![]() Helen is a girl with a murky past and a slightly haunted present. In These Fleeting Shadows we meet Helen Vaughan. ![]() She no longer wonders if she wants to leave…but if she can. With each twisted revelation, Helen questions what she knows about Harrow, her family, and even herself. Why is the house built like a labyrinth? What is digging the holes that appear in the woods each night? And why does the house itself seem to be making her sick? Helen knows that if she is going to survive the year, she needs to uncover the secrets of Harrow. For as long as she can remember, Harrow has haunted Helen's dreams-and now those dreams have become a waking nightmare. The inheritance comes with one condition: she must stay on the grounds of Harrow for one full year, or she'll be left with nothing. So when her grandfather dies, she's shocked to learn that he has left everything-the house, the grounds, and the money-to her. ![]() ![]() Helen Vaughan doesn't know why she and her mother left their ancestral home at Harrowstone Hall, called Harrow, or why they haven't spoken to their extended family since. ![]()
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![]() ![]() "What am I, on a TV show?” Lucas Wilson said after Hudson asked him if he was single. "I'm so sorry! We're prank-calling people right now,” Barrymore responded. "You looking for the actor? That's not me," Lucas Wilson said while laughing. ![]() I dated Luke," Barrymore said.īut when trying to reach Luke Wilson, Barrymore and Hudson accidentally called a different actor named Lucas Wilson. "We were talking about the Wilsons the last time you were here. ![]() After they said they haven’t heard from the brothers in a while, they came up with the idea of prank-calling them. While appearing as a guest on The Drew Barrymore Show, Glass Onion star Kate Hudson joined Barrymore in reminiscing over their dating past with brothers Owen and Luke Wilson. Drew Barrymore spontaneously decided to prank-call her ex-boyfriend Luke Wilson on a Thursday episode of her talk show, but the plan was foiled after she realized she had called an actor with a slightly different name instead. ![]() ![]() Many fans are expecting familiar faces to return after the time jump, living happily alongside the established group, but this could damage the integrity of the upcoming spinoffs in very big ways. It seems the series is set to use this technique once again in the final episodes of season 11, since the final issue of the comics takes place 25 years after Rick Grimes' death in the previous issue. The Walking Dead is no stranger to time jumps, the most notable of which coming after Rick Grimes' (Andrew Lincoln) apparent death during season 9, episode 5, " What Comes After", which saw the series jump six years into the future. Related: When Does Walking Dead Season 11 Part 3 Return? Everything We Know ![]() ![]() However, this won't be the last time viewers will see the rich world developed over the last 13 years as several new spinoffs have been announced that will continue fan-favorite characters' stories after the main show finishes in November 2022. The ending of the comic books meant that the series could adapt the final stories in their own closure, with The Walking Dead season 11 being announced as the final season in September 2020. The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman shocked readers in 2019 when he abruptly ended the comic series with no warning or announcements, reasoning that The Walking Dead was built on surprise, meaning a sudden ending would be very fitting. ![]() ![]() Symbolism: "As she gazed, the light died away on its walls, leaving a melancholy purple tint, which spread deeper and deeper"- This phrase suggests that there is no light, and the light symbolizes optimism and hope. As a result, creating an aura of fear, loneliness, and mystery. Repetition: In the extract on the left, the word "melancholy" is repeated twice as a way to emphasize the tense atmosphere.ĭiction: "mouldering walls"- This word choice suggests that the castle is abandoned with disintegrating walls, therefore creating an image of a neglected castle. All these words communicate a sense of fear and misery as they all represent a foreboding feeling. ![]() ![]() There is a variety of diction used in this extract including: "melancholy", "mouldering", "gloomy", "sublime", "silent", and "lonely". Alliteration is used to focus the reader's attention on the phrase and portray an emotion of darkness.ĭiction: The role of diction is used to convey a mood of dread through the author's choice of words. ![]() ![]() Alliteration: "Gothic greatness"- This style of architecture flourished during the late medieval period, creating an atmosphere of fear and gloom. ![]() ![]() Williams writes that Du Bois portrayed his rival as anointed by white capitalists “North and South to legitimize the social, political and economic marginalization of the race”. Washington pleased white supremacists by declaring that “in all things purely social we can be as separate as the fingers”. It also made Du Bois a declared enemy of Booker T Washington, who founded the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. Combining “philosophical clairvoyance, historical audacity, literary imagination, sociological precision, autobiographical introspection, political urgency, musical lyricism, and poetic emotion”, it was “a text that defied classification”. One of the many pleasures of this volume is that author and subject are equally interesting writers.ĭu Bois established himself as a thoughtful radical and eager combatant with The Souls of Black Folk, an essay collection published in 1903, into which Williams says he poured “all his brilliance and anguish”. But Williams also includes the most important details of Du Bois’s life before and long after. Williams’s focus is Du Bois’s role in the first world war and the book about it which preoccupied him for many years, though he never managed to publish it. Besides his brilliance, he never shied away from friction: another useful quality for any good biographer. The first Black man to earn a Harvard PhD, Du Bois’s passion and thoughtfulness still make him America’s most important Black intellectual. ![]() ![]() Dismissed at first by economists as an amusing sideshow, the study of human miscalculations and their effects on markets now drives efforts to make better decisions in our lives, our businesses, and our governments.Ĭoupling recent discoveries in human psychology with a practical understanding of incentives and market behaviour, Thaler enlightens readers about how to make smarter decisions in an increasingly mystifying world. Whether buying an alarm clock, selling football tickets, or applying for a mortgage, we all succumb to biases and make decisions that deviate from the standards of rationality assumed by economists. Now behavioural economics is hugely influential, changing the way we think not just about money, but about ourselves, our world and all kinds of everyday decisions. ![]() Richard Thaler has spent his career studying the notion that humans are central to the economy - and that we're error-prone individuals, not Spock-like automatons. ![]() Traditional economics assumes that rational forces shape everything. From the renowned and entertaining behavioural economist and co-author of the seminal work Nudge, Misbehaving is an irreverent and enlightening look into human foibles. ![]() ![]() No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the votes build up, so does the evidence of your new identity." "Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become."Behavior that is incongruent with the self will not last." Some behaviors are impossible under certain belief systems.Your identity (smoker/ non-smoker) dictates your response. Smokers require willpower to turn down a cigarette.If you change your beliefs, you change your identity.Winners and losers have the same goals, but only winners have winning systems.If you are too goal oriented, you fall apart after achieving your goals because. Hyperfocus on outcome based goals is not good for long term progress.It doesn’t matter what the goal is, the outcome is determined by sustained efforts. ![]() If you eat all the right foods and train the right way, you will become fitter. If you fix your inputs, outcomes take care of themselves.Systems are the processes that lead to those results. Goals are the results you want to achieve.Preliminary Ideas Focus on Systems Instead of Outcomes ![]() ![]() With his dazzling display of villainy, the character Iago, the play's antagonist, has long fascinated students and critics of the drama. ![]() Othello has often been described as a tragedy of character, as the play's protagonist swiftly descends into a rage of jealousy that completely destroys his life. The drama focuses on the passions and personal lives of its major figures. Othello is also unique among Shakespeare's great tragedies in that it is set in a private world. If it lacks the cosmic grandeur of some of Shakespeare's other well-respected dramas, Othello nevertheless possesses a power that is perhaps more immediate and more strongly felt than that of his other plays. The fall of a proud, dignified man, the murder of a graceful, loving woman, and the unreasoning hatred of a villain, have all evoked fear and pity in audiences throughout the centuries. ![]() Othello (1604) has often been considered the most painful of Shakespeare's tragedies. ![]() ![]() ![]() Let’s spray it: glasses – Illesteva, rings – Rock ma Vie, watches – RolexЛак, пожалуйста: очки – Illesteva, кольца – Rock ma Vie, часы – Rolex Hair washing: sweatshirt – Liza Odinokikh, pants – DKNY, shoes – Gianvito Rossi, glasses – Illesteva, rings – Rock ma Vie, watches – RolexДвойной шампунь: свитшот – Liza Odinokikh, брюки – DKNY, туфли – Gianvito Rossi, очки – Illesteva, кольца – Rock ma Vie, часы – Rolexĭon’t cut it: sweatshirt – Liza Odinokikh, pants – DKNY, shoes – Gianvito Rossi, glasses – Illesteva, rings – Rock ma Vie, watches – RolexНе режь: свитшот – Liza Odinokikh, брюки – DKNY, туфли – Gianvito Rossi, очки – Illesteva, кольца – Rock ma Vie, часы – RolexĬoffee? Yes please: rings – Rock ma Vie, watches – RolexКофе? Будьте любезны: кольца – Rock ma Vie, часы – Rolex Прическа: Laurent Dufourg for Prive Appartment. Hair: Laurent Dufourg for Prive Appartment. ![]() ![]() Styling: Yulia Zhuravliova, Ania Nebrenchina. Early morning jogging in high heels: sweatshirt – Liza Odinokikh, pants – DKNY, shoes – Gianvito Rossi, glasses – Illesteva, rings – Rock ma Vie, watches – Rolex. ![]() ![]() ![]() Both break free, and Bentinho and Capitu marry. Bentinho enters the seminary all the same and befriends Escobar, a young man who wants to be a merchant, not a priest. Tensions face him as his now-widowed mother wheedles him to honor a pledge she’s made to God that her firstborn son will become a priest, while Capitu tries to dissuade him. ![]() There, at 15, he falls in love with 14-year-old neighbor Capitu. Bentinho, whom we meet as an aging, moderately prosperous attorney, is part of a minor noble rural family that moved to Rio de Janeiro and settled in a well-to-do neighborhood (Machado makes much, subtly, of Rio’s rich-and-poor geography). But, at the beginning of Machado de Assis’ 1899 novel, he has earned the sobriquet Dom Casmurro, meaning something like “Sir Stubbornly Self-Absorbed,” for falling asleep when a budding poet assailed him with verse on a train ride. A beguilingly slippery tale by Brazil’s greatest proto-modernist writer.īento Santiago is known to his friends as Bentinho. ![]() |