![]() ![]() “It also great to see new readers coming to light because of this award.” It's been really amazing to get recognition, this will also increase the direction of my work itself and how I start writing. Jackie explained the process of publishing the book was tough as she had to take time off from university and work engagements to write and do research for the book. “Getting interviews with people for certain topics is really hard. a lot of people are really closed off from giving information as they're fearful of their names being in the book or to expose certain people. Also, the funds to publish the book in SA is really expensive especially when you're self-funded.” So, the research on its own takes time but I'm working on it. Jackie has also been busy with her latest offering Bare III: Ego, which is the final book in the three-part “Bare” series. ![]() It sees her exploring human trafficking in the country. ![]()
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![]() Mercutio confronts Romeo about his disappearance the previous night. Romeo, Having found Juliet, lets his intentions be known. Act 2, Scene 1Īfter the conclusion of the ball, Romeo sets out to find Juliet. The Chorus recites a short sonnet concerning Romeo and Juliet's forbidden love. Romeo and Juliet are both devastated by the discovery of each others true identity. Romeo, taken by Juliets beauty is recognized by Tybalt. ![]() Act 1, Scene 4ĭisguised with masks, Romeo, Benvolio and Mercutio prepare to attend the Capulet's ball. Lady Capulet talks of marriage with Juliet. Romeo and Benvolio receive unexpected invitations to a masquerade feast. ![]() Paris informs Capulet of his desire to marry Juliet. Benvolio informs the elder Montague of his Romeo's condition. Act 1, Scene 1Ī chance meeting of the Capulets and Montagues results in armed conflict on the streets of Verona. The Chorus recites a sonnet for the audience. List of Characters represented throughout the play. Romeo and Juliet New York: Sully and Kleinteich Cast of Characters Romeo and Juliet are widely represented as archetypal young lovers. It was among Shakespeare’s most popular plays during his lifetime and, along with Hamlet, is one of his most frequently performed plays. ![]() The play has been highly praised by literary critics for its language and dramatic effect. Romeo and Juliet is an early tragedy by William Shakespeare about two teenage “star-cross’d lovers” whose “untimely deaths” ultimately unite their feuding households. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Inspiring, entertaining, and deeply moving, this memoir will resonate with anyone forced to grapple with chronic or terminal illness. As she grows increasingly disillusioned with toxic positivity and bypassing spiritual gurus in her determined pursuit of a miraculous cure, she's forced to examine her deepest beliefs and define her own faith about hope, and healing. With a humorous exploration of the current landscapes of alternative medicine and self-help, No Pressure, No Diamonds recounts Teri's powerful journey while shedding light on the fragile blessings of embodiment in general. But once diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease (ALS) and told to get her affairs in order before facing total paralysis and death, she finds all smug psychology and easy equanimity no match for her new harrowing prognosis. How do you define hope and healing when faced with an early death? At 35 and newly married, psychotherapist and Buddhist practitioner Teri Dillion had tidy answers on offer for creating a meaningful and beautiful life. ![]() ![]() While Barker is critical of organized religion, he has stated that he is a believer in both God and the afterlife, and that the Bible influences his work.įans have noticed of late that Barker's voice has become gravelly and coarse. This award is presented "to an openly lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender individual who has made a significant difference in promoting equal rights for any of those communities". In 2003, Clive Barker received The Davidson/Valentini Award at the 15th GLAAD Media Awards. ![]() Barker's second long-term relationship, with photographer David Armstrong, ended in 2009. It was in Liverpool in 1975 that he met his first partner, John Gregson, with whom he lived until 1986. ![]() Educated at Dovedale Primary School and Quarry Bank High School, he studied English and Philosophy at Liverpool University and his picture now hangs in the entrance hallway to the Philosophy Department. Clive Barker was born in Liverpool, England, the son of Joan Rubie (née Revill), a painter and school welfare officer, and Leonard Barker, a personnel director for an industrial relations firm. ![]() ![]() ![]() The story opens in a department store that sells AFs and here we meet Klara, a solar-powered, fourth series, B2, Artificial Friend who serves as the narrator of the book. ![]() Of course, this ensures that the children will outgrow their AFs, a situation that doesn’t raise any concern until we get to know Klara, the AF at the center of this story. To address the lonely lives of children in this world parents purchase Artificial Friends (AFs) to shepherd them through their teenage years until they go to college (which still seems to be a residential experience). She lives with her mother who is rarely home and Melania Housekeeper. They learn remotely using “oblongs.” Josie is one of those children-a 14-year old teenager. Children spend most of their time at home. It is a future in which pollution often darkens the sky for days on end, adults are largely “post-employed”, and a caste system is firmly in place with those who have been “lifted” as the only ones eligible to be in the highest caste. The story takes place in the United States in the not-so-distant future. ![]() Klara and the Sun is Kazuo Ishiguro’s newest novel, his eighth, and first since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017. ![]() ![]() The August 2004 issue of Newtype USA, a magazine specializing in events of the anime and manga subcultures, reported that the members of CLAMP simply wanted to try out new names. In 2004, CLAMP's 15th anniversary as a mangaka group, the members changed their names from Nanase Ohkawa, Mokona Apapa, Mick Nekoi, and Satsuki Igarashi to Ageha Ohkawa, Mokona, Tsubaki Nekoi and Satsuki Igarashi (her name is pronounced the same, but written with different characters) respectively. Currently, there are four members in the group. ![]() Other former members of CLAMP also included Soushi Hishika, O-Kyon, Kazue Nakamori, Yuzuru Inoue and Shinya Ōmi. Of the remaining seven, Tamayo Akiyama, Sei Nanao, and Leeza Sei left the group during the production of the RG Veda manga. ![]() CLAMP originally began in 1989 as a twelve-member dōjinshi circle, but by 1990, the circle had diminished from twelve to seven. ![]() ![]() ![]() I've transferred most of these over from years of posts on Facebook where I also wrote a little bit about each post. If you have questions of any kind feel free to send an email to: NOTE: This is a blog where I just share images and things I like. His books include THE HIDDEN, DELPHINE, CAT BURGLAR BLACK, THE BLOODY CARDINAL, VIOLENT GIRLS, VIOLENZIA and Other Deadly Amusements, IN A GLASS GROTESQUELY, PECULIA, MAD NIGHT, THE CHUCKLING WHATSIT, THE GRAVE ROBBER'S DAUGHTER, HYPNOTIC TALES and several more. He has written and drawn a number of unusual graphic novels and has provided illustrations for a variety of clients all over the world. ![]() Richard Sala grew up with a fascination for musty old museums, dusty old libraries, cluttered antique shops, narrow alleyways, hidden truths, double meanings, sinister secrets and spooky old houses. ![]() ![]() Yet even as the lone wolf of the Bedwyn clan vows to seduce her any way he can, something strange and wonderful is happening. An infuriating lady with very definite views on men, morals, and marriage, Christine confounds Wulfric at every turn. What red-blooded woman wouldn’t enjoy a tumble in the bedsheets with a consummate lover with-no strings and no questions asked. ![]() all the more so when he invites her to become his mistress. ![]() Christine Derrick is intrigued by the handsome duke. But on this dazzling afternoon, one woman did catch the duke’s eye-and she was the only female in the room who wasn’t even trying. ![]() Others say he is so aloof and passionless that not even the greatest beauty could capture his attention. All of London is abuzz over the imminent arrival of Wulfric Bedwyn, the reclusive, cold-as-ice Duke of Bewcastle, at the most glittering social event of the season. ![]() ![]() ![]() Characters such as Claudius, Gertrude, and even Hamlet often call them by the wrong names in fact Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are often unable to distinguish themselves. For all intents and purposes, the two are indistinguishable and dispensable. Yet Stoppard's genius lies in using their lack of depth and inability to sustain action as the very center of the events in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. Stoppard lifts these characters from Shakespeare, but places them in the foreground, although together they lack the depth to sustain the action that Hamlet sustains alone. Their primary purpose is to relieve the dramatic tension present within the rest of Hamlet. ![]() ![]() In Hamlet they are stock characters whose staccato dialogue and Elizabethan wit serve merely as comedic devices. In Shakespeare's work, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are not given distinct personalities. Key characteristics of an existential work include the presence of anti-heroes, unstable knowledge of the past, and unstable identities. Many have examined plays such as Beckett's Waiting for Godot, Pirandello's Six Characters in Search for an Author, and Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead through an existential lens. Ultimately, the individual is responsible for his or her own actions despite the prevailing uncertainty about right or wrong. ![]() Existentialism is the philosophical movement that focuses on the plight of the individual to seek meaning and purpose in a vast universe. ![]() ![]() ![]() He moved to England in order to research Celtic legend and history. During his five years at Campus Life he wrote hundreds of articles and several non-fiction books.Īfter a brief foray into the music business-as president of his own record company-he began full-time freelance writing in 1981. His first professional writing was done at Campus Life magazine in Chicago, where he was an editor and staff writer. Most of his early life was spent in America where he earned a university degree in Fine Arts and attended theological college for two years. ![]() ![]() Stephen was born in 1950, in Nebraska in the USA. His works include Byzantium, Patrick, and the series The Pendragon Cycle, The Celtic Crusades, and The Song of Albion. Lawhead is an internationally acclaimed author of mythic history and imaginative fiction. ![]() |