Kevin Smith provided the following statement to Deadline: “ Few first films are as accomplished as Wrong Reasons. Since this is described as being a “punk rock feature”, we should also mention that the soundtrack features Tim Armstrong, Bi-Product, Black Flag, Channel 3, L7, The Unseen, The Wipers, and William Elliott Whitmore. Their co-stars include Teresa Ruiz ( Narcos: Mexico), Daniel Roebuck ( The Munsters), Donita Sparks ( Serial Mom), Harley Quinn Smith ( Cruel Summer), John Enick ( Walker), Darren Hayes ( Going Dark), Keith Coogan ( Adventures in Babysitting), Matthew Passmore ( The Glades), Vernon Wells ( The Road Warrior), Kym Wilson ( Flirting), David Koechner ( Final Destination 5), and, as mentioned, Kevin Smith ( Clerks). James Parks ( From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money) is the masked man and Ralph Garman ( Ted) is Detective Dobsonas. The punk rock singer is played by Liv Roush ( Holidays), who also produced the film. The story Roush crafted for his film begins as an ambiguously intentioned masked man kidnaps a drug addicted punk rock singer and triggers a police investigation headed by Detective Charles Dobsonas well as a media circus. Coming our way from AntiCurrent Productions, the film marks the feature writing and directorial debut of Josh Roush, who has been working for Smith’s company Smodco for the last decade.
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Sue Mongredien grew up in Nottingham and was born in England in 1970. She resides with her family in Leicestershire with her daughters and her husband. These include a variety of series, including Stardust, My Secret Unicorn, Unicorn School, and more. Linda Chapman is the author of over fifty fictional books for children. She currently resides in Northamptonshire. She is the author of the Magic Puppy, S Club, and Magic Puppy series. Bentley started writing children’s fiction once her own child started school. After going to school and completing her education, she decided to take up an occupation working in a library. Sue Bentley was born in England in Northampton. She resides in Cambridge with her cats and her husband in England. She was able to write the Animal Stars series and the Babes series. Eventually she decided that she would like to write on a full time basis for her living.ĭhami has also come out with many different retellings of popular stories from Disney. She spent a few years teaching in primary as well as secondary schools. She attended Birmingham University for her studies in English and graduated with her degree in 1980. Narinder Dhami was born on Novemin Wolverhampton, England. These would be Linda Chapman, Sue Bentley, Sue Mongredien, and Narinder Dhami. It is a pen name used by the four authors that make it up. Christina/Michelle the Winter Wonderland Fairyĭaisy Meadows is a published author. This is when Lanesha's character fully develops, and we see her become a strong reslilent young woman. With no money to evacuate, Lanesha has to take on the responsibility of survival for the two of them. Yaya dreams of a storm that is followed by blackness, which is Hurricane Katrina. Lanesha and Mama Yaya both have mystical powers, as Lanesha is able to see ghosts and Mama Yaya is psyhic and can see the future. Unfortunatley, Lanesha is bullied at school and made fun of for her green eyes, despite loving math and being a smart girl. Abandoned by Lanesha's uptown family, Mama Yaya didn't hesitate to take the girl in. After her mother's death, Lanesha is cared for a woman who helped birth her- Mama Yaya, who is considered a healer and midwife. " The book recreates the before and after events surrounding Hurrican Katrina for a twelve year old black girl named Lanesha, who grows up in the lower ninth ward of New Orleans. Overall Performance: Narration Rating: Story Rating:. People with slightly longer circadian rhythms tend towards the night-owl end of the spectrum, and those with shorter circadian rhythms lean towards the early-riser end of the continuum. Interestingly, we all have different internal clocks. Our biological clock is built on a 24-hour cycle because of the Earth’s rotation that creates our day and night sequence. Where you fall on this scale is described as your chronotype. Circadian rhythm is also referred to as your internal biological clock. The scientific community generally agrees that whether you’re a “night-owl” and stay up or you’re an “early-riser,” your circadian rhythm influences these preferences. After all, if you can imitate the routines of successful people, it stands to reason that their success can become your success. The other source is the real-life experiences of effective leaders. Meanwhile, let’s take a look at two vital sources of information about morning rituals and routines: One source is the scientific community. Ben Franklin was known for saying, “Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.” But is it true? Perhaps a better question Is it right for you?īecause that’s a question that only you can answer, we’ll circle back around to that vital question later. I had no need to hurry the farmer, who was acting as the cashier, was staring straight into my eyes and smiling. When I went up to pay, I realized no one was behind me. 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No less than Fowles himself wrote the screenplay, and good, compelling actors like Anthony Quinn, Michael Caine, Julian Glover, and Anna Karina star. It’s certainly not for a lack of trying on the part of the movie’s producers. It’s unfortunate…but no one will ever feel this compulsion to share the movie version of The Magus. To test them to see if the other person “got” the book, if they understood it the way the giver received the novel. It was one of those works of fiction that instilled in its readers an intense, emotional, personal connection, and compelled them to share that experience with someone else. That’s the kind of book The Magus is (…or was: it can’t still be something people read now, is it?). Back in college, a buddy gave me John Fowles’ novel, The Magus, as a birthday gift, with the express purpose of seeing if I saw what he saw in it. The notion of a person having the experience and versatility to tackle many things used to be considered a compliment. They’re also more creative, more agile, and able to make connections their more specialized peers can’t see. Generalists often find their path late, and they juggle many interests rather than focusing on one. He discovered that in most fields-especially those that are complex and unpredictable-generalists, not specialists, are primed to excel. In Range, David Epstein examines the world’s most successful athletes, artists, musicians, inventors, forecasters and scientists. She returns to living in the village, and continues to go to the everlass field, sharing stories with Nyfain through a letter, until a situation with some villagers makes her go back to Nyfain for safety. She also tells Nyfain that her father has been cured from the sickness thanks to the crowded everlass. She ultimately finds her way back to the castle, and helps Nyfain with his healing. She manages to track him by the blood, seeing that he’s still defending the villages in his very precarious condition–she manages to follow the blood all the way to the edge of the forest around a different village, where she encounters two individuals speaking about Nyfain and how badly he is hurt. What’s It About: Finley leaves her home in search if Nyfain, knowing that he’s gotten a several hour head-start on her. This book also includes a dynamite list of recommended "kid lit" to help parents and teachers find the books that students really like to read. Brought to life with Miller's passionate voice, The Book Whisperer will help teachers support students of all levels on their path to reading success. Travel alongside the author as she leads her students to discover the ample rewards of reading and literature. No matter how far behind Miller's students may be when they start out, they end up reading an average of forty books per year, achieving high scores on standardized tests, and internalizing a love for reading that lasts long after they've left her class. Her zeal for reading is infectious and inspiring, and the results speak for themselves. She also focuses on building a classroom library of high-interest books, and above all on modeling appropriate and authentic reading behaviors. Rejecting book reports, comprehension worksheets, and other aspects of conventional instruction, Miller embraces giving students an individual choice in what they read, combined with a program for independent reading. In The Book Whisperer, Miller takes us inside her sixth grade classroom to reveal the secrets of her powerful but unusual instructional approach. Donalyn Miller, known as 'The Book Whisperer' for her insightful advice on what students like to read and how to foster independent reading, teaches language arts and social studies at. From sixth grade teacher Donalyn Miller comes an innovative approach to instilling in students a love of reading that extends well beyond the classroom.ĭonalyn Miller is a dedicated teacher who says she has yet to meet a child she couldn't turn into a reader. Miller's personality is the sum and essence of his book. Quite simply, the incidents and the monologues are the author's life (metaphorically if not literally) and are designed only to reveal him. To comprehend just realize that Tropic is hardly a book at all, but a personality. To form any clear view of the book from many of its various parts taken separately is impossible, but it seems almost equally so when they are taken together. Obsence protests are continually undercut by a laugh, despair by a ray of happy contentedness even the ferocious prophecies of the impending consummation of decay give off a strange feeling of hopeful But not even in obscenity or nihilistic frenzy do we find a bit of solid ground. Obscurity and philosophy, squalor and rhapsody are juxtaposed, crammed together, torn apart and tossed wildly, as if the book were the mixing bowl in which Miller, the mad chef, were preparing a salad - to fling in the face of the diners. Characters and scenes float in and out of the with a wonderfully picaresque irregularity of Rabelaisian humor are broken off unexpectedly by passages approaching the drunken, frenzied poetry of a Rimbaud. To make different order out of it is intensely difficult for the week-stomached, it is impossible. As a book, Tropic of Cancer is a soup, a whirlpool perhaps even a sewer. |