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The series centered on two best friends: 10-year-old Annie Redfeather, who is Native American, and 11-year-old Zach Nichols, who is white. In each episode of the series, one of them commits an act contrary to that day's chosen virtue (loyalty, compassion, courage, moderation, honesty, etc.) and suffers pain as a result (be it physical or moral).
List of episodes. " Time Enough at Last " is the eighth episode of the American anthology series The Twilight Zone, first airing on November 20, 1959. [ 1] The episode was adapted from a short story by Lynn Venable, [ 2] which appeared in the January 1953 edition of If: Worlds of Science Fiction. [ 3][ 4]
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".
When Bad Things Happen to Good People (ISBN 1-4000-3472-8) is a 1981 book by Harold Kushner, a Conservative rabbi.Kushner addresses in the book one of the principal problems of theodicy, the conundrum of why, if the universe was created and is governed by a God who is of a good and loving nature, there is nonetheless so much suffering and pain in it—essentially, the evidential problem of evil.
Influence. "A Sound of Thunder" is often credited as the origin of the term "butterfly effect", a concept of chaos theory in which the flapping of a butterfly's wings in one part of the world could create a hurricane on the opposite side of the globe. The term was actually introduced by meteorologist Edward Norton Lorenz in the 1960s.
PS3601.L335. The Five People You Meet In Heaven is a 2003 novel by Mitch Albom. It follows the life and death of a ride mechanic named Eddie (inspired by Albom's uncle [ 1] ), who is killed in an amusement park accident and sent to heaven, where he encounters five people who had a significant impact on him while he was alive.
The Vision of Judgment (1822) is a satirical poem in ottava rima by Lord Byron, which depicts a dispute in Heaven over the fate of George III 's soul. It was written in response to the Poet Laureate Robert Southey 's A Vision of Judgement (1821), which had imagined the soul of king George triumphantly entering Heaven to receive his due.
In November 1958, Buddy Holly terminated his association with The Crickets.According to Paul Anka, Holly realized he needed to go back on tour again for two reasons: he needed cash because the Crickets' manager Norman Petty had apparently stolen money from him, and he wanted to raise funds to move to New York City to live with his new wife, MarÃa Elena Holly, who was pregnant. [3]