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Book Review: "A Meaningful Life" by L.J Davis
The New York Review of Books classics series has always been great for discovering new writers and works by writers you wouldn't have even thought about. There's books about authors, there's books on the topic of war, of identity and everything in between. A short time ago, I wrote my article on my favourite books of the series and yet, I don't think I'm even halfway through digging through the publications. Since they keep coming out with new ones, I have always had something obscure to read. A Meaningful Life is about a man, upon turning thirty, chooses to take a look at how his life hasn't really gone quite the way he planned. He definitely feels as though it is slipping through his fingers.
By Annie Kapur23 days ago in Geeks
Doctor who
I have loved Doctor Who since my dad introduced me to it in the 90s, and I was beyond thrilled when it came back in 2005. One of the reasons I've continued to love it is how every few seasons a new creator takes over, with new ideas. As Thirteen said, you have to grow while remembering who you've been.
By Wren H23 days ago in Geeks
Alcatraz Island Escape
The Mystery That Still Haunts America The story of the Alcatraz escape is one of the most fascinating prison mysteries in history. Located in the cold waters of San Francisco Bay, Alcatraz Island was once home to one of the most secure federal prisons in the United States. Surrounded by strong currents and freezing temperatures, it was believed to be completely escape-proof. Yet in 1962, three men dared to challenge that belief — and their fate remains unknown.
By shaoor afridi23 days ago in Geeks
Life of Albus Dumbledore
Albus Dumbledore was born to Percival and Kandra Dumbledore. His full name is Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore. He had one brother and one sister who he loved even though they didn’t feel his love. In 1891, Ariana Dumbledore Albus’s sister got attacked by three muggle boys that caused her not to want to do magic and put her in hiding. Percival Dumbledore killed those muggles for hurting his daughter and went to Azkaban for it. This caused the Dumbledore’s to move to Godric’s Hollow where no one would know them or have known Ariana before the attack.
By Lea Rue24 days ago in Geeks
The Story of Tom Marvolo Riddle
The story of Tom Marvolo Riddle is an interesting one that has a lot of loopholes where we don’t know what happened, but I will try my best to summarize it with some help from Albus Dumbledore. Riddle’s story starts before he was born in a town called Little Hangleton in a shack type place where his grandfather Marvolo, uncle Morfin, and mother Merope, so we can assume that they didn’t have a lot of money. Their last name was Gaunt and they were direct descendants of Salazar Slytherin who was a powerful wizard known for a pureblood family line. We can assume that the family was rich but the family before them spent it all and left them with barely any. Power and blood purity were more important to Marvolo than his children and his son was more important to him than his daughter. Marvolo’s daughter was neglected and probably felt alone, so she started to fancy a muggle who lived in the town, a handsome rich man named Tom Riddle.
By Lea Rue24 days ago in Geeks
Ariana Dumbledore
Ariana Dumbledore is not a very well known character of the Harry Potter series. Her story starts when she was six or seven years old. She was like any young witch at that age figuring out that she was magical and not a squib. If anything I bet her parents were really happy about that. I mean no one wants to be known as the family who has a squib. Ariana was in the backyard of their house one day when a couple of muggle boys were spying on her from behind some bushes while she was practicing and figuring out her magic abilities. They caught her and commanded her to do it again, but when she couldn’t, because magic doesn’t work that way for a six or seven-year-old, they laughed at her and called her names which scarred her for life. Her father ran after the boys who made his only daughter feel sad and killed them which he was sent to Azkaban for but no one knew why he killed them.
By Lea Rue24 days ago in Geeks
Deathly Hallows
This is the story of the Deathly Hallows which in The Tale of Beatle the Bard is the story “The Tale of the Three Brothers” is where the Deathly Hallows are explained. There is nothing better than walking down a path in the woods with your brothers. That is what these brothers were doing on what they thought was a normal day. Now, these brothers were grown, they weren’t children so they were fine. They came to a river that they couldn’t cross without a bridge so they took out their wands and created a bridge so they could cross the river.
By Lea Rue24 days ago in Geeks
Defense Against the Dark Arts Position
The Defense Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts was cursed until Lord Voldemort died at least that is what people think since it was he who put a curse on the position. When Tom Riddle was a few years out of Hogwarts when he went back to see that Albus Dumbledore was now Headmaster who knew what Riddle might be up to at that moment. Riddle was rejected from this job so he put a curse on it where when a person teaches in that position it is only for one year. The only ones that we know about who only stayed for one year are the teachers Harry had during his years at Hogwarts.
By Lea Rue24 days ago in Geeks
Dolores Umbridge
Dolores Umbridge is a cruel lady who was one of the many Defense Against the Dark Arts professors. Her life was mostly her being selfish and wanting to be with powerful people. She was born to a wizard named Orford Umbridge and a muggle named Ellen Cracknell which would make Dolores a Half-Blood. Half-Bloods are ok. I mean they are respected, but not to the standards that Dolores wanted. She wanted to be respected like the Pure-Blood families of the Wizarding World. Dolores is the oldest and only daughter of her parents, and they also had another child, a boy who was born a squib. Now her dad blamed his wife for his son being a squib and Orford and his wife separated. Ellen and her son went to live in the muggle world while Dolores and Orford went to live among the wizarding communities. She was embarrassed by her father because of his lack of ambition for a new job.
By Lea Rue24 days ago in Geeks
Quantum Computers: The End of the World as We Know It, or the Dawn of a Divine Era? 🌌
As a fan of new technologies and Artificial Intelligence 🤖, I watch the world accelerate every single day. But what is currently happening in the laboratories of Google, IBM, or Microsoft isn't just regular progress. It’s a revolution that will make today’s supercomputers look like an abacus compared to a smartphone. I’m talking about quantum computers 💡.
By Piotr Nowak24 days ago in Geeks
Khaby Lame: The Boy Who Spoke to the World Without Saying a Word
‎Khaby Lame’s story doesn’t begin with fame, luxury, or a spotlight. It begins in a small apartment in Chivasso, Italy, where a young boy from Senegal learned early what it meant to grow up between two worlds. Born in Dakar in 2000 and raised in Italy from the age of one, Khaby spent his childhood in public housing, surrounded by the everyday struggles of immigrant life. His parents worked long hours, and like many families trying to build a future in a new country, they carried more hope than money.
By Haroon Pasha24 days ago in Geeks
Book Review: "The Great Shadow" by Susan Wise Bauer
There was no reason why I would choose this book to read apart from the fact it had an interesting subtitle and the cover looked quite telling. I like it when the cover to a book looks like it has been worked on to hide things within. I also ended up reading the blurb to the book only to realise it was not only nonfiction, but the topic was about to be expanded upon in a whole host of ways. From how survival instincts move us from cold to hot and back to cold environments all the way through to why children were dying at a similar rate as adults in some cases. We are taken through a look at how sickness, once treated as an individual thing, moved to a group thing and thus, came to change the way we buy things and spend our lives. The COVID pandemic may have taught us somewhat about that, but who knew our everyday consumerism is coated with a deep fear of getting sick?
By Annie Kapur24 days ago in Geeks