![]() ![]() Dusenbery exposes the biases underlying treatment for established conditions such as heart disease and discusses the “circular logic built into psychogenic theories” that keep conditions exclusively or commonly experienced by women, such as endometriosis and autoimmune diseases labeled as “contested illnesses.” Backed by patient stories that range from hopeful to horrifying, Dusenbery illustrates how often modern physicians dismiss women’s symptoms as arising from anxiety, depression, and stress. She skillfully interweaves history, medical studies, current literature, and hard data to produce damning evidence that women wait longer for diagnoses, receive inadequate pain management, and are often told they are imagining symptoms that are taken seriously in men. Dusenbery, editor of the website Feministing, presents a canny and candid analysis of how modern medicine treats women in pain. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Violence appears as one of the major themes explored in Alderman’s The Power. ![]() Even though the religion is thought to be a way of bringing peace to the people, Allie who is at its center is motivated by the desire to get rid of any doubtful individuals or those that are unyielding of her ideas and teachings. After one of the nuns becomes cynical of her religious proclamations, Allie now Eve, kills her. As such, when she goes over to a convent, she changes her name to a new one and begins to act like a preacher. They, therefore, begin to use violence for their selfish gains rather than to exert justice.įor instance, after Allie goes away, she becomes convinced that she can only be at peace if she owns the whole place. However, as the novel progresses with women getting more power, it begins to corrupt and interfere with their morals. ![]() As the novel begins, the women are depicted as using violence to protect themselves from situations which necessitate the use of the same. Naomi Alderman while she tries to explore the issue of balance of power between men and women, also brings out how power tends to lead to the corruption of a people. Support this statement using illustrations from the novel. Naomi Alderman in The Power explores how power corrupts those in positions of advantage. Written by people who wish to remain anonymous We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() ![]() Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children Now I am going to review 5 books similar to The Cellar. This book has perfect thrilling elements that you feel stuck. This is very important because we get to see what’s going on outside the cellar. It shifts between Summer Clover and Lewis. In this book, The Cellar, the point of view shifts between three different people. So if you want to read books like The Cellar, keep scrolling! 5 Books Like The Cellar (Thrillers Fiction) Lily is determined to get out of the cellar, and she’s one of the only girls who hasn’t lost hope knowing that someone is out there looking for her while the other girls are thinking that no one is looking for them. ![]() Summer or Lily is the main protagonist of the novel, and she was taken by Clover while she was out looking for a friend. ![]() But he ends up raping the innocent and killing, murdering prostitutes and helpless women. Clover is ironic because he is all about purity, like a germophobe. He envisions them being his perfect family. Clover is a psychotic thirty-year-old who keeps four girls locked in a cellar. This book is mostly about Summer and her journey to escape and survive the cellar. ![]() There are three other girls in his cellar: Rose, Poppy, and Violet. Clover takes Summer to his cellar, which he calls Lily. The Cellar is about a girl named Summer Robinson, kidnapped by Clover. ![]() ![]() As in The Red Hat Club, these irrepressible heroines face the challenges of friendship in sickness and in health, with heart and indomitable humor. ![]() Laughter is spiced with secrets, surprises, and pitfalls aplenty, including a midlife pregnancy test, a fight for life, the perils of Internet dating, an all-expense-paid plastic surgery cruise, and a surprise celebration that proves it's never too late for love. As the women confront their pasts along with their hazardous adventure, they discover surprising strength in themselves and their friendships. When Pru Bonner, black sheep of the group, falls off the wagon so hard it shakes Diane, Linda, SuSu, Teeny, and Georgia's world, "the girls" stage a hilarious kidnapping in Vegas to help their childhood friend clean up her act. ![]() ![]() Put on your red hats and plenty of attitude, and spend a hilarious, heartwarming read with five fabulous women. ![]() ![]() It would rip open those old wounds that have healed if he’s given hope she is who she claims to be but tear him apart if she’s not. “But what if she is a spy and not his precious human? Do you remember how torn he was? The agony and guilt he suffered leaving her behind after all she’d done for us? He felt certain she suffered punishment for her actions. He could determine if she’s telling the truth. “We should contact Mavo, have him return to Garden and speak with the prisoner. ![]() Think of how much that would mean to Mavo if you protected her. She won’t be forced to live with males she doesn’t wish to. They’ll see her as such and not as a cyborg. Every cyborg knows Emily Pleva the one human who has always been our friend. ![]() I can use public opinion to give her an exemption from our laws if you’re able to determine she really is the human who helped us rebel. He had a child and registered it as yours, just to alleviate your duty to produce one. He’s still your friend, isn’t he? I heard he named one of his sons after you and listed that child as your required replacement. I’ll have to tell him that I came to you, explained the situation, and you didn’t even try to protect her. “What if she really is Emily Pleva? She saved all of our lives and Mavo will eventually hear about her. “No.” There was no way he wanted a female, especially that one, and Zorus couldn’t make him agree. ![]() ![]() ![]() The impetus for writing The Grapes of Wrath came out of John Steinbeck’s experience researching and publishing Harvest Gypsies, a seven-part San Francisco News series about the plight of agricultural migrant workers in California. What details did Steinbeck choose? How did he use them? What purpose was he trying to achieve? Guiding Questions Comparing the reports to The Grapes of Wrath offers students a rare look into a writer’s process of converting nonfiction material into fiction. It is exact and just the thing that will be used against me if I am wrong.”Įighteen of Collins’s reports are available from the EDSITEment-reviewed National Archives. ![]() Aware of the criticism the novel’s passion and partisanship were likely to arouse, Steinbeck noted in his writer’s journal (published as Working Days), “I need this stuff. He found an invaluable source in the official reports of Tom Collins, the director of California’s Arvin Migrant Camp. ![]() To achieve the authenticity he desired, Steinbeck sought to pile genuine, specific detail upon genuine, specific detail. In a 1939 letter, John Steinbeck wrote that his goal for The Grapes of Wrath was “to rip a reader’s nerves to rags.” Through the novel, Steinbeck wanted readers to experience the life of the Dust Bowl migrants with whom he had spent time. ![]() "I tried to write this book the way lives are being lived not the way books are written." ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "Riveting, terrifying, and just absolutely great. This first-ever republication of Michael McDowell's chilling classic of revenge features a new introduction by Christopher Fowler and cover art by Mike Mignola. Can even the wealth and power of the Stallworth family protect them from Lena's diabolical lust for vengeance? One Sunday, all the Stallworths receive invitations-to their own funerals. On a crusade to crush Lena's evil empire, the judge has sentenced three of her family members to death. Only a few blocks away, amidst the elegant mansions and lily-white reputations of Gramercy Park and Washington Square, lives Judge James Stallworth. The queen of this unsavory neighborhood is Black Lena Shanks, whose family leads a ring of female criminals-women skilled in the art of cruelty. Welcome to the Black Triangle, New York's decadent district of opium dens, gambling casinos, drunken sailors, gaudy hookers, and back room abortions. ![]() ![]() “Happy Place” traces the relationship between Harriet and Wyn across multiple timelines, detailing their college romance, derailed engagement and subsequent reunion at a cottage in Maine with their longtime friends - who still don’t know they’ve broken up. In her latest novel “Happy Place,” released April 25, Henry continues to sculpt a sunny world of honest love and easy endings, but the journey to get there is much more poignant and “slow-release hot.” Her fiction borders on cheesy, but it’s blissfully self-aware. ![]() ![]() ![]() Emily Henry is the reigning sovereign of the rom-com.įrom “Book Lovers” to “Beach Read,” Henry toys with common tropes, but she does so with a twist. ![]() ![]() West succeed in unlocking the very forces of life and death, or will his ghoulish experiments be his undoing (yes, we realize this is a rhetorical question, still.)? ![]() ![]() Their unholy quest leads them across New England and eventually into the trenches of the Great War in search of fresh cadavers for their nefarious experiments. He and his colleague embark down a path filled with dubious science and horrifying results as they endeavor to bring life back to dead bodies. If you enjoyed the Stuart Gordon film, you're sure to enjoy this return to Lovecraft's original six-chapter story.Īmbitious medical student Herbert West, believes he can conquer death through the reanimation of dead tissue. In the style of The War of the Worlds, The Shadow and other classic radio dramas, Dark Adventure Radio Theatre® presents HPL's story with a huge cast of professional actors, exciting sound effects and thrilling original music by Reber Clark. "His scientific obsession had degenerated into a hellish and perverse addiction to the abnormal"ĭark Adventure Radio Theatre®: Herbert West-Reanimator lets you hear Lovecraft's tale as it might have been dramatized for radio in the 1930s. ![]() ![]() ![]() TALKING WITH DRAGONS marks a change in the Enchanted Forest Chronicles, as Wrede changes the narrative from the third person, in the initial books, to first person in this one allowing us to follow Daystar’s story from his perspective. This book follows the story of Daystar who at sixteen gets handed a magic sword by his mother and sent into the Enchanted Forest, and has to work out for himself what he has to do. Wrede is the fourth book in the Enchanted Forest Chronicles. ![]() It’s going to take a particularly hotheaded fire-witch, a very verbose lizard, and a badly beahving dragon to help him figure it all out.Īnd those good manners certainly won’t help! Where is he supposed to go? And why does everyone he meets seem to know who he is? Especially because his house sits on the edge of the Enchanted Forest and his mother is Queen Cimorene.īut the tricky part is figuring out what he’s supposed to do with the magic sword. and it’s a very wise lesson – one that might just help him after his mom hands him a magic sword and kicks him out of the house. Publisher: Magic Carpet Books (March 2003) Genre: Fantasy, Middle Grade, Young Adult ![]() Title: Talking to Dragons (The Enchanted Forest Chronicles: Book Four) ![]() |