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The Pastures of Heaven is a short story cycle by John Steinbeck published by Brewer, Warren and Putnam in 1932. [ 1 ] This episodic collection is composed of ten self-contained but related stories set in the Corral de Tierra of the Salinas Valley of California.
"The Girl Who Banished Seven Youths" is a folktale sourced from Morocco and published by Inea Bushnaq in her book Arab Folktales.It deals with a maiden going in search of her elder brothers in the company of a dark-skinned slavewoman who replaces her and passes herself as the youths' sister.
In civil and military jurisprudence, summary execution is the putting to death of a person accused of a crime without the benefit of a free and fair trial. The term results from the legal concept of summary justice to punish a summary offense , as in the case of a drumhead court-martial , but the term usually denotes the summary execution of a ...
The documentary follows the story of a nineteen-year-old girl who survives an honor killing attempt by her father and uncle. [5] The protagonist has a solid stance on not forgiving her attackers, but the public pressures her into forgiving. By doing that, the attackers are freed and can return home. [6]
Henbit may refer to: Any of several plant species with the common name "henbit": Lamium amplexicaule, wild flower known as henbit dead-nettle, common henbit, or greater henbit; Lamium album, white henbit or archangel; Lamium confertum, garden henbit; Lamium galeobdolon, yellow henbit or yellow archangel; Lamium maculatum, spotted henbit
In a Free State is a novel by V. S. Naipaul published in 1971 by Andre Deutsch.It won that year's Booker Prize.The plot consists of a framing narrative and three short stories – "One out of Many", "Tell Me Who to Kill", and the title story, "In a Free State".
Lamium amplexicaule, commonly known as henbit dead-nettle, [2] is a species of Lamium native to the Old World. The specific name refers to the leaves, which are amplexicaul (clasping the stem). Description
After a short time, a fierce lion appears, and mounts a ferocious attack on his horse Rakhsh; but Rakhsh, although hard-pressed, succeeds in killing the savage beast with his teeth and hooves. Rostam, awakened by the tumult, and seeing the dead lion and the wounded Rakhsh before him, makes haste to heal his beloved steed, before remounting him ...