![]() The subplot features a competition between the suitors of Katherina's younger sister, Bianca, who is seen as the "ideal" woman. Initially, Katherina is an unwilling participant in the relationship however, Petruchio "tames" her with various psychological and physical torments, such as keeping her from eating and drinking, until she becomes a desirable, compliant, and obedient bride. The main plot depicts the courtship of Petruchio and Katherina, the headstrong, obdurate shrew. The nobleman then has the play performed for Sly's diversion. The play begins with a framing device, often referred to as the induction, in which a mischievous nobleman tricks a drunken tinker named Christopher Sly into believing he is actually a nobleman himself. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Taming of the Shrew is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 15. Petruchio (Kevin Black) and Katherina (Emily Jordan) from the 2003 Carmel Shakespeare Festival production at the Forest Theater. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Mother could handle any crisis without losing her composure. 'Didn't have any trouble except with that one over there,' he replied. When Mother returned, she asked him if everything had run smoothly. Dad himself used to tell a story about one time when Mother went off to fill a lecture engagement and left him in charge at home. The Gilbreth parents were both well-known engineers and "efficiency experts" who tried, with mixed success, to apply their theories and ideas to raising a large family of twelve (YES) children.* It's a funny, fond, and heartwarming account of their growing up years, as told by two of the children. This is a semi-factual account of the Gilbreth family, growing up in the early 1900s. I just reread it for the first time in years, and though much of it was still amusing, the book as a whole hasn’t aged as well as I’d hoped. I still have the ancient paperback copy of this book and its sequel, Belles on Their Toes, on my basement bookshelves. I adored Cheaper by the Dozen when I was a young teen, and I read it more times than I can count. 3.75 stars, partly for the nostalgia factor. ![]() ![]() ![]() Morton is widely considered the father of scientific racism, and his controversial ideas about the intellectual superiority of the Caucasian people provided a handy defense of the continued enslavement of African-Americans in the US just prior to the Civil War. Mitchell's findings have just been published in PLOS Biology. ![]() ![]() Morton of inaccurately measuring the cranial capacity of his skulls but was nonetheless correct with regard to Morton's implicit racial bias. Paul Wolff Mitchell, a graduate student in anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, where the collection is stored, believes his analysis could help settle the often acrimonious debate over whether the late paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould was correct in his assessment of the role of unconscious bias in science, particularly with regard to race. Mitchell concludes that Gould incorrectly accused Dr. Dubbed the "American Golgotha," the collection is the work of Samuel Morton, who used them to compare the brain size of different racial groups in the 1830s and 1840s. ![]() Newly discovered handwritten documentation sheds new light on an ongoing scientific controversy regarding a famous collection of nearly 1,000 skulls amassed by a 19th-century Philadelphia physician. Steve Minicola/University of Pennsylvania reader comments 335 with ![]() ![]() When Westboro's “picketing ministry” brought it into the media spotlight, Phelps-Roper became one of the most visible spokespeople for the church. Outside of school, she and the members of her church community were vocal protesters against homosexuality, adultery, and the morally bankrupt nature of society. At school, she was a dedicated student who kept matters of faith out of her discussions with teachers and classmates. ![]() Throughout childhood and adolescence, Phelps-Roper lived a double life. ![]() A religious and political activist tells the story of how she grew up in and then left the extremist Westboro Baptist Church.Īs the granddaughter of the church founder, Phelps-Roper grew up in a large, tightly knit family that believed “God ruled via the parents and elders.” What that meant in practice was that she had to assimilate a church culture emphasizing “the celebration and mockery” of the tragedies that befell nonbelievers. ![]() |