Follow the twisted psychotic early life of Sharon Slaughter as she cultivates her character in insanity and mental illness. Her mother was an addict, and she was coming of age during the 1980's in Philly. Sharon was exposed to many things a child should never see. As she grew older and came to grips with her reality she began to find solace within herself and friends amongst a group of rebellious teenage girls. A struggle ensues in her mind and you find yourself entrapped in the tale of how a young girl grows into a gruesome killer. This Chronicle spinoff is a surefire means to answer the many questions about Sharon's dark origin.
A riveting account of the custody battle over car-crash victim Sharon Kowalski vividly addresses gay rights and the right to die in a case that has become a flashpoint for discussions of homosexual rights in America. (Social Science)
Arieh Sharon and Modern Architecture in Israel: Building Social Pragmatism offers the first comprehensive survey of the work of Arieh Sharon and analyzes and discusses his designs and plans in relation to the emergence of the State of Israel.A graduate of the Bauhaus, Sharon worked for a few years at the office of Hannes Mayer before returning to Mandatory Palestine. There, he established his office which was occupied in its first years in planning kibbutzim and residential buildings in Tel Aviv. After the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, Arieh Sharon became the director and chief architect of the National Planning Department, where he was asked to devise the young country’s first national masterplan. Known as the Sharon Plan, it was instrumental in shaping the development of the new nation. During the 1950s and 1960s, Sharon designed many of Israel’s institutions, including hospitals and buildings on university campuses. This book presents Sharon’s exceptionally wide range of work and examines his perception of architecture in both socialist and pragmatist terms. It also explores Sharon’s modernist approach to architecture and his subsequent shift to Brutalist architecture, when he partnered with Benjamin Idelson in the 1950s and when his son, Eldar Sharon, joined the office in 1964. Thus, the book contributes a missing chapter in the historiography of Israeli architecture in particular and of modern architecture overall.This book will be of interest to researchers in architecture, modern architecture, Israel studies, Middle Eastern studies and migration of knowledge.
Arieh Sharon and Modern Architecture in Israel: Building Social Pragmatism offers the first comprehensive survey of the work of Arieh Sharon and analyzes and discusses his designs and plans in relation to the emergence of the State of Israel.A graduate of the Bauhaus, Sharon worked for a few years at the office of Hannes Mayer before returning to Mandatory Palestine. There, he established his office which was occupied in its first years in planning kibbutzim and residential buildings in Tel Aviv. After the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, Arieh Sharon became the director and chief architect of the National Planning Department, where he was asked to devise the young country’s first national masterplan. Known as the Sharon Plan, it was instrumental in shaping the development of the new nation. During the 1950s and 1960s, Sharon designed many of Israel’s institutions, including hospitals and buildings on university campuses. This book presents Sharon’s exceptionally wide range of work and examines his perception of architecture in both socialist and pragmatist terms. It also explores Sharon’s modernist approach to architecture and his subsequent shift to Brutalist architecture, when he partnered with Benjamin Idelson in the 1950s and when his son, Eldar Sharon, joined the office in 1964. Thus, the book contributes a missing chapter in the historiography of Israeli architecture in particular and of modern architecture overall.This book will be of interest to researchers in architecture, modern architecture, Israel studies, Middle Eastern studies and migration of knowledge.
Ever get that feeling that life is out to trip you up? Sharon Carter knows that feeling only too well. All she's doing is trying to make a living and pay her bills. She steps out of her comfort zone to attend a talk that her best friend Ronnie has recommended. It has the most unforeseen outcome and she embarks on a roller coaster journey from Stockport to Sri Lanka with the mysterious Swami, a hypnotic and charismatic man in a purple robe.
Greed is a plague of mankind. Whether it is an inherent or acquired condition makes no difference at all. What man or woman can say that he or she has never once been greedy? It makes many accountants into executives, and a lot of soldiers into emperors. It has its place in all walks of life and all strata of society - from politicos to playboys, from pimps to pushers. Is it greed that drives oil companies to exploit the consumer, or should Americans believe their one-minute, boob-tube messages that they must raise prices in order to survive the cost of finding more oil? Is it greed that makes a corporate executive blackmail his superior in the hopes of promotion, or is it ambition? Sharon Wilson has defined her greed as "wanting more than one's proper share". She is willing to do anything to get ahead in life - even if it means giving her body to any person who can help her advance. NASTY SHARON is the story of a woman who has enough but yearns for more. A story too typical of today's society.
Your walk is never yours alone. Coming into the inner-light that shines through and walking into the light with God brings you to the path you are destined to follow; it allows you to find inner-peace, understanding, self-love and your soul's sanctuary. Author of Underneath It All, Poetic Evolution aka Sharon Moore-Daniel takes you on a journey within to discover and release the real you. We are multi-faceted beings, each spectrum reflects a color of your character, personality, and beauty within. So, let your light shine.
Understanding Sharon Olds explores this Pulitzer Prize–winning poet’s major themes, characters, life, and career, including her often-controversial portrayals of family dysfunction, sexuality, and violence against women. In this first book dedicated entirely to the poetry of Sharon Olds, Russell Brickey examines how Olds approaches these difficult and complex topics with pathos and intimate, sometimes provocatively private, details through poetry that not all her critics appreciate.Olds has never shied away from difficult subject matter. Her first award-winning book, Satan Says, is a feminist exploration of gender politics and adolescent discovery. The Father comprises a book-length elegy about cancer. Stag’s Leap, Olds’s Pulitzer Prize–winning volume, is a surprisingly tender look at divorce in modern American culture. Extremely personal, her poems often deal with the victories and contradictions of being a woman in the United States during a time when the country is often involved in racial upheavals and military conflicts overseas. She investigates the victories and contradictions of being a wife and mother during the era of feminism, as one of our most honest, most overt poets of female sexuality and its relationship to family life and its place within the history of humanity.Brickey organizes each chapter around a theme or a persona within Olds’s cast of characters. These include poems dedicated to mothers, fathers, children, and the arc of history. Through his close readings, Brickey shows how and where Olds has expanded the tradition of confessional poetry (literature that deals with psychology, family, love, and sexuality), a term Olds disdains but nevertheless expanded into commentary about the human condition in all its paradoxes.
In his international bestseller A Beautiful Child, award winning investigative journalist Matt Birkbeck told the heartbreaking story of a brilliant and beautiful young woman known as Sharon Marshall.Caught in the murderous web of the monster she called her father, Sharon wasn't her real name. But her horrifying story captured the hearts of readers everywhere and lead to a ten-year search to resolve two great mysteries - what was her true identity, and what became of her young son Michael, who was kidnapped from his first grade classroom and never seen again. The worldwide interest in Sharon's story prompted the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children to open a new case file enlisting the FBI - and with A Beautiful Child as a roadmap, two FBI agents set their sights on death row interviews with Sharon's tormentor to learn the shocking truth. Equal parts memoir and narrative journalism, Finding Sharon picks up where A Beautiful Child left off and brings to a close one of the greatest mysteries in the annals of law enforcement - and a miraculous ending that will leave you in tears.Reviews"Finding Sharon is a thrilling detective story with a heart of love. Matt Birkbeck shows himself again to be a wonderful storyteller and a most determined investigator as he unravels the final chapter of the tragic and mysterious journey of a gifted young woman."Paul Moses, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author of An Unlikely Union and The Saint and the Sultan.
Sharon Madison was born in 1966 to a single mother in Kentucky. Darcy was only 21 years old when she gave birth to Sharon. Darcy decided to give custody of Sharon to her elderly parents to raise so she could get back to a life with her friends. Sharon was raised by her grandfather Ethan, while her grandmother continued to work. Ethan became Sharon's father until he passed away in 1980. Sharon was the black sheep of the family after Ethan died. Sharon marries at 15 to escape the clutches of her grandmother and soon has five children of her own. She goes through years of abuse at the hands of her father-in-law and stays in her marriage in order to raise her children. She goes on to overcome and attains three college degrees. Sharon searches for true love her entire life and finally finds it after she has turned 50 years old. This book, although is a work of fiction, has a lot of truth in it for Sharon Madison. She finally finds the pot of gold at the end of her rainbow. A must-read for anyone who has ever suffered at the hands of someone else. It shows that perseverance does pay off.
Sarah Althea Hill was a real beauty, a buxom, slender strawberry blonde with an engaging smile who broke upon the San Francisco social scene in the 1870s as a fascinatingly beautiful, witty, and intelligent young Southern lady of good family, possessed of moderate wealth, a woman readily welcomed into the city's best social circles. But Allie, as she preferred to be called, was also something of a rebel, chafing under the rigid role prescribed for ladies in the Victorian age. She desperately wanted to enjoy a luxurious life style without sacrificing her precious maidenly "honor" or her social position. By 1880, she had impulsively spent her family "fortune" and run out of money. She allowed herself to be lured into a sordid relationship with aging United States Senator William Sharon of Nevada, who happened to be San Francisco's richest man. When their relationship soured the following year, he threw her out on the street. Basing her claim on a scrap of paper which she claimed was a contract for a secret marriage, she had "the dear Senator" arrested for adultery, then sued him in state court for a divorce and a share of his vast fortune. He, in turn made a preemptive legal strike, suing her in federal court to have her marriage contract declared a forgery and threatened to have her sent to San Quentin as a forger and a perjurer. This is the story of the two trials in which she and he battled it out in the state and federal courts while San Francisco's carnivorous press had a field day exposing the latest titillating revelations that came to light in the all-too-public trials. It is also the story of the fatal attraction that developed between Allie and one of her lawyers, former California Supreme Court Justice David S. Terry. This book is based upon the transcripts and evidence contained in the California state archives and federal archives, as well as contemporaneous newspaper accounts.
