![]() ![]() ![]() And Mikey wants revenge.Įllie's brother Tom is the boy Karyn has accused. Karyn won't leave the flat, her police support officer is concerned about the family situation, the accused boy's father has engaged expensive lawyers and is painting Karyn as a cheap tart and a liar. Life's not easy at the best of times, but when his sister claims she's been raped, things begin to spiral out of control. Meanwhile, he's trying to make something of himself, training as a chef at a seaside pub. His mother's an alcoholic and Mikey has to shoulder most of the parental responsibility in the house - getting food on the table, getting his littlest sister to school, fending off periodic interest from social services. ![]() It all seems so straightforward, doesn't it? But it's not straightforward at all for Mikey and Ellie. If someone hurts your sister and you're any kind of man, you seek revenge, right? If you're brother's accused of a terrible crime but says he didn't do it, you defend him, don't you? Beautifully written and tremendously moving, it's a worthy follow up to the phenomenally successful Before I Die. Summary: A book about love, loyalty and choices. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Covey Praise for The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Read moreĬover: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, by Stephen R. Covey reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, honesty, and human dignity-principles that give us the security to adapt to change and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates. With penetrating insights and practical anecdotes, Stephen R. This beloved classic presents a principle-centered approach for solving both personal and professional problems. ![]() Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood With Sean Covey’s added takeaways on how the habits can be used in our modern age, the wisdom of the 7 Habits will be refreshed for a new generation of leaders. The 7 Habits have become famous and are integrated into everyday thinking by millions and millions of people. Now, this 30th anniversary edition of the timeless classic commemorates the wisdom of the 7 Habits with modern additions from Sean Covey. It has transformed the lives of presidents and CEOs, educators and parents-millions of people of all ages and occupations. One of the most inspiring and impactful books ever written, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has captivated readers for nearly three decades. *The #1 Most Influential Business Book of the Twentieth Century* * New York Times bestseller-over 40 million copies sold* ![]() ![]() ![]() Also, later on, monks appear on the scene and spread the Gospel throughout the settlements of Celtic and Atlantean peoples. There are venerations, dreams, and other mentions of Celtic gods Taliesin, before his conversion, is considered a druid-bard, and there are gatherings of bards within the story. There are venerations of the Greek gods throughout the beginning of the story once a bull is slain as a sacrifice to the pagan gods. It is not until late into the book that Christianity arrives, but the pagans seem to have a good handle on what is good and what is evil. ![]() Together they discover the redeeming love of Christ and, as man and wife, create one of the most enduring legends of Britain: Merlin. The boy Taliesin grows, wise and gifted in song, to meet and fall in love with the beautiful foreign princess. Meanwhile, in the wild lands of Britain, a luckless young man discovers a baby, still alive, caught in nets in a winter river. One of the few survivors of the island’s demise, the princess sets off across the ocean to seek another home. ![]() An unorthodox but enjoyable read of Atlantis, Britain, and the beginning of the Arthurian saga.Ĭharis, daughter and princess of the idyllic island of Atlantis, has her beautiful world broken slowly and methodically as first her family and then her country are swallowed up in the past. ![]() ![]() This has come up a lot, and I’m starting to feel like I’m examining myself and other people are talking to me about it, and there are some theories that, in the superhero world, I don’t like writing overtly aggressive people, and a lot of the male superhero characters have so much aggression that you’re dealing with. But that’s the kind of story I feel like telling, I don’t know why. I get asked this now all the time, why do you keep writing female protagonists? And part of it is just, oh, I’m getting jobs, I’m pitching these and people are letting me do them. ![]() My Gotham Academy artist and I, Karl Kerschl, we’ve got a comic we’ve been trying to get off the ground for almost a decade, we’ve got so many pages of it, and it’s about two young women, and that is where my heart is. ![]() ![]() Fletcher: So I’ve been writing comics off and on for twenty years now, and writing stories my whole life, and I have always gravitated to female protagonists. ![]() ![]() ![]() INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AFRICAN RENAISSANCE STUDIES, vol. A Youth Counter-Narrative on Trafficking and Smuggling from Africa to Europe.
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This book grabbed my attention from beginning to end. ![]() ![]() ![]() Syn was raised as a tech-thief until his livelihood uncovered a truth that could end his life. But that was then, and the future is now. Born of an illicit scandal that once rocked a dynasty, he always knew how to survive on the bloodthirsty streets. In a universe where assassins make the law, everyone lives in fear- except for Syn. Highly trained and highly valued, they are the backbone of the government.īut not even the League is immune to corruption… So a separate group of soldiers was needed: The League Assassins. ![]() The Quorum realized that the best way to keep trouble from starting was to cut it off at its knees. Those who opposed him formed an alliance called The League, which fell under the leadership of the Quorum. Victims of a ruthless tyrant who was bent on being the sole ruler. People were dragged from their homes and killed in the streets. In the Ichidian Universe no one was safe. ![]() Setting: Ichidian Universe #1 International Bestselling Series Original Publication Date: April 03, 1996 ![]() ![]() ![]() On platforms that enforce case-sensitivity PNG and png are not the same locations. Notice that the CaSe is important in this example. In this example the image file must be in public_html/cgi-sys/images/ This varies by browser, if you do not see a box on your page with a red X try right clicking on the page, then select View Page Info, and goto the Media Tab. The properties will tell you the path and file name that cannot be found. Right click on the X and choose Properties. When you have a missing image on your site you may see a box on your page with with a red X where the image is missing. ![]() On platforms that enforce case-sensitivity example and Example are not the same locations.įor addon domains, the file must be in public_html//example/Example/ and the names are case-sensitive. In this example the file must be in public_html/example/Example/ When you get a 404 error be sure to check the URL that you are attempting to use in your browser.This tells the server what resource it should attempt to request. ![]() ![]() ![]() Not everyone had the freedom of speech, because if they argued they would become dog food. When Napoleon became in power, he had more liberties than other. Boxer, the horse, worked the hardest of all he carried most of the rocks for the windmill and he worked extra hours by himself. At first, when snowball was there, things were the same for the animals, but when Napoleon got in power, him and the pigs had more food, better home, and didn't work. The biggest example is the pigs and the dogs that had more privileges than the other animals. The inequality in Animal Farm is clearly seen in many ways. In Animal Farm, George Orwell showed that communism is a form of inequality. ![]() Animal farm displays the terrible form of government that communism is. In his book, George Orwell showed that communism is a form of inequality, it corrupts the communist leaders leading them to kill anyone in order to stay in power, and that communism was not a good form of government. The fairy story took place in a farm called the Manor Farm which later in the novel became Animal Farm. ![]() Animal Farm, by the Englishman George Orwell, is a story about animals overtaking a farm, taking control over it, and trying to change the world into a human less world. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In these journal entries she documented the grinding poverty, illiteracy, and unemployment that characterized the lives of her neighbors, calling attention to a host of social problems -prostitution, adultery, incest, alcoholism, physical violence, foul language -that these ills engendered. There, around 1955, de Jesus began keeping a crudely written account of the brutal reality of her day-to-day existence in a community populated by society's outcasts. Eventually, she moved into a shack in one of the city's worst favelas (slums). ![]() As a young adult she migrated to S ão Paulo, South America's industrial megalopolis, where as an unemployed single parent she struggled to eke out a living for herself and her three children. During her childhood, de Jesus had few educational opportunities, taking only two years of formal schooling. Born illegitimate and impoverished in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, Carolina Maria de Jesus had to overcome a series of seemingly insurmountable obstacles throughout her lifetime just to survive. ![]() |