A fun, exciting young-adult supernatural adventure, The Brujita of Washington Heights takes you inside the fantastical world of a sixteen-year-old Latina girl living in the Washington Heights area of New York City.Sofie Rios has grown up listening to the stories of how her family was once tied to a clan of powerful witches. But to Sofie the stories so often shared were exactly that, stories with nothing remotely real about them.That was until she experiences her very first awakening-an awakening prompted by the return of Salazar Montenegro, the demon responsible for the family's magical demise.With the lives of her loved ones hanging in the balance, Sofie-along with the help of Sebastian, her crazy cousin Leslie, and her newly discovered witch friends-must reclaim her family's power and stop Salazar in his tracks.These young witches will take you on a supernatural journey through many of the Washington Heights landmarks, such as the Cloisters museum, the Little Red Lighthouse, and so much more. They will transform uptown Manhattan into nothing less than a supernatural sanctuary.
In today's challenging job market, no single set of rules can be followed to ensure you won't lose your job because of a merger, a layoff, outsourcing, or automation. You can, however, use certain skills to reduce the odds of becoming unemployed. In When Corporate Sh*t Happens, Andrew L. Oliver provides you with career advice to guide you through each phase of your career, whether you are just starting out, trying to climb the ladder to success, or fighting age discrimination as an older person in the workplace. This guide offers self-assessment tools for identifying your ideal job and gives strategies for -succeeding in your job, -monitoring the company's health, -surviving when the company plans to downsize, -finding a new job in less time with less financial and personal stress, -surviving a merger, -surviving a layoff, -surviving unemployment, and -bulletproofing your career. Using Oliver's personal and professional experience as a backdrop, When Corporate Sh*t Happen takes you step-by-step through your career, providing the advice and tips you need to be successful in good times and bad.
In today's challenging job market, no single set of rules can be followed to ensure you won't lose your job because of a merger, a layoff, outsourcing, or automation. You can, however, use certain skills to reduce the odds of becoming unemployed. In When Corporate Sh*t Happens, Andrew L. Oliver provides you with career advice to guide you through each phase of your career, whether you are just starting out, trying to climb the ladder to success, or fighting age discrimination as an older person in the workplace. This guide offers self-assessment tools for identifying your ideal job and gives strategies for - succeeding in your job, - monitoring the company's health, - surviving when the company plans to downsize, - finding a new job in less time with less financial and personal stress, - surviving a merger, - surviving a layoff, - surviving unemployment, and - bulletproofing your career. Using Oliver's personal and professional experience as a backdrop, When Corporate Sh*t Happen takes you step-by-step through your career, providing the advice and tips you need to be successful in good times and bad.
Ronald Oliver was first inspired to pen a collection of verses and illustrations while working on bullying prevention during the late eighties. In the second edition of If Dirt Could Talk, Oliver focuses his poetic presentation on animal stories with the hope of encouraging others to fondly recall childhood experiences and rekindle their love of nature. Oliver's poems reflect on many of nature's creatures such as coyotes, ants, and squirrels, as well as the surrounding landscape that holds diverse plant life such as cactus, trees, and tumbleweed. Included are Oliver's vivid illustrations created in watercolor, acrylic, mixed media, and colored pencil. If Dirt Could Talk shares a collection of poems and illustrations that expressively explore the world of nature and its creatures.
Cecilia, young, fearless, and privileged is drawn precariously to the early Christian Church in Rome while her childhood friend, Elagabalus, groomed to be emperor by his murderous and scheming grandmother, goes on a different path. This story of their brief but incredibly intense relationship based on historical characters and timelines, vividly brings alive the sprawling Empire's titanic and bloody power struggles and inevitable clash with the early Christian church. Palace intrigue, obsession, assassination, inspiration, insanity, and love, weave together a heartbreaking story of two different people swept up in the cultural and religious forces transforming Rome in the early third century.
I am a product of the lower income working class. My father worked with machinery while my mother was a variety store clerk for most of her adult life. You could say that I was a poor boy, and my story has been told so many times before. I want to tell it one last time, because a lot of people don t pay attention. This collection looks back at the drawings and paintings done over a lifetime. It began with a hunger to draw that I first noticed and acted on when I was around twelve years old. This book represents a chance to put them altogether into a whole that traces my development over the years, and I hope it tells my story in full.From the start, I have used drawing and painting as a of seeking truth. It allowed me to focus better on the world at hand and ignore everything else. By calling them ]artwork], they looked more lasting as I wanted them to remain and stay. I thought they could speak with my voice and say what I wanted to say.It came natural to me from of an inner desire to get things right, to speak the truth. It seemed that there was a basic need to draw, paint, and express what was on the inside. I could organize and put things together on paper or canvas that went together in no other way, at no other time. It was a way entering the bigger world outside myself and I walked into that world eagerly. I was first inspired by a glossy photo‐journal of the early sixties with photographs of Caroline Kennedy on top of a horse. When I later tried to ride a horse in imitation it ran to the middle of an interstate expressway and stopped in its tracks, frozen with fear. I loved horses until I learned they had a will of their own that was often greater than that of the rider. Regardless, they were often better on paper than in real life.I started drawing with a pencil and charcoal but later graduated to oils paints, acrylics, pastels and finally watercolors. I always felt lost until I made it my own and was comfortable with it. I still search for a permanent beauty, a harmony that may not be there otherwise. It gives me a deep satisfaction when it comes out as I wanted it in the first place. It helps me to keep me away from telling scattered and pointless, disorganized stories. Art was good therapy then now. The process still works. I would encourage anyone with the smallest well of desire or need to jump in the water, to get wet. It feels good, and the water is fine.
La morte misteriosa di Sir Oliver Baston riunisce i suoi nipoti, interessati all'ingente eredita, in una Villa nello Yorkshire. Da quel momento reale ed irreale si intreccieranno negli intrighi e nelle passioni che animeranno le vicende in quella casa.
Genere: Romanzo d'avventura/guerra - gran parte di realismo storico Ambientazione: Caraibi, inizi del '700 Eta consigliata: + 12 anni Il romanzo, raccontato in prima persona, narra di un marinaio inglese al servizio della piu potente flotta al mondo: la Royal Navy. Di famiglia marinara, viene educato con una cultura ferrea in onore della Corona inglese e viene costretto a sposarsi con una moglie che non ama. Nella sua vita non c'e niente che lo renda felice, se non il suo unico figlio Tommy...tuttavia, lo riesce a vedere poco tra una guerra e l'altra. In cuor suo, Oliver non si e mai sentito appartenente a quel mondo tirannico fatto di gerarchie. Ha sempre nutrito un forte desiderio inconscio di liberta e di giustizia. Viene mandato in missione per scortare una nave mercantile nelle acque dei Caraibi, infestate dai pirati. ma quel che ancora non sa, e che nel Nuovo Mondo incontaminato si sta per realizzare il suo grande destino.
This book is a supplement to last year s Retrospective Perspectives, Volume I. It includes about thirty more pages andmany more illustrations with accompanying commentary. It has been divided into the major headings of ]The Garden], ]Trees], ]Abstracts] and ]Portraits] as these provide a meaningful description of the content in which I specialize. The reader needs to be aware that this work was done over a period of approximately twenty-five years but always on a sideline basis. Since retiring in 2014, I have concentrated on drawing and painting to the exclusion of any other work, so it is focused and more intense than when I first started to draw and paint. It is hoped that the reader enjoys the content.From the start, I have used drawing and painting as a way of calming down, concentrating and focusing on settling things around me. By calling them ]artwork] I could make them look as I wanted them to remain. I thought they should speak with my voice and say what I wanted to say. It came natural to me because that was what I wanted. It was just that simple. I still see things that way: there is the passing and there is the fixed. It seems like there was a basic need to draw, paint, and express what was inside. I could organize and put things together on paper or canvas that went together in no other way, at no other time. It was a way out of myself and I took it. At times, it was the best way to do things when was no other way.I was first inspired by a glossy photo-journal of the early sixties with photographs of Caroline Kennedy on top of a horse. They went together and it all made sense. Her father was highly esteemed but was later shot while riding a convertible in Dallas, but Caroline lives. It makes for a sad story but that is the way that many stories go. One lives and learns.When I later tried to ride a horse in imitation it ran to the middle of an interstate expressway and stopped in its tracks. I loved horses until I learned they were not all without fault. I found they had a will of their own that was often greater than that of the rider. Regardless, they were often better on paper than in real life. I started drawing with a pencil and charcoal but later graduated to oils paints, acrylics, pastels and finally watercolors. I saved the best for last.I still search for a permanent beauty, a harmony that may not be there otherwise, and a deep satisfaction when it comes out as I wanted it in the first place. It helps me to keep me away from feeling scattered and pointless, disorganized. Art was good therapy then and is good therapy now. The process still works. I would encourage anyone with the smallest well of desire or need to jump in the water, to get wet. It feels good, and the water is fine.Over the years, I have found that my pursuit of creating comes only in bursts and spells. There were times when I felt moved to do it. There were times when I had no desire at all. The desire, the passion usually happened only once or twice a year. At times, a drought would come when I mostly twiddled my thumbs and carried on. I never found a way to pursue this interest in the everyday world. Everyone knew that artists starved. Who wants to pursue a trail to starvation?I think this unfortunate state needs to change. The older I grew the greater was the desire to do images of people and things that mattered most. I think we are all drawn to what is most important in our lives. I hope you are ready to join me in looking back over sixty years of life in service to others in small towns, small cities and finally big cities. I hope you find it enjoyable.
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She Stoops to Conquer is a comedy by the Anglo-Irish 1] author Oliver Goldsmith, first performed in London in 1773. The play is a favourite for study by English literature and theatre classes in the English-speaking world. It is one of the few plays from the 18th century to have retained its appeal and is regularly performed. The play has been adapted into a film several times, including in 1914 and 1923. Initially the play was titled Mistakes of a Night and the events within the play take place in one long night. In 1778 John O'Keeffe wrote a loose sequel, Tony Lumpkin in Town. Plot Wealthy countryman Mr. Hardcastle arranges for his daughter Kate to meet Charles Marlow, the son of a rich Londoner, hoping the pair will marry. Unfortunately, Marlow prefers lower-class women, finding them less intimidating than women of high society. On his first acquaintance with Kate, the latter realises she will have to pretend to be 'common' to get Marlow to woo her. Thus Kate 'stoops to conquer', by posing as a maid, hoping to put Marlow at his ease so he falls for her. Marlow sets out for Mr. Hardcastle's manor with a friend, George Hastings, an admirer of Miss Constance Neville, another young lady who lives with the Hardcastles. During the journey the two men get lost and stop at an alehouse, The Three Jolly Pigeons, for directions. Tony Lumpkin, Kate's step-brother and Constance's cousin, comes across the two strangers at the alehouse and realising their identity, plays a practical joke by telling them that they are a long way from their destination and will have to stay overnight at an inn. The "inn" he directs them to is in fact the home of the Hardcastles. When they arrive, the Hardcastles, who have been expecting them, go out of their way to make them welcome. Marlow and Hastings, believing themselves in an inn, behave extremely disdainfully towards their hosts. Hardcastle bears their unwitting insults with forbearance, because of his friendship with Marlow's father. Kate learns of her suitor's shyness from Constance and a servant tells her about Tony's trick. She decides to masquerade as a serving-maid (changing her accent and garb) to get to know him. Marlow falls in love with her and plans to elope but because she appears of a lower class, acts in a somewhat bawdy manner around her. All misunderstandings are resolved by the end, thanks to an appearance by Sir Charles Marlow. The main sub-plot concerns the secret romance between Constance and Hastings. Constance needs her jewels, an inheritance, guarded by Tony's mother, Mrs. Hardcastle, who wants Constance to marry her son, to keep the jewels in the family. Tony despises the thought of marrying Constance - he prefers a barmaid at the alehouse - and so agrees to steal the jewels from his mother's safekeeping for Constance, so she can elope to France with Hastings. The play concludes with Kate's plan succeeding, she and Marlow become engaged. Tony discovers his mother has lied about his being "of age" and thus entitled to his inheritance. He refuses to marry Constance, who is then eligible to receive her jewels and become engaged to Hastings, which she does.... Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 - 4 April 1774) was an Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770), and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771, first performed in 1773). He is thought to have written the classic children's tale The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (1765).....
