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“The next year, as I was still scribbling my own stories, my English teacher (bless you, Mrs. Jacobsen!) introduced me to the Lord of the Rings trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien,” the biography read.
Orozco's best-known short story is "Orientation", [5] which originally appeared in The Seattle Review and has subsequently been included in The Best American Short Stories 1995, and presented in audio form on National Public Radio. [6] Orientation: And Other Stories, a collection of Orozco's work, was published by Faber & Faber in May 2011. [7]
[6] [7] Gay Poems for Red States was named a Book Riot 2023 Best Book of the Year, [8] an IndieBound and American Bookseller's Association's must-have book for poetry lovers, [9] a Top Ten Best Book of Appalachia by Read Appalachia, [10] a top ten 2022 Southern Book in Garden and Gun, [11] and a 2023 Top Ten Over-The-Rainbow book by the ...
American Sign Language literature (ASL literature) is one of the most important shared cultural experiences in the American deaf community.Literary genres initially developed in residential Deaf institutes, such as American School for the Deaf in Hartford, Connecticut, [1] which is where American Sign Language developed as a language in the early 19th century. [2]
Adopted as Teachers' Day, in spoken Thai language "Wan Kru", by a resolution of the government on 21 November 1956. The first Teachers' Day was held in 1957. 16 January marks the enactment of the Teachers Act, Buddhist Era 2488 (1945), which was published in the Government Gazette on 16 January 1945, and came into force 60 days later. Most Thai ...
Williams's major collections are Spring and All (1923), The Desert Music and Other Poems (1954), Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems (1962), and Paterson (1963, repr. 1992). His most anthologized poem is "The Red Wheelbarrow", an example of the Imagist movement's style and principles (see also "This Is Just to Say").
Mu'allaqat, Arabic poems written by seven poets in Classical Arabic, these poems are very similar to epic poems and specially the poem of Antarah ibn Shaddad; Parsifal by Richard Wagner (opera, composed 1880–1882) Pasyón, Filipino religious epic, of which the 1703 and 1814 versions are popular; Popol Vuh, history of the K'iche' people
An old African man lives in a shack with Judson. Judson cannot stand the sound of the old man's dog, and one day breaks its back with a bamboo cane. The old man puts the dog out of its misery. One night, the old man sees a black mamba snake drinking the milk from one of his cows. He tells Judson that a boy is stealing the milk, and instructs ...