Fighting The Battles Of The Ballet World The Letters Postcards Diary And Journal Of Karen Anne Morell An American Ballerina

Author : Olga Je Kingrey
Publisher : Mill City Press, Incorporated
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1545617481

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Fighting the Battles of the Ballet World: The Letters, Postcards, Diary and Journal of Karen Anne Morell, an American Ballerina by Olga Je Kingrey Pdf

Karen Morell's professional career began when she auditioned with the New York City Ballet for the San Francisco production of "The Nutcracker" when just a child. By 16 she was living in New York and had several local performances to her credit. In 1961, she completed her first professional engagement with the Metropolitan Opera and went on to perform with Ruth Page's Chicago Opera Ballet until she joined George Balanchine's New York City Ballet. Ten years later she moved to Europe where she joined the Het Nationale Ballet Company. During her performing career she danced in many of the larger opera houses in the world. In 1976 she was the recipient of the Fulbright/Hayes Scholarship and set a precedent by becoming the first American to be accepted to, and graduate from, The Vaganova Choreographic Institute located in Leningrad, USSR. This book contains fascinating, never-before-seen material that documents these facts, as well as personal letters and postcards to her family. Also included are writings from her personal diary and journal that bear witness to the classes, rehearsals, and performances she attended. Karen's writings enumerate the deep complexities of the pain, turmoil, and pride she felt while pursuing these endeavors. Those who dance are aware that dancing is contained only in one's self - although they may not admit it aloud. Karen had the foresight to record these innermost feelings not only while she danced, but during her entire dancing career. Without a doubt, she left a very personal record of fascinating, and sometimes harrowing, experiences for those who dance. I am honored to provide her rarefied insights into the trials and tribulations, the ups and downs of the dance world; and to convey my feelings about such a magnificent dancer and human being.

Author : Thomas C. Foster
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780061804069

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How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster Pdf

What does it mean when a fictional hero takes a journey?. Shares a meal? Gets drenched in a sudden rain shower? Often, there is much more going on in a novel or poem than is readily visible on the surface—a symbol, maybe, that remains elusive, or an unexpected twist on a character—and there's that sneaking suspicion that the deeper meaning of a literary text keeps escaping you. In this practical and amusing guide to literature, Thomas C. Foster shows how easy and gratifying it is to unlock those hidden truths, and to discover a world where a road leads to a quest; a shared meal may signify a communion; and rain, whether cleansing or destructive, is never just rain. Ranging from major themes to literary models, narrative devices, and form, How to Read Literature Like a Professor is the perfect companion for making your reading experience more enriching, satisfying, and fun.

Author : Mizuko Ito,Sonja Baumer,Matteo Bittanti,Danah Boyd,Rachel Cody
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780262537513

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Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out, Tenth Anniversary Edition by Mizuko Ito,Sonja Baumer,Matteo Bittanti,Danah Boyd,Rachel Cody Pdf

The tenth-anniversary edition of a foundational text in digital media and learning, examining new media practices that range from podcasting to online romantic breakups. Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out, first published in 2009, has become a foundational text in the field of digital media and learning. Reporting on an ambitious three-year ethnographic investigation into how young people live and learn with new media in varied settings—at home, in after-school programs, and in online spaces—it presents a flexible and useful framework for understanding the ways that young people engage with and through online platforms: hanging out, messing around, and geeking out, otherwise known as HOMAGO. Integrating twenty-three case studies—which include Harry Potter podcasting, video-game playing, music sharing, and online romantic breakups—in a unique collaborative authorship style, Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out combines in-depth descriptions of specific group dynamics with conceptual analysis. Since its original publication, digital learning labs in libraries and museums around the country have been designed around the HOMAGO mode and educators have created HOMAGO guidebooks and toolkits. This tenth-anniversary edition features a new introduction by Mizuko Ito and Heather Horst that discusses how digital youth culture evolved in the intervening decade, and looks at how HOMAGO has been put into practice. This book was written as a collaborative effort by members of the Digital Youth Project, a three-year research effort funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and conducted at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Southern California.

Author : Mai Elliott
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 695 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780833049155

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RAND in Southeast Asia by Mai Elliott Pdf

This volume chronicles RAND's involvement in researching insurgency and counterinsurgency in Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand during the Vietnam War era and assesses the effect that this research had on U.S. officials and policies. Elliott draws on interviews with former RAND staff and the many studies that RAND produced on these topics to provide a narrative that captures the tenor of the times and conveys the attitudes and thinking of those involved.

Author : Vijay Prashad
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2001-03-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452942568

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Karma Of Brown Folk by Vijay Prashad Pdf

Village Voice Favorite Books of 2000 The popular book challenging the idea of a model minority, now in paperback! “How does it feel to be a problem?” asked W. E. B. Du Bois of black Americans in his classic The Souls of Black Folk. A hundred years later, Vijay Prashad asks South Asians “How does it feel to be a solution?” In this kaleidoscopic critique, Prashad looks into the complexities faced by the members of a “model minority”-one, he claims, that is consistently deployed as "a weapon in the war against black America." On a vast canvas, The Karma of Brown Folk attacks the two pillars of the “model minority” image, that South Asians are both inherently successful and pliant, and analyzes the ways in which U.S. immigration policy and American Orientalism have perpetuated these stereotypes. Prashad uses irony, humor, razor-sharp criticism, personal reflections, and historical research to challenge the arguments made by Dinesh D’Souza, who heralds South Asian success in the U.S., and to question the quiet accommodation to racism made by many South Asians. A look at Deepak Chopra and others whom Prashad terms “Godmen” shows us how some South Asians exploit the stereotype of inherent spirituality, much to the chagrin of other South Asians. Following the long engagement of American culture with South Asia, Prashad traces India’s effect on thinkers like Cotton Mather and Henry David Thoreau, Ravi Shankar’s influence on John Coltrane, and such essential issues as race versus caste and the connection between antiracism activism and anticolonial resistance. The Karma of Brown Folk locates the birth of the “model minority” myth, placing it firmly in the context of reaction to the struggle for Black Liberation. Prashad reclaims the long history of black and South Asian solidarity, discussing joint struggles in the U.S., the Caribbean, South Africa, and elsewhere, and exposes how these powerful moments of alliance faded from historical memory and were replaced by Indian support for antiblack racism. Ultimately, Prashad writes not just about South Asians in America but about America itself, in the tradition of Tocqueville, Du Bois, Richard Wright, and others. He explores the place of collective struggle and multiracial alliances in the transformation of self and community-in short, how Americans define themselves.

Author : Trisha Gura, PhD
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780061847028

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Lying in Weight by Trisha Gura, PhD Pdf

A girl with an eating disorder grows up. And then what? In this groundbreaking book, science journalist Trisha Gura explodes the myth that those who suffer from eating disorders, including anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, are primarily teenage girls. In truth, twenty-five to thirty million American women twenty-five and older suffer from serious food issues, from obsessions with calorie counting to compulsions to starve then overeat. These diseases often linger from adolescence or emerge anew in the lives of adult women in ways that we are only now starting to recognize. Drawing on her own experience with anorexia, as well as the most up-to-date research and extensive interviews with clinicians and sufferers, Gura presents a startling, timely, and imperative investigation of eating disorders "all grown up," and offers hope through understanding.

Author : Janet Shibley Hyde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1264946058

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Understanding Human Sexuality by Janet Shibley Hyde Pdf

Author : Charlie Rhindress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015079199447

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Flying on Her Own by Charlie Rhindress Pdf

A moving musical journey based on the life of famed Canadian singer-songwriter, Rita MacNeil. The play incorporates MacNeil's lyrics to tell the tale of a little girl from Big Pond, Cape Breton, who dreams of having a singing career. From a childhood wrought with difficulty through to her struggles as a single mother on welfare, we see an artist who refuses to give up on her dream, a terribly shy woman who finds her voice as one of Canada's first and most vocal feminists. This is the story of an artist who has no choice but to pursue her destiny, even when it brings pain and heartbreak to those around her. It is ultimately about the power of art to sustain and inspire us.

Author : Tom Santopietro
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781466870598

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The Sound of Music Story by Tom Santopietro Pdf

On March 2, 1965, "The Sound of Music" was released in the United States and the love affair between moviegoers and the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical was on. Rarely has a film captured the love and imagination of the moviegoing public in the way that "The Sound of Music" did as it blended history, music, Austrian location filming, heartfelt emotion and the yodeling of Julie Andrews into a monster hit. Now, Tom Santopietro has written the ultimate "Sound of Music" fan book with all the inside dope from behind the scenes stories of the filming in Austria and Hollywood to new interviews with Johannes von Trapp and others. Santopietro looks back at the real life story of Maria von Trapp, goes on to chronicle the sensational success of the Broadway musical, and recounts the story of the near cancellation of the film when the "Cleopatra" bankrupted 20th Century Fox. We all know that Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer played Maria and Captain Von Trapp, but who else had been considered? Tom Santopietro knows and will tell all while providing a historian's critical analysis of the careers of director Robert Wise and screenwriter Ernest Lehman, a look at the critical controversy which greeted the movie, the film's relationship to the turbulent 1960s and the super stardom which engulfed Julie Andrews. Tom Santopietro's "The Story of 'The Sound of Music'" is book for everyone who cherishes this American classic.

Author : Betsy Prioleau
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780393089912

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Swoon: Great Seducers and Why Women Love Them by Betsy Prioleau Pdf

"Lose yourself: Swoon has wicked fun answering that age-old query: What do women want?"—Chicago Tribune Contrary to popular myth and dogma, the men who consistently beguile women belie the familiar stereotypes: satanic rake, alpha stud, slick player, Mr. Nice, or big-money mogul. As Betsy Prioleau, author of Seductress, points out in this surprising, insightful study, legendary ladies’ men are a different, complex species altogether, often without looks or money. They fit no known template and possess a cache of powerful erotic secrets. With wit and erudition, Prioleau cuts through the cultural lore and reveals who these master lovers really are and the arts they practice to enswoon women. What she discovers is revolutionary. Using evidence from science, popular culture, fiction, anthropology, and history, and from interviews with colorful real-world ladykillers, Prioleau finds that great seducers share a constellation of unusual traits. While these men run the gamut, they radiate joie de vivre, intensity, and sex appeal; above all, they adore women. They listen, praise, amuse, and delight, and they know their way around the bedroom. And they’ve finessed the hardest part: locking in and revving desire. Women never tire of these fascinators and often, like Casanova’s conquests, remain besotted for life. Finally, Prioleau takes stock of the contemporary culture and asks: where are the Casanovas of today? After a critique of the twenty-first-century sexual malaise—the gulf between the sexes and women’s record discontent—she compellingly argues that society needs ladies’ men more than ever. Groundbreaking and provocative, Swoon is underpinned with sharp analysis, brilliant research, and served up with seductive verve.

Author : Michael Boulter
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781787350052

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Bloomsbury Scientists by Michael Boulter Pdf

Bloomsbury Scientists is the story of the network of scientists and artists living in a square mile of London before and after the First World War. This inspired group of men and women viewed creativity and freedom as the driving force behind nature, and each strove to understand this in their own inventive way. Their collective energy changed the social mood of the era and brought a new synthesis of knowledge to ideas in science and art. Class barriers were threatened as power shifted from the landed oligarchy to those with talent and the will to make a difference.

Author : Robin Lamont
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Actors
ISBN : 0985848502

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Wright for America by Robin Lamont Pdf

Pryor Wright's ultra-conservative radio show has millions of devout fans who are sure that the slurs and wild accusations fired at the liberal left prove him a true patriot. But when his venomous rantings catch Maren Garrity's twin brother in the crossfire, the struggling actress pursues her own style of justice and enlists a troupe of fellow unemployed actors to teach Wright just how powerful words can be.

Author : Patty Farmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0988894106

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The Persian Room Presents by Patty Farmer Pdf

Author : John William Burgon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Bible
ISBN : HARVARD:HWRTPL

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New Testament Revision:- by John William Burgon Pdf

Author : John Bowring
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Philippines
ISBN : UCSD:31822038214912

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The Philippine Islands by John Bowring Pdf