![]() ![]() The brain is structured to act upon the world, and every action carries with it expectations, and these expectations drive emotions. Cognitive thoughts lead to emotions: emotions drive cognitive thoughts. “Cognition and emotion cannot be separated. Pinning the blame on the person may be a comfortable way to proceed, but why was the system ever designed so that a single act by a single person could cause calamity? Worse, blaming the person without fixing the root, underlying cause does not fix the problem: the same error is likely to be repeated by someone else.” System design should take this into account. ![]() Humans err continually it is an intrinsic part of our nature. But in my experience, human error usually is a result of poor design: it should be called system error. More and more often the blame is attributed to “human error.” The person involved can be fined, punished, or fired. When major accidents occur, official courts of inquiry are set up to assess the blame. ![]() Unfortunately, the idea that a person is at fault is imbedded in the legal system. That’s why we blame others and even ourselves. “The idea that a person is at fault when something goes wrong is deeply entrenched in society. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Celaena was more active in her decision-making and more realized as a so-called assassin. When reading Crown of Midnight, I remember thinking how much stronger of a character Celaena was compared to the first book Throne of Glass. But I figured I would put my thoughts into a blog post and really analyze the reading experience of both books to determine which was stronger. The general consensus seems to be that Heir of Fire is the stronger book, and that it’s when the series really begins to take off. Currently, there are seven books total.Īs of writing this, I’ve just wrapped up Heir of Fire, and when thinking about the book compared to my experience reading Crown of Midnight I have some mixed thoughts. Crown of Midnight was the sequel and Heir of Fire is the third book. Maas’ Throne of Glass series with Throne of Glass itself being the first book. ![]() For those that don’t know, Crown of Midnight is the second book in Sarah J. ![]() ![]() ![]() Join Lily in her quest for freedom as she poses as a couple with Clare behind a camouflage of flashy cars and cupcakes in order to get that inheritance. Right, neither does it mention an aspiring actress eager to break into Hollywood. So what would Lily do? She’d plot to gain her inheritance. Aunt Lizzie’s not bent on making Lily have her way. Aunt Lizzie’s thinking cooking, cleaning and looking after a family Lily wants a career that isn’t home-running. To her Lily could kiss freedom goodbye since it might be about the only person who’d allow that.Īunt Lizzie’s thinking marriage Lily’s thinking marriage-if-anyone-would-ever-want-me. Aunt Lizzie wants Lily to find a husband, though she thinks it’s impossible. I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. ![]() ![]() Education-Catholic University School and Trinity College.An intensely poignant story of two men and the makeshift family they create with a young Sioux girl, Winona, Days Without End is a fresh and haunting portrait of the most fateful years in American history and is a novel never to be forgotten. Moving from the plains of Wyoming to Tennessee, Sebastian Barry’s latest work is a masterpiece of atmosphere and language. Orphans of terrible hardships themselves, the men find these days to be vivid and alive, despite the horrors they see and are complicit in. With his brother in arms, John Cole, Thomas goes on to fight in the Indian Wars-against the Sioux and the Yurok-and, ultimately, the Civil War. Thomas McNulty, aged barely seventeen and having fled the Great Famine in Ireland, signs up for the U.S. ![]() ![]() Winner, 2017 Costa Book of the Year Awardįrom the two-time Man Booker Prize finalist Sebastian Barry, “a master storyteller” (Wall Street Journal ), comes a powerful new novel of duty and family set against the American Indian and Civil Wars ![]() ![]() ![]() “Quasi-Autonomy in Architecture: The Search for an ‘In-Between’,” Perspecta 33 (2002):30-37.Īnning, A. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1983.Īnderson, Stanford. London: Routledge, 2003.Īllen, Stanley.”Projections: Between Drawing and Building,” Architecture and Urbanism, no. Practice Architecture, Technique and Representation. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1964.Īllen, Stan and Diana Agrest. London: Pion, 1986.Īlexander, Christopher. Silver Spring: Information Dynamics, 1982.Īkin, Ömer. Tversky: What do Sketches say about Thinking?Īcton, Mary. ![]() ![]() Larkin and Simon: “Why a Diagram is (Sometimes) Worth Ten Thousand Words” Goldschmidt: “The Dialectics of Sketching” Goel: “ll-Structured Representations for Ill-Structured Problems” ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Stephen King Winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel! A World Fantasy Award Finalist! An Indie Next Pick! A LibraryReads Top 10 Pick! A Library Journal Editors Pick! STARRED reviews from Library Journal and Publishers Weekly! Named one of the 50 Best Horror Books of All Time by Esquire! Brilliant. Its a true nerve-shredder that keeps its mind-blowing secrets to the very end. An unspeakable secret binds them together, but when a new neighbor moves in next door, what is buried out among the birch trees may come back to haunt them all- Book Synopsis The buzz.is real. And a house cat who loves napping and reading the Bible. A man who drinks alone in front of his TV, trying to ignore the gaps in his memory. A teenage girl who isnt allowed outside, not after last time. About the Book In a boarded-up house on a dead-end street at the edge of the wild Washington woods lives a family of three. ![]() ![]() ![]() They truely believe that the end justifies the means. In the case of the Family, they've distorted the Bible Jesus into some sort of capitalist warrior with his only goal to take over the world by whatever means is necessary. I kept having flashes of Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale as the ultimate destination of the Family.An interesting aspect of the Family's belief system is one discussed often in the Atheist forums - the fact that people take a basic story, like that of Jesus from the Bible, and read into it whatever they want to project to achieve their own goals. ![]() Religion is used to control the masses either through coercion or through the rigid structuring of the peoples' lives. The Taliban is the same - the elite are exempted from the strict rules because they set the rules. By this I mean totalitarian, religious-focused, faith-based, and rulled by the elite. The most important point I took from the reading was that there is a well-hidden movement within the Christian fundamentalists that has positioned itself to influence the government of this and other countries toward the goal of imposing a Taliban-like society on everyone. This is a scary book when you really think about what the author has researched and presented to us. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her ‘sort-of’ playwright philosopher ‘husband’ Pierre Gringoire – whom she does not love – provides some comic relief to the story. ![]() The story centres around, not only Paris and the grand cathedral, but a young gypsy dancer, a ‘dazzling vision’ called Esmeralda. ![]() The Notre-Dame Cathedral is an ‘edifice of the transition’ from the Roman to the Gothic architecture, described by Hugo as ‘the pointed species grafted upon the circular.’ From the cathedral is a bird’s eye view of the ‘very illogical’ streets of Paris – the City, the University, and the Town. The themes are political and religious, historical, and ghoulish. It is winter, January 1482, sixteen years after the great plague in which 40,000 souls died in the city of Paris. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831) is set in Paris in 1482, primarily in the Notre-Dame Cathedral. Hence, it’s time to re-read Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. In the Victor Hugo museum is an exhibition, from 10 June to 21 November 2021, called Dans L’Intimité du Genie – In the Intimacy of Genius – with Hugo’s paintings, drawings, engravings, and artwork. Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Though relations between Christians in the East and those in the West had long been fractious, Alexius’s request came at a time when the situation was improving. In 1095, Alexius sent envoys to Pope Urban II asking for mercenary troops from the West to help confront the Turkish threat. After years of chaos and civil war, the general Alexius Comnenus seized the Byzantine throne in 1081 and consolidated control over the remaining empire as Emperor Alexius I. However, Byzantium had lost considerable territory to the invading Seljuk Turks. ![]() By the end of the 11th century, Western Europe had emerged as a significant power in its own right, though it still lagged behind other Mediterranean civilizations, such as the Byzantine Empire (formerly the eastern half of the Roman Empire) and the Islamic Empire of the Middle East and North Africa. ![]() ![]() Even the knowledge that Wren, her former best friend and current rival, is attending doesn’t dampen her excitement.īut when the attendees arrive, Roza drops a bombshell-they must all complete an entire novel from scratch during the next month, and the author of the best one will receive a life-changing seven-figure publishing deal. The Plot meets Please Join Us in this psychological suspense debut about a young author at an exclusive writer’s retreat that descends into a nightmare.Īlex has all but given up on her dreams of becoming a published author when she receives a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: attend an exclusive, month-long writing retreat at the estate of feminist horror writer Roza Vallo. ![]() “Darkly satirical and action-packed.An absolutely splendid debut!” -Wendy Walker, nationally bestselling author of Don’t Look for Me “Sex, suspense, and the supernatural fuel this propulsive debut.” - People ![]() |