7/8/2023 0 Comments Grandstanding by Justin Tosi![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Most importantly, they show how, by avoiding grandstanding, we can re-build a public square worth participating in. So, you might wonder why I’m recommending their book in a magazine for Christian ministers. Its authors evince no religious commitments one way or another, and they work from secular premises. Using the analytic tools of psychology and moral philosophy, they explain what drives us to behave in this way, and what we stand to lose by taking it too far. Justin Tosi and Brandon Warmke’s Grandstandingis a work of philosophy informed by psychology. Drawing from work in psychology, economics, and political science, and along with contemporary examples spanning the political spectrum, the authors dive deeply into why and how we grandstand. The pollution of our most urgent conversations with self-interest damages the very causes they are meant to forward. As politics gets more and more polarized, people on both sides of the spectrum move further and further apart when they let grandstanding get in the way of engaging one another. To philosophers Justin Tosi and Brandon Warmke, who have written extensively about moral grandstanding, such one-upmanship is not just annoying, but dangerous. Nowhere is this more evident than in public discourse today, and especially as it plays out across the internet. We want to be seen as taking the moral high ground not just to make a point, or move a debate forward, but to look a certain way-incensed, or compassionate, or committed to a cause. We vilify those with whom we disagree, and make bolder claims than we could defend. We call people terrible names in conversation or online. ![]()
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The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Neuval, Sylvain. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments A kiss before dying book![]() ![]() Narrating the opening section, this psychopathic male student remains unnamed, which allows Levin to indulge is some deftly managed misdirection for both his characters and his readers regarding the killer’s identity. The less you know about the rest of the plot, the more you will enjoy A Kiss Before Dying because structurally, it is a work of perfection. But when his plan to get rid of the child fails, the man decides that Dorothy will have to die instead. Dorothy is pregnant and this man knows that her father will disown her if she has a child out of wedlock. He has been dating Dorothy, the daughter of a wealthy copper magnate for a year now and she loves him and wants to marry him.Įverything has been going to plan, until now. Despite his charm, good looks and charisma, he has no money, so he decides to marry in to it rather than make it for himself. However, this is one all-American boy who will stop at nothing-not even murder-to get what he wants from life. It is set mostly on a small-town college campus and has as it’s protagonist, a good-looking all-American boy. A Kiss Before Dying is less fantastical than the other two Levin novels I’ve read. ![]() ![]() ![]() Chris Heimerdinger sure can write one gripping, elaborate story. I love seeing valiant, righteous heroes from the Book of Mormon come to life. ![]() It’s so intricate and incredibly thought out and plotted. There is some romance, actually some great romance that I love and makes my heart melt, especially Apollus *swoon*, but the romance parts aren’t very often. I sometimes wish we could just stay with one character or group, and then move to the next group that’s in a completely different time and story. So you’re reading three or four different stories, that may connect in the end (or will just carry to the next book and connect somehow there), and it’s several chapters later that you get back to a certain story. There are several different groups of main characters and points of views. Pretty much every page has someone running from someone who wants to kill them, or they’re running to save someone they love, or there’s fighting and battles and lies and murders and attempted murders. ![]() One problem with these books though is that there’s just so much happening in the story. It is so incredible and well written and grips me utterly, but it’s more the knowledge of who the two people fighting are that captivates me and makes me flip the pages eagerly. And this book, Kingdoms and Conquerors, has probably the most epic fight scene I’ve ever read. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Shala by milind bokil![]() It is fun walking barefoot through the slushy fields. The paddy fields are still water-logged and it gets quite muddy at times, but I prefer this route except when it pours really hard. ![]() Now, the rains are nearly over and the Ganapati festival, too, got over a few days back. In the month of Shravan, the skies are a lovely blue, scattered with white clouds, and the fields are drenched in warm yellow sunshine. In any case, these days, I prefer to walk alone. Pawar from the Tiloda building came along with me till last year, but has left school since. Most students and teachers took this route to school. Back then, I’d take the road opposite Ganesh Provision Store which joins Kanhe Road near Mokshadham, winds past the railway station through Dattawadi and Pendse Colony, and then goes straight on to Nandi Talkies. Our school, till Seventh Standard, was at a different place. ![]() The road to school begins beyond the rocks. ![]() ![]() On the right are paddy fields, overlooked by massive rocks, and on the left is Nana’s jungle. The village of Kanhe begins where the grassland ends. There is a long stretch of grassland behind our house, beyond the Mhatre chawl lines, barren except for a few date palms and tufts of grass growing between the rocks. The main road leads to my school, but I prefer the winding path through the fields. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Crown derrick barnes![]() I didn’t actually meet one until I attended college. I didn’t know any famous African American male authors. It felt power Where I come from, no one dreams of becoming an author. But I do remember what it felt like when I finished and read it. I think it was about a group of stray dogs trekking across the country to find a magic bone or something. My first attempt at writing a real story was in the fifth grade. I was raised in a single parent household by my mother, the lovely Miss Catherine Barnes, along with my big brother, Anthony, in Kansas City, MO. I wanted to be a football player, the next Sean Combs, or a rapper anything that would instantly provide me with the riches I would need to “move my mama off of the block”. ![]() ![]() Where I come from, no one dreams of becoming an author. ![]() |