The video racked up 13m views and the incident was seen by many as emblematic of the violence in policing that disproportionately impacts minority groups in Canada and the United States. One popular Twitter account shared the visceral clip, tweeting “tell me how you reform this”. Projects spanned web design, frontend & EDM development and motion graphics, alongside the usual print suspects - brochures, installs, reports and posters. “I’m somebody’s daughter and I’m also a human being,” she said.įootage of the assault went viral on social media when the video was made public in October. Wide variety of work, primarily digital (websites, multimedia) with a healthy dose of print. Kafi told CBC News she was happy about the verdict and that it was important that “no other female can go through what I’ve been through”. Michelle Christopher, Alberta provincial court judge, rejected Dunn’s defence that Kafi had slipped from her handcuffs, calling his evidence at trial “evasive and self-serving”. CCTV footage shows Kafi’s head bouncing off the cement floor.ĭunn’s lawyer described the assault as a “dynamic takedown”, but during the trial, one police officer called Dunn’s actions one of the “worst use of force” he had ever seen.Īccording to her lawyers, Kafi suffered a broken nose and needed stitches in her lip following the assault. When she resisted Dunn’s attempts to remove her scarf, Dunn threw her to the ground. Kafi, now 29, was at the station for processing after breaching a court-ordered curfew.
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The feeling was automatic, like an allergy, a sneeze barely held in abeyance. The height was irrelevant it was the water that stoked her fear. A narrow ledge along the guardrail, four feet wide at the most, presented the only viable pathway. Cars lay in a twisted heap on the deck below. Mid-span they came to a place where the roadway had collapsed. Crossing the bridge was not as bad as she feared she had only to keep her eyes forward, to put one foot in front of the next, to hold her apprehension at bay. Alicia dismounted and led Soldier through the wreckage. The upper deck was choked with the carcasses of automobiles, painted white by the droppings of birds. The usual barricades, gun emplacements, military vehicles stripped bare by a hundred years of weather, many overturned or lying on their sides: there had been a battle here. The smallest notch of reluctance in his gait. The thought of crossing it filled Alicia with a profound anxiety she could not let herself show, though Soldier sensed it anyway, demonstrating his awareness with the smallest notch of reluctance in his gait. It was late afternoon beneath a clear summer sky when she reached the bridge she’d been looking at for hours: two massive struts, like giant twins, holding the decks aloft with cables slung over their shoulders. The rain stopped, started, stopped again. She picked her way north, hopscotching through the detritus, searching for a way across. I had something I could pay with: me.”Įve increasingly exists in detachment. “For the first time my bag was no longer empty. It is a place without hope, as Saad, one of the novel’s four narrators, tells us: “One day we wake up and the future has disappeared.” Eve has nothing – “I went to school completely and totally empty” – until one day, still a child, she discovers a new currency when, in return for the small things that the boys give her – pencil, eraser, ruler – one wants “a piece of me.” “Troumaron, a sort of funnel where all the island’s wastewaters ultimately flow.” Ananda Devi’s Eve out of Her Ruins (translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman) is a shocking portrayal of life as a young girl in Troumaron, one of the poorest areas in Port Louis, the capital city of Mauritius: I was so glad I had the chance to read this book thanks to our monthly book club, and as you can see by my rating, I completely enjoyed it. “ The Binding ” by Bridget Collins is a wonderful tale of magic, love, loss and finding oneself and another person in the chaos of this world. TW: death, suicide, hanging, rape, killing of an animal, description of a corpse, emotional manipulation, death of a parent, violent parent. But his curiosity is piqued by the people who come and go from the inner sanctum, and the arrival of the lordly Lucian Darnay, with whom he senses a connection, changes everything.ī eware, this review will contain spoilers. He is forbidden to enter the locked room where books are stored, so he spends many months marbling end pages, tooling leather book covers, and gilding edges. Leaving behind home and family, Emmett slowly regains his health while learning the binding trade. Once their stories have been told and are bound between the pages of a book, the slate is wiped clean and their memories lose the power to hurt or haunt them.Īfter having suffered some sort of mental collapse and no longer able to keep up with his farm chores, Emmett Farmer is sent to the workshop of one such binder to live and work as her apprentice. It’s a world in which people visit book binders to rid themselves of painful or treacherous memories. Synopsis (from Goodreads): Books are dangerous things in Collins’s alternate universe, a place vaguely reminiscent of 19th-century England. He always think that adults lack imagination eversince he made a drawing of a snake eating an elephant, but apparently everyone thought it was a hat. The book starts with a story about the narrator who ever dreamed about becoming an artist, but then had an awful experience related to it. But actually, the writer Antoine De Saint-Exupery, wrote in the foreword that The Little Prince is a book made for ‘adults who have been children before’. The book itself is really thin, the word choices are relatively easy to understand, and there are so many illustrations in it. For me, it make sense why people thought that way. The Little Prince is one of the most famous classic book, and many people has mistaken it as a children book. I’ve been wanting to write a review about this book since several years ago. Now, since it’s still the beginning of mid-term break, I have a lot of time to do whatever I want and I choose to update my blog with a book review of The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery. This months I’ve been so busy with my school assignments and works until it was kind of hard for me to write on this blog. After a month, I finally have a chance to update this blog. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Soft cover. In the land behind the sun, the only thing they have is each other. But worse is to come as the threat of separation looms. When they finally arrive on the other side of the world, they are confined to the grim and overcrowded Parramatta Female Factory. Rachel catches the eye of a sinister passenger with more than honour on his mind, whose brutal assault leaves her life hanging in the balance. Friday makes an implacable enemy of Bella Jackson, a vicious woman whose power seems undiminished by her arrest and transportation, while Harriet is taken under the wing of an idealistic doctor, James Downey. On the voyage to New South Wales their friendship becomes an unbreakable bond - but there are others on board who will change their lives forever. There, she meets three other girls: intelligent and opportunistic thief, Sarah Morgan, naive young Rachel Winter, and reliable and capable seamstress, Harriet Clarke. Irreverent and streetwise prostitute Friday Woolfe is in London's notorious Newgate gaol, awaiting transportation. The sale of customised goods or perishable goods, sealed audio or video recordings, or software, which has been opened. 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If you are a UK/EU consumer, you have the legal right, under the Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000 to cancel your order within twenty eight (28) working days following your receipt of the goods or the date on which we begin provision of the services. IMBD has a feature called "IMDB answers" that asks 'By what name was The Door Into Summer (2021) officially released in India in English?,' but either their interface is broken in my browser or this is just a question that someone asked, but nobody else has answered. There is a trailer that is in Japanese with no subtitles. The Door Into Summer Quotes Showing 1-29 of 29. Rottentomatoes links to an extremely negative review in The Japan Times by James Hadfield, which is semi-paywalled. Apparently it was made into a Japanese-language movie in 2021 by producer Shinji Ogawa and director Takahiro Miki. The Door into Summer is a 1957 science fiction novel by Robert Heinlein. Heinlein 4.01 Rating details 24,254 ratings 1,236 reviews It is 1970, and electronics engineer Dan Davis has finally made the invention of a lifetime: a household robot with extraordinary abilities, destined to dramatically change the landscape of everyday routine. “Provides a synthesis of the fur trade through time and across the continent. One of the key points repeatedly highlighted by Nassaney is the active role of both Indigenous and non-indigenous peoples in the fur trade, in contrast to traditional narratives which emphasize European colonization and trade as shaping largely passive Indigenous societies.”―Canadian Journal of Archaeology By leading the reader through these divergent narratives, Nassaney makes clear that critical examination and reflection is an essential part of scholarship, and that the fur trade is fertile ground for rethinking old ideas through new interpretive filters.”―Journal of Anthropological Research The fur trade has also been a ‘test bed’ for scholarly consideration of processes of culture contact, diffusion, and acculturation. “Demonstrates that what we perceive about the fur trade often reflects origin myths of modern USA and Canada. Absorbing.”―Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology Admirably balances the enormous numbers of sites, peoples, historical events, and colonial enterprises with some of the important research directions that have defined and are defining the field of fur trade studies in archaeology. “Impressive and ambitious, covering centuries of time and much of the North American continent. A solid introduction to the archaeology of the fur trade, as well as to the myriad archaeological issues associated with colonial interaction.”―American Antiquity Among those who expressed an opinion about born-again Christians, negative opinions outnumbered positive perceptions by more than a three-to-one ratio (35 percent to 10 percent).This group is at least three times larger than it was just a decade ago. One out of every six young outsiders (17 percent) indicates that he or she maintains “very bad” perceptions of the Christian faith. Now, however, nearly two out of every five young outsiders (38 percent) claim to have a “bad impression of present-day Christianity.” One-third of young outsiders said that Christianity represents a negative image with which they would not want to be associated.Even the perceptions of the youngest generations mirrored this finding. In 1996, 85 percent of outsiders were favorable toward Christianity’s role in society.Fewer than one out of ten young adults mention faith as their top priority, despite the fact that the vast majority of Busters and Mosaics attended a Christian church during their high school years.Authors Dave Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons provide us with important data that will determine the survival of the NextGen church. Do you want to keep a pulse on the next generation of seekers? How do they perceive Christians, and why should it matter to us? The Barna group, in a revealing glimpse at a cross-section of teens and young adults, encourages us to learn how Christians can become effective in impacting lives. |