Attorneys for many of the defendants have said they will vigorously fight the charges. Otenio’s family said he was brutally mistreated, both at the state hospital and while in law enforcement custody in the preceding days. Seven deputies and three hospital workers have been charged with second-degree murder in Otieno’s death. For most of that duration, the 28-year-old Black man is on the floor being held down by a fluctuating group that at one point appeared to reach 10 people. The footage obtained Tuesday, which has no audio, shows various members of the group attempting to restrain a handcuffed and shackled Otieno for about 20 minutes after he’s led into a room at Central State Hospital, where he was going to be admitted March 6. (AP) - A large group of sheriff’s deputies and employees of a Virginia mental hospital pinned patient Irvo Otieno to the floor earlier this month until he was motionless and limp, then began unsuccessful resuscitation efforts, newly obtained surveillance video shows.
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I am told this is semi-autobiographical, as it features a guy who does illustration/art for a living. One of my top ten graphic novels of the year, In, a first graphic novel by Will McPhail, whose work is best known in the US through his New Yorker cartoons, maybe. Illustrated in both color and black-and-white in McPhail’s instantly recognizable style, In elevates the graphic novel genre it captures his trademark humor and compassion with a semi-autobiographical tale that is equal parts hilarious and heart-wrenching-uncannily appropriate for our isolated times. Nick’s journey occurs alongside the beginnings of a relationship with Wren, a wry, spirited oncologist at a nearby hospital, whose work and life becomes painfully tangled with Nick’s. But it isn’t until he learns to speak from the heart that he begins to find authentic human connections and is let in-to the worlds of the people he meets. He haunts lookalike fussy, silly, coffee shops, listens to old Joni Mitchell albums too loudly, and stares at his navel in the hope that he will find it in there. Nick, a young illustrator, can’t shake the feeling that there is some hidden realm of human interaction beyond his reach. A poignant and witty graphic novel by a leading New Yorker cartoonist, following a millennial's journey from performing his life to truly connecting with people I Love You) and featuring an all star cast including Emma Thompson, Jeremy Irons, Viola Davies and hot young Hollywood talent Alice Englert, Alden Ehrenreich and Emmy Rossum. But Lena is cursed and on her sixteenth birthday, her fate will be decided.Ethan never even saw it coming.* Don't miss the Warner Brothers and Alcon Entertainment blockbuster movie of Beautiful Creatures directed by Richard LaGravenese (P.S. Lena and Ethan become bound together by a deep, powerful love. And no one can stop it.In the end, there is a grave. On the Sixteenth Moon, the Sixteenth Year, the Book will take what it's been promised. Slowly, she pulled the hood from her head. Or the end? In Ethan Wate's hometown there lies the darkest of secrets.There is a girl. Beautiful Creatures The Complete Series includes all four novels in the bestselling, spellbinding love story: Beautiful Creatures, Beautiful Darkness, Beautiful Chaos and Beautiful Redemption. It starts with those now famous words, “She walks in beauty, like the night,” so we know it is about someone the poet either loves, or admires from afar even or even has just met for the first time. It is a poem worthy of your time and it is about the innocence of a loving heart. “She walks in beauty, as the night….” Can someone come up with a better, more trendy title please?īut I digress and I jest. Anyone who is anything in the world of literature has heard the phrase “she walks in beauty as the night.” Mega famous poetry at its best! But what is it actually about? What is going on with some of the language in there? It does sound dated and faded by today’s more harsher standards doesn’t it? I mean, even the title seems a little off putting to a modern audience. When it comes to poems, this is one of the most quoted poems of all time, especially the title. Have a look at this video clip before you read any further. The smiles that win, the tints that glow, Children are taught this is a symptom of evolution: people are more attracted to big pretty eyes because of their innocence, pretty faces and nice bodies are more likely to be chosen as mates to continue on the species, etc. At the age of 16 everyone is taken for their pretty surgery, where they are made to look exactly like everyone else and pretty. Wars were based on colour versus colour, culture versus culture, and religion versus religion (to name a few) – so the world banded together and erased everything to fight about. The basis for this was the old world, inhabited with what everyone has dubbed the “rusties”, was over-run by wars and famine because everyone was different. The books is set in a futuristic world broken down into two sides: The Uglies, and The Pretties. Books usually sit on my shelves for ages before I pick them up, but with our current situation, this was on top of the box so it’s what I picked! It was in the back of my mind, and I kept saying if I saw it somewhere used I’d pick it up (I usually try new authors in used), but it wasn’t until recently that I had the opportunity to pick it up. This is another case of “I saw it while working at the book store and never thought of it again”. Plutarch concentrates on crucial moments in their lives at which they face difficult decisions. Therefore, he explores his subjects’ characters and their responses as free and responsible individuals to moral challenges, whether posed by small things or momentous events. Plutarch writes biographies focused on individual character, not the details of history. Plutarch’s biographies were regarded as essential reading for young people because they revealed in dramatic fashion just how much character mattered in moral choices. The public loved Plutarch, too: from the founding of this country until well into the nineteenth century, a translation of Plutarch’s Parallel Lives was the second most likely book to be found in American homes, following only the Bible. Montaigne, Shakespeare, Dryden, Rousseau, and Emerson––all were avid readers of Plutarch. Following the Renaissance’s rediscovery of ancient Greek literature, his Parallel Lives inspired leading authors and thinkers. The concise biographies of famous Greek and Roman men ( Parallel Lives) written by the Greek philosopher and priest Plutarch under the early Roman Empire are true classics in the literature of Western civilization. Liberty, Responsibility, and Character in Plutarch's "Parallel Lives" Plutarch was one of the authors highly regarded by Pierre Goodrich, the founder of Liberty Fund, who included his name on the wall of the Goodrich Semiar Room at Wabash College, Indiana. They hold on for three, sometimes four months if they're abandoned. And they don't die from neglect, not immediately. They can live in ice-covered ponds in the dead of winter. It went on to live another forty-seven years. After thirty harrowing seconds she tossed it back into its tank. There was an infamous incident described in a journal published by the Goldfish Society of America - a sadistic five-year-old girl threw hers to the carpet, stepped on it, not once but twice - luckily she'd done it on a shag carpet and thus her heel didn't quite come down fully on the fish. You can live through hardships that make your cohorts - the guppy, the neon tetra - go belly-up at the first sign of trouble. If you live like a goldfish, you can survive the harshest, most thwarting of circumstances. In his defense, though, I don't think Jonas understood the glory of the goldfish, that they have magnificent lessons to teach us. Jonas Ornata III, Princeton class of '42, appears in the Guinness Book of World Records for swallowing the greatest number of goldfish in a fifteen-minute interval, a cruel total of thirty-nine. People don't think twice about swallowing it. I'm going to ask that you seriously consider modeling your life, not in the manner of the Dalai Lama or Jesus - though I'm sure they're helpful - but something a bit more hands-on, Carassius auratus auratus, commonly known as the domestic goldfish. The whole American feeling takes pride in such a man, as the author of The Last of the Mohicans." In tribute to his friend Cooper shortly before the novelist's death, George Copway, the Chippewa chief Kah-Ge-Ga-Gah-Bowh, wrote: "No living writer, nor historian, has done so much justice to the noble traits of our people. It speaks with compassion of racial injustice and prejudice, especially of the dispossession of the Indian. Irradiated by an elusive irony that gives epic scope to the American colonial experience, it projects on a broad canvas the futile efforts of European armies to wrest a glorious wilderness from the Indians and each other. Celebrated for almost 150 years as the prototype of the American adventure story, The Last of the Mohicans remains a perennial favorite, an astonishingly complex work to be read on many levels. Then a stranger arrives in Billy's life-Gigi Orsini, Vito's sixteen-year-old daughter by an early marriage. To those who only know her from afar, she seems to lead a dream existence, wrapped in all the power of glamout, riches, and success. A self-made beauty and the exquisite owner of a fabled Beverley Hills boutique called Scruples and married to the Oscar-winning producer Vito Orsini. Billy Ikehorn is a contemporary woman living on a grand scale. Only a single night's sleep seperates the lives of the characters in Scruples from this mesmerizing sequel. Now that unforgettable story, a story that marks an era, a story that millions of readers wish had never ended. Scruples, Judith Krantz's electrifying, world wide bestseller appeared fifteen years ago and made book publishing history. Leprechaun in a Pot of Gold craft with Good Luck Wishes can be completed during centers or whole group time. These Q and A sticks can be used after reading the story aloud to the whole class, with reading groups, or partner reading. ( 2 types of writing lines.)ġ Leprechaun in a Pot of Gold Craft with photo directions. Great for retelling and comprehension check.Ģ0 Color copies of the same leprechaun in a pot of gold question and answer sticks.ġ Extending the reading experience page - text to self creative writing page. They are numbered to follow the sequence of the story. You will need to check out the book from the library or purchase the book, Leprechauns Never Lie by Lorna Balian, to use these comprehension question and answer sticks.ġ Page - Introduce and discuss vocabulary words from the story to activate prior knowledge.Ģ0 Black and white leprechaun in a pot of gold question and answer comprehension sticks. These question and answer sticks are one way to support literacy and stretch student understanding and appreciation of the story, Leprechauns Never Lie by Lorna Balian. Children need to think and talk about what they have read or what has been read to them. |