6/12/2023 0 Comments The light house witches![]() Twenty-two years later, Luna has been searching for her missing sisters and mother. Liv is told wildlings are dangerous and must be killed. The locals warn her about wildlings, supernatural beings who mimic human children, created by witches for revenge. She learns that the cave beneath the lighthouse was once a prison for women accused of witchcraft. When two of her daughters go missing, she's frantic. When single mother Liv is commissioned to paint a mural in a 100-year-old lighthouse on a remote Scottish island, it's an opportunity to start over with her three daughters-Luna, Sapphire, and Clover. The secrets of witches have reached across the centuries in this chilling Gothic thriller from the author of the acclaimed The Nesting. ![]() ![]() Twenty years later, one is found-but she's still the same age as when she disappeared. Two sisters go missing on a remote Scottish island. ![]()
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6/12/2023 0 Comments Chiang story of your life![]() ![]() ![]() But take a person with one-in-a-million skin and bone structure, add professional makeup and retouching, and you're no longer looking at beauty in its natural form. Evolution gave us a circuit that responds to good looks - call it the pleasure receptor for our visual cortex - and in our natural environment, it was useful to have. That's when it becomes addictive.īeauty has undergone a similar process, thanks to advertisers. But refine it, purify it, and you get a compound that hits your pleasure receptors with an unnatural intensity. In its natural form, as coca leaves, it's appealing, but not to an extent that it usually becomes a problem. ![]() 6/12/2023 0 Comments Faith ringgold tar beach 1988![]() “I said to him,” Ringgold continued, “ ‘You know something? I think what she’s saying is-it’s the 1960s, all hell is breaking loose all over, and you’re painting flowers and leaves. That’s interesting!”ĭriving back to Harlem, she and Birdie talked about what had happened. “What is she talking about? I was taught that!” Ringgold remembered thinking. The dealer studied the work, the artist told me, then said to her, “You”-pause-“can’t”-pause-“do that.” Ringgold showed White her paintings-still lifes and landscapes in what she called “French” colors, which were very much in line with the gallery’s focus. ![]() “We used to bring in the actual art because I didn’t want to hear anything about, ‘Yeah, but I can’t see it. “We never showed books or slides,” Ringgold told me one morning in her studio at her home in Englewood, New Jersey. The artist’s second husband, Burdette Ringgold (everyone calls him Birdie), went along too, carrying her paintings, as he always did. ![]() Nevertheless, as Ringgold tells it in her memoirs, We Flew over the Bridge (1995), she was unrelenting in her search, and one day she had a meeting with Ruth White, who ran a gallery in Manhattan on 57th Street. ![]() To say that it was difficult for black artists to find gallery representation at that time would be a gross understatement. In 1963, Faith Ringgold was 32, the mother of two daughters, and on the hunt for a gallery to show her work. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She had about 20 more over the next few months, and three emergency room visits. At the age of three months, Lia Lee had an epileptic seizure. The story told in ''The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down,'' by Anne Fadiman, a freelance journalist and the newly named editor of The American Scholar, is that of Lia Lee, born on July 19, 1982, in the Merced Community MedicalĬenter. It has no heroes or villains, but it has an abundance of innocent suffering, It is a tale of culture clashes,įear and grief in the face of change, parental love, her doctors' sense of duty, and misperceptions compounded daily until they became colossal misunderstandings. This was a historic transition, and this child's story is in many ways her people's tale in microcosm - and taken to an extreme. The town of Merced in the fertile San Joaquin Valley of California. It is the tale of an immigrant child whose family went in one generation from traditional tribal life in the war-torn mountains of Laos to a bustling existence in Us more than melodrama, then this fine book recounts a poignant tragedy. ![]() When medicine butts up against traditional belief, tragedy ensues.į tragedy is a conflict of two goods, if it entails the unfolding of deep human tendencies in a cultural context that makes the outcome seem inevitable, if it moves ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments The Book Cat by Polly Faber![]() Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. ![]() Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. ![]() We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. ![]() We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]() ![]() ![]() This summary contains dozens of direct quotations and paraphrases from the copy-righted teleplays of the Program, and also contains detailed descriptions of plot, character, and setting. ![]() The defendants' Book contains a detailed summary of these eight episodes. distributes "Welcome to Twin Peaks," which bears that defendant's SIGNET imprint.Īt issue in this case are the two hour premiere and seven subsequent hour-long episodes broadcast weekly in the spring of 1990. It also owns the mark "Twin Peaks."ĭefendants Publications International, Ltd., ("PIL") and Scott Knickelbine have written and published an unauthorized book entitled "Welcome to Twin Peaks" (the "Book"), which purports to be "A Complete Guide to the Who's Who and What's What" of the Program. TPP (formerly named Lynch/Frost Productions, Inc.) is the producer of the television series "Twin Peaks", (the "Program") and owns all rights, title and interest in and to the Program. ![]() ![]() ("TPP") moves for judgment granting plaintiff the injunctive and monetary relief (in a sum to be determined by the Court) requested in the complaint, on its claims for copyright infringement under § 501 of the Copyright Act of 1976, trademark infringement, unfair competition under both § 43(a) of the Lanham Act and New York common law, and violation of § 368-d of the New York General Business Law (injury to business reputation), together with costs, and attorneys' fees. ![]() ![]() The campaign was so effective that the state abandoned other expensive anti-littering campaigns, and five years into the “Don't Mess With Texas” campaign, roadside litter had decreased 72%.Īnd it isn't just that the Heath brothers tell such great stories, they show how you - as a manager, a marketer, an organizational change agent, or a politician - can craft new messages, and evaluate and alter your current messages to have the greatest impact. The Heath brothers show us how, while warm and cuddly appeals to stop litter had failed in Texas, this simple, unexpected, concrete, credible, and emotional message – which had a toughness that appealed to conservative rednecks, not just liberal tree-huggers – quickly became a favorite bumper sticker, was known and could be recalled by 73% of Texans just a few months after the campaign was launched, and roadside litter declined in Texas declined nearly 30% within a year. One of my favorites is their analysis of the success of the “Don't Mess with Texas” anti-littering campaign. ![]() The book focuses squarely on using this research to help you design your own messages that will stick and affect what people actually do. I love how the Heath brothers dissect false stories and myths, (like “you only use 10% of your brain”) to show what kinds ideas spread and persist, and what kinds don't. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is one of the most important business books ever written. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Solo leveling light novel 3![]() Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. ![]() This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Incredibly loud book![]() ![]() At the end of this book, it goes backwards from the moment the dad was in the Twin Towers to when he was safe at home. ![]() Oskar also figures out his mother knew what he was doing the whole time and just let him go. Lastly, this book ended with Oskar finding who the key belonged to and learning that the key was completely irrelevant to his dad. Oskar is also close to the grandma in the book. They all used to live in Dresden and there is a lot of history there. ![]() Nevertheless, we learn a lot of background information about the grandparents and the grandma’s sister, Anna. Unfortunately, his grandpa doesn’t really do much with him. However, he at first doesn’t know that he is his grandpa. During this book Oskar also meets his grandpa. He meets many people with the last name Black throughout this book and he gets very close to them. He goes from door to door to everyone with the last name Black in New York City trying to figure out whose key it is. This book is about how Oskar finds a key in an envelope with the last name “Black” written on it. The book Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close is a very detailed book about a boy named Oskar whose father died in 9/11. Attention: Contains Spoilers Book – Summary ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Room emma donoghue analysis![]() ![]() ![]() Summary of the text, with some analytical comments interspersed.Story elements you may have missed as we decipher the novel.More of the novel concerns itself with the slow adjustment Jack must make to the world outside the small space where he had been born and lived the first five years of his life, as well as how he negotiates the ways in which his mother changes after being released from her enduring imprisonment and sexual slavery. The conditions of their confinement are detailed, as is the harrowing escape. An uncommon narrative voice and heightened attention to the details of what is daily life for most in the United States cast into relief the many blessings attendant on a “normal” day-to-day existence.ĭonoghue depicts the emergence of a five-year-old boy, Jack, and his mother from the enforced isolation of the mother’s slavery. The bestselling, award-winning novel, by Emma Donoghue, is a compelling read that both highlights the best and worst of humanity and reveals as strange what many take for granted. Room: A Novel by Emma Donoghue | Analysis & Summary ![]() |