WOOSTER, Ohio – Immigration, identity, and the importance of graphic storytelling were among the topics Thi Bui hit on as she presented the 2019 Peter Mortensen Lecture Tuesday night to an attentive audience of students, faculty, staff, and community members inside McGaw Chapel at The College of Wooster.īui discussed her award-winning illustrated memoir “The Best We Could Do,” the summer reading for new Wooster students as part of the first-year seminar program, by answering questions from moderators Alicia Brazeau, director of the writing center, Ivonne Garcia, chief diversity, equity, and inclusion officer, and sophomore Rondell MacKey. Thi Bui Provides Further Insight on “The Best We Could Do” to Wooster Community
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She has eloquently and fairly exposed a dark side to our sport that parents have long needed to be made aware of.” “I am grateful to Jennifer Sey for sharing such an honest account of her experiences as an elite gymnast. This author is willing to donate free copies of their book in exchange for reviews (if circumstances allow) and the knowledge that their book is being read and enjoyed. This author participates in the Readers' Favorite Book Donation Program, which was created to help nonprofit and charitable organizations (schools, libraries, convalescent homes, soldier donation programs, etc.) by providing them with free books and to help authors garner more exposure for their work. To begin, click the purple email icon to send this author a private email, and be sure to describe your book or include a link to your Readers' Favorite review page or Amazon page. 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It’s how I learned about The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg. It’s also easy for me to figure out how to prioritize a book by how they describe it to me. We talk about books enough that they have a good feel for the types of books that I might like. My best source for book recommendations are from those who I know well, whether they are family, friends, or close acquaintances. Production began in August 2000 and ended in November 2000, and took place largely on location in London and the home counties.īridget Jones's Diary premiered on 4 April 2001 in the United Kingdom and was released to theatres on 13 April 2001 simultaneously in the United Kingdom and in the United States. Jim Broadbent and Gemma Jones appear in supporting roles. However, her life changes when two men vie for her affection, portrayed by Colin Firth and Hugh Grant. The adaptation stars Renée Zellweger as Bridget Jones, a 32-year-old British single woman, who writes a diary which focuses on the things she wishes to happen in her life. A co-production of the United Kingdom, United States and France, it is based on Fielding's 1996 novel of the same name, which is a reinterpretation of Jane Austen's 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice. Bridget Jones's Diary is a 2001 romantic comedy film directed by Sharon Maguire and written by Richard Curtis, Andrew Davies, and Helen Fielding. As he will later claim that everything now is political, his essay is a call to action, to a resistance to the degenerative effects of poor and inaccurate uses of language. Orwell isn't presenting an inconsequential critique of English language in his essay. But as with the cycle of the drunk, the cycle of poor thinking-poor speaking can be broken. Poor use of language leads to lazy, unoriginal thinking which in turn makes for even more misleading language language. This is the central argument of the essay. The point is that the process is reversible. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. A man may take a drink because he feels himself to be a failure and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. Many MBP children die, but Julie Gregory not only survived, she escaped the powerful orbit of her mother's madness and rebuilt her identity as a vibrant, healthy young woman. Munchausen by proxy (MBP) is the world’s most hidden and dangerous form of child abuse, in which the caretaker-almost always the mother-invents or induces symptoms in her child because she craves the attention of medical professionals. This child will not ruin her plans.įrom early childhood, Julie Gregory was continually X-rayed, medicated, and operated on-in the vain pursuit of an illness that was created in her mother’s mind. She's about to suggest open-heart surgery on her child to "get to the bottom of this." She checks her teeth for lipstick and, as the doctor enters, shoots the girl a warning glance. Her mother, on the other hand, seems curiously excited. It’s four o’clock, and she hasn’t been allowed to eat anything all day. Just twelve, she’s tall, skinny, and weak. A young girl is perched on the cold chrome of yet another doctor’s examining table, missing yet another day of school. Sadly California did wind up slightly going for Nixon that year, but we are still proud of having been an early outpost on the New Frontier. Kennedy was nominated for President in California, in my hometown of Los Angeles. Last night at dinner I talked about how it was 50 years ago this summer that John F. Too many people, too many businesses, too many jobs depend on it. But even though it may FEEL like the work will never truly be finished - you have to keep going. Then you have to put out a fire somewhere else the next. Because you try and keep the economy from going over a cliff one day. And that's pretty much what it's been like dealing with the California budget crisis during this Great Recession. There is one cartoon in the book that depicts a "Crisis Clinic" - a building on fire that's also about to head over a waterfall. I think Senator Steinberg has one in his office, too. It's a collection of Far Side cartoons by Gary Larson. I think the answer may lie in a book on my desk in the State Capitol. I have been trying to balance the incongruity of receiving an award on Monday for resolving $60 billion in budget deficits and then having to go back on Tuesday and help find solutions for an additional $20 billion deficit. It is truly an honor to be here at the Kennedy Library and to join my colleagues in receiving this most prestigious of awards. |