![]() ![]() If the retail value of your order is at least $500, you'll save 30%. You'll always save at least 25% on any paperback you order. Students can also consider how the emotional impact of the novel would be altered if the narrative form were different-how alternate perspectives could manipulate audience perception of the text.īelow, get the facts on teaching The Hunger Games! The class can discuss how this narrative form affects the pacing of the plot in terms of action and Katniss’s knowledge of what is happening. It is told in the present tense from Katniss’s first-person perspective. ![]() When teaching this book, you might consider emphasizing its point of view and tense. Collins was also inspired by ancient Roman gladiatorial games and the Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur, so students should be familiar with these subjects and how they relate to the novel’s plot. ![]() These themes allow for class discussion of how Collins’s work comments on modern society in regards to government surveillance, social class, war, and the popularity (and controversy) of reality TV shows. Suzanne Collins’s novel explores an oppressive regime, poverty, social division, and violence as entertainment. An exciting read, The Hunger Games is the perfect book to introduce students to dystopian fiction. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() It is a bilingual book (English and Bahasa Malaysia), with translations by cultural worker Shazni Bhai. Mah Meri Animal Folklore is a compilation of folk tales revolving around animals, as told by Julida Uju (a Mah Meri cultural activist) and written by Ann Marie Chandy, with illustrations by Sharon Yap (Gerimis creative director). This is one of the many stories the indigenous Mah Meri community has passed down the generations, now included in the latest book by Gerimis Art Publications. After a lot of scrambling, the squirrel finally emerged from the lifeless beast, triumphantly holding the liver which he handed over to a grateful mudfish. Once in the crocodile’s tummy, the squirrel burst forth from the coconut and started digging around for the crocodile’s liver while the scaled beast writhed in excruciating pain. ![]() The squirrel hid in a coconut which an unsuspecting crocodile gobbled up because it looked delicious. He had a relative who was sick and could only be cured with a crocodile’s liver. Once upon a time, a mudfish begged a squirrel to get him a liver from a crocodile. ![]() ![]() ![]() The people in the town may say ‘Oh, he’s not all there, you know,’ but that’s just their little joke (and sometimes, to rub it in, they don’t point to their heads as they say it) I don’t mind. ![]() I don’t go giving people presents of burning dogs, or frighten the local toddlers with handfuls of maggots and mouthfuls of worms. I don’t bother people and they had best not bother me if they know what’s good for them. ![]() There wouldn’t be much point to me getting married perhaps - I’ll admit that - but the principle is there.īesides, I’m not Eric I’m me and I’m here and that’s all there is to it. Here in Scotland I’m old enough to get married without my parent’s permission, and have been for a year. Once, that sort of talk would have scared me, but not now. ‘Sometimes I think you’re the one who should be in the hospital, not Eric.’ He was looking at me from under his dark brows, his voice low. You can’t explain that sort of thing to people, though. How the hell am I supposed to get heads and bodies for the Poles and the Bunker if I don’t kill things? There just aren’t enough natural deaths. ‘I hope you weren’t out killing any of God’s creatures.’ ![]() ![]() As a reminder, a replay of the call will be available later today on the Investor Relations page of our website.ĭuring today's call, we will make forward-looking statements that are subject to various risks and uncertainties that are described in the Safe Harbor slide of today's presentation, today's press release, our 2023 Form 10-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. Following Peter's comments, Guthrie Dundas, SunPower's Interim CFO, will then review our financial results. On the call today, we will begin with comments from Peter Faricy, CEO of SunPower, who will provide an update with first quarter announcements and business highlights, followed by an update on progress toward 2023 guidance, including California sales, backlog and financing. ![]() I would like to welcome everyone to our first quarter 2023 earnings conference call. I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, Mike Weinstein. Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. After the speakers' presentation, there will be a question-and-answer session. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. Welcome to the SunPower First Quarter 2023 Results Conference Call. ![]() Guthrie Dundas - Interim Chief Financial Officerīiju Perincheril - Susquehanna Financial Group ![]() Mike Weinstein - Vice President of Investor Relations SunPower Corporation ( NASDAQ: SPWR) Q1 2023 Earnings Conference Call 8:00 AM ET ![]() ![]() Triggers serve as reminders for people to talk about our ideas and products. ![]() The point of using this principle is to make the idea or product have visible signals of the person being cool, knowledgeable, and smart (like Apple’s logo). Because of that, they will share the information, product, or an idea that makes them appear like that to other people. People want to appear cool, knowledgeable, and smart. What causes certain products, ideas, and behaviors to be talked about more? The book explains that it’s about six principles that make an idea, product, or behavior contagious: social currency, triggers, emotion, public, practical value, and stories.Ĭontagious talks about six principles that make an idea, product, or behavior contagious. ![]() Book Title: Contagious: Why Things Catch On Book Summary Author: Jonah Berger Date of Reading: February 2017 Rating: 8/10 ![]() ![]() ![]() Those artifacts included a bowl with an intricate carvings and semi-buried stone sculptures, including several that merged human and animal characteristics. The expedition also found and documented 52 artifacts that Virgilio Paredes, head of Honduras’s national anthropology and history institute, said indicated a civilisation distinct from the Mayans. He also said it’s unclear whether the people could be related to the region’s indigenous communities who still live in the area. ![]() The area dates between 1000AD and 1400AD, and while very little is known without excavation of the site and surrounding region, Fisher said it was likely that European diseases had at least in part contributed to the culture’s disappearance. In the rainforest valley, they said they found stone structural foundations of two cities that mirrored people’s thinking of the Maya region, though these were not Mayan people. That data showed a human-created landscape, Fisher said of sister cities not only with houses, plazas and structures, but also features “much like an English garden, with orchards and house gardens, fields of crops, and roads and paths.” Photograph: Dave Yoder/National Geographic ![]() ![]() ![]() The items in the girl's tattered suitcase-a mysterious book and a crystal pitcher-tip off Sally that Lucinda may be no ordinary 11-year-old. An orphan who has been living with her overbearing grandmother in Salem, Mass., Lucinda is searching for her aunt, who, it emerges, had been squatting at the house before Sally's family purchased it. ![]() Suspense and subtlety, in fact, are in somewhat short supply throughout however, the plot is spirited and both the characterizations and the prose are more polished than typically on offer from a paperback series. Given the title of this debut volume in the Spell Casters series, there is no question about the nature of the green-eyed girl who appears at Sally's ramshackle Victorian home in St. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The aliens communicate in a circular language and the film itself is also circular. I loved how the film mirrors content and form. The film hints that similar attempts are being made by scientists in other countries. To do so, Banks must, of course, find a way to communicate with the aliens, and that means that she must learn their language, if they have one, and teach them to understand hers. Louise Banks, played by Amy Adams, is a linguist who is called upon by the US military to ask the aliens why they’re here. After a brief and moving intro, the meaning of which will become apparent at the end of the film, all of a sudden and out of nowhere a group of 12 alien spaceships appear around the world. But in so far as Hollywood movies go it doesn't get much better than this.Īrrival is based on a short story by Ted Chiang “Story of Your Life”, included in the awesome Stories of Your Life and Others. ![]() I must say that I did wonder how much better it could have been if Denis Villeneuve had not been forced to adhere to some Hollywood conventions. It is an amazing, moving and intelligent movie. Yes, I know, a little late, but as I like to say, you can’t read or watch everything at once. I finally came around to watching Arrival. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The power of DiCamillo’s writing enables the hope and determination of the characters to break through the gloom that permeates the story. Unwilling to put hope into such an implausible story, Peter tries to forget the gypsy’s words, until he learns of a curious event at the town’s opera house: a magician, trying to conjure a bouquet of lilies out of thin air, instead produced an elephant, which landed in the lap of a noblewoman. What’s more, an elephant will guide him to her. The book opens with a fortune teller informing Peter that his sister, who he believed had died the day she was born, has in fact been alive these six years. ![]() The novel tells the story of Peter, a young boy living in the city of Baltese with Vilna Lutz, an aging soldier whose lucidity lasts just long enough to instruct the boy in the martial ways: honor and the strength to halt tears. The simplicity and relevance of this statement resonates throughout The Magician’s Elephant, as beggars turn the commonplace into music, blind dogs dream of war, and police officers constantly question: “What if?” “We are always happy when people live, ain’t we?” says a woman to a young boy who is desperately searching for the elephant he believes will lead him to his long lost sister. ![]() ![]() What Leke didn't expect was for Grim, a berserker, to break through his berserker rage when he realizes Erica is his fated mate. ![]() ![]() Last we knew, she was shipped off to the Lindworm expedition by Jarl Leke to be killed. This is the beginning of Erica and Grim's story. This review is for Lucee Joie's contribution, Seized by the Alien Berserker. There's only so much you can do with 6 chapters and brief epilogue, however. I would have preferred a few more chapters though, and a bit more intense building within their coupling. This one was a quick read, but it answered my questions regarding this warrior. Though I hoped Quist and Sierra would one day get to be with his brethern, I get why that just wasn't possible right now. This brief Novella was a little intense, a whole Lotta Sweet, and just Sexy enough. ![]() I was always curious about this aquatic Warrior and wanted to know his story. ![]() Her story is called "Rescued From The Depths" and it's concerning the Drixonian Warrior "Quist" who we met briefly in the Freshas in Xavy and Tabitha's book I believe. I plan to make my way through the rest of this book eventually though. She was the only reason I bought this book. Written by the BEST Alien Sci-fi Romance Author EVER! Ms. So my rating on this 0.99 book is purely for one Novella within this book. ![]() |
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