6/30/2023 0 Comments Sugar by jewell parker rhodes![]() ![]() The older River Road folks feel threatened, but Sugar is fascinated. Sugar has always yearned to learn more about the world, and she sees her chance when Chinese workers are brought in to help harvest the cane. Thankfully, Sugar has a knack for finding her own fun, especially when she joins forces with forbidden friend Billy, the white plantation owner's son. ![]() ![]() Slavery is over, but laboring in the fields all day doesn't make her feel very free. Ten-year-old Sugar lives on the River Road sugar plantation along the banks of the Mississippi. From Jewell Parker Rhodes, the author of Towers Falling and Ninth Ward (a Coretta Scott King Honor Book and a Today show Al's Book Club for Kids pick) comes a tale of a strong, spirited young girl who rises beyond her circumstances and inspires others to work toward a brighter future. ![]()
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6/30/2023 0 Comments Sartre nothingness![]() Including specific chapters dedicated to children and play, and exploring the work of key thinkers such as Plato, Sartre, Wittgenstein, Gadamer, Deleuze and Nietzsche, this book is invaluable reading for any advanced student, researcher or practitioner with an interest in education, playwork, leisure studies, applied ethics or the philosophy of sport. The main objective of The Philosophy of Play is to provide a richer understanding of the concept and nature of play and its relation to human life and values, and to build disciplinary and paradigmatic bridges between scholars of philosophy and scholars of play. Consciousness is not-matter and by the same token escapes all determinism. ![]() It also includes meta-analyses from a range of philosophers and theorists, as well as an exploration of some key applied ethical considerations. Sartre places human consciousness, or no-thingness ( nant ), in opposition to being, or thingness ( tre ). This book examines the concept of play and considers a variety of the related philosophical issues. Toward the end of Being and Nothingness, Sartre says that existential psychoanalysis has not yet found its Freud (Sartre, 1943, p. Play is a vital component of the social life and well-being of both children and adults. ![]() In: Ryall, Emily Russell, Wendy and MacLean, Malcolm eds. Nothingness (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) Nothingness First published Thu substantive revision Mon Since metaphysics is the study of what exists, one might expect metaphysicians to have little to say about the limit case in which nothing exists. Play and being in Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In this significant work of scholarship, Professor Takaki grapples with the raw truth of American history and examines the ultimate question of what it means to be an American Ix, 508 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 21 cmĪ dramatic new retelling of our nation's past by today's preeminent multiculturalism scholar, Ronald Takaki, this book examines America's history in "a different mirror"-The perspective of the minority peoples themselvesīeginning with the colonization of the "New World" and ending with the Los Angeles riots of 1992, this book recounts the history of America in the voices of the non-Anglo peoples of the United States-Native Americans, African Americans, Jews, Irish Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos, and others-groups who helped create this country's rich mosaic culture. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The story of The Man in the Rockefeller Suit is a probing and cinematic exploration of an audacious imposer - and a man determined to live the American dream by any means necessary. The imposter charmed his way into exclusive clubs and financial institutions-working on Wall Street, showing off an extraordinary art collection - until his marriage ended and he was arrested for kidnapping his daughter, which exposed his past of astounding deceptions as well as a connection to the bizarre disappearance of a California couple in the mid-1980s. Over the next 30 years, boldly assuming a series of false identities, he moved up the social ladder through exclusive enclaves on both coasts-culminating in a stunning 12-year marriage to a rising star businesswoman with a Harvard MBA who believed she'd wed a Rockefeller. The career con man who convincingly passed himself off as Rockefeller was born in a small village in Germany.Īt 17, obsessed with getting to America, he flew into the country on dubious student visa documents and his journey of deception began. The story of Clark Rockefeller is a stranger-than-fiction twist on the classic American success story of the self-made man - because Clark Rockefeller was totally made up. Ripley, the unbelievable 30-year run of a shape-shifting con man. ![]() |