When you re engulfed in flames5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() The blaze grows, and soon the house is engulfed in flames. It’s parked next to what looks like a freshly constructed “tiny home,” except the sides of the house have been removed revealing the contents of each petite room, just like a dollhouse a recliner in one room, a television and sofa in another, and a pink dog bed on the floor.Ī small fire starts to crackle behind the recliner. Listen to the audio version of this story that aired on 4-28-23 or read the extended version below.Ī fire engine idles in the middle of a mostly empty gravel lot. This time, it was the arson investigators themselves. But in order to learn how to put out a fire or investigate its source, someone has to start one. Firefighters from all over Alaska gathered in Sitka in April for the Alaska Association of Fire and Arson Investigators conference and training. ![]()
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Arthur miller on death of a salesman5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Recognizing the tragic trajectory while it’s still unfolding, Linda exhorts her cynical son Biff - once the object of Willy’s pride, now a reflection of his failure - to stop tearing down his father before it’s too late. ![]() But the limited range helped drive home the limited options of his character, whose eagerness to win prevents him from seeing that he’s been playing the wrong game.Īs time catches up with Willy, the old salesman loses his job, his self-respect and, eventually, his life. Dennehy pounded the same note with different degrees of intensity. The power of the performance, as with much of the actor’s impressive body of work, didn’t derive from great variety. The bravado of the salesman, in Dennehy’s barreling rendition, couldn’t conceal the shame of a husband and father who fell agonizingly short of his own grandiose expectations. His Willy, a salesman aggressively trapped in a delusive way of thinking, would rather die a martyr than admit to being sold a bill of goods about success. How could it not be? As the pandemic lays waste to the economy, the play reminds us of the unchanging truth of an American dream dangled for the many but obtainable only by a ruthless few.ĭennehy, a prodigious actor drawn to prodigious roles, delivered a battering ram of a performance. Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” had been on my mind even before the death of Brian Dennehy, who won a Tony for his portrayal of Willy Loman in the 1999 Broadway revival. ![]() Tea and Solidarity by Mythri Jegathesan5/31/2023 ![]() In Tea and Solidarity, Jegathesan seeks to expand anthropological understandings of dispossession, drawing attention to the political significance of gender as a key feature in investment and place making in Sri Lanka specifically, and South Asia more broadly. Using feminist ethnographic methods in research that spans the transitional time between 20, Mythri Jegathesan presents the lived experience of these women and men working in agricultural, migrant, and intimate labor sectors. ![]() The tea industry's economic crisis and Sri Lanka's twenty-six year long civil war have ushered in changes to life and work on the plantations, where family members now migrate from plucking tea to performing domestic work in the capital city of Colombo or farther afield in the Middle East. ![]() Beyond nostalgic tea industry ads romanticizing colonial Ceylon and the impoverished conditions that beleaguer Tamil tea workers are the stories of the women, men, and children who have built their families and lives in line houses on tea plantations since the nineteenth century. ![]() The warded man peter brett5/31/2023 ![]() These are, however, fragile and prone to failure unless properly maintained.Īs the novel progresses, the protagonists each embark upon his or her own hero's journey in an effort to save humanity. ![]() The only defense against the corelings are wards (magical runes) that can be drawn, painted, or inscribed to form protective barriers around human settlements. The ongoing attrition of these attacks have reduced humanity from an advanced state of technology to a dark age. There are many different kinds of corelings, each associated with a particular element and each with different capabilities and strengths. They are inhabitants of a world plagued by the attacks of demons known as Corelings, which rise from the planet's core each night to feast upon humans. The novel follows three POV characters in their passage from childhood to maturity. There is also a Graphic Audio production of the book. It has been translated into German, Japanese, Polish, Czech, French, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, Serbian, Estonian and Turkish. It was first published by HarperCollins's Voyager imprint in the United Kingdom on 1 September 2008, and was published in the United States under the title of The Warded Man in March 2009. ![]() ![]() The Painted Man (titled The Warded Man in the US) is a fantasy novel written by American writer Peter V. ![]() A dream called home reyna grande5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() What she found instead was an indifferent mother, an abusive, alcoholic father, and a school system that didn’t honor her heritage. When she was nine years old, Reyna made her own journey across the U.S.–Mexico border in search of a home. ![]() In that book, Reyna recounted the pain and poverty she experienced growing up in Mexico without her parents, who had immigrated to the U.S. An inspiring new memoir from Reyna Grande, the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and national bestselling author of The Distance Between Us, about her quest for belonging, a writing career, and a home built of more than words and dreams.Ī Dream Called Home is the follow up to Reyna Grande’s national bestselling memoir The Distance Between Us. ![]() |