![]() ![]() “It's so weird that adults in committed relationships have a problem with something so innocuous as flirting. And it's easily the best thing I've ever felt.” This feels safe, and steadfast, and predictable. No sitting in my car outside her house at dawn, to make sure she's alone when she leaves. No checking her emails or calling her job to make sure she's actually there. ![]() No parsing through spun tales about why it took her so long to come back from the store. I don't walk around mired in uneasiness, waiting for the other shoe to drop. ![]() Or what you could possibly do to make it come home and stay there. It never leaves you wondering who could possibly be texting at 3 am. It's not a game you don't understand the rules of, or a test you never got the materials to study for. “Real love feels less like a throbbing, pulsing animal begging for its freedom and beating against the inside of my chest and more like, 'Hey, that place you like had fish tacos today and i got you some while i was out', as it sets a bag spotted with grease on the dining room table. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Interestingly, though, by indicating that the rose does not have feet, he is saying by implication that the person represented by the rose also lacks feet. ![]() This lets us know that the poem is using them to represent a human being. The Speaker personifies the rose by indicating that it walks without having feet. In line four, we get more proof that the rose is a metaphor. By this, the Speaker means that a beautiful life-filled person should not be possible in the midst of such a bleak and life-oppressing location. The Speaker tells us in line three that the rose is growing in defiance of nature’s law. Concrete, conversely, is symbolic of lifelessness and a lack of beauty and it thus serves as a metaphor for a poor inner city neighborhood. Here the rose symbolizes life and beauty and serves as a metaphor for a person with those qualities. Concrete represents the inhospitable neighborhood in which the person grows up. ![]() In the poem, the rose represents a person. Shakur uses symbolism to and metaphor to convey a message about overcoming poverty. The Rose that Grew from Concrete is an eight line poem without a defined rhyme scheme. Long live the rose that grew from concrete To view more poems I have examined, click HERE.īy Tupac Shakur Did you hear about the rose that grewįunny it seems, but by keeping it's dreams, ![]() ![]() ![]() SUPPLEMENTAL FEATURES: an audio commentary featuring It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World aficionados Mark Evanier, Michael Schlesinger, and Paul Scrabo a documentary on the film’s visual and sound effects, featuring interviews with visual-effects specialist Craig Barron and sound designer Ben Burtt an excerpt from a 1974 talk show hosted by director Stanley Kramer and featuring Mad World actors Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, and Jonathan Winters and more. ![]() ![]() Performed by a nonpareil cast, including Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney, Spencer Tracy, Jonathan Winters, and a boatload of other playing-to-the-rafters comedy legends, Kramer’s wildly uncharacteristic film is an exhilarating epic of tomfoolery. Stanley Kramer followed his harrowing Oscar winner Judgment at Nuremberg with the most grandly harebrained movie ever made, a pileup of slapstick and borscht-belt-y one-liners about a group of strangers fighting tooth and nail over buried treasure. It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World*: Criterion Collection Edition #692 To sign up for a free two-week trial here. ![]() This December will feature an exciting assortment of films, as noted below. Each month, the fine folks at FilmStruck and the Criterion Collection spend countless hours crafting their channels to highlight the many different types of films that they have in their streaming library. ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. After arriving by wagon to the howling wilderness of the unexplored west, they settled on land, built a home, and began what they thought would be a long and prosperous life together. ![]() ![]() Look for:Īn Audacious Spitfire, the first book in The Arizona Brides Series Hannah Hoffman Clark is the spirited young wife of Denver City’s only preacher, Frank Clark. This is the second book in The Colorado Brides Series, chronicling the lives of the Hoffman sisters and their adventures in finding love out west. ![]() Living in Denver City was never the plan, but the dictates of his heart might just change his mind.and his life. Tucker had expected, but, as he rescues the beauty from disaster, more than once he finds himself unable to resist the pull of Paulina. As the days turn into weeks, their relationship grows, especially after Paulina falls victim to cholera and Samuel nurses her back to health.įalling in love with one of the homesteaders is the last thing Mr. The handsome outdoorsman is responsible for this group of homesteaders, seeing to their safety and guiding them along the Platte River on the Oregon Trail. What she hadn't anticipated was wagon master, Samuel Tucker, who catches her eye from the start. After reading about her sister Hannah's success in homesteading to Denver City, Paulina Hoffman decides to embark on the adventure of a lifetime, traveling with an older couple to the Kansas Territory. ![]() ![]() ![]() It's almost impossible to describe, but the closest I can come is that it's like a mixture of Gibson and King's The Stand and the movie Dogma (if it took itself seriously) with elements of Godot thrown in when the characters from the prologue keep showing up throughout the book on an endless journey through a deserted eternity of possible worlds. The war in heaven and on earth (and on multiple variations of earth) between the old-school archangels, the rebel demons and the conscientious objectors. If he'd stuck with one of these ideas and fleshed it out, instead of flitting all over the place, Duncan might have had something worth reading. There are bits, no more than a few pages each time that tell a coherent story, and the only reason I give this book even part of a star is because some of these bits are good. Some involve the same characters, although it's hard to always be sure, since everyone seems to have the same name, or to change names several times. ![]() Some of the bits are chronological, some of them even make sense. Reading this, I felt like Duncan wrote bits of assorted stories on cards and then shuffled them together and called it a book. It was like reading modern art or listening to modern music, which, if you're into it, is fine, but if you're not, you just see something meaningless or hear disharmonies, that's only art or music because someone said so. I'm not entirely sure why I didn't just put it down. ![]() ![]() ![]() Less successful is the story line linking the tree to the narrator the child remains an unseen abstraction whose utterances ("I love my tree") appear stiff and a bit forced. An appendix provides further details on the biology and upkeep of trees. There is bounteous information, too: in addition to the tree itself she includes several varieties of birds and many of the objects associated with gardening. Once again Ehlert provides a visual bounty: her pages are awash in the riotous reds and golds of autumn and the fresh, vibrant greens of new growth. Some time after seeds fall from a tree in the woods, nursery workers collect the slender sprouts years later the tree is sold to a customer (the young first-person narrator of the book), taken home and carefully planted. ![]() ![]() Ehlert ( Color Zoo ) uses a variety of materials-including paper, ribbons and paints-to depict the beginning of a sugar maple's life. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sewell, Anna, 1820-1878: Black Beauty : his groom and companions.Caldwell co., 1894) (page images at HathiTrust) Sewell, Anna, 1820-1878: Black Beauty, his groom and companions. ![]()
![]() The demons figure they' re in like Flynn. Our assignment: Keep Shadow Wing and his minions from creeping into Earth via the Wayfarer. He' s made it clear that he aims to raze humankind to the ground, turning both Earth and Otherworld into his private playground. Every clue points to Shadow Wing, the soul-munching, badass leader of the Subterranean Realms. At the Wayfarer Inn, a portal to Otherworld and the local hangout for humans and beasties alike, a fellow operative, Jocko, has been murdered. Except my magic' s as unpredictable as the weather, as my enemies are about to find out the hard way. And me? I' m Camille-a wicked-good witch. Menolly' s a vampire who' s still trying to get the hang of being undead. My sister Delilah shapeshifts into a tabby cat whenever she' s stressed. ![]() But our mixed-blood heritage short-circuits our talents at all the wrong times. ![]() ![]() We' re the D' Artigo sisters: Half-human, half-Faerie, we' re savvy-and sexy-operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. ![]() ![]() The characters are all likeable and the story is good and it's never boring and the dialog is okay. ![]() Michael Douglas gives the best performance in the movie but Gwyneth Paltrow looks incredibly beautiful and she's okay. There's a few twists in the film and even though that's basically some or if not all of the story then don't be fooled because it's not that straight forward because there are twists that develop in the movie and all not quite goes to plan. Steven Taylor (Michael Douglas) finds out his wife's sleeping with some dude called David Shaw (Viggo Mortensen) and basically goes over a plan with him to execute or kill his wife. It's a quite glamorous thriller/crime film that is beautifully directed and Gwyneth Paltrow looks great. A Perfect Murder stars Michael Douglas, Gwyneth Paltrow, Viggo Mortensen and David Suchet. ![]() Steven A Perfect Murder was directed in 1998 by Andrew Davis, director of The Fugitive. ![]() A Perfect Murder was directed in 1998 by Andrew Davis, director of The Fugitive. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lakshmi's life becomes a nightmare from which she cannot escape. ![]() She tells Lakshmi that she is trapped there until she can pay off her family's debt-then cheats Lakshmi of her meager earnings so that she can never leave. But she soon learns the unthinkable truth: she has been sold into prostitution.Īn old woman named Mumtaz rules the brothel with cruelty and cunning. Glad to be able to help, Lakshmi journeys to India and arrives at "Happiness House" full of hope. He introduces her to a glamorous stranger who tells her she will find her a job as a maid in the city. ![]() But when the harsh Himalayan monsoons wash away all that remains of the family's crops, Lakshmi's stepfather says she must leave home and take a job to support her family. Though she is desperately poor, her life is full of simple pleasures, like playing hopscotch with her best friend from school, and having her mother brush her hair by the light of an oil lamp. Lakshmi is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her family in a small hut on a mountain in Nepal. ![]() |