Simone: 1943 books

We the peopleWill not be silencedOur voices are important.We the people Will not be pushed asideWe will be seenOur numbers are more than you know.We the peopleWill make a difference We will hold the government accountable Our empathy is not a weakness.In these turbulent times we the people will stand...

Provides an original, first-hand view of the potential that motion pictures offered women from the Victorian era, and how, ultimately, the industry rejected one of its first and most important pioneers. Alice Guy BlachZ was not only the world's first female director, but in 1896, she became the first...

A YALSA Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers What happens when the girl everyone least expects gets the guy all the chicks want. . .? she can rock Apple Bottoms jeans and stilettos like nobody's business, but she's got her share of issues. It's not easy being the thickest one...

Fort Worth, originally named Camp Worth, was founded as an Army outpost in 1849, and the old cavalry stables became Fort Worth�s first hotel. The Texas & Pacific Railroad arrived in Fort Worth in July 1876, bringing the need for more lodging. Shortly after its arrival, boardinghouses and simple accommodations...

Essay from the year 2004 in the subject Art - Painting, grade: A, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (Department of Art and Archeology), course: History of Korean Art, 5 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In the Chos?n period (1392-1910), Korean landscape...

"For urban sketchers...each new city is a clean white page." There is nothing quite like the thrill of heading out on the town, sketchbook in hand, in search of a view worth capturing. Archisketcher will help you embrace the excitement of sketching on location while overcoming common...

Exploring an overlooked era of Italian history roiled by domestic terrorism, political assassination, and student protests, Drawn and Dangerous: Italian Comics of the 1970s and 1980s shines a new light on what was a dark decade, but an unexpectedly prolific and innovative period among artists of...

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,3, University of Trier, course: Examenskolloquium Linguistik, 28 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The island of Ireland is divided into the four...

This critical history of Iain M. Banks’ Culture novels covers the series from its inception in the 1970s to the The Hydrogen Sonata (2012), published less than a year before Banks’ death. It considers Banks’ origins as a writer, the development of his politics and ethics, his struggles to become...

What are you thinking now? How do you feel? Start to channel the power of your thoughts and feelings to wealth immediately, wherever you go and whoever you are with. Wealth is a state of mind. First, it starts in our way of thinking and feeling. We should begin to be rich by our ideas and thoughts....

Lauded poet Christopher Merrill hatched a brilliant plan: invite six other poets to join him in four days of writing in Iowa City. The poets would write for 30 minutes, creating a poem of 15 lines, and then read it aloud to the group. As poets heard the poems, they noted memorable words, images, and...

A traveling artist happens upon an old hermit with an incredible secret. (A short story: Approximately 3,650 words.)

"In order to find what you seek you must first sometimes take an unknown and unique path to get there." In our everyday life, we often come across obstacles that we are not sure how we can overcome. In our quest to find an answer, we commonly seek advice from those people that we know and take an emotional...

“Like man, woman is a human being.”   When The Second Sex was first published in Paris in 1949—groundbreaking, risqué, brilliantly written and strikingly modern—it provoked both outrage and inspiration. The Independent Woman contains three key chapters of Beauvoir’s masterwork, which illuminate...