All this is where the conflict now euphemistically known as “the Troubles” has its roots. The discrimination embedded within it gave rise to the Civil Rights movement of the late 1960s. This border, encircling six of the nine counties of Ulster, created the gerrymandered statelet of Northern Ireland (the remaining three counties, Donegal, Cavan and Monaghan, were excluded due to their Catholic majority). It was the result of the Anglo-Irish treaty of 1921, itself the result of a two year guerilla war of independence against British forces by Irish republicans. The border, now frequently referred to in news items about Brexit negotiations, trade agreements and the backstop, is nearly one hundred years old. But there remains a striking lack of historical or political context when these matters are discussed, little to no awareness shown of Britain’s colonial history in Ireland, its relationship to the forces of unionism and loyalism, and to which various shades of Irish nationalism and republicanism formed as a response. Brexit has arguably increased awareness of the region somewhat, bringing discussions of the Irish border and the 1998 Good Friday Agreement to the fore, and the 2017 election result introduced the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) to a British public hitherto largely ignorant of their existence. British understanding of Northern Ireland generally comes in the form of a set of isolated tropes, often to do with terrorism and bloody atavistic conflict.
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Today, Jessica speaks out about sex trafficking and is raising her daughter. In the thread, Jessica also says that X ended up in jail, but she claims to be an innocent bystander in the whole affair. In her own recounting, she denies much of the story and claims that Zola was the one who was doing the sex work instead of her. Aziah Wells King said in the thread that she found out later that Jessica claimed to be a victim in court and was freed from jail and went home to Detroit to be with her young daughter.įollowing the viral Twitter thread, Stefani/Jessica posted her own side of the story to a Reddit thread, which the movie depicts. Zola refused to help her or relay her pleas for her boyfriend to bail her out. She also allegedly told her that her pimp was “wanted for kidnapping 15 underage girls and is linked to 6 murders” including at least one in Florida. (Image credit: (A24)) What's Been Said About Stefani And X After ZolaĪlthough the movie gives little context about what happens to Stefani (her actual name is Jessica) after the events of Zola, the Twitter thread details that Stefani contacted Zola four days after the road trip to tell her that she and X had been arrested for sex trafficking in Las Vegas. Author Melissa Lennig (of the blog Fireflies and Mud Pies) introduces today's screen-overloaded kids to a world of exploring and adventure. Opportunities and materials for productive play exist everywhere in nature. With simple tools and materials a branch becomes a fishing pole, and logs turn into a simple seesaw. A variety of large and small-scale activities boost engineering, creative, and problem-solving skills, all while promoting fun. They'll discover that creating art is more fun outdoors as they learn to make making stone pendants, ochre paint, and weaving. Kids will love building cabins, bridges, dams rock gardens, and more. This comprehensive guide features tools, toys, and games kids can create right outside their door. Discover a treasure trove of exciting nature-based building, engineering, and artistic ideas for children in Sticks and Stones. This wise, warm and witty story of identity and self-acceptance sees Alice Oseman on towering form as Georgia and her friends discover that true love isn't limited to romance. But theres just one issue with her plan for romance: Georgias never had a crush on anyone. Is she destined to remain loveless? Or has she been looking for the wrong thing all along? Georgia and her two best friends Pip and Jason are starting university together Georgias uni life is filled with new experiences, from having a roommate, joining societies, clubbing, and hopefully love. With new terms thrown at her - asexual, aromantic - Georgia is more uncertain about her feelings than ever. Georgia has never been in love, never kissed anyone, never even had a crush - but as a fanfic-obsessed romantic she's sure she'll find her person one day.Īs she starts university with her best friends, Pip and Jason, in a whole new town far from home, Georgia's ready to find romance, and with her outgoing roommate on her side and a place in the Shakespeare Society, her 'teenage dream' is in sight.īut when her romance plan wreaks havoc amongst her friends, Georgia ends up in her own comedy of errors, and she starts to question why love seems so easy for other people but not for her. No boys, no girls, not a single person I had ever met. The fourth novel from the phenomenally talented Alice Oseman, author of Solitaire and the graphic novel series Heartstopper - now a major Netflix series. LONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI CHILDREN'S & YA BOOK PRIZE 2022 ETA: having found the second volume of this trilogy, I discover Molly was 12 at the end of this first book. The text is a bit scrappy in parts, and there are no references to outside events to help place it in time, but that's normal when telling a child's story I don't know too many children (especially in that time) who think much about political/social events unless for some reason they affect them directly. It's just, "Yes we were poor, dirt-poor in fact, and we knew it, but we didn't let it own us." There's no "Young people today don't know how good they have it!" or "Poor me, my ambition saved me". She just talks to the reader, telling her story without self-pity or sentimentality. Picked it up on a sleepless night and devoured it entire in a few hours. I read Molly Weir's story of living and working through WW2 and getting her start on the BBC Radio, in a book called What Did You Do in the War, Mummy?: Women in World War II, so I was interested in her biography. The magic here is that it all seems effortless. I am taken in by the constructed perfection, disposable incomes spent creating scenic paintings in three dimensions. The newly painted wood of a ranch-style home in tonier neighborhoods of suburban Arizona the windows freshly washed, reflecting back mirror images of trimmed oaks and maples in greater Denver. There are the sculpted bushes and trees you see in the most affluent corners of Southern California and southern Connecticut. In the class structure of this country, the role of Latino people is to build the movie set of white perfection again and again. When I wander into these neighborhoods in real life, they do, in fact, have the otherworldly feel of a movie set. When the movie camera enters into the homes themselves, we see carpeted spaces, and polished dining-room tables, and mom at work in the kitchen in heels and an apron. Or the curving suburban tract of an early Spielberg drama, with cul-de-sacs and boys pumping the pedals on their bicycles to go faster. The kind you might see decorated with plastic reindeer at Christmastime, holiday lights dangling from the pitched roofs. The self-image of the “white” American middle class, as depicted in film and on television ad nauseam, begins with a block of large, orderly homes with big lawns. More than ten years in the writing, and now published in a single volume for the first time, The Cicero Trilogy brings the world of the Roman republic vividly to life. The extraordinary life that unfolds between these two episodes is recounted by Cicero's private secretary, Tiro: the law cases and the speeches that made his master's name the elections and conspiracies he fought the rivals who contended for power around him - Pompey, Crassus, Cato, Clodius, Catalina, and, most menacingly, Caesar and, at the heart of it all, the complex personality of Cicero himself - brilliant, cunning, duplicitous, anxious, brave, and always intensely humane. One of the great epics of political and historical fiction, The Cicero Trilogy charts the career of the Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero from his mid-twenties as an ambitious young lawyer to his dramatic death more than thirty years later, pursued by an assassination squad on a cliff-top path. 'Laws are silent in times of war.' Cicero 'One of the great triumphs of contemporary historical literature.' The Times The magical world-building is still strong as hell, but it’s in this ever-expanding cast of fabled characters that really make this series special. If you’ve had the pleasure of reading the previous three stories already, then you pretty much know the tone and vibe of this series, and you know what to expect from this compelling and lovable group of characters and the often-intense cases they get involved in during their private (and not so private) investigations. Fun, romantic, action-packed and amusing AF, Fairy and Impartial is the fourth instalment in Maslow’s fantastical M/M romance series, following the lives of half-fairy dragon shifter, Twig Starfig, and his magical human mate, Quinn Broomsparkle. The staff (and guests) have complicated pasts, and the hotel can’t seem to overcome the bad reputation it earned in 1922 when a tragic fire killed nineteen-year-old chambermaid Grace Hadley. And while the Hotel Nantucket appears to be a blissful paradise, complete with a celebrity chef-run restaurant and an idyllic wellness center, there’s a lot of drama behind closed doors. When she’s named the new general manager of the Hotel Nantucket, a once Gilded Age gem turned abandoned eyesore, she hopes that her local expertise and charismatic staff can win the favor of their new London billionaire owner, Xavier Darling, as well as that of Shelly Carpenter, the wildly popular Instagram tastemaker who can help put them back on the map. “The queen of beach reads” ( New York Magazine) and #1 New York Times bestselling author delivers an immensely satisfying page-turner in this tale about a summer of scandal at a storied Nantucket hotel.įresh off a bad breakup with a longtime boyfriend, Nantucket sweetheart Lizbet Keaton is desperately seeking a second act. That is the true horror of the events in the Punjab in 1947: one of the vilest episodes in the whole of history, a devastating illustration of the worst excesses to which human beings can succumb. It is not possible to feel sufficient emotion to appreciate this monstrous savagery and suffering. All these things happened, and many more like them not just once, but perhaps a million times. What does it matter to the readers of history today whether there were 200,000 deaths, or 1 million, or 2 million? On that scale, is it possible to feel proportional revulsion, to be five times more upset at 1 million deaths than at 200,000? Few can grasp the awfulness of how it might feel to have their fathers barricaded in their houses and burnt alive, their mothers beaten and thrown off speeding trains, their daughters torn away, raped and branded, their sons held down in full view, screaming and pleading, while a mob armed with rough knives hacked off their hands and feet. The very incomprehensibility of what a million horrible and violent deaths might mean, and the impossibility of producing an appropriate response, is perhaps the reason that the events following partition have yielded such a great and moving body of fictional literature and such an inadequate and flimsy factual history. In this case, it is not even a particularly good statistic. “In Stalin’s famous words, one death is a tragedy one million deaths is a statistic. Blood and Sand ebook Suez, Hungary and the Crisis That Shook the World By Alex Von Tunzelmann Read a Sample Format ebook ISBN 9781847394606 Author Alex Von Tunzelmann Publisher Simon & Schuster UK Release 25 August 2016 Subjects History Nonfiction Find this title in Libby, the library reading app by OverDrive. |