What kind of university did the author of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day attend?
land-grant university
Title: Half Bad
Passage: Sally Green submitted "Half Bad" to an agent in January 2013; in March, editorial director Ben Horslen acquired the manuscript for Penguin Books children's imprint Puffin Books, billing it "the book of the Bologna Children's Book Fair" after a 6-figure bidding war. In the run up to its publication in the UK on 3 March 2014, international rights to Half Bad sold rapidly; within 13 weeks of acquisition, it had sold in 25 territories; by November 2013, 36. Upon publication day, it broke the Guinness World Record for 'Most Translated Book by a Debut Author, Pre-publication' with 45 different translations.
Title: New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station
Passage: The New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (or NJAES) is an entity currently operated by Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in conjunction with the State of New Jersey in the university's role as the state's sole land-grant university. Today, it conducts research in agriculture, horticulture and turf grass science, and through the Rutgers Cooperative Extension aids New Jersey farmers, landscapers, and residents in each of the state's twenty-one counties.
Title: On the Sublime
Passage: Longinus critically applauds and condemns certain literary works as examples of good or bad styles of writing. Longinus ultimately promotes an ``elevation of style ''and an essence of`` simplicity''. To quote this famous author, ``the first and most important source of sublimity (is) the power of forming great conceptions. ''The concept of the sublime is generally accepted to refer to a style of writing that elevates itself`` above the ordinary''. Finally, Longinus sets out five sources of sublimity: ``great thoughts, strong emotions, certain figures of thought and speech, noble diction, and dignified word arrangement ''.
Title: Judith Viorst
Passage: Viorst is a 1952 graduate of the Newark College of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey. In 1968, Viorst signed the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War. In the latter part of the 1970s, after two decades of writing for children and adults, she turned to the study of Freudian psychology. In 1981, she became a research graduate at Washington Psychoanalytic Institute after six years of study.
Title: Taubenklippe
Passage: The Taubenklippe is a rock formation in the Harz mountains in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. It lies about halfway between Bad Harzburg and Ilsenburg at a height of on the eastern slopes of the Ecker valley. From the crag there is a good view over Harz Foreland, the heights near Bad Harzburg and the highest mountain in the Har, the Brocken. The "Taubenklippe" may be reached from the Ecker valley on a footpath, some 6 km long, that starts in Ilsenburg.
Title: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Passage: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, published in 1972, is an ALA Notable Children's Book written by Judith Viorst and illustrated by Ray Cruz. It has also won a George G. Stone Center Recognition of Merit, a Georgia Children's Book Award, and is a Reading Rainbow book. Viorst followed this book up with three sequels, "Alexander, Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday" , "Alexander, Who's Not (Do You Hear Me? I Mean It!) Going to Move" , and "Alexander Who's Trying His Best to Be the Best Boy Ever" .
Title: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (soundtrack)
Passage: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack was released in 1966 alongside the Western film, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, directed by Sergio Leone. The score is composed by frequent Leone collaborator Ennio Morricone, whose distinctive original compositions, containing gunfire, whistling, and yodeling permeate the film. The main theme, resembling the howling of a coyote, is a two - note melody that is a frequent motif, and is used for the three main characters, with a different instrument used for each one: flute for Blondie (Man With No Name), Arghilofono (Ocarina) for Angel Eyes, and human voices for Tuco.
Title: The Sun (United Kingdom)
Passage: On 7 July 2004, in response to verbal attacks in Liverpool on Wayne Rooney, just before his transfer from Everton to Manchester United, who had sold his life story to The Sun, the paper devoted a full-page editorial to an apology for the "awful error" of its Hillsborough coverage and argued that Rooney (who was still only three years old at the time of Hillsborough) should not be punished for its "past sins". In January 2005, The Sun's managing editor Graham Dudman admitting the Hillsborough coverage was "the worst mistake in our history", added: "What we did was a terrible mistake. It was a terrible, insensitive, horrible article, with a dreadful headline; but what we'd also say is: we have apologised for it, and the entire senior team here now is completely different from the team that put the paper out in 1989."
Title: Hitler Bad, Vandals Good
Passage: Hitler Bad, Vandals Good is the seventh studio album by the southern California punk rock band The Vandals, released in 1998 by Nitro Records. Much of the album is characterized by the pop-punk music and humorous lyrics for which the band is known, and it became their most popular and commercially successful album to date. While the band has utilized humor as a basis for much of their lyrical content throughout their career, the humor on their previous album "The Quickening" had been rooted heavily in sarcasm and dealt with themes of nihilism, anarchism and apathy. By comparison, the humor in "Hitler Bad, Vandals Good" is more lighthearted, dealing with subjects such as girlfriends, fast food and hairstyles.
Title: Alexander Hamilton Institute
Passage: The Alexander Hamilton Institute is a former institute for business education in New York City founded in 1909, and dissolved in the 1980s. The Alexander Hamilton Institute was a corporation engaged in collecting, organizing and transmitting business information.
Title: Kerris Dorsey
Passage: Kerris Lilla Dorsey (born January 9, 1998) is an American actress and singer. She is known for her roles as Paige Whedon in the television series Brothers & Sisters, Casey Beane, Billy Beane's (Brad Pitt) daughter, in the 2011 film Moneyball, and as Emily Cooper in the 2014 film Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. Dorsey plays Bridget Donovan, the daughter of the title character, in the television series Ray Donovan.
Title: The Good Place
Passage: Ted Danson as Michael, the architect of The Good Place where Eleanor and her fellow humans reside. In the first - season finale, it is discovered that he is a Bad Place demon who constructed a fake ``Good Place ''to torture Eleanor, Chidi, Tahani, and Jason. Unfortunately, he ends up repeatedly restarting his experiment due to Eleanor (and one time Jason) always figuring out that`` The Good Place'' is ``The Bad Place, ''leading to his routine failure, as well as hiding the constant resets from Shawn in order to avoid`` retirement''. As part of a truce he makes with Eleanor so his failing project will not be exposed and a chance to reform his behavior, Michael agrees to let the humans keep their memories and help them get into the true Good Place as well as to take Chidi's ethics lessons.
Title: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (theme)
Passage: ``The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ''is the theme to the 1966 film of the same name, which was directed by Sergio Leone. Included on the film soundtrack as`` The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (main title)'', the instrumental piece was composed by Ennio Morricone, with Bruno Nicolai conducting the orchestra. A cover version by Hugo Montenegro in 1968 was a pop hit in both the U.S. and the U.K. It has since become one of the most iconic scores in film history.
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