ![]() About the Book The Ultimate Guide to Choosing Character Names The Writers Digest Character Naming Sourcebook is a one-of-a-kind resource specifically designed with the writer in mind. ![]() ![]() ![]() Beyond Order therefore calls on us to balance the two fundamental principles of reality - order and chaos - and reveals the profound meaning that can be found on the path that divides them. While an excess of chaos threatens us with uncertainty, an excess of order leads to a lack of curiosity and creative vitality. Now in his long-awaited sequel, Peterson goes further, showing that part of life's meaning comes from reaching out into the domain beyond what we know, and adapting to an ever-transforming world. His insights have helped millions and resonated powerfully around the world. Peterson offered an antidote to the chaos in our lives: eternal truths applied to modern anxieties. In 12 Rules for Life, acclaimed public thinker and clinical psychologist Jordan B. The highly anticipated sequel to the global best seller 12 Rules for Life. ![]() 6/4/2023 0 Comments Novel please look after mom![]() 57)? How is the generational gap between you and your parents, and/or you and your children, at all similar to, or different from, this one?ĥ. ![]() When her daughter asks her, "Did you like to cook?" how does Mom's reply summarize the divide between her own and her daughter's generations (p. Mom's life has been defined by her relationships to others and the needs of her family. Why is it significant that Chi-hon is a successful writer, and how does her career affect her position in the family? What does this mean for her relationship to her mother, who is illiterate? How does it happen that her mother begins to treat Chi-hon like "a guest" when she visits home (p. What do we learn about the relationship between Chi-hon and her mother? What are the particular sources of tension or resentment between them? Why does Chi-hon say to her brother, "Maybe I'm being punished. ![]() What is the effect of this choice? How does it reflect these characters' feelings about Mom? Why do you think Mom is the only character who tells her story in the first person?Ģ. While second-person ("you") narration is an uncommon mode, it is used throughout the novel's first section (the tale of the daughter, Chi-hon) and third section (the tale of the husband). ![]() Warning: May contain spoilers Questions and Topics for Discussionġ. ![]() 6/4/2023 0 Comments Gargoyles by Greg Weisman![]() ![]() There, in conjunction with others, he pitched an early comedy-adventure version of the TV series Gargoyles to Disney CEO Michael Eisner. Animation Īfter graduate school, Weisman worked as a development executive at Disney. Elements from the ill-fated project were later used for his DC Showcase: Green Arrow short film. When he was 22 years old, he wrote a four-issue mini-series for DC Comics starring the superheroine Black Canary the first issue of the series was penciled, but the project was ultimately shelved due to the character being used in writer/artist Mike Grell's high-profile Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters series. Between college and graduate school, he worked on staff in the editorial department of DC Comics, while also co-writing Captain Atom with Cary Bates. ![]() He received a bachelor's degree from Stanford University and a master's from USC. Weisman is a former English composition and writing teacher. He is best known as a creator of the animated series Gargoyles, The Spectacular Spider-Man and Young Justice. Greg Weisman (born September 28, 1963) is an American novelist, writer, producer and voice actor. ![]() 6/3/2023 0 Comments Ántonia![]() ![]() Cather’s close relationship with the landscapes of her life-notably the American prairie, the landscape most often cited in discussions of her work-was a foundational influence for the landscapes she built, image by image, in her stories and novels. Rundstrom’s words aptly introduce the intersection of landscape and meaning that is apparent in Cather’s My Ántonia and The Professor’s House. Literary geographers examine an author’s conceptual sense of place to enhance understanding and to enrich readers’ geographies” (217). Authors use invented literary settings, the where of a story, to represent landscape symbolically. In her article, “Harvesting Willa Cather’s Literary Fields,” Beth Rundstrom discusses the humanistic outlook evident in most scholarship surrounding literary geography, as she writes, “Human-land relationships are the inspiration and impetus for invented landscapes…. ![]() ![]() ![]() Presumed revolves around the suspected abduction of a lovely, wealthy, white Cambridge post-graduate named Edith Hind. Steiner had an “…interest and intuitive understanding of the dynamics between people, ability to be alive to the complexities of their desires and their frailties, and commitment to exploring questions of justice and equality…” which animates her series. Steiner was a former journalist who lived with retinitis pigmentosa and succumbed, at the very premature age of 51, to brain cancer. I stumbled across Susie Steiner, the author of the DS Manon Bradshaw series, when I read of her death, July 2nd, in the Guardian (and, by the way, this is an enjoyable obituary, if an obituary can be said to be ‘enjoyable’! ). Scandal – a very British scandal, stiff upper lip, what will the neighbors say? ![]() 6/3/2023 0 Comments Dare me the book![]() ![]() Chelsea Cain, the New York Times Book Review Writing with "total authority and an almost desperate intensity" (Tom Perrotta), award-winning novelist Megan Abbott delivers a story as unnerving and thrilling as adolescence itself. The raw passions of girlhood are brought to life in this taut, unflinching exploration of friendship, ambition, and power. ![]() After the first wave of shock and grief, Addy tries to uncover the truth behind the death-and learns that the boundary between loyalty and love can be dangerous terrain. Then a suicide focuses a police investigation on Coach and her squad. ![]() Only Beth, unsettled by the new regime, remains outside Coach's golden circle, waging a subtle but vicious campaign to regain her position as "top girl"-both with the team and with Addy herself. Now they're seniors who rule the intensely competitive cheer squad, feared and followed by the other girls-until the young new coach arrives.Ĭool and commanding, an emissary from the adult world just beyond their reach, Coach Colette French draws Addy and the other cheerleaders into her life. Beth calls the shots and Addy carries them out, a long-established order of things that has brought them to the pinnacle of their high-school careers. "Tense, dark, and beautifully written" (Gillian Flynn), this novel of friendship and betrayal from an Edgar Award-winning author is a harrowing glimpse into the dark heart of the all-American girl.Īddy Hanlon has always been Beth Cassidy's best friend and trusted lieutenant. ![]() |