![]() After all, Christians no longer believe in a geocentric universe.) (Presumably because we advance in our knowledge or goodness as time passes. But what fundamentals? Apparently some hidden truths discovered through community. She praises evolution of faith and tells us how she left fundamentalism to find her own fundamentals. ![]() They dismissed my confusion.Īnd I get coming back to the answers you originally dismissed and holding them lightly. Yet the Millennial Christians around me used words like community and doing life together and emphasized that we were a chosen, unique generation. All my academic answers fled and my emotions wreaked havoc. My freshman year I struggled in the face of personal tragedy to believe that the God I loved could be good if He allowed evil in the world. Then I moved 12 hours away to attend a private, Christian college and found myself personally confronted with the problem of pain and the hypocrisy within the Bible Belt. ![]() I too grew up in a Christian home, won the awards, and knew all the answers. ![]() I even took the Christian Worldview class under Professor Held, Rachel Held Evans' Dad. I too attended Bryan College, drank coffee at Harmony House, and had a minor crisis of faith in college. "How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions" might stand in as the tag line for my own faith journey. ![]()
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![]() A group of female fans has attacked him, leaving his shirt torn, his face cut, and Ryan in obvious distress. ![]() In her world, men are safe if they’re kept at a distance.įate has other plans for these two when their paths cross one sunny afternoon. Her feet are fairly glued to the ground and she doesn’t buy into all the hype that has descended on her tiny, coastal town. She’s been feigning contentment, running the family pub in Seaport, Rhode Island, while quietly nursing her own internal heartaches. ![]() Taryn Mitchell, the story’s protagonist, is a realist. Despite all of that, Ryan Christensen craves the most basic of human needs – to have love in his heart and privacy in his life. His fans stalk him, the paparazzi hound him, and Hollywood studios all want a piece of him. His new fame has cost him dearly anonymity is no longer an option. Never in his wildest dreams did he ever think that accepting a role in an unknown film would toss his career into overdrive. ![]() Ryan Christensen just wanted to be an actor. ![]() ![]() Behind this progress is deep learning-a combination of engineering advances, best practices, and theory that enables a wealth of previously impossible smart applications across every industry sectorĭeep Learning with Python introduces the field of deep learning using the Python language and the powerful Keras library. Medical imaging diagnostics, weather forecasting, and natural language question answering have suddenly become tractable problems. From machines that couldn't beat a serious Go player, to defeating a world champion. ![]() We've gone from near-unusable speech recognition, to near-human accuracy. Machine learning has made remarkable progress in recent years. You'll build your understanding through practical examples and intuitive explanations that make the complexities of deep learning accessible and understandable. Written by Google AI researcher François Chollet, the creator of Keras, this revised edition has been updated with new chapters, new tools, and cutting-edge techniques drawn from the latest research. ![]() ![]() The bestseller revised! Deep Learning with Python, Second Edition is a comprehensive introduction to the field of deep learning using Python and the powerful Keras library. The second edition made it even better." - Todd Cook "The first edition of Deep Learning with Python is one of the best books on the subject. ![]() ![]() This edition includes a biographical afterword. Considered by many as Kipling’s masterpiece, “Kim” is a classic novel of espionage and adventure which helped bring popular attention to the political and diplomatic confrontation between the British Empire and the Russian Empire in Central and Southern Asia at the end of the 19th century. ![]() Set against the backdrop of “The Great Game” a political conflict between Russia and Great Britain in central Asia, the novel traces the life of the title character from begging and errand running on the streets of Lahore to his schooling at a top English school in Lucknow, where he is trained in espionage, and ultimately to a government appointment where he himself gets to play in “The Great Game.” Set between the second and third Afghan War, “Kim” presents a vivid portrait of 19th century India. First published in “McClure’s Magazine” between December of 1901 and October of 1901, “Kim” is the story of Kim (Kimball) O’Hara, the orphaned son of a British soldier. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Scenes of Clerical Life (1858) was drawn from stories circulating around her childhood community about a series of mild scandals that had taken place several decades earlier. Shortly before it came out she explained to a friend that my "mind works with most freedom and the keenest sense of poetry in my remotest past", and her first two novels had indeed truffled her own prehistory. Unusually for such an intensely autobiographical novel, The Mill on the Floss was not Eliot's first work of fiction, but her third. The brother and sister who, like Tom and Maggie, had once "roamed the daisied fields together" in loving childhood, would never meet again. This silence was to stretch bleakly over the coming quarter of a century. ![]() Even more hurtfully, he had instructed their sister to break off contact too. ![]() Ever since she had written to Isaac Evans three years before to explain that she was now cohabiting in London with the married Lewes – "Mrs Lewes" was a term of social convenience, her legal name remained Mary Ann Evans – the rigidly respectable Isaac had refused to have anything to do with her. More than mere melodrama, the watery hug represented a wishful reworking of Eliot's fractured relationship with her own adored brother, with whom she had grown up on the Warwickshire family farm in the 1820s. ![]() ![]() Three of the Wallfacers are influential statesmen and scientists but the fourth is a total unknown. This is the motivation for the Wallfacer Project, a daring plan that grants four men enormous resources to design secret strategies hidden through deceit and misdirection from Earth and Trisolaris alike. ![]() The aliens' human collaborators have been defeated but the presence of the sophons, the subatomic particles that allow Trisolaris instant access to all human information, means that Earth's defense plans are exposed to the enemy. ![]() In The Dark Forest, Earth is reeling from the revelation of a coming alien invasion - four centuries in the future. This is the second novel in "Remembrance of Earth’s Past", the near-future trilogy written by China's multiple-award-winning science fiction author, Cixin Liu. ![]() ![]() “The Sandman” is now streaming on Netflix. And I don’t feel that any of those things are less important or less relevant now.” And those are the things I wanted to say. And back then when I said them, they were important and I felt that they were true and I felt it was right to say them including, you have your story and your story is important, and including, you get a lifetime. 1: PRELUDES AND NOCTURNES features new cover art by Dave McKean, plus new introductions by Paul Dini. There were words of comfort and there were words of warning. This 30th anniversary edition of THE SANDMAN VOL. There were things about dreams and things about death. “’Sandman’ as a graphic novel series, as comics, was me getting to say things to the world that I believed,” Gaiman said. ![]() While the Netflix series made the decision to differentiate itself from the DC Universe, Gaiman believes that it still captured the essence of his original comic books. The first of four beautifully designed slipcased volumes, The Absolute Sandman Vol. “Its world joined up more and more with our world and became less and less a world in which costumed crime fighters fly around and so on, which meant that by the time ‘The Sandman’ finished, it had its own aesthetic which really wasn’t the DC Universe anymore.” “‘The Sandman’ itself started out in the DC Universe, the comic, and then it just sort of wound up wandering off into its own place,” Gaiman said. ![]() ![]() Why ‘Queen Charlotte’ Says Yes to a Very Specific Wedding Dress ![]() ![]() Her story hit the headlines and has highlighted the apparent prevalence of sexual violence during Jammeh’s 23 years in power. ![]() Former Gambian beauty queen Fatou Toufah Jallow spoke out recently, accusing president Jammeh himself of raping her. It is no accident that as momentum builds towards a possible prosecution of Gambia’s ousted dictator Yahya Jammeh, a special focus is being applied to gathering evidence of sexual crimes. How are they doing it? Drawing from her book, The Trial of Hissene Habré: How the People of Chad brought a tyrant to justice, Celeste Hicks highlights what countries like the Gambia can learn from the trial of Hissene Habré. But, some people are bringing such tyrants to justice. Tyrants can commit human rights abuses and sexual violence with impunity. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What if love and loyalty made you do things you never expected? ![]() What if a single revelation – like a single choice – changed everything? Radical new discoveries and shifting relationships mean that Tris must fully embrace her Divergence – even though she cannot know what might be lost in doing so. In times of war sides must be chosen, secrets will emerge, and choices will become ever more irrevocable. The hardest choices may yet lie ahead….Īs war surges in the factions of dystopian Chicago all around her, Tris attempts to save those she loves – and herself – while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love. And yet she is drawn to a boy who seems to both threaten and protect her. Shocked by the brutality of her new life, Tris can trust no one. Turning her back on her family, Tris ventures out, alone, determined to find out where she truly belongs. These special 10th-anniversary editions feature exclusive content from Veronica Roth and a beautiful reimagined cover art from award-winning illustrator Victo Ngai.įor sixteen-year-old Tris, the world changes in a heartbeat when she is forced to make a terrible choice. The internationally bestselling Divergent series inspired major motion pictures starring Shailene Woodley. ![]() ![]() In the short story, there is an imagery of blood and time which shows the corporeality. The many single-toned rooms of the castle symbolize the human mind and show different types of personalities. In the story, Poe employed many traditional elements of Gothic fiction that also include the castle setting. The story “The Masque of the Red Death” has been directly influenced by The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic novel by Horace Walpole. ![]() This story has been eluded by many other literary works. Since then, the story has been adapted in many different forms, including a film in 1964. Initially, the story was published in Graham’s Magazine in May 1842. The readers attempt to find the true nature of the disease. Various interpretations of the story have been presented by critics and readers. These stories are often analyzed as an allegory that shows the inevitability of death. The short stories of Edgar Allan Poe are written in the tradition of Gothic fiction. After confronting the stranger, Prosper dies, and the guests also die. In the middle of the party, a mysterious figure enters the party in a disguise of the victim of Red Death visits each of the rooms. Along with many other nobles, he hosts a masquerade ball in seven differently decorated rooms. The story is an account of Prince Prospero, who tries to avoid the dangerous plague, the Red Death, to hit his abbey. ![]() ![]() ![]() “The Masque of the Red Death” was published in 1842 by an American writer Edger Allan Poe. ![]() |
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