![]() ![]() The novel centers around a mysterious alien gate located in a system near the orbit of Uranus, far away from most typical detection methods. As a result of this colonialism, tensions between Earth, Mars, and the Outer Planets Alliance (the three major powers in the world of the “Expanse”) are fairly high. The story takes place in the far future in which humanity has colonized much of the solar system and many of the planets therein. ![]() Written by people who wish to remain anonymousĪbaddon's Gate is the third novel in the "Expanse" series, which was written by Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck under the pen name James S.A. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]()
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![]() And the labourer who for 12 hours long, weaves, spins, bores, turns, builds, shovels, breaks stone, carries hods, and so on – is this 12 hours' weaving, spinning, boring, turning, building, shovelling, stone-breaking, regarded by him as a manifestation of life, as life? Quite the contrary. What he produces for himself is wages and the silk, the gold, and the palace are resolved for him into a certain quantity of necessaries of life, perhaps into a cotton jacket, into copper coins, and into a basement dwelling. What he produces for himself is not the silk that he weaves, not the gold that he draws up the mining shaft, not the palace that he builds. The product of his activity, therefore, is not the aim of his activity. It is a commodity that he has auctioned off to another. He does not count the labour itself as a part of his life it is rather a sacrifice of his life. ![]() His life-activity, therefore, is but a means of securing his own existence. ![]() And this life activity he sells to another person in order to secure the necessary means of life. Why does he sell it? It is in order to live.īut the putting of labour-power into action – i.e., the work – is the active expression of the labourer's own life. “Consequently, labour-power is a commodity which its possessor, the wage-worker, sells to the capitalist. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() How can we understand Kant’s moral philosophy and it continued salience today? Twenty-first century debates about human rights, cosmopolitanism, and liberalism still turn to Kant, some 220 years later. It’s a conception of freedom and autonomy that has had a lasting impact on moral and political philosophy, not only in terms of his immediate reception by the German Idealists such as Hegel, but also within 20 th century moral and political thought-from the Frankfurt School to Hannah Arendt to John Rawls and beyond. How must we re-conceive of our moral obligations to each other in the light of declining religious authority and belief? Can we understand morality on the basis of the nature of human reason alone? For Kant, there is an essential, necessary relationship between reason and freedom, morality and autonomy. At the epicenter of Immanuel Kant’s broad philosophical project regarding nature, the self, aesthetics, and history is an ultimate concern with morality and the good. ![]() ![]() ![]() Afi knows who he is, of course-Elikem is a wealthy businessman whose mother has chosen Afi in the hopes that she will distract him from his relationship with a woman his family claims is inappropriate. She is smart she is pretty and she has been convinced by her mother to marry a man she does not know. ![]() ![]() It's all about the search for independence and being true to yourself and who you really are." -Reese Witherspoon Afi Tekple is a young seamstress in Ghana. 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It seems like any other day when Sanders and his band of misfit boys find a foreign woman clinging to life in the wastelands. The problem is, she doesn't believe in her own divinity, and when she flounders, she nearly fails in the duty hanging so heavy on her shoulders. Carrying rare abilities and an uncanny fighting aptitude, Shanti is the only hope of salvation for her people. Since she helped her people defeat a raiding party by using a special power, she's been a hunted woman. Shanti has grown up under the constant threat of war. It is said that when war threatens the world, one individual will be selected by prophecy to lead the Shadow Warriors out of the Land of Mist and reclaim the freedom which has been stolen. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Jim O’Connor is, like every one of the four characters in The Glass Menagerie, disappointed. Not because of the performances, I hasten to add, but because of the choice of representation and direction. It is unfortunate then to report that for me, it’s a scene that didn’t work very well. The scene, therefore, between Laura (Tom/The Narrator’s sister) and Jim (the ‘gentleman caller’) is absolutely key to much of what the play stands for. To an extent then, the action that takes place around what is literally a cabinet containing small glass animals, is of vital importance when trying to understand what Williams was getting at and what he was trying to convey. The titular glass menagerie is an unreal world, created by one of the characters, and encompasses a central theme in this beautifully wrought, often poetic piece. ![]() Tennessee Williams knew what he was doing when he named this play. Andrew Leci identifies a crack in the glass along with the leakage that prevented the good becoming the great ![]() ![]() ![]() Source: Instagramīesides his career as a producer, Cash is also a businessman. Moreover, the couple also regularly attends Baron Davis’s NBA games in LA.Ĭaption: Cash Warren posing for a photo with his wife, Jessica Alba, at an event. It reportedly earned the family $1.5 million US dollars. Their eldest daughter’s 1st pictures appeared in the July 2008 issue of OK! magazine. The two share three children together namely Honor Marie Warren, Haven Garner Warren, and Hayes Alba Warren.Ĭash and Jessica welcomed Honor on JHaven on Augand Hayes on December 31, 2017. Cash and Jessica were engaged on December 27, 2007. The pair met each other for the first time on the set of Fantastic Four in 2004. ![]() ![]() Relationship StatusĬash Warren has been married to Jessica Alba since May 19, 2008. There, Cash was a schoolmate with Kate Hudson and he also played high school basketball together with Baron Davis. He attended the aforementioned school from 1993 to 1997. Likewise, Cash attended high school at Crossroads School in Santa Monica, California. ![]() He attended this university from 1997 to 2001. From Yale, Cash graduated in 2001 with a diploma in political science. Regarding his educational journey, Cash is a Yale graduate. ![]() ![]() And Caroline soon learns that she isn’t the only person invested in their plan: handsome historian Aaron is new to town but he sees how special the garden is too. Welcomed by the warm smile of her mother’s best friend Maxine, and piles of pancakes at her cozy little restaurant in town, Caroline and her daughter Lee immediately begin their campaign to save the garden. ![]() ![]() But when she finds out that the town’s lily garden lovingly built by her mother is going to be destroyed, she knows she must return from Chicago to save it. When Caroline left Lake Summers thirty years ago, she thought she’d never go back to the place where she lost her parents. But there was a lot she didn’t know about her mother, and the family secrets hidden in her hometown that would change everything… Caroline remembered how her mother would head to the garden as the first signs of spring approached, rolling up her sleeves and planting wildflowers as the sun set. ![]() ![]() ![]() As he sets out in pursuit of vengeance, entering the nightmarish Court of the Ruby Grail, increasingly more enchanted (and confused) by his love for the mysterious Ursula, he finds himself facing demonic adversaries, war and political intrigue.Īgainst a backdrop of the wonders-both sacred and profane-and the beauty and ferocity of Renaissance Italy, Anne Rice creates a passionate and tragic legend of doomed young love and lost innocence. ![]() Welcome to the home of pre-loved books We are passionate about great books and. In the midst of this upheaval, Vittorio is seduced by the vampire Ursula, the most beautiful of his supernatural enemies. Vittorio the Vampire, Anne Rice In stock 1 available Quantity: 1 About Us. Now, in the second of her New Tales of the Vampires, she tells the mesmerizing story of Vittorio, a vampire in the Italian Age of Gold.Įducated in the Florence of Cosimo de' Medici, trained in knighthood at his father's mountaintop castle, Vittorio inhabits a world of courtly splendor and country pleasures-a world suddenly threatened when his entire family is confronted by an unholy power. ![]() With Pandora, Anne Rice began a magnificent new series of vampire novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() You discover that Britons think America is a kind of large food court in a mall where everyone possesses heavy artillery and an undying interest in the doings of the royal family. The way you prepare your tea, it turns out, indicates your exact level of class and education. It's only after a few months that the strangeness begins to sink in. Why shouldn't you be? 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