![]() ![]() ![]() Many of these establishments are world-leading and it is right they should be open to anyone with the brains and aptitude to succeed in them.īritain, we are often told, is a deeply racist and intolerant society, in which sinister ‘power structures’ hold back minority ethnic groups, while the white majority push selfishly ahead That children from non-white backgrounds are thriving in Britain’s educational system is something to celebrate.Ĭommendable, too, are our universities’ efforts to make their student intakes more diverse. ![]() Of course, in some ways, this is an inspirational success story. It was 10.7 per cent for black families - and just 10.5 per cent among white ones. The figures for Asian young people were 16 per cent. Yet new data flies in the face of this fashionable narrative.įollowing a national drive to make undergraduate intakes more ‘diverse’, figures released on Thursday by the Department for Education showed that, for the first time, white young people are now proportionately the least likely of all major ethnic groups to attend our top universities.Īmong Britain’s Chinese families, some 40.7 per cent of their youngsters made it to Oxford, Cambridge and others in the elite Russell Group in 2020-21. Britain, we are often told, is a deeply racist and intolerant society, in which sinister ‘power structures’ hold back minority ethnic groups, while the white majority push selfishly ahead. ![]()
0 Comments
7/8/2023 0 Comments Old xian 19![]() ![]() Xi'an is also one of the world's top 100 financial centers, according to the Global Financial Centres Index. In 2020, Xi'an was ranked as a Beta- (global second tier) city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, and, according to the country's own ranking, ranked 17th. Xi'an currently holds sub-provincial status, administering 11 districts and 2 counties. Since the 1980s, as part of the economic growth of inland China especially for the central and northwest regions, Xi'an has re-emerged as a cultural, industrial, political and educational centre of the entire central-northwest region, with many facilities for research and development. ![]() The total urban population was 9.28 million. Its total population was 12,952,907 as of the 2020 census. A sub-provincial city on the Guanzhong Plain, the city is the third most populous city in Western China, after Chongqing and Chengdu, as well as the most populous city in Northwest China. ![]() ![]() Xi'an ( UK: / ʃ iː ˈ æ n/ shee- AN, US: / ʃ iː ˈ ɑː n/ shee- AHN Chinese: 西安 pinyin: Xī'ān Chinese: ( listen)), frequently spelled as Xian and also known by other names, is the capital of Shaanxi Province. ![]() 7/8/2023 0 Comments Cracking india![]() ![]() ![]() She is alternately thrilled and frightened by the events she dutifully records, and so, in the end, is the reader. I can't get away with the littlest thing.'' Persuasive, this statement reinforces earlier comments she lets slip about herself which display this artless candor: ``the manipulative power of my limp'' ``I place a hypocritical arm protectively round her shoulders.'' Lenny's honesty is compelling, and the reader, like many in the story, cannot help but trust her. At one point Lenny declares: ``Lying doesn't become me. This article reads Bapsi Sidhwas Partition novel Cracking India in terms of the routine gendered violence that pervades the lives of its female characters. Sidwha tempers Lenny's hyper-awareness, however, by capturing the whole range of her fears and joys as her innocence becomes another casualty of the violence among Moslems, Sikhs and Hindus. ![]() As a child, a polio victim and a member of a minority, she is the perfect witness (though somewhat precocious) to the historic upheaval. The 1947 partition of India that created the majority-Muslim country of Pakistan shapes the events of the novel. The narrator of Sidwha's ( The Bride ) timely novel about the violent 1947 partition of India is the extremely observant Lenny Sethi, whose family belongs to the Parsee community in Lahore. Bapsi Sidhwa’s historical fiction novel Cracking India, first published in India in 1988 as Ice-Candy-Man, was translated into English under its current title in 1991. ![]() 7/8/2023 0 Comments The changeling sea![]() This article analyses the ways in which the novel deploys the changeling motif to describe the condition of adolescence, including its awakening to sexuality and desire, and argues that it represents that awakening within a context that affirms female power and community while deconstructing binary oppositions. ![]() Despite the pre-industrial setting and patriarchal society of the novel, McKillip does not depict these roles for the female protagonist as traditional gender-defined possibilities. Abstract : Patricia McKillip's The Changeling Sea, like many fairy tales and many young adult novels, tells the story of the maturation of its protagonist by using fairy-tale conventions such as the changeling motif, McKillip suggests both the confusions and the potential power of adolescent development into adult sexual/romantic and social roles. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Understanding comics book![]() ![]() Bravo." - Art Spiegelman "Reading Understanding Comics blew my teenage mind, and gave me a toolbox full of ideas that I still use today." - Raina Telgemeier "The best analysis of the medium that I have ever encountered." - Alan Moore "BRAVO!!. A must-read for anyone interested in narrative of any kind." - Alison Bechdel "Cleverly disguised as an easy-to-read comic book, Scott McCloud's simple-looking tome deconstructs the secret language of comics while casually revealing secrets of time, space, art and the cosmos! The most intelligent comics I've seen in a long time. "If you read, write, teach or draw comics if you want to or if you simply want to watch a master explainer at work, you must read this book." - Neil Gaiman "McCloud's masterwork is not just an indispensable treatise on comics, it's also the best primer around on visual literacy and the mechanics of storytelling. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Special Note: This title is an extended version of Chapter 5 of The Orphan Conspiracies (Sterling Gate Books, 2014) by James Morcan That you contact them so they may rectify any problem. Should you the reader identify any content within this book that is harmful, hurtful, sensitive or insensitive, the authors and publisher ask Omissions, whether such errors or omissions result from negligence, accident, or any other cause. Including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher,Įxcept for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review.Īlthough the authors and publisher have made every effort to ensure that the information in this book was correct at press time, theĪuthors and publisher do not assume and hereby disclaim any liability to any party for any loss, damage, or disruption caused by errors or No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, GENIUS INTELLIGENCE: Secret Techniques and Technologies to Increase IQĪll rights reserved. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Americana ngozi![]() ![]() Years later, Obinze returns to Nigeria and becomes a wealthy man as a property developer in the newly democratic country. He goes to London, eventually becoming an undocumented immigrant after his visa expires. Ifemelu moves to the United States to study, where she struggles for the first time with racism and the many varieties of racial distinctions: for the first time, Ifemelu discovers what it means to be a "Black Person". Nigeria at the time is under military dictatorship, and people are seeking to leave the country. Summary Īmericanah is about Ifemelu and Obinze who, as teenagers in a Lagos secondary school, fall in love. A television miniseries, starring and produced by Lupita Nyong'o, was in development for HBO Max, but then was later dropped. It was Adichie's third novel, published on May 14, 2013, by Alfred A. The novel traces Ifemelu's life in both countries, threaded by her love story with high school classmate Obinze. Americanah tells the story of a young Nigerian woman, Ifemelu, who immigrates to the United States to attend university. National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. ![]() Americanah is a 2013 novel by the Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, for which Adichie won the 2013 U.S. ![]() ![]() It was the best of times and the worst of times for Charles Darwin. ![]() George Eliot published Adam Bede and Charles Dickens produced A Tale of Two Cities. Samuel Smiles delivered Self Help, a classic in a genre that has kept publishing houses alive ever since. John Stuart Mill wrote his mighty work On Liberty. Alfred Lord Tennyson printed the first Idylls of the King, his long cycle of Arthurian poems. Origin was the book of the year - perhaps the book of the century - but it faced some stiff competition in 1859. The book was hailed, applauded, challenged, questioned, condemned, cruelly dismissed and, rather astonishingly, ignored: the president of the Geological Society of London in 1859 managed to give Darwin a medal of honour for his geological observations in the Andes and his stunning four-volume study on barnacles, without mentioning his seminal paper with Alfred Russel Wallace, or the forthcoming book. ![]() Much of the hostility and alarm came not overtly from religion, but from within science. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Morgan llywelyn bard![]() ![]() ![]() Showing up in the tales and histories of Scandinavians, Celts, Algles, Saxons and others they stride through the histories of the West as the history keepers, the story tellers and the traditions singers. I (like many others I'm sure) have always been fascinated by the stories of the Tuatha Dé Danann and all the speculation as to who they were and where they "vanished" to.Īlso the Bard character in history and myth is a terribly interesting one. The look here at the history of the "Irish people" does draw me in somewhat. I"d say, read it for what it is and enjoy. She has reworked the myths and folklore of Ireland, the Celts and the Druids to fit her stories, but she is far from the first person to do so. Llywelyn is an accomplished story teller and she can paint a picture of the mythical Ireland in which her characters move and breath that will place you in the story. It wouldn't do to criticize this work (or any of her works) for any historical inaccuracies as her "novels" are largely fantasy not historical fiction. (As I've said before I don't particularly enjoy romance for romance's sake). I have read several of her books and I mostly enjoy them. Llywelyn obviously loves the Irish (or at least her idea of the Irish). ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments First family by joseph j ellis![]() ![]() Together with the diary John Adams kept, these documents provide nearly unmatched access into the lives of two important members of the revolutionary era.Īlthough I expected this book to be quite unique compared to previous biographies of John Adams that I’ve read, in truth it is not. They were no less productive in writing others as well: friends, other family members and numerous politicians of the day. ![]() Ellis is a Professor of History at Mount Holyoke and has written extensively on the revolutionary era and some of its most prominent figures. “First Family” is the last of a seven books in my library on John Adams, and is the only one whose focus is not principally on the former president, but on both John and his exceptional wife Abigail.įortunately for posterity, Abigail and John were prolific writers, exchanging more than 1,200 letters with each other and leaving historians a treasure trove of insight into their relationship and how they perceived the dynamic, revolutionary and turbulent world around them. “ First Family: Abigail & John Adams” is the most recent of nearly a dozen books by Joseph J. ![]() |