![]() ![]() However, figures like Nassim Taleb encourage us to become aware of this. In fact, we leave no room for chaos, the possibility of disaster, or a 180º change. This is probably why we tend to get into a routine and we take it for granted that the stability of today will continue tomorrow. In fact, our brains don’t tolerate change, uncertainty, and unexpected events particularly well. If there’s one thing that we, as humans, tend to cling to, it’s stability. Indeed, they’re the kind of dynamics that nobody likes. They disturb, surprise, and cause us to lose our balance. ![]() We experience continual crises yet never seem to be prepared for them. Undoubtedly, we’re living in unpredictable times. In fact, many people agree that we’re living through a period that’s more than adequately represented by this theory. Nassim Taleb’s black swan theory defines many of these phenomena that have, without a doubt, upset our personal, psychological, economic, and political balance. ![]()
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The TG4 Connacht Intermediate Championship for Sligo is simply about game time.Īs a Junior Championship team, they cannot contest a provincial final, which will be a Leitrim-Roscommon affair. In Ulster, Cavan meet Donegal at Kingspan Breffni, with all fixtures getting underway at 2pm.Įlsewhere on Sunday, there’s intermediate action in Connacht, Leinster and Ulster, with Fermanagh and Down colliding in the Ulster Junior Championship.Ĭork will also take on Clare in a Munster Senior B fixture. There's senior games in Leinster, Munster and Ulster, with Lidl National League Division 1 champions Kerry the team to watch as they take on Waterford at Fraher Field.Īlso in the southern province, Tipperary host Cork, while there’s an eagerly anticipated clash between Meath and Dublin in store in Leinster. ![]() The 2023 TG4 provincial championships get underway on Sunday, with action in all four provinces. ![]() ![]() ![]() The red dresses, they say, are used to call home the spirits of missing and slain Indigenous victims. ![]() and Canada to ensure equity when investigating such cases. This weekend’s marches, symposiums, prayer gatherings, art installations and ceremonies are meant to pressure policy makers in the U.S. Advocates describe it as a silent crisis, rooted in colonization, forced removal and government policies that led to the stamping out of culture and identity as entire communities were marginalized. Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples Awareness Day is held on May 5 - the birthday of Hanna Harris, who was only 21 when she was slain on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation in Montana.Ĭountless more Indigenous people have gone missing since her body was found nearly a decade ago. (AP) - Native Americans whose relatives have gone missing or been killed wore red on Friday, a color synonymous with raising awareness about the disproportionate number of Indigenous people who have been victims of violence. ![]() ![]() ![]() Violet makes a major discovery about her family history when she learns of Fidelia’s lost twin, Septimus, through an engraving on a locket. ![]() Folger Shakespeare Library: H-P Reliques no.9 (realia). This illustration of the Providential eye overseeing a wreck bares striking similarities to an illustration of Shakespeare’s The Tempest from Nicholas Rowe’s 1709 edition of the plays. ![]() James Janeway’s A Token for Mariners is a catalogue of these dangers, compiling the historic details of 29 shipwrecks alongside a collection of prayers and sermons to aid in a variety of sea-faring situations. ![]() Wrecks appear again and again in Shakespeare’s plays, reflective of the booming oceanic exploration occurring at the time and the perils that went with it. Folger Shakespeare Library: PR2752 1709b Copy 1 v.1 Sh.Col.Ĭentral to Drake’s contemporary reimagining of Shakespeare’s story is Violet’s search for the Lyric, the shipwreck survived by her great-great-great-grandmother, Fidelia. William Shakespear : in nine volumes : adorn’d with cuts / revis’d and corrected, with an account of the life and writings of the author, by N. Folger Shakespeare Library: BV4590 J3 1721 Cage A token for mariners, containing many famous and wonderful instances of God’s providence in sea dangers and deliverances. ![]() ![]() ![]() The ritualized meal progression, evangelistic discourse, and biographical menus create a unity that points to parallels between Lewis’s body of protagonists and the church. Chapter two argues that ecclesiastical themes appear whenever Lewis’s protagonists eat together. Using the grammar of his own culinary language, I examine Lewis’s fiction for patterns found within his meals and analyze these patterns for theological allusions, grouping them according to major categories of systematic theology. ![]() The introduction demonstrates how Lewis’s culinary language aggregates through elements of his life, his literary background, and his Judeo-Christian worldview. Some attempts have been made to interpret Lewis’s use of food, but never in a manner comprehensively unifying Lewis’s culinary expressions with his own thought and beliefs. Lewis have noted his curious attentiveness to descriptions of food and scenes of eating. ![]() |
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