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Through this secondary world Tolkien writes perceptively of universal human concerns – love and loss, courage and betrayal, humility and pride – giving his books a wide and enduring appeal. Tolkien’s most popular works, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are set in Middle-earth, an imagined world with strangely familiar settings inhabited by ancient and extraordinary peoples. His creativity, confined to his spare time, found its outlet in fantasy works, stories for children, poetry, illustration and invented languages and alphabets. Known to millions around the world as the author of The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien spent most of his life teaching at the University of Oxford where he was a distinguished academic in the fields of Old and Middle English and Old Norse. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien: writer, artist, scholar, linguist. ![]() ![]() ![]() CCTV is operated by the National Radio and Television Administration which reports directly to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s Central Propaganda Department. Its 50 channels broadcast a variety of programming to more than one billion viewers in six languages. Five Principles of Peaceful CoexistenceĬhina Central Television ( CCTV) is a national television broadcaster of China, established in 1958 as a propaganda outlet.Visa policy of China ( Hong Kong Macau).Visa requirements for Chinese citizens ( Hong Kong, Macau).State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs. ![]() International Military Cooperation Office.International Development Cooperation Agency.Diplomatic missions of China / in China.Ministry of Foreign Affairs Minister: Qin Gang Spokespersons Diplomatic missions.Central Foreign Affairs Commission Director: Xi Jinping Deputy Director: Li Qiang Secretary-General: Wang Yi. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What Owen is alluding to here, is the fact the parish church bells which were used to lament the dead are starkly absent on the battlefield and that instead of the bells, the only sound giving the soldiers a send-off is the “stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle”. Owen begins the poem with a rhetorical question: “What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?”. After analysing the poem, I found that Owen uses a range of language features to depict the dehumanisation of war. ![]() Wilfred Owen presents the dehumanisation of the young soldiers in the meat grinder of the Western Front by sharing his experiences of war, to challenge society’s patriotic mindset. ![]() ![]() ![]() The idea is that a story begins with exposition, has a rising action culminating in a climax, which is then followed by a falling action and a denouement or resolution. It’s based on Aristotle’s Poetics, and it is how we teach people to structure their plots. I’ve heard this story many times, and each time someone tells the story, it never changes. It’s about how we structure how the world and how we tell stories. ![]() Following a line break, King also repeats the phrase “The truth about stories is that that’s all we are.” ![]() How many turtles are there? “No one knows for sure… but it’s turtles all the way down” (King 2). And he ends every recounting with a different person asking what lies beneath the turtle, to which the answer is always another turtle, and another and another. I’ve heard this story many times, and each time someone tells the story, it changes.” King uses this structure to show the importance of stories, including the value of oral storytelling he repeats it to show how this story has stuck with him, how it helps him see the world. “It’s about the earth and how it floats in space on the back of a turtle. “There is a story I know,” begins every chapter of Thomas King’s novel The Truth About Stories. ![]() (Edit: serendip confuses me, i think this is posted correctly now and not as an attachment?)Ĭounterstorytelling in Thomas King’s The Truth About Stories ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She also used the pseudonyms Diana Blayne and Katy Currie, and her married name: Susan Kyle. She began selling romances in 1979 as Diana Palmer. Susan and her husband have one son, Blayne Edward, born in 1980. Since 1972, she has been married to James Kyle and have since settled down in Cornelia, Georgia, where she started to write romance novels. Susan is a former newspaper reporter, with sixteen years experience on both daily and weekly newspapers. Susan grew up reading Zane Grey and fell in love with cowboys. ![]() Her best friends are her mother and her sister, Dannis Spaeth (Cole), who now has two daughters, Amanda Belle Hofstetter and Maggie and lives in Utah. Her mother was part of the women's liberation movement many years before it became fashionable. She was the eldest daughter of Maggie Eloise Cliatt, a nurse and also journalist, and William Olin Spaeth, a college professor. Susan Eloise Spaeth was born on 11 December 1946 in Cuthbert, Georgia, USA. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.ĭiana Palmer is a pseudonym for author Susan Kyle. ![]() |