![]() ![]() ![]() The absurdity of Western society is demonstrated in one timely symbol. Her time in Germany strengthens her contribution back home, but only because she decided to leave Germany behind to come home. She departs from her community, from the land she knows well, into a new place in which she is tested for her abilities to adapt and survive alone, without the support of her community. In the end of the novel, Sissie finds her way back to Africa, which means that the setting of this novel is a metaphor for the unknown, because Sissie's story is clearly a hero's journey. Marija gives her a familial love with full loyalty, for free, before they even really know each other, and she teaches Sissie how to succeed in Germany. She realizes that she is alone in a more precise, technical way than she has ever been alone before, and then as if as a response to her waning hope, she meets Marija. Suddenly, Sissie needs help, but she doesn't have her village around her to help her. Marija functions in the archetypal role of the savior, because she is like a deus ex machina in Sissie's life. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. ![]() These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]()
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![]() He left Boston on the brig Pilgrim on August 14, 1834, on a voyage around Cape Horn to the then-remote California, at that time still a part of Mexico. Rather than going on a Grand Tour of Europe, he decided to enlist as a common sailor, despite his high-class birth. In his junior year, he had a case of measles which also caused ophthalmia and his weakening vision inspired him to take a sea voyage. In July 1831, Dana began his studies at Harvard College, though he was suspended for six months before the end of his first year for supporting a student protest. In 1825, Dana enrolled in a private school overseen by Ralph Waldo Emerson, who Dana later mildly praised as "a very pleasant instructor", though he lacked a "system or discipline enough to insure regular and vigorous study". He also often pulled students by their ears and, on one such occasion, nearly pulled Dana's ear off, causing his father to protest enough that the practice was abolished. ![]() Barrett was infamous as a disciplinarian, punishing his students for any infraction by flogging. As a boy, Dana studied in Cambridgeport under a strict schoolmaster named Samuel Barrett, alongside fellow Cambridge native and future writer James Russell Lowell. Dana was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on August 1, 1815, into a family that first settled in colonial America in 1640. ![]() ![]() Written with bracing narrative verve, this feat of scholarly research has become a classic of modern history writing. Disturbing and perplexing." - The New York Times Book Reviewīased on groundbreaking research, Simon Sebag Montefiore reveals the fear and betrayal, privilege and debauchery, family life and murderous cruelty of this secret world. "The first intimate portrait of a man who had more lives on his conscience than Hitler. ![]() F rom the bestselling author of The Romanovs. ![]() NATIONAL BESTSELLER - This widely acclaimed biography of a Soviet dictator and his entourage during the terrifying decades of his supreme power transforms our understanding of the Marxist leader and Russian tsar. ![]() ![]() ![]() Because of his inability to refuse someone in need, he finds himself investigating three seemingly disparate cases, all of which happened some time ago – a baby girl gone missing, a young mother losing control in a murderous rage and, finally, a lovely young woman who works in a busy office who finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time with drastic consequences.Įach case is explored thoroughly and the reader accompanies Jackson as he peels back time and uncovers the contexts for each crime, the victims and perpetrators. ![]() This is the book that introduces readers to the wonderful and quirky Jackson Brodie, Kate Atkinson’s divorced father and Private Investigator who can’t seem to say ‘no’. ![]() ![]() ![]() "I didn't want to do a victory lap or my greatest hits. ![]() ![]() "I couldn't imagine writing something that wasn't honest and radically transparent," Couric told Today's Savannah Guthrie this month during the most personal stop on her press tour. Rather, all that tea-spilling has had critics and fans alike wondering what sort of game the veteran journalist and TV personality has been playing at all along. Katie Couric's memoir just came out Tuesday, but it's been causing raised eyebrows for a month.įrom her revelations about competition among her fellow female network stars during her time on Today to her thoughts on her disgraced former co-anchor Matt Lauer, from what she didn't reveal about Ruth Bader Ginsburg following a 2016 interview to what she was all too happy to share about Prince Harry, the tidbits that served as preview fodder didn't just drum up anticipation for her 500-page book, Going There. ![]() ![]() ![]() Michael has twice won the prestigious Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger for GOOD GIRL BAD GIRL (2020) and LIFE OR DEATH (2015). A six-part TV series based upon his standalone novel THE SECRETS SHE KEEPS was aired on BBC1 in 2020. Michael's psychological thrillers have been translated into twenty-five languages and his Joe O'Loughlin series is are currently in development for TV by World Productions. Twelve of these books became Sunday Times bestsellers. ![]() Later he became a ghostwriter, collaborating on 15 'autobiographies' for politician, pop stars, soldiers and adventurers. ![]() Two-times Gold Dagger winner (20), twice Edgar best novel finalist (20) and winner of the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger (2021), Michael Robotham began his writing career as an investigative journalist working across Britain, Australia and America. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In this lyrical and intimate book, Marci Shore evokes the human face of the Ukrainian Revolution. What is worth dying for? While the world watched the uprising on the Maidan as an episode in geopolitics, those in Ukraine during the extraordinary winter of 2013–14 lived the revolution as an existential transformation: the blurring of night and day, the loss of a sense of time, the sudden disappearance of fear, the imperative to make choices. “ history entails an extraordinary declaration of the power of human will and self-determination.”-Kate Brown, Times Literary Supplement A vivid and intimate account of the Ukrainian Revolution, the rare moment when the political became the existential ![]() ![]() ![]() Hunter and I looked at each other and shrugged. But of course things were sort of swimming around: The granules slipped out and fell on my sweater. We went into the men’s room and sat in the middle of the floor, facing each another.ĭelicately, I removed the capsule from my pocket and tried to open it so that the tiny granules would be equally divided. We were tripping but figured we might as well. An hour later, during a break in the music, we decided to take the other capsule. We got on his motorcycle, a BSA 650, and went to the Matrix, a smoky, bar-sized club with a small dancing area. We’d often play hoops - his basketball had a huge HST painted on it - and get together at my place or his, or at Barbara’s. ![]() His first wife, Sandy, worked at a real estate agency with my then-girlfriend, Barbara. I met Hunter in San Francisco during the summer of 1965. I was the person who gave Hunter the LSD and who sat with him in that men’s room. The real story of what happened that night is a little different. The point is to show what it was like to be in San Francisco in 1966 - that feeling of limitless possibility, what Thompson refers to as the “high-water mark.” The contents of the capsule spill onto the sleeve of his sweater, a long-haired musician walks in, sees what’s going on and licks the drug off Thompson’s sleeve. ![]() After having gotten LSD from a street person, Thompson is in the men’s room of a rock club trying to ingest the drug. Thompson’s book “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” there’s a scene that flashes back to San Francisco in the mid-1960s. ![]() ![]() Yet, long before his death, he had seen the narrative of his sailor days recognized as an American classic. He was a copious letter-writer and kept journals of his travels and every day life. ![]() Later, he wrote a a short account of an 1859 trip to Cuba in 1859. The following year, Dana produced The Seaman's Friend, a treatise on practical seamanship. Though at the time it created no great stir in the United States, it was most favorably received in England, where it paved the way for many pleasant and valuable acquaintances. Two Years before the Mast appeared in 1840, while its author was still a law student. He and his wife, Sarah, had many friends among New England's cultural elite, including Henry Wadsworth and Fanny (Appleton) Longfellow and the artist Washington Allston and his wife, Martha Remington (Dana), who was Richard's aunt. ![]() Dana was a well known and respected lawyer, a stalwart abolitionist, and an advocate for the rights of common sailors. His services in fields other than literary occupied the greater part of his life. Two Years before the Mast is but an episode in the life of Richard Henry Dana, Jr., yet the narrative in which he details the experiences of that period is, perhaps, his chief claim to a wide remembrance. ![]() ![]() The film is based on the iconic Flashpoint event from DC Comics, where Flash meets new versions of Batman and Superman as he strives to prevent the multiverse from collapsing. The Flash travels through time to prevent the murder of his mother but unwittingly causes changes that result in the creation of a multiverse. Related: Here's How DC Got Michael Keaton Back as Batman in 'The Flash' What Is The Flash About? Here is everything you need to know about The Flash. There are a lot of questions surrounding The Flash, and we’re answering every single of them. The film has gone through four sets of directors, saw multiple script rewrites, and the star has faced legal trouble over the past year. ![]() When it comes to The Flash, there has been plenty of controversy surrounding the project. Barry Allen has been running on our television screens for nearly a decade, and as Grant Gustin steps away from the role, Ezra Miller will continue the legacy of the fastest man alive. The Flash is one of DC’s most popular characters, and this film will mark the very first time The Scarlet Speedster leads his own movie. Will The Flash Be Available on Streaming?.Will The Flash Movie Tie Into the TV Series?. ![]() ![]() |