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Tom Cruise reprises his role as Impossible Mission Force (IMF)
agent Ethan Hunt in the fifth film of the action thriller series.
Written and directed by Christopher McQuarrie, the movie follows on
from events in the previous instalment where the IMF agents find
themselves being targeted by a shadowy organisation of
highly-trained assassins known only as the Syndicate.
Can Ethan
reassemble the now-disbanded IMF team to bring down this rogue
organisation before it's too late?
Thirty years after the defeat of the Galactic Empire, the galaxy faces a new threat from the evil Kylo Ren and the First Order.
When a defector named Finn crash-lands on a desert planet, he meets Rey, a tough scavenger whose droid contains a top-secret map. Together, the young duo joins forces with Han Solo to make sure the Resistance receives the intelligence concerning the whereabouts of Luke Skywalker, the last of the Jedi Knights.
(Academy Award nominations for Best Visual Effects; Best Sound Editing; Best Sound Mixing; Best Film Editing; Best Original Score)
Revising dominant accounts of Puritanism and challenging the
literary history of sentimentalism, Sympathetic Puritans argues
that a Calvinist theology of sympathy shaped the politics,
religion, rhetoric, and literature of early New England. Scholars
have often understood and presented sentimentalism as a direct
challenge to stern and stoic Puritan forebears: the standard
history traces a cult of sensibility back to moral sense philosophy
and the Scottish Enlightenment, not Puritan New England. In
contrast, Van Engen's work unearths the pervasive presence of
sympathy in a large archive of Puritan sermons, treatises, tracts,
poems, journals, histories, and captivity narratives. Sympathetic
Puritans also demonstrates how two types of sympathy - the active
command to fellow-feel (a duty), as well as the passive sign that
could indicate salvation (a discovery) - pervaded Puritan society
and came to define the very boundaries of English culture,
affecting conceptions of community, relations with Native
Americans, and the development of American literature. By analyzing
Puritan theology, preaching, prose, and poetry, Van Engen
re-examines the Antinomian Controversy, conversion narratives,
transatlantic relations, Puritan missions, Mary Rowlandson's
captivity narrative - and Puritan culture more generally - through
the lens of sympathy. Demonstrating and explicating a Calvinist
theology of sympathy in seventeenth-century New England, the book
reveals the religious history of a concept that has largely been
associated with more secular roots.
Gritty action thriller starring Cuba Gooding Jr. as a reporter
trying to stop a serial killer. After discovering the dismembered
body of his girlfriend, crime journalist Lewis Hicks (Gooding)
finds a diary, seemingly left by the murderer, detailing a list of
his next victims and the gruesome methods he will use to kill them.
Realising his own name is on the list, Hicks must use all of his
experience to track down the serial killer in a desperate race
against time before the madman strikes again.
Collection of two comedies. In 'No Strings Attached' (2011), when
long-time friends Emma (Natalie Portman) and Adam (Ashton Kutcher)
decide to add a physical dimension to their relationship and move
into 'friends with benefits' territory, they agree to keep things
strictly casual and on a 'no strings' basis. But before long both
of them find things becoming more complicated than planned as those
pesky emotions get in the way. In 'Morning Glory' (2010), a sparky,
ambitious young television producer spies an opportunity to claw
her way up the career ladder when she is offered a job on
'Daybreak', the worst-performing morning chat show in the ratings.
Her decision to hire veteran newscaster Mike Pomeroy (Harrison
Ford) to host the show meets with scepticism from network executive
Jerry (Jeff Goldblum) and co-host Colleen Peck (Diane Keaton), and
with little enthusiasm from Pomeroy himself, who is obliged by his
contract to take this less-than-promising gig. Can Becky overcome
the poor ratings and in-fighting to bring the team together and
transform the show into something to be proud of?
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
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