Rebel rahaf mohammed5/23/2023 This was Rahaf's chance at a new life, the one she had dreamed of. Her account gained forty-five thousand followers overnight and offered her a vital lifeline. As men pounded on her door, the teenager decided to reach out to the world on Twitter - and the world answered. It was a trick, and soon she found herself trapped, barricaded in a hotel room. If caught, she was sure she would be killed, like other rebel women who had tried to flee her country's oppressive regime.īut the eighteen-year-old only made it as far as Bangkok before her passport was taken away. In early 2019, after more than a year of careful planning, Rahaf Mohammed boarded a plane and finally escaped from Saudi Arabia. The striking image of a young woman, wielding nothing but a cellphone, facing down the force of an oppressive government is an apt metaphor for this fraught moment in Saudi Arabia's history.'Ī gripping true story of bravery and sacrifice by a young woman whose escape from Saudi Arabia captivated the world. 'Through her courageous resistance, she has, for a moment, drawn global attention to the ongoing struggle of Saudi women.
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Jessica book snsd5/23/2023 “The industry has changed a bit since my trainee days, but it’s definitely still true that dating, if not strictly forbidden by labels, is strongly discouraged,” Jung tells StyleCaster. Not much is known about about Jung’s exit, though fans theorize that part of the reason Jung left was because of SM Entertainment’s strict rules. In 2014, SM Entertainment and Jung confirmed that she was no longer a member of Girls’ Generation after seven years with the band. She was chosen as one of Girls’ Generation’s nine members in 2007 and debuted with the band that same year. Jung, who was born and raised in San Francisco, joined SM Entertainment ( Girls’ Generation’s management company) as a trainee in 2000. SNSD)-the first K-pop group to reach 100 million views on YouTube with their song “Gee” in 2013-Jung is familiar with the ins and outs of the K-pop industry, and she’s ready to tell her side of the story in her new book, Shine. As a former member of Girls’ Generation (a.k.a. For K-pop fans, Jessica Jung is a household name. 1823 poem the night before christmas5/23/2023 When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,īut a miniature sleigh, and eight tiny reindeer, Gave the lustre of midday to objects below, The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow The Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore, Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash. I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter. When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter, Had just settled our brains for a long winter’s nap, While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads Īnd Mamma in her kerchief, and I in my cap, The children were nestled all snug in their beds, In hopes that St Nicholas soon would be there The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse ‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house The Night Before Christmas, or, A Visit of St. The version of the poem used here comes from a 1920 edition, also in the library’s holdings. Nicholas) as illustrated by two copies of the text in Spencer’s collections – one from 1896 and the other from the early 1900s. To help celebrate the holidays, we’re sharing Clement Clarke Moore’s poem The Night Before Christmas (originally published in 1823 as A Visit from St. Dr ivan sertima5/23/2023 He was honored for his work in this field by being asked by the Nobel Committee of the Swedish Academy to nominate candidates for the Nobel Prize in Literature from 1976-1980. He is also the author of several major literary reviews published in Denmark, India, Britain and the United States. He is a literary critic, a linguist, an anthropologist and has made a name in all three fields.Īs a literary critic, he is the author of Caribbean Writers, a collection of critical essays on the Caribbean novel. During the decade of the 1960s he broadcast weekly from Britain to Africa and the Caribbean. From 1957-1959 he served as a Press and Broadcasting Officer in the Guyana Information Services. He was educated at the School of Oriental and African Studies (London University) and the Rutgers Graduate School and holds degrees in African Studies and Anthropology. Ivan Van Sertima was born in Guyana, South America. Rose Garden begins with Esther and Jacob Blau making the difficult decision to institutionalize their teenage daughter after a suicide attempt. Penguin Random House’s decision to release a new edition under the Penguin Classics imprint, complete with a forward by author Esmé Weijun Wang ( The Border of Paradise, The Collected Schizophrenias) and a new afterword by Greenberg herself, provides a framework for more complex understandings of the novel - especially when it comes to its portrayal of mental health issues and Jewishness - making this classic novel available to new generations of readers. Greenberg (whose novel The King’s Person’s won the Jewish Book Council’s National Jewish Book Award in 1964) was admitted to a mental health hospital at sixteen years old Rose Garden is a fictionalization of the years she spent as a patient there. Joanne Greenberg’s novel I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, first published in 1964 under the pen name Hannah Green, is a semi-autobiographical account of a teen’s struggle with schizophrenia. One true thing by anna quindlen5/22/2023 Among the triumphs of Quindlen's superb ear for voices is the character of an elderly Jewish woman whose moribund husband is Frannie's patient. Weaving the domestic fabric that is her forte, she flawlessly reproduces the mundane dialogue between mother and son, between Frannie and the friends she makes and the people she serves in her new job as a home health-care aide. As Frannie and Robert make tentative steps in their new community, Quindlen conveys their sense of dislocation and anxiety compounded by their sense of loss. She makes palpable Frannie's fear, pain, self-contempt and, later, guilt over depriving Robert of the father he adores. She cogently explores the complex emotional atmosphere of abuse: why some women cling to the memory of their original love and wait too long to break free. Quindlen establishes suspense from the first sentence and never falters. Under an assumed identity in a tacky central Florida town, Frannie and her 10-year-old son, Robert, attempt to build a new life, but there is a price to pay, and when it comes, it carries the heartstopping logic of inevitability and the irony of fate. Her protagonist is Frannie Benedetto, a 37-year-old Brooklyn housewife, mother and nurse who finally finds the courage to escape from her violent husband Bobby, a New York City cop. After two fine earlier efforts, Object Lessons and One True Thing, Quindlen has written her best novel yet in this unerringly constructed and paced, emotionally accurate tale of domestic abuse. The soul of a new machine5/22/2023 About the size of a closet and costing up to $25,000 apiece, minicomputers are precursors to the desktop PCs that would dominate the 1990s. When the book begins in the late 1970s, Data General is one of a small group of firms fighting for a share of the burgeoning “minicomputer” industry. Meanwhile, Kidder’s characterization of computer engineers as bold and passionate visionaries transcended the era’s prevailing clichés about “tech geeks” and forever transformed the way society views the computing industry. The team’s model for success would influence countless upstarts in Silicon Valley, for better or worse. Led by a cold, demanding boss and faced with severe budget and manpower constraints, the engineers work under grueling conditions to deliver a machine that outperforms the computing products made by bigger and better-funded competitors. Tracy Kidder’s The Soul of a New Machine (1981) is a nonfiction account of a team of underdog engineers who build a state-of-the-art minicomputer despite tremendous odds. The bet by anton chekhov5/22/2023 It has no right to take away that which it cannot give back, if it should so desire."Īmong the company was a lawyer, a young man of about twenty-five. " They're both equally immoral," remarked one of the guests, " because their purpose is the same, to take away life. Who is the more humane executioner, one who kills you in a few seconds or one who draws the life out of you incessantly, for years?" Execution kills instantly, life-imprisonment kills by degrees. "I myself have experienced neither capital punishment nor life-imprisonment, but if one may judge _a priori_, then in my opinion capital punishment is more moral and more humane than imprisonment. Some of them thought that capital punishment should be replaced universally by life-imprisonment. They found it obsolete as a means of punishment, unfitted to a Christian State and immoral. The guests, among them not a few scholars and journalists, for the most part disapproved of capital punishment. They talked among other things of capital punishment. There were many clever people at the party and much interesting conversation. The old banker was pacing from corner to corner of his study, recalling to his mind the party he gave in the autumn fifteen years before. Book woman in the window5/22/2023 The movie also has some surprising deaths that didn't happen in AJ Finn's novel. In the book, Anna has an affair with her mentor, but his identity isn't revealed in the movie. A native of New York, Finn lived in England for ten years as a book editor before returning to New York City. 'The Woman in the Window' hit Netflix Friday, but fans of the book will notice some major changes. Finn, pseudonym for Daniel Mallory, has written for numerous publications, including the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and the Times Literary Supplement(UK). “My dear girl, you cannot keep bumping your head against reality and saying it is not there.”Ī.J. “Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.” Now it’s a flurry of papers, floating on a draft.” “And if I don’t want to die, I’ve got to start living.” “Watching is like nature photography: You don’t interfere with the wildlife.” What is real? What is imagined? Who is in danger? Who is in control? In this diabolically gripping thriller, no one-and nothing-is what it seems. But when Anna, gazing out her window one night, sees something she shouldn’t, her world begins to crumble-and its shocking secrets are laid bare. Then the Russells move into the house across the way: a father, a mother, their teenage son. She spends her day drinking wine (maybe too much), watching old movies, recalling happier times. Īnna Fox lives alone-a recluse in her New York City home, unable to venture outside. It isn’t paranoia if it’s really happening. Audiobook Length: 13 hours and 42 minutes Has upon intellect, and its worth is derived not from what it teaches, but from what it forms. The training of life has upon character the same influence which the training of mathematics But there is a value in such a conflict beside if not beyond the value of the principles at stake. We are always working either better or worse than we can know and whether by victory or defeat, we are always achieving or sacrificing ends that we never purposed. “Those slow, sad hours which bring us all things ill,And all good things from evil,”Ĭan explain not only men to each other, but men and their actions to themselves. Time alone-time made up oftenest, both for nations and for men, of Its causes and its consequences stand for judgment before impartial history and it is not in this generation of victors and vanquished that we can reasonably expect to find an unexaggerated statement of its fortunes-a temperate appreciation of the influences which produced it-or a dispassionate estimate of the results it has accomplished. The great civil war in this country has ended by the total defeat of one of the parties to the issue. |