![]() ![]() To captivate our audience, we chose an Ivorian comic book: "Aya de Yopougon." The graphics provided context that allowed our learners to better understand the plot, and it facilitated their access to cultural implications, which favored the co-translation of this comic. We thus optimized student engagement, eased by the distance and the synchronous mode of our video-conferencing courses. Among young students of different origins and languages, we sought to adjust our practices through oral online presentations, supplemented by written feedback from the class, on an open-editor. It has also led us to rediscover the potential of telecollaboration solutions in translation programs. ![]() Like many of our colleagues, we have come to reconsider our methods as a result of the 2020 pandemic. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I highly recommend reading at least one of the books on dark psychology mentioned below. You equip yourself with the needed defense mechanism to fight back narcissists and Machiavellians. When you understand what others are trying to do. I assume you have good intentions with the techniques the books I’m about to mention will unfold.Įxamining the dark psychology secrets can be an insightful tool. There is no need for him to read such books to become more manipulative. The question is, do you need to study dark psychology?Ī truly cunning man will never search for the best dark psychology books or books on dark psychology. ![]() The field examines the tactics used by malicious people to motivate, persuade, manipulate, or coerce others into acting in ways that are beneficial to themselves, and potentially detrimental to others. Dark psychology focuses on the kinds of thoughts and actions that are predatory in nature. ![]() ![]() So it’s perhaps no surprise that Day has been challenged about her failure credentials – particularly since, in addition, she is a successful novelist and newspaper columnist, has a double-first from Cambridge and willowy, Keira Knightly-ish looks. Paradoxically, the book and the podcast that inspired it – How to Fail with Elizabeth Day – have been hugely successful. In her memoir How to Fail: Everything I’ve Ever Learned from Things Going Wrong, Elizabeth Day explores with painful and often funny honesty what happens when things go wrong, and how failure can work in our favour. The 1968 sci-fi that spookily predicted today Can fiction improve your mental health? Could failure be the new literary success? And if so, doesn’t that mean it’s not really failure at all? Karl Ove Knausgård devoted several autobiographical volumes to everyday failures in My Struggle, and since then there has been a deluge of ‘fail-lit’, both in fiction and non-fiction. Recent years have seen a similar preoccupation seeping into literature, particularly in the memoir sector. Fail better,” wrote Samuel Beckett in what has become a familiar mantra in the world of business and tech start-ups – along with ‘Fail fast, fail better’ – where the notion of failure as a route to success has taken a firm hold. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In this frighteningly dark and captivating novel, Lex Thomas locks readers inside a school where kids don’t fight to be popular, they fight to stay alive. It’s just him and his little brother, Will, against the whole school. Violent gangs have formed based on high school social cliques. ![]() All the students are infected with a virus that makes them deadly to adults. And that was just the beginning.Ī year later, McKinley has descended into chaos. When loner David Thorpe tried to help his English teacher to safety, the teacher convulsed and died right in front of him. It was just another ordinary day at McKinley High-until a massive explosion devastated the school. “ As original as The Hunger Games, set within the walls of a high school exactly like yours.” – Kami Garcia, New York Times best-selling co-author of the Beautiful Creatures novels ( Baker & Taylor)Ī year after his school is decimated by a massive explosion, loner David Thorpe watches in horror as his classmates succumb to a brutal virus that renders them deadly to adults and forces them to endure a violent gang existence while locked in the school under military quarantine. When a virus deadly to adults infects their high school, brothers David and Will and the other students soon break into gangs that fight each other for survival and the hope of escaping their quarantine. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nagoski believes that to put an end to these misguided cultural standards and the damage they cause, women must better understand the science behind their sexuality. Research examining attitudes toward female sexuality demonstrates that, as recently as the 19th century, doctors were advocating for clitoridectomies to "cure" masturbation and nymphomania.) (Shortform note: These false ideas about what’s normal with regards to women’s sexual experience stem from a long history of contempt toward female sexuality, even in the medical field. This tendency forces women to view themselves through a scope that wasn’t made for them, ultimately inflicting harm to their sexual health and well-being. 1-Page Summary 1-Page Book Summary of Come As You AreĪccording to sex researcher Emily Nagoski, our culture’s tendency to consider men’s sexual experience the standard perpetuates a lot of misinformation about what’s sexually normal and healthy for women. ![]() ![]() ![]() (So if you cannot handle that I skipped this book but as I loved Susan Trombley’s The Serpent's Mate, I found this variation of alien not to be too intimidating). Here the dudes are of the Vora, they are snake-like, maybe even Naga-like aliens. The series follows different alien species in contact with humans. This is a reverse harem so if that isn’t your preference feel free to skip around the series, some of the books focus on monogamous couples and others on harems. So I am not gonna focus on the general mechanics of humans and our contact with alien worlds including the Mate Index. Review (6/3/22): 5 books in and I assume y’all know the premise. I kinda stopped logging them in the moment so… sorry but I will be adding notes about the numbers when I write the reviews for them. Pre-read (): Book #15 of my DNF or unhaul series pile for 2022. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is harder to argue with someone who believes what he says and knows what he is talking about – or at least conveys that impression. Peterson is not just another troll, narcissist or blowhard whose arguments are fatally compromised by bad faith, petulance, intellectual laziness and blatant bigotry. ![]() His new book 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos has become a runaway bestseller in the UK, US, Canada, Australia, Germany and France, making him the public intellectual du jour. The confrontation has worked wonders for Peterson. As he told Newman in his distinctive, constricted voice, which he has compared to that of Kermit the Frog: “I choose my words very, very carefully.” The whole performance, which has since been viewed more than 6m times on YouTube and was described by excitable Fox News host Tucker Carlson as “one of the great interviews of all time”, bolstered Peterson’s preferred image as the coolly rational man of science facing down the hysteria of political correctness. The more Newman inaccurately paraphrased his beliefs and betrayed her irritation, the better Peterson came across. T he Canadian psychology professor and culture warrior Jordan B Peterson could not have hoped for better publicity than his recent encounter with Cathy Newman on Channel 4 News. ![]() ![]() ![]() The story only has only fourteen chapters, so the book is quite fast paced. The Forgotten Ones by Laura Howard is a great fantasy read. And Allison must learn to set aside her plan and work with her father if there is even a small chance it could restore her mother’s sanity. ![]() ![]() Allison doesn’t trust her father, so why would she believe his stories about a long forgotten Irish people, the Tuatha de Danaan? But truths have a way of revealing themselves. What is definitely not part of the plan is the return of her long-lost father, who claims he can bring Allison’s mother back from the dark place her mind has gone. She has carefully closed herself off from everything else, including a relationship with Ethan, who she’s been in love with for as long as she can remember. Allison O'Malley’s plan is to go to grad school so she can get a good job and take care of her schizophrenic mother. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Maker and Year: Raymond Briggs, Penguin Books, 1982Īs the nuclear crisis between the Western powers and the Eastern Bloc deepened, and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists ‘ Doomsday Clock stood at four minutes to midnight, perplexed children across Great Britain were treated to the release of When the Wind Blows, a graphic novel by British artist Raymond Briggs that narrated the aftermath of a nuclear attack from the perspective of the Bloggses, a working-class couple who have recently retired to the country.īriggs was a much-loved author of comic books and had previously released a string of highly successful graphic novels, all executed in his idiosyncratic, scratchy style, including Father Christmas (1973), Fungus the Bogeyman (1977), and The Snowman (1978). ![]() ![]() ![]() Once inside, the Greeks poured out of the horse and laid waste to Troy. It finally concluded when the Greeks – on Odysseus’ advice – constructed a great wooden horse, hid within it, then waited for the Trojans to bring it within the city walls as a trophy. It was supposedly waged by illustrious figures including Priam, Hector, and Paris on the Trojan side, and Menelaus, Agamemnon, Achilles and Odysseus on the other. These and many other delights are reason enough to visit the city, but its primary attraction is the Troy site itself, located 20 minutes south, outside the village of Hisarlik.Īccording to myth, the Trojan War was a decade-long conflict between the people of Troy and the Mycenean Greeks that occurred some 3,000 years ago. On warm summer nights, vendors hawk their wares on the marina boardwalk under the stoical gaze of the great wooden horse. ![]() Cafes, bars and kebab spots are kept busy by students from the university. Visitors explore the cobblestone streets of the old quarter which are lined with shops and restaurants. ![]() Çanakkale itself is a lively, charming place. ![]() |