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Actualized is a memoir based on the author's self-actualizing experiences. The author, Toni Quest, is a self-taught artist and educator who specializes in self-portraiture. She seeks to inspire others by sharing her story, her art and her instruction. Her struggles and triumphs are unique, yet many can relate to her experiences. Actualized cites the research of Philip Rubinov-Jacobson, a respected artist and educator who uses his knowledge and skill to help many who are less fortunate by tapping into the creative spirit and enabling self-actualization through art instruction. This book was written to inspire, galvanize, and guide individuals toward their own self-actualization.
The first part of this book deals with Britain’s imperial age, its militants and its critics. The selection of works generates a large field of debate explored using traditional or innovative approaches. The 19th century is presented as a time for writers (J. E. Aylmer, E. Marryat Norris, G. A. Henty, Conan Doyle) who tell stories of Europeans venturing forth into “uncivilised” regions of the world where they meet other races. But writers of a different outlook are also considered. Before the twilight of Empire, women were born in England (Virginia Woolf) and in Ireland (Elizabeth Bowen) who would use the ductile means of literature to narrate journeys into the female self, instead of ...
Toni Morrison, the eighth American to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, is perhaps the most formally sophisticated novelist in the history of African-American literature. Astutely, she describes aspects of human lives and, unlike many other writers, reveals the hope and beauty that underlines the worlds ugliness. Her artistic excellence lies in achieving a perfect balance between black literature and writing abouth the universally truth. Although firmly grounded in the cultural heritage and social concerns of black Americans, her work transcends narrowly prescribed conceptions of ethnic literature, exhibiting universal mythical patterns and overtones. Her novels, thus, mourn on universa...
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Toni Larson has a simple life. She works at a diner, and the world makes sense. When two men settle in at her table for breakfast one fateful day, however, this seemingly random meeting will change that simple lifeand everything she believes about her government, her human rights, and her futureforever. Blackhawk and White Wolf are operatives for the Agency, the most closely held secret in a world of secrets. Outside of the elite group of agents themselves, a total of three people in the government are even aware of its very existence: the president of the United States, the secretary of defense, and the head of the Agency. The operatives who work for the Agency follow only one directive: do...
How do the people of a morally shattered culture and nation find ways to go on living? Cambodians confronted this challenge following the collective disasters of the American bombing, the civil war, and the Khmer Rouge genocide. The magnitude of violence and human loss, the execution of artists and intellectuals, the erasure of individual and institutional cultural memory all caused great damage to Cambodian arts, culture, and society. Author Boreth Ly explores the “traces” of this haunting past in order to understand how Cambodians at home and in the diasporas deal with trauma on such a vast scale. Ly maintains that the production of visual culture by contemporary Cambodian artists and ...
The reader decides the outcome of a raid on Nightmare Castle to rescue a captive ruler.
Toni Virenti and his twin Italian brother witness the death of their father. Family mafia elders decide that one day they will avenge their fathers death. In Tonis quest for revenge, he meets and falls in love with the adopted daughter of the lawyer who killed his father. Her relationship with her father is at breaking point and, when she discovers a treacherous deed by him towards her, she makes a solemn promise that one day he will regret what he has done. Under cover of his business the lawyer administers deals for the underworld. He hires Virenti to undertake a mission with a wealthy Arab. Virenti engages in double dealing, leaving the Arab to believe the lawyer is responsible and seek revenge. Three people with one objective, one cause, choose to carry out their task on the day the lawyer hosts an elaborate garden party in the grounds of his home. WILL EITHER SUCCEED?