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Immortal by Paul Mannering5/26/2023 The worst episode is Countdown with Edward Woodward playing a posh villain. However the Network DVD of The Champions is beautiful, with vibrant, rich colors. She would become fatigued escaping with The Baron from villains or make errors in judgement. Her character was believable, not a superwoman. She never discusses Cordelia's relationship with The Baron or her character's place in TV heroine history. She talks about the show in a DVD extra but this was a major dissapointment. The American executives were right about giving Forrest a female assistant. This is such a tired plot point by lazy writers to this day. Technically, it's a disappointment but the series is enjoyable even if there is too much hitting people over the head with a cosh. Sound mix: The audio of the dialogue is low while the music is too loud so I'm constantly adjusting the volume.
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The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green5/26/2023 Green’s extensive research is evident throughout the essays (and in the endnotes in the print edition of the book), but it’s his lyrical phrasing and openness that will stick with readers. In each essay, Green reveals a little bit of himself through personal anecdotes as he relates the history of the essay’s topic and its connection to the world today he then rates each on a five-star scale. Yet it’s hard to tell who chose what, because each topic feels as significant as the others, even the more light-hearted ones. This collection of essays began as a podcast ( The Anthropocene Reviewed), where Green covered topics of his choosing but also those suggested by listeners, resulting in the eclectic list of subjects. Pepper, sunsets, the movie Penguins of Madagascar, Monopoly, whispering, and plague, to name a few. In Green’s ( The Fault in Our Stars) latest book, he dives into a wide range of topics, including Halley’s Comet, scratch-and-sniff stickers, Diet Dr.
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Understanding comics5/26/2023 The article ends with a picture plane that shows the relationship between the person’s perception of reality and the language by which he or she expresses this or that idea or image. This chapter mentions the Japanese masking effect, which for a long time remained a favorite feature of the comics of this country. In the author’s opinion, comic book artists use a concentration technique when a drawing method of realism is used to transfer details, and, to emphasize the general plan, inanimate objects are depicted as simply as possible. McCloud claims that all human feelings are subordinated to the world around, and when it comes to images, realism serves as a way to portray the outer world and a cartoon – the internal one. Comic books are often shortened to simply comic and sometimes called a funny book, comic paper o is a magazine made up of narrative artwork, often accompanied by dialog usually in word balloons, emblematic of the comic book art form and often including brief descriptive prose. The author also introduces the concept of a mask, where he talks about the fact that any person’s face is nothing more than a mask that obeys the commands of the brain and that is perceived by other people differently than by its owner. The idea of self-centeredness, when any person can see a human face in the objects that surround him or her, is rather interesting. These cartooning are viewed as a form of amplification, which is achieved through maximum simplification. McCloud suggests the idea of simplifying drawings when a human brain equally recognizes more complicated and simpler pictures (cartoons).
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Honeysuckle season mary ellen taylor5/26/2023 Her goal was to connect with her readers in profound ways, and she succeeded. She wanted to write novels that could induce those same emotions in other people. She realized early on that stories could move people in ways that few other things could, filling them with love, sorrow, fear, joy, and so much more. Mary made the leap because she understood the power of stories. Though, some people were probably caught off guard when she chose to leave her marketing job for publishing. The fact that she eventually turned storytelling into her career did not come as a surprise. Mary’s family appreciated stories, be they anecdotes or longer tales. She has also written novels in and around the Eastern Shore. This is why the first novel in ‘The Union Street Bakery’ series was set in Alexandria.
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She has acutely described how love can transform a life, but also destroy it too. Winterson does not shy away from grief, or joy. But then she meets Louise, married to Elgin-"very eminent, very dull, very rich"-and is hopelessly, helplessly smitten: "I didn't only want Louise's flesh, I wanted her bones, her blood, her tissues, the sinews that bound her together." Elgin persuades her to leave for the good of Louise's health, and all is undone. The narrator has been a female Lothario, falling in love, and out again, swaggering like Mercutio. As the lament continues, striking in its beauty and dazzling inventiveness, more of the love story is revealed. Louise has flowing Pre-Raphaelite hair, and a body besieged by leukaemia, her cells waging war: "here they come, hurtling through the bloodstream trying to pick a fight." But Louise is not dead, merely abandoned by the narrator with the best of intentions. She is grieving for the loss of her true love, Louise. The grapes have withered on the vine." The narrator is also suffering from a heart-stricken drought. The novel begins with regret: "Why is the measure of love loss? It hasn't rained in three months. Love and longing are the wounds through which Winterson's imagery flows. The prose is like a poem, lush with wit and imagery, but behind the luxuriant relish of the words, there is a scalpel-sharp cut of emotions. Written on The Body is a tender dissection of erotic love.
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The rendezvous and other stories5/25/2023 There are life lessons in it for all of us.Ģ011 – Shades of Exodus – (Interactive Press, Brisbane)Ī soul-searching portrait that encapsulates universal dilemmas common to all migrants: identity, loss, the search for meaning, and revolves around the true story of a South African family who were the victims of a vicious and violent crime in Australia while trying to flee the violence of South Africa.Ģ010 - chapter The Souls From Nowhereland published in compilation, Shall I Stay or Shall I Go? Tim Richman, editor (Two Dogs Books, Cape Town). With its honest description of the complexities between abuser and abused (father and daughter), Sawdust is a frank, serious and even light and funny at times account of someone's life of abuse, and one you will feel inspired by because of its message of hope, and even forgiveness. This is the story of The Terrorist - until its soul-shaking end.Ģ013, June - Sawdust - (Glass House Books) With bombs and missiles going off in Israel and Gaza and other flashpoints in the Middle East, what happens when you drop an Arab Muslim student into a Western Jewish home: a search for meaning, values, identity, truth - and a lot of suspicion. 2012, November - The Terrorist - (Interactive Press, Brisbane)
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Bruce lee real fighting5/25/2023 Lee followed this mindset of adapting to surroundings throughout his entire life and has since impacted millions who try to follow his example. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. “Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. You’ll quickly find more than just one or two people who think so.įighters Learned to Adapt by Watching Bruce LeeĪmong his most famous quotes, Bruce Lee once said. Is Bruce Lee the greatest martial artist of all time? He was also a wise philosopher saying many things regarding the sport of martial arts that people still recognize today.Īlthough he is seen as the most influential martial artist in history, one question remains that some try to argue regarding his abilities and skills in a real fighting situation: From his famous action movies to his unique martial art of Jeet Kune Do, the legend of Bruce Lee has held strong.Īnd while many may think Bruce Lee was little more than a Hollywood actor, his greatest achievements extended far beyond the big screen. It is widely accepted by fighters and other people around the world that Bruce Lee was the most influential martial artist of all time. |