![]() In this deeply personal memoir, Anthony Daniels recounts his experiences of the epic cinematic adventure that has influenced pop culture for more than 40 years. Inside the metal costume was an actor named Anthony Daniels. But C-3PO wasn't an amazing display of animatronics with a unique and unforgettable voiceover. When Star Wars burst on to the big screen in 1977, an unfailingly polite golden droid called C-3PO captured imaginations around the globe. I have indeed now written a book - telling my story, in my voice, not his - recognising that our voices and our stories are inextricably intertwined." My golden companion worries about such things - I don't. "The odds of me ever writing a book were approximately. Abrams, Director of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker "Gloriously witty, keen and spirited" J.J. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In particular, we see the playing out of a narrative pattern that begins with the Calypso episode: a male traveler’s penetration of a feminized milieu, leading to the release of Odysseus from potential oblivion. In each case, the poet draws on older mythic and/or folktale story patterns to explore the effects of Odysseus’s arrival in an exotic and threatening milieu. Likewise, the longer episodes in Books Nine through Twelve, the Cyclops, Circe, Hades, and-as a shorter coda-the Cattle of the Sun, repeat and enrich motifs and narrative patterns established in the first eight books of the poem. Thus, we see the monster Polyphemus against the background of Proteus, Circe in the shadow of Calypso. In the chronology of the story, the adventures he recounts have already happened, but we encounter them here for the first time in the poem. Now he will tell the Phaeacians about his struggle to survive after leaving Troy. The hero himself has been released by the gods from Calypso’s island and survived the harassment of Poseidon, washing up on the shore of Scheria, naked and exhausted. ![]() We have seen the chaos in the royal palace at Ithaka and Telemachus’ visits to Pylos and Sparta. At the request of king Alcinous, Odysseus declares his name and country.Īs Book Nine opens, we find Odysseus poised on the boundary between the fairytale kingdom of the Phaeacians and the grittier realities of Ithaka. ![]() ![]() ![]() Alexandria grew rapidly, becoming a major centre of Hellenic civilisation, and replacing Memphis as Egypt's capital during the reign of the Ptolemaic pharaohs who succeeded Alexander. ![]() The city was founded originally in the vicinity of an Egyptian settlement named Rhacotis (that became the Egyptian quarter of the city). The city extends about 40 km (25 mi) along the northern coast of Egypt, and is the largest city on the Mediterranean, the second-largest in Egypt (after Cairo), the fourth-largest city in the Arab world, the ninth-largest city in Africa, and the ninth-largest urban area in Africa. ![]() Called the "Bride of the Mediterranean" internationally, Alexandria is a popular tourist destination and an important industrial centre due to its natural gas and oil pipelines from Suez. 331 BC by Alexander the Great, Alexandria grew rapidly and became a major centre of Hellenic civilisation, eventually replacing Memphis, in present-day Greater Cairo, as Egypt's capital. Alexandria ( / ˌ æ l ɪ ɡ ˈ z æ n d r i ə, - ˈ z ɑː n-/ AL-ig- ZA(H)N-dree-ə Arabic: الإسكندرية Greek: Ἀλεξάνδρεια) is the second largest city in Egypt, and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was then that Phoebe found out he was a Whitelighter. ![]() He briefly returned to get the sisters in touch with Max Franklin, a young witch being forced into using his powers to help a pair of crooks commit robberies. When Leo became too close to Piper, the Elders sent him away Whitelighters weren't allowed to be romantically involved with witches. After Prue cast the Truth Spell, Piper took the opportunity to make a pass at Leo, and after asking him how he liked girls who made the first move, Piper boldly kissed him. Both Piper and Phoebe showed interest in Leo, and it soon became a competition for his attention. Since he couldn't tell the sisters just yet, he posed as a handyman. ![]() Sometime in 1998, the Elders gave Leo his biggest assignment yet-he was to be the Charmed Ones' Whitelighter. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Here’s what you get from each service Apple currently offers: Here’s what each Apple One service offers Image source: Apple Inc.īesides the discount, there’s a lot to take advantage of when subscribing to Apple One. ![]() It costs $32.95/mo.Īpple says that if it didn’t offer the Apple One bundle, subscribing to all of these services in the same conditions would cost $23.96/mo for the Individual plan, $31.96 for the Family plan, and $58.94/mo for the Premier tier. Apple One Premier subscription: Offers all the benefits from the Family subscription, but with 2TB of iCloud storage, plus Apple Fitness+ and Apple News+.In addition, you can share the subscription with up to five people from your family. Apple One Family subscription: Offers the same services but with 200GB of iCloud+.Apple One Individual subscription: Offers 50GB of iCloud+, Apple TV+, Apple Music, and Apple Arcade for $16.95/mo.These are the current Apple One subscriptions available, their price, and what they offer: In addition, since some services were lesser known then, such as the Apple TV+ and Apple Arcade, offering a bundle with Apple Music and iCloud would already be great to drive subscribers to these other platforms. So instead of charging for each service independently, users can get more benefits while paying less. ![]() What’s an Apple One subscription? What are the tiers? Image source: Apple Inc.Īfter releasing several new services in 2019, Apple announced its Apple One bundle the following year. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Through it all, Middlekauff gives the reader a vivid sense of how the colonists saw these events and the importance they gave to them. The book concludes with an insightful look at the making of the Constitution in the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 and the struggle over ratification. Party and "the shot heard 'round the world." The heart of the book features a vivid description of the eight-year-long war, with gripping accounts of battles and campaigns, ranging from Bunker Hill and Washington's crossing of the Delaware to the brilliant victory at Hannah's Cowpens and the final triumph at Yorktown, paying particular attention to what made men fight in these bloody encounters. Combining the political and the personal, he provides a compelling account of the key events that precipitated the war, from the Stamp Act to the Tea Act, tracing the gradual gathering of American resistance that culminated in the Boston Tea Beginning with the French and Indian War and continuing to the election of George Washington as first president, Robert Middlekauff offers a panoramic history of the conflict between England and America, highlighting the drama and anguish of the colonial struggle for independence. ![]() ![]() The first book to appear in the illustrious Oxford History of the United States, this critically acclaimed volume-a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize-offers an unsurpassed history of the Revolutionary War and the birth of the American republic. ![]() ![]() The collars serve a logistical purpose of making it impossible for the enslaved to fight back, but because they are visible, they function as a shaming symbol of subjugation as Lauren explains, “I’ve heard that some collared people kill themselves, not because they can’t stand the pain, but because they can’t stand the degree of slavishness to which they find themselves descending” (81). Collars have been associated with slavery since ancient times, and so the presence of collars at Camp Christian links the brutality of the camp to the history of slavery in America. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality study guides that feature detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, quotes, and essay topics. ![]() Collars are most traditionally used to restrain and control animals, and the notion of placing a collar on a fellow human being is profoundly dehumanizing, signaling that they no longer possess any basic rights or freedoms. Thanks for exploring this SuperSummary Study Guide of Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. ![]() The collars symbolize the dehumanization of groups perceived as “other” and how systems of power rely on subjugation. Powerful electronic collars that deliver agonizing electrical shocks to their wearers are a key device that allows Jarret’s Crusaders to overtake and dominate the Acorn community members. ![]() ![]() ![]() The problem is that Levi was involved in some way and wants her to drop the investigation into the hit and run. She spends the summer recuperating and in therapy but comes back strong. They chase her down until she is hit by a car. He kicks her out and she gets lost in the woods until overhearing some guys plotting something in the woods. ![]() She comes on to Levi King who is about to take her up on the offer when he sees her pupils and figures out she is on drugs. This is a romance where the heroine is one of the “invisible” people at the RES (Royal Elite School) and Levi King was not only from the richest family, but he was the Captain of the Football team and the hottest guy in school.Īstrid attends a party with her best friend Daniel and someone slips ecstasy in her drink. If only a guy would be as into me as Levi King is into Astrid Clifford, I would be a fantastically happy woman. ![]() This was an awesome bully romance and the relationship between the two main characters was just about as sizzling hot as it could possibly be. The stand-alone novel includes a bonus scene that was not published in the anthology. I read this as part of the Noble Savages Anthology and it was near a perfect 5 stars out of 5. He thinks he broke me, but the new princess will bring the king to his knees. He doesn’t only shred my life to parts, but he’s also coming after my heart. One day I’m Royal Elite School’s small fly, the next I’m hunted and left to die. ![]() Bend the knee.įight me all you want, but soon enough, you’ll be chanting long live the king. ![]() ![]() ![]() So once the grid went up, the realization that there was now only the glass between me and the sidewalk, that I was free to see, close up and whole, so many things I’d seen before only as corners and edges, made me so excited that for a moment I nearly forgot about the Sun and his kindness to us. Unlike most AFs, unlike Rosa, I’d always longed to see more of the outside – and to see it in all its detail. I should confess here that for me, there’d always been another reason for wanting to be in the window which had nothing to do with the Sun’s nourishment or being chosen. And once Manager touched the switch and the grid climbed up all the way, we became covered in dazzling light. I knew then that whatever the answer to Rosa’s question, we were about to get all the nourish-ment we would need for some time to come. We only needed to stretch our feet a little to place them within its warmth. But once we’d seated ourselves on the Striped Sofa, I saw there was a narrow gap running along the bottom of the grid – Manager must have raised it a little when checking every-thing was ready for us – and the Sun’s light was making a bright rectangle that came up onto the platform and finished in a straight line just in front of us. The store, of course, had yet to open, and I thought the grid would be fully down. ![]() Then our turn finally came, and Rosa and I stepped into the window one morning, making sure not to knock over any of the display the way the pair before us had done the previous week. ![]() ![]() ![]() By showing the determination of Adraa and Jatin to save their people, while a slow-burn romance plays out, Swift shows the balance between unexpected love and duty, and the strength it takes to fight for the kingdoms they were born to lead. ![]() ![]() Swift’s magic system is refreshing and new, mixing the ideas of magic and religion together. With compelling main characters and action-packed fight scenes, Cast in Firelight is captivating. However, when their kingdoms are threatened by a criminal plot, Adraa and Jatin unknowingly unite, and must work together to save their people-only they’ve lied to each other about who they truly are. After years of fierce competition from afar while Jatin was at school, Adraa and Jatin can both agree that his return isn’t likely to be heartfelt. But growing up, they were fierce rivals, always trying to one-up each other, especially when it came to mastering their magic. Heirs to their respective thrones, Adraa and Jatin have been betrothed since they were children, their union sure to unite two of Wickery’s most powerful kingdoms. In her fast-paced YA fantasy, we follow the paths of two young royals with magical skills given to them by the nine gods. Debut author Dana Swift’s Cast in Firelighthas it all, and more. ![]() |