![]() When we free our speech, our voice becomes one. Composed in three parts, Unfree Speech chronicles Joshuas path to activism, collects the letters he wrote as a political prisoner under the Chinese state, and. ![]() His actions have sparked worldwide attention, earned him a Nobel Peace Prize nomination, and landed him in jail twice.Ĭomposed in three parts, Unfree Speech chronicles Joshua's path to activism, collects the letters he wrote as a political prisoner under the Chinese state, and closes with a powerful and urgent call for all of us globally to defend our democratic values. 39. Since then, Joshua has led the Umbrella Movement, founded a political party, and rallied the international community around the anti-extradition bill protests, which have seen two million people - more than a quarter of the population - take to Hong Kong's streets. 39. 'During that flight, we found out we were kind of. Crow offered to fly him there on his private jet. While the adults stayed silent, Joshua staged the first-ever student protest in Hong Kong to oppose National Education - and won. 8 hours ago &0183 &32 In 1996, the justice was scheduled to give a speech in Dallas for an anti-regulation think tank. When he was 14, Joshua Wong made history. ![]() With global democracy under threat, we must act together to defend our rights: now. An urgent manifesto for global democracy from Joshua Wong, the 23-year-old phenomenon leading Hong Kong's protests - and Nobel Peace Prize nominee - with an introduction by Ai Weiwei ![]()
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![]() ![]() The darkness of early 19th-century America was vividly embodied by enslaved Blacks herded in chains down his native Kentucky roads.Īt 23, Lincoln formally entered the political arena running for office in Illinois to feed his great ambition "of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem." Meacham expertly peels back the historic to reveal the familiar in his coverage of the swirl of politics, largely unchanged to this day. schools" and any books he could hungrily consume thereafter. The light that powered this desire was the gift of literacy acquired in what Lincoln called "A.B.C. It is little wonder that Lincoln sought to deliver more fairness in an unfair world. Rather, this account of his hardscrabble youth is less an any-boy-can-be-president morality tale than a foundation of Lincoln's personal values and empathy informed by crushing poverty and loss. ![]() ![]() Meacham does not portray Lincoln's back story as mere iconography - the log cabin, the backwoods education, the rail splitting. Fueling the national disaster was the "Big Lie" of Lincoln's day - that slavery was a justifiable institution. ![]() Jon Meacham's excellent new biography, "And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle," illuminates how Lincoln's personal growth and travails enabled him to lead a nation along a fitful evolution toward freedom despite a catastrophic rebellion that denied it. ![]() ![]() Julian is also one of those slimy villains who tries to act all suave, conveniently forgetting the fact that he is in fact a douche who kidnaps women for sex. ![]() Nora actually does make an attempt to fight her captor, Julian, but she also constantly refers to him as a dark angel and frets about her traitorous body many, many times. My problem with TWIST ME is that there are way too many mixed signals that make this book feel icky. At best you could have an antihero after one hell of a redemption arc, but don't, for the love of all that is holy, try to make the rapey hero seem romantic or chivalrous. Here's the thing about kidnap erotica - once you have the hero kidnap and assault the heroine, the good-guy card is off the table. ![]() When she meets the man who's going to kidnap her, she's only 17, but he waits until she turns 18 before accosting her during her date, beating up the other boy, and then spiriting her away to his tropical island for some rape. ![]() TWIST ME by Anna Zaires is written in this vein, starring dippy heroine, Nora. For a while, captive romances/erotica were the major trend in erotic fiction and everyone was trying to outdo everyone else with who could write the most dysfunctional and depraved relationship. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I found the plot aspect of this book to be sorely underdeveloped and clumsy. There was also a lot of setting up for other books in the series with some weird focus on secondary characters. Two tops decide they love stuff up their butts, there is talk of M/F/M action, BDSM play, and some awkward romance to boot. Lots of stuff is thrown into the mix here. I didn't get any of that yummy sexual tension that drives me so crazy and that I, apparently, need to enjoy a book. ![]() This was a WHAM, out of the blue GFY with absolutely no buildup. I love a good believable sexuality discovery story. But for me at this stage in my reading career, you need to woo my mind also, man. If you want a one-handed read, I guess this fits the bill. If you want to throw all logic and reasoning out the window and read this for just porny purposes, I get it. Me not liking a sexuality discovery book with a butt virgin? What has the world come to!? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The expressivity/ness is the most frequent used strategy. The finding shows that the most frequently used strategy is. A total of 2 translated novels, Ronggeng Dukuh Paruk versi Banyumasan and Jegingger demonstrate the strategy. As a native speaker of a local language involved in his translation, he has led the emergence of a new ideology that allows the target language able to express the aesthetics of literature better than the source text does. What was done by Ahmad Tohari was unique. Over the years, literary translation is believed to function only as a literature documentation since it involved a local language as the source language. A new strategy, 'aestheticising', is successfully performed by Ahmad Tohari, a great short story writer, novelist, and translator, who conducted a unique genre of literary translation hardly done by common translators. The findings are used to explore a new translation strategies applied by a translator which has an ideological impacts as one of the variables that affect the translation result. This paper investigates an ideology in novel translation. ![]() ![]() ![]() To date, he's published nearly 200 short stories in the horror, science fiction, western, fantasy, and mystery fields. ![]() He made his first professional fiction sale, "Amymone's Footsteps," to Twilight Zone's NIGHT CRY in 1985 and has been writing and selling steadily ever since. When he's not out and about accosting strangers to forgive him for his sins, he can usually be found holed up in his office, writing, which everyone agrees is best not only for him, but society at large. He's worked at a variety of occupations over the years, including actor (stage, television, one movie), musician, a carny "stick," animal groomer, short-order cook, bartender, janitor (six stints at that one), newspaper reporter, and habilitation supervisor for developmentally disabled adults. ![]() After surviving eight years of Catholic school, he studied for the priesthood until he didn't anymore. Braunbeck was born in Newark, Ohio in the Year of the Rat and has been apologizing for it ever since. ![]() ![]() ![]() As she takes in an orphaned street musician and deals with tireless troublemakers, Jo and her family’s lives are forever changed. Little Men furthers Jo’s story and introduces new protagonists when Jo opens a school for boys in her late aunt’s estate. Their story continues in Good Wives as the girls venture out on their own, experiencing love, loss, and the importance of family. The four girls couldn’t be more different, but with their father fighting in the Civil War and their mother supporting the family, the sisters have to rely on each other as they grow up and grow together. A bestseller from the time it was originally published in 1868, it tells the story of the beloved March sisters: Meg, Beth, Jo, and Amy. ![]() The quintessential American family novel, Little Women captured readers’ hearts right from the start. ![]() Discover the entirety of Louisa May Alcott’s enchanting tale of the March sisters for yourself-now together in one complete, beautifully designed boxed set! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tautly written and beautifully evocative, The Mourning Hours is a gripping portrayal of a family straining against extraordinary pressure, and a powerful tale of loyalty, betrayal and forgiveness. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Now, years later, a new tragedy forces Kirsten and her siblings to return home, where they must confront the devastating event that shifted the trajectory of their lives. The Mourning Hours - Ebook written by Paula Treick DeBoard. No one knows what to believe-not even those closest to Johnny-but the event unhinges the quiet farming community and pins Kirsten's family beneath the crushing weight of suspicion. ![]() Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Mourning Hours. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Kirsten was just nine years old when Stacy Lemke went missing, and the last person to see her alive was her boyfriend, Johnny-the high school wrestling star and Kirsten's older brother. Rent The Mourning Hours 1st edition (978-0778314974) today, or search our site for other textbooks by Paula Treick DeBoard. The Mourning Hours - Kindle edition by DeBoard, Paula Treick. Kirsten Hammarstrom hasn't been home to her tiny corner of rural Wisconsin in years-not since the mysterious disappearance of a local teenage girl rocked the town and shattered her family. ![]() A family's loyalty is put to the ultimate test in this haunting and unforgettable debut. ![]() ![]() ![]() Much of the main and subplots of this story including the queen, information surrounding the Illyrians (which was a significant topic many readers wished to pursue more with Nesta and Cassian’s story) felt underdeveloped or shoved quickly into the last 200 pages or so of the book. The storyline involving the human queen and the challenges Nesta and Cassian have to undergo in order to combat her was powerful and unique, however it felt incredibly rushed. I love a well structured, world-ending threat. In the midst of attempting to secure stability across the lands, the human queens have formed a threatening alliance, a threat that may only be thwarted by Nesta.įocusing on plot first, I really enjoyed the ideas revolving in the background of Nesta’s journey towards recovery after the terrors of the war. ![]() On to the other aspects of the story, ACOSF takes place after the devastating war with Hybern, which left Prythian in a precarious peace between the High Lord’s territories, human realms, and distant faerie lands. ![]() I don’t like putting age restriction or requirements on books because everyone has their own levels of tolerance and knowledge, but please note this book contains explicit adult content, so if you’re under 17 and reading this, please don’t tell me. It is not for the youngins, faint of heart, or introductory fantasy readers. ![]() Sarah has always pushed the border between YA, New Adult, and Adult with her content, but A Court of Silver Flames is 100% adult, no doubts about it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Overnight, the Busbys went from being an average family to one under 24-hour armed protection, with police escorts to school and no contact with friends. It became clear that there was a definite suspect. John Busby was scheduled to testify in an upcoming trial against the family of a local criminal with rumoured mob connections. The blasts that followed left him clinging to life, yet he managed to write down the name of the only person he thought could have pulled the trigger. ![]() ![]() Her police officer father, John, was driving to work when someone levelled a shotgun at his window. When Cylin Busby was nine years old, she was obsessed with the Muppets and her pet turtle. ![]() |