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If poem by rudyard kipling summary5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Hopper’s first recital of “If” came in 1971 during the Johnny Cash Show. Hopper’s free and fluid use of the poem, and his own persona of 1960’s hippy radical, strips away the father’s authoritative voice, the iffy colonial overtones, and the stoicism of British virtues and allows the poem to become an artistic manifesto to oneself. Hopper’s interpretation of Kipling’s “epic evocation of the British virtues of a ‘stiff upper lip’ and stoicism in the face of adversity” reimagines the poem as a declaration of creative intent. ![]() The uprising never happened, but the incident was a slow trigger for the Second Boar War of 1899 to 1902. Kipling’s real inspiration for the poem was Sir Leander Starr Jameson, the British colonial politician, and leader of the botched Jameson Raid of December 1895 which intended to trigger an uprising by the primarily British expatriate workers against the South African Republic government of Paul Kruger. The conflict discussed in Kipling’s poem is an external as well as an internal one. In Kipling’s original poem, the voice is that of a father offering prudent advice to the son on how to be a man and remain focused in the grip of conflict. Actor, director, and artist Dennis Hopper staged performances of British poet Rudyard Kipling’s “If” throughout his career. ![]()
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Joanne fluke sugar cookie murder5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() As a shadow hangs over her friends' Christmas wedding, Hannah's determined to cook a killer's goose before anyone else gets burned. The yuletide season in Lake Eden, Minnesota, guarantees a white Christmas, delectable holiday goodies from Hannah Swensen's bakery, The Cookie Jar-and murder. When a trail of candy canes leads to a corpse outfitted in a Santa suit on a snowy bank, Hannah Swensen sets out to discover who killed Kris Kringle. But in this festive collection of holiday whodunits, murder is also paying a visit. 'Tis the season for trimming the tree, caroling, baking cookies, and curling up by the Yuletide waiting for Santa to drop down the chimney. The annual Christmas Buffet is the final test of the recipes Hannah has collected for the Lake Eden Holiday Buffet Cookbook. When it comes to holidays, Minnesotans rise to the occasion-and the little town of Lake Eden is baking up a storm with Hannah leading the way. Surrounded by her loved ones, she has all the ingredients for a perfect Christmas-until murder is added to the mix. The holidays are the icing on the cake for bakery owner Hannah Swensen. ![]()
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All the ugly and beautiful things book5/13/2023 ![]() The multiple narrators don’t mince words as they describe a thoroughly sordid milieu and various squalid events that climax in a violent denouement that threatens to separate Wavy and Kellen permanently. ![]() ![]() Wavy is only 13 when their relationship turns sexual, and when Aunt Brenda finds out, she labels Kellen a rapist and works to keep them apart. As the years go by in Greenwood’s episodic tale, we see this affection-starved girl and damaged man fall in love. Only Kellen, a low-level enforcer for Liam who is also the survivor of childhood neglect, shows her any kindness or care. Her drug-dealing husband, Liam, mostly keeps to his own quarters on their ranch compound his open infidelities send Val into fits of immobilizing depression and catatonia-inducing substance abuse, while Wavy struggles to take care of baby brother Donal and keep attending school. ![]() We learn after Val is paroled and reclaims Wavy that Scary Mama has been known to stick fingers down her daughter’s throat to remove “dirty” food and then wash out Wavy’s mouth with Listerine. ![]() Wavy barely talks and doesn’t eat-or rather, her cousins discover one night, eats out of the garbage pail when everyone else is asleep. Wavy (short for Wavonna) is only 5 when we meet her in 1975, but she’s already been thoroughly traumatized by her meth-addicted mother, Val, whose stint in jail sends the girl to her Aunt Brenda’s house in Tulsa. Greenwood’s powerful, provocative debut chronicles a desolate childhood and a discomfiting love affair. ![]()
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![]() Then there's Dad, a famous efficiency expert who believes a family can be run just like a factory. First there are a dozen red-haired, freckle-faced kids to contend with. No growing pains have ever been more hilarious than those suffered loudly by the riotous Gilbreth clan. Murphy - Mister Chairman - Touch system - Skipping through school - Kissing kin - Chinese cooking - Motion study tonsils - Nantucket - Rena - Have you seen the latest model? - Flash powder and funerals - Gilbreths and company - Over the hill - Four wheels, no brakes - Motorcycle Mac - Party who called you Summary A time-and-motion expert and his engineer wife use scientific principles to raise their twelve children. ![]() Contents Whistles and shaving bristles - Pierce arrow - Orphans in uniform - Visiting Mrs. Object Details Author Gilbreth, Frank B (Frank Bunker) 1911-2001 Carey, Ernestine Gilbreth Subject Gilbreth, Frank Bunker 1868-1924 Gilbreth, Lillian Moller 1878-1972 Reprint. ![]() ![]() Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, African Art. ![]()
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From Whitechapel by Melanie Clegg5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() All from 16.41 Used Books from 16. Bored with her life and longing to escape, she makes a split second decision that will change everything and turn her whole world upside down.Inspired by the author's own family history, From Whitechapel is a dark and sumptuous tale of love, friendship, loss and redemption. Forced to flee to Whitechapel, she believes herself to be safe until her pursuer reveals a murderous intent.Cora Lee is the youngest daughter of a H Division Sergeant, living above the Whitechapel Police Station. Forced to flee to Whitechapel, she believes herself to be safe until her pursuer reveals a murderous intent.Cora Lee is the youngest daughter of a H Division Sergeant, living above the Whitechapel Police Station. ![]() Forced to flee to Whitechapel, she believes herself to be safe until her pursuer reveals a murderous intent.Cora Lee is the youngest daughter of a H Division Sergeant, living above the Whitechapel Police Station.Īlice Redmayne, daughter of a famous artist, haunted since childhood by the disappearance of her sister Beatrice, finds herself enmeshed in the dark secrets of the past and caught between two very different men.Emma Johnson, is working in a Calais brothel when a terrible mistake turned her whole world upside down. Alice Redmayne, daughter of a famous artist, haunted since childhood by the disappearance of her sister Beatrice, finds herself enmeshed in the dark secrets of the past and caught between two very different men.Emma Johnson, is working in a Calais brothel when a terrible mistake turned her whole world upside down. ![]()
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Jane charlotte bronte novel5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() Rhys lived in obscurity after her previous work, Good Morning, Midnight, was published in 1939. ![]() Wide Sargasso Sea explores the power of relationships between men and women and discusses the themes of race, Caribbean history, and assimilation. Antoinette is caught in a patriarchal society in which she fully belongs neither to Europe nor to Jamaica. ![]() Rochester, who renames her Bertha, declares her mad, takes her to England, and isolates her from the rest of the world in his mansion. Antoinette's story is told from the time of her youth in Jamaica, to her unhappy marriage to an English gentleman, Mr. Antoinette Cosway is Rhys's version of Brontë's devilish " madwoman in the attic". Rochester's marriage from the point-of-view of his wife Antoinette Cosway, a Creole heiress. The novel serves as a postcolonial and feminist prequel to Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre (1847), describing the background to Mr. Wide Sargasso Sea is a 1966 novel by Dominican-British author Jean Rhys. ![]()
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Be here now by ram dass5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() I would definitely recommend it a million times over. It’s particularly great for individuals like me who can be rather ADHD due to the truth that it is so illustratory in the primary area. I want to offer 1000 duplicates of this book away. He mainly integrates coaches of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Christianity, Judaism and likewise Islam in such a method that it strikes your mind and assists you see simply how everything is connected. ![]() The way in which Ram Dass weds his illustrations to the message in this moving piece will keep you having a look at. There is definitely nothing else like it. Yet seriously, this book has really blown my mind broad open. Some random person showed up, drew Be Right here Now off the rack, commended me and simply declared “This is a great location to begin.” He left along with I might not discover him once again searching the shop. I was strolling through a hectic book shop sooner or later back in 2010, along with I was taking a look at the Religions & & Spirituality location for around 15 minutes not understanding where to start. Everytime I purchase it I ultimately end up providing my replicate to an individual who requires it. I have actually purchased it 6 times presently. This publication is the closest thing I need to a “Scriptures”. ![]()
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The death club by caroline peckham5/12/2023 ![]() So I think I’m gonna join The Death Club and let my freak flag fly. Every day is anarchy and that’s my favourite flavour. Want to know another one? I quite like it here. Don’t ask them or they’ll send me back to that creepy asylum where they gave me the crazy pills. Which is a freaking insult by the way as I’m already the best killer in town. I can’t decide which I want most.Īnyways, my hot, tattooed, muscular insane Irish captor thinks I might make a good hit woman once he trains me up. Once we make a home for ourselves in hell, there’s nothing left to fear from life. ![]() I call him Dead Man on account of his soulless eyes. The Death Club: Dead Men Walking, Book 1 Audible Audiobook Unabridged Susanne Valenti (Author), & 4 more 2,823 ratings Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial There’s one thing they don’t tell you about men without souls when they’re cast into damnation. Oh and there’s another dude down here who lives in a cage and doesn’t talk. ![]() I was kidnapped, sold, sold again, stuck in a death game, sold AGAIN and now I’m living in a serial killer’s basement. I wished for my life to improve, but it didn’t. I know killing technically doesn’t start with a C – but wouldn’t life be better if it did? Just like it would be better if the Devil was my boyfriend, Santa wasn’t a d*ck and I didn’t live under a bridge. ![]() The Death Club (Dead Men Walking #1) by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti – Free eBooks Download ![]()
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Veronica's Grave by Barbara Donsky5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() But just two years later Annette’s life was upended again when the family was driven to emigrate to America. Israel, a country barely ten years old – rough, sweet, vibrant, with its brilliant sky and azure sea – was like stepping into Technicolor after Poland’s dreary grays. After her parents obtained exit visas from the Soviet authorities, she became a teenage immigrant to two different countries in the space of two years. Annette and her parents returned via cattle train to Poland only to discover that the Nazis had murdered almost their entire extended family and reduced their homes to rubble. She was born in exile among the red poppy-strewn foothills of the Himalayan Mountains and raised in Soviet Kyrgyzstan. ![]() “I spent the first three years of my life unaware of the disaster that had befallen my family.” Annette Libeskind Berkovits writes: “I was shaped by the aftermath of the Holocaust…I adapted…grew a protective shield for self-preservation, then put on a smile and moved forward to meet the world on my own terms.” ![]()
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Frederick niche beyond good and evil5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() His writing spans philosophical polemics, poetry, cultural criticism and fiction while displaying a fondness for aphorism and irony. ![]() His early inspiration was drawn from figures such as Arthur Schopenhauer, Richard Wagner and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. ![]() Nietzsche's body of work touched a wide range of topics, including art, philology, history, religion, tragedy, culture and science. He lived his remaining years in the care of his mother until her death in 1897 and then with his sister Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche. In 1889 at age 44, he suffered a collapse and afterwards, a complete loss of his mental faculties. Nietzsche resigned in 1879 due to health problems that plagued him most of his life and he completed much of his core writing in the following decade. He became the youngest ever to hold the Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Basel in 1869 at the age of 24. ![]() He began his career as a classical philologist before turning to philosophy. Friedrich Wilhelm was born 15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, philologist and a Latin and Greek scholar whose work has exerted a profound influence on Western philosophy and modern intellectual history. ![]() |