![]() ![]() David was the only survivor, and therefore the only one who knows what happened that day. Of course, Steelheart made every effort to cover it up. But before he died, he did something no one’s ever been able to do. When David was ten years old, his father was murdered by Steelheart. But unfortunately for him, he killed the wrong kid’s father. And those aren’t even his only abilities. He also turned an entire fucking city-every building and every inch of ground several kilometres deep-into steel. Steelheart is one of the most powerful Epics. And the most powerful of them lay claim to their own cities, which they now rule. But instead of getting superheroes, the world got a large number of supervillains. This is a world in which, over a decade ago, something happened-a mysterious, celestial event-that gave some individuals superhuman abilities. It’s set in our world, but a different version of it. ![]() This is a series about people with special abilities. So let’s give this a shot and see how it goes. ![]() And the I-don’t-feel-like-it excuse was getting very old. I’ve been trying to get myself to write this review for days. Genre: Young Adult, Dystopia, Science-Fiction ![]()
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![]() That assignment would, in turn, stimulate a negative reaction among some parents of some students in that school. In the wake of the zeitgeist of the nation at the time of its publication, it was not just potentially possible but almost inevitable that at some point in some school in some district somewhere in America a teacher would be handing out an assignment to read this very book. The irony carries the potential of being almost unsustainable. ![]() In other words, this addendum to the infamous 1619 Project which is directed at elementary school students starts off with a school assignment that, in the case of at least one student, is inevitably going to lead back through the history of slavery in America. That assignment is to draw a flag representing the ancestral homeland of the students according to their genealogical roots. The succeeding page broadens the viewpoint to show that the student is reacting to an assignment being given to the class by the teacher. ![]() The very first image of the narrative inside the book is of a young black girl sitting at a school desk with a look on her face almost impossible to identify relative to the emotion she is feeling. The opening scene sets the stage for what is to come in The 1619 Project: Born on the Water is an example of nearly perfect irony. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. ![]() These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The question is whether the translator transfers the author’s fictional world, where s/he gets free of the real world and freely expresses herself/himself, into the target text with loyalty or the translator intervenes in the author’s imagination by acting as a co-writer? In reply to this question, which is the point of origin for translation studies, it can be argued that there are not only linguistic differences but also socio-cultural differences between communities thus, it is really difficult for the translator to be loyal to the source text by maintaining cultural equivalence between texts. Yet, communication problems stemming from the linguistic differences between languages create a doubt about the translator’s loyalty to the original text. ![]() Translation, which is an intercommunal requirement, not only supplies information flow from the source language into the target language but also serves as a bridge between communities by helping them know the social, political, cultural and scientific attitudes of each other. On The French Translatıon Of Sabahattin Ali’s Kürk Mantolu Madonna (La Madone Au Manteau Du Fourrure) ![]() ![]() ![]() She’ll learn to be a healer, student, teacher, and warrior, all before her fifteenth birthday. Fallon will have to leave her family to train and fully come into her essence as The One in order to mobilize and lead an army to battle the dangerous, deadly evil forces that threaten all that is good. ![]() And as The One, she is destined to be so much more. Like her mother and birth father, Fallon has gifts and it’s these gifts that make her a target for those who despise an Uncanny-witch, faery, shifter, elf, or other magical being. She’s lived her childhood on a peaceful farm with her mother, father, and brothers, mostly sheltered from the ruined world decimated by the Doom and now ravaged by Raiders and vicious Purity Warriors. Of Blood and Bone picks up 12 years after the birth of Fallon Swift, who is The One. ![]() This was a book I waited anxiously to receive and when it arrived, I dived in and quickly became immersed into the harsh yet entrancing world author Nora Roberts has created in this series. If you haven’t read it or my review, please check it out here. Of Blood and Bone by Nora Roberts is book two in the series: Chronicles of The One, which began with the book Year One. (page 294: Of Blood and Bone by Nora Roberts) ![]() |