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For Your Eyes Only is a collection of short stories by the British author Ian Fleming, featuring the fictional British Secret Service agent Commander James Bond, the eighth book to feature the character. It was first published by Jonathan Cape on 11 April 1960. It marked a change of format for Fleming, who had previously written James Bond ...
Pejorative term often describing an obnoxious, angry, or entitled White woman. Originated among Black people to refer to an unreasonable White woman. The term became popular on Black Twitter as a meme used to describe White women who "tattle on Black kids' lemonade stands." These days often used by people of all races. "Okay, stop being a Karen."
During menopause, your body and brain undergo some radical shifts that can contribute to the development of an eating disorder. New hormone fluctuations not only impact your sleep and mood but can ...
In the following days, while he and other firemen are ransacking the book-filled house of an old woman and drenching it in kerosene, Montag steals a book. The woman refuses to leave her house and her books, choosing instead to light a match and burn herself alive. Jarred by the suicide, Montag returns home and hides the book under his pillow.
Their Eyes Were Watching God is a 1937 novel by American writer Zora Neale Hurston.It is considered a classic of the Harlem Renaissance, [1] and Hurston's best known work. The novel explores protagonist Janie Crawford's "ripening from a vibrant, but voiceless, teenage girl into a woman with her finger on the trigger of her own destiny".
The Parable of the Mote and the Beam. Drawing by Ottmar Elliger the Younger (1666–1735). The moral lesson is to avoid hypocrisy, self-righteousness, and censoriousness. The analogy used is of a small object in another's eye as compared with a large beam of wood in one's own. The original Greek word translated as "mote" ( κάρφος karphos ...
Throughout the book he is known as a "child prodigy." One day, Barty and his mother go to his father's grave when it is raining. Agnes gets soaked in the weather, but not a single drop touched Barty, as he says, "I ran where the rain wasn't." Barty, when reading at the age of three, starts to complain about wavy lines in the pages of his book.
Seneca the Younger. Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger ( / ˈsɛnɪkə / SEN-ik-ə; c. 4 BC – AD 65), [ 1] usually known mononymously as Seneca, was a Stoic philosopher of Ancient Rome, a statesman, dramatist, and in one work, satirist, from the post-Augustan age of Latin literature . Seneca was born in Colonia Patricia Corduba in Hispania ...