It must've been emotional and heartbreaking seeing Rayla cradling you and her parents' coins in her hands. How much she misses you and loves you. Finding your Bowblade, crying while holding it in her hands, then seeing the silhouettes of you and her parents and how you all looked at her with such sincere love and affection. How she hasn't forgotten about you and swore a vow and an oath to free all of you no matter what. It broke me to see her like this.
(I assume you weren't able to see outside the coin.) But if you did, I would imagine that it broke your heart seeing Rayla like that. How do you feel about this?
The short answer is: I'm glad she survived. I did everything I could to complete my mission in Katolis and keep Rayla alive. Last I knew, young Ezran still lived, and that surely meant Rayla did too.
A less-is-more strategy for public libraries to dominate the future
Definitely some valid points about mission statements and being able to defend why libraries are still a vital part of a community (because I think everyone who has ever told someone they’re in library school has gotten a version of the question, “Do people still use libraries anymore?” - which is a ridiculous question because if I thought libraries will close sometime in the next decade or so why would I be spending the money on grad school?)
What do you think of your library’s mission statement?
We tend to think of a mission statement as something you might see on an organization’s web page—a two-page blurb about “who we are, what we value, and where we are going.” Mission statements frequently get criticized because they seem to be honored more in the breach than in the observance of stated principles.
They also tend to have excess verbiage, weird grammatical twists, and four and…
What should be included in a mission statement?
A mission statement should include a clear and concise explanation of who the company is, how the company serves its target audience and what its core values are.
What is an example of a mission statement?
An example of a mission statement is “To assist writers creating and publishing eBooks from start to finish.”
This mission statement…
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Probably the most famous of Bold Goals has to be JF Kennedy’s landing a man on the moon and returning him to earth safely by the end of the decade. A mission statement by anyone’s standards.
But how does that really apply to us ‘mere’ entrepreneurs in Dorset?
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Accordingly to Ernest D Skipper, a Bold Goal is a far reaching destination where the path has yet to be…
My intention/mission statement: I will find personal power and stillness in order to fully focus on coaching/inspiring others to find their own personal light -- leading to a world that's a little more beautiful and at peace.
BOOKS IN COMIC BOOKS : : : A MISSION. AN INVESTIGATION.
by BK Munn
How wonderful to imagine that our favourite characters in comic books and comic strips have a rich inner life! Maybe they read the same books we do! Maybe they while away their leisure hours in fantasy worlds of their own, hidden between the pages of a book! Alas, this is not always the case. Rarely do we see our heroes with their noses between the covers or talking about a thrilling scene in a cherished novel. But I will never stop looking and sharing these unique scenes with you here.
A comic about someone reading a book may seem kind of boring, but many comics, like films, have used the act of reading or writing as “bookends” for both adaptations and original works. Why else would a book appear in a comic? Some notes towards a typology of books in comic books.
Books in comics are used to indicate occupation and status. The characters in an Archie comic book are students, and so carry schoolbooks everywhere they go. If a weapon is needed, a schoolbook is always handy in Archie’s world. In other comics, books, especially bookshelves and libraries, are easy shorthand for knowledge. If the character is a lawyer, scientist, newspaper editor, police chief, or magician, for instance, she will have signs of her trade surrounding her, often on her desk, but usually on shelves in the background of her office.
Besides existing as props, books in comics are often plot devices or macguffins. One day Donald Duck or one of his anthropomorphic brethren may randomly choose to read a book about “How to Get Rich Quick”, leading to a series of humourous events that only serve to impoverish him further. Perhaps Archie’s nemesis Reggie will inexplicably read a book prominently titled “Ancient Rome” before being knocked unconscious by Moose and imagining himself as a gladiator or as Emperor Nero. In a different kind of comic book story, a magical tome or notebook of scientific formulae may be the “dingus” or quest object our hero is searching for in order to save the world. Conversely, the same books may unleash untold horrors on their readers. (Phonebooks, newspapers, and magazines are often plot linchpins, but are they really books, per se?)
Books can be tools in a comic book, used sparingly to show us that school studies and book learning have occasional real world applications; they are tools of detection and defense. Superman may read a library of medical books at super-speed before performing emergency surgery on a rampaging giant ape. Batman may consult a collection of nursery rhymes to solve The Joker’s riddle. The scientist hero may refer to a volume of astronomy to predict an eclipse and thus defeat the solar-powered alien invaders. Even more obscurely, a book may confer special abilities or even superpowers in a comic book.
Often, books in comic books are signs of weakness or a source of humour. Bookworms are figures of fun, too immersed in their bookish worlds to be aware of the flesh-and-blood world around them. A boy with glasses who reads books may be called “Big Words”, but he is no better than his fellow gang members and sometimes may indeed seem absent minded, too cautious, or otherwise ineffectual. In a romance comic book, a young woman may have to learn to put aside her intellectual snobbery (and her books) to win the man she really loves.
Rarely does a comic book character read a book for pleasure. But everyone has the potential to behave like a real human, if only for short periods of time.
Irradiated Man with Books by Steve Ditko (Tales to Astonish #63, 1964)
