Homecoming yaa5/13/2023 ![]() She knows that as long as people think Effia is premenstrual, she won't be permitted to marry a Fante man, per tribal customs. But to prevent Effia from marrying him, Baaba tells Effia that she must hide the blood from her first period. Effia wants to marry Abeeku Badu, who is in line to be chief. In 1775, when Effia is young, British soldiers from the Cape Coast Castle come to the village. ![]() Her adoptive mother, Baaba, immediately resents her, because Effia is the daughter of her father Cobbe's house girl. Effia is born in the late eighteenth century in Fanteland on Africa's Gold Coast, on the night of a devastating fire near her father's compound. The novel begins with the stories of two African half-sisters of the Fante and Asante tribes: Effia and Esi. ![]() Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi is a novel in stories about the Atlantic slave trade and its aftermath. Summary of Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi - Includes Analysis ![]()
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![]() Read ExcerptĪs always, I thank God for guiding my direction and for protecting my family, friends, and me every day of our lives. ![]() ![]() Curtis appears to devote himself to his parish and the new church they're building, but is he really focusing his attention on the female parishioners trying to lure him into bed? Suddenly Curtis and Charlotte find themselves slipping into dangerous territory, and not even Curtis' seven-figure salary can prevent what is about to happen. When confronted about her behavior Charlotte starts spending time away from home, all the while getting closer to her ex-boyfriend. Despite her best efforts to keep her feelings hidden, Charlotte resents Curtina, taking her emotions out on the young girl. While the living, breathing reminder of her husband's infidelity infuriates Charlotte, Curtis couldn't be happier to finally have his whole family together. But when Curtis' long-time mistress and mother of his illegitimate two-year-old, dies, he and Charlotte have no choice but to raise Curtina together. The infamous Reverend Curtis Black's sordid past is no secret, as his wife, Charlotte, is well aware. Indulge in more scandal in the New York Times bestselling Reverend Curtis Black series as Crutis and Charlotte find themselves slipping into dangerous territory. ![]() Gödel's Theorem by Torkel Franzén5/13/2023 ![]() The proof of Goedel's theorem is usually done in a meta-theory, but it could be formalized with theorem-provers. Goedel's first theorem states that for every consistent theory that is strong enough to satisfy the Representation theorem (The Presburger arithmetic does not satisfy it : In fact, it is known to be both complete and consistent) there are statements that can be formulated within this theory, but neither be proven nor disproven within this theory. I know I’m probably overlooking something big and obvious, but I need help to see it. So you see, I am a little confused, because it seems to me that Peano arithmetic exhausts truth about arithmetic, and it seems that its theorems should be able to be enumerated with a straightforward computer program. How is the truth about the arithmetic of natural numbers defined? Isn’t it defined in terms of axioms, like the Peano axioms? Does Gödel’s theorem state that Peano’s axioms are not a complete formulation of arithmetic? Do we have some other means of ascertaining truth except by axioms? (Maybe intuition?) Can the theorems of Peano arithmetic (I mean, the theorems that follow from the Peano axioms) be enumerated? I would think that in any axiomatic system with a countable number of axioms, the theorems could be enumerated. an algorithm) is capable of proving all truths about the arithmetic of natural numbers.” From Wikipedia, Gödel’s first incompleteness theorem states that “no consistent system of axioms whose theorems can be listed by an effective procedure (i.e. ![]() Gift of asher lev5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() As a young man, heīegan to realize that something was happening to my eyes. ![]() ![]() Inside, however, the artist predominates, and, as is typical in American fiction, self identity trumps group identity, as it should. But it’s done well here, and one feels Asher’s agony as he attempts to tread the artist’s path and the Hasidim’s. The duality inherent in mixed loyalties is hardly a new topic the most obvious example I know of is Herman Hesse’s Narcissus and Goldmund. Think of his sect like the Verbovers of Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policemen’s Union. My Name is Asher Lev concerns a boy divided between the drive for art that possesses him and the Hasidic religion into which he is born, which is somewhat like the Jewish equivalent of fundamentalist Christians. Read Chaim Potok’s strange yet compelling My Name Is Asher Lev and skip its deracinated sequel, The Gift of Asher Lev. ![]() Third book in divergent series5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() For Tris and Four, there is no love triangle, there are no sides to take-as in life, it’s only a matter of how their relationship will play out. One of the best things about this trilogy is the messy, passionate, and wholly authentic love story between these two. At last readers get to see Tris as Four sees her and if, like me, you’ve been dying to get inside his head, you finally get your chance. ![]() The first surprise in Allegiant is that Roth has switched to using alternating narratives of Tris and Four. Allegiant kicks off right where Insurgent ended, so if it’s been a while since you read that one you might want to re-read the last couple of chapters to orient yourself. ![]() An Amazon Best Books of the Month, October 2013: Veronica Roth had her work cut out for her, ending a trilogy that had fans rabid for the final book, and she pulled it off like a champ. ![]() Blackfoot by W.R. Gingell5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() This girl had, in the past, been wary about these books simply because she was/is a major book snob and didn’t/doesn’t like the covers but as I mentioned before, she was DESPERATE, and so she bought City of Bones, the first in the series.Īs you’ve probably figured out (because you all are smart lovelies, and you have good brains) I am the girl. And as she was wandering this virtual haven, she stumbled upon (for about the billionth time) Cassandra Clare’s The Mortal Instruments series. ![]() Once upon a time a young girl was wandering her kindle store because she doesn’t have a drivers license and couldn’t get herself to a real bookstore with real books and her next book on her TBR was taking FOREVER to ship and she was DESPERATE. I know, I know, how can I live with myself, indulging when all my desperate fans are out there clamoring for more? I suppose, as Evil Queen, I must do SOMETHING to retain my status… Anyway, I won’t be back to post until the 24th, so find something to keep yourselves occupied until then. First off, let me apologize for being a terrible blogger and leaving you all with no me time for… what was it… two weeks? (I seem to do that a lot, don’t I?) 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