![]() ![]() ![]() From 1932 to 1938 he worked at Copenhagen Municipality's Department for Urban Planning. ![]() He was part of the Danish Urban Planning Laboratory from 1924, as the Academy Council's representative, and its leader from 1942 to 1948. It was mainly as an urban planner that he made his name. He first apprenticed as a mason and then studied architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1916 to 1918. Steen Eiler Rasmussen was born on 19 February 1898 in Copenhagen to Lieutenant colonel and later general Christian Rasmussen and Anna Dorthea (Dori) Jung. He was made a Royal Designer for Industry by the British Royal Society of Arts in 1947. FAIA (9 January 1898 – 19 June 1990) was a Danish architect and urban planner who was a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, and a prolific writer of books and poetry. Honorary Royal Designer for Industry (1947) ![]()
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![]() They worry too much about whether they have the skills needed to take on a new, loftier role. Be more open to taking career risks. Women tend to avoid stretch assignments and new challenges on the job, Sandberg says. But the plight of women without kids in the workplace is virtually ignored, even though nearly 1 in 5 American women exits her childbearing years childless.īut since many of my friends and I have experienced quite a few of the career woes and setbacks that Sandberg discusses, I want to tell you about five steps Sandberg recommends and I endorse:ġ. Sandberg spends the lion’s share of her book on the challenges facing working women with young children. ( MORE: Tips for Women Who Work With ‘Mean Girls’) (She also appears in the PBS documentary, Makers: Women Who Made America.)īoth in Lean In and her media appearances, I think Sandberg comes off as genuine and passionate, someone who has taken a risk to speak out concerning a problem she cares deeply about … because she can. ![]() I read her book, then watched and listened to her interviews on 60 Minutes, Good Morning America and NPR. ![]() I, too, initially felt a knee-jerk need to criticize Sandberg. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His next novel, Pierre, released in 1852, was another dud in terms of sales, and led to the end of Melville being considered a popular novelist during his lifetime. In 1850, Melville moved his family to Pittsfield, Massachusetts, where he struck up a friendship with author Nathaniel Hawthorne, to whom he eventually dedicated his massive novel Moby-Dick, released in 1851 to critically mixed reviews and financial failure. 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In order to appease the wrath of the beast, the children decide to offer it a sacrifice: The unfortunate Arié, whom they believe to be the cause of the curse, is shoved into a well that leads to the Nijigahara tunnel - an act that in turns pushes Komatsuzaki, the budding thug who has carried a torch for Arié for a while already, entirely over the edge.īut this is only the beginning of the complex, challenging, obliquely told Nijigahara Holograph, which takes place in two separate timelines and involves the suicidal Suzuki Higure, his stalkerish would-be girlfriend and their teacher Miss Sakaki, whose heavily bandaged face remains a mystery and many more - brothers, sisters, parents, co-workers, teachers, aggressors and victims who are all inextricably linked to one another and all will eventually - ten years later - have to live with what they've done or suffered through. 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And I could go on and on, praising it because this book is a masterpiece, a new wonder of the world next to the pyramids and the Great Wall of China and other natural or hand-made beauties. ![]() ![]() This book is unbelievably wonderful, wonderfully amazing, amazingly beautiful, beautifully shocking, shockingly unpredictable. ![]() ![]() ![]() At the plot’s heart is the hackneyed “Prophecy of the Noble Child,” who is destined to “banish the darkness from the forests, evil from where it dwells, and restore Caux to truth and light.” Although the text shows some wit (“It was generally assumed at the Hollow Bettle that Cecil Manx’s excuse for his inexplicable tardiness was his own death”) and enjoyable ghoulishness (“She did terrible things with cute bunnies and vinegar”), its gleefully showy prose suffocates itself with countless clauses and modifiers, ungraspable descriptions (“Her crown shone evilly”), repugnant disability stereotypes and an overdependence on the word “odd.” Narrative perspective shifts merely to impart information, and the climax-wicked king and queen deposed by the transformation of gems into butterflies-lacks internal logic. The guards’ taster flees from punishment (tongue removal!) and becomes Ivy’s travel companion. ![]() ![]() Any casual meal is potentially fatal in Caux, where “he rule of the land was poison or be poisoned.” After Ivy’s uncle disappears, the taster supposedly protecting her poisons a roomful of guards. A clever premise drowns in ostentatious prose. ![]() ![]() ![]() The American Dream, graciously unnamed, wafts through My Ántonia, the novel of immigrants reaping lives from stark early-20th century Nebraska. For we children of immigrants’ children, our doubts of the Dream multiply the further we travel from our first roots here-in irony fit for a novel, assimilation and success seem to dilute the convictions of the immigrant forebears who set both in motion. Some of our stories make the Dream into an elegiac myth, while others despise it as a lying trap. We often suspect the American Dream more the farther we progress into our future, the land that will someday be our own history. 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Thread!. ![]() ![]() ![]() But all this changed when Alice injured him by tearing out his eye and stabbing him in the back then the Rabbit became monstrous, more so than before, and resorted to any old evil trick in the book to get his vengeance. However, unlike many other gangsters, the Rabbit did try to stick to the rules, and would do an honorable deal and would never play dirty. Overall, the Rabbit was a brutal monster, feared by all other gang leaders, and was not someone to cross. He also vaguely dresses similar, expensively and with fine taste, yet he cannot hide the monster that lies beneath. The Rabbit is very similar to Bill from Kill Bill, as he is a wealthy crime lord, who betrays his associates, is murderous and vengeful, yet affably evil, polite when attempting murder, and welcoming to his guests. ![]() The Rabbit was a cruel, sadistic, merciless monster, taking delight in mocking his name as he dressed in a rabbit costume to intimidate/delight/torture his enemies before Cheshire turned him into an actual anthropomorphic rabbit in mockery. ![]() |