![]() ![]() ![]() Lorelei does get the guy - she marries a millionaire - but Loos subtly, and powerfully, inverts the power dynamic and challenges authority. Lorelei may seem like a naive gold digger, but as she describes her own life, she is an insightful observer of pre-World War II America. And he is the gentleman who is interested in educating me." And he gives her jewels and asks to be called "Daddy."Īnita Loos has captured an extraordinary voice, and therein lies not only the novel's charm, but also its compelling force. Eisman is in the wholesale button profession in Chicago and he is the gentleman who is known practically all over Chicago as Gus Eisman the Button King. Lorelei Lee narrates the story of her life, as she - along with her sidekick, Dorothy, both small-town girls from Little Rock - travel to Europe for their fully funded "education." As she explains: "Mr. ![]()
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![]() You can’t eat better, stop drinking, love your partner, or improve yourself in any way until you become transparent to yourself. It is only when you are conscious that you are able to see yourself, a process of self-awareness that can suddenly reveal so many of the previously hidden forces constantly at work molding you, manipulating you, and holding you back. ![]() ![]() We can and should help heal our bodies and our minds to create wellness for ourselves. Once we understand this, the more inadequate the traditional deterministic approach of “recircuiting” faulty wiring through interventions such as medicine and surgery seems. We can make choices about our sleep, nutrition, relationships, and the ways we move our body that all alter gene expression. We are, of course, given a set of genes, but, like a deck of cards, to some degree we can choose which hands we want to play. The groundbreaking discovery of epigenetics tells a new story about our ability to change. Emerging science tells us that the genes we inherit aren’t fixed they are influenced by their environment, beginning in utero and continuing throughout our lives. No longer do we need to accept the narrative of “faulty genes” as our fate. ![]() There is an awakening going on right this moment. ![]() ![]() ![]() A piece of advice that Nastia had for reaching your goals is breaking your goals down into steps-or smaller goals. Nastia set goals for her self and worked towards achieving them. One of the things that Nastia talks about in her book is trying to reach your goals, not matter what other people say. ![]() Her parents even had her try other activities, such as piano, but she wanted to do gymnastics. Even though her parents were both gymnasts, they did not pressure her into gymnastics it was a choice that she made. ![]() She idolized the older girls and began gymnastics at a young age. It is at this gym where Nastia spent most of her time. She talks about why her parents chose to come to the United States, rather than Canada, Germany, etc.Īfter initially settling in New Orleans, her parents moved to Texas and set up a gym with a friend from Russia. Both her parents were gymnasts, with her father competing even after her birth. She was born in Russia, and her parents immigrated to the United States shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. In Finding My Shine, Nastia Luikin details her life. ![]() When you quit, quit after a good day.” -Finding My Shine. This quote was something that Nastia’s mother had told her and something that Nastia remembers and passes onto her readers. “You can quit any time you want, but you can’t quit after a bad day. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() By then, 19 innocent women and men had been hung and one man had been pressed to death by heavy stones.īut the trauma wrought by America’s very own “tiny reign of terror,” as Stacy Schiff describes the Salem witch trials in her new book The Witches: Salem, 1692, has no end in sight. ![]() When The Crucible debuted on Broadway in 1953, Arthur Miller famously declared, “Salem is one of the few dramas in history with a beginning, a middle, and an end.” It’s a catchy sound bite-but what is this “end” he talks about? The collective nightmare certainly began in January 1692, when nine-year-old Betty Parris and eleven-year-old Abigail Williams erupted in unstoppable spasms, barks, and twitches the middle of the drama reached a climax with the bodies that swung on Gallows Hill over that summer and the final act arrived with the last trials in the spring of 1693, when the Massachusetts Bay Colony snapped awake at last, delivering not-guilty verdicts to those still on trial and pardoning the rest. ![]() ![]() ![]() In a Zoom playback of Justice, he acknowledged that 2020 "has been a really challenging year where we've lost loved ones and relationships" during the COVID-19 pandemic. Commercially, "Ghost" reached number one in Malaysia and Singapore and charted within the top ten in Canada, Indonesia, Ireland, Lebanon, the Philippines, and the United States.īieber explained that his objective with the creation of "Ghost" was to "make people feel like there is hope and that the trauma and the hurt that you feel isn't gonna last forever". Johnson and Stefan Johnson), alongside Michael Pollack. Jon Bellion wrote the song with Bieber and produced it with the Monsters & Strangerz (Jordan K. ![]() It was sent to French radio stations through Universal Music Group on September 10, 2021, as the sixth and final single from his sixth studio album, Justice. " Ghost" is a song by Canadian singer Justin Bieber. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() My thoughtsĭo you know that feeling when you read a book and it’s so good that when you finish it, you wish you could unread it and read it all over again for the first time? That’s where I am, thanks to Emily Henry. Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love. ![]() She’ll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he’ll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Until, one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months, they’re living in neighboring beach houses, broke, and bogged down with writer’s block. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters.Īugustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That is to say that one's action taken under the colour of law adjusts, or colours, the law to the circumstance although the action may technically contravene the law. Under the common law, the term colour of law refers to the mere semblance of a legal right. This article describes several ways colour appears in the law, namely concepts of colour and colourability, blackmail, legal blacklining, blue-pencil severance and red circling. Gray, C.B., "The Colour of Law: Law is Constituted from the Colour of Right," (2008) Les Cahiers De Droit, 49:3 at p. 2018 Legal Resource Centre of Alberta Ltd. MLA style: "The Colour of the Law." The Free Library. ![]() ![]() I mean, how could anyone get Requiem’s voice right? Despite that, I was nervous to listen to Requiem for Immortals because I love it so much and a narrator could make or break this book. Tara: Unlike many people, I’m quite happy to listen to a book I’ve already read and enjoyed. ![]() This is an amazing feat for a novel as complex as this one. The plot was exceedingly well executed in such a way that you missed nothing, were never confused or felt left behind. And the extraordinary thing is that the character depth was there for most of the characters, even the ones that appeared for only a chapter or two. Winter manages a character depth that is rare in any novel, let alone lesbian fiction. This leads to a beautiful, well thought out, excellently executed psychological thriller with enough twists and turns to keep any reader happy. So, she starts to follow Alison and the more she uncovers about the woman the more she believes that she is nothing more than a little mouse of a person. ![]() One day she is sent a contract to kill Alison, but she has to wait a few weeks before she can do it. But so does being the assassin Requiem which is the other part of her life. Staying on top of her game requires rigorous discipline and training. Requiem For Immortals by Lee Winter is guaranteed to get under your skin and stay there because it is just so good. ![]() ![]() ![]() Richard Zacks’ The Pirate Coast covers much the same ground as David Smethurst’s Tripoli Zacks pays more attention to personalities and less to events, and focuses more on the land aspects of the campaign. ![]() Richard Zacks brings this important story of America's first overseas covert operation to life. But as Eaton dared to reveal that the president had deserted him, Jefferson set out to crush him. After surviving sandstorms, treachery, and near death, Eaton achieved a remarkable victory on "the shores of Tripoli," gaining freedom for the American hostages and new respect for the young United States. But before Eaton departed, Jefferson grew wary of the affair and withdrew his support.Īstoundingly, Eaton persevered, gathering a ragtag army and leading them on a brutal march across five hundred miles of desert. He chose an unlikely diplomat, William Eaton, to lead the mission. President Jefferson sent out navy squadrons, but he also authorized a secret mission to overthrow the government of Tripoli. A real-life thrillerâ?the true story of the unheralded American who brought the Barbary Pirates to their kneesĪfter Tripoli declared war on the United States in 1801, Barbary pirates captured three hundred US sailors and marines. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the beginning of the play, two brothers leading opposite sides in Thebes' civil war died fighting each other for the throne.Ĭreon, the new ruler of Thebes, has decided that Eteocles will be honored and Polyneices will be in public shame. The play expands on the Theban legend that predated it and picks up where Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes ends. It is the third of the three Theban plays chronologically, but was the first written. Karelisa Hartigan, The Classical BulletinĪntigone is a tragedy by Sophocles written in or before 441 BC. Should our drama department ask for my advice as to a playable text, I would certainly suggest Woodruff's new version. Woodruff's introduction is a strong, clear, and clever blend of basic traditional information (to those who know Greek tragedy) and fresh insights. Antigone's words on the gods' unwritten laws keep close to the Greek and yet would be authentic for a modern speaker. Woodruff's rendering of the dialogue moves along easily these are lines that any contemporary Antigone, Creon or Haemon might speak. After giving a succinct analysis of each in his introduction, Woodruff translates the lyrics into English that is both poetic and comprehensible. The choral odes as rendered here deserve special notice. Line notes printed at the bottom of the page bring a reader further quick assistance. Woodruff's work with Peter Meineck makes this text one that is accessible to today's students and could be staged for modern audiences. ![]() |