![]() Jenna ran the Chicago Marathon in 2021 and her finishing time qualified her to compete in the Boston Marathon. ![]() “It’s been wild and fascinating for me to see how my body is able to go from oscillating between running and walking, to running three miles, to running 26.2! With enough time and consistency, the human body can do anything.” ![]() “Part of what I love about running is seeing how adaptable the human body is. Jenna says she needed to experience the thrill of a real marathon. So Jenna and her fiance, Sam, came up with a marathon route that followed trails along the Mississippi River. She had hoped to compete in Grandma's Marathon in Duluth, but it was canceled in 2020 due to the pandemic. “It got me outside every day it gave me a goal and a win every day,” she said. She was working from home for the Minneapolis Health Department doing contract tracing, a role that took an emotional toll on her. Humphrey School Master of Public Policy student Jenna Hoge seems to be balancing it all these days-classes, research, an internship, her upcoming wedding, and even marathon running.Īt the start of the COVID-19 pandemic Jenna, like others, began running as a safe way to destress. Master of Public Policy student Jenna Hoge competed in the Boston Marathon in April 2023. ![]() Capstone Projects: Student-Community Partnerships.Fellowships and Professional Development.Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Public Affairs. ![]()
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5/31/2023 0 Comments An Odor of Sanctity by Frank Yerby![]() Concurrently, with the cumulative effects of his personal experiences as an African American, especially in the South, undergirded by his prodigious research of the history of cultures across the world, Yerby began questioning conventional religious beliefs in his anti-heroic popular novels and in fact, he actually developed philosophical assumptions and beliefs that counter Christian theology. In this historic transition, Yerby modified his protest aim and artistic consciousness, becoming one of America's most avid debunkers of history and myth. In the 1940s, however, Yerby abruptly switched from protest to popular fiction. ![]() Born and reared in Augusta Georgia, the heart of the Bible Belt in the American South, Frank Garvin Yerby began his literary career writing black protest fiction in the tradition of Richard Wright, and like many of his contemporaries, he demonstrated conventional religious thought in his early fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rochester, not to mention generations of romance heroes thereafter.įor the Emily Brontë of Emily, however, “writing” is less something you do or consume than it is a kind of longed-for identity, or personal brand, which tracks with other ways in which the film depicts her as an early incarnation of Gen-Z sensibility. ![]() Those ranged from the Odyssey to the novels of Sir Walter Scott, but especially anything by or about Lord Byron, whose stormy, brooding charisma clearly inspired both Heathcliff and Jane Eyre’s Mr. Emily alludes briefly to the juvenilia of the Brontë siblings, a collection of texts written by the children in tiny volumes and set in two imaginary kingdoms peopled by characters inspired by the dashing and romantic heroes and heroines in the many books they read. Patrick Brontë himself, the father of Emily, Charlotte, Anne, and Branwell, was, in addition to being an Anglican priest, a published poet. It was one of the few forms of entertainment and the only means of communication besides speaking face-to-face. Instead of books there is “writing,” something the characters in Emily speak of with a breathless, aspirational reverence, as if educated 19 th-century British people weren’t constantly writing in one form or another: letters, diaries, poetry, sermons, essays, reviews, and so on. ![]() ![]() Neither expects to be enchanted by the amorous power of moonlight in the ruins of Karnak, or to be forced to marry before they can escape revolution. She doesn't expect to have that work manipulated for political purposes. She has no interest whatsoever in romantic nonsense and will not allow notions about a lady's proper role to interfere with her work. ![]() He has no room in his life for dalliance or entanglements, and he certainly doesn't expect to face insurrection and unrest.Īnaliese Cloutier seeks no glory-only the eradication of disease among the Egyptian women and children of Khartoum. Armed with license to dig, he sets out for Meroë, where the Blue Nile meets the White. He will be the one to unravel the secrets of the ancient Kushite language. Richard Mallet comes to Egypt with dreams of academic glory. ![]() 5/31/2023 0 Comments Saint mazie by jami attenberg![]() ![]() It could be a mess but it is extremely readable, a full-on page turner, with the mood of one of those tender-hearted madcap wise-cracking 1930s comedies. They come to life through Mazie's diaries and letters, and in interviews conducted by Nadine, a young modern film-maker who is conducting what is turning into a kind of oral history project, and the hipster who found the mythological 'memoirs'. An excellent place to drink gin.' And she has peopled it with some glorious characters - an on/off lover, The Captain, who sends the postcards Mazie pastes inside her kiosk George the neighbour, her heartbreaking brother-in-law and impossible sisters. ![]() 'It scales high and low and everything in between. The New York Observer quotes Jami as saying that Mazie felt like a piece of New York she didn't want people to forget about, and if Mazie is a compelling heroine so too is New York, equally flawed and equally heartbreaking. 'It’s a rough and tumble place, full of people from all over the world,' Jami says. ![]() |