In the book Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer portrays a story of Chris McCandless and his journey to create a new life for himself though isolation and self determination. While connecting momentarily with people McCandless meets on his expedition, he is determined to cut off all connection with...
I had been applying deck stain to our railing on the rear porch of our cabin. It was a sultry and still fall day, several years ago. You’re not supposed to breathe the stuff, but I had to be close to see how I’d done, especially on the outside and underside of each rail. By...
Whelan, 38, is the calm, confident female voice behind more than 400 other audiobooks, as well as the narrated versions(叙事版本) of many articles. Once she has taken on a project, she reads through the book once or twice, deciding on themes to highlight when she gets into the recordin...
However much amor is one of the great poetic themes, it’s not one I have often dared (except for one poem, known only to my closest friends). However, at the time, I had written a poetic sequence, an extension of the concerns motivating X Ore Assays and Seventh Column, that was to...
themes running through all my novels 4. squander, waste, exhaust, throw away, dissipate, fritter away, spend like water, blow (slang) The country had run through its public food stocks. Quotations"He who fights and runs away""May live to fight another day" [Oliver Goldsmith The Art of ...
Previously, we mentioned that the two races shared an ambiguous relationship. People from both races married and had children together. The evidence is clear since Bres himself was a result of such intermarriage. Going back to the war they prepared, Lugh was the champion of the Tuatha De Danan...
The notion of the whale-hunt really just seems to be a device – the “MacGuffin”, as Hitchcock called it – to motivate the characters, and thereby allow certain themes to be explored. The first third of the book consists largely of an introduction to characters and locations, with the...
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age in ways that resemble humans. Both companion animal models and humans show evidence of brain atrophy, plaques, and tangles, as well as cognitive decline with age. We embrace a One Health perspective, which recognizes that the health of humans is connected to those of animals, and we illu...
Motherhood is characterized by dramatic changes in brain and behavior, but less is known about fatherhood. Here we report that male sticklebacks—a small fish in which fathers provide care—experience dramatic changes in neurogenomic state as they become