Volland Company of Chicago published his first Raggedy Ann book (and sixth children's book altogether), Raggedy Ann Stories. Starting in 1915, he marketed Raggedy Ann dolls, hand-made by members of his family. Twee Deedle) shared stories starring Ann (and her owner, named after Marcella), illustrated by himself, with newspaper readers. Marcella got so much pleasure out of Raggedy Ann that Gruelle (already known for newspaper features such as The New York Herald's Mr. He got the name by combining two poem titles by James Whitcomb Riley, "The Raggedy Man" and "Little Orphant ( sic) Annie" ( tenuous relation). Cartoonist Johnny Gruelle ( Quacky Doodles) made the first Raggedy Ann, who closely resembled the numberless hordes of Raggedy Ann rag dolls made in the following decades, for his daughter, Marcella, in 1914. Unlike the more recent ones, the Raggedys weren'tĬonceived as a coordinated cross-media, cross-promoted product franchise - like Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends, their origin lay in a toy loved by a real child. But one of the most successful was also among the earliest - Raggedy Ann and (later) her brother Andy. He-Man and Care Bears only outline their range. Over the years, plenty of toy lines have become toons. Please contribute to its necessary financial support. If this site is enjoyable or useful to you, RAGGEDY ANN AND ANDY Original Medium: Toys
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An original comedy-drama series from Netflix, Piper's story is a fascinating, heartbreaking and often hilarious insight into life on the inside. She meets women from all walks of life, who surprise her with tokens of generosity, hard truths and simple acts of acceptance. But when she least expects it, her reckless past catches up with her convicted and sentenced to fifteen months at an infamous women's prison in Connecticut, Piper becomes inmate #11187-424.įrom her first strip search to her final release, she learns to navigate this strange world with its arbitrary rules and codes, its unpredictable, even dangerous relationships. With her career, live-in boyfriend and loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the rebellious young woman who got mixed up with drug runners and delivered a suitcase of drug money to Europe over a decade ago. a beautifully told story about how incredible women can be, and I will never forget it Elizabeth Gilbert, bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love Why the ‘Orange Is the New Black’ Author Returned to Prison Piper Kerman, whose experiences and memoir inspired the Netflix prison dramedy, now works with inmates in correctional facilities. Speech Title and Performance: Believe it or not, the "I Have a Dream" speech was originally titled "Normalcy, Never Again." and the first drafts never included the phrase "I have a dream". By speaking the way he did, he educated, he inspired, he informed not just the people there, but people throughout America and unborn generations." King had the power, the ability, and the capacity to transform those steps on the Lincoln Memorial into a monumental area that will forever be recognized. Representative John Lewis, who also spoke that day as the President of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, "Dr. Delivered to over 200,000 civil rights supporters, the speech was ranked the topAmerican speech of the 20th century by a 1999 poll of scholars of public address. According to U.S. The speech, from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, was a defining moment of the American Civil Rights Movement. 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Not only is the premise similar (two goody-goody single young people meet up and fall in love), but it also follows a non-traditional format. Cabot’s newest adult book, Boy Meets Girl, follows nearly the same course as The Boy Next Door. The author of the popular Princess Diaries young adult books, Meg Cabot broke into adult fiction with She Went All the Way and The Boy Next Door. Everyone should be pumped about what they’re doing.Īs a business grows, alignment increases in importance. If they aren’t thrilled with it, ask them to rework it until they are bursting with excitement. Instead of telling people what you think of their work, ask them what they think. To get things done and off their plate, people lower their standards. He shares a five-part framework that involves: 1) increasing standards, 2) aligning people, 3) sharpening focus, 4) picking up the pace, and 5) transforming strategy. In Amp It Up, Frank Slootman argues that the best way for leaders to improve company performance is to raise expectations, urgency, and intensity. It’s about how to become a more serious, focused, performance‐oriented organization. Snowflake reached a market capitalization in excess of $75 billion.įrank Slootman wrote Amp It Up to summarize his views on how to lead a high‐performance company. ServiceNow reached valuations north of $100 billion. Data Domain was acquired by EMC for $2.4 billion. Frank Slootman has served as CEO of three billion-dollar companies: Data Domain from 2003 to 2010, ServiceNow from 2011 to 2017, and Snowflake starting in 2019. His mother is tried almost immediately for previous infanticide and subsequently executed, leaving him an orphan. Some editions of the novel, including the first, have as their cover image Antoine Watteau's painting, Jupiter and Antiope, which depicts a sleeping woman.Ī boy is born in Paris, France in the year 1738, and subsequently abandoned. Woods and won both the World Fantasy Award and the PEN Translation Prize in 1987. It was translated into English by John E. The title remained in bestseller lists for about nine years and received almost unanimously positive national and international critical acclaim. With translations into 49 languages and more than 20 million copies sold worldwide to date, Perfume is one of the best-selling German novels of the 20th century. Grenouille becomes a perfumer but later becomes involved in murder when he encounters a young girl with an unsurpassed wondrous scent. The story follows Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, an unloved orphan in 18th-century France who is born with an exceptional sense of smell, capable of distinguishing a vast range of scents in the world around him. The novel explores the sense of smell and its relationship with the emotional meanings that scents may have. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer ( German: Das Parfum: Die Geschichte eines Mörders ( listen)) is a 1985 literary historical fantasy novel by German writer Patrick Süskind. “That’s some catch, that Catch-22,” he observed. If he flew them, he was crazy and didn’t have to but if he didn’t want to, he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn’t, but if he was sane, he had to fly them. All he had to do was ask and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one’s own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn’t really crazy.” “Sure there’s a catch,” Doc Daneeka replied. The term is first introduced by the character Doc Daneeka, an army psychiatrist who invokes “Catch-22” to explain why any pilot requesting mental evaluation for insanity demonstrates his own sanity in creating the request and thus cannot be declared insane. Fans of suspense fiction with a social conscience will be pleased. Wise combines an accessible explanation of the nature and impact of redlining with a page-turning narrative. That policy “sets the stage for slumlords buying cheap for cash, racial steering and housing abandonment.” Influential forces in the city oppose Flynt’s idealistic crusade, and Morgan’s successor, attractive Harvard student Alex Jordan, also winds up in jeopardy. Flynt is convinced that powerful people, who consider the neighborhood “too risky to do business with,” have redlined it, choking off mortgages and insurance money. Morgan’s death leads her boss, Jedediah Flynt, who’s wracked with guilt, to redouble his efforts to find the people behind the arsons. Welcome to the blog tour for Redlined: A Novel of Boston by Richard W. The banks have REDLINED Jamaica Plain, causing the housing market to crash, wiping out local homeowners lifetime investments and opening the neighborhood to blockbusters and slumlords. Sandy Morgan, a neighborhood organizer working for the Jamaica Plain Social Action Committee, was helping to investigate a series of suspicious fires in abandoned properties in the area, until she was killed in an explosion caused by an arsonist in yet another vacant building. Bostons Jamaica Plain is a neighborhood under siege, a community skating along the razors edge of decline. Wise ( The French Blue) highlights a predatory housing practice-redlining-in this taut thriller set in 1974 Boston. However, soon enough, on of their own targets them for assassination, naturally failing in the process. It’s time for them to retire, and the four are sent on an all-expenses paid vacation to celebrate the occasion. Today, it’s all about technology, and their talents simply don’t mix with modern standards. Unfortunately, they live in a world where nobody really appreciates the people skills they’ve come to acquire over the decades. Forty proud years of under-the-radar assassinations, which ironically-enough, got easier and easier as they became older and more disarming. Billie, Mary, Helen and Natalie have been a part of it for a long time, with over forty years of service under their belts. The story opens by introducing us to four once-valued members of the Museum, the afore-mentioned organization. In Deanna Raybourn‘s Killers of a Certain Age, the top-level members of an assassin organization is about to find that out the hard way. People born and moulded in the world of yesterday are often looked down upon as holders of obsolete knowledge and skills, quite erroneously I should add. The world of today is moving faster than ever, causing generational gaps to grow wider and wider by the minute. And it ties into this idea that everything is a machine, and it just needs to be fixed, or made more efficient. Anything that detracts from that is too expensive, from the time-is-money perspective. It’s this perspective in which time is money, and you should have something to show for your time – either getting work done, or self-improvement, which I would still count as work. Where is our perspective stuck right now? What is the attention economy? Your book encourages a broad shift in perspective. The stakes, she argues, are high: “In a time that demands action, distraction appears to be a life-and-death matter.” Odell acknowledges that participating in this system is, for most people, not optional, and the book is dotted with examples of standing against the tide while remaining more-or-less in it – artists, labor movements, Oakland’s last old-growth redwood tree. |