![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile the Chorus of Old Women, on Lysistrata’s orders, take the Acropolis. The women of Greece proceed to swear an Oath of abstinence over a cup of wine. Lysistrata proceeds to reveal the second part of her plot: not only will the women abstain from sex, they’ll also seize the Acropolis to prevent the Athenian men from accessing their war treasury. Kleonike and Myrrhine at first refuse to participate and begin to walk away-they prefer war to sexless lives-but once Lampito voices her support for the sex strike, all of the women gradually come to support it. This, she hopes, will force their men to bring about peace. Lysistrata then reveals that her plot simply requires that the women abstain from sex. After the women greet and inspect one another, Lysistrata asks them what they’d be willing to do to bring about an end to the Peloponnesian War: we’d be willing to die, they say. The other women arrive soon enough, including the Athenian Myrrhine, the brawny Spartan woman Lampito, and the Peloponnesian women Ismenia and the Corinthian girl. Lysistrata’s neighbor Kleonike enters and tries to calm her, but Lysistrata denigrates the women of Greece as weak and lazy, and she announces that she has on her mind nothing less than a plot to end the Peloponnesian War between Athens and the Peloponnesian League (led by Sparta). Lysistrata begins with the Athenian woman Lysistrata pacing the streets of Athens, waiting for the Greek women she has summoned to arrive. ![]()
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![]() ![]() You just give someone money, and it’ll be gone in no time. If that were the case, everyone alive would be doing their dream job, and fulfilling their life purpose. That is a load of shit, and it’s actually arrogant to “give money away.” What people really need to be doing is paying one another for skills and talents and labors of love. She says you have to give half your money away to stay prosperous. The stuff she said is dangerous for people to believe, point blank. This author really had no idea what she was talking about regarding money and karma. ![]() It’s the method I use to this day for my clients. I am only giving it 3 stars, which is very generous, because it’s one of the most accurate books I’ve ever seen on numerology. I read this repeatedly as a kid, because I’ve been interested in astrology and numerology since then. ![]() ![]() ![]() Abducted as an eleven-year-old child from her village in West Africa and put to work on an indigo plantation on the sea islands of South Carolina, Aminata survives by using midwifery skills learned at her mother's side, and by drawing on a strength of character inherited from both parents. Readers will follow the story of Aminata, an unforgettable heroine who cut a swath through an 18th-century world hostile to her colour and her sex. Lawrence Hill-and his remarkable character Aminata Diallo-have become household names throughout Canada. ![]() The Book of Negroes has won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and CBC Canada Reads, among many others. Lawrence Hill's nationally bestselling novel has garnered praise and awards around the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() But Tor, a renowned warrior dedicated only to the wellbeing of his own clan, wants nothing to do with mainland Scotland’s political turmoil. Specifically, Andrew Fraser plans to offer one of them to entice Chief Tormod “Tor” MacLeod of the Western Isles to join in Scotland’s fight against the tyrant English King Edward. ![]() Her father, however, has other more practical uses for the young girl and her frail sister, Beatrix. And while The Chief, first of the Highland Guard novels, isn’t groundbreaking, it’s a solid beginning to a series where, I presume, each one of these warriors will have the chance to tell his tale.Īll Christina Fraser wants is a romance like the ones in her beloved tales of Sir Lancelot. You’d probably end up with the elite group of kilt-clad bad boys envisioned by Monica McCarty. Imagine if you crossed a group of Navy SEALs with Highland warriors from the early fourteenth century. ![]() ![]() We're only sharing the idea that Barry goes back and fucks up everything. " Flashpoint has its story told differently first. That's why, in my opinion, it was like you're killing several birds with the same stone." So, all of those elements were attached to this thing. But do you feel like watching this movie, there's something that remains unknown about the character or that you would like to see in a proper origin? Basically, with time travel, it includes the origin story - the stuff with the mother, the father, and the accident. I know there hasn't been a Flash movie before. "But it's repeating and repeating and repeating. It's the same story but with a different vision, with a different style, with a different tone." My opinion is - and I love all of them - but every time there's a new version of Batman, it's like, every time we're telling the same story. Of course, I agreed that it was a great story. The studio and DC wanted to tell this story. ![]() ![]() Andy admitted, "When we fell into this project, the story - or at least the outline - was decided. ![]() ![]() The Flash takes its cues from a lot of sources, but the clearest inspiration is 2011's Flashpoint storyline, which focused on Barry Allen traveling into the past to save his mother. ![]() ![]() ![]() Glassco’s Parisian adventures may have provided source material for more successful writers’ fiction (a not-so-flattering version of him populates Morley Callaghan’s “Now That April’s Here”), but he proved to be his own greatest muse.Īs this book’s subtitle makes clear, Glassco dabbled in many literary forms (with varying degrees of success-the more he wrote about spanking, it seems, the better his sales), but he truly excelled at self-mythology. ![]() Most of those things, however, never happened. He drank with Joyce, Hemingway and Fitzgerald. He got an earful of scorn from Gertrude Stein (for championing Jane Austen). After dropping out of McGill, frustrated poet John “Buffy” Glassco (1909-1981) left the well-feathered family nest to flit around Europe, where he rubbed shoulders (and possibly more) with a who’s-who of the ex-pat arts scene. ![]() ![]() A shojo adherent tried to define her own life, eschewed worry over the reaction of authorities, and resisted archaic social conventions. The quintessential shojo was feminine and youthful, but she was neither docile, nor meek, nor pure, nor innocent rather, she was a young woman, not quite at adult femininity, whose life was characterized by freedom and a dearth of strong male authority. ![]() ![]() Publications targeting young women also proliferated, and thus both the school environment and the literary world became spaces for constructing girlhood. In 1899, the Meiji government’s Girls’ Higher School Order initiated a wave of new girls’ schools concomitantly, literacy rates rose. The term shojo means “girl,” but in the context of contemporary culture, it is specifically about a cultural space that is girls-only, a space in which, scholar Emily Jane Wakeling writes, “girls negate and make complex the dominant gender stereotypes that exist in contemporary Japanese society through creations of gender that transgress hegemony.” We will look at what this term means, which will provide greater context for Yoshimoto’s works and greater insights into Kitchen. Banana Yoshimoto is often classified as a purveyor of “ shojo culture,” a term that may not be familiar to most readers. ![]() ![]() ![]() These visual essays are illustrations that appeared in the newspaper during late 1800s and consisted of engravings, portraits, caricatures, and more. One aspect of the book that added a lot of value to the points made by the author was the addition of “visual essays” after the chapters. This book offered perspectives from all different backgrounds of people living during this time such as the elite white plantation owners, former slaves, and Northerners. ![]() ![]() Although, the focus is about the Reconstruction Era. Foner thinks the truth is much more complex which he uncovers.įorever Free opens with the origins of slavery and extends to the Civil War and Reconstruction Era and finally finishes with the establishment of Jim Crow. Another idea discussed in his book is the bare bone facts we are taught in grade school at a young age about the Reconstruction Era and history in general that can alter our perception. Eric Foner’s novel Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation & Reconstruction focuses on a central idea that the Reconstruction Era was America’s greatest and possibly only chance to achieve racial equality However, its failure, argued by Foner prevented the post-Civil War wounds from healing and to this day keeps oppressed groups from receiving equal opportunity. ![]() ![]() I liked the prose and everything but I didn’t get it? Probably me just being stupid but… yeah. This story was great! It gripped me right from the start and had my heart pounding as Mr Beresford was rushing to get home and away from “light hat”. ![]() The last line was fantastically horrible. I wasn’t all that interested in this short until right at the very end. There are 17 in this book in total, with the longest being only 24 pages (which feels like loads after reading 10 page stories practically all the way through)! I have reviewed each story that made up part of this book, giving each of them a star rating. ![]() This is a really generous collection of short stories. In the haunting world of Shirley Jackson, nothing is as it seems and nowhere is safe, from the city streets to the country manor, and from the small-town apartment to the dark, dark woods… Review: ![]() In these deliciously dark tales, the daily commute turns into a nightmarish game of hide and seek, the loving wife hides homicidal thoughts and the concerned citizen might just be an infamous serial killer. ![]() ![]() ![]() Angry at what he deemed as deception and an affair founded on lies, Garrett storms out of Theresa's apartment, taking with him his letters. Even worse, Garrett discovers his letters in Theresa's drawer. ![]() One night, the two have a confrontation about this issue that doesn't end well. ![]() However, with the passage of time, the two are confronted with the reality of one of them having to change his/her life in order for them to be together. Chemistry gradually grows between the two as they start dating. It doesn't take long for her to find Garrett, the mysterious writer. She discovers two other letters written by the same author and for the same recipient and goes to Wilmington to find this mysterious writer at the urging of Deanna, a close friend. Touched by the warmth of the words in the letter Theresa embarked on a mission that would change her life forever. What happens to her is unexpected, perhaps miraculous-an encounter that embraces all our hopes for finding someone special, for having a true and strong love that is timeless and everlasting. Inside is a letter of love and belonging to "Catherine," signed simply "Garrett." Challenged by the mystery and pulled by emotions she doesn't fully understand, Theresa begins a search for this man that will change her life. ( August 2010)ĭivorced and disillusioned about romantic relationships, Theresa Osborne is jogging when she finds a bottle on the beach. ![]() |