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The pirate of kindergarten
Ginny's eyes play tricks on her, making her see everything double, but when she goes to vision screening at school and discovers that not everyone sees this way, she learns that her double vision can be cured.
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Writing Crime in the New South Africa: Negotiating Threat in the Novels of Deon Meyer and Margie Orford
The explosion of crime fiction in contemporary South Africa requires explanation in terms of its relations with actual crime in that country, with crime novels from elsewhere, and with trends in South African literary history. Taking issue with recent criticism which sees in the genre a turning away from historicity and the political, the article argues that the novels of Deon Meyer and Margie Orford display an engagement with major post-apartheid themes, and a politics that is, for the most part, liberal in nature. There is a striking correlation to be drawn between the proposals of South African criminologists and what contemporary crime novelists themselves explore in their fictions. Specifically, both return to the figure of the detective as an antidote to disorder, violence, and uncertainty. This essay interprets the meaning of the post-apartheid crime fiction phenomenon in terms of the novels' capacity to negotiate threat, and to profit from doing so.
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From the corner of his eye
Bartholomew Lampion grows up a prodigy, blinded by surgery required to save him from a fast-spreading cancer, but he regains his sight at the age of thirteen and sets out to transform the lives of everyone around him. It is the story of a courageous band of seekers, and a relentless killer. It is the story of all that is right with the world and all that is terribly wrong. It is the story of a revelation so terrifying that those who dare to look will be changed forever.
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Public and Private Space in Contemporary South Africa: Perspectives from Post-Apartheid Literature
Starting from a reading of Damon Galgut's The Good Doctor, this article examines the changing nature of social space in South Africa since 1994 as reflected in recent writing by Galgut, Ivan Vladislavić, Jonny Steinberg, K.S. Duiker and J.M. Coetzee. Adapting Mikael Karlström's distinction between 'dystopian' and 'eutopian' responses to social phenomena, I argue that post-apartheid literature bears witness to the perpetuation of a fundamentally dystopian society. South Africa, by these lights, has seen no significant opening up and making public of space either physically or otherwise. Discussing the urban environment, crime, xenophobia, gender relations and sexuality, the article shows that power remains in the private sphere, with space still constructed in terms of exclusion rather than inclusion.
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The T-rex who lost his specs!
A young Tyrannosaurus rex with very poor eyesight loses his eyeglasses, resulting in chaos for himself and the creatures around him.
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Age of Iron: The Collective Dimension of Shame and of Responsibility
Age of Iron has received much critical attention; most interpretations of the novel revolve around themes such as trust, the silence of the victim-figures, or the fictional treatment of real, historical events. Derek Attridge, for example, discusses the question of trust and responsibility towards the other represented in the novel by Vercueil and John; Jane Poyner analyses the connection between confession and truth, on the one hand, and the historical situation Mrs Curren lives in, on the other; Michael Neill focuses on the novel's representativeness for the period of 'interregnum' in South Africa. The concept of shame as dramatised in Coetzee's work in general and in this novel in particular has received little attention. The present article is devoted to an analysis of shame in Age of Iron, shame derived from a corrupted sense of community and justice. It will look into the effects shame causes, as dramatised in the person of the protagonist of the novel. Another concern of the following discussion consists in an analysis of the imagery the narrator's discourse creates in order to designate moral wrongs, both individual and social. The novel teems with repulsive images evoked by the frequent use of references to insects or aggressive animals and birds, images that translate the narrator's ample rage against the times, her sense of helplessness and abhorrence of the injustices occurring around her. The last part of the essay offers an interpretation of the narrator's failure to burn herself and thus convert her death into a meaningful event. Rather than regarding her death as salvation facilitated by Vercueil, as Benita Parry suggests, the following reading will consider her death and the struggle preceding it as an impossibility of redemption.
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Love and first sight : a novel
\"Sixteen-year-old blind teen Will Porter undergoes an experimental surgery that enables him to see for the first time, all while navigating a new school, new friends, and a crush\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Stephen King's technophobia puts him in good company, author says
A. \"Frankenstein\" is usually considered a horror novel, but it's also technophobic science fiction. An artificial human is a technological creation. My special favorites are \"Metropolis,\" one of the earliest science fiction films that shows the horrors of industrialization, and more recent stuff like Margaret Atwood's \"Oryx and Crake,\" which looks at the horrors of biotechnology taken to extremes. There are also examples from video games like \"Resident Evil\" -- a military-corporate creation of a bio-epidemic.
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The silence in her eyes : a novel
\"Leah has been living with akinetopsia, or motion blindness, since she was a child. For the last twenty years, she hasn't been able to see movement. As she walks around her upper Manhattan neighborhood with her white stick tapping in front, most people assume she's blind. But the truth is Leah sees a good deal, and with her acute senses of smell and hearing, very little escapes her notice. She has a quiet, orderly life, with little human contact beyond her longtime housekeeper, her doctor, and her elderly neighbor. That all changes when Alice moves into the apartment next door and Leah can immediately smell the anxiety wafting off her. Worse, Leah can't help but hear Alice and a late-night visitor engage in a violent fight. Worried, she befriends her neighbor and discovers that Alice is in the middle of a messy divorce from an abusive husband. Then one night, Leah wakes up to someone in her apartment. She blacks out and in the morning is left wondering if she dreamt the episode. And yet the scent of the intruder follows her everywhere. And when she hears Alice through the wall pleading for her help, Leah makes a decision that will test her courage, her strength, and ultimately her sanity\"-- Amazon.com.
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Artificial Intelligence in News Media: Current Perceptions and Future Outlook
In recent years, news media has been greatly disrupted by the potential of technologically driven approaches in the creation, production, and distribution of news products and services. Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged from the realm of science fiction and has become a very real tool that can aid society in addressing many issues, including the challenges faced by the news industry. The ubiquity of computing has become apparent and has demonstrated the different approaches that can be achieved using AI. We analyzed the news industry’s AI adoption based on the seven subfields of AI: (i) machine learning; (ii) computer vision (CV); (iii) speech recognition; (iv) natural language processing (NLP); (v) planning, scheduling, and optimization; (vi) expert systems; and (vii) robotics. Our findings suggest that three subfields are being developed more in the news media: machine learning, computer vision, and planning, scheduling, and optimization. Other areas have not been fully deployed in the journalistic field. Most AI news projects rely on funds from tech companies such as Google. This limits AI’s potential to a small number of players in the news industry. We made conclusions by providing examples of how these subfields are being developed in journalism and presented an agenda for future research.
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