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The EKATERINBURG JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL is an annual international film festival, which aims to gather in the program features, documentaries, shorts and animated films on the subject of Jewish culture, history and national identity and contemporary problems.[1] The film festival was founded in 2016.[2]

History

2016

The 1st Ekaterinburg Film Festival was held in Ekaterinburg from 20 to 23 November 2016, at the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center and KARO 10 Rainbow Park.[3] The Festival opened with a film A Tale of Love and Darkness[4][5] directed by Natalie Portman.[6] The festival program included more than 25 films.[7] The total number of people who attended screenings and educational events of the Festival exceeded 1200.

2017

The 2nd Ekaterinburg Film Festival was held in Ekaterinburg from 18 to 21 November 2016, at the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center and Dom Kino.[8][9] The opening ceremony of the Festival took place on November 18, 2017 at Dom Kino. The Jews by the French director Yvan Attal became the opening film of the Festival. The ceremony was attended by Yevgeny Roizman, the Mayor of Ekaterinburg and Vlad Lerner, the First Secretary of the Embassy of Israel in Russia. The festival program included more than 29 films.[10] The total number of people who attended screenings and educational events of the Festival exceeded 2000.

Creators

-   General producer — Egor Odintsov[11][12]
-   Program director — Rusina Lekuh (2016),[13] Vanya Bowden (2017)
-   Producer — Konstantin Fam
-   PR-director — Elena Barkova
-   Executive producer — Edita Bleikh[14]

Education

In addition to film screenings educational program was organized in the framework of the festival, consisting of lectures, discussions and debates.[15][16]

In different years the speakers were independent film director, producer, screenwriter Konstantin Fam,[17] film director and producer Artem Vitkin, journalist Boruch Gorin, researcher of Jewish culture Uri Gershovich,[18] film critic Egor Belikov, philosopher Lilia Nemchenko,[19] Doctor of Psychology Ludmila Baranskaya[20] and others.

Impact

Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center, the biggest museum in Eastern Russia and North Asia, became the Festival’s partner and served as its venue. More than 3000 people have taken part in events of the Festival, which received wide media coverage.

Partners

-   Genesis Philanthropy Group[21]
-   Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia[22]
-   Russian Jewish Congress
-   Ark Foundation
-   Ekaterinburg City Administration[23]

[1] The first Jewish Film Festival took place in Ekaterinburg. Lechaim

[2] Jewish Film Festival opens in Ekaterinburg. filmpro.ru

[3] First Yekaterinburg Jewish Film Festival stars in November. Karofilm

[4] “A Tale of Love and Darkness” will open Jewish Film Festival. MK Israel

[5] Best Jewish films of recent years will show in Ekaterinburg. It’s my city

[6] Jewish Film Festival in Russia will open the first directorial work of Natalie Portman. Chelny LTD

[7] The first Jewish Film Festival took place in Ekaterinburg. Lechaim

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[12] First Yekaterinburg Jewish Film Festival stars in November. Karofilm.ru

[13] Jewish Film Festival opens in Ekaterinburg. filmpro.ru

[14] Creators. EJFF.RU

[15] The first Jewish Film Festival will be held in Yekaterinburg. Apiural.ru

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[17] Jewish Film Festival will be held in Ekaterinburg. Voice of the people

[18] Ekaterinburg Jewish Film Festival will be held with the support of the FJC. Interfax Religion

[19] The educational program of the 1st Ekaterinburg Jewish Film Festival. MK Israel

[20] The educational program of the 2nd Ekaterinburg Jewish Film Festival.Kinoafisha.info

[21] The first Jewish Film Festival in Ekaterinburg. Kinoafisha.info

[22] FJC: The first Jewish Film Festival in Ekaterinburg was a success. RIA News

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title: Ekaterinburg Jewish Film Festival

question: When was the festival founded?

answer: 2016

question: Where is Ekaterinburg?

answer: Eastern Russia

question: What was the first film shown at the first festival?

answer: A Tale of Love and Darkness

question: Where in Ekaterinburg is the event held?

answer: The Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center

question: Write a ~2 sentence summary.

answer: The Ekaterinburg Jewish Film Festival is an annual international film festival which showcases films on the subject of Jewish culture, history, national identity, and contemporary problems. It was founded in 2016 and is hosted at the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center in Ekaterinburg in Eastern Russia.


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(Part 1) By the mid-22nd century, time travel had become a mundane and everyday reality. When the phenomenon had first been introduced to the mass consciousness due to a theft of documents by a government employee, massive steps had been proposed to limit the possibly detrimental effects of what would likely become a hugely popular social pastime. An international committee, after much deliberation and the investment of a great deal of working hours and taxpayers money, eventually decided on three rules of time travel:

1) Do nothing to affect the social development of the people of the time
2) Do nothing to deliberately invoke a change to events in the future, particularly for perceived personal gain
3) Behave with no emotion as emotion breeds emotion in others and so can affect events

As soon as the committee announced these rules to an eagerly listening world, researchers at TEID (Time Effect Investigation Department, a team set up to monitor the behaviour of it’s citizens by researching past documents) began to find that the rules weren’t perhaps as effective as they had hoped. Time travelling citizens trying to behave without emotion were being viewed with high suspicion in Nazi Germany, the witch hunting eras of the late 17th century and the vampire fearing villages of mediaeval Slavic Europe. All of these unfortunate souls were being summarily tortured, executed, and were failing to return home from their trips.
They also found it impossible to not affect social development as travellers ended up in the bars and public houses of times throughout history, invariably became drunk and opinionated, and ended up either instigating or, in some exceptional cases, getting a little carried away and leading entire revolutionary movements.

Lastly, it was quickly realised that it was impossible to not have an affect on future events as a whole anyway as the person’s mere arrival and subsequent existence in the past occupied space and therefore had instigated a change by just moving the air particles, anything over and above that would cause a more obvious chain reaction (such as stopping traffic at a road crossing or feeding an animal) and so it was deemed impossible to enforce any of the laws they had worked so tirelessly to create.
At this point a press conference was set up to announce this failure, one journalist pointed out the impossibility of enforcing such laws due to the nature of time travel anyway and, after a lot of silence and shoe gazing, the scientists and international representatives decided to disband and research something that could be controlled instead, with no doubt at all, such as wormhole leaping.

Despite the best efforts of authorities to restrict the sale of time travel machines, a huge black market was predicted, then materialised, and then once one particuarly entrepreneurial individual, Jiff Beaner, had gone three hundred years into the future and bought not only all the books on the history of time travel so as to learn all the industrial lessons of his competitiors to come, but also returning in a much bigger time machine with (after a few trips) parts enough for a time machine manufacturing unit from the future as well, mass production kicked into play and the time machine was now in 63% of all households by the end of the first manufacturing year alone. Naturally, Jiff was soon outdone by another who carried out exactly the same plan as Jiff had and outdid him overnight. Not only did the competitor have all of Jiff’s ideas for the next three hundred years but he also had a manufacturing unit three hundred years newer. Then someone outdid that man, and so it went on ad taedium.

Time Travel became a standard leisure activity, people beamed from here to there, and the world continued (as far as they knew) the same as it always had.

Then, not long afterwards, a researcher at TEID came across something that would change the public’s perspective of time travel completely. It was a man called Gerald Keys, he had travelled to 18th century colonial America, and there for no reason yet apparent, he had killed sombeody.

title: Trillers - A story about Time Travel

question: What is the fundamental problem with the three main rules of the international committee on time travel?

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The third rule is about showing no emotions, this is inherently impossible. Technically because acting in such way would simply make a person seem stoic -which is an emotion. In practice, doing so would not achieve the desired outcome (to not influence with emotions of others) as people native to the era would consider a stoic person in the midst of a emotional event to be an outlier. This rule should have required travelers to express the same emotions as the people of the era in order to not stand out.

Rules 1 and 2 are about deliberately and accidentally changing the future, which are unfortunately impossible as the mere act of travelling to the past already affects the timeline.

question: Why did scientists and the international representatives abandon research of time travel?

answer: Because once the technology was available to the public, it usage could not be controlled or regulated. They moved research efforts towards wormhole technology which they believed would be controllable.

question: How were time travel machines sold?

answer: Though sale of the devices were originally restricted, it initially spread through a black market. Then one individual traveled to the future to gain an industrial and commercial advantage in the retail of the devices. This proved to be successful for the business and in bringing the technology to the market. Competitors would also follow the same tactic which resulted in time travel technology becoming casually available to everyone as a leisure activity.

question: What is the story with Gerald Keys?

answer: It appears that most of the detail about time travel is a foundational backstory for the telling the narrative of Gerald Keys, a man who traveled in time to 18th century colonial America to commit a murder for yet undisclosed reason.

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

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It is the mid-22nd century and time travel has now become mundane and easily accessible commercialized amenity -humans of this era consider it a leisure activity. When the technology was first introduced, authorities have attempted various ways of providing restrictions to the technology, such as providing rules and setting guidelines, enforcing these laws were ultimately near impossible (due to human nature and the sheer fragility of timelines).

In the Time Effect Investigation Department, a researcher discovers that a man named Gerald Keys has traveled to 18th century colonial America and for reasons still unknown, killed somebody.


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The WILLIAM AND AGNES GILKERSON FARM, also known more recently as the KITCHEL HILL FARM, is a historic farmstead on Kitchel Hill Road in Barnet, Vermont. Established in the late 18th century by Scottish immigrants, it includes one of the finest known examples of a rubblestone farmhouse in the region. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.[1]

Description and history

The Gilkerson farm property consists of of hillside farmland in northern Barnet, on the north side of Kitchel Hill Road. The lower portions of the property are in agriculture, while the upper portions are forested. The farmstead is located in the southern (lower) half of the property, with its access drive near a bend in the road. There are four small clusters of buildings: the main house with an attached barn, a sugar house and toolshed, and two barn complexes. The main house is a 1-1/2 story Cape style structure, sited with a commanding view of the Connecticut River valley and the White Mountains of New Hampshire. It is built out of rubblestone mortared with lime. Its metal roof is pierced by five dormers.[2]

William Gilkerson (b. 1774) came to Vermont with his parents as a child in the 1780s; they were among a settlers who came as a group from Stirlingshire in Scotland. Gilkerson in 1802 married Agnes Somers, who had also immigrated from Scotland with her parents and settled in Barnet. It is thought that this house was built by Gilkerson as a suitable home for his bride, a task that probably took three years. The house is one of four in the regions that have clearly Scottish roots; of those, it is the largest and best preserved. Most of the outbuildings are 20th-century additions.[3]

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question: Where is the William and Agnes Gilkerson farm located?

answer: On Kitchel Hill Road in Barnet, Vermont.

question: What sorts of animals are raised on the William and Agnes Gilkerson farm?

answer: That information can't be found.

question: When was the William and Agnes Gilkerson farm first established?

answer: The late 18th century.

question: Who was William Gilkerson?

answer: A settler who came to Vermont with his parents as a child in the 1780s.

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer: The William and Agnes Gilkerson farm, located in Barnet, Vermont, was first established in the late 18th century. William Gilkerson came to Vermont with his parents as a child in the 1780s and married Agnes Somers. The property belongs to the National Register of Historic Places.


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LAUREN DUCA (born February 24, 1991)[1] is an American freelance journalist, feminist,[2] and political columnist.[3] Duca formerly worked at _Teen Vogue,_ where she had a column called “Thigh High Politics”. In September 2019, she released a book on young people and the future of American politics titled _How to Start a Revolution_.[4]

Early life and education

Duca was born in New York City and grew up in an affluent New Jersey suburb. Her parents live in New Jersey,[5] and she has a younger brother.[6]

In 2013, Duca graduated from Fordham University with a bachelor's degree in English and philosophy.[7] During this time, she was editor in chief of the alternative newspaper, _the paper._[8] In 2015, Duca received her master's degree in journalism and critical theory from New York University.[9]

Career

In 2013, Duca got her start working as an online editorial intern for _New York_. From 2013 to 2015, Duca worked as a reporter at _The Huffington Post_. In 2015, she began working as a freelance reporter, often writing for _Teen Vogue_.

In December 2016, Duca drew attention for an op-ed in _Teen Vogue_ titled “Donald Trump is Gaslighting America”,[10][11] which argued that then President-elect Donald Trump relied on deceit to undermine the truth so his critics would question their own judgment.[12] As of December 23, 2016, the essay had been viewed 1.2 million times, becoming the magazine's most-viewed post.[13] Katie Mettler of _The Washington Post_ said, “[T]he Internet lit up with praise for [Duca's] 'scorched-earth' op-ed.”[14] The essay was widely cited as a turning point in the fashion magazine's reputation, with a newly recognized political dimension.[15][16][17]

Duca appeared on _Tucker Carlson Tonight_ on December 23, 2016.[18] In the heated exchange over Duca's commentary on Ivanka Trump,[19] Duca criticized host Tucker Carlson for not allowing her to speak and called Carlson a “partisan hack”; in response, he told her that instead of political commentary, she “should stick to the thigh-high boots,” referring to her earlier articles on pop-star Ariana Grande.[20] Online harassment of Duca followed, including threats of sexual assault.[21]

In response, Duca named her new column at _Teen Vogue_, begun in February 2017,[22] “Thigh-High Politics.”[23] According to _Teen Vogue_, “Thigh High Politics” “breaks down the news, provides resources for the resistance, and just generally refuses to accept toxic nonsense.”[24] She also designed a tee-shirt in July 2017 with the phrase “I like my politics thigh-high,” and donated all of the proceeds from each $32 shirt to Planned Parenthood in Tucker Carlson's name.[25] As of December 2017, over $10,000 were raised.[26] In the face of backlash against _Teen Vogue_, Duca has defended the political commentary featured on the website, citing the disconnect between critics who find young women's interests as too silly for intellectual conversation and the reprimand young women face for not participating in political process.[27]

In 2017, former pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli attempted to contact Duca a number of times and referenced her routinely in social media. In early January 2017, Shkreli direct-messaged Duca, tweeted her directly, edited a collage of Duca for his Twitter banner, and superimposed his face on top of an image of Duca and her then-husband to use as his profile photo.[28] Duca made her discomfort in Shkreli's advances known on her Twitter, posting a screenshot of a direct message from Shkreli inviting Duca to Donald Trump's inauguration with the caption, “I would rather eat my own organs.”[29] Duca also posted screenshots of Shkreli's Twitter profile using her appearance, asking the platform's founder and CEO Jack Dorsey how Shkreli's actions were allowed.[30] Shkreli's Twitter account was then suspended for violating the website's rules prohibiting targeted harassment.[31] On July 28, 2017, Duca released a Twitter statement on her thoughts regarding Shkreli's securities-fraud trial and the sexual comments made by Shkreli on a Facebook live stream.[32] Duca tweeted, “I would (still) rather eat my own organs. So much as touch me, and I'll gladly chop off one of yours.”[33]

On 21 February 2018, Lauren responded to Billy Graham's death by tweeting: “The big news today is that Billy Graham was still alive this whole time. Anyway, have fun in hell, bitch.”[34] Her post drew some backlash on the internet.[35] In response to Fox News' coverage of her tweet, Duca noted: “The Fox article and segment on my stupid tweet are really miraculous in their bad-faith consternation. Billy Graham called being gay 'a sinister form of perversion,' and floated the idea that 'AIDS is a punishment from God.' If hell is real, that's exactly where he's headed.”[36]

In May 2018, it was announced that Duca would be a visiting scholar at New York University's journalism department.[37][38] In the summer of 2019, Duca taught a six-week course at New York University entitled “The Feminist Journalist.” The class was taught under the NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and focused on intersections of feminist ideology and the practice of journalism, and was made up of high-school and college students.[39] Four weeks after the course, students sent a collective formal complaint to New York University's journalism department regarding Duca's conduct during the class, writing, “We are disappointed at the department and NYU for hiring a professor with more interest in promoting her book than teaching a group of students eager to learn.”[40] Students allege that Duca targeted an exchange student, writing that she "consistently targeted this student on the basis of a communication difficulty the student cannot change.[41][42]

In September 2019, Duca released her first book, which was called _How to Start a Revolution: Young People and the Future of American Politics_.[43]

Personal life

Duca lives in Brooklyn[44] with her pet Shiba Inu, Demi.[45] Duca was married,[46] but announced on Twitter on January 13, 2019, that she was getting divorced from her husband. Since her divorce, she has identified as queer.[47]

Honors

-   2015: Los Angeles Press Club, National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Award, Online – Film/TV/Theater Feature for “The Rise of the Woman-Child”[48]
-   2017: Citizens' Committee for Children, Vanguard Award[49]
-   2017: Shorty Awards, Best in Journalism[50]

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title: Lauren Duca

question: When was Duca born?

answer: February 24, 1991

question: Where did Duca get her master's degree?

answer: New York University

question: What is the title of Duca's first book?

answer: How to Start a Revolution: Young People and the Future of American Politics

question: Where was Duca a visiting scholar in 2018?

answer: New York University's journalism department

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer: Lauren Duca is an American freelance journalist, feminist, and political columnist. Since 2016, she has drawn attention for her op-eds and public comments. She published her first book in 2019, titled How to Start a Revolution: Young People and the Future of American Politics.


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ANNETTE CROSBIE, (born 12 February 1934) is a Scottish actor.[1] In 1970, she appeared in an episode of _Callan_, “Amos Green must live”, as Mrs May Coswood. She is best known for her role as Margaret Meldrew in the BBC sitcom _One Foot in the Grave_ (1990–2000). She twice won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress, for _The Six Wives of Henry VIII_ in 1971 and _Edward the Seventh_. In 1976, she was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for the 1976 film _The Slipper and the Rose_ and she won the award for Best Actress at the Evening Standard British Film Awards for the same role. Her other film appearances include _The Pope Must Die_ (1991), _Shooting Fish_ (1997), _The Debt Collector_ (1999), _Calendar Girls_ (2003) and _Into the Woods_ (2014).

Early life and career

Crosbie was born in Gorebridge, Midlothian, Scotland, to Presbyterian parents who disapproved of her becoming an actress.[2] Nevertheless, she joined the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School while still in her teens. She began her career with the Glasgow Citizens' Theatre Company in 1956.[3] She was educated at Boroughmuir High School in Edinburgh.[4] Her big break came in 1970 when she was cast as Catherine of Aragon in the BBC television series _The Six Wives of Henry VIII_, for which she won the 1971 BAFTA Television Award for Best Actress. In 1973, she starred alongside Vanessa Redgrave in the BBC serial _A Picture of Katherine Mansfield_.

In 1975, Crosbie made a similar impact as another queen, Queen Victoria, in the ITV period drama _Edward the Seventh_, for which she won the 1976 BAFTA Television Award for Best Actress. She played Cinderella's fairy godmother in _The Slipper and the Rose_, which was chosen as the Royal Film Première for 1976. In that film, Crosbie sang the Sherman Brothers' song, “Suddenly It Happens”. Crosbie voiced the character of Galadriel in Ralph Bakshi's animated movie, _The Lord of the Rings_, filmed in 1978. In 1980, she played the abbess in _Hawk the Slayer_. In 1986, she appeared as the vicar's wife in _Paradise Postponed_.[5]

Crosbie's next major role was as Margaret Meldrew, the long-suffering wife of Victor Meldrew (Richard Wilson) in the BBC sitcom _One Foot in the Grave_ (1990–2000) for which she is best known. She also played Janet, the housekeeper to _Dr. Finlay_, in the 1993–96 revival of A. J. Cronin's popular stories. She also had a poignant role in the thriller _The Debt Collector_ (1999).

Crosbie's other roles include playing the monkey-lover Ingrid Strange in an episode of _Jonathan Creek_ (1997), Edith Sparshott in _An Unsuitable Job for a Woman_ (1997–2001), and Jessie in the film _Calendar Girls_ (2003).

In 2008 she appeared in a BBC adaptation of _Little Dorrit_. In 2009 she played Sadie Cairncross in the BBC television series _Hope Springs_.[6] In 2010, Crosbie appeared in the _Doctor Who_ episode “The Eleventh Hour” and in an episode of _New Tricks_. In 2014 Crosbie appeared in the movies _What We Did on Our Holiday_ and _Into the Woods_. In 2015 she appeared in a BBC adaptation of _Cider with Rosie_. In 2016 she appeared in the new film version of _Dad's Army_. In 2019 she appeared in an episode of _Call the Midwife_.

In 2020, she appeared in an episode of the second season of _After Life_, a British black comedy-drama series created, written, produced and directed by Ricky Gervais, which premiered on Netflix.

Honours

Crosbie was awarded the Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1998 New Year Honours for services to Drama.[7]

Personal life

Crosbie was married to Michael Griffiths, the father of her son Owen and daughter Selina, who is also an actress.[8]

She is a campaigner for greyhound welfare.[9] From 2003, she was President of the League Against Cruel Sports.[10]

Filmography

Film

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  1959               _The Bridal Path_                            1st Waitress
  1965               _Sky West and Crooked_                       Mrs. White
  1968               _Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter_   Maid (uncredited)              (uncredited)
  1972               _Follow Me!_                                 Miss Framer
  1976               _The Slipper and the Rose_                   Fairy Godmother
  1976               ''Mr Smith                                                                  Short Film
  1976               _Mr Smith_                                   Anon
  1978               _The Lord of the Rings_                      Lady Galadriel of Lothlorien   Voice
  1979               _A Question of Faith_                        Sofya Andreyevna
  1980               _Hawk the Slayer_                            Abbess
  1984               _Ordeal by Innocence_                        Kirsten Lindstrom
  1991               _Chernobyl: The Final Warning_               Dr. Galina Petrovna
  1991               _The Pope Must Die_                          Mother Superior
  1992               _Leon the Pig Farmer_                        Dr. Johnson
  1995               _Solitaire for 2_[11]                        Mrs Dwyer
  1997               _Shooting Fish_                              Mrs Cummins
  1999               _The Debt Collector_                         Lana
  2003               _Calendar Girls_                             Jessie
  2007               ''She's Not Dead                             Mum                            Short Film
  2014               _What We Did on Our Holiday_                 Doreen
  2014               _Into the Woods_                             Granny
  2016               _Dad's Army_                                 Cissy Godfrey
  _Eat Locals_[12]   Alice

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  1961                   _St. Patrick's Day_                  Lauretta                                           TV Short
  1962                   _ITV Television Playhouse_           Liz                                                Episode: “The Morning After”
  1962                   _Probation Officer_                  Jennie Walker                                      Episode 4.3
  1963                   _BBC Sunday-Night Play_              Julie Neill / Galia                                Episodes: “The Greevy Column” & “The Reward of Silence”
  1963                   _The Plane Makers_                   Brenda                                             Episodes: “The Dividing Line” & Them: Or Us?"
  1964                   _Festival_                           Miss Vaughan                                       Episode: “The Inner World of Miss Vaughan”
  1964                   _First Night_                        Ada Churnley                                       Episode: “Goodbye, Gloria, Goodbye”
  1965–1968              _Theatre 625_                        Sister Catherine / Masha / Jennie Thomson / Girl   Episodes: “The Swallow's Nest”, “The Seagull”, “A Man Like That” & “Hermit Crabs”
  1965                   _Story Parade_                       Elsie Forrest                                      Episode: "The Bachelors
  1965                   _No Hiding Place_                    Mavis Baker                                        Episode: “It Could Always Happen”
  1965-1970              _The Wednesday Play_                 Julie / Liz                                        Episodes: “Wine of India” & “The Bond”
  1966                   _This Man Craig_                     Hanna Seaton                                       Episode: “Dougie”
  1966                   _Thirteen Against Fate_              Nell                                               Episode: “The Murderer”
  1966                   _Four People_                        Martha                                             Episode: “Mary Magdalene”
  1967                   _Boy Meets Girl_                     Mrs. Parkman                                       Episode: “Long After Summer”
  1967                   _The White Rabbit_                   José Dupuis                                        3 episodes
  1968                   _Half Hour Story_                    Wendy                                              Episode: “Venus Rising”
  1970                   _The Six Wives of Henry VIII_        Catherine of Aragon                                Episode: “Catherine Aragon”
  1970                   _Callan_                             May Coswood                                        Episode: “Amos Green must live”.
  1970-1977              _Play of the Month_                  Frances Trebell / Miss Cooper                      Episodes: “Waste” & “Separate Tables”
  1970-1980              _Play for Today_                     Nanny / Elsie Lorrimer / Catherine                 Episodes: “Jessie”, “The General's Day” & “The Lie”
  1970                   _Thirty-Minute Theatre_              Woman                                              Episode: “Hope”
  1970                   _Menace_                             Jean Crowe                                         Episode: “Killing Time”
  1971                   _Shadows of Fear_                    Mrs. Darbon                                        Episode: “At Occupier's Risk”
  1972                   _ITV Playhouse_                      Joy                                                Episode: “A Splinter of Ice”
  1972                   _Crime of Passion_                   Emilie                                             Episode: “Emilie”
  1972                   _ITV Sunday Night Theatre_           Nesta                                              Episode: “A Bit of Vision”
  1973                   _A Picture of Katherine Mansfield_   L. M.                                              5 episodes
  1973                   _The Edwardians_                     Margaret Lloyd George                              Episode: “Lloyd George”
  1973                   _Special Branch_                     Sarah Lovett                                       Episode: “The Other Man”
  1975                   _The Boy Dave_                       Mavis                                              TV Film
  1975                   _Rooms_                              Miss Hicks                                         2 episodes
  1975                   _Churchill's People_                 Elizabeth Rush                                     Episode: “March On, Boys!”
  _Edward the Seventh_   Queen Victoria                       10 episodes
  1976                   _East Lynne_                         Cornelia Carlyle                                   TV Film
  1977                   _The Velvet Glove_                   Lilian Bayliss                                     Episode: “Auntie's Niece”
  1977                   _The Sunday Drama_                   Noele                                              Episode: “The Portrait”
  1978                   _Lillie_                             Henrietta Labouchere                               TV serial, 2 episodes
  1978                   _BBC2 Play of the Week_              Helen Langrishe                                    Episode: “Langrishe Go Down”
  1979                   _The Lively Arts_                    Various                                            1 episode
  1979                   _Of Mycenae and Men_                 Kassandra                                          TV Short
  1980                   _Festival: The Misanthrope_          Arsinoe                                            TV Film
  1980                   _Twelfth Night_                      Maria                                              TV Film
  1981                   _Find Me First_                      Henrietta                                          TV Short
  1981                   _The House on the Hill_              Christina Rogerson                                 3 episodes
  1981                   _The Member for Chelsea_             Christina Rogerson                                 3 episodes
  1982                   _East Lynne_[13]                     Cornelia                                           TV film
  1982                   _Saturday Night Thriller_            Dorrie Childs                                      Episode: “A Gift of Tongues”
  1982                   _The Disappearance of Harry_         Lizzy                                              TV Film
  1983                   _Crown Court_                        Mrs Owen                                           Episode: “Mother's Boy” (Part 1)
  1983                   _Richard III_                        Duchess of York                                    TV Film
  1984                   _Dramarama_                          Rose                                               Episode: “Que Sera”
  1984                   ''Pericles, Prince of Tyre ''        Dionyza                                            TV Film
  1985                   _Off Peak_                           Freda                                              TV Film
  1986                   _Paradise Postponed_                 Dorothy Simcox                                     TV mini-series, 10 episodes
  1986                   _Unnatural Causes (TV series)_       Helen                                              Episode: “Partners”
  1986–1989              _Screenplay_                         Mrs Holders / Cynthia                              3 episodes
  1987                   _Taggart_                            Maggie Davidson                                    Episode: “Funeral Rites”
  1987                   _Tickets for the Titanic_            Mrs Pollard                                        Episode: “The Way, the Truth, the Video”
  1987                   _Farrington of the F.O._             Julia                                              Episode: “That Old Black Magic”
  1988                   _Game, Set and Match_                Mrs. Miller                                        Episode: “London Match: Part 1”
  1989                   _Take Me Home_                       Liz                                                3 episodes
  1989                   _Bonne espérance_                    Miss Thurtson
  1989                   _Summer's Lease_                     Connie Tapscott                                    2 episodes
  1990                   _Colin's Sandwich_                   Joyce                                              Episodes: “Out to Lunch” & “Frank”
  1990–2000              _One Foot in the Grave_              Margaret Meldrew                                   41 episodes plus Comic Relief sketches in 1993 (voice only) and 2001
  1991                   _Jute City_                          Iris Kerr                                          Episode 1.1
  1992                   _Heartbeat_                          Penelope Stirling                                  Episode: “Old, New, Borrowed, Blue”
  1992                   _The Ruth Rendell Mysteries_         Irene Bell                                         Episode: The Speaker of Mandarin: Part One
  1993–1996              _Doctor Finlay_                      Janet MacPherson                                   27 episodes
  1994                   _Performance_                        1st Labour MP                                      Episode: Message for Posterity
  1995–1996              _Screen Two_                         Dr Elizabeth MacKay / Meg Kelso                    2 episodes
  1997                   _Jonathan Creek_                     Dr Ingrid Strange                                  Episode: “The House Of Monkeys”
  1997-1999              _An Unsuitable Job for a Woman_      Edith Sparshott                                    4 episodes
  1997                   _Underworld_                         Aunt Doreen                                        6 episodes
  1997                   _Wyrd Sisters_                       Granny Weatherwax                                  voice - 6 episodes
  1999                   _Oliver Twist_                       Mrs Bedwin                                         4 episodes
  2000                   _Anchor Me_                          Hattie Carter                                      TV Film
  2001                   _Waking the Dead_                    Moira Bowen                                        2 episodes: ”The Blind Beggar”
  2002                   _Bodily Harm_                        Sheila Greenfield                                  Episode 1.1
  2001-2003              _Murder in Mind_                     Rose Buttimore                                     Episode: “Rage”
  2004                   _Black Books_                        Moo-Ma                                             Episode: “Moo-Ma and Moo-Pa”
  2004                   _William and Mary_                   Mrs. Driscoll                                      Episode 2.5
  2004                   _Quite Ugly One Morning_[14]         Mrs. Kincross                                      TV Film
  2005                   _Bremner, Bird and Fortune_          Queen Elizabeth II                                 Episode 6.4
  2005                   _Midsomer Murders_                   Amelia Plummer                                     Episode: “Sauce for the Goos”
  2005                   _Footprints in the Snow_             Julie's Mum                                        TV Film
  2006                   _Viva Blackpool_                     Mrs. Berry                                         TV Film
  2008                   _Little Dorrit_                      Mr F's Aunt                                        6 episodes
  2009                   _Hope Springs_                       Sadie Cairncross                                   8 episodes
  2010                   _Doctor Who_                         Mrs Angelo                                         Episode: “The Eleventh Hour”
  −2010                  _New Tricks_                         Miss Jones                                         Episode: “Coming Out Ball (New Tricks)”
  2013                   _Common Ground_                      Brenda                                             Episode: Nell, Ted & Marlon
  2014–2018              _Lily's Driftwood Bay_               Nonna Dog                                          Voice role
  2015                   _The Vicar of Dibley_                Reverend Mavis Pipkin                              Episode: “The Bishop of Dibley”
  2015                   _Cider with Rosie_[15]               Granny Trill                                       TV Film
  2017                   _Henry IX_                           Charlotte, The Queen Mother                        4 episodes
  2019                   _Dial M for Middlesbrough_           Edna                                               TV Film
  2019                   _Call the Midwife_                   Clarice Millgrove                                  Series 8 Episode 2
  2020                   _After Life_                         Rosemary                                           Season 2 Episode 1

Radio Appearances

-   _Good Behaviour_ (2014) on BBC Radio 4[16]
-   _One Foot in the Grave_ (1995) 4 episodes adapted from the British television sitcom of the same name, first aired between 21 January 1995 and 11 February 1995 on BBC Radio 2. The episodes are “Alive and Buried”, “In Luton Airport, No One Can Hear You Scream”, “Timeless Time” and “The Beast in the Cage”. They are repeated regularly on BBC Radio 4 Extra.[17]
-   _Old Harry's Game_ as Edith Cordelia Barrington (from series 6 onwards) on BBC Radio 4
-   _The Price of Fear_ - _Episode: To My Dear, Dear Saladin_ (6 June 1983) on BBC Radio 4[18]
-   _The works of Robert Burns_ (2016) for BBC Radio Scotland[19]

Awards and nominations

  Year   Association                            Category                               Nominated work                  Result
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  1971   British Academy Television Awards      Best Actress                           _The Six Wives of Henry VIII_
  1976   British Academy Television Awards      Best Actress                           _Edward the Seventh_
  1976   British Academy Film Awards            Best Actress in a Supporting Role      _The Slipper and the Rose_
  1976   Evening Standard British Film Awards   Best Actress                           _The Slipper and the Rose_
  1994   British Academy Television Awards      Best Light Entertainment Performance   _One Foot in the Grave_
  1995   British Comedy Awards                  Top TV Comedy Actress                  _One Foot in the Grave_

[1] Annette Crosbie filmography at the Bfi database accessed 7 January 2016.

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title: Annette Crosbie

question: How old was Crosbie when she played Galadriel in Ralph Bakshi's animated movie, The Lord of the Rings?

answer: She was 44 years old when she played Galadriel.

question: How many films has Crosbie appeared in throughout her career?

answer: She has appeared in 23 films throughout her career.


text:
The Instructor went about setting up the classroom, knowing that, without fail, the morning bell would ring long before she was truly ready to begin the day. It didn’t seem to matter when she arrived at work each morning, there was always too little time and too much to do. She distributed the day’s lessons discs among the student groupings, one for each of her pupils. Humming a tune, she cheerily went about her work.  The task completed, she went back to her notes, adamant that she had probably forgotten something. This worried her, knowing that even the smallest detail out of place would ruin the well-laid plans.

Triple checking the preparations for the day against her list, she straightened her hair, put on her coat, and made her way to the schoolyard. The students had just begun to arrive for the day, and were playing in the grassy field adjacent. She stood and watched, thinking to herself how the gender roles were already becoming apparent. The boys kicking a ball among themselves as the girls stood, clustered, looking on. Old habits died hard, she mused, even in 2013. For seventh graders, hormones had begun their playful dance. The Instructor knew that, given other circumstances, she’d soon be having ‘that talk’ with her students.  As she stood watching in the cold, the school’s bell rang out in cacophony. Another day had begun, though the Instructor alone knew that this one would be different.

The students filed in, taking their desks. Some were loading up homework assignments to be handed in, while others rushed frantically to complete them before the operating system discovered the work was not done. The Instructor stood, as she always did, at the front of the class; a cup of tea in one hand, a pen in the other. Though the archaic item has little to do in a classroom so filed with the technology of modernity, old habits died hard. The Instructor had always played with a pen while teaching, and always would regardless of how old fashioned the students may say it looked.

The call came over the announcement system and the class came to order, rising for the O Canada and the school’s morning messages. The Instructor mouthed along the words while her students sang. She had never felt the same pride at singing the national anthem as others had, even as a child she had thought it silly. Maybe, she mused, that was why they had recruited her so many years ago.

A phone buzzed in the Instructor’s pocket, and she spared it a glance while the students took their seats and listened to the voice in the wall welcome students. A simple message; a single word: “Go”.  As the morning messages droned on she walked among her students, ensuring that everyone had a lesson disc. She fingered the phone in her pocket, feeling its smooth glass. Feeling where the message had appeared. Feeling the future change. The Instructor smiled.

Calling the class to order, she instructed the Operating System to collect homework for the day. There was a groan as the students still frantically attempting to write answers were cut off from their work and demerit points issued. The students plugged themselves into their desks, their neural ports interfacing with the long cords running from the center of their groupings; One cord for each student, one neural port for each cord. The students snatched up the lesson discs and inserted them into the hungry mouth of the desk, each humming as it greedily accepted the students’ offering.  As each student closed their eyes and began to load the program, the Instructor typed a single word into her own desk: “Go”.

One by one the programs shot their payload into the student’s brains. One by one a billion billion synapses fired and burnt out. One by one the students slumped over at their desks, dead in an instant. Their central nervous system fried by the viruses on their lesson discs.

The Instructor stood watching, taking a sip of her tea, her fingers twilling the pen. Sitting at her desk she snapped the phone into the computer interface and dialed. A face appeared on the screen in front of her.

“Report?” the figure asked, no hint of emotion in his voice.

“The future is dead” the Instructor replied. “Glory be to the cause”.

“Glory be” the figure agreed. “Connect to the neural net for final instructions”.

The figure cut out and the screen grew dark. The Instructor reached forward and removed the long cord from its cradle on the desk. Inserting it into her neural port she entered a string of commands that comprised the access codes to the Organizations’ private secureweb. She closed her eyes waiting for the instructions to download. She smiled, knowing her part was done and her mission had been a success; a mission she had spent years preparing for. The smile never left the Instructor’s lips as she slumped over at her desk, her fate no different from that of her students.

In a room far away the figure looked up from his work station and nodded to the Leader. “Mission GJS-930A complete. Glory be to the cause”.

“Glory be” the Leader nodded.

title: [SF] "The Future is Dead" [X-Post SFSTories]

question: What does the story say about the Instructor's goal?

answer: The Instructor's goal is to kill all the students in her class. The point of this is to disrupt the future. The mission, which the Instructor successfully carries out, is done at the behest of the Organizations. After completing her mission, the Instructor dies as well.

question: What does the story say about the role of neural ports?

answer: In the story, neural ports are in desks, and connect to the brains of students and instructors via cords. One cord and one port per person. Through these ports, students upload homework to the Operating System, and lesson discs play after being inserted into the desk as well. The ports directly upload content to the students' brains.

question: What does the story say about 'the cause'?

answer: The cause is not explicit in the story. It is a mysterious, possibly anti-nationalist motivation toward which a shadowy organization works. It involves missions such as the one in the story, which aims to kill unwitting students as well as the Instructor devoted to the cause.

question: Summarize the Leader's background.


text:
A number is said to be simply normal to base [b] if its base-[b] expansion has each digit appearing with average frequency tending to [b^(-1)].

A normal number is an irrational number for which any finite pattern of numbers occurs with the expected limiting frequency in the expansion in a given base (or all bases). For example, for a normal decimal number, each digit 0-9 would be expected to occur 1/10 of the time, each pair of digits 00-99 would be expected to occur 1/100 of the time, etc. A number that is normal in base-[b] is often called [b]-normal.

A number that is [b]-normal for every [b=2], 3, ... is said to be absolutely normal (Bailey and Crandall 2003).

As stated by Kac (1959), "As is often the case, it is much easier to prove that an overwhelming majority of objects possess a certain property than to _exhibit_ even one such object....It is quite difficult to exhibit a 'normal' number!" (Stoneham 1970).

If a real number [alpha] is [b^k]-normal, then it is also [b^m]-normal for [k] and [m] integers (Kuipers and Niederreiter 1974, p. 72; Bailey and Crandall 2001). Furthermore, if [q] and [r] are rational with [q!=0] and [alpha] is [b]-normal, then so is [qalpha+r], while if [c=b^q] is an integer, then [alpha] is also [c]-normal (Kuipers and Niederreiter 1974, p. 77; Bailey and Crandall 2001).

Determining if numbers are normal is an unresolved problem. It is not even known if fundamental mathematical constants such as _pi_ (Wagon 1985, Bailey and Crandall 2003), the natural logarithm of 2 [ln2] (Bailey and Crandall 2003), Apéry's constant [zeta(3)] (Bailey and Crandall 2003), Pythagoras's constant [sqrt(2)] (Bailey and Crandall 2003), and _e_ are normal, although the first 30 million digits of [pi] are very uniformly distributed (Bailey 1988).

While tests of [sqrt(n)] for [n=2] (Pythagoras's constant digits, 3 (Theodorus's constant digits, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 indicate that these square roots may be normal (Beyer _et al._ 1970ab), normality of these numbers has (possibly until recently) also not been proven. Isaac (2005) recently published a preprint that purports to show that each number of the form [sqrt(s)] for [s] not a perfect square is simply normal to the base 2. Unfortunately, this work uses a nonstandard approach that appears rather cloudy to at least some experts who have looked at it.

While Borel (1909) proved the normality of almost all numbers with respect to Lebesgue measure, with the exception of a number of special classes of constants (e.g., Stoneham 1973, Korobov 1990, Bailey and Crandall 2003), the only numbers known to be normal (in certain bases) are artificially constructed ones such as the Champernowne constant and the Copeland-Erdős constant. In particular, the binary Champernowne constant

+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
| [                                 | (1)                               |
| C_2=0.(1)(10)(11)(100)(101)(110)( |                                   |
| 111)..._2                         |                                   |
| ]                                 |                                   |
+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+

(OEIS A030190) is 2-normal (Bailey and Crandall 2001).

Bailey and Crandall (2001) showed that, subject to an unproven but reasonable hypothesis related to pseudorandom number generators, the constants [pi], [ln2], and [zeta(3)] would be 2-normal, where [zeta(3)] is Apéry's constant. Stoneham (1973) proved that the so-called Stoneham numbers

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| [                                 | (2)                               |
| alpha_(b,c)=sum_(k=1)^infty1/(b^( |                                   |
| c^k)c^k),                         |                                   |
| ]                                 |                                   |
+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+

where [b] and [c] are relatively prime positive integers, are [b]-normal whenever [c] is an odd prime [p] and [p] is a primitive root of [c^2]. This result was extended by Bailey and Crandall (2003), who showed that [alpha_(b,c)] is normal for all positive integers [b,c>1] provided only that [b] and [c] are relatively prime.

Korobov (1990) showed that the constants

+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
| [                                 | (3)                               |
| beta_(b,c,d)=sum_(n=c,c^d,c^(d^2) |                                   |
| ,c^(d^3),...)1/(nb^n)             |                                   |
| ]                                 |                                   |
+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+

are [b]-normal for [b,c,d>1] positive integers and [b] and [c] relatively prime, a result reproved using completely different techniques by Bailey and Crandall (2003). Amazingly, Korobov (1990) also gave an explicit algorithm for computing terms in the continued fraction of [beta_(b,c,d)].

Bailey and Crandall (2003) also established [b]-normality for constants of the form [sum_(i)1/(b^(m_i)c^(n_i))] for certain sequences of integers [(m_i)] and [(n_i)].

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question: When was the article written?

answer: The article references an article from 2005 as "recent," so probably within a few years after 2005

question: What is a b-normal number?

answer: A number in which each digit of its base-b expansion appears with an average frequency tending to b^(-1)

question: What is an absolutely normal number?

answer: A number which is b-normal for every integer b >= 2

question: Is pi a normal number?

answer: This is an unsolved problem in mathematics

question: Write a ~1 sentence summary.

answer: The article summarizes the meaning of a b-normal number, and presents some recent work in the study of them.


text:
I can’t keep living like this. And it’s not your fault—it’s mine. I’m living for you when I should be living for myself, for evenings with friends and holidays with family. Because there isn’t a we. I have to live my own life.

And it isn’t you. I’ve been living in a fantasy, that’s the problem, a fantasy of you and me. I keep thinking that one day you’ll wake up and see me waiting here for you and everything will be like it’s supposed to. You’ll say hi and I’ll say hi and you’ll run your hand through your hair and the spikes will flip back up and I’ll laugh cause it’s cute and you’ll tell me I have a nice smile cause you like the way I squint and my freckles squish around my eyes. We’ll go to the docks, like we always do, and I’ll say the sea smells nice and you’ll say it looks a bit green like its sick and I’ll say that’s the way it’s supposed to look cause this isn’t Hawaii and you’ll say well it doesn’t look good for swimming and I’ll tell you of course it’s good for swimming and we should go sometime and you’ll promise we will someday. Someday isn’t going to come though. You’ll never get to read the notes or see the orange roses with the peeling petals I bought you. I wrote them every day, you know, little haikus and couplets. I thought you’d like that. They’re all stacked on the nightstand under the roses with wilting petals.

I guess we’re just not meant to be. I was so sure we were, yet here we are. Here I am, spilling my guts. Honestly, I can’t stand that we aren’t meant to be. It’s like losing faith. But I guess I have to let go of that the way I have to let go of you. You know, every day I dream about you and me. And you and me don’t exist. At least, not like that. I have to shake that out of my head. So it’s me. It’s my problem.

I can’t forget that time we stayed on the phone till two in the morning, just talking, and the way you laughed at my crappy jokes. That was wonderful. I won’t forget that. I was the most in love with you in those moments. Those were the moments you could have asked me to do anything for you and I would have said yes without hesitation. I was too afraid to tell you this before, but you left me breathless. I should have told you sooner. I guess I’m telling you now, though, and that must count for something. But I can’t help but feel like it’s too late. It’s so hard to find that place between too soon and too late. I’m not sure it exists, really, if there’s a right time to say I love you. I haven’t found it anyway. I know this is terrible timing but I have to tell you that I love you.

But I have to stop thinking about it, because it won’t bring you to me. So I’m going to try to forget how it felt when you smiled at me and how it felt when we spoke in unison. I have to move on, even if it’s without you, even if it hurts. I have to move on.

I’m sorry I’m telling you all this, but I feel like I should explain myself. I need to tell you why I can’t see you anymore. We’ll meet again someday, I’m sure, but at least for now I need to let you go. I don’t know if I can forgive myself for letting you go, but I have to try to live my own life. I hope you can forgive me.

I love you, but it’s not enough. Sometimes love doesn’t conquer. Sometimes it dies. And I’m going to let it, because we can’t save it. I can’t save it. So I’m going to let them unplug you now. They said you’ll stop breathing and your heart will stop beating and it will be slow, but you won’t feel a thing. I’m glad. I wonder if you can even feel this right now. If you can feel me leaving you. Well, in case you can, here’s the ring. I can’t keep it. Not if I’m going to keep going. Not if I’m going to live.

I’ve stayed with you through everything—rich and poor, sickness and health—but I can’t watch you die. I’m not going to stay, so this is goodbye. See you later, love.

title: Halcyon

question: Why does the narrator feel guilty about leaving her beloved?

answer: Because she feels the relationship breakdown is her fault.


text:
STEPHANIE BRODY-LEDERMAN is a New York painter, book artist,[1] and sculptor whose mixed media works combine visual imagery with words.[2][3][4] In 1977-1978 her art was included in the major exhibition _American Narrative/Story Art--1967-1977_ at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, Texas.[5]

Education

She attended Finch College in NYC, where she received a B.S. degree in Design in 1961. The Finch Alumni Association toured her loft art studio in Dumbo as part of a 2011 fundraising event.[6] She earned an M.A. in Painting from Long Island University, C.W.Post, Greenvale, New York, in 1975, and also attended the University of Michigan School of Architecture[7][8]

Exhibitions

Brody-Lederman's mixed media art since the early 1970's has been included in many important museum exhibitions along with contemporary artists such as Jennifer Bartlett, Lynda Benglis and Jackie Winsor.[9][10] In 1980 her art was shown at the Summit Art Center in Summit, New Jersey.[11] Stephanie Brody-Lederman has had solo exhibitions at Guild Hall Museum in East Hampton, New York,[12][13][14] Islip Art Museum, East Islip, New York[15] and Musée Bourdelle in Paris. Her art is in many public collections including Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Cooper-Hewitt Museum.[16][17][18] She has been represented by OK Harris Gallery.[19]

In 1977, her art was included in a group exhibition at the New Jersey State Museum in the Trenton Capitol Complex.[20] In 1978 her solo exhibition in a Nassau County, Long Island museum was closed after four hours by the museum's failure to comply with fire regulations.[21] In 1980 her art was shown at the Summit Art Center in Summit New Jersey.[22] Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, Inc. represented Lederman, along with Barton Lidice Benes and Pat Lasch at _Art 1981_ at the Chicago Navy Pier Show,[23] and her art shown at a Kathryn Markel group show was reviewed.[24]

A reviewer of her 1995 exhibit _Summer Light_ at Louisiana State University at Shreveport described her art as both puzzling and avant garde.[25] In 2000, Lederman contributed a painted bovine called “Hot Tips” to the New York City CowParade.[26] In 2001, a reviewer compared Lederman's exhibition _Tropisms and Small Fires_ in Fort Myers, Florida to Jean Dubuffet's description of _l'art brut_.[27]

She had a solo exhibition in 2013 at OK Harris Gallery in New York’s SoHo district, South of Houston Street in Manhattan,[28] and is a regular exhibitor there.[29] In 2017 she continues to participate in group exhibitions in The Hamptons,[30][31] winning first place in the Guild Hall's 70th Anniversary show.[32] Her art was selected for the 2017-2018 group show _Text Me:How We Live in Language_[33] at the Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA).

In 2018 her painting “Outdoor Girl” was bought by Shakespeare and Company (bookstore) in Paris. The painting will be installed in the bookstore during the winter of 2018/19 and was shown previously at Guild Hall and Arlene Bujese gallery.[34]

Biography

Brody-Lederman was an only child, born in New York City. She has said that “My family moved a lot. It was stressful. I found an outlet for what I was thinking and feeling in drawing and painting." Her father was a real-estate broker and owned a gallery for a short period.[35]

Honors and awards

Her artwork has been featured on the covers and pages of The Paris Review[36] and L’Oeil[37] Magazines. Her painting “Rover has soft ears” appeared in _On The Issues Magazine_ in 2009.[38] Among her grants and awards are New York Foundation for the Arts, LMCC (Lower Manhattan Cultural Council), Artists Space, Percent for Art, SOS Grant, Hassam and Speicher Award, New York Foundation for the Arts/NEA LINE Grant, Ariana Foundation for the Arts Grant, E.D Foundation Grant and Percent for Art award.[39] Her art was featured in the _Alexandria Quarterly_, The Art Edition 2016.[40]

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[31]  The East Hampton Star|url=http://easthamptonstar.com/Arts/3/Stephanie-Brody-Ledermans-Subrosa-Thoughts%7Cwebsite=easthamptonstar.com%7Caccessdate=4 April 2017|language=en}}

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title: Stephanie Brody-Lederman

question: Which art school did Stephanie Brody-Lederman attend?

answer: Stephanie Brody-Lederman attended Finch College and Long Island University in New York and the University of Michigan School of Architecture.

question: How was her work described by the reviewer of her 1995 exhibit 'Summer Light' at Louisiana State University?

answer: Her work was described as both puzzling and avant-garde.

question: What kind of artist is Brody-Lederman?

answer: Stephanie Brody-Lederman is a contemporary mixed-media artist.

question: Where did Stephanie Brody-Lederman have solo exhibitions?

answer: Brody-Lederman had a solo exhibition at OK Harris Gallery in Manhattan.

question: Write a ~6 sentence summary.

answer: Stephanie Brody-Lederman is a contemporary New York mixed-media artist: painter, book artist, and sculptor. She received a B.S. degree in Design in 1961, an M.A. in Painting from Long Island University in New York, and attended the University of Michigan School of Architecture. Among her grants and awards are New York Foundation for the Arts, LMCC, Artists Space, Percent for Art, SOS Grant, Hassam and Speicher Award, New York Foundation for the Arts/NEA LINE Grant, Ariana Foundation for the Arts Grant, E.D Foundation Grant and Percent for Art award.  Her art is in many public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Cooper-Hewitt Museum.


text:
Dear Julia,

It has been a year.

One whole year since you were taken from me, one whole year since the entire world went to shit, and for some reason I was left behind to pick up the pieces.

The others still have some hope that things will get better, but I know that hope is pointless, how could the world heal itself after such destruction, after such devastation?

They predict 90% of the population succumbed to the infection. Those are the odds we are up against. The truth be told my dearest Julia, my hope died with you, I don’t even know why I try anymore.

Dear Julia,

I came home today.

I came back to the place where we began. This house is so full of memories of happiness, it saddens me that it is all gone, that there is nothing left.

Memories are fickle companions, but what is worse is that i feel them becoming distorted, I fear the image I have of you is fading, altering, changing into something that is not you at all, but a depiction of what I believed you to be instead of what you are.

I do not want my memory of you to fade, Julia.

I abandoned everyone else. They will continue without me, I just needed to be here. I needed to be with you.

Even if you are gone, you linger in this place still. In the darkest corners of the house, and of my mind.

Dear Julia,

I became infected today. I gave in to the temptation, the curiosity; the bitter hopelessness. I kissed death upon the lips, and found the taste to my liking.

I know you would disapprove Julia; you had such an affinity for living, and would want me to carry on no matter what the cost. But I ask you… and I ask myself, would you feel the same were you in my place, after all the things I have seen, all the horrors I have experienced, all the people I have lost; would you feel the same?

The infection process isn’t instantaneous; it takes several days for it to truly take you away. I wonder if part of you remains, even after you become one of those mindless creatures that roam the streets at night? I don’t want that. I think that would be the cruellest punishment, crueller by far than death.

I will be with you soon Julia.

Dear Julia,

I awoke this morning, not feeling quite myself; evidently the infection is in its early stages. It would appear to be a common flu, but we all know better now. We are no longer ignorant to the deviousness of this clever infection, it tricks you into believing you are suffering from an illness that appears non-threatening, and then when you believe you are beginning to recover, that is when it attacks.

I live in constant fear of that attack, Julia. I was surprised by my fear; I suppose it has become so commonplace living in this new world that it is now second nature.

I’m almost glad you cannot see the world today, my dear. Nowhere is home, yet everything with a roof is considered a house. I returned to our home for the end, but it does not look like our home; not anymore. It is almost unbearable to stay between these walls, underneath this roof, where we once shared so much happiness, knowing the things I know now. It breaks my heart to see this perfect haven become a part of the imperfect world I have been drifting through the past year. It won’t be much longer now. I won’t last much longer now.

Dear Julia,

The trees outside our house are bare. It isn’t winter. There are simply no leaves that wish to grow. The walls are cracked and worn, the whole place is falling apart; not that it matters much anymore. Nothing matters much anymore.

The illness seems to be subsiding. I feel more agile and less lethargic. I know what this means though, you know Julia. I know.

Dear Julia,

Is this what you went through? Is this how you felt? I hope you didn’t feel this pain, I pray to god you didn’t.

My skin… it aches Julia, everything I touch brings me pain, my clothes itch and irritate my flesh. I need to get out. I need to get out of my skin. How can I endure this, how could anyone endure this? I am writing this letter with the greatest effort, in some vain hope that someone will read this, and one day put us both out of our eternal misery.

Oh god… My eyes, Julia… MY FUCKING EYES. It feels almost as if someone has forced shards of sand beneath my eyelids. There is no moisture, just pain, and an utter lack of vision.

I don’t know how long this will last before I am gone, I can only hope the end comes soon; I cannot bear this pain much longer.

Dear Julia,

The end is upon me. We will be together again before long.
This feeling is abhorrent, I feel my blood running through my veins and arteries, but it has thickened, and it feels almost as though sludge is being pumped through my system. I have been suffering from bouts of stomach cramps that leave me quivering on the floor. I haven’t eaten for several days; then again, I don’t have much of an appetite.

My vision only grew worse, the pain, I couldn’t take it any longer… so I ripped out my left eye; the relief was tremendous, if only temporary. I barely felt any pain during the process, but afterwards, after the blood and mush that was left of my eye was in the palm of my hands, that was when the agony set in. The blood that oozed from my eye socket was nothing like human blood. It was so dark it was almost black, and as thick as custard.

I can taste blood on my tongue. Blood and bile. The empty space where my eye once was only aches now, but everywhere aches, everywhere hurts. This is agony in its purest, undiluted form.

Dear Julia,

The pain has become so natural to me now that I can scarcely feel it. That or the pain has merely subsided as the infection finally takes complete control of my body.

I came down to see you today, with what was left of my vision, for the last time. The basement stank; the putrid fumes of death linger there, along with you.

Your dead eyes stared back at me, and even through one unfocused lens I could see your beauty, your elegance, your grace.

Even though most of your flesh has abandoned your face, and your hair is frayed and dead, I can still see the woman I fell in love with. Despite every obstacle, when I look at you, there is nothing but clarity and I feel assured that my decision to become just like you was the right one.

I will be leaving this world, this form; very soon, I can feel parts of myself fading away, and those parts being replaced with this repulsive infection. But I am thankful, because I will be like you.

We will be the same. We will be together again.

We will be the same.

We will be the same.

We will be

title: Dear Julia...

question: What does the author of the letters to Julia say is happening to the world?

answer: The world has succumbed to an infection which has reportedly killed about 90% of the population. Some survivors have hope that the world will recover but with so much destruction, it is unlikely. The infection tricks its victims into believing one is recovering and that is when it attacks.


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_TUNNEL RATS_, also known as _1968 TUNNEL RATS_, is a 2008 German-Canadian war suspense film written and directed by Uwe Boll. The film is based on the factual duties of tunnel rats during the Vietnam War. In a documentary for the film, Boll revealed the film did not have a script, and instead the actors improvised their lines.[1]

The box office return was poor, but _Tunnel Rats_ was met with positive reviews.

Plot

A group of US Army soldiers, trained in underground warfare, arrive at base camp in the jungle of Vietnam. The soldiers spend the first day and night getting to know each other. The next morning they begin to explore the Viet Cong's tunnel network at Củ Chi. Led by Lieutenant Vic Hollowborn (Michael Pare) along with Platoon Sergeant Mike Heaney (Brad Schmidt) Corporal Dan Green (Wilson Bethel) and Privates Peter Harris (Mitch Eakins), Carl Johnson (Erik Eidem), Terence Verano (Rocky Marquette), Jonathon Porterson (), Dean Garraty (Adrian Collins), Samuel Graybridge (Brandon Fobbs), Jim Lidford (Nate Parker) and Bob Miller (Jeffery Christopher Todd).

Armed with nothing more than bayonets, pistols, grenades and flashlights, the US soldiers take to the tunnels in search and destroy operations, and begin to encounter dangers including primitive but lethal booby traps, such as punji sticks, grenades rigged with tripwire, as well as roving Viet Cong. Meanwhile, Garraty and Johnson are killed first, and later Sergeant Heaney and Verano are both killed as Green escapes, and up on the surface Harris and Lidford escape to the bottom of the tunnel, and Lidford is killed later on, Porterson successfully escapes through the tunnels. On the surface, the Viet Cong also attack the US base.

As things escalate above and below the ground, soldiers for both sides are pushed to the limits of their humanity. Miller and Graybridge try to escape, with the former barely making it, but Graybridge is killed. The events implicate that all (or almost all) the protagonists are killed by each other, by boobytraps, or by the airstrike ordered by the wounded US commanding officer Hollowborn, who called on it when everything seemed to have been lost. Green dies in the tunnels. Harris convinces Vo Mai (Jane Le) that he isn't a threat to her or her family. Porterson retreats to the surface and later meets Miller at the camp where many soldiers have been slaughtered by the NVA. Porterson and Miller witness the bombings and their ultimate fate or survival is left ambiguous. Harris and Mai try to dig their way out, slowly realizing they are both trapped with nowhere to go and had been left to die. They remain in the tunnels until the end of their days.

Cast

-   Michael Paré as Lieutenant Vic Hollowborn
-   Nate Parker as Private Jim Lidford
-   Jane Le as Vo Mai
-   Erik Eidem as Private Carl Johnson
-   Rocky Marquette as Private Terence Verano
-   Jeffrey Christopher Todd as Private Bob Miller
-   Brandon Fobbs as Private Samuel Graybridge
-   John Wynn as Chien Nguyen
-   Wilson Bethel as Corporal Dan Green
-   Scott Cooper as Private Joseph Walderson
-   Brad Schmidt as Sergeant Mike Heaney
-   Scott Ly as Hy Tran
-   John Wynn as Nguyen Van Chien
-   Adrian Collins as Private Dean Garraty
-   Garikayi Mutambirwa as Private Jonathon Porterson
-   Erik Eidem as Private Carl Johnson
-   Mitch Eakins as Private Peter Harris

Reception

_1968 Tunnel Rats_ was a box-office failure, earning less than $36,000 in ticket sales. The film's budget was $8 million.

Jeffrey M. Anderson of _Combustible Celluloid_ gave the film 3/4 stars and wrote “If Boll had made this film in 1986, he might have won an Oscar and become the next Oliver Stone!”[2] Bill Gibron of _Filmcritic.com_ gave the film 3.5/5 stars, calling it “very good – and that's amazing, considering who's receiving said accolade.”[3]

On the negative side, Uwe Boll won the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director for his work on the film, which he also received for directing _In the Name of the King_ and _Postal_.

Video game

Uwe Boll also presented a video game of the same name based on the film. The title was developed by Replay Studios using the Replay engine, and it was released on Steam on 15 May 2009.[4] This game is known for being one of the worst ever made.

[1] _The Making of Tunnel Rats_ documentary.

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[4] Tunnel Rats Video Game Steampowered Store

title: Tunnel Rats (film)

question: Summarize everything relating to characters being killed off.

answer: Garraty and Johnson are killed first, and later Sergeant Heaney and Verano are killed as Green escapes. Lidford is killed later on. Graybridge is killed when he and Miller try to escape. Green dies in the tunnels. Harris and Mai remain in the tunnels until the end of their days.

question: Summarize everything relating to the film's critical reception.

answer: Jeffrey M. Anderson of Combustible Celluloid gave the film 3/4 stars. Bill Gbron of Filmcritic.com gave the film 3.5/5 stars. On the other hand, Uwe Boll won the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director for his work on the film.

question: What does the article say about the challenges thew crew faced in making the film?

question: Summarize everything relating to ther film's director.

answer: The film was directed by Uwe Boll. Boll revealed that the film did not have a script and that the actors improvised their lines. For his work on the film, he won the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director, an award he also received for directing In the Name of the King and Postal. He also presented a video game of the same name based on the film.


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“…damaged goods.” The words seem to escape your lips before you can even realize what you’re saying, but that only makes it worse. You’re always so censored, so guarded, so hearing these words that you let slip out is a glimpse into your true feelings. The ones I never get to see, but so desperately want to. As soon as the phrase rolls off of your tongue a pained look appears in your eyes, and for a moment you seem to regret it.<br>
	“Did you think about that for two days before you said it?” You have a two-day rule; if you have something to say you’ll think about it for two days to see if you really want to say it. I suppose it’s the smart thing to do, but I always believed life is about living in the moment and saying and doing whatever’s on your mind at a given moment. You are always so composed, calculating your every move and interaction. You and I could not be any more opposite. And yet, you and I could not be any more in love.
	At least, until the events of tonight left us and our love broken and tangled like those split ends in my hair, and I’m reminded that I’m due for a haircut. I wait for your response, half expecting you to apologize and take it back. I know you better, though, you’d never lose your cool in front of me.
	“If I hadn’t considered it for so long, I wouldn’t have said it.” As always, you won’t back down or, God forbid, admit you were wrong. Somehow, you escape the general rule that all humans make mistakes. In the unlikely event you do fuck something up, you can always find a way around it, a way to make it look like a carefully planned accident.
	I smile at you, and I can tell it throws you off. You’re so used to me getting upset, yelling, crying – anything but staying calm. “You’re so fucking pathetic.” I laugh quietly to myself, not listening for your response. I’m not finished. “Your pride, your ego, is too fucking huge…is it even possible for you to admit you’ve made a mistake? Is it? Or is that too much to ask? For you to admit you’re a goddamn imperfect human being?”
	“I told you, I’ve been thinking that for a while now.”
	“Oh yeah? Have you?” I can feel my unruffled demeanor beginning to unravel. You frustrate me so badly sometimes, I turn into a person I hardly even know. It’s not like me to lose control, to shout at the people I love and to break down – but you manage to bring it out in me. “If you’d thought about that for more than two seconds, you should know that is a terrible thing to say to someone. Especially someone you’re supposed to love.” I finally look up to meet your eyes. They’re as cold as ever, and I can’t seem to detect an ounce of emotion in them.
	“Why wouldn’t I say it, if that’s what I think?”
	I swear to God, your stubbornness only increases my urge to hit you.
	But I don’t, because unlike you, I try not to hurt the people I love.
	“Because it’s fucking inconsiderate!” I know my voice level is getting increasingly higher, but I don’t care. You said such mean things, and I don’t care. “You do not call a person ‘damaged goods.’ Especially when it wasn’t their fault.”
	“Why not?” You raise your voice to compete with mine, and that stoic exterior is slowly slipping away. “You hurt yourself, I don’t care. Some guy fucked you, I don’t care. You’re damaged goods, but I got over that!”
That’s it. I have the overwhelming urge to slap you, but I know you’d deal it back ten times worse. My fingernails dig so deeply into my palms I worry the skin is going to break. Tears of frustration are brimming at my eyes, and keeping them back is getting harder by the second. I’m not even sure what to say to you, and I know that any words are going to send me over the edge and into an ocean of tears. How dare you say that. How fucking dare you. You’re acting like I wanted all this to happen. You’re making it sound like, at fourteen years old, I wanted some older guy to force himself upon me. Like I wanted to hate myself and hurt myself for years over it. And now you’re trying to tell me that you’re the one who ‘got over it’? I’m pretty sure I had much more ‘getting over it’ to do than you did.
	“This isn’t love.” The three words pass my lips almost without my consent, and come out barely above a whisper. I hear you ask me to reiterate, but I’m too lost in my own mind to pay attention to you. “This isn’t love,” I murmur again, and the phrase keeps repeating itself in my head. Love doesn’t hurt, at least not like this. Love doesn’t play games, hold grudges.
	You are beautiful, and I wanted this to be love so badly that I convinced myself that it was. But it isn’t, and that’s become more and more of an inescapable truth.
	I get off your bed. I will no longer refer to it as ‘our’ bed, because it isn’t. I hear you standing up to come after me, and I smirk sardonically to myself. For once, you put aside your pride. Too bad it came too late. I walk fast, but you’re faster, and you grab my arm and whirl me around. You seem angry, which is amusing since I’m the one who just got insulted.
	“Where do you think you’re going?”
	“I’m leaving you.”
	“No you aren’t.” For a moment, I stop resisting to look at you, and shake my head. Maybe if you had asked nicely, I’d have stayed. Maybe if you didn’t act like I was just your property, some object you could do as you please with. Maybe if you’d admitted you were hurt instead of getting angry, I’d have stayed.
	But you didn’t. You didn’t do any of that. I jerk my arm away from you.
	“Don’t touch me.” Those words seem to get to you, and suddenly you appear to have a change of heart. I turn away and continue walking, hardly interested in whatever apology or sob story you have to offer this time.
	“No, I didn’t mean it, don’t leave…I can fix you.” The comment stops me, and I turn to face you one last time. There is nothing you can say now to save yourself. I consider myself to be a forgiving person, but the things you’ve said and done to me are unforgiveable. I almost pity you, and how you think you can ‘fix’ me. How you think you’re some savoir, God’s greatest gift to the planet. I think that you honestly believe you are all those things, and the sad reality is that you aren’t. Sadder even, is that you’re too blind to realize it.
	“No, you can’t.” You begin to say something, but I cut you off. “You can’t fix something that isn’t broken.”

title: [Damaged Goods] my first short story :3

question: Who are the main characters in the story?

answer: Two people who are ending their romantic relationship.

question: What is the couple quarreling about?

answer: The other person accuses the narrator of being damaged goods. The narrator responds by calling out the other person's pride and conceit. The argument only escalates from there.

question: Who said "damaged good" initially?

answer: The person the narrator was in a relationship with.

question: Explain why the person used the words "damaged goods".

answer: A much older man forced himself onto the narrator when she was 14 years old. She hated herself and hurt herself for years afterward.

question: What are the major events of the story?

answer: The narrator is called damaged goods and she responds by asking how long the person thought about it before saying it. The argument escalates and ends with the narrator leaving the relationship and stating that she is not broken.

question: Write a ~6 sentence summary.

answer: The narrator is called damaged goods by the person she is in a relationship with. She responds by asking how long the person thought about it before saying it. The argument escalates. The narrator describes the trauma she suffered as a young person and the repercussions of it in her personal life. The person responds by calling her damaged good and wants to fix her. The story ends with the narrator leaving the relationship and stating that she is not broken..


text:
The day was very sunny, not that I like the sun much, and the girl, whose name was Becky, was simply walking down a very dusty road. As she made her way down the road, she spotted a most beautiful cupcake, but it was not like any cupcake she had seen before, for it was blue and glittery, an edible type of glittery, not the crafting kind. Becky slowly walked up to the cupcake, not too slow and not too fast so as not to alert her neighbors, whose names were George and Harriet Franklin. They were very strange people, avoiding regular humans at all cost. Becky got quite close to the cupcake, marveling at how wondrous a cupcake it was. Most cupcakes are wondrous things, but this one was exceptionally so. Since she was quite close to the windowsill, she could hear inside the house.

"Oh George, I am most glad we traded our children for that wondrous magic blue cupcake that is unguarded and sitting on our windowsill."

"I am most glad as well, for with that cupcake we can take over the entire world."

Once she had heard these things, Becky was most quick to snatch the cupcake from the windowsill. She planned not to take over the world, but more simply just take over her town, for it was a mighty big town full of very kind people, and she wished to be in charge of them all.

Becky ran home, and got very sweaty, and once she got home, she ran into her rather small room, it was not an actual room, you see, it was a closet, for Becky's parents had died when she was young and she was made to live with her Aunt Peggy and Uncle Vernon, both of whom did not like Becky, for they were very strange people, you see, very strange indeed, for they did not like Becky for she was not their actual child, their actual child being named Aaron. Anyways, once she got in her room/closet, she sat down on her bed, which wasn't much of a bed, more like two pillows stacked atop each other, and she closely observed the cupcake. She cautiously put her tongue on the cupcake and tasted it. It was absolutely delicious, the best cupcake she had ever tasted! And she had tasted some very good cupcakes in her lifetime. The cupcake was so good, in fact, that she stuffed the entire thing in her mouth, scarfing it down quickly, for she was a starving child and was always hungry.

The cupcake, having been stolen, was not to cause good effects for Becky, for the wizard that had enchanted the cupcake had put a curse on it for anyone who ate it that was not George or Harriet Franklin. Poor Becky had no idea until she suddenly started to feel dizzy and confused, and so she tried very hard to open her door, but she could not get the door opened for she had locked it. Her airway started to close up and she saw a bright light....

Weeks have passed since the cupcake was stolen, and it was just yesterday that her Aunt Peggy and Uncle Vernon discovered her dead body in the closet. They have not mourned for her, and never will, for they did not like Becky, and were slightly happy to see her gone.

title: The Magic Cupcake

question: What would have happened if the cupcake hadn't been cursed?

answer: Becky would have used its power to take over her town.

question: Why did it take Becky's aunt and uncle so long to find her body?

answer: Because they didn't like her and probably didn't care enough to go looking for her.

question: What kind of people are George and Harriet Franklin?

answer: They are evil.

question: How did Becky die?

answer: She suffocated.


text:
Hey Reddit, I had to write a narrative for English class addressing a social injustice. Feed back would be greatly appreciated. Thanks guys.

This is a story about a man, his name does not matter, the only thing important about him is how different he was. Different because of the way he was raised and brought up, different in a way in which he could do very little to control. He was not the only one like this, there were others, some still exist to this day. This man was every word in the book. He never accepted any help from anybody, instead he was rude and offended when they offered. He spat on those who had good intentions, and cursed those who did anything they thought would make him a better person. Living a sad and lonely life he kept his mind closed from the opinions possibly wiser than him, in fear of change in reality. His only defense was his caustic tongue from the ongoing barrage of kindness. He was raised from abusive parents. He never felt like he belonged or was loved so he shut out the world around him. He one day took a fall. A softening of his thick head. His frail old body broke on impact with the earth; his teeth cracked and tongue twisted, he lay there helpless and speechless. His eyes were clouded with tears but it was now clear what he had been missing. Ready to be reformed, to be reborn, he relaxed. Although no one would help him. The iron was hot but not a single hand was lent out to pick him up off the ground. So he would lay there to rot, like a piece of trash in the gutter. No redemption, just damnation. Everyone that passed to see the freak show just kept walking, they laughed and pointed as if it was his punishment. He was never heard from again; and no one thought twice about it. He grew to hate society even more. Bad turned worse. He never loved anything again. He blamed himself. When he died his body was only found because of the neighbors complaining about the smell.  With just one whiff  it burned their nostrils and made them sick to their stomachs. You can still smell it today, wafting around all of humanity.

title: A story I had to write for English, feedback would be appreciated

question: How old was the character when he fell?

answer: Information not found

question: How did he fall?

answer: It is suggested it was not a physical fall.

question: Will anybody help him?

answer: No

question: Will he become more vulnerable to the world?

answer: No, he became more bitter.

question: Write a ~3 sentence summary.

answer: The character was raised by abusive parents so he grew up to become rude, with a caustic tongue. When he needed help from society, no one offered so he grew even more bitter. In the end, he died but no one noticed until his neighbors complained about the smell.