![]() ![]() He uses a machine known as the Animus to control an avatar of a past character, in this case a member of the Assassins in the Holy Land during the Third Crusade known as Altaïr Ibn-La’Ahad. The events that transpire in the past during this first game, are all controlled by one man in the present called Desmond Miles. It’s here where the dual timelines begin to take shape, as the present-day and past events collide and intersect, broken up by various chapters known as Memory Sequences. This series is set in a fictional history of real-world events, following an age-old struggle between the Assassins, who fight for peace through free will, and the Templars, who desire peace through control. In this collection of story recaps, we’ll be returning to Assassin’s Creed from the very beginning and detailing the plots of each to get you up to scratch with everything that’s happened thus far. ![]() Over the years the story has added more lore to the world and with it, a lot more convoluted elements that may be lost on many that haven’t followed the series from the beginning. Spanning multiple titles, numerous different characters and an interwoven story that jumps back and forth between the past and present, Assassin’s Creed has captured the imagination of gamers the world over with its combination of stealth, action and story-driven gameplay. The success of the Assassin’s Creed series speaks for itself. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The two children, Peter and Wendy, become fascinated with the “nursery,” a virtual reality room that is able to connect with the children telepathically to reproduce any place they imagine. The house is filled with machines that do everything for them from cooking meals, to clothing them, to rocking them to sleep. It is called the “Happylife Home” and its installation cost $30,000. When the parents threaten to take the nursery away, the children lock their parents inside where it is implied that the parents are mauled and killed by the harmless machine-generated lions of the nursery.ĭetail: A family lives in a house with the latest technology. The children use the nursery’s simulation equipment to recreate the predatorial environment of the African veldt. Summary: Far into the future, two parents use a high tech nursery to keep their children happy. The anthology is a collection of short stories that were mostly published individually in magazines beforehand. Background: “The Veldt” is a short story written by Ray Bradbury that was published originally as “The World the Children Made” in the Septemissue of The Saturday Evening Post, later republished in the anthology The Illustrated Man in 1951. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gracefully weaving personal reminiscence and verifiable fact as she lucidly interweaves Stieglitz's career with his personal life, Lowe presents a uniquely compelling and intimate portrait of a hugely influential, hugely enigmatic American artist. She offers new insight into Stieglitz's relationships with artists such as Marin, Hartley, Dove, Steichen and O'Keefe his pioneering promotion of Europe's most radical artists through the Photo-Secession group and the 291 gallery and his creation of some of our century's most enduring photographic images. Mink of Hawaii became the first Asian-American woman House member. Forty-nine years later, Representative Patsy T. ![]() In 1916, Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress. In Stieglitz: A Memoir/Biography, author Sue Davidson Lowe, Stieglitz's grand-neice, presents the man in all of his complexity, tracing his background and revealing the interplay between his character and his multifaceted career. Davidson (Getting the Real Story, not reviewed) pairs the stories of two pioneers in the struggle for equal rights for women. ![]() It is also a loving and occasionally exasperated look at a contentious relative and the intimate circumstances that formed him."Ī tireless exponent of the avant garde and of photography as a fine art, as well as a consummate photographer in his own right, Alfred Stieglitz was both the embodiment of rebellious New York modernism and an oddly domestic man who retained a lifelong attachment to his family's country estate. " Stieglitz is as scholarly a production as anyone could wish, crammed with facts and trailing informative appendixes. ![]() ![]() Alten founded the Adopt-An-Author which is a school reading program to motivate young adults to read. The series almost became a film however was cancelled. ![]() A series about a paleontologist, Jonas Taylor, finds a megalodon, a massive prehistoric shark, and attempts to prove its existence to the world. Steve Alten was born in Augwho is an American science fiction author is known best for his Meg novels. Zach must return to Scotland and must face his fear of the legend behind Loch Ness. Now his father, Angus Wallace, stands on trial for murder. For years Zach has been experiencing night terrors of a near drowning event in Loch Ness during his childhood in his hometown of Scotland. It tells of story about a marine biologist named Zachary Wallace. ![]() The Loch bored me in new ways I couldn't perceive. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In his Metaphysics, § 451, Baumgarten defined taste, in its wider meaning, as the ability to judge according to the senses, instead of according to the intellect, based on feelings of pleasure or displeasure. The discipline in its modern form is primarily concerned with issues surrounding the creation, interpretation, and ultimate appreciation of works of art, and so it involves how the experience of such material is mediated through the individual sensitivity of the beholder, and the way the experience of it is shaped through presentation by cultural conventions such as the exhibition and review. Nowadays, aesthetics is universally perceived as the branch of philosophy that deals with art, defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as “taste, or of the perception of the beautiful”. The philosopher merely appropriated the word aesthetics, which had always meant sensation in ancient Greek, adding to its significance the meaning of “taste” or “sense” of beauty, the usage currently employed in modern times. He called this epistêmê aisthetikê, or the science of what is sensed and imagined (Baumgarten, Meditationes, §CXVI, pp. He famously introduced the current definition of the philosophical discipline of aesthetics in his Halle master’s thesis when he was only twenty-one years of age. On the 26 th of May 1762, German philosopher Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten was born in Frankfurt (Oder), Brandenburg. ![]() ![]() ![]() And, to be the tribute that Brasius wants him to be, Kynon will have to defy all the traditions of Segasa and risk the wrath of the senate that really holds his chains. On an enforced journey of self-discovery, Kynon learns that being the warlord’s tribute isn’t just about submission. The warlord might just want the man underneath: the prince, the soldier and the tribute, if Kynon can figure out who that is. He can live with the shame it’s the mind-blowing pleasure that frightens him.īut the warlord wants more than a tribute who will respond eagerly to whips and bondage. ![]() If his slavery will save his father’s kingdom, then he will be a slave and submit to every indignity the warlord and the senate of Segasa require of him. ![]() When the fearsome warlord Brasius chooses Kynon as his tribute, Kynon tells himself it’s the price of peace, and that he can endure anything. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I’m not giving up a foot of this land until I see barley growing on it.” Musashi carried on his stubborn struggle throughout the winter, into the second month of the new year. We’ll lay a dam from here all the way to that hill over there.” ‘That’s an awful lot of work.” “You seem to forget that this is our dōjō. I examined the location from every angle before I chose it.” “What if we have another heavy rain?” “We’ll fix it so the water doesn’t come this way. “With the water drained off, this would make excellent farmland. Let’s look for better land somewhere else.” “No,” Musashi said firmly. Iori, seeing no way to reclaim their loss, looked up and said, “This place is beyond hope. The water seemed to mock them just as the villagers had. The field they had so arduously carved out of the wilderness had disappeared without a trace in its place were rocks, and a river where none had been before. Musashi chafed to be out in the open, but it was another week before they were able to return to work under a bright sun. “On the eleventh day, it finally stopped raining. ![]() ![]() And then the sequel ( Glamour in Glass ). But when her family’s honor is threatened, she finds that she must push her skills to the limit in order to set things right–and, in the process, accidentally wanders into a love story of her own. At the ripe old age of twenty-eight, Jane has resigned herself to being invisible forever. Jane resists this fate, and rightly so: while her skill with glamour is remarkable, it is her sister who is fair of face, and therefore wins the lion’s share of the attention. ![]() But despite the prevalence of magic in everyday life, other aspects of Dorchester’s society are not that different: Jane and her sister Melody’s lives still revolve around vying for the attentions of eligible men. ![]() Shades of Milk and Honey is an intimate portrait of Jane Ellsworth, a woman ahead of her time in a version of Regency England where the manipulation of glamour is considered an essential skill for a lady of quality. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ^ "Apples Never Fall To Film In Queensland, Australia". Ive loved all of Lianes books but Apples Never Fall is next-level writing: an intelligent."Georgia Flood, Conor Merrigan Turner & Essie Randles Join Peacock Limited Series Apples Never Fall". "Alison Brie, Jake Lacy Join Liane Moriarty Series Apples Never Fall at Peacock". "Sam Neill Joins Annette Bening In Peacock Limited Series Apples Never Fall". ^ Andreeva, Nellie (February 9, 2023).The Delaney family love one another dearly it’s just that sometimes they want to. "Annette Bening To Star In Peacock Limited Series Apples Never Fall". From Liane Moriarty, the 1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers, comes Apples Never Fall, a novel that looks at marriage, siblings, and how the people we love the most can hurt us the deepest. ^ Andreeva, Nellie (February 2, 2023)."Liane Moriarty's Apples Never Fall Limited Series Adaptation Ordered By Peacock". "David Heyman Scores TV Rights To Apples Never Fall From Big Little Lies & Nine Perfect Strangers Author Liane Moriarty". įilming began in Queensland, Australia in March 2023. In March, Georgia Flood, Conor Merrigan Turner and Essie Randles were added to the cast. In February 2023, Annette Bening, Sam Neill, Alison Brie and Jake Lacy would be cast to star. In February 2022, Peacock would give it a straight to series order. The lives of retired tennis coaches are upended upon the disappearance of the wife.ĭavid Heyman win the right to the novel in March 2021 to develop it for television. Apples Never Fall is an upcoming mystery drama miniseries based on Liane Moriarty's novel of the same name. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Reinhart is committed to offering an honest picture of her world rather than crafting a sanitized facade. Navigating her way through fame her own way, not for a second trying to be anyone she's not, and showing every one of her millions of fans that it's OK to be who you are. "Reinhart is a force to be reckoned with." -Who What Wear We're not crying, you're crying." - The Skimm "With a raw voice that's all her own, the short collection might make you a bit emotional (grab your tissues), as she covers everything from heartbreak to mental health, and more. She's been outspoken on various platforms about deeply personal topics." - Glamour "There's a reason her fans feel they know her. ![]() ![]() ![]() In her first collection of poetry, Lili Reinhart explores the euphoric beginnings of young love. I've now read a graphic novel and a book of poetry. "Reinhart is committed to authenticity.and candid about her battles with anxiety and depression.”- Harpers Bazaar Swimming Lessons: Poems, eAudiobook MP3 eaudioBook. Swimming Lessons by Lili Reinhart Overall: 5 This is the first poetry book I've ever read in its entirety outside of Shel Silverstein, so I've checked off one of my reading goals for the year with this one. “Poetry can be a form of self-care … Lili Reinhart has taken this idea to heart.”. “A book of dreamy prose exploring love, heartbreak, anxiety and fame.”. One of "20 of the Best-Ever Books by Celebrities"- The Skimm ![]() |