6/30/2023 0 Comments Admiral william mcraven book![]() ![]() He found strategies along the way that helped him through the difficult times. McRaven, a retired Navy SEAL with 37 years of experience, faced many challenges during his career. ![]() You have to be strong and disciplined to make it through the rigors of training and war. Military life is often exhausting, terrifying, and emotionally challenging. Keep reading to learn more about Admiral McRaven’s 10 lessons. In Make Your Bed by Admiral McRaven, there are 10 lessons to you and expands on the experiences that formed them. In 2014, McRaven organized his strategies into 10 life lessons for his commencement address at the University of Texas at Austin. ĭo you want to learn about Admiral McRaven and the 10 lessons from Make Your Bed? How can you apply these Navy SEAL lessons to your own life? ![]() Like this article? Sign up for a free trial here. Shortform has the world's best summaries and analyses of books you should be reading. This article is an excerpt from the Shortform book guide to "Make Your Bed" by William H. ![]()
0 Comments
6/30/2023 0 Comments Machines like us review![]() This paper examines three novels written by Ian McEwan from the late 1990s to 2019 ( Enduring Love, Machines Like Me and Atonement ), and the ways in which the representation of bodies connects to the issue of visuality. Enfin, c’est le refus de McEwan de mettre en place une stratégie purement esthétisante et qui appartiendrait à l’ère du « post-medium » (Krauss) qui est lu comme une façon d’incarner l’écriture, de l’ancrer dans le corps par le biais du visuel. On considère ensuite la distinction opérée par McEwan entre optique et vue dans les trois romans, avant d’interroger la façon dont le lien entre les images et le corps met en avant l’intention éthique du romancier britannique. La façon dont les corps sont montrés, décrits, mis en avant est ensuite l’objet d’une analyse qui se concentre sur la présence des contraintes et caractéristiques du matériel, selon la définition proposée par Lisa Blackman (celle-ci considère que le corps est un entrelacs qui met en relation cerveau, corps et monde, et donc un procès, « brain–body–world entanglements » ). ![]() ![]() C’est d’abord l’image des corps qui est envisagée, en ce qu’elle est imprégnée de violence et dominée par la fragmentation, que cette image soit humaine ou non, et qu’elle soit imaginée ou perçue par la réalité matérielle d’un œil ou d’une caméra. Cet article propose d’examiner trois romans écrits par Ian McEwan entre la fin des années 1990 et 2019 ( Délire d’amour, Expiation et Une machine comme moi), et la façon dont dans ces textes la représentation des corps est liée à la question du visuel. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments These hollow vows book![]() ![]() These Hollow Vows (Chapter 21)Īs time goes on, Brie gains some friends but she ends up finding out terrible secrets about everyone. She is allowed to stay in this faerie world and Finn is the guy that trains Abrielle on how to use her power.Ībrielle, every star in that sky shines for you. OK, now Abrielle gets to the actual ballroom dance and she has a dance with this man named Finn (FINN, FINN, FINN, FINN). ![]() And he has an extremely important role in this world. You may think Sebastian was just a normal fae but no, he is a full-blown PRINCE! His actual name is Prince Ronan. Well, jokes on her, because her aunt sells her sister to the faerie world and she ends up finding out that her bestie Sebastian is a faerie! Later on, in the series, you’ll end up finding out the importance of this power… Don’t worry, we’ll talk about it in a second.Īnyway, we start to find out a lot about Abrielle’s thoughts about faeries and the fae world. ![]() I think of myself more like a shadow, unnoticed and more useful than people bother to notice. Right off the bat, we get a hint into Brie’s shadow power… The book actually starts as a little bit of a Cinderella retelling because at the very start of it Brie is in the middle of stealing a ton of money for her aunt (her aunt is GARBAGE by the way)! These Hollow Vows starts off with an introduction to our main character: Abrielle, her sister Jas, and her best friend Sebastian. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Finding Finn by Kiki Burrelli![]() ![]() He had no intentions of hurting his mother, but knew even a week under her well meaning care would slap him back in the loony bin. In fact, Finn had gone as far as to make it a condition of his own release. She wasn't happy that Finn had all but demanded to stay with his younger sister during family therapy sessions. Her cherry red lipstick had worn to the lip line. Besides, I'm sure Frannie will lend me some toothpaste or toilet paper if I forgot them."įinn's mom pursed her lips. He'd assumed having to pick up your twenty-five year old son after he had been committed for four months for attempting suicide would make a mother worried and forgetful. She'd asked variations of the same question from the moment she'd picked him up from Cedar Hills Behavioral Health Institute. "You have your toiletries bag?" Finn's mother asked him yet again. ![]() ![]() No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the author, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review. ![]() |