An American Robinson Crusoe" by Samuel B. Allison is a thrilling and captivating adventure novel that follows the remarkable journey of a young man named Robert Russell, who finds himself stranded on a remote island after a shipwreck. Drawing inspiration from the classic tale of Robinson Crusoe, this novel presents a unique and modern twist on the theme of survival, resilience, and self-discovery. The protagonist, Robert Russell, is a resourceful and determined young American who must navigate the challenges of surviving in an unfamiliar and harsh environment. Alone on the island, he must learn to adapt to his surroundings, find food and shelter, and overcome various obstacles in order to ensure his survival. As Robert's days turn into weeks and months, he develops a deep connection with the island and its natural wonders. The novel beautifully captures his awe and appreciation for the beauty of nature, as he explores the island's flora and fauna, discovers hidden caves and water sources, and learns to live in harmony with the environment. Throughout his solitary journey, Robert's resilience and ingenuity are put to the test. He constructs tools, devises clever solutions, and learns to hunt and fish, showcasing his determination to overcome adversity. The novel portrays Robert as a modern-day adventurer, embracing the challenges and uncertainties of his situation with unwavering courage. As time passes, Robert's isolation is punctuated by moments of reflection and self-discovery. He grapples with questions of identity, purpose, and the meaning of life as he searches for a sense of belonging in his solitary existence. These introspective moments add depth and complexity to the narrative, inviting readers to ponder the universal themes of human existence. Samuel B. Allison skillfully weaves a tale of adventure, exploration, and inner growth. "An American Robinson Crusoe" offers readers a captivating and thought-provoking journey into the heart of survival and self-reliance, as well as a poignant exploration of the human spirit's capacity to endure and find meaning even in the most challenging of circumstances.
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An American Robinson Crusoe" by Samuel B. Allison is a thrilling and captivating adventure novel that follows the remarkable journey of a young man named Robert Russell, who finds himself stranded on a remote island after a shipwreck. Drawing inspiration from the classic tale of Robinson Crusoe, this novel presents a unique and modern twist on the theme of survival, resilience, and self-discovery. The protagonist, Robert Russell, is a resourceful and determined young American who must navigate the challenges of surviving in an unfamiliar and harsh environment. Alone on the island, he must learn to adapt to his surroundings, find food and shelter, and overcome various obstacles in order to ensure his survival. As Robert's days turn into weeks and months, he develops a deep connection with the island and its natural wonders. The novel beautifully captures his awe and appreciation for the beauty of nature, as he explores the island's flora and fauna, discovers hidden caves and water sources, and learns to live in harmony with the environment. Throughout his solitary journey, Robert's resilience and ingenuity are put to the test. He constructs tools, devises clever solutions, and learns to hunt and fish, showcasing his determination to overcome adversity. The novel portrays Robert as a modern-day adventurer, embracing the challenges and uncertainties of his situation with unwavering courage. As time passes, Robert's isolation is punctuated by moments of reflection and self-discovery. He grapples with questions of identity, purpose, and the meaning of life as he searches for a sense of belonging in his solitary existence. These introspective moments add depth and complexity to the narrative, inviting readers to ponder the universal themes of human existence. Samuel B. Allison skillfully weaves a tale of adventure, exploration, and inner growth. "An American Robinson Crusoe" offers readers a captivating and thought-provoking journey into the heart of survival and self-reliance, as well as a poignant exploration of the human spirit's capacity to endure and find meaning even in the most challenging of circumstances.
The greatest need of the primary school to-day is some positive content or subject matter of instruction. The popular conception of such a school is that its main function is to teach the young child to read, write, and cipher. That is, that it has to do mainly with the formal aspects of language and numbers. So long as a certain amount of facility is gained in these formal arts, there is little disposition to demand anything more. Even so great an authority as the Committee of Fifteen has championed this view, and has given as its deliberate judgment that the first four years of school life should be devoted to the mastery of the formal phases of instruction. While it may be contended that it is not meant to exclude the giving of a positive subject matter, still it is interpreted as sanctioning the present obvious over-emphasis of the formal side of language in our primary schools. A strict conformity to this formal program would mean that the first four years of school life, the most impressionable[6] period in the pupil's school career, are to be empty of any real subject matter. The mastery of written and printed forms is to be set up as an end in itself, losing sight of the fact that they are but means for conveying the thought, feelings, experiences, and aspirations of the race from one generation to another. When we consider what the child at the age of six or seven really is; when we consider his love of story, his hunger for the concrete material of knowledge, his deep interest in the widening of his experience,—it is evident that such a course is out of all harmony with his real nature. It is the giving of stones when the cry is for bread. It is even worse than the proverbial making of bricks without straw. It is attempting to make bricks with straw alone.
An influential thinker on the concept of singularity and its implications on politics, theology, economics, psychoanalysis, and literature For readers versed in critical theory, German and comparative literature, or media studies, a new book by Samuel Weber is essential reading. Singularity is no exception. Bringing together two decades of his essays, it hones in on the surprising implications of the singular and its historical relation to the individual in politics, theology, economics, psychoanalysis, and literature. Although singularity has long been a keyword in literary studies and philosophy, never has it been explored as in this book, which distinguishes singularity as an “aporetic” notion from individuality, with which it remains historically closely tied. To speak or write of the singular is problematic, Weber argues, since once it is spoken of it is no longer strictly singular. Walter Benjamin observed that singularity and repetition imply each other. This approach informs the essays in Singularity. Weber notes that what distinguishes the singular from the individual is that it cannot be perceived directly, but rather experienced through feelings that depend on but also exceed cognition. This interdependence of cognition and affect plays itself out in politics, economics, and theology as well as in poetics. Political practice as well as its theory have been dominated by the attempt to domesticate singularity by subordinating it to the notion of individuality. Weber suggests that this political tendency draws support from what he calls “the monotheological identity paradigm” deriving from the idea of a unique and exclusive Creator-God. Despite the “secular” tendencies usually associated with Western modernity, this paradigm continues today to inform and influence political and economic practices, often displaying self-destructive tendencies. By contrast, Weber reads the literary writings of Hölderlin, Nietzsche, and Kafka as exemplary practices that put singularity into play, not as fiction but as friction, exposing the self-evidence of established conventions to be responses to challenges and problems that they often prefer to obscure or ignore.
This powerful book reminds us of the enormous power the nation accords its political leaders and how in the significant period, 1897–1913, these leaders failed to meet their responsibilities. Their inadequacies, the authors feel, delayed the administration of justice for all citizens, neglected the Negro, and seriously impaired the future effectiveness of their own once viable, successful, and justly proud Republican Party. The authors follow the maneuvers of McKinley, Roosevelt, Taft, Senators Aldrich, Platt, Allison, and Spooner, and House Speaker "Uncle" Joe Cannon as they juggled pressing domestic questions, perpetuating themselves in power without really confronting the public need. From the outset, when the party came into power in 1897 under remarkably auspicious circumstances, until it met final defeat at the hands of Woodrow Wilson in 1912, the Republican leaders laid a foundation by default for the Democratic return to power. Their neglect of major national problems afforded the Democrats a golden opportunity to appropriate those issues as their own.
The standard, linear view of history is founded on the belief that political outcomes are predetermined by what has gone before. This book challenges this view, arguing for what Samuel A. Chambers calls an untimely politics which renders the past problematic and the future unpredictable. This pathbreaking argument is advanced through a close reading of key texts in political theory and by entering into debates involving metaphysics, philosophy of language, and psychoanalysis versus discursive analysis. Chambers focuses on the theme of the relevance of language analysis to political debate, answering those critics who insist discourse approaches to politics are irrelevant. Heidegger, Nietzsche, Foucault and Derrida are used to challenge the political burden which is placed on language analysis to prove its value in the real world. Drawing from political theory and cultural studies Chambers takes on the same-sex marriage debate, showing how the use and misuse of language has contributed to an impasse that is not likely to be broken. Wide ranging and insightful, Untimely Politics makes a timely plea for a more politically relevant and culturally engaged form of intellectual engagement.
Michael Shapiro has been one of the most important thinkers and writers over the past two decades whose work has been extremely influential in fields as varied as political theory, international relations and cultural studies. This collection contains his seminal writings on such topics as discourse, culture and violence.
This book argues that, because existence costs (the two words are cognates), any living thing must economize - shift more of its energy costs onto the world, including other living things, than its competitors are able to; that to economize is therefore to engage in exchanges that are sacrificial at their core; and that such economization is infanticidal in its ultimate implications. A. Samuel Kimball is Associate Professor of English at the University of North Florida.
The Book of Psalms is one of the most frequently cited books in the New Testament. The Synoptic Evangelists seem to read the Psalms not primarily as prayers but as prophecies of the future. They discovered in its language prophecies concerning the life and ministry of Jesus and attempted to show how Jesus' life was prefigured in the Psalms. Samuel Subramanian examines the topic within the broader use of the Old Testament in the New Testament, that of the prophetic reading of the Psalms in the Synoptic Gospels and in the context of Second Temple Judaism. Although others have treated individual psalm quotations as prophecy, my work is the first to examine all of the psalm quotations within the Synoptic Gospels in this light and the first to demonstrate that these excerpts were used prophetically. In some cases, these psalm quotations were used by the Synoptic Evangelists in a manner that is thought to fulfill a prophecy from or about Jesus within the gospel narratives, even though this particular use of the psalms by the Synoptic Evangelists has not been widely recognized previously. This study shows how similar exegetical techniques of looking for prophecies in the Psalms was practiced by non-Christian Jews of the period.
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Volume 15: Supplement and General Index, chronicles the postwar operations of the U.S. Navy in the Pacific: the surrender of outlying Japanese garrisons, the occupation of Japan, minesweeping approaches to Japanese ports, and Operation Magic Carpet for the return of armed forces to the United States. This volume features a descriptive list of all named ships of the U.S. Navy during World War II, all types of landing, beaching, and other "lettered" craft, and types of aircraft used by the navy during the war. It also includes a list of errata and a general index to volumes 1-14.
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