The End Of The Tether

It's a humid summer night in August 1997 and LudoCarre is nervous. He hasn't seen or spoken to his ex, Arlo Quinonez since he wasfifteen. Now, he's returning home to be reunited with the one person he made aconnection with in his youth. The night before he arrives, Ludo gives her aphone call. Big laughs and a familiar cadence in Arlo's voice don't justinstantly calm him down -- they make him excited to see her. That excitementonly hurts him more when they show up the next day and find out Arlo has beenmissing...for the last week. Determined to find her, Ludo takes things into hisown hands, but the further he gets into his investigation, the more he questionshow well everyone on base, in town, and even he himself really knew her. Gonewithout a trace, the girl he once knew everything about has now become amystery. Where is his best friend - and who is she, aswell?

Most Christians view the book of Ecclesiastes as an enigma, a puzzle from which we might draw a few aphorisms but little else. Douglas Wilson's fresh, lucid treatment of this wonderful book enables us to see that its message is not a confused riddle but an incisive indictment of "the wisdom of this world." We learn that what we call "modernity" is simply a term for men sinning in the old ways with new toys and tools. There is truly nothing new "under the sun"; man's problems today are exactly what they have been since the Fall. And the answer to man's problem is just as old, yet forever new - "the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom." (Steve Wilkins)

Owen Knowles, Research Fellow at the University of Hull. --Book Jacket.

Was America founded on the auction block in Jamestown in 1619 or aboard the Mayflower in 1620? The controversy erupted in August 2019 when the New York Times announced its 1619 Project. The Times set to transform history by asserting that all the laws, material gains, and cultural achievements of Americans are rooted in the exploitation of African-Americans. Historians have pushed back, saying that the 1619 Project conjures a false narrative out of racial grievance. This book sums up what the critics have said and argues that the traditional starting point for the American story--the signing of the Mayflower Compact aboard ship before the Pilgrims set foot in the Massachusetts wilderness--is right. A nation as complex as ours, of course, has many starting points, including the Declaration of Independence in 1776. But if we want to understand where the quintessential ideas of self-government and ordered liberty came from, the deliberate actions of the Mayflower immigrants in 1620 count much more than the near accidental arrival in Virginia fifteen months earlier of a Portuguese slave ship commandeered by English pirates. Schools across the country have already adopted The Times' radical revision of history as part of their curricula. The stakes are high. Should children be taught that our nation is, to its bone, a 400-year-old system of racist oppression? Or should we teach children that what has always made America exceptional is its pursuit of liberty and justice for all?

Reproduction of the original: End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad

"The End of the Tether" from Joseph Conrad. A Polish novelist who wrote in English (1857-1924).

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