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Farewell to Manzanar is a memoir published in 1973 by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston. [1] [2] The book describes the experiences of Jeanne Wakatsuki and her family before, during, and following their relocation to the Manzanar internment camp due to the United States government's internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
813/.52 19. LC Class. PS3505.H3224 F3 1988/1940. Preceded by. The Big Sleep. Followed by. The High Window. Farewell, My Lovely is a novel by Raymond Chandler, published in 1940, the second novel he wrote featuring the Los Angeles private eye Philip Marlowe. It was adapted for the screen three times and was also adapted for the stage and radio.
HelloFresh is a German meal-kit company based in Berlin. It is the largest meal-kit provider in the United States, [ 2] and also has operations in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Europe (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, Italy, Ireland, Spain, Scandinavia and United Kingdom).
September 15, 1976 [ 4] Manzanar is the site of one of ten American concentration camps, where more than 120,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II from March 1942 to November 1945. Although it had over 10,000 inmates at its peak, it was one of the smaller internment camps. It is located at the foot of the Sierra Nevada ...
t. e. The Zhuangzi (historically romanized Chuang Tzŭ) is an ancient Chinese text that is one of the two foundational texts of Taoism, alongside the Tao Te Ching. It was written during the late Warring States period (476–221 BC) and is named for its traditional author, Zhuang Zhou . The Zhuangzi consists of stories and maxims that exemplify ...
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche[ ii] (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture, who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers. [ 14] He began his career as a classical philologist before turning to philosophy. He became the youngest person to hold the Chair of Classical ...
– Episode 1 synopsis from The New York Times Francis "Frank" Underwood (Kevin Spacey), a U.S. congressman and Democratic Majority Whip, leaves his Washington, D.C. residence after hearing his neighbors’ dog get hit by a car. As he comforts the mortally wounded animal, he addresses the audience before calmly strangling it, introducing his cold and pragmatic nature. Frank and his wife ...
A Farewell to Arms is a novel by American writer Ernest Hemingway, set during the Italian campaign of World War I. First published in 1929, it is a first-person account of an American, Frederic Henry, serving as a lieutenant ( Italian: tenente) in the ambulance corps of the Italian Army. The novel describes a love affair between the American ...