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Matilda Wormwood is a genius, but her parents, Harry and Zinnia, and her brother Michael ignore and mistreat her. Since babyhood, Matilda has displayed incredible learning ability and develops a strong sense of independence due to her often being left alone at home every weekday when her father is at work, her mother is playing bingo, and ...
You become angry because you are frustrated or unhappy, when your feelings got hurt, when your plans do not turn out, when confronted with opposition or when being criticised An insignificant remark, not getting a satisfactory reply to your question, or simply just your mood. Anger is a wast of energy, hurts your health, spoils your relationships, ...
Objectification means treating a person as a commodity or an object without regard to their personality or dignity. Objectification is most commonly examined at the level of a Society, but can also refer to the behavior of individuals. The individual loses their identity, and is recognized solely by the physical characteristics of their body. Some feminists and psychologists argue that Objectification of ...
Christopher Reeve was an American actor, film director, producer, screenwriter, author, activist and equestrian. He is best known for his motion picture portrayal of the classic DC comic book superhero Superman. Christopher Reeve bought a 12-year-old American horse named Eastern Express. On May 27, 1995 the horse made a refusal and Reeve fell forward off the horse, holding ...
Well, he should have armed himself if he's going to decorate his saloon with my friend. - Er hätte sich besser bewaffnet, bevor er seinen Laden mit meinem Freund geschmückt hat. - Deveria ter se armado quando resolveu decorar o bar com meu amigo. - Pues debió haberse armado cuando decidió decorar su salón con mi amigo. - Another red letter day So the ...
As a young medical student, Che Guevara traveled throughout South America and was radicalized by the poverty, hunger and disease he witnessed. Che Guevara became a physician, an author, a marxist revolutionary, a major figure of the Cuban Revolution, a military theorist, a diplomat and guerilla leader in Bolivia. A major figure of the World history, his visage has ...
Tzipora is mentioned in the Book of Exodus as one of the seven daughters of Jethro a shepherd who was a priest of Midian. Moses had killed an Egyptian who was striking a Hebrew, for which offense the Pharaoh sought to kill Moses. Moses therefore fled from Egypt to Midian. One day while Moses sat by a ...
The Battle Hymn of the Republic, also known as 'Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory' links the judgment of the wicked at the end of the age (Old Testament, Isaiah 63; New Testament, Rev. 19) with the American Civil War. The Glory, Hallelujah tune was a folk hymn in the southern United States and first documented in ...
The symbol of a Bluebird as the bringer of happiness is found in many cultures and may date back thousands of years. In Chinese mythology the Bluebird appears in a circle, often with three legs, as a symbol of the sun. The Navajo identify the Bluebird as a spirit in animal form, associated with the rising sun. In Russian fairy tales, the ...
Sometimes you have to choose between wrong choices and no right choices. You just have to choose which wrong choice feels least wrong. During the selection process upon arrival at Auschwitz, mothers were asked to hand over their babies to the elderly women, but those who refused were sent to the gas chamber. Dr. Gustav Schonfeld wrote ...
On average, a woman owns 20 pairs of shoes at any given time. Many own more. No matter if they are flat, heels, boots, ballets, sandals, clogs, platforms, wedges, strappy, buckled, women love shoes. Simply thinking about shoe shopping, adrenaline starts to course through a woman's body. Buying shoes gives them pleasure, wearing them the first ...
'Choose life' was a well meaning slogan from a 1980's anti-drug campaign and we used to add things to it, so I might say for example, 'choose ... designer lingerie, in the vain hope of kicking some life back into a dead relationship.' Choose handbags, choose high-heeled shoes, cashmere and silk, to make yourself feel what ...
Transgender people are people who have a gender identity or gender expression that differs from their biological sex. A Transgender person may identify as a man despite having been born with female genitalia or as a woman despite having been born with male genitalia. A Transgender person may have persistent feelings, beginning as early as childhood, of gender dysphoria. Many children experience such ...
She may affectionately refer to you as 'Precioso', 'Cielo', 'Amor', 'Rey', 'Vida', 'Carino' but 'Papi' takes it to a different level. An independent, strong-willed Colombiana will never refer to you as 'Papi'. 'Papi' which translates as Daddy, is a word when used in a relationship, is showing and telling her man that she is his, no ...
In some countries, child homelessness is graphic, brutal and heart-wrenching. Malnourished children live on the streets in complete neglect and at risk for severe injuries. In the first World, the phenomenon is inconspicuous, veiled and very hard to infiltrate, but it is real. Our subtle acceptance of this is why it is vital for all of us ...
Operation Badr was the code name for the Egyptian military operation to cross the Suez Canal and seize the Bar-Lev Line of Israeli fortifications on October 6, 1973, on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in Judaism, which also occurred that year during the holy month of Ramadan. Launched in conjunction with a Syrian assault on the Golan Heights, this attack marked the start of the Yom Kippur ...
The chance that asteroid 1999 RQ36 could hit our planet is one in a thousand. On average, an asteroid with a diameter of 500 m can be expected to impact Earth about every 130,000 years. The current (as of 2014) best estimate of the impact probability is of 0.037% in the interval 2175 to 2196. If you are born a ...
How Bad Do You Want It - How Great Are You - Just Do It - Unbroken - Be Phenominal - You Are A Champion - Prove Them Wrong - You Are Unstoppable - Never Give Up - Believe in Yourself - Desire - Change Your Mind - Dream - Become Successful - Lost But Won ...
A girl wants to be wanted, needs to be needed, desires to be desired. If a girl wanted primarily to be loved, why would she ever leave the comfort of the parental home? No one’s ever going to love her more than her parents. Her parents are never going to divorce her. Her parents are going to ...
Asia's rapid economic growth in the past two decades has largely been depicted as a global turning point. According to Oxfam, UNDP and many of the World leading economists Asia’s much praised economic growth is misleading. It is taking place along-side stark inequality and rising levels of poverty – leaving Society's most marginalized little more than Exiles ...
Oh, come on, come on, come on, come on! - The 27 Club is a remembrance, celebrating popular musicians who died at the age of twenty-seven. On October 4, 1970, producer Paul Rothchild drove to the Landmark Motor Hotel in Hollywood where Janis Joplin was staying. He saw Joplin's psychedelically painted Porsche 356 C Cabriolet in the parking lot and found ...
On 10 February 1606 Portuguese navigator Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, serving the Spanish Crown in an expedition to Terra Australis, was perhaps the first European to set eyes on the island of Tahiti. On 18 June 1767 lieutenant Samuel Wallis, who was circumnavigating the globe, was the first European to have visited Tahiti. Captain James Cook was ...
The Distribution of Wealth is a comparison of the wealth of various members or groups in a Society. Inequality is no longer simply a matter of poor people living in less developed countries and rich people living in more developed countries. Global inequality not only increases across the World as a whole, but within most countries in the World, billions of poor ...
As a child, you wanted to be a fireman, then a singer, then a movie star, then an astronaut, then an archeologist specializing in dinosaurs. In college you wanted to become a doctor, then an economist but found it too hard, so after switching twice, you ended up becoming a teacher, figuring you change the World ...
How you will die in the sense of how you will meet God? In nearly every instance, a person dies the same way they lived. Most people die in a hospital, and at the time of death they are under very heavy medication. And most of the time, they are not in their right mind; therefore they cannot ...