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Hazel Grace Lancaster, Augustus Waters, and several other characters The Fault in our Stars: John Green: The book is about characters with several types of cancer and resulting disabilities including a blind character and one with a prosthetic leg. [13] [14] 2015 Kaz Brekker Six of Crows: Leigh Bardugo: Kaz has a limp and uses a cane.
The debate on traditional Chinese characters and simplified Chinese characters is an ongoing dispute concerning Chinese orthography among users of Chinese characters. It has stirred up heated responses from supporters of both sides in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, and among overseas Chinese communities with its implications of political ideology and cultural identity. [1]
The two characters have literal Chinese meanings 'cloth' and 'cover', which make no sense in this context. They have thus been interpreted as a phonetic transcription, via their Middle Chinese pronunciations bu H kaj H, of a Vietnamese phrase, either vua cái 'great king', or bố cái 'father and mother' (of the people). [29] [30]
Use with a standard QWERTY or Dvorak keyboard. Replacing Chinese characters to bring functional literacy to illiterate Chinese speakers. Book indexing, dictionary entry sorting, and cataloguing in general. Posters and slogans in and around Chinese schools often have each character annotated with its Standard Chinese reading in Pinyin
Inspired by Carter's "very empowered women," and characters' ability to "defy archetypes," her writing is brimming with subverted fairy tale tropes. They may not directly comment on the Grimms' approach to storytelling – there aren't straw-spinning damsels or demanding prince-frogs populating her pages. Instead, she invents her own ...
The characters may be “autistic-coded,” which Iveta Pudilova, CEO and co-founder of Happy Autistic Lady, defines as when an “autistic character isn’t explicitly described as autistic, but ...
Uses of figurative language, or figures of speech, can take multiple forms, such as simile, metaphor, hyperbole, and many others. [10] Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature says that figurative language can be classified in five categories: resemblance or relationship, emphasis or understatement, figures of sound, verbal games, and errors.
This series came from a determination to understand why, and to explore how their way back from war can be smoothed. Moral injury is a relatively new concept that seems to describe what many feel: a sense that their fundamental understanding of right and wrong has been violated, and the grief, numbness or guilt that often ensues.