![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Holy Roman Emperor title provided the highest prestige among medieval Roman Catholic monarchs, because the empire was considered by the Roman Catholic Church to be the only successor of the Roman Empire during the Middle Ages and the early modern period. "King of the Teutons") throughout the 12th to 18th centuries. The title was held in conjunction with the title of king of Italy ( Rex Italiae) from the 8th to the 16th century, and, almost without interruption, with the title of king of Germany ( Rex Teutonicorum, lit. The Holy Roman Emperor, originally and officially the Emperor of the Romans ( Latin: Imperator Romanorum, German: Kaiser der Römer) during the Middle Ages, and also known as the Roman-German Emperor since the early modern period ( Latin: Imperator Germanorum, German: Römisch-deutscher Kaiser, lit.'Roman-German emperor'), was the ruler and head of state of the Holy Roman Empire. ![]()
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![]() One of Ward's best-known portraits was his Theophilus Levett hunting at Wychnor, Staffordshire of 1817. One such family that Ward painted and drew repeatedly, and whom he counted among his friends, were the Levett family of Wynchnor Park, Staffordshire. Like many artists of the time, Ward sought commissions from wealthy gentry of their favorite horses, their favorite hunting dogs or their children. ![]() The experience may have embittered him, and the deaths of his first wife and a daughter were among other tragedies. Ward devoted much of the period 1815-21 to the painting of a gigantic work titled Allegory of Waterloo (now lost) this neither was much praised nor brought in the revenue Ward had hoped for. From 1810 or so, Ward started to paint horses within landscapes slightly later, he turned to very large-scale landscapes, of which Gordale Scar (Tate, London), completed in 1814 or 1815 and depicting Gordale Scar (Yorkshire) as an example of the sublime, is considered his masterpiece and a masterpiece of English Romantic painting. ![]() ![]() ![]() James Ward was a British painter, particularly of animals, and an engraver.īorn in London, and younger brother of William Ward the engraver, James Ward was influenced by many people, but his career is conventionally divided into two periods: until 1803, his single greatest influence was his brother in law George Morland from that time, it was Rubens. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Theodore dreiser carrie![]() ![]() To press his case, he slips Carrie two ten dollar bills, opening a vista of material possibilities to her. He persuades her to leave her dull, constricted life and move in with him. One day, after an illness costs her job, she encounters Drouet. They exchange contact information, but upon discovering the "steady round of toil" and somber atmosphere at her sister's flat, she writes to Drouet and discourages him from calling on her there.Ĭarrie soon finds a job running a machine in a shoe factory and gives most of her meager salary to the Hansons for room and board. On the train, Carrie meets Charles Drouet, a traveling salesman who is attracted to her because of her simple beauty and unspoiled manner. In late 1889, dissatisfied with life in Columbia City, Wisconsin, 18-year-old Caroline Meeber, "Sister Carrie" to her family, takes the train to Chicago, to live with her older sister Minnie and Minnie's husband. It has been called the "greatest of all American urban novels". ![]() She first becomes a mistress to men that she perceives as superior, but later becomes a famous actress. Sister Carrie (1900) is a novel by Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) about a young woman who moves to the big city where she starts realizing her own American Dream. A kinetoscope film of turn-of-the-century Chicago, the initial setting of Sister Carrie ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This timely new edition of The Verbally Abusive Relationship puts you on the road to recognizing and responding to verbal abuse, one crucial step at a time. She also outlines the Levels of Abuse that characterize this kind of behavior – from subtle, insidious put-downs that can erode your self-esteem to full-out tantrums of name-calling, screaming, and threatening that can escalate into physical abuse.ĭrawing from hundreds of real situations suffered by real people just like you, Evans offers strategies, sample scripts, and action plans designed to help you deal with the abuse – and the abuser. In two all-new chapters, Evans reveals the Outside Stresses driving the rise in verbal abuse – and shows you how you can mitigate the devastating effects on your relationships. You'll get more of the answers you need to recognize abuse when it happens, respond to abusers safely and appropriately, and most important, lead a happier, healthier life. Even if you are not interested in staying in the relationship, this book will provide the necessary facts for having compassion for someone like this and the how tos for protecting. It is a clear description and makes for an easy understanding of how a verbally abusive man is 'created'. In this fully expanded and updated third edition of the bestselling classic, you learn why verbal abuse is more widespread than ever, and how you can deal with it. Patricia Evans truly describes a verbally abusive man. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Lightlark by alex aster![]() ![]() Lexi Barta and Jacqueline Garell will oversee the project on behalf of Universal, and Godfrey and Annika Patton will oversee for Temple Hill. The producers Aster is referring to is Wyck Godfrey, producer of several book-to-film adaptations including Stephenie Meyers’s Twilight franchise, Angie Thomas’s The Hate You Give, John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, and more. ![]() “I’m just so lucky,” Aster said, “not only for Universal’s commitment to it, and their love for the book, but also, the producers are known for such great movies like Twilight and Maze Runner. The Hollywood Reporter announced last month that Universal had bought the rights to the book in a preempt, in partnership with Temple Hill, with Aster taking a role as an executive producer. I truly believed there was an audience for it, even if publishing didn’t really see it.”Īhead of its release, Lightlark has already become a #1 Amazon bestseller in the Teen & Young Adult Fantasy & Supernatural Mysteries & Thrillers category. “ I wrote this for readers like me who enjoy all these elements. Support from TikTok was motivating for Aster in the face of traditional publishing obstacles, a reminder that the community she was building was her audience. No one’s going to want to publish me.’ And then that video changed everything.” ![]() My previous book came out during the pandemic. “It was like the lowest point of my career, where I thought, ‘I have no agent. ![]() “It was definitely tumultuous right before this happened for Lightlark,” Aster told PW. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Sanctuary book caryn lix![]() ![]() And Kenzie might have to team up with her captors to survive-all while beginning to suspect there’s a darker side to the Omnistellar she knows. Kenzie holds one truth above all: the company is everything. Yet it soon becomes clear that her mother is more concerned with sticking to Omnistellar protocol than she is with getting Kenzie out safely.Īs Kenzie forms her own plan to escape, she doesn’t realize there’s a more sinister threat looming, something ancient and evil that has clawed its way into Sanctuary from the vacuum of space. Alien meets Alexandra Bracken's The Darkest Minds in this thrilling debut novel about prison-guard-in-training, Kenzie, who is taken hostage by the superpowered criminal teens of the Sanctuary space station-only to have to band together with them when the station is attacked by mysterious creatures. ![]() ![]() As a junior guard, she’s excited to prove herself to her company-and that means sacrificing anything that won’t propel her forward.īut then a routine drill goes sideways and Kenzie is taken hostage by rioting prisoners.Īt first, she’s confident her commanding officer-who also happens to be her mother-will stop at nothing to secure her freedom. Kenzie holds one truth above all: the company is everything.Īs a citizen of Omnistellar Concepts, the most powerful corporation in the solar system, Kenzie has trained her entire life for one goal: to become an elite guard on Sanctuary, Omnistellar’s space prison for superpowered teens too dangerous for Earth. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Brittney Cooper's world, neither mean girls nor fuckboys ever win. And it took another intervention, this time staged by one of her homegirls, to turn Brittney into the fierce feminist she is today. When Cooper learned of her grandmother's eloquent rage about love, sex, and marriage in an epic and hilarious front-porch confrontation, her life was changed. It reminds women that they don't have to settle for less. It's what makes Michelle Obama an icon.Įloquent rage keeps us all honest and accountable. It's what makes Beyoncé's girl power anthems resonate so hard. ![]() Black women's eloquent rage is what makes Serena Williams such a powerful tennis player. But Cooper shows us that there is more to the story than that. In the Black feminist tradition of Audre Lorde, Brittney Cooper reminds us that anger is a powerful source of energy that can give us the strength to keep on fighting.įar too often, Black women's anger has been caricatured into an ugly and destructive force that threatens the civility and social fabric of American democracy. ![]() So what if it's true that Black women are mad as hell? They have the right to be. ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments Hummingbird by LaVyrle Spencer![]() After all, she was being paid by the railroad to do those things for him. Could she say he drew a gun on her to make her fix him his breakfast? Hardly. And then what would she say? That he'd drawn a gun on her and made her kiss him? No power on earth could make her confess such a thing. She was afraid that if she ran all over saying "I want him out," people would wonder why. ![]() ![]() What rankled was that he was partially right. She didn't want to traipse all over town letting the entire citizenry know she was anxious to have that man out of her house. I don't." Stymied, Miss Abigail stood, stiff-backed and upset, at a loss now. He knows who's the right person to send it to anyways. ![]() "You go over and see Sam about it, then he'll send the wire. "Got to be the sheriff does 'at," Max said importantly. ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments Dying Every Day by James Romm![]() ![]() ![]() After ensuring the death of his kin, rivals and all his close advisers, the emperor turned on his teacher, forcing him to commit suicide. But in the end, he wanted to renounce political life or as the Romans would said, seek otium. Notionally a stoic, Seneca was very much a worldly man. In the end, after decades of enrichment, complicity in crimes and contentment, the stoic found himself hollow, an empty shell. ![]() He used his talents to justify every action of his masters-Agrippina first and then Nero-even the murder of one by the other, in this case that of Nero getting his mother killed. ![]() The philosopher’s first crime was his complicity in the murder of the emperor by his wife Agrippina. Seneca was a political ally of the ambitious Agrippina and along with Burrus Afranius, the head of the Praetorian Guard, one of the three most powerful persons after the emperor Claudius (10BC-AD54), the adoptive father of Nero. The book begins with Seneca being recalled from exile by Nero’s mother Agrippina to guide her teenage son. Famous for writing stoic treatises, Seneca was a philosopher who enjoyed life and wealth. Romm deals carefully with the difficulty in assessing Seneca’s career. ![]() ![]() It was on these very steps that Governor Sargent officially called off the highway in response to the vocal community organizers. Activists old and young gathered to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the monumental 1969 People Before Highways Rally where approximately 2,000 residents from the Greater Boston area assembled to stop the construction of the Innerbelt Expressway. Karilyn Crockett, in collaboration with city planning graduate students Meesh Zucker and Marissa Prasse, organized a rally on the steps of the Massachusetts State House. ![]() COLLABORATORS: Historic Boston, Inc., MIT CoLab, Mel King Institute/Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations, Massachusetts Historical Society, Northeastern University Archives & Special Collections, Haymarket People’s Fund, Massachusetts Communities Action Network ![]() |