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Love and Friendship Analysis First Stanza ![]() Like those plants, she seems to argue, romance and friendship have different reactions as the seasons change, so much that only one will prevail when things become as harsh and unforgiving as the cold of “winter.” The one that survives, friendship, is stressed as the greater of the two concepts. ‘Love and Friendship’ by Emily Brontë is a three- stanza poem that functions as a compare/ contrast piece between “ love and friendship.” In order to explore both topics, Brontë portrays each of them as a different type of plant, and she explores how both plants react in different situations. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Romance: It's really hard to talk too much about this romance without spoiling small parts of how things unfold but I'm going to do my best. I love how each of these characters grew both together and independently to figure out who they really are and what they truly want out of life. Sadja is wounded and broken by her years as a slave but hasn't given up hope to somehow escape and taste freedom. I love these characters, Javan is very honorable, almost to a fault, and strives to be the best in his classes, but there's more to learn about the world than math, history, and mythology, and Javan's predicament shows him just how corrupt his kingdom can be. ![]() As these characters try and face their own adversities, they learn to lean on each other and find themselves forming an unlikely friendship that just might lead to more. ![]() There he meets Sajda, the warden's slave girl hiding a broken past and a dangerous secret. That is until an imposter takes his place and he finds himself in Maqbara, a terrible prison where he is forced to fight in a deadly tournament to win an audience with his father and hopefully put all this treachery to rest. Protagonists: Javan has spent the last ten years of his life doing everything he can to be the best student at the Milisatria and fulfill his mother's dying wish that he be the best student so he can be the best King for Akram. ![]() ![]() Salma Hayek is somewhat questionably cast as Isaac’s beautiful, strong-willed wife Farnez, a former writer and mother to the couple’s two children Parviz (Jamie Ward) and Shirin (Ariana Molkara). Adrien Brody plays Isaac Amin, the family’s introverted patriarch who acquired significant wealth as a gemologist and jeweller to Tehran’s social and political elite, including the Shah’s wife. ![]() Based in part on Sofer’s own experiences growing up in Tehran during the Iranian Revolution, the book chronicles the ordeals faced by an affluent Persian-Jewish family in the wake of the revolution as the privilege they enjoyed under the Shah’s rule comes to an abrupt end and they are targeted by the new regime. ![]() ![]() Wayne Blair ( The Sapphires) directs this adaptation of The Septembers of Shiraz, the critically acclaimed 2007 debut novel from Iranian-American author Dalia Sofer. ![]() ![]() ![]() Described by the London Sunday Times as Watchmen for super-villains WANTED is Millar's finest work to date with astonishing pencils and inks by artist JG Jones (Black Widow) and colors by Paul Mounts (The Ultimates). Mark Millar has taken the genre to a whole new level with his first American creator-owned book.įind out what happens when white-collar worker Wesley Gibson discovers the truth behind his origins and who's REALLY been running organized crime since 1986 in a story that takes place in the world outside your own window. Get ready for superheroes as you've never seen them before.įorget The Authority. Is Wanted by Mark Millar really that good Really that good is a video series where we take a look at any single issue or story line famous for being good an. ![]() ![]() ![]() But to do so, they would first have to quit school. Maybe there's a way to escape their crushing debt, expose the bank and the scam, and make a few bucks in the process. And when they learn that their school is one of a chain owned by a shady New York hedge-fund operator who also happens to own a bank specializing in student loans, the three know they have been caught up in The Great Law School Scam. They all borrowed heavily to attend a third-tier, for-profit law school so mediocre that its graduates rarely pass the bar exam, let alone get good jobs. ![]() But now, as third-year students, these close friends realize they have been duped. ![]() Mark, Todd, and Zola came to law school to change the world, to make it a better place. ![]() ![]() “What would you get if you crossed Spenser with Merlin? Probably you would come up with someone very like Harry Dresden, wizard, tough guy and star of. Longtime series fans as well as newcomers drawn by the SciFi Channel’s TV series based on the novels should find this supernatural mystery a real winner.”- Library Journal “A tricky plot complete with against-the-clock pacing, firefights, explosions, and plenty of magic. “What’s not to like about this series?.It takes the best elements of urban fantasy, mixes it with some good old-fashioned noir mystery, tosses in a dash of romance and a lot of high-octane action, shakes, stirs, and serves.”- SF Site The supporting cast is again fantastic, and Harry’s wit continues to fly in the face of a peril-fraught plot.”- Booklist (starred review) “Butcher.spins an excellent noirish detective yarn in a well-crafted, supernaturally-charged setting. “One of the most enjoyable marriages of the fantasy and mystery genres on the shelves.”- Cinescape ![]() “Superlative.”- Publishers Weekly (starred review) Hamilton and Tanya Huff will love this series.”- Midwest Book Review For the everyday world is actually full of strange and magical things and most of them don’t play well with humans. has a case that transcends mortal creativity or capability, they come to him for answers. ![]() Well, technically, he’s the only at what he does. “Think Buffy the Vampire Slayer starring Philip Marlowe.”- Entertainment Weekly Harry Dresden is the best at what he does. ![]() ![]() ![]() You had no business stuffing yourself the way you did at mama's house last night. TIM MOORE: (As Kingfish) I was a sick man.ĮRNESTINE WADE: (As Sapphire) Sick man nothing. (SOUNDBITE OF THE JEFF ALEXANDER CHORUS' "ANGEL'S SERENADE")ĪINA: The show was the first TV program to feature an all-black cast, and one character in particular was known for her sharp tongue. Some trace the stereotype back to the 1950s and a TV show called "Amos 'N' Andy." She shows up everywhere from pop culture to politics. ![]() MAYOWA AINA, BYLINE: The angry black woman is pretty well known. Today, we have a story from NPR's Mayowa Aina about one author who thinks it's time for black women to embrace their rage. All this month, NPR is exploring the power of anger. ![]() It's a label that many black women have struggled with in their professional and personal lives. At some point during their public lives, they were labeled as angry. Michelle Obama, Oprah, Serena Williams all have something in common. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “I woke up with a tremendous jerk, sweating all over, within an inch of falling out of bed,” He said. That night, King says he dreamed of his three-year-old son running around the halls of the hotel, eyes wide and screaming as he was chased by a fire hose. From the remoteness of the hotel’s location to the large, almost disorientingly so, size, and the emptiness of its many rooms, King says that by the time he went to bed that night, the entire story was firmly planted in his mind. And when he finally went back to his room (room 217, which is naturally the hotel's most requested room to this day), his mind was abuzz with ideas and inspiration. ![]() King roamed the quiet halls that night and went down to the hotel bar where he met the bartender named Grady. They only stayed one night, but that one night would change everything.Īt the time of their stay, the hotel was shutting down for the winter season, meaning most of its guests were checking out. It was meant to follow a psychic boy in an amusement park, but he abandoned the idea - that is until he and his wife Tabitha checked into the Stanley Hotel while in Boulder. At the time, the novel had the working title of "Darkshine" and was set in an amusement park, however, he wasn’t satisfied with the setting or the story itself. To fully understand where the mystery begins we have to go back to the beginning, 1974 specifically, when King was just beginning what would eventually become The Shining and was struggling to write it. ![]() ![]() It had adventure and action, mystery and suspense, and just the right amount of romance. But when Jeth finds himself in possession of information that both the crime bosses and the government are willing to kill for, he is going to have to ask himself how far he'll go to get the freedom he's wanted for so long. Avalon is the perfect fit for teens new to sci-fi as well as seasoned sci-fi readers looking for more books in the YA space-and a great match for fans of Joss Whedon’s cult hit show Firefly Plot: I really enjoyed the story-line of the book. Jeth doesn't care about the politics or the law all he cares about is earning enough money to buy back his parents' ship, Avalon, from his crime-boss employer and getting himself and his sister, Lizzie, the heck out of Dodge. Jeth Seagrave and his crew of teenage mercenaries have survived in this world by stealing unsecured metatech, and they're damn good at it. ![]() That power is derived from one thing: metatech, the devices that allow people to travel great distances faster than the speed of light. ![]() The agencies that govern the Confederation are as corrupt as the crime bosses who patrol it, and power is held by anyone with enough greed and ruthlessness to claim it. Of the various star systems that make up the Confederation, most lie thousands of light-years from First Earth-and out here, no one is free. ![]() |