![]() Violence in battle scenes includes use of guns and automatic weapons, knife fights, fist fights, and can be bloodyĭiego has experienced past torture, rape and other forms of psychological manipulation and abuse at the hands of a male role model figure. Sex scenes are graphic and explicit - rated between 2.5-4 chili peppers on a scale of 5 None of their abuse is depicted ‘on screen.’ The male is later killed. Young girls are being kept in captivity by a male who drinks their blood against their will. One of them goes on to become the lead love interest in Immortal with Scars, book 3. The male is later killed and the wives are freed. The males are killed.Ī male character has a harem of wives aged 16+ that he drinks blood from and sleeps with. It is NOT depicted ‘on screen’ but she does vaguely speak of it later in the book. ![]() ![]() whipping, someone is burned alive, skin flayedĪbel was raped in her past when she was 16 years old. Violence in battle scenes includes biting, cannibalism, torture. Sex scenes are graphic and explicit - rated between 3-4 chili peppers on a scale of 5 ![]()
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![]() SHOW RESPECT.’’Īnd a fourth added: “Love Shaun. ![]() He’s forgotten more than you pair will ever know. One tweeted: “OMG, Ant and Dec did not just make that joke about Shaun.”Īnother said: “Ant and Dec went too far with that joke… Christ.” A third wrote: “Shameful, disrespectful. ITV / Instagramįans of the show dashed to social media to share their reaction to the comments. That is high.” Fans of the show rushed to social media to share their reaction to the comments. And before they could head into camp, they faced a challenge that meant they would be higher than Shaun Ryder in the nineties.”ĭec added: “Wow… wow. So we’ve met our first three contestants – Carol, Amir, and Jordan. ![]() ![]() The Geordie duo joked about the contestants being ‘higher than Shaun was in the 90s’.Īnt said mockingly: “Welcome back to I’m A Celebrity… South Africa. Then, as they introduced the next trio, Ant and Dec made a dig at Shaun’s past struggles with drug addiction before his scenes aired - something Shaun has been open and honest about over the years. ![]() ![]() What aspects of the Alaska/homesteader lifestyle would you find the most challenging in the wild? How would you handle the isolation, the interdependence among neighbors, the climate? Would you have what it takes to survive?Ĥ. How do you think these different nicknames describe different parts of the state?ģ. The Last Frontier, The Land of the Midnight Sun, The Great Alone. How did the landscape create and shape this story? Is this a story that could have taken place anywhere? Or was the solitude of Alaska part of the fabric of the novel?Ģ. The author clearly wants you to understand both the grandeur and danger that are present every day in the Last Frontier. An incomparable landscape.” (31) Alaska is definitely a character in this novel. “It was otherworldly somehow, magical in its vast expanse. ![]() ![]() Spoiler Alert: Please note that the discussion guide below contain spoilers to the book.ġ. ![]() ![]() ![]() Miyazaki took that character as the inspiration for his Princess Nausicaä, but their worlds could not be further apart. Readers of Homer's The Odyssey will recall that Nausicaä is the name of the Phoenician princess who healed Odysseus when he washed up on her shores. In Nausicaä, as in most of his work, Miyazaki centers his narrative on a strong young woman who struggles to create peace in a world torn by war. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia or J.R.R. ![]() Indeed, the Comics Journal once described the first volume as "the best graphic novel ever." Many critics favorably compare the story to such fantasy classics as C.S. But among his many fans in Japan, his epic manga tale, Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind, which Miyazaki later made into a animated movie, is often cited as his greatest work. Hayao Miyazaki is probably best known in the West for his films My Neighbor Totoro and Kiki's Delivery Service are celebrated for their lavish animation and sophisticated treatment of their young heroes. ![]() ![]() We meet Anjum, who used to be Aftab, who runs a guest house in an Old Delhi graveyard and gathers around her the lost, the broken and the cast out. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is the second novel by Indian writer Arundhati Roy, published in 2017, twenty years after her debut, The God of Small Things. So begins The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Arundhati Roy’s incredible follow-up to The God of Small Things. ‘At magic hour, when the sun has gone but the light has not, armies of flying foxes unhinge themselves from the Banyan trees in the old graveyard and drift across the city like smoke …’ ![]() ![]() ‘Glorious, colourful and compelling … Roy’s second novel proves as remarkable as her first’ ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Woolrich soon turned to pulp and detective fiction, often published under his pseudonyms. “Cover Charge” was one of six of his novels that he credits as inspired by the work of F. He attended New York’s Columbia University but left school in 1926 without graduating when his first novel, “Cover Charge”, was published. He’s often compared to other celebrated crime writers of his day, Dashiell Hammett, Erle Stanley Gardner and Raymond Chandler.īorn in New York City, his parents separated when he was young and he lived in Mexico for nearly a decade with his father before returning to New York City to live with his mother, Claire Attalie Woolrich. George Hopley-Woolrich (4 December 1903 – 25 September 1968) is one of America’s best crime and noir writers who sometimes wrote under the pseudonyms William Irish and George Hopley. ![]() ![]() ![]() Period.Īuthor and leading OB/GYNE Sherry Ross takes on the long-ingrained detachment women feel about their vagina and shedding light on the misconception about the workings of this very special body part.īecause of centuries of suppression, many women are hesitant to talk about certain women’s health topics that are considered to be culturally taboo, like questions about their vagina that many women find embarrassing. She-ology: The Definitive Guide to Women’s Intimate Health. Jen Gunter is an OB/GYN who also writes for several news outlets and has her own show, Jensplaining. The book debunks many folktales about how to take care of the vagina, like for example the belief that eating sweets will cause yeast infections-it doesn’t.ĭr. Jen Gunter debunks many of the myths about the vagina, empowering women through actual medical knowledge about their own body. The Vagina Bible: The Vulva and the Vagina It is important to make informed decision about own body – that is why we put together a few pieces that spread awareness and answer questions about women’s health and gynecology. Let’s take a read! 1. ![]() That’s why it is only fitting that they have their own month where they are celebrated like the undoubted Kings and Queens of knowledge and wisdom.ĭid you know that October is considered by some countries as a national book month? ![]() Books remain the undisputable golden standard in the distribution of information. ![]() ![]() These two versions of what the film means could hardly be more at odds. His unusual treatment's made him aware of the terrible thing he's done: guilt has therefore engulfed him, and he's deliberately getting himself lobotomised to escape it. Others, however, take it as meaning that Andrew's only faking his relapse. "This place makes me wonder," he asks, "which would be worse – to live as a monster, or to die as a good man?"įor some, this is to be seen as no more than the rambling of a madman. However, before he falls into the clutches of the lobotomists, he utters a line that isn't in the book. Leonardo DiCaprio's Teddy does indeed turn out to be Andrew. The film's been described as faithful to the book, and many cinemagoers seem to have assumed that it's telling the same story. The role play fails: after a brief recovery, Andrew relapses into insanity and is therefore taken off to be lobotomised. ![]() He's a patient in a mental hospital who's been encouraged by his psychiatrist to act out his delusion in the hope that this will dispel it. ![]() The book's protagonist, Teddy Daniels, who's apparently a US marshal, turns out to be Andrew Laeddis, a demented killer. ![]() Martin Scorsese's film is based on a best-selling novel by Dennis Lehane. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() After independence and the bloody partition of India, Nehru became India’s first Prime Minister. He initially belonged to the left wing of the Indian National Congress Party but later became a Congress President under the mentorship of Mahatma Gandhi. Upon his return to India, he practiced law at Allahabad High Court but became increasingly involved in national politics. Young Jawaharlal was a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, and the Inner Temple, where he trained to be a barrister. Motilal Nehru saw his son’s future in his capacity to absorb the language and culture of India’s British rulers. ![]() He was Motilal Nehru’s son, a nationalist statesman in the Indian Independence Movement, and a prominent lawyer. Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 – 1964) was India’s first Prime Minister, an Independence leader, and a central figure in Indian politics. ![]() |