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Textual Time Capsules

Author : Karina Guardiola-Lopez

Publisher :

Page : pages

File Size : 14,37 MB

Release : 2021-11-11

Category :

ISBN : 9780578256986

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In Textual Time Capsules, each poem captures a moment in time. It reflects stories, scars, sacrifices, and lessons learned from sages, strangers, family, friends, lovers, and liars. These vulnerable experiences are necessary for growth. Crossing paths with one another is no coincidence."Karina Guardiola-López's poems are redirected rhythms for the righteous. Requiems offering relief from the grief and greed of a globe gone astray. When chaos is at a premium we need poets to create slivers of solitude where words win and truth can once again stand for something..."- reg e gaines, Tony award-winning playwright, poet, and director"Karina Guardiola-López's poetry in Textual Time Capsules attests to how ancestors through their teachings, lead the way. She the poet listens and pays it forward."-Vanessa Chica, Founder of The Word Box, poet, and playwright"Karina Guardiola-López's poetry blurs the lines between time and space. Each poem transports readers into the bittersweet, intimate moments between family, friends, lovers, and liars and asks us to focus on the fine details of a life worth living."-Peggy Robles-Alvarado, BRIO award winner, poet, and director



Time Capsule

Author : Lauren Redniss

Publisher : Make Me a World

Page : 27 pages

File Size : 25,66 MB

Release : 2022-04-26

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 0593425952

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The joy a child finds in making their own time capsule, filled with everyday objects, comes alive in this inviting picture book from the MacArthur “genius grant” recipient and award-winning author of Radioactive. A set of dice. A grandmother’s ring. The key to an old house. A child gathers keepsakes from everyday life, seals them in a jar, and buries them underground. A gift from the present day…to people of the future…that tells a story about the past. A time capsule. The first book for children by renowned artist and writer Lauren Redniss will get readers thinking about the times they are living through and how their world will be remembered in ages to come. It will also spark creativity, inviting young people to envision the future and to make their own time capsules. Extra pages in the back include tips on making your own time capsule and facts about different kinds of time capsules in history.



Cartboy and the Time Capsule

Author : L. A. Campbell

Publisher : Macmillan

Page : 209 pages

File Size : 45,59 MB

Release : 2013-04-02

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 0765333171

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Sixth-grader Hal gets a year-long journal-keeping assignment in his least favorite class, history, much to the delight of his history buff father.



Seeds

Author : Rob Kesseler

Publisher :

Page : 264 pages

File Size : 28,68 MB

Release : 2014-05-07

Category : Seeds

ISBN : 9781906506520

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Art and science collaborate on a fascinating story with extraordinary images in a highly-acclaimed book. Seeds, the most complex organs produced by plants, ensure the biodiversity of our planet. They vary from the impressive Seychelles nut that weighs twenty kilos to the dust-like seeds of the orchids. Some wait for hundreds of years to find the right place and time for germination after travelling thousands of kilometres or just a few centimetres. The evolution of their highly sophisticated structures from prehistoric times to today makes fascinating reading as do the wiles plants use to attract and deceive their chosen pollinators. The extraordinary images that accompany this story provide an unprecedented presentation of the magnificent diversity of seeds in all their exquisite beauty and sophistication. Fruits are the keepers of the precious seeds that ensure our future; some are edible, others inedible and many, quite simply, incredible.



Remembrance of Things Present

Author : Nick Yablon

Publisher : University of Chicago Press

Page : 415 pages

File Size : 16,42 MB

Release : 2019-06-12

Category : History

ISBN : 022657413X

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Time capsules offer unexpected insights into how people view their own time, place, and culture, as well as their duties to future generations. Remembrance of Things Present traces the birth of this device to the Gilded Age, when growing urban volatility prompted doubts about how the period would be remembered—or if it would be remembered at all. Yablon details how diverse Americans – from presidents and mayors to advocates for the rights of women, blacks, and workers – constructed prospective memories of their present. They did so by contributing not just written testimony to time capsules but also sources that historians and archivists considered illegitimate, such as photographs, phonograph records, films, and everyday artifacts. By offering a direct line to posterity, time capsules stimulated various hopes for the future. Remembrance of Things Present delves into these treasure chests to unearth those forgotten futures.



Secret of the Time Capsule

Author : Joan Lowery Nixon

Publisher : Open Road Media

Page : 76 pages

File Size : 11,42 MB

Release : 2012-10-16

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1453282785

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DIVInside a time capsule, Brian and Sean discover a decades-old mystery/divDIV In 1918, the people of Redoaks buried a time capsule full of messages for the future. Besides all the grown-up stuff, the fourth-graders of 1918 included a packet of letters to the fourth-graders of today—which means Sean Quinn is about to get a letter straight from the past! But when it comes time to crack the capsule’s seal, Sean and his brother Brian learn that its contents could change the town’s future forever./divDIV /divDIVBoris Vlado, the only surviving member of the fourth-graders of 1918, warns the boys that the time capsule holds a dangerous secret. But when they open the capsule, there’s nothing inside! To find out why, Brian and Sean will have to solve a historic mystery that involves bank robbery, corruption, and the most valuable stamp collection Redoaks has ever seen./div



Time Capsules

Author : William E. Jarvis

Publisher : McFarland

Page : 330 pages

File Size : 49,68 MB

Release : 2015-10-05

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 0786480955

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Time capsules have been used for thousands of years to store for posterity a selection of objects thought to be representative of life at a particular time. Such vessels have the dual purpose of causing participants to ponder their own cultural era and think about those to come. This work is a cultural history of five thousand years of time capsules and other related time-information transfer experiences. It examines both the formal and the popular culture aspects of the time capsule, from its roots in ancient Mesopotamian and Egyptian building foundation deposits to the present utilization of spacecraft probes and other extreme locations. The deposits of 3000 BCE deliberately had no definite date and time to be opened; in 1876 CE came the idea of target-dated deposits. Also discussed are how "real" time capsules work, notional and archaeological time capsules, the height of the time capsule's popularity from 1935 to 1982, the preservation of writings in time capsules, keeping time in a perpetual futurescape, and turn of the century hype surrounding millennium time capsules.



Time Capsule

Author : Virginia Loh-Hagan

Publisher : Cherry Lake

Page : 36 pages

File Size : 28,34 MB

Release : 2017-01-01

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 1634722124

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Time Capsule guides students as they conceive and execute their own time capsule for their friends and community. The considerate text includes easy-to-follow lists and will hold the readers' interest, allowing for successful mastery and comprehension. Written with a high interest level to appeal to a more mature audience, these books maintain a lower level of complexity with clear visuals to help struggling readers along. A table of contents, glossary with simplified pronunciations, and index all enhance achievement and comprehension.



The Time Capsule

Author : Lurlene McDaniel

Publisher : Laurel Leaf

Page : 226 pages

File Size : 29,58 MB

Release : 2007-12-18

Category : Young Adult Fiction

ISBN : 0307434028

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In first grade, twins Alexis and Adam wrote down what they wanted to be when they grew up and put it in their teacher’s time capsule. Now entering their senior year in high school, they are surprised to find out what they wrote: Alexis wanted to “help people” and Adam wanted to be a fireman. But that was before Adam got sick and their family fell apart. Adam’s leukemia is now in remission but, sadly, so is the twins’ family. Their mother and father are always working—not only don’t they have time for Alexis and Adam, they don’t have time for each other. Alexis can’t even convince them to take a weekend off for one last family vacation to Disney World. No one is prepared when Adam gets sick again, but this time Alexis is not alone. Adam’s illness reunites the family. And Alexis discovers that the time capsule predictions weren’t so far off the mark.



The Case of the Time-Capsule Bandit

Author : Octavia Spencer

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 240 pages

File Size : 26,89 MB

Release : 2013-10-15

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1442476834

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Meet Randi Rhodes, the world’s first ninja detective! Mystery abounds in this “assured, entertaining whodunit” (Publishers Weekly), a 2014 IndieNext pick and the first in a new middle grade series from Academy Award–winning actress Octavia Spencer. Deer Creek is a small town whose only hope for survival is the success of their Founder’s Day Festival. But the festival’s main attraction, a time capsule that many people believe hold the town’s treasure, has gone missing. Twelve-year-old Randi Rhodes and her best friend, D.C., are Bruce Lee–inspired ninjas and local detectives determined to solve the case. Even if it means investigating a haunted cabin and facing mean old Angus McCarthy, prime suspect. They have three days to find the treasure…the future of their whole town is at stake! Will these kids be able to save the day?