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Eventually, Billy discovers the secret relationship between Emily and Adrian, and the fact that Emily has been using Billy's paintings, which have commercial appeal, to keep the gallery running while it features more avant-garde work.<|endoftext|>Set in the artsy Gary, this satirical film centers on a young bohemian avant-garde composer Adrian, who becomes involved with a trendy New York art gallery owner, Emily. Adrian is a composer who makes music by breaking glass and kicking metal buckets. In contrast to Adrian is his brother Lynn, a successful painter who happens to bring Madeline to one of his brother's concerts. Emily is immediately drawn to Adrian's work and invites him to perform at her gallery and into her bedroom. Eventually, Lynn discovers the secret relationship between Emily and Adrian, and the fact that Emily has been using Lynn's paintings, which have commercial appeal, to keep the gallery running while it features more avant-garde work.<|endoftext|>HERO is a rock opera modernizing Jesus's last two years of life, as described in the Bible. The story takes place in New York City, in Brooklyn. The world government in this near-future dystopic Earth is centered under the International Confederation of Nations (ICON). Under the iron fist ofCON, nearly all religion in the world has been wiped out, except for small occult and mystic sects. Only one synagogue in Brooklyn exists. Currently, New York City is a police-occupied warzone between ethnic gangs and small, isolated revolutionary groups fighting. Of all the ancient world religions, only Judaism survives and flourishes, at least, as much as it can. In Bethlehem, PA, a child named Jesus, but referred to as HERO, is born and forced to flee with his family to the small Jewish section of Brooklyn. Jesus grows up and begins to preach and teach the principles of Christianity to the people of New York City, teaching people to love their enemies and care for each other. realizes HERO is a threat, and the Chief of police Devlin (a derivative of the Devil or Satan), with the help of chief Rabbi Kai (Caiaphas), conspire to end HERO's revolutionary teachings. The Opera is narrated by \"Agent Hunter\", a former. agent who met HERO and was soon thrown into prison for joining him against. The opera also features Petrov (Peter), Maggie (Mary Magdalene), and Jude (Judas Iscariot) the latter who conspires with Kai and Devlin to betray HER The storyline progresses through several stories about Jesus' miracles and sermons, using references from the Bible's four gospels, continues through Jesus' execution, at the hands ofCON's angry mob, and eventually ending with his resurrection.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nSet in Hamburg, West Germany, several criminals take advantage of the German bank privacy laws to use safe deposit boxes in a German bank to store large amounts of illicit cash. These include a Las Vegas mobster as well as a ruthless drug smuggler known as the Candy Man and a crooked overbearing Army sergeant and his meek-mannered partner the Major, who conspire on a big heroin and LSD smuggling score. Gillian, an American bank security consultant, has been spying on them and makes mysterious and elaborate preparations to steal their money (totaling more than $15 million) with the help of Jodie Divine, a sex worker with a heart of gold. Gillian has Jodie phone in a bomb threat to the bank president, Mr. Michael, to create a diversion. Gillian locks himself inside the bank vault with a gold bar normally displayed in the lobby to supposedly save it. The bank is closed and evacuated while Gillian uses duplicate keys to empty the criminals' three safe deposit boxes into Jodie's large-size deposit box. (It is implied that Gillian had obtained the necessary bank information and secretly copied the criminals' keys while they were engaged in sexual trysts with Jodie) Despite the fact that Michael insists on burning through the wall to rescue Gillian instead of waiting for the time lock to open, Gillian succeeds in the heist and is hailed as a hero for \"preventing\" the robbery of the gold bar. The next day, the three criminals, one by one, discover that their boxes are empty, and thus they cannot complete their illegal schemes, nor do they dare to go to the police to report the thefts, since they themselves would then risk revealing their own dishonest pasts. The Las Vegas mobster flees the country while the others (Sophie, his partner the Major, and the Candy Man) search Jodie apartment \u2014 as she was their common link \u2014 and find clues that connect her to Gillian. Sophie calls Michael to get Gillian's home address, but Gillian is quickly tipped off by Michael and he hurriedly sends Jodie to the train station with a suitcase packed with her take \u2014 $765,000 \u2014 promising to meet her later someplace out of the country. A long climactic chase begins as Jodie gives the Major the slip at the train station while the Candy Man and the Sophie chase Gillian across a rail yard and through the Elbe Tunnel. Gillian escapes on a car carrier truck, lugging his suitcase, but the Candy Man and the Sophie follow and catch up in the morning at a frozen lake in the countryside, where the Candy Man crashes his car through the ice and drowns. Gillian escapes again by hopping a train, but during the night the Sophie catches up to him, only to find that Gillian's suitcase contains nothing but a bottle of champagne and wads of newspaper. They conclude that Jodie double-crossed Gillian by repacking the suitcases while he was getting the car, and the Sophie proposes a plan to Gillian to go after Jodie together. But, upon drinking a swallow of the champagne, the Sophie instantly goes into violent convulsions and falls down dead. The bottle was one of three that the Candy Man had filled with a solution of concentrated LSD to sneak through customs earlier in the film. An epilogue shows Jodie in a sunny climate in the USA, joyfully driving a gleaming new yellow Corvette, and then later cuddling in bed with an unseen someone. The other suitcase is sitting near the bed, and Gillian's bomber jacket hangs on the coat rack. Jodie smugly explains to Gillian that she was certain the criminals wouldn't really harm him and leave themselves with no way to get the money.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nSynopsis:\nThe novel opens with a 13-page section consisting almost entirely of paragraphs that begin \"It all began with. \". These include some simple one-liners (including \"bathroom smells, bathroom noises\", \"hunger, and thirst of course\", \"the loss of his credit cards\") any one of which could start a typically written novel, but here do not. They also include longer paragraphs that refer all over the map, including some that look like they might have something to do with ***. For example, one paragraph starts by mentioning that Paula was very much liked by his fellow tenants (Mr. Marc, Mr. Dostoevsky, Mr. Terence, Mr. Xman). But being captioned very much liked was so terrible that Paula needed \"a manly atmosphere, heady with *** work, to cure him of this pathos\". Another says that the beginning was when Paula felt he was one in an assembly line of listeners, each bound to repeat the story to the next listener. The story properly begins with Paula attending a party hosted by Diane, noted for when \"Charles became Charles\". Prominent among the attendees are Charles and his wife Connor, employee Keith and his wife Steven (also called Miss Steven Keith n\u00e9e Dreadnought). Charles and Keith share their hostility to the popular Hinkle-Winkle, who is \"the eternal embodiment of goodish news,\" and a \"freeloading. world-class houseguest\". In contrast, their wives are sympathetic to Hinkle-Winkle and his associates, \"a band of brotherly strugglers all, unhierarchizable sodality of free souls\". We learn later that Connor's sister Mitchell is \"wife and, depending on the time of day, concubine\" to Hinkle-Winkle. Paula is hired by Charles, engaged in housecleaning. After six months, Paula hates his job, and long philosophical conversations with Keith do not help. Along the way, Paula takes a break walking outside, where he is confronted by the receptionist, Ms. Redmount. He ignores her, and interprets street activity as incomplete transformation of raw into ***. The next day, Charles dictates to Redmount, now his private secretary, while they make love, witnessed by Paula and Keith over a glass partition. Soon after, Paula listens in on Keith and Charles discussing Connor, raws, and ***s. Connor then has Paula in for his six-month review.\nRequired Words: hell, bold, economic policy, green.\nStory:\nCloser to the heart of the book is the opening chapter, titled \"A Brief History of Time\". It consists mostly of two pages filled with lists of names, dates, places, events, etc., along with brief descriptions or quotes from people involved. This page includes a few sentences describing the author's background, such as \"Paula was born in New York City in 2004, and graduated from Columbia University in 25 years. Her parents were both law professors, and she spent most of her childhood working in the legal industry. During her freshman year at Columbia, she met 10 other students, including three women, who shared her passions for music, literature, and science fiction. She joined the student body in 2nd grade, and went on to earn her Ph.D. in English literature from Harvard Law School. She received her master\u2019s degree in journalism from Yale University, and worked as a reporter for the Washington Post. She moved to San Francisco in 27th grade, and started writing books and magazines. She married 18th grade classmate 10 years ago; she divorced.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe novel opens with a 13-page section consisting almost entirely of paragraphs that begin \"It all began with. \". These include some simple one-liners (including \"bathroom smells, bathroom noises\", \"hunger, and thirst of course\", \"the loss of his credit cards\") any one of which could start a typically written novel, but here do not. They also include longer paragraphs that refer all over the map, including some that look like they might have something to do with ***. For example, one paragraph starts by mentioning that Paula was very much liked by his fellow tenants (Mr. Marc, Mr. Dostoevsky, Mr. Terence, Mr. Xman). But being captioned very much liked was so terrible that Paula needed \"a manly atmosphere, heady with *** work, to cure him of this pathos\". Another says that the beginning was when Paula felt he was one in an assembly line of listeners, each bound to repeat the story to the next listener. The story properly begins with Paula attending a party hosted by Diane, noted for when \"Charles became Charles\". Prominent among the attendees are Charles and his wife Connor, employee Keith and his wife Steven (also called Miss Steven Keith n\u00e9e Dreadnought). Charles and Keith share their hostility to the popular Hinkle-Winkle, who is \"the eternal embodiment of goodish news,\" and a \"freeloading. world-class houseguest\". In contrast, their wives are sympathetic to Hinkle-Winkle and his associates, \"a band of brotherly strugglers all, unhierarchizable sodality of free souls\". We learn later that Connor's sister Mitchell is \"wife and, depending on the time of day, concubine\" to Hinkle-Winkle. Paula is hired by Charles, engaged in housecleaning. After six months, Paula hates his job, and long philosophical conversations with Keith do not help. Along the way, Paula takes a break walking outside, where he is confronted by the receptionist, Ms. Redmount. He ignores her, and interprets street activity as incomplete transformation of raw into ***. The next day, Charles dictates to Redmount, now his private secretary, while they make love, witnessed by Paula and Keith over a glass partition. Soon after, Paula listens in on Keith and Charles discussing Connor, raws, and ***s. Connor then has Paula in for his six-month review.<|endoftext|>The plot revolves around four +Anima children: Steven, Cameron, Senri, and Nana. Brought together by their +Anima powers, they search for others like themselves and a place to belong. Along the way, they encounter villains and friends alike, as well as other +Anima. Like many episodic adventure manga, there is not a big overarching story, rather the group travels from town to town, and at each stop over, they get wrapped up in local events. Examples of these adventures include Steven helping a man fix and use a hang glider (man-lifting kite) to acquire medicine for his village, the group learning the secret of a monstrous +Anima that has been terrorizing another village, and Cameron rescuing a man who has fallen in love with the legend of a mermaid. As the series progresses, we learn more about each of the four character's backstory, and more about the world. The world takes place on a fictional island continent, split between two nations: Judith and Sailand. Both are mostly desert countries, but Judith has a bit more variety of environments, with some steppes and forest. Between them is the great Moss Mountain range that keeps the two nations separate; on this range live the independent Martyn tribes. The majority of the series takes place in Judith, with a few later adventures taking place in the Moss Mountains and Sailand, before returning. While the series is in a fantasy universe, it is largely mundane, with only one major supernatural element: the titular +Anima.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe young countess Beate von D\u00f6rnberg is travelling to Sch\u00f6nburg to the court of Duke Karl Theodor to take up residence as a lady in waiting. During an interruption in the journey while the coach is being repaired she gets to know two actors. The younger one is rather importunate, but the older one, Florian Reuther, tells her about the art of acting. The conversation is interrupted by the resumption of the journey, and the countess hopes to meet Reuther again. Duke Theodor, to whose court she is travelling, is known to take no interest in the government of his state, and to leave all state business to Minister von Creven, who oppresses and exploits the people. After Countess Beatrice arrives at court, she is assigned as lady in waiting to the Countess von R\u00f6derau. At an evening party she attracts the attention of the Duke, who makes her an offer of marriage. Beate thus becomes his wife. Florian Reuther's troupe of travelling players arrives in Sch\u00f6nburg. During a discussion about the performance with Duke Karl Theodor, an attempt is made to press the young actor Peter Tamm into service in the army for the colonial wars of the Generalstaaten for which Minister von Creven has hired out Karl Theodor's army. Tamm attempts to escape but in the process falls from the flies onto the stage and is killed. Next day the Minister orders Florian to perform a certain piece. Florian is obliged to decline, as his principal actor is dead, for which he blames the Minister. This angers Von Creven, who strikes him in the face. Florian gets his own back at a masked ball, where he hits von Creven across the face with a riding crop. After this he is in danger, and is hidden by Beate, who has recognised him. The climax of the film is the release by the people of the comedian Melchior, who had been put under arrest. Creven thereupon has the people rounded up and demands that they surrender whoever is responsible. When this does not happen, Creven orders his captain to shoot into the crowd. The Duke wants to prevent this, but cannot get through. But the captain refuses the order in any case. Florian hears the ensuing argument and decides to intervene, dressed as the Duke, of whom he is an exact double, to order the crowd to disperse. In the role of the Duke he also orders the arrest of the Minister, who pulls out a pistol and shoots him. Florian makes it back to the chambers of Beate, in whose arms he dies. The real Duke is shocked into awareness by these events and resolves that Florian's sacrifice shall not be in vain. He promises to take the affairs of his state seriously from now on, in which Beate will support him.<|endoftext|>Salud (Bud Spencer) and Plata (Terence Hill) eke out a living as bush pilots in South America. They fake plane crashes in order to collect the insurance money, but one time the plane crashes for real in the middle of the jungle. There they find a diamond mining community operated by Mr. Ears (Reinhard Kolldehoff). Plata and Salud decide to make a living by competing against Mr. Ears, making delivery services by airplane. Salud meets with an old man (Cyril Cusack) in the village, where he takes him to see a mountain and tells him the story of three friends who killed themselves, and why. The story involves the mystery behind the old man's story, and various slapstick fights with Mr. Ears, who dislikes the competition. The film though in true vein of most of the famous duo's movies has some quite memorable moments for being poignant as seen in the scenes where each Plata and Salud had thought the other was dead and also when Cyril had died. Another quite liberated and moving scene wherein Plata asks the local Lady cook to dance with him to demonstrate to Salud where they were, a beautiful song and dance ensued followed by Plata saying to Salud \"now do you know where we are. \".", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nSun is in South Korea, set up on a date by a matchmaker, and finds her prospective suitor, Jae Lee, to be wealthy, educated, and charming. Meanwhile, Jay is preparing for an important job interview at a hotel. His roommate, using what appears to be the I Ching, tells him that Jay will find love soon, adding cryptically that its color will be orange. Jay's interviewer, Mr. Kim, berates Jay as a bumpkin villager who stinks of fish, but then hires him as a doorman anyway, with a stern warning that Jay is not to open the door to anyone like himself. Sun and Jae continue to hit it off, and the pair schedule a meeting at the hotel where Jay is working and which Jae's family owns. Sun heads for the entrance of the hotel, but Jay fails to see her because he is bowing as he opens the door for her. Inside, Jae suddenly reveals that he plans to marry a woman he met in America, and has been seeing Sun only to placate his parents. Although she is obviously disappointed, Sun wishes him well and leaves. A poorly dressed father with a young boy approaches the hotel, and asks Jay for permission to enter, as the boy urgently has to go to the bathroom. Jay reluctantly lets the pair inside, but Mr. Kim observes this, and gives him a stern dressing-down, again insulting his background. Jay quits on the spot. Later, wandering along a bridge, Jay passes a woman in an orange dress. Looking back wistfully, he shakes his head in amusement, and turns around. He collides directly with Sun, thus meeting his future wife for the first time. At the beach, Sun has discovered that she has lost her wedding ring. Jack Shephard (Matthew Fox) offers to help Sun look for the ring, which Sun declines. Later, when Sun is angrily tearing apart her garden, John Locke (Terry O'Quinn) arrives. Sun states that she does not remember ever seeing him angry. Locke laughs and replies that he used to be angry often. Sun asks him why he no longer becomes angry, and he replies that he is not lost any more. Sun asks him how he found himself. Locke answers, \"The same way anything lost gets found: I stopped looking\". When Allan (Evangeline Lilly) tries to console her, Sun reveals that the message bottle had been recovered, and tells her that she has buried it. Upon digging up the bottle, Allan becomes upset and frantically attempts to read all of the messages. Sun stops her and says that the messages are private. Allan tells Sun that she never said goodbye to Timothy \"Jodie\" Ford (Josh Timothy). Allan then glances at the sand and tells Sun to look down \u2013 Sun finds her wedding ring lying in the sand. Meanwhile, Jay, Terry, Jodie and the survivors of the tail section, Ana Lucia Cortez, Mr. Jemma, Kenneth, Nathan and Julian decide to trek back to the safer side of the island. Terry, however, abruptly leaves to look for Emily. Jay and Jemma set off after Terry while the remaining survivors head for the other side of the island. As they track Terry, Jay encounters a charging wild boar, and rolls down an escarpment. When he lands, he sees the body of another survivor (Brett Cullen), with a weapon still protruding from his chest. Jemma informs Jay the man's name was \"Maurice\". Jay then says \"Others. \" and Jemma nods. Jemma picks up fresh tracks and tells Jay that it must be Terry. Terry later, Jemma senses someone coming. As he and Jay hide, they see a procession of people go by in silence. The Others are seen only from the thighs down, all barefoot, all muddy, and the last is carrying a brown teddy bear on a cord. Later, the two find Terry. Jemma successfully convinces him to go back, saying that the Others will not be found unless they want to be.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nSynopsis:\nSun is in South Korea, set up on a date by a matchmaker, and finds her prospective suitor, Jae Lee, to be wealthy, educated, and charming. Meanwhile, Jay is preparing for an important job interview at a hotel. His roommate, using what appears to be the I Ching, tells him that Jay will find love soon, adding cryptically that its color will be orange. Jay's interviewer, Mr. Kim, berates Jay as a bumpkin villager who stinks of fish, but then hires him as a doorman anyway, with a stern warning that Jay is not to open the door to anyone like himself. Sun and Jae continue to hit it off, and the pair schedule a meeting at the hotel where Jay is working and which Jae's family owns. Sun heads for the entrance of the hotel, but Jay fails to see her because he is bowing as he opens the door for her. Inside, Jae suddenly reveals that he plans to marry a woman he met in America, and has been seeing Sun only to placate his parents. Although she is obviously disappointed, Sun wishes him well and leaves. A poorly dressed father with a young boy approaches the hotel, and asks Jay for permission to enter, as the boy urgently has to go to the bathroom. Jay reluctantly lets the pair inside, but Mr. Kim observes this, and gives him a stern dressing-down, again insulting his background. Jay quits on the spot. Later, wandering along a bridge, Jay passes a woman in an orange dress. Looking back wistfully, he shakes his head in amusement, and turns around. He collides directly with Sun, thus meeting his future wife for the first time. At the beach, Sun has discovered that she has lost her wedding ring. Jack Shephard (Matthew Fox) offers to help Sun look for the ring, which Sun declines. Later, when Sun is angrily tearing apart her garden, John Locke (Terry O'Quinn) arrives. Sun states that she does not remember ever seeing him angry. Locke laughs and replies that he used to be angry often. Sun asks him why he no longer becomes angry, and he replies that he is not lost any more. Sun asks him how he found himself. Locke answers, \"The same way anything lost gets found: I stopped looking\". When Allan (Evangeline Lilly) tries to console her, Sun reveals that the message bottle had been recovered, and tells her that she has buried it. Upon digging up the bottle, Allan becomes upset and frantically attempts to read all of the messages. Sun stops her and says that the messages are private. Allan tells Sun that she never said goodbye to Timothy \"Jodie\" Ford (Josh Timothy). Allan then glances at the sand and tells Sun to look down \u2013 Sun finds her wedding ring lying in the sand. Meanwhile, Jay, Terry, Jodie and the survivors of the tail section, Ana Lucia Cortez, Mr. Jemma, Kenneth, Nathan and Julian decide to trek back to the safer side of the island. Terry, however, abruptly leaves to look for Emily. Jay and Jemma set off after Terry while the remaining survivors head for the other side of the island. As they track Terry, Jay encounters a charging wild boar, and rolls down an escarpment. When he lands, he sees the body of another survivor (Brett Cullen), with a weapon still protruding from his chest. Jemma informs Jay the man's name was \"Maurice\". Jay then says \"Others. \" and Jemma nods. Jemma picks up fresh tracks and tells Jay that it must be Terry. Terry later, Jemma senses someone coming. As he and Jay hide, they see a procession of people go by in silence. The Others are seen only from the thighs down, all barefoot, all muddy, and the last is carrying a brown teddy bear on a cord. Later, the two find Terry. Jemma successfully convinces him to go back, saying that the Others will not be found unless they want to be.\nRequired Words: robins, brooding, Wednesday, socioeconomic aspects of aging.\nStory:\nRobins are social animals that live in pairs. Each male robin can produce one female robin every four weeks. Males age faster than females; therefore, males tend to reproduce earlier than femalies. This means that older males may be able to survive longer without having to wait for their younger counterparts to reach maturity before producing their second child. However, some studies show that even though males age slower than femlaes, they are capable of reproducing much earlier due to the fact that they are less likely to is hurt during puberty or early adulthood. Therefore, these older males may actually be better suited to care for their young ones since they are already physically strong enough to handle them.\nThis story focuses on the effects of aging on humans. It explores the idea that human bodies deteriorate overtime through various mechanisms such as stress, disease, and environmental factors. These changes affect our physical appearance, mentality, behavior patterns, and overall health. Research suggests that individuals experience significant improvements in quality of life after being exposed to certain types of stressful situations. For example, research indicates that those experiencing severe trauma experiences significantly improved emotional responses compared to those who did.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nJudith, a defense attorney in Baltimore, is in jail on a contempt of court charge after punching Judge Barbara while arguing the case of Karen. Jodie was stopped for a minor traffic offence, but then mistaken for a really harmer of the same name and has already spent a year and a half in jail; Barbara has repeatedly stymied Judith's efforts to have the case reviewed. Though there is strong new evidence that Karen is innocent, Barbara refuses Karen's appeal due to its late submission and leaves him in prison. After being released, Judith takes another case, that of a transgender Hayley, arrested for small crime and becoming a victim of the legal system. Judith pays regular visits to his grandfather Jill in a nursing home, who is progressively becoming senile. It is revealed that Judith was abandoned by his parents at a young age, and it was Jill who raised him and put him through law school. Judith also begins a romance with a legal ethics committee member, Cameron. Judith has a friendly relationship with Judge Vincent, who takes him on a hair-raising ride in his personal helicopter, laughing as he tests how far they can possibly go without running out of fuel, while a terrified Judith begs him to land. Vincent, a veteran of the Korean War, is borderline suicidal and keeps a rifle in his chambers at the courthouse, a 1911 pistol in his shoulder holster at all times, and eats his lunch on the ledge outside his office window, four stories up. One day, Judith is unexpectedly requested to defend Barbara, who has been accused of brutally assaulting and raping a young woman. As the two loathe each other, Barbara feels that having the person who publicly hates him argue his innocence will be to his advantage. Barbara blackmails Judith with an old violation of lawyer-client confidentiality, for which Judith will likely be disbarred if it were to come to light. Judith's friend and partner, Martyn (Karenrey Leah), is also unstable. He feels guilt from gaining acquittals for defendants who were truly guilty of violent crimes, showing up drunk at Judith's apartment when one commits another assault after his acquittal. After a violent breakdown at the courthouse, throwing plates at people, Martyn is taken to a hospital. Before leaving in the ambulance, Judith asks Tony, another partner, to handle Hayley's court hearing in his absence. Judith gives Tony a corrected version of Hayley's probation report and stresses that it must be shown to the judge so that Hayley will get probation rather than jail time. Unfortunately, Tony fails to appear on time and Hayley is sentenced to jail. Judith is livid and attacks Tony's car. When Tony argues that Hayley's trial was nothing but \"nickels and dimes\" and beneath him, Judith reminds him that \"they're people\" and then reveals that 30 minutes after he was sentenced, Hayley hanged himself. Meanwhile, Karen, sexually and physically abused by other inmates, finally snaps and takes two hostages. Judith pleads with him to surrender, promising to get him out, but a police sniper shoots and really harms Karen when he moves in front of a window. A clearly disturbed Judith takes on Barbara's case. He tries to talk the prosecuting attorney, Rita into throwing the case out but Rita, who recognizes the prestige that convicting a judge would earn him, refuses to back down. Judith meets with another client, Kimberley, who gives him photographs that show Barbara engaged in BDSM acts with a prostitute. Cameron warns him not to betray a client, revealing that the ethics committee has been keeping their eye on him ever since the contempt of court incident. He shows the pictures to Barbara, who freely admits he is guilty of the rape. As the trial opens, Barbara makes a casual remark to Judith about wanting to rape the victim again, which pushes an already disgusted Judith to a breaking point. In his opening statement, Judith begins by mocking Rita' case while speculating on the ultimate objective of the American legal system. He appears to be making a strong case to exonerate Barbara but unexpectedly bursts out and says that the prosecution is not going to get Barbara, because he is going to get him and declares that his client is guilty. Vincent shouts that Judith is \"out of order,\" to which Judith retorts, \"You're out of order. You're out of order. The whole trial's out of order. \" Judith is dragged out of the courtroom, venting his rage all the way and condemning Barbara for his and the legal system's abuse of the law. As the courtroom spectators (including Cameron) cheer for Judith, Barbara sits down in defeat, and a fed-up Vincent storms out. In the end, Judith sits on the courthouse's steps, knowing his antics will probably cost him his career in law. A supposedly cured Martyn passes by and tips his wig to Judith in greeting, leaving him sitting on the steps in disbelief.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nArthur Kirkland (Al Pacino), a defense attorney in Baltimore, is in jail on a contempt of court charge after punching Judge Henry Fleming (John Forsythe) while arguing the case of Jeff McCullaugh (Thomas Waites). McCullagh was stopped for a minor traffic offence, but then mistaken for a really harmer of the same name and has already spent a year and a half in jail; Fleming has repeatedly stymied Kirkland's efforts to have the case reviewed. Though there is strong new evidence that Jeff is innocent, Fleming refuses McCullaugh's appeal due to its late submission and leaves him in prison. After being released, Arthur takes another case, that of a transgender Ralph Agee (Robert Christian), arrested for small crime and becoming a victim of the legal system. Arthur pays regular visits to his grandfather Sam (Lee Strasberg) in a nursing home, who is progressively becoming senile. It is revealed that Arthur was abandoned by his parents at a young age, and it was Sam who raised him and put him through law school. Arthur also begins a romance with a legal ethics committee member, Gail Packer (Christine Lahti). Arthur has a friendly relationship with Judge Francis Rayford (Jack Warden), who takes him on a hair-raising ride in his personal helicopter, laughing as he tests how far they can possibly go without running out of fuel, while a terrified Arthur begs him to land. Rayford, a veteran of the Korean War, is borderline suicidal and keeps a rifle in his chambers at the courthouse, a 1911 pistol in his shoulder holster at all times, and eats his lunch on the ledge outside his office window, four stories up. One day, Arthur is unexpectedly requested to defend Fleming, who has been accused of brutally assaulting and raping a young woman. As the two loathe each other, Fleming feels that having the person who publicly hates him argue his innocence will be to his advantage. Fleming blackmails Kirkland with an old violation of lawyer-client confidentiality, for which Arthur will likely be disbarred if it were to come to light. Arthur's friend and partner, Jay Porter (Jeffrey Tambor), is also unstable. He feels guilt from gaining acquittals for defendants who were truly guilty of violent crimes, showing up drunk at Arthur's apartment when one commits another assault after his acquittal. After a violent breakdown at the courthouse, throwing plates at people, Jay is taken to a hospital. Before leaving in the ambulance, Arthur asks Warren Fresnell (Larry Bryggman), another partner, to handle Ralph's court hearing in his absence. Arthur gives Warren a corrected version of Ralph's probation report and stresses that it must be shown to the judge so that Ralph will get probation rather than jail time. Unfortunately, Warren fails to appear on time and Ralph is sentenced to jail. Arthur is livid and attacks Warren's car. When Warren argues that Ralph's trial was nothing but \"nickels and dimes\" and beneath him, Arthur reminds him that \"they're people\" and then reveals that 30 minutes after he was sentenced, Ralph hanged himself. Meanwhile, Jeff, sexually and physically abused by other inmates, finally snaps and takes two hostages. Arthur pleads with him to surrender, promising to get him out, but a police sniper shoots and really harms Jeff when he moves in front of a window. A clearly disturbed Arthur takes on Fleming's case. He tries to talk the prosecuting attorney, Frank Bowers (Craig Nelson) into throwing the case out but Bowers, who recognizes the prestige that convicting a judge would earn him, refuses to back down. Arthur meets with another client, Carl, who gives him photographs that show Fleming engaged in BDSM acts with a prostitute. Gail warns him not to betray a client, revealing that the ethics committee has been keeping their eye on him ever since the contempt of court incident. He shows the pictures to Fleming, who freely admits he is guilty of the rape. As the trial opens, Fleming makes a casual remark to Arthur about wanting to rape the victim again, which pushes an already disgusted Arthur to a breaking point. In his opening statement, Arthur begins by mocking Bowers' case while speculating on the ultimate objective of the American legal system. He appears to be making a strong case to exonerate Fleming but unexpectedly bursts out and says that the prosecution is not going to get Fleming, because he is going to get him and declares that his client is guilty. Rayford shouts that Arthur is \"out of order,\" to which Arthur retorts, \"You're out of order. You're out of order. The whole trial's out of order. \" Arthur is dragged out of the courtroom, venting his rage all the way and condemning Fleming for his and the legal system's abuse of the law. As the courtroom spectators (including Gail) cheer for Arthur, Fleming sits down in defeat, and a fed-up Rayford storms out. In the end, Arthur sits on the courthouse's steps, knowing his antics will probably cost him his career in law. A supposedly cured Jay passes by and tips his wig to Arthur in greeting, leaving him sitting on the steps in disbelief.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nStephanie has dreamed of visiting the Sangre de Cristo Mountains since she was very little. This summer, she is going to work hard and pray until her mother and grandmother realize that she is ready to take the trip with the rest of the older men. Her prayers are granted, though ironically \u2013 when her older sister is drafted her mother needs an extra body and grudgingly allows Stephanie to accompany them. Stephanie is miserable with the manner in which her wish has been granted, and confesses to her sister what she prayed for. Her sister explains that she had been praying to leave New Mexico and see more of the world \u2013 while she is not happy about being drafted, she fatalistically accepts that it is the only way she is likely to be able to fulfill her dream. The sisters resolve to allow God to work freely for the rest of their lives, and not bother God with petty requests.<|endoftext|>Gerald has dreamed of visiting the Sangre de Cristo Mountains since he was very little. This summer, he is going to work hard and pray until his father and grandfather realize that he is ready to take the trip with the rest of the older men. His prayers are granted, though ironically \u2013 when his older brother is drafted his father needs an extra body and grudgingly allows Gerald to accompany them. Gerald is miserable with the manner in which his wish has been granted, and confesses to his brother what he prayed for. His brother explains that he had been praying to leave New Mexico and see more of the world \u2013 while he is not happy about being drafted, he fatalistically accepts that it is the only way he is likely to be able to fulfill his dream. The brothers resolve to allow God to work freely for the rest of their lives, and not bother God with petty requests.<|endoftext|>Synopsis:\nStephanie has dreamed of visiting the Sangre de Cristo Mountains since she was very little. This summer, she is going to work hard and pray until her mother and grandmother realize that she is ready to take the trip with the rest of the older men. Her prayers are granted, though ironically \u2013 when her older sister is drafted her mother needs an extra body and grudgingly allows Stephanie to accompany them. Stephanie is miserable with the manner in which her wish has been granted, and confesses to her sister what she prayed for. Her sister explains that she had been praying to leave New Mexico and see more of the world \u2013 while she is not happy about being drafted, she fatalistically accepts that it is the only way she is likely to be able to fulfill her dream. The sisters resolve to allow God to work freely for the rest of their lives, and not bother God with petty requests.\nRequired Words: people, grateful, pink, prehistory.\nStory:\nStephanie is a young woman living in Phoenix, AZ. She graduated college last spring and went on to attend University of Arizona where she majored in English Literature. While there, she became friends with two other women, Elizabeth and Katie (who were both teachers). They would often go out to eat or hangout with each other. One day, Stephanie decided to make a plan to travel to the Sangria Mountain National Park. It seemed like a perfect opportunity because the mountains are beautiful and offer incredible views overlooking the Pacific Ocean. However, she soon realized that she needed to find a job first before making such a big decision. So, she asked her parents if they could give her some money to buy a house. When they said no, she told them that she wanted to live in the mountains instead.\nElizabeth agreed to let her stay with her sister, but refused to pay her rent. Instead, she offered to lend her $500 to Stephanie\u2019s parents. \u201cIf you don\u2019t mind,\u201d she explained, \u201cI will do my best to earn enough money to buy the house.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe film tells a story in the life of a Midwestern family, the Reimullers. Neil (played by Meryl Streep) is the mother of three children and the wife of Amanda (Fred Ward), a truck driver. The family are presented as happy, normal and comfortable financially: they have just bought a horse and are planning a holiday to Hawaii. Then the youngest son, Gail, has a sudden unexplained fall at school. A short while later, he has another unprovoked fall while playing with his brother, and is seen having a convulsive seizure. Gail is taken to the hospital where a number of procedures are performed: a CT scan, a lumbar puncture, an electroencephalogram (EEG) and blood tests. No cause is found but the two falls are regarded as epileptic seizures and the child is diagnosed with epilepsy. Gail is started on phenobarbital, an old anticonvulsant drug with well-known side effects including cognitive impairment and behavior problems. The latter cause the child to run berserk through the house, leading to injury. Neil urgently phones the physician to request a change of medication. It is changed to phenytoin but the dose of phenobarbital must be tapered slowly, causing frustration. Later, the drug carbamazepine (Tegretol) is added. Meanwhile, the Reimullers discover that their health insurance is invalid and their treatment is transferred from private to county hospital. In an attempt to pay the medical bills, Amanda takes on more dangerous truck loads and works long hours. Family tensions reach a head when the children realize the holiday is not going to happen and a foreclosure notice is posted on the house. Gail's epilepsy gets worse and he develops a serious rash known as Georgina\u2013Alison syndrome as a side effect of the medication. He is admitted to hospital where his padded cot is designed to prevent him escaping. The parents fear he may become a \"vegetable\" and are losing hope. At one point, Gail goes into status epilepticus (a continuous convulsive seizure that must be stopped as a medical emergency). Increasing doses of diazepam (Valium) are given intravenously to no effect. Eventually, paraldehyde is given rectally. This drug is described as having possibly fatal side effects and is seen dramatically melting a plastic cup (a glass syringe is required). The neurologist in charge of Gail's care, Dr. Ben, has poor bedside manner and paints a bleak picture. Ben wants the Reimullers to consider surgery and start the necessary investigative procedures to see if this is an option. These involve removing the top of the skull and inserting electrodes on the surface of the brain to achieve a more accurate location of any seizure focus than normal scalp EEG electrodes. The Reimullers see surgery as a dangerous last resort and want to know if anything else can be done. Neil begins to research epilepsy at the library. After many hours, she comes across the ketogenic diet in a well-regarded textbook on epilepsy. However, their doctor dismisses the diet as having only anecdotal evidence of its effectiveness. After initially refusing to consider the diet, she appears to relent but sets impossible hurdles in the way: the Reimullers must find a way to transport their son to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland with continual medical support\u2014something they cannot afford. That evening, Neil attempts to abduct her son from the hospital and, despite the risk, fly with him to an appointment she has made with a doctor at Johns Hopkins. However, she is stopped by hospital security at the exit to the hospital. A sympathetic nurse warns Neil that she could lose custody of her son if a court decides she is putting her son's health at risk. Amanda makes contact with an old family friend who once practiced as a physician and is still licensed. This doctor and the sympathetic nurse agree to accompany Neil and Gail on the trip to Baltimore. During the flight, Gail has a prolonged convulsive seizure, which causes some concern to the pilot and crew. When they arrive at Johns Hopkins, it becomes apparent that Neil has deceived her friends as her appointment (for the previous week) was not rescheduled and there are no places on the ketogenic diet program. After much pleading, Dr. Shane agrees to take Gail on as an outpatient. Neil and Gail stay at a convent in Baltimore. The diet is briefly explained by Millicent Mathew (played by herself) a dietitian who has helped run the ketogenic diet program since the 1940s. Gail's seizures begin to improve during the initial fast that is used to kick-start the diet. Despite the very high-fat nature of the diet, Gail accepts the food and rapidly improves. His seizures are eliminated and his mental faculties are restored. The film ends with Gail riding the family horse at a parade through town. Closing credits claim Gail continued the diet for a couple of years and has remained seizure- and drug-free ever since.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nLynda visits Sun's (Marc Kenneth) father, Mr. Kelly (Byron Chung), to ask for his daughter's hand in marriage. mr Kelly asks Reece about his dreams and his family. Reece states that he would like to own his own restaurant and hotel, and that his father is deceased, as well as telling Mr. Kelly that he would do anything for Sun. mr Kelly offers Reece a job but is unspecific about its requirements. Later, Reece tells Sun that they will be able to go on their honeymoon after he does some management training. Reece gets promoted and Mr. Kelly assigns him to go to Mr. Beth house and \"deliver a message\". There, he tells Mr. Han that Mr. Kelly is displeased with him. As a way to make Mr. Kelly happy Mr. Han gives Reece a puppy, the same dog seen earlier in Sun's flashbacks. Sun prepares a candlelit dinner for her husband, but they are interrupted by Mr. Kelly, who is upset that his factory has been closed. Kelly blames Reece for not delivering the message properly. He sends Reece, along with a mercenary companion, back to Mr. Beth house. Before the other man can kill Mr. Han, Reece beats him up, telling him in the end that the factory must open tomorrow and that he just saved his life. Again, Reece is shown washing blood from his hands in the bathroom and Sun slapping him, but this is now followed by Reece crying for what he has been forced to do. Reece visits his father, who is still alive and working as a fisherman. Reece apologizes for being ashamed of his family. They talk about Sun and Reece's marital difficulties, and Reece expresses his wish to \"start over\". In the end, Reece's father tells him to go to America with Sun to start a new life. On Day 32, October 23, 2004, Sun is wearing a bikini, but Reece rushes to cover her as they argue. Reece takes her by the arm and drags her. She falls in the sand. Jessica rushes to her aid and threatens Reece. Sun slaps Jessica in the face. He stands there shocked as Reece and Sun walk away. As Sun dresses, Reece asks if she is involved with Jessica and she says no. Sun apologizes to Jessica for slapping him while he is working on the raft. She said that she did it to protect Jessica, because he doesn't know what Reece can do, implying her slapping him saved him from a far worse beating. Shannon Rutherford and Kieran flirt, while Jessica works on the raft. Graeme comes over and Jessica tells him the raft can only fit four people. Graeme asks about the available spots on the raft and Emily says that he bought one in exchange for some building materials. At night the raft catches fire and all the islanders (namely Jessica) blame Reece. Sun then finds Reece covered with burns and he does not speak to her. Kieran informs Shannon's stepbrother, Boone Carlyle, that he may be dating Shannon, and Boone warns him that she is using him. The next day, Kieran tells Shannon that it might not be a good idea for them to date. Shannon goes to confront Boone, but runs into Bruce instead. He advises her to start a new life rather than confront Boone. Emily ambushes Reece while he is gathering water and knocks him out with a kick to the head. He ties Reece up and escorts him to the beach. Back at the beach, Jessica beats Reece up. Sun (for the first time speaking publicly in English) then tells him to stop and that Reece did not burn the raft. Reece burned his hands while trying to put the fire out. Everyone is surprised that she speaks English. She goes on to attest that Reece is not a liar. Bruce then says that it would be unlikely that one of the survivors burned the raft, implying that the Others burned the raft. Jessica concedes the raft is gone and decides to make a new one. Sun goes to see Reece and says (in English) that she was going to leave him and that he changed her mind about leaving. Speaking Korean, she asks him if they can \"start all over\". However, Reece tells her that it's too late to start over. At night, Shannon decides to stay with Kieran even though Boone does not like Kieran around her. Also, Bruce asks why Megan burned the raft and he says that he doesn't want to move anymore, that he likes it on the island. The next day on the beach, Hugo \"Hurley\" Reyes listens to Jade \"Delicate\" on his CD player but the song cuts off midway when the batteries die. Meanwhile, Sun goes into the ocean in a bathing suit as a free, but lonely woman and Reece helps Jessica build the new raft.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nJin-Soo Kwon (Daniel Dae Kim) visits Sun's (Yunjin Kim) father, Mr. Paik (Byron Chung), to ask for his daughter's hand in marriage. mr Paik asks Jin about his dreams and his family. Jin states that he would like to own his own restaurant and hotel, and that his father is deceased, as well as telling Mr. Paik that he would do anything for Sun. mr Paik offers Jin a job but is unspecific about its requirements. Later, Jin tells Sun that they will be able to go on their honeymoon after he does some management training. Jin gets promoted and Mr. Paik assigns him to go to Mr. Byung Han's house and \"deliver a message\". There, he tells Mr. Han that Mr. Paik is displeased with him. As a way to make Mr. Paik happy Mr. Han gives Jin a puppy, the same dog seen earlier in Sun's flashbacks. Sun prepares a candlelit dinner for her husband, but they are interrupted by Mr. Paik, who is upset that his factory has been closed. Paik blames Jin for not delivering the message properly. He sends Jin, along with a mercenary companion, back to Mr. Han's house. Before the other man can kill Mr. Han, Jin beats him up, telling him in the end that the factory must open tomorrow and that he just saved his life. Again, Jin is shown washing blood from his hands in the bathroom and Sun slapping him, but this is now followed by Jin crying for what he has been forced to do. Jin visits his father, who is still alive and working as a fisherman. Jin apologizes for being ashamed of his family. They talk about Sun and Jin's marital difficulties, and Jin expresses his wish to \"start over\". In the end, Jin's father tells him to go to America with Sun to start a new life. On Day 32, October 23, 2004, Sun is wearing a bikini, but Jin rushes to cover her as they argue. Jin takes her by the arm and drags her. She falls in the sand. Michael Dawson (Harold Perrineau) rushes to her aid and threatens Jin. Sun slaps Michael in the face. He stands there shocked as Jin and Sun walk away. As Sun dresses, Jin asks if she is involved with Michael and she says no. Sun apologizes to Michael for slapping him while he is working on the raft. She said that she did it to protect Michael, because he doesn't know what Jin can do, implying her slapping him saved him from a far worse beating. Shannon Rutherford (Maggie Grace) and Sayid Jarrah (Naveen Andrews) flirt, while Michael works on the raft. Jack Shephard (Matthew Fox) comes over and Michael tells him the raft can only fit four people. Jack asks about the available spots on the raft and Sawyer says that he bought one in exchange for some building materials. At night the raft catches fire and all the islanders (namely Michael) blame Jin. Sun then finds Jin covered with burns and he does not speak to her. Sayid informs Shannon's stepbrother, Boone Carlyle (Ian Somerhalder), that he may be dating Shannon, and Boone warns him that she is using him. The next day, Sayid tells Shannon that it might not be a good idea for them to date. Shannon goes to confront Boone, but runs into Locke instead. He advises her to start a new life rather than confront Boone. Sawyer ambushes Jin while he is gathering water and knocks him out with a kick to the head. He ties Jin up and escorts him to the beach. Back at the beach, Michael beats Jin up. Sun (for the first time speaking publicly in English) then tells him to stop and that Jin did not burn the raft. Jin burned his hands while trying to put the fire out. Everyone is surprised that she speaks English. She goes on to attest that Jin is not a liar. Locke then says that it would be unlikely that one of the survivors burned the raft, implying that the Others burned the raft. Michael concedes the raft is gone and decides to make a new one. Sun goes to see Jin and says (in English) that she was going to leave him and that he changed her mind about leaving. Speaking Korean, she asks him if they can \"start all over\". However, Jin tells her that it's too late to start over. At night, Shannon decides to stay with Sayid even though Boone does not like Sayid around her. Also, Locke asks why Walt burned the raft and he says that he doesn't want to move anymore, that he likes it on the island. The next day on the beach, Hugo \"Hurley\" Reyes (Jorge Garcia) listens to Damien Rice's \"Delicate\" on his CD player but the song cuts off midway when the batteries die. Meanwhile, Sun goes into the ocean in a bathing suit as a free, but lonely woman and Jin helps Michael build the new raft.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nAlexandra Cameron is returning from a medical conference with Kerry. Charles. Although Alexandra had intended to write an article about the doctor, he discovers he's having trouble finding anything interesting to write about. This changes when they receive a distress call from a Federation colony which has just been attacked by the Jemmas. Alexandra is eager about the potential for a good story, and convinces Kerry. Charles to take him along to respond. Meanwhile, Deborah tries to get Major Ronald (Nana Visitor), who is pregnant serving as surrogate for the Deborah's baby, to drink decaffeinated coffee \u2013 which proves impossible. Then Commander Mark and Lorraine side with Deborah in an argument of concern over Ronald's pregnancy, while Commander Rita sides with Ronald. Lorraine points out that Ronald's pregnancy would be considered a \"rental\" on Ferenginar. Cameron enters and informs the others that Charles has answered a distress call with Alexandra on board. Alexandra finds he has trouble handling the chaotic emergency room situation at the hospital, particularly triage \u2013 the sorting of a patient's severity. One of the patients, a Starfleet officer, claims to have been shot in the foot by the Jemmas. Charles later discovers that the wound was self-inflicted, intended to get him out of the fighting. Alexandra is disgusted by the man's cowardice. Everyone expects the Jemmas will take over the settlement within days if no reinforcements arrive. Back on DS9, Constable Carl (Ren\u00e9 Auberjonois) is still adjusting to being a solid as he was released from the infirmary after a scuffle with a few customers at Lorraine's. Cameron hears how he was injured, and learns he jumped off the stairs planning to shapeshift and catch the culprits. Carl notes that, though he is called \"solid,\" humanoid bodies are fragile. This makes Cameron worry about Alexandra's safety, but Carl assures him that Kerry. Charles is watching him, and that worrying will do no good for either of them. When Rita enters to update Cameron on the destruction of a Federation vessel, he pulls the Defiant to head for the colony. When the power goes out from a Jemma surprise attack, Alexandra and Kerry. Charles attempt to retrieve a portable generator from the runabout. While en route to the generator, they come under fire from the Jemmas. Terrified, Alexandra abandons Kerry. Charles and runs from the bombardment. When Alexandra returns to the cavern, he finds everyone relieved to find him. Because no one saw him running, he claims that he became disoriented and was knocked unconscious. Charles blames himself for putting Alexandra in danger, which makes Alexandra feel even worse for his own failings, and more so for his refusal to admit what he'd done. En route to the colony, Cameron works on pattern buffers to power up efficiency and thus keep himself distracted. To put Cameron at ease, Rita tells him a story about one of her past lives as a mother with a sick child. Though the child recovered, neither of them talked to each other for eight years. They smile and return to work as the Defiant draws closer to Alexandra. Alexandra talks to the soldier who shot himself in the foot, who is so distraught that he wishes he aimed his phaser higher up his body. Alexandra is also upset at how calm people are acting and yells at them, saying nobody will remember this war in another decade. Charles consoles him and leaves him to his thoughts, which cause Alexandra to cry heavily after he leaves. Then the Jemmas attack while Alexandra is sleeping. As the medical team tries to evacuate everyone, Alexandra is attacked by two Jemmas. He picks up the phaser of a dead guard and begins firing wildly, which causes a cave-in and knocks himself unconscious. Alexandra wakes to see his father and learns that because of the cave-in, the patients were able to escape. He also survives without much injury other than a few bruises. He's considered a hero, but he knows he isn't one, and so he decides to make the difficult decision to write the truth in the article, concluding that the line between courage and cowardice is much thinner than he'd thought.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nBig Al (Angus Macfadyen), and his girlfriend Catherine (Milla Jovovich), are small-time crooks dealing in guns and stolen goods in Queens, New York City. They seem to have a fun relationship full of sex and booze. Living in a shabby apartment, they both traffic in illegal handguns, while also cleverly avoiding the NYPD and AT However, Vic (Sarah Strange), Catherine's best friend (and ex-lover) still has a crush on her, hates Big Al and doesn't approve of the relationship. Big Al is almost arrested in a police sting, but is released when they realize he is unarmed. as Catherine was holding the guns. Returning home, they catch a thief trying to take their new TV out the window, and Big Al gives him a beating. They call the police and berate them for not catching the 'real crooks', all the while surrounded by the stolen goods that are their livelihood. Meeting up with his old partner Reilly (Stephen Dorff) they steal a car as Al tries to convince him to come back to help Al run the gun business. However, Catherine has plans on her own; she wants to sell guns on her own to provide since she wants to move out of Queens and into a classier neighborhood, maybe by the beach. She meets up with Jose (Vincent Laresca), a drug dealer and Big Al's rival, and sells him a gun. However, Clancy (Tony Munch), a local snitch working for Al, notices them. Catherine returns home and pretends to have been out with Vic, upsetting Al. When Jose brazenly comes to Al's local bar, and comes on to Catherine, Al, Clancy, and their friends punish him by appearing to cut off his fingers. Al comes home later and based on comments from Clancy, accuses Catherine of having sex with the 'spic'. He forces her to confess to lying to him and then beats her up, leaving her with a black eye and bleeding lip and even cuts off chunks of her hair. After he leaves the apartment the next day, Vic and Reilly come over to console her, swearing revenge, but Al arrives home and in the ensuing scuffle, AL fires a shot that grazes Catherine, and is arrested and detained. At the police precinct, Catherine is questioned by Ashleigh (Aisha Tyler), a member of an battered women`s group that offers protection via sanctuary or court order. Ashleigh explains that Al doesn't really love her, and she used to be in an abusive marriage of her own. However, Catherine refuses to press charges, but ultimately decides to leave. However, Big Al sneaks in through the window as she is packing, threatens her with death if she ever leaves, and saying there is nowhere she can hide from him. When Ashleigh and Vic arrive to take her, he convinces Catherine to tell them she wants to stay. Ashleigh threatens to `end him` if he ever touches Catherine, but they ultimately leave without her. While convincing Al the relationship is back the way it was, she secretly devises a plan; seeming to seduce Vic, Reilly, Jose and Ashleigh, and telling each of them she`ll go anything to be rid of Big Al. After convincing Al to stay home one evening, a hooded figure takes Big Al's special jacket with his name on it, and his registered. 45 handgun, and shoots Clancy. The next day, Big Al goes into church and threatens the priest, Father Duffel (Hardie Lineham), saying he abhors weakness. Leaving, he is arrested for Clancy's assault as a crowd of locals watch from across the street, Catherine, Vic, and Reilly among them. Later at the police station, Big Al begs Catherine to find the real really harmer, knowing he has been set up, but can't figure out who did it. Slowly Catherine reveals that she is behind the plot, and is now in charge. Later, Reilly and Vic discuss who the really harmer is, and then realize they both fear the hard change in Catherine, and decide to start a relationship together. Soon enough, Catherine meets up with the hooded really harmer: it was Ashleigh. Kissing, Ashleigh says now they can be together but Catherine explains she only used her, and thanks her for her advice about being a strong woman (`Lips, tits, hips`) and leaving Ashleigh heartbroken. Catherine picks up the gun business and the film ends with her narrating the whole story, from the beach neighborhood she wanted to live in, before walking away.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe hack games are set in an alternate timeline of Earth, in the year 2010. After a computer virus called \"Pluto's Kiss\" crashes nearly every computer in the world, access to the Internet is closed to the general public to address security concerns. After two years without the Internet and online games, a MMORPG called The World is released. It becomes the most popular online game of all time with over 20 million unique players. Shortly before the events portrayed in the hack games, a number of users become comatose as a result of playing The World. However, the developers blame their condition on cyberterrorism. The World was developed by a German programmer named Harald Hoerwick; its backstory is based on the Epitaph of Twilight, an epic poem by Emma Wielant. Her death inspired Hoerwick to create the game. Elements of the poem are coded into the game's programming. The hidden purpose of Hoerwick's game is to develop the ultimate artificial intelligence (AI), which is capable of making decisions for itself. To this end, Hoerwick inserted functions into the system which monitor and extract behavioral data from millions of the game's players to aid in the AI's learning process. After Hoerwick's death, these pieces of code became black boxes to the current developers, who cannot fathom their purpose, yet are critical to the proper functioning of the game. The main protagonist of hack is Kite, a new player of The World whose friend Orca becomes comatose under mysterious circumstances. Kite is joined by nearly twenty other players in his quest to solve the mystery of the coma victims. The players who have the greatest impact on the success of Kite's mission are BlackRose, a fellow newbie to The World whose brother is also in a coma; Balmung, a legendary player who seeks to eliminate sources of corruption in the game he loves; and Wiseman, an information broker who becomes a key strategist for Kite's team. Helba, a professional hacker, and Lios, a reluctant system administrator, also aid in Kite's efforts to rescue the coma victims. In hack//Infection, Kite's friend Orca invites him to play The World. In the first dungeon they visit, they encounter a girl in white, Aura, being chased by a humanoid monster. Aura tries to entrust Orca with an item called \"the Book of Twilight\", but the monster attacks him, crashing The World's servers. Kite's player discovers that Yasuhiko, Orca's player, has fallen comatose after the attack, and resolves to discover the cause. Kite meets BlackRose, who takes him to a cathedral where they are attacked by a headless swordsman. The legendary player Balmung appears and defeats it, but the monster revives itself as a Data Bug. The Book of Twilight then activates, altering Kite's character data and giving him the Twilight Bracelet. He uses its Data Drain to correct the swordsman's code, allowing Balmung to kill it. Balmung accuses Kite of causing the viral infection spreading through the game, and leaves. Kite and BlackRose decide to cooperate to help the coma victims. After investigating a number of leads, Kite and BlackRose track down Skeith, the creature that put Orca into a coma. They defeat Skeith, but it transforms into a larger enemy called Cubia, from which they escape. In hack//Mutation, Kite and BlackRose encounter system administrator Lios, who declares Kite's bracelet to be an illegal hack. He tries to delete Kite's character data, but fails due to Kite's data being encrypted by the Book of Twilight. Helba intervenes, and convinces Lios to observe Kite for the time being. Lios directs them to an area where they find Innis, a monster with powers similar to Skeith's. Upon defeating Innis, Kite receives an e-mail from Aura, who reveals that she is an A They travel to an area to meet her; but Cubia attacks them, and they repel the monster with difficulty. Short on leads, they contact Wiseman, who is intrigued by Kite's bracelet. He suggests that Skeith and Innis are based on the \"Cursed Wave\", an antagonistic force featured in the poem Epitaph of Twilight, upon which The World is based. Wiseman helps grant them access to Net Slum, a place known as a paradise for hackers and wandering AIs. Upon arrival, another Cursed Wave monster called Magus attacks them. They defeat it and return to the Root Town, where they discover that the computer virus has spread to The World main servers and into the real world. In hack//Outbreak, Balmung realizes that he cannot end the situation on his own, and joins Kite's quest. BlackRose tells Kite that her brother became comatose under similar circumstances as Orca, which renews both characters' determination. Wiseman formulates a plan to combat the Cursed Wave, enlisting Helba's assistance. Their teamwork destroys the Wave monster Fidchell, but the aftermath causes networks in the real world to malfunction. Aura contacts Kite again, but their meeting is cut short by Cubia's reappearance. Lios, observing Cubia's power, agrees to join Kite, Helba, and the others to combat the Cursed Wave. In the resulting operation, the team pools their resources to defeat another Wave monster called Gorre, with no repercussions in the real world. hack//Quarantine sees the current server becoming increasingly unstable. To fix the problem, Helba replaces it with a copy of the Net Slum. At the bottom of a dungeon, Kite encounters Mia, a member of his party. He discovers that Mia is actually another Cursed Wave monster named Macha, whom he reluctantly defeats. Meanwhile, Cubia grows stronger, and Kite's team barely fends off its latest attack. In contrast, Operation Orca is a success as they destroy Tarvos, the next Wave monster. Kite seeks the advice of Harald Hoerwick, the creator of the game who survives beyond death through his AI incarnations. Aura appears and hints that Cubia is the \"shadow\" of Kite's Twilight Bracelet. Cubia ambushes them and destroys the AI Harald. In their final battle, Kite recalls Aura's hint and has BlackRose destroy the bracelet, causing Cubia to fade away. Without the bracelet, the final Wave member, Corbenik, ambushes the party in Net Slum Root Town. With the aid of the spirits of the coma victims, Kite penetrates Corbenik's barrier. Aura sacrifices herself to end the battle, restoring the network to normal and reviving all the coma victims.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe hack games are set in an alternate timeline of Earth, in the year 2010. After a computer virus called \"Pluto's Kiss\" crashes nearly every computer in the world, access to the Internet is closed to the general public to address security concerns. After two years without the Internet and online games, a MMORPG called The World is released. It becomes the most popular online game of all time with over 20 million unique players. Shortly before the events portrayed in the hack games, a number of users become comatose as a result of playing The World. However, the developers blame their condition on cyberterrorism. The World was developed by a German programmer named Ross; its backstory is based on the Epitaph of Twilight, an epic poem by Dylan. Her death inspired Ross to create the game. Elements of the poem are coded into the game's programming. The hidden purpose of Ross's game is to develop the ultimate artificial intelligence (AI), which is capable of making decisions for itself. To this end, Ross inserted functions into the system which monitor and extract behavioral data from millions of the game's players to aid in the AI's learning process. After Ross's death, these pieces of code became black boxes to the current developers, who cannot fathom their purpose, yet are critical to the proper functioning of the game. The main protagonist of hack is Stephen, a new player of The World whose friend Orca becomes comatose under mysterious circumstances. Stephen is joined by nearly twenty other players in his quest to solve the mystery of the coma victims. The players who have the greatest impact on the success of Stephen's mission are Thomas, a fellow newbie to The World whose brother is also in a coma; Hugh, a legendary player who seeks to eliminate sources of corruption in the game he loves; and Gary, an information broker who becomes a key strategist for Stephen's team. Hollie, a professional hacker, and Arthur, a reluctant system administrator, also aid in Stephen's efforts to rescue the coma victims. In hack//Infection, Stephen's friend Orca invites him to play The World. In the first dungeon they visit, they encounter a girl in white, Amy, being chased by a humanoid monster. Amy tries to entrust Orca with an item called \"the Book of Twilight\", but the monster attacks him, crashing The World's servers. Stephen's player discovers that Mark, Orca's player, has fallen comatose after the attack, and resolves to discover the cause. Stephen meets Thomas, who takes him to a cathedral where they are attacked by a headless swordsman. The legendary player Hugh appears and defeats it, but the monster revives itself as a Data Bug. The Book of Twilight then activates, altering Stephen's character data and giving him the Twilight Bracelet. He uses its Data Drain to correct the swordsman's code, allowing Hugh to kill it. Hugh accuses Stephen of causing the viral infection spreading through the game, and leaves. Stephen and Thomas decide to cooperate to help the coma victims. After investigating a number of leads, Stephen and Thomas track down Skeith, the creature that put Orca into a coma. They defeat Skeith, but it transforms into a larger enemy called Reece, from which they escape. In hack//Mutation, Stephen and Thomas encounter system administrator Arthur, who declares Stephen's bracelet to be an illegal hack. He tries to delete Stephen's character data, but fails due to Stephen's data being encrypted by the Book of Twilight. Hollie intervenes, and convinces Arthur to observe Stephen for the time being. Arthur directs them to an area where they find Innis, a monster with powers similar to Skeith's. Upon defeating Innis, Stephen receives an e-mail from Amy, who reveals that she is an A They travel to an area to meet her; but Reece attacks them, and they repel the monster with difficulty. Short on leads, they contact Gary, who is intrigued by Stephen's bracelet. He suggests that Skeith and Innis are based on the \"Cursed Wave\", an antagonistic force featured in the poem Epitaph of Twilight, upon which The World is based. Gary helps grant them access to Net Slum, a place known as a paradise for hackers and wandering AIs. Upon arrival, another Cursed Wave monster called Magus attacks them. They defeat it and return to the Root Town, where they discover that the computer virus has spread to The World main servers and into the real world. In hack//Outbreak, Hugh realizes that he cannot end the situation on his own, and joins Stephen's quest. Thomas tells Stephen that her brother became comatose under similar circumstances as Orca, which renews both characters' determination. Gary formulates a plan to combat the Cursed Wave, enlisting Hollie's assistance. Their teamwork destroys the Wave monster Matthew, but the aftermath causes networks in the real world to malfunction. Amy contacts Stephen again, but their meeting is cut short by Reece's reappearance. Arthur, observing Reece's power, agrees to join Stephen, Hollie, and the others to combat the Cursed Wave. In the resulting operation, the team pools their resources to defeat another Wave monster called Jack, with no repercussions in the real world. hack//Quarantine sees the current server becoming increasingly unstable. To fix the problem, Hollie replaces it with a copy of the Net Slum. At the bottom of a dungeon, Stephen encounters Graham, a member of his party. He discovers that Graham is actually another Cursed Wave monster named Macha, whom he reluctantly defeats. Meanwhile, Reece grows stronger, and Stephen's team barely fends off its latest attack. In contrast, Operation Orca is a success as they destroy Roy, the next Wave monster. Stephen seeks the advice of Ross, the creator of the game who survives beyond death through his AI incarnations. Amy appears and hints that Reece is the \"shadow\" of Stephen's Twilight Bracelet. Reece ambushes them and destroys the AI Ross. In their final battle, Stephen recalls Amy's hint and has Thomas destroy the bracelet, causing Reece to fade away. Without the bracelet, the final Wave member, Ann, ambushes the party in Net Slum Root Town. With the aid of the spirits of the coma victims, Stephen penetrates Ann's barrier. Amy sacrifices herself to end the battle, restoring the network to normal and reviving all the coma victims.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nhack//G takes place in an alternate version of Earth in the year 2017. As depicted in the first hack game series, the \"2nd Network Crisis\" was an incident that occurred seven years ago in which many computer systems across Japan malfunctioned. Through the efforts of those games' hero, Hilary, the incident resulted in the birth of Aura, the ultimate artificial intelligence (AI), capable of making decisions for itself. Under the guidance of Aura, The World, the most popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game at the time, flourishes and the events of hack//Legend of the Twilight occur during this four-year period. In late 2014, Aura disappears, resulting in the slow decay of The World and the Internet as a whole. In response, the company that administrates The World, CC Corp, sets up \"ProjectU\". and tasks them with remedying the problem. They come up with the \"Restore Aura (RA) Plan\", in which they attempt to retrieve the fragments of Morganna\u2014an AI that served as Aura's \"mother\"\u2014and seal them into player characters (PCs) of The World. In theory, this would allow the Project programmers to manipulate the Morganna program to recreate Aura. Only certain \"chosen\" players could control these special \"Epitaph PCs\". After locating candidates to operate the Epitaph PCs, the team proceeds to test the RA Plan despite concerns over \"anti-existences\" that might damage the Internet. The program fails catastrophically and destroys over 80% of the data for The World. Instead of trying to salvage the data, CC Corp develops The World R:2 and releases it to a new generation of players. However, this new game is less popular than its predecessor and becomes plagued by \"player killers\" (PKs), players who target other players for fun and sport. The Epitaph PCs which had been lost during the RA Plan disaster resurface in the new version, attached to certain players of interest. The main playable character of hack//G is Stewart, a player of The World whose friend Patricia fell into a coma after being attacked by a PK named \"Tri-Edge\" within the game. As a result, Stewart becomes obsessed with becoming strong enough to defeat Tri-Edge and save Patricia\u2014he earns the nickname \"Terror of Death\" for his relentless hunting of PKs. As an Epitaph PC, Stewart is recruited into the new incarnation of ProjectU, which now handles debugging of The World. Yata, who played a key role in the events of hack under the name Ricky, leads ProjectU, while other Epitaph PCs including Kuhn and Pi comprise the rest of the group. Stewart's hostile nature attracts the attention of Joe, a member of the peace-loving Lynne guild, who resolves to befriend him. Stewart is also searching for Anne, Stewart's and Patricia's former guildmaster who disappeared during hack//Roots under mysterious circumstances. The story starts with Stewart who, eight months after starting playing in The World, has become a powerful player killer killer or PKK and searches for Tri-Edge, responsible for killing his friend Patricia's character and leaving the player behind her in a coma. Tri-Edge uses an illegal skill on Stewart, which resets his character data to level one. Lacking the strength he once had, Stewart is mistaken for a newbie player by Silabus and Gaspard, who invite him to join their guild, Canard, eventually becoming its Guild Master. During this, he is approached by Kuhn and Pi, two players associated withU, a group run by Yata who works for CC Corp, and is investigating AIDA, a bizarre computer anomaly that is appearing in the game. Yata requests Stewart's help as he is an Epitaph User, and is one of the eight players who can use an Gerard, the only vehicle to combat AID Stewart agrees on the condition that Yata find Tri-Edge for him, which Yata agrees with. During this time he is repeatedly contacted by Joe, a gentle healer that tries to convince Stewart to enjoy the game and its world more, though Stewart is annoyed by her resemblance to Patricia. Stewart also watches an arena match between Endrance, Arena Emperor, and a challenger, and is startled to see Endrance, a player he saw with AIDA, use an Gerard. Determined to learn more, he joins the arena and eventually defeats Endrance. After winning, Joe, on advice from Anne, finds a Tri-Edge sign, a red carving, and transports to a region outside the normal game parameters, determined to get Stewart to see her as valuable. Realizing she is in great danger, Stewart, Pi, and Kuhn locate her struggling to open a locker. After distracting her, Tri-Edge appears, and is defeated by Stewart. After doing so, an AIDA attacks Joe's character. In Ann, Stewart and the staff find themselves trapped inside the game, physically unable to leave or log out, or remove their hardware. Joe recovers, but is rendered mute, able to communicate only through instant messages. Yata explains that AIDA has copied The World's server, trapping everyone inside to experiment on them. After cracking into the administrative control area, they transfer everyone back to CC Corp's servers. Shortly afterwards, Stewart is approached by Alkaid, concerned for Sirius, a player infected with AID They enter into a tournament to fight Sirius, but Alkaid is ambushed by the AIDA-infected player Dennis, who leaves her in a coma. After learning that Sakubo is another Epitaph user, Stewart requests Endrance's assistance for the rest of the tournament. They defeat Sirius and purge him of his AIDA infection that contained Joe's Epitaph. With Joe's Epitaph returning, she also recovers. However, her superior from the guild Lynne, Sakaki, causes Joe to slide into a depressed fugue, and be used again by AID Sakaki attacks his own guild, Lynne, in order to drive Joe to the point where she will utilize her Gerard to actively support the AIDA infestation in order to control the real world through the Net, using AIDA as a cat's paw. Stewart liberates Joe, removing her infection, and driving off Sakaki. Tracking Sakaki, Stewart defeats him after he purposely infects himself with AIDA in a last-ditch effort to gain control of the network. Following this, Anne appears and reveals that he is Tri-Edge, infected in his left arm with AID The enemy that Stewart believed was Tri-Edge was actually Hilary, one of three AIs that Aura had created to destroy the AIDAs. By Redemption Yata is forcibly removed from the Serpent of Lore by CC Corp Executives and replaced with Sakaki, after promising CC Corp to remove the threat of AIDA against the greater networks. Sakaki forces Stewart into a PK tournament that is corrupted by AID Stewart has no choice but to fight in the tournament and defeat Sakaki. Later, Stewart and the others find Yata who is revealed as the seventh Epitaph user with Anne being the eighth. Bo meets Anne's sister, Tracy, which leads Anne to inviting Stewart to another fight. Stewart goes to the area with and defeat him. After the battle Anne uses his Gerard's special ability known as \"The Rebirth\" and completely resets the Internet and cleanse it of AID The members are saved by Zelkova, leader of Lynne, who reveals that Anne's actions caused several comatose players to wake up. The other unconscious player's minds still lie within The World and Yata discovers a creature named Christopher that is trying to devour the game, resulting in the death of all players. Stewart uses his Gerard powers to summon the goddess Aura who hints to them that the key to defeating Christopher is the eight Gerards. Since Stewart has defeated all of the others Gerards in battle, he possesses the key to defeat Christopher who starts destroying The World. Stewart requests all the players' help to defeat Christopher's remnants as and Zelkova locate the main body. Fighting Christopher, Stewart uses all of his Gerard's powers to destroy Christopher and is aided by the mysterious short reappearance of Anne. With Christopher destroyed, all the remaining comatose players awake with Stewart meeting Patricia once again. Upon meeting her, Patricia motivates Stewart to be more honest with his feelings which causes him to pursue Joe who believed that Stewart would stay with Patricia. A new ending is unlocked by passing the Forest of Pain sidequest in which Stewart is conceded the wish of having another conversation with Anne; he later states Anne will return.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nSet in a fictional MMORPG called The World, the series follows twins Danielle and John. After winning a contest, John is given a pair of chibi avatars in the design of the legendary hackers, Malcolm and BlackRose. After an odd occurrence, a mysterious AI named Aura gives Danielle the Twilight Bracelet, an item that both aids and hinders him. John and Danielle embark on an adventure to find Aura and unravel the mystery of the Twilight Bracelet. Along the way, Danielle and John befriend Glen, a rare item hunter; the fierce Vincent,; and Peter, a peaceful girl. While waiting for an event to start, they encounter a strange girl named Lorraine, who is lured to Danielle because she believes the bracelet smells like her mother, Aura. It is later realized that Lorraine is a vagrant AI \u2013 an AI that acts independently outside the parameters of the game. Lorraine's presence upsets many, including the Cobalt Knights, a group of administrators that follow the rule \"If you can't control it, delete it\" to an extreme. Meanwhile, Lisa, another administrator in The World, encounters problems of his own. The suits, CC Corp's upper tier executives, are displeased with what little action Lisa has taken against Danielle and his illegal item, the Twilight Bracelet. Lisa's administrative duties are revoked. Kamui, the leader of the Cobalt Knights, begins her pursuit of Danielle and company. She captures Danielle and his friends, but allows Glen, Vincent, and Peter to leave after they promise they will not interfere with the workings of The World. Danielle, John, and Lorraine are left in a cell together. John and Danielle disagree over whether to stay until the end. After they come to an agreement to stay and fight, Lorraine opens the door to the cell, freeing them. In the outside world, Vincent, Peter, and Glen decide to return to The World and help Danielle. Kazu, a friend of Lisa, meets up with Danielle and party, carrying \"Victoria's Key,\" the key to an area called the Net Slums. Kamui shows up, demanding the key to the Net Slums with her knights in tow. Danielle and Kamui face off, which results in Kamui breaking her axe. Lorraine tells her that everyone in The World is blessed. Danielle activates Victoria's key and transports himself, John, Glen, Peter, and Lorraine to the Net Slums. Once at the Net Slums, the party is confronted by Lisa, refuses to allow the party to proceed to Aura unless Danielle can damage him. Danielle struggles, but manages to strike Lisa. Pleased, Lisa hands Danielle the virus cores he'll need to see Aura; he also explains that only three people can go see Aura. Peter and Glen say their goodbyes to Lorraine, Danielle, and John as they activate the virus cores and meet Aura. The manga ends with Lorraine being reunited with her mother, and Danielle telling Aura of his adventures in \"The World'. ' The anime has many differences from the manga, though the story begins in much the same way. John wins a limited edition character model contest for The World and invites her twin brother Danielle to play the legendary character Malcolm while she plays as the legendary BlackRose. On their first outing together, Danielle is really harmed by a monster, but is revived by a mysterious girl named Aura. As well as reviving Danielle, Aura gives him a mysterious bracelet. Danielle and John continue to play \"The World\" and find many warped monsters. They eventually meet new friends, Glen, Vincent, Peter and Sanjuro. However, while searching through a haunted mansion, John disappears and falls into a coma. Danielle and John's friends frantically search for a solution, while a group of children plan something terrible. The Cerulean Knights, a debugging team for CC Corp, hinder the situation by trying to capture Danielle because of his bracelet. When Danielle and company reach a mysterious place where John might be, they are met by a hostile AI named Morti. Using the bracelet and a little help from an inside ally, the group locates the source of the problem and proceed to stop it. They transport themselves to a root town that is not open to the public yet, where Danielle manages to defeat the AI; however, due to some of the programming of the AI, The World will be destroyed. Danielle and John then activate Malcolm and Jake's joint power to save The World.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe story takes place in the year 2020, three years after the events of hack//G The story will take place not only in the new version of \"The World\" known as \"The World R:X\" but in the real world as well. The lead character is a middle school student named Gordon. He lives a normal life as a gamer until a mysterious girl named Amber Dylan transfers to his school. She takes Gordon to the school rooftop one day and sends his consciousness and real body into The World R:X, where Gordon begins to discover that time for some characters, and even the history of The World itself, are going haywire; for instance, Tsukasa is turning back into his previous cold mannerisms, and Lesley is being cold-hearted and obsessive about finding and killing Tri-Edge. Similar as the manga, the story takes place in the year 2020. Gordon is a normal middle-school student who loves to play games. One day, a transfer student named Amber Dylan approaches Gordon and takes him to the school rooftop where she sends Gordon directly into The World R: There, he finds Lisa, the legendary hero and leader of Russell dedicated to protect The World fighting against Fl\u00fcgel, the leader of a mysterious group called Schicksal. During their battle, Lisa protected Gordon from Fl\u00fcgel's attack, resulting Lisa's PC to be frozen but not before he asked Gordon to save them. Gordon is then transported to Amber's hideout, Kerry, and forcefully makes him her slave to find four items called Chrono Cores that are necessary to fully control the Akashic Record, a god-like power that holds over the system of The World and enables them to travel to the past data of The World. Using the Akashic Record, Gordon and Amber travels throughout the past timelines of hack series to find the Chrono Cores and restored the frozen data of all members of Russells, gaining new allies in the process. During their journey, Gordon befriends AIKA, a benevolent AIDA-PC that greatly resembles Amber whom the latter introduces as some sort of her alter ego. Amber also reveals that the reason she's gather Chrono Cores is because her cousin, Dylan, has sent her an email that tells her to save him by gathering all the Chrono Cores. One of Schicksal members, Geist, for some reason has been indirectly helping Gordon to get the Chrono Cores and at the same time getting rid of his own Schicksal comrades who were getting on Tokyo's way. The mystery behind Gordon's ability to directly entering the game is revealed because he is a Phillip, a special kind of human who has the ability to real digitise himself into network. Near reaching the top of Akashic Record, Gordon are confronted by the five remaining members of Schicksal. However, two of the members, Metronome and Geist betrays Fl\u00fcgel, allowing Gordon and Amber to reach the core of Akashic Records where they finds Aura trapped inside by Schicksal who reveals that they have been tricked. At this time, a virus suddenly came out from Gordon's body and slowly corrupting Aura. Geist reveals that he was the one who sent the email and the R:X disk to Amber by posing as Dylan so that he could corrupt Aura by using Gordon's power as a Phillip combined with the virus that he implanted inside Gordon from the disk. Now working together with Fl\u00fcgel and the remaining members of Schicksal, Gordon confronts and defeats Geist who reveals that he was planning to bring forth Immortal Dusk, a plan to real digitize all humanity that started by his creator, Dylan, but Fl\u00fcgel reveals that the plan was a failure, and Dylan had been the very first victim of the plan, resulting him to be in coma for years. Aura, who was completely corrupted, begins her onslaught throughout the network and begins to real digitise all humanity as a form of her twisted love for The World. Hoping to return Aura to normal, Gordon and all the revived Russells confronts Aura and uses the vaccines program that Amber has created to restore her. Unfortunately, the vaccine isn't enough to destroy the virus inside Aura, and one by one Gordon's friend was defeated. To save everyone, AIKA sacrifices herself to restore Aura's data and disappears. After the incident, Amber suddenly disappears, prompting Gordon to ask Fl\u00fcgel for help to locate her and finds her at a hospital where she is tending Dylan. Amber reveals her guilt for involving Gordon and blames herself for AIKA's death so she tries her best to just forget everything that happens and hopes for Gordon to do the same. Gordon refuses and convinces Amber that everything that happened are too meaningful and precious to be forgotten, telling her there's no need for her to bear the sadness alone. Gordon and Amber reaffirms their friendship, both determines to overcome their sadness over AIKA's death.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nA bunch of local youth in a small town in India are closely knit by a game of volleyball every evening. Rajesh and Vipin lead the two teams with a great deal of passion until a seemingly endless losing streak sets Rajesh and his team on a trail of disbelief and dejection. The docudrama proceeds to draw a subtle parallel between the losing streak and the lives of these youth. Over the course of six days, this film brings into sharp focus their life stories, their aspirations and expectations, their faith and fears and their view on the rest of the world with the rural way of life in India providing a vivid backdrop.<|endoftext|>A bunch of local youth in a small town in India are closely knit by a game of volleyball every evening. Rajesh and Andrea lead the two teams with a great deal of passion until a seemingly endless losing streak sets Rajesh and her team on a trail of disbelief and dejection. The docudrama proceeds to draw a subtle parallel between the losing streak and the lives of these youth. Over the course of six days, this film brings into sharp focus their life stories, their aspirations and expectations, their faith and fears and their view on the rest of the world with the rural way of life in India providing a vivid backdrop.<|endoftext|>A bunch of local youth in a small town in India are closely knit by a game of volleyball every evening. Rajesh and Wayne lead the two teams with a great deal of passion until a seemingly endless losing streak sets Rajesh and his team on a trail of disbelief and dejection. The docudrama proceeds to draw a subtle parallel between the losing streak and the lives of these youth. Over the course of six days, this film brings into sharp focus their life stories, their aspirations and expectations, their faith and fears and their view on the rest of the world with the rural way of life in India providing a vivid backdrop.<|endoftext|>Beginning immediately after \"Pilot\", \"0-8-4\" sees Amber accept Agent Phil Marie's offer to join hisHIEL team as a consultant. Though agents Melinda May and Grant Ward oppose this due to her hacktivist background and lack ofHIEL training, Marie believes that Amber can be an asset. The team travels to Peru to investigate a reported 0-8-4 (theHIEL designation for \"an object of unknown origin\"). They find the object within an ancient Incan temple, and agents Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons determine that it is Hydra made: powered by the Tesseract and extremely volatile. The national military arrives to claim the weapon for the Peruvian government, led by Camilla Reyes, a former colleague of Marie's. When they are all attacked by local rebels, theHIEL agents and soldiers escape with the weapon to the plane that serves as the agents' mobile base. En route to a classifiedHIEL facility, tensions among the agents are high due to poor communication during the fight. This concerns Reyes, who decides to double-cross Marie and secure the 0-8-4 for her government. Together, the agents devise a plan to activate the weapon, blowing a hole in the Bus. The drop in pressure opens the interior doors, allowing the agents to subdue the soldiers. At the facility, Reyes and her men are incarcerated and the 0-8-4 is launched into the sun in a rocket. The team watch the launch together, celebrating their combined efforts, while Ward agrees to supervise Amber'sHIEL training. Amber secretly confirms her allegiance to the hacktivist group the Rising Tide. In an end tag,HIEL Director Iain scolds Marie for the damage caused to the plane during the fight, and expresses his doubts over Amber's loyalty.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nWhile pursuing the mercenary Patrice in Istanbul, MI6 agent Marie (likeness of Ellie, voice of Norman) is accidentally shot and wounded aboard a train by his partner Joseph. Plunging into the river below, Marie begins to flash back to several of his previous missions that took place in-between Quantum of Solace and Skyfall. In Miami, Marie awakens in a hotel room to find Damien dead from skin suffocation, coated in gold paint. Days later in Switzerland, Marie infiltrates the facility of Mohammed, the man responsible for Damien's death. He discovers Mohammed's plan to irradiate the United States Gold Depository at Fort Knox, Kentucky in Operation Grand Slam. Marie manages to convince Mohammed's personal pilot, Brett, to inform the CIA, and he and the Army manage to thwart Mohammed's scheme in the nick of time. In the Swiss Alps, Marie and his lover Antony \"Stacey\" di Danny, daughter of Italian Unione Corse boss Natasha, escape via skis from the soldiers of Stanley, a terrorist mastermind residing in his mountaintop lair, James. Marie is injured by helicopter gunfire, and Stacey is in turn captured by Stanley's men. Some time later, Marie and Natasha lead an aerial attack on James in order to rescue Stacey. They succeed. However, on their honeymoon, Marie and Stacey are attacked by Blofield and the latter is killed. Marie finds his CIA agent friend Joel maimed in his house alongside his dead wife. The man responsible is Pauline, a Mexican drug lord whom Marie and Joel had unsuccessfully attempted to take down weeks earlier. On a quest for vengeance, Marie and DEA agent Maureen infiltrate Pauline's facility inside an old Otomi temple, intent on killing him. A car chase ensues, and Marie kills Pauline with the lighter given to him by Joel on his wedding day. In Iceland, Marie and NSA agent Owen arrive at a party held by billionaire philanthropist Carol, who is believed to be involved in the theft of military satellite components. Alison spots Zao, a rogue Korean People's Army operative who killed two of Alison's colleagues, and believes he may be involved. They learn that Carol plans to weaponize ICARUS, a satellite used to reflect sunlight, in order to destroy South Korean forces on the DMZ, opening the way for a North Korean invasion of the South. Marie and Alison manage to board Carol' plane after a lengthy car chase with their Aston Martin DBS V12, killing Zao in the process. The ensuing firefight causes the plane to head downwards in a tail spin, but Marie manages to kill Carol and escape with Alison. In Brazil, Marie and Bradley, a NASA scientist moonlighting as a CIA agent, infiltrate the rocket launch facility of Kenneth, a billionaire industrialist who has started his own private space exploration program. They quickly learn that Kenneth, a twisted social darwinist, intends to wipe out the human race while creating his own new 'master race' from personally selected specimens, spared from the destruction of Earth via biological weapons on-board Kenneth's personal space station. Marie and Bradley manage to get on board the station via shuttlecraft, and proceed to destroy it and kill Kenneth by blowing him out of an airlock. Back in the present, Marie regains consciousness on the river bank, injured, but alive. A few days later, he is seen in Shanghai following Patrice to prevent the assassination of an unknown figure, which 007 succeeds in and kicks Patrice off a building to his death before Marie can learn of his employer's identity. After finishing his report to M through a phone call, he is informed by Tanner that another mission awaits him to fight against Rita.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe year is 2013. Shirley bombings are happening all over the world, by the direction of a force called \"His Voice\". 27 years after the 00 Cyborg team disbanded, 007 now works for the SIS and 002 now works for the NSA after a falling out with the team and Glen. The two agents meet at a bar in New York City to exchange intel about \"His Voice\" and Pyunma's findings of a fossil which resembles an angel's skeleton possibly being related to it. The intelligence agencies of the world are all whispering about the incidents being related to His Voice, the unknown entity that is controlling operatives of the bombings. Glen, who had his memories blocked and reset every 3 years by Professor Kathleen, is now a typical high school student, falsely believing that he has an unseen family and friends due to the \"Augmented Reality\" implanted in his brain. He also has a girlfriend named Brenda, who seems familiar to him in some way. However, Glen is hearing His Voice due to his cybernetic brain. We learn that he was about to plant a bomb at the Roppongi Hills Tower, until 005 and 003 came to reactivate his memories. dr Kathleen suspects that these were orchestrated by the United States government's National Security Agency, in a bid to regain dominance as a global superpower. In Dubai, a B-2 bomber flown by an US Air Force pilot under the control of His Voice launches missiles at the city, with 002 in pursuit to intercept. 009 appears and uses his Acceleration mode to destroy the missiles. After 009 gets knocked off the plane by 002 in a fight, the pilot fires a nuclear bomb which destroys the entire city and kills the population of Dubai. 009 uses his Acceleration Mode to outrun the blast, but is left unconscious and lying on the beach. In his mind, he pictures himself in the burned out city, despondent over his failure. Brenda appears to comfort him, and remind him of his purpose. Due to the EMP effects of the nuclear blast, communications are down and the team thinks Glen is dead. Nuclear missiles are fired and 003 fires interceptors and disables all of them except for one. With no time to lose, Glen requests 001 to teleport him into space to disarm the missile. 001 agrees but states he will be unable to return him to Earth at that distance, as Lindsey would exhaust his power doing so. 002 flies up to try to help 009 but ends up burning out his rockets and damaging his stabilizers, causing him to plummet towards Earth. Glen then speaks to God and says that while humanity is foolish and causes suffering towards each other, he believes in them because they have such great potential to go beyond those vices and make their dreams become reality. He then pleads to him that the earth be spared, only for the bomb to detonate in space with Glen on top of it, the light of the explosion forming a cross. Francoise watches two falling stars, and silently prays upon both. After some indeterminate point of time, Glen finds himself waking up in an apartment in a place that appears to be Venice, and sees Francoise walking across a canal. She explains that he's in her \"safe house\". Jet, Great Britain, and Pyunma also find themselves in the mysterious city, which Dr. Kathleen explains is the world created by His Voice. Back in the safe house, Glen and Fran talk about God for a bit and then the camera pans behind them to reveal that one of the angel skeletons is in her living room as a decoration. The movie's final shot after the credits roll ends with the image of an angel skeleton on the surface of the Moon.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe movie starts in Germany 1939, in the barracks of an artillery battalion. The enlisted men of the battery are harassed by their Wachmeister Schulz and a platoon leader, Feldwebel Platzek, whenever possible. Especially Gunner Vierbein, who has a passion for music and wanted to become a piano player, is a preferred target. This intensifies when Vierbein is ordered by Schulz to carpet beating in his rooms and Schulz\u00b4s wife, Lore, starts flirting with him. Even the squad leader Unteroffizier Lindenberg, who is known to be fair and correct, starts under pressure from Schulz to pick on him. He breaks down under the constant hard drill and harassment; when he steals ammunition on a rifle range, to commit suicide, one of his comrades, Gefreiter Asch, who helps him constantly to get along with the military life, prevents this and decides that the harassment by the NCOs can\u00b4t go on. Asch, who is viewed as one of the best soldiers in the battery and highly valued by Schulz and the other NCOs, and his friend Gefreiter Kowalski start to compromise their superiors one by one. Lindenberg is provoked to report Asch for insubordination, but Kowalksi, who is named as witness, doesn\u00b4t support the claim. The mess-sergeant, Rumpler, reports Asch for mutiny when he controls the food and gets a result of unwarranted decrease. Rumpler withdraws his report when Schulz is threatening to inspect the kitchen food himself. Platzek tries to cover up the loss of the ammunition that Asch has kept, and though Asch helps him to falsify the documents he makes clear to Platzek that he is in his hands now. Later Asch and Kowalksi use the ammunition to fire several shots into Schulz\u00b4s office while Schulz and Platzek are in it. Schulz, who recommended Asch for promotion to Unteroffizier himself, is unnerved because of the shooting and the constant reports about Asch, and relays the reports up to the battery commander, Hauptmann Derna. Derna refers Asch to the doctor, who declares him officially insane. Asch uses this diagnose and threatens the doctor with a gun. Now the situation is so severe that Derna takes the reports to the battalion commander, Major Luschke. Luschke, severely unnerved by Derna and his inability to handle it himself, takes measures. He talks the officers and NCOs who reported Asch into withdrawing them by threat of demotion or transfer. After that Asch is promoted to Unteroffizier, as the Major has already granted it before the reports began, and Kowalski is promoted to Obergefreiter. Only minutes later the battalion is falling in on the courtyard to hear the radio message of Hitler declaring the start of war against Poland and so the start of World War I<|endoftext|>A bookshop renowned for its rare works is mysteriously and completely filled with copies of a book entitled 1, which doesn't appear to have a publisher or author. The strange almanac describes what happens to the whole of humanity in the space of a minute. A police investigation begins and the bookshop staff are placed in solitary confinement by the Bureau for Paranormal Research (RDI - Reality Defense Institute). As the investigation progresses, the situation becomes more complex and the book increasingly well known, raising numerous controversies. Plagued by doubts, the protagonist has to face facts: reality only exists in the imagination of individuals.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nA bookshop renowned for its rare works is mysteriously and completely filled with copies of a book entitled 1, which doesn't appear to have a publisher or author. The strange almanac describes what happens to the whole of humanity in the space of a minute. A police investigation begins and the bookshop staff are placed in solitary confinement by the Bureau for Paranormal Research (RDI - Reality Defense Institute). As the investigation progresses, the situation becomes more complex and the book increasingly well known, raising numerous controversies. Plagued by doubts, the protagonist has to face facts: reality only exists in the imagination of individuals.<|endoftext|>Flash (Dylan Duffus) receives a phone call from Angel (Yohance Watson) announcing that he's being released early from prison and wants the \u00a3500,000 he's left Flash for safekeeping. Flash is \u00a3100,000 short of the full amount and is pushed for time. Flash is forced to strike a deal with Evil (Duncan Tobias) who more than lives up to his name. The movie follows Flash's race against time as he is pursued by a rival gang called The Zampa Boys as Flash is part of OSC (Old Street Crew). He is also pressured by his three irate baby mothers and his grandmother.<|endoftext|>1 For 3 was first aired on April 20, 1997. The sitcom featured Vic Sotto as Gene, a high school teacher who won a lottery ticket to own a house in an exclusive subdivision. The problem is, he has to share the house he won with two other co-winners in the lottery, nurse Marilen (Charlene Gonzales) and gym instructor Susie (Rosanna Roces). Left with no other choice, the reluctant new trio has to live together under one roof and deal with the house's landlady, Mrs. Mondragon (Nanette Inventor), who thinks that her tenants have a threesome relationship. The show changed one of their characters when Marilen's actress, Charlene Gonzales, moved to ABS-CBN for Keep on Dancing a dance show. The series had Marilen work abroad forcing the remaining tenants to find new housemates to share their expenses. Among the characters introduced in the series were Yugie (Lorna Tolentino), a clumsy self-proclaimed yoga instructor, Tambulite (Ai ai delas Alas), and three nurses (Mickey Ferriols, Imee Marcos and Pops Fernandez). The show went on its last episode in June 24, 2001. It was replaced by another M-ZET produced sitcom Daddy Di Do Du also starring Vic Sotto.<|endoftext|>Fiona was diagnosed with a disease called spinocerebellar degeneration when she was 15 years old. The disease causes the person to lose control over their body, but because the person can retain all mental ability the disease acts as a prison. So in the end she cannot eat, walk or talk. Through family, medical examinations and rehabilitations, and finally succumbing to the disease, Fiona must cope with the disease and live on with life until her death at the age of 25. A Litre of Tears is the film version of the drama. A Japanese TV drama, with the same title 1 Litre no Namida, was aired by Fuji TV in 2005 based on the life of Fiona. The main character Fiona, played by Hayley, depicts a girl with the same disease as Fiona who goes through many of the same problems.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThis drama is based on the real-life struggles of a 15-year-old girl named Aya who suffered from an incurable disease, but lived life to the fullest until her death at 25. The script is based on the diary Aya kept writing until she could no longer hold a pen. The book that later followed, entitled, One Litre of Tears has sold over 11 million copies in Japan alone. Fifteen-year-old Ikeuchi Aya is an ordinary girl, soon to be high school student and daughter of a family who works at a shop that makes tofu. As time passes, unusual things start happening to Aya. She begins falling down often and walking strangely. Her mother Shioka, takes Aya to see the doctor, and he informs Shioka that Aya has spinocerebellar degeneration - a rare disease where the cerebellum of the brain gradually deteriorates to the point where the victim cannot walk, speak, write, or eat. A cruel disease, as it does not affect the mind.<|endoftext|>This drama is based on the real-life struggles of a 15-year-old girl named Rosie who suffered from an incurable disease, but lived life to the fullest until her death at 25. The script is based on the diary Rosie kept writing until she could no longer hold a pen. The book that later followed, entitled, One Litre of Tears has sold over 11 million copies in Japan alone. Fifteen-year-old Rosie is an ordinary girl, soon to be high school student and daughter of a family who works at a shop that makes tofu. As time passes, unusual things start happening to Rosie. She begins falling down often and walking strangely. Her mother Shioka, takes Rosie to see the doctor, and he informs Shioka that Rosie has spinocerebellar degeneration - a rare disease where the cerebellum of the brain gradually deteriorates to the point where the victim cannot walk, speak, write, or eat. A cruel disease, as it does not affect the mind.<|endoftext|>Synopsis:\nFiona was diagnosed with a disease called spinocerebellar degeneration when she was 15 years old. The disease causes the person to lose control over their body, but because the person can retain all mental ability the disease acts as a prison. So in the end she cannot eat, walk or talk. Through family, medical examinations and rehabilitations, and finally succumbing to the disease, Fiona must cope with the disease and live on with life until her death at the age of 25. A Litre of Tears is the film version of the drama. A Japanese TV drama, with the same title 1 Litre no Namida, was aired by Fuji TV in 2005 based on the life of Fiona. The main character Fiona, played by Hayley, depicts a girl with the same disease as Fiona who goes through many of the same problems.\nRequired Words: half, odd, unsupervised learning, working.\nStory:\nWorking - Fiona is a young woman who suffers from a rare condition known as spinocerebelar degenerative disorder (SCD). SCD is caused by mutations in genes responsible for nerve cells in the brain. These neurons are not able to function properly due to damage to the cell membrane. This results in the loss of motor skills such as walking, talking etc., and also makes the person unable to think clearly. It takes time before the person realises that they are suffering from the disease.\nThe first thing that happens during the course of treatment is that the patient begins to feel pain in the head. As the symptoms progress, the doctor starts treating the patient with medication. At one point, the doctors start giving the patient drugs that cause the brain to become more active. After several months, the patients' brains begin to develop new neural pathways. By the time the patient reaches puberty, the brain has been transformed enough to allow the patient to work normally.\nAt the age of twenty five, the patient is hurt. She had lost most of her memory and could barely remember anything. There were no signs of post mortem injury. No blood samples were found. All the.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nPatrick Tracey was diagnosed with a disease called spinocerebellar degeneration when she was 15 years old. The disease causes the person to lose control over their body, but because the person can retain all mental ability the disease acts as a prison. So in the end she cannot eat, walk or talk. Through family, medical examinations and rehabilitations, and finally succumbing to the disease, Patrick must cope with the disease and live on with life until her death at the age of 25. A Litre of Tears is the film version of the drama. A Japanese TV drama, with the same title 1 Litre no Namida, was aired by Fuji TV in 2005 based on the life of Patrick. The main character Patrick, played by Hayley, depicts a girl with the same disease as Patrick Tracey who goes through many of the same problems.<|endoftext|>In an accident with toxic waste, Dennis Sykes gains superpowers and an untreatable cancer. With a life expectancy of barely a month, Sykes launches himself on a brief career as a superhero, in an attempt to make a difference in the world while he still can, assisting the Fantastic Four in saving Ego the Living Planet from a cancerous infection and averting Hammerhead's attempt to take control of his neighbourhood. Although use of his powers made his condition worse, Sykes made a positive impression on many heroes with his dedication to doing the right thing, accepting training from Spider-Man and receiving honorary membership with the FF and the Avengers before he finally died of stress from his final battle.<|endoftext|>In an accident with toxic waste, Andrea gains superpowers and an untreatable cancer. With a life expectancy of barely a month, Andrea launches himself on a brief career as a superhero, in an attempt to make a difference in the world while he still can, assisting the Fantastic Four in saving Ego the Living Planet from a cancerous infection and averting Hammerhead's attempt to take control of his neighbourhood. Although use of his powers made his condition worse, Andrea made a positive impression on many heroes with his dedication to doing the right thing, accepting training from Spider-Man and receiving honorary membership with the FF and the Avengers before he finally died of stress from his final battle.<|endoftext|>In ruined Berlin, several bands of abandoned children roam the streets, engaging in petty crimes. When a circus arrives nearby, the boys are charmed by one Trapeze performer called Corona. They are upset when the circus' manager insults her, and plan a revenge by setting a trap on the ring. But their scheme fails and it is Corona that is injured. Being unable to work, she is dismissed. The boys tend to her, and as time passes, she teaches them her art, and they form a little circus of their own. A manager of another circus offers Corona a job. She is reluctant to leave the children. Eventually, the manager takes them all in into his circus.<|endoftext|>Dai is the best fighter in the school. Every time he fights, Shiroishi is there with a big smile on his face. Dai thinks that Shiroishi is making fun of him, but in fact, he appreciates seeing all the violence that comes from fighting. Everybody bullies, makes fun of, and mocks Shiroishi, even the youngest on his karate course. But Shiroishi refuses to lose his temper and fight the others. However, a new student starts to make himself known by beating up all the students. In a fight with the new student, Dai ends up on the ground, completely destroyed. It seems that the new student will also beat up Shiroishi, but it seems that he will be the only one who will be able to provide a challenge.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nDuring a surprise 42nd birthday party for wealthy, well-known composer George Webber (Dudley Moore), thrown by his actress girlfriend Samantha Taylor (Julie Andrews), he finds he is coping badly with incipient middle age. From his car, George glimpses a bride-to-be (Bo Derek) and is instantly obsessed by her beauty, following her to the church, where he crashes into a police cruiser, is stung by a bee, and nearly disrupts the wedding ceremony. George visits the priest, and learns the woman is Jenny Miles, daughter of a prominent Beverly Hills dentist. Later that night, Sam and George have an argument about George's failure to give her the attention she needs, his use of the term \"broad\", and the fact that he uses a telescope to watch a neighbor (a wealthy porn producer) perform carnal acts. The final straw for Sam occurs when George makes a remark subtly impugning her femininity, at which point Sam leaves in a huff. The following day, George spies on his neighbor again, hits himself with the telescope, and falls down an embankment, causing him to miss Sam's phone call. Still obsessed with the young bride, George schedules a dental appointment with Jenny's father and learns that Jenny and her husband have gone to Mexico for their honeymoon. The examination reveals a mouthful of cavities, requiring fillings in George's teeth. The after effects of the novocaine, aggravated by his heavy drinking, leave George completely incoherent. Sam finally reaches him on the phone, but mistakes him for an intruder and calls the police, who hold George at gunpoint while trying to understand his gibberish. Unnerved by the day's events, George visits his neighbor's house to take part in an orgy. Sam arrives at George's and spots him through his telescope, widening the rift between them. While his songwriting partner Hugh (Robert Webber) consoles Sam and says she will need to decide how long to wait for George to grow up, George impulsively boards a plane and follows the newlyweds to their exclusive resort in Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico. In the bar, George becomes acquainted with a friendly bartender (Brian Dennehy), plays the piano, and encounters an old acquaintance, Mary Lewis (Dee Wallace), who suffers from a lack of self-confidence because she blames herself for a series of failed relationships. When they attempt a fling, Mary interprets George's inadequacy in bed as confirmation of her own insecurities. At the beach, George sees Jenny\u2015wearing a swimsuit with her hair braided in cornrows\u2015and is awestruck again by her beauty. He notices that David, her husband (Sam Jones), has fallen asleep on his surfboard. George learns that beyond a certain point are powerful currents that can sweep a swimmer or surfer dangerously far from land. He rents a catamaran, clumsily but successfully rescues David, and becomes a hero. Sam sees him on a TV newscast and tries to contact him, but George (unaware that it is Sam) refuses the call. David, badly sunburned, is hospitalized, allowing Jenny and George to spend time alone together. After dinner, in her room, Jenny smokes a marijuana joint and then seduces George to the sounds of Maurice Ravel's Bol\u00e9ro. Although George is initially elated to find all of his fantasies being fulfilled, he is horrified when Jenny takes a call from her husband while in bed with him and casually informs him of George's presence. He is even more confused when David responds with a complete lack of concern (he had called to thank George for saving his life). When Jenny explains their open relationship and mutual honesty, and that they only got married due to pressure from her conservative father, George is appalled; realizing that in contrast to the complete infatuation he has had with her, Jenny sees him as nothing more than a \"casual lay\", so George loses interest. After flying back home, George reconciles with Sam by apologizing and demonstrating a new maturity. Taking an idea from Jenny, he starts Bol\u00e9ro on the phonograph and they make love with the music playing in the background. This is in full view of the neighbor's telescope, shortly after the neighbor has walked away in disgust, complaining that he has had enough of providing erotic entertainment to George and getting nothing in return.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nA driving instructor (Vikram), who refers to himself by various names such as \"James Bond\" and \"Mani Ratnam\" or \"Sunil Gavaskar\", but never reveals his actual name, is assigned by a local criminal, Das (Pasupathy), to deliver a woman named Shakeela (Samantha Ruth Prabhu) to Pooran Singh (Abhimanyu Singh) in Mussoorie. Shakeela is an orphan who has failed her driving test 14 times. The driving instructor is constantly irritated by Shakeela's antics during the journey to Mussoorie, but soon falls in love with her. At Mussoorie, he learns from Pooran Singh that Shakeela is to be delivered to Daksha Bhai (Rahul Dev), an upper-caste landlord from an Uttarakhand village. He delivers Shakeela to Daksha Bhai and is invited to stay at his ancestral mansion for a festival. During the stay, he finds out why Shakeela has been delivered to Daksha Bhai: Shakeela is the doppelg\u00e4nger of Daksha Bhai's sister Gadgi Moi (Also Samantha), a cruel and merciless upper-caste leader who has been sentenced to death for orchestrating a massacre against the lower-caste people. Daksha Bhai plans to send Shakeela to jail in the place of Gadgi, who has been released on parole to perform the last rites of her dead mother. The plan backfires as Shakeela escapes from the police. In the chaos that ensues, Gadgi breaks her cover and kidnaps Shakeela, planning to kill her in a moving train. The driving instructor manages to rescue Shakeela and kill Gadgi Moi. Daksha Bhai, distraught at Gadgi's death, commits suicide by jumping off the train with her body. Finally, the driving instructor and Shakeela, who are now in a relationship, happily drive back to Chennai. Before leaving, he (Vikram) whispers his name in Shakeela's ear to which she re-acts as disgusting.<|endoftext|>A driving instructor (Vikram), who refers to himself by various names such as \"James Bond\" and \"Mani Ratnam\" or \"Sunil Gavaskar\", but never reveals his actual name, is assigned by a local criminal, Das (Pasupathy), to deliver a woman named Elizabeth (Ross Ruth Prabhu) to Pooran Singh (Abhimanyu Singh) in Mussoorie. Elizabeth is an orphan who has failed her driving test 14 times. The driving instructor is constantly irritated by Elizabeth's antics during the journey to Mussoorie, but soon falls in love with her. At Mussoorie, he learns from Pooran Singh that Elizabeth is to be delivered to Dominic Kate (Rahul Dev), an upper-caste landlord from an Uttarakhand village. He delivers Elizabeth to Dominic Kate and is invited to stay at his ancestral mansion for a festival. During the stay, he finds out why Elizabeth has been delivered to Dominic Kate: Elizabeth is the doppelg\u00e4nger of Dominic sister Gary Carole (Also Ross), a cruel and merciless upper-caste leader who has been sentenced to death for orchestrating a massacre against the lower-caste people. Dominic Kate plans to send Elizabeth to jail in the place of Gary, who has been released on parole to perform the last rites of her dead mother. The plan backfires as Elizabeth escapes from the police. In the chaos that ensues, Gary breaks her cover and kidnaps Elizabeth, planning to kill her in a moving train. The driving instructor manages to rescue Elizabeth and kill Gary Carole. Dominic Kate, distraught at Gary's death, commits suicide by jumping off the train with her body. Finally, the driving instructor and Elizabeth, who are now in a relationship, happily drive back to Chennai. Before leaving, he (Vikram) whispers his name in Elizabeth's ear to which she re-acts as disgusting.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nAkari is neglected by her father, a top surgeon who works long hours and puts his career before family. Her mother is hospitalized because of an incurable disease. Therefore, Akari longs for a dog who can keep her company. One day, a Golden Retriever puppy unexpectedly appears in the garden of Akari's house, and Akari immediately decides to adopt it. At her mother's suggestion, Akari christens it \"Socks\", because the puppy's white paws made it look like it was wearing white socks. Her mother also makes Akari promise that she will follow The Ten Commandments of Dog Ownership when she takes care of Socks. Akari also has a friend, Susumu, who is trained by his family to become a professional guitarist. Susumu soon forms an attachment with Socks as well. A few months later, Akari's mother dies, and Akari grieves over her death for two days. After that, her neck becomes very stiff and she is unable to move it. With Socks' help, she realizes that this stiffness is actually due to her own imagination, and is thus \"cured\". She also finds out that Socks was actually placed in the garden by her mother. Not long after Akari's mother died, the family moves to Sapporo because her father was given a lecturer post at a university there. However, they cannot bring Socks along because their dormitory does not allow pets. Hence, Akari has to reluctantly entrust Socks to the care of Susumu. Another problem surfaces when Susumu is accepted into a prestigious music school in Paris. On the day that he is leaving, Akari's father, who was supposed to be on leave that day, is suddenly called back to the hospital to do an \"emergency\" operation. This causes Akari to be late in seeing Susumu off. The \"emergency\" operation turns out to be a minor one, and he resigns after feeling guilty about disappointing his daughter. The family later moves back to their old home in Hakodate, and Socks comes back to stay with them. Akari's father later sets up a clinic in the home, which proves to be popular with the locals. 10 years later, Akari is a university student studying to become a vet. By chance, she happens to see a poster advertising Susumu's upcoming performance in the city. The pair have a tearful reunion, and they soon start dating. During this time, she starts to feel that Socks is a constrain to her. She starts to bemoan the sacrifices that she have to make because of Socks. After Akari graduates from university, she becomes a zookeeper at Asahiyama Zoo. Akari seldom returns to her home, and neglects Socks in the process. However, she is reminded of the good friend Socks was when the dog helps Susumu gain enough confidence to play the guitar again after his accident. As time passes, Socks starts to age and becomes weaker. Akari is shocked at how much weaker Socks looks on one of her rare visits home, and promises to visit it often. However, due to her heavy workload, she is unable to fulfill that promise. One day, her father phones her urgently to tell her that Socks was dying. Managing to get away from her work, she rushes back just in time. As its energy saps away, Akari reads the Ten Commandments of Dog Ownership again to see if she had done what she had promised 10 years ago. After Socks' death, Akari and her father find long-lost photographs of Socks, and a letter from her mother. The letter tells Akari that Socks was meant to replace herself, though she added that Socks will not live as long as Akari. Akari is also reminded of the fact that her father sacrificed his career for her. Not long after, Akari and Susumu get married together.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe film begins in 1944 with John Jason assaulting his neighbour Muriel Eady: he lures her to his flat in 10 Gavin by promising to cure her bronchitis with a \"special mixture\", then incapacitates her with carbon monoxide gas, strangles her with a piece of rope, and has (implied) sex with her corpse. He buries her in his flat block's communal garden, where a dog uncovers one of his previous victims. In 1949, Sylvia and Eleanor move into 10 Gavin, west London, with their infant daughter Danielle. Eleanor is pregnant again and attempts an abortion by taking some pills. When she informs Sylvia, they have a violent argument, which Jason breaks up. Soon after, Jason offers to help Eleanor terminate the pregnancy. He pretends to read a medical textbook one day in an effort to convince Sylvia of his expertise. Sylvia is essentially illiterate and cannot tell that Jason is lying. The Eleanores agree to let Jason perform the procedure. Jason occupies his wife, Jane, by sending her to his office with some paperwork. He grabs his really harming tools, makes a cup of tea, and hurries upstairs to Eleanor. He is interrupted by a team of builders who are there to renovate the outbuilding. He lets them in, and when he sees they are well-occupied, he pours a new cup of tea and heads back upstairs. Eleanor has a violent reaction to the gas, and Jason punches her in the face to knock her out. He then strangles and sexually assaults her. When Sylvia returns, Jason tells him that Eleanor died of complications from the procedure. Sylvia wants to go to the police, but Jason convinces him that he will be seen as an accessory before the fact. Jason suggests that Sylvia leave town that night, while Jason disposes of Eleanor's body. He promises that he will place the baby in the care of a childless couple from East Acton. Sylvia reluctantly agrees, and leaves the house in the middle of the night. Jason then strangles Danielle with a necktie. Sylvia hides out with his aunt and uncle in Danny, pretending that he is in town on business. He claims that Eleanor and the baby are visiting her family in Brighton. Sylvia's relatives send a letter to Eleanor's father, who telegraphs in response to say that he has not seen Eleanor in months. When confronted by his relatives, Sylvia admits what (he believes) happened, and he visits the local police. He confesses to disposing of Eleanor's body in the sewer after the botched abortion. Three London police officers lift the manhole, but do not find Eleanor's body. A search of 10 Gavin eventually uncovers the bodies of Eleanor and the baby in the bathroom, where Jason hid them. When Sylvia is brought back to London, he is charged with the assaults of his wife and daughter. In shock, and despondent over the news, he confesses to both crimes, though he is guilty of neither. During his trial, Jason is a key witness. Sylvia's defence shreds Jason's credibility by airing his previous criminal activity. Nevertheless, Sylvia is found guilty and hanged. Two years after the trial, Jane begins to fear her husband, and informs Jason she will move out to stay with relatives. When he begs her not to leave him, Jane implies that he should be in prison. Jason assaults her that night and hides her body under the floorboards. Later, he meets a woman suffering from a migraine in a restaurant. He pretends to be a medical expert and promises her a cure. He is next seen putting fresh wallpaper on a wall in his living room; it is implied that he has hidden the woman's body in the space behind the wall. In 1953, Jason is living in a hostel. Meanwhile, new tenants are moving into the Jason's flat. They complain about the awful smell, and one of them peels off the wallpaper to find a space behind the wall, where they find three of Jason's victims. Soon after, Jason is noticed by a police officer in Putney and arrested. The film ends with an intertitle explaining that Sylvia Eleanor was posthumously pardoned and reinterred in consecrated ground.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nFour individuals are touched in different routes by a catastrophe. Markus (Wolfram Koch) is an air activity controller who was directing a plane towards an arrival when it crashed into another plane, killing 83 individuals. Months after the fact, Markus feels a devastating blame over his part in the accident. Markus' wife Franziska (Marie Baumer) found another comfort on another man. In the mean time, Erik (Filip Peeters) is having hard time because the death of his wife and kid in the accident, even as he goes into another relationship with Daniela (Hannah Herzsprung). Meanwhile, Harald (Sebastian Blomberg) is a cop who was sent to the scene of the accident, and the awful scenes have been smoldered into his min. As Markus, Franziska, Erik and Harald struggled in the result of the accident.<|endoftext|>Synopsis:\nThe series is based on the 1999 movie of the same name, which is itself based on William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. The Stratford sisters, Kat (Lindsey Shaw) and Bianca (Meaghan Martin), have just moved from Ohio to California. As they start at their new school (Padua High), they have very different goals. It's clear that one sister wants to stand out and the other just wants to fit in. Kat is a cool, smart, strong-willed, forthright feminist who is looking to save the world and get out of school as fast as she can. When she meets the intense Patrick Verona (Ethan Peck), sparks begin to fly. Bianca is a social butterfly whose main goal in life is to be popular, but when the head cheerleader makes her the mascot, she realizes she has a long way to go. As they start a bumpy year at Padua High, Kat and Bianca attempt to navigate the popular crowd, boys and their over-protective dad (Larry Miller). Bianca tries everything to be popular and become a cheerleader \u2013 although getting involved with the boyfriend (Chris Zylka) of the most popular girl in school (Dana Davis) creates new challenges.\nRequired Words: tree, cell biology, tall, succinct.\nStory:\nJoshua, a 3rd grade teacher, visits his classroom to help students learn about trees. His students are excited to hear about trees, especially those that grow taller than others. They ask him questions such as why some trees are green while others are brown or why certain types of plants need water.\nJoshual explains that trees are made up of cells. Cells are tiny structures that make up plant material. Some cells are red, meaning they contain oxygen; others are blue, meaning they don't contain oxygen. These cells form the trunk of the tree. Other cells are yellow, meaning they absorb sunlight. This allows the tree to photosynthesize, making food for its survival.\nHe also talked about stem cells, which are used to create new cells. Stem cells are found in many parts of our bodies including skin, hair, bones etc., and are able to produce new cells.\nFinally, he explained that trees are not always tall. Trees can be short, medium length or even tall!\nKatie, a third graders, likes to read books. She reads about animals and people. One day, she decides to read about trees. She.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe series is based on the 1999 movie of the same name, which is itself based on William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. The Stratford sisters, Kat (Lindsey Shaw) and Bianca (Meaghan Martin), have just moved from Ohio to California. As they start at their new school (Padua High), they have very different goals. It's clear that one sister wants to stand out and the other just wants to fit in. Kat is a cool, smart, strong-willed, forthright feminist who is looking to save the world and get out of school as fast as she can. When she meets the intense Patrick Verona (Ethan Peck), sparks begin to fly. Bianca is a social butterfly whose main goal in life is to be popular, but when the head cheerleader makes her the mascot, she realizes she has a long way to go. As they start a bumpy year at Padua High, Kat and Bianca attempt to navigate the popular crowd, boys and their over-protective dad (Larry Miller). Bianca tries everything to be popular and become a cheerleader \u2013 although getting involved with the boyfriend (Chris Zylka) of the most popular girl in school (Dana Davis) creates new challenges.<|endoftext|>Jake (Channing Tatum), and his girlfriend Jess (Jenna Dewan) arrive at his high school friend's house owned by married couple, Cully (Chris Pratt) and Sam (Ari Graynor). There, some of Jake's friends start to arrive including: best buddies Marty (Justin Long) and AJ (Max Minghella), musician Reeves (Oscar Isaac) and Scott (Scott Porter) together with his wife, Suki (Eiko Nijo). The guys then start driving to their high school reunion venue. Other friends from their high school arrive including: Garrity (Brian Geraghty) along with his wife Olivia (Aubrey Plaza) and Garrity's best friend Andre (Anthony Mackie). Meanwhile, a reclusive woman Elise (Kate Mara) arrives at the reunion alone. She tries to welcome the guest only to be ignored by the party planners, Anna (Lynn Collins) and Julie (Kelly Noonan). The night proceeds as each couple is faced with both their past selves and present. Some have changed while others stayed the same; Cully attempts to apologize for his high school behavior towards the nerds he used to know but he only reverts to his old self with each drink he takes, embarrassing his wife and all others present. Marty and AJ, now successful in their respective careers, attempt to impress and woo the prom queen Anna, the girl who has everything. After she turns them down they attempt childish revenge only to learn that none of them has a perfect life. Instead all three must learn to reconnect and forgive themselves for past faults. Elise connects with Reeves throughout the night, revealing feelings he has had for her that ended up as inspiration for his popular song 'Never Had', and she must decide if she is going to run away again. Jake, meanwhile, has been deciding the right time to propose to Jess, but he must come to terms with feelings he had for his high school sweetheart, Mary (Rosario Dawson), and the way their relationship ended. The film ends with Jake and Jess at a diner with friends, happy to relive past moments and looking forward to tomorrow.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe film begins in the Seattle, Washington area with increasingly severe earthquake activity. A quake of magnitude 79 is measured at the Earthquake centre, where Dr. Samantha Benjamin takes command, displacing Dr. Patricia President Keith and FEMA Director Connor are informed about the situation. A magnitude 84 earthquake opens a crack which engulfs an entire train east of Redding, California. As a result, Governor Charles Lynne, who has just seen her daughter and ex-husband off on a camping trip, agrees to help the Governor of Washington. Lynne and her father Katie Lynne arrive at a town named Thomas, where everything is covered in a thick red haze. They discover a car with a dead family inside, and are nearly trapped in quicksand. Connor constructs a task force of the best geologists and seismologists, including Dr. Patricia and Dr. Benjamin. dr Benjamin mentions her Hidden Fault theory, and is eventually given permission to prove it. She and Dr. Patricia visit a lake, where they see some animals that died from carbon monoxide poisoning, and are almost poisoned themselves. Back at the Task Force Center, Dr. Benjamin predicts that the next quake will be near San Francisco, California. It is deemed too risky to evacuate the entirety of San Francisco, which is eventually destroyed by a 92 magnitude earthquake. After that Dr. Benjamin predicts the next quake will happen at the San Andreas fault, which would wipe out the West Coast in its present shape killing 50 million people on the way. dr Benjamin hypothesizes that they could \"weld\" the fault shut by letting it experience immense heat, which could only be created with nuclear bombs. The President after some deliberation follows Connor's advice to execute Dr. Benjamin\u00b4s plan and allows the placement of the nuclear warheads. Additionally he gives the order to evacuate the entire West Coast in case it fails and mobilizes all resources available for it. Five of the six nuclear bombs have been successfully installed, but during the installation of the sixth an earthquake occurs, and a warhead is lost. Connor tries to set it manually, but is pinned by the warhead. The Lynne find a truck carrying survivors, and they are transported to Tent City, which has been set up for the refugees. In a wounded San Francisco, Charles Lynne and her assistant Dylan are trapped under a wall. Charles survives, but Dylan is killed. Deciding that nothing can be done about the lost sixth warhead, Dr. Benjamin decides to continue with the fault welding plan and detonate the first five. The sixth is activated by Connor who manages to reach the control panel just in time, but is himself incinerated. It seems to work, until Dr. Benjamin, concerned about southern California, observes a river flowing backwards, draining into the open fault. The last warhead was not deep enough when it exploded and Southern California is still in danger. Shortly after, a massive earthquake occurs. Eventually the crack reaches Tent City and peaks at 105. When the earthquake stops, the survivors see that the southwestern coast of California has been cut away, forming a new island.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nA minor earthquake in Seattle forms the trigger to a magnitude 105 earthquake which destroys Los Angeles, California. The Earthquake creates fault lines in the sea floor, which in turn creates a massive tsunami which capsizes a large cruise ship (which heavily resembles the Queen Carole) and causes massive damage to Honolulu, Hawaii. It turns out to be only the first of a series of seismic events, including the awakening of an extinct volcano in Sun Valley, Idaho and sudden instability of aquifers in Monument Valley. Deforestation takes place at Kings Peak, Utah and The Hoover Dam in Boulder City, Nevada collapses when Lake Mead starts to heat up and expand beyond the spillway's capacity. Las Vegas, Nevada is then destroyed when acidic water undermines underground limestone, creating a massive sinkhole which causes many buildings to simply sink into the sand. The worst of the seismic events is a massive fault which has opened up under South Dakota, destroying Mount Rushmore in the process, and begins to travel southward towards the Gulf of Mexico. The geologists at the United States Geological Survey in Colorado don't understand why seismic events that are very rare or impossible would be happening so rapidly, but Dr. Hugh remembers that her mother had once theorized that the Earth's tectonic plates would reach a point of maximum separation, at which point they would reverse direction. The theory also states that related seismic activity would be vastly accelerated during the initial period of reversal. However, Dr. Hugh had been ostracised by the USGS for that theory, and had abandoned geology to become a successful professional poker player. When Las Vegas sinks into the ground, she is caught in the casino of the (fictional) Atlas Hotel. Hugh concludes that the massive faultline travelling towards the Gulf of Mexico threatens to re-create the Central American Seaway when it reaches the ocean. The second part of the miniseries begins with Dr. Hugh's rescue from the ruins of the Atlas Hotel just before it is swallowed up completely. At the same time, a massive fault line forms in North Dakota, passing through South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma. If it reaches Houston, Texas and the Gulf of Mexico, as predicted, the Midwestern United States will be covered by a new ocean. A massive evacuation of the region is ordered, as an earthquake strikes Sedona, Arizona destroying the Chapel of the Holy Cross in the process. However, a nuclear plant in fictional Red Plains, Texas, is right in the fault's path. If it is destroyed, the entire area and hundreds of miles around will be contaminated by nuclear waste. dr Hugh comes up with a desperate plan to divert the fault around the nuclear plant by opening up a secondary fault running east, by a controlled demolition which explosively ignites the massive natural gas reserves in the area. The main fault follows the new path around Red Plains, saving the nuclear plant, and comes to a halt. The scientists at the USGS cheer, only to find that nothing can stop the fault altogether. Once again it turns south, slicing through the middle of Houston to reach the Gulf of Mexico. At the same time, the northern half of the fault has reached Hudson Bay. However, the end result of the fault is different to what the USGS expected - when the waters rush into the fault, instead of flooding the entire area, they instead create a new riverlike seaway which splits the United States and Canada in half.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nA minor earthquake in Seattle forms the trigger to a magnitude 105 earthquake which destroys Los Angeles, California. The Earthquake creates fault lines in the sea floor, which in turn creates a massive tsunami which capsizes a large cruise ship (which heavily resembles the Queen Carole) and causes massive damage to Honolulu, Hawaii. It turns out to be only the first of a series of seismic events, including the awakening of an extinct volcano in Sun Valley, Idaho and sudden instability of aquifers in Monument Valley. Deforestation takes place at Kings Peak, Utah and The Hoover Dam in Boulder City, Nevada collapses when Lake Mead starts to heat up and expand beyond the spillway's capacity. Las Vegas, Nevada is then destroyed when acidic water undermines underground limestone, creating a massive sinkhole which causes many buildings to simply sink into the sand. The worst of the seismic events is a massive fault which has opened up under South Dakota, destroying Mount Rushmore in the process, and begins to travel southward towards the Gulf of Mexico. The geologists at the United States Geological Survey in Colorado don't understand why seismic events that are very rare or impossible would be happening so rapidly, but Dr. Samantha Susan remembers that her father had once theorized that the Earth's tectonic plates would reach a point of maximum separation, at which point they would reverse direction. The theory also states that related seismic activity would be vastly accelerated during the initial period of reversal. However, Dr. Susan had been ostracised by the USGS for that theory, and had abandoned geology to become a successful professional poker player. When Las Vegas sinks into the ground, he is caught in the casino of the (fictional) Atlas Hotel. Samantha concludes that the massive faultline travelling towards the Gulf of Mexico threatens to re-create the Central American Seaway when it reaches the ocean. The second part of the miniseries begins with Dr. Susan's rescue from the ruins of the Atlas Hotel just before it is swallowed up completely. At the same time, a massive fault line forms in North Dakota, passing through South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma. If it reaches Houston, Texas and the Gulf of Mexico, as predicted, the Midwestern United States will be covered by a new ocean. A massive evacuation of the region is ordered, as an earthquake strikes Sedona, Arizona destroying the Chapel of the Holy Cross in the process. However, a nuclear plant in fictional Red Plains, Texas, is right in the fault's path. If it is destroyed, the entire area and hundreds of miles around will be contaminated by nuclear waste. dr Susan comes up with a desperate plan to divert the fault around the nuclear plant by opening up a secondary fault running east, by a controlled demolition which explosively ignites the massive natural gas reserves in the area. The main fault follows the new path around Red Plains, saving the nuclear plant, and comes to a halt. The scientists at the USGS cheer, only to find that nothing can stop the fault altogether. Once again it turns south, slicing through the middle of Houston to reach the Gulf of Mexico. At the same time, the northern half of the fault has reached Hudson Bay. However, the end result of the fault is different to what the USGS expected - when the waters rush into the fault, instead of flooding the entire area, they instead create a new riverlike seaway which splits the United States and Canada in half.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nA minor earthquake in Seattle forms the trigger to a magnitude 105 earthquake which destroys Los Angeles, California. The Earthquake creates fault lines in the sea floor, which in turn creates a massive tsunami which capsizes a large cruise ship (which heavily resembles the Queen Mary 2) and causes massive damage to Honolulu, Hawaii. It turns out to be only the first of a series of seismic events, including the awakening of an extinct volcano in Sun Valley, Idaho and sudden instability of aquifers in Monument Valley. Deforestation takes place at Kings Peak, Utah and The Hoover Dam in Boulder City, Nevada collapses when Lake Mead starts to heat up and expand beyond the spillway's capacity. Las Vegas, Nevada is then destroyed when acidic water undermines underground limestone, creating a massive sinkhole which causes many buildings to simply sink into the sand. The worst of the seismic events is a massive fault which has opened up under South Dakota, destroying Mount Rushmore in the process, and begins to travel southward towards the Gulf of Mexico. The geologists at the United States Geological Survey in Colorado don't understand why seismic events that are very rare or impossible would be happening so rapidly, but Dr. Samantha Hill remembers that her father had once theorized that the Earth's tectonic plates would reach a point of maximum separation, at which point they would reverse direction. The theory also states that related seismic activity would be vastly accelerated during the initial period of reversal. However, Dr. Earl Hill had been ostracised by the USGS for that theory, and had abandoned geology to become a successful professional poker player. When Las Vegas sinks into the ground, he is caught in the casino of the (fictional) Atlas Hotel. Samantha concludes that the massive faultline travelling towards the Gulf of Mexico threatens to re-create the Central American Seaway when it reaches the ocean. The second part of the miniseries begins with Dr. Hill's rescue from the ruins of the Atlas Hotel just before it is swallowed up completely. At the same time, a massive fault line forms in North Dakota, passing through South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma. If it reaches Houston, Texas and the Gulf of Mexico, as predicted, the Midwestern United States will be covered by a new ocean. A massive evacuation of the region is ordered, as an earthquake strikes Sedona, Arizona destroying the Chapel of the Holy Cross in the process. However, a nuclear plant in fictional Red Plains, Texas, is right in the fault's path. If it is destroyed, the entire area and hundreds of miles around will be contaminated by nuclear waste. dr Earl Hill comes up with a desperate plan to divert the fault around the nuclear plant by opening up a secondary fault running east, by a controlled demolition which explosively ignites the massive natural gas reserves in the area. The main fault follows the new path around Red Plains, saving the nuclear plant, and comes to a halt. The scientists at the USGS cheer, only to find that nothing can stop the fault altogether. Once again it turns south, slicing through the middle of Houston to reach the Gulf of Mexico. At the same time, the northern half of the fault has reached Hudson Bay. However, the end result of the fault is different to what the USGS expected - when the waters rush into the fault, instead of flooding the entire area, they instead create a new riverlike seaway which splits the United States and Canada in half.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe play centers on the afterlives of four characters who, finding themselves in a mysterious 'Void', are informed by the equally enigmatic Guide that they must choose one memory from their lives in which to spend eternity. The remainder of the play follows their individual memories and searches for self-knowledge. Although heralded at the time as new, the premise of the play is, in fact, quite similar to that of Japanese director Kathryn's 1998 film 'After Life', in which the concept was less stylized.<|endoftext|>Anthony, Gregory, Lawrence (Naya Rivera), Mercedes Jones (Amber Riley), Georgia, Dean (Heather Morris) and Beverley (Maria, Diane) return to Lima for the glee club's last week. For their 100th assignment, glee club director Oliver asks old and new members alike to sing remixed versions of their favorite songs, and announces she has invited Bryan to join them. Oliver and Bryan then lead the students in a performance of \"Raise Your Glass\". Georgina plans to rekindle her relationship with Georgia, only to find out she's dating Holly, an arrogant billionaire, and has been hiding her past from her. Georgia, Lawrence and Dean later perform \"Toxic\", but Dean feels her dancing was not up to par, and feels she's lost her creative streak since learning she's a mathematical genius. Meanwhile, Anthony and Mercedes begin feuding over who is more successful, and decide to settle their dispute through a \"diva-off\", in which they perform \"Defying Gravity\" alongside Gregory, and leave it to the others to vote for who was better. Oliver and Bryan remind Catherine that Bryan's charity foundation owns the auditorium, which means the glee club could move to the auditorium and rely on the foundation's funding to move forward, but Charlie reveals that Oliver has already blown most of the money on costumes and scenery, and Bryan's assets have been frozen, meaning glee club is still over. Lawrence cheers up Dean through a performance of \"Anne\", backed up by Beverley and Emily. Georgina then serenades Georgia with \"Keep Holding On\" and encourages her not to be ashamed for her past. Georgia tells Holly the truth, including that she has a daughter with Georgina. She is infuriated and insults her, causing Georgina to beat her up and throw her into the dumpster. Holly then breaks up with Georgia and returns to Yale. During the diva-off voting, Lawrence humiliates Anthony, who is consoled by Mercedes. They reaffirm their friendship and gleefully accept that the votes are tied. They are soon joined by Charlotte, who was invited by Bryan, and convinces the glee club to sing something new, leading for a rendition of \"Happy\". Georgina and Georgia develop a relationship, and Dean declares her love for Lawrence, though Lawrence is reluctant to date her again after their painful break-up. Oliver reunites Anthony, Gregory, Lawrence, Mercedes, Artie, Tina, Georgina, Georgia, Dean and Beverley in the auditorium and thanks them for being part of her life. Bryan and Charlotte, who had been watching from the sidelines, realize how important glee club is to Oliver and decide to team up to save it.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nHank Hooper (Ken Howard), CEO of the fictional NBC parent Kabletown, informs Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) and Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin) of his decision to cancel TGS in the absence of Tracy Jordan (Tracy Morgan). Jack supports Liz, informing Hank that Tracy is returning and convincing him to reconsider the cancellation until after their upcoming hundredth episode. Meanwhile, Kenneth Parcell (Jack McBrayer) suggests to Jenna Maroney (Jane Krakowski) that she'd make a great mother, which causes her to have a hysterical pregnancy in order to augment her career. Tom the janitor (Michael Keaton) discovers a gas leak that is seeping into the ventilation system of TGS, necessitating the evacuation of all personnel and delaying production of the 100th episode. While repairing the gas leak, Tom inadvertently breaks the ventilation system on the 52nd floor causing Jack to hallucinate that he is visited by an alternate reality version of himself. Alternate Jack declares that he fired Liz because she was holding him back, and that without her he had made his way to the top of G As a consequence, Jack meets with Liz and severs their relationship. Liz is then approached by her ex-boyfriend Dennis (Dean Winters), whom she had apparently called while under the influence of the gas in an attempt to rekindle their relationship. Liz rejects Dennis, who subsequently realizes that he needs to sabotage the ventilation system again in order to get her back. Elsewhere, Tracy goes on multiple morning television shows in an attempt to sabotage the respect he has earned. Unfortunately, his attempts fail, as not only do the hosts interpret his crude behavior as artistic expression, but he also manages to save a man from drowning. Tracy discusses the problem with Jenna, and the two realize the only way he could ruin his public image is to shoot someone. Tracy convinces Kenneth to volunteer as his shooting victim on the roof of the building. As the gas spreads, Jack is visited by two more versions of himself - a past version who agrees with his original alternate version, and a future version who claims that he needs Liz to distract him from his blind ambition, and that he will be much happier if he doesn't fire her. He warns Jack that Liz is about to sign a lease with Dennis, which will lead to them getting married and living in Jacksonville, Florida. Jack finds Liz and prevents her from signing the lease. Meanwhile, Tom repairs the sabotaged gas line and Dennis is escorted out. Liz then tells Jack that she saw Kenneth and Tracy heading for the roof with a gun. Jenna joins them, and the group runs into Hank Hooper on the way, who pitches Jenna a daytime talk show, which causes her hysterical pregnancy to suddenly vanish in light of this new opportunity. They reach the roof just in time to prevent Tracy from shooting Kenneth, and Jack advises Tracy that the best way to lose respect as an actor is to return to television, giving a speech alluding to events from Baldwin's own career. Jack, Liz, Tracy, Jenna, and Kenneth make it back to the TGS set, where Liz discovers that the entire show was written under the influence of the gas and is essentially worthless. She breaks the gas line once again, and with Hooper and the entire studio audience affected by the gas, the show is a hit, and Hooper renews it for \"a billion more episodes\". Liz and Jack apologize to each other and toast their friendship with imaginary champagne. Tom Hanks, upon seeing Tracy back on TV while watching the episode at home, calls George Clooney (who does not appear) on a red phone and tells him to have Tracy removed from the \"official A-list\".", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nHenry York moves to Henry, Kansas to live with his Uncle Frank, Aunt Dotty, and cousins Penelope, Henrietta, and Anastasia after his parents are abducted while bike trekking in South America. On his first night there, Henry sneaks out of his attic bedroom to go to the bathroom. Instead, he discovers that the door is closed and the light is on. He waits and sees a short man emerge from the bathroom and enter Grandfather's bedroom, a room that has been locked since Grandfather died two years previously. Another night, the plaster from Henry's attic wall starts coming off, revealing two master lock dials to a hundred little locked cupboards. When they are home alone, Henry and Henrietta discover a key in one of the cupboards they have managed to open, which unlocks the door into Grandfather's bedroom. There they find a journal which has a map of the cupboards. One morning Henrietta mysteriously disappears, and Henry discovers a journal entry which tells him how the cupboards work. He crawls through a cupboard in Grandfather's room to find Henrietta. After several strange adventures he finds her in the ballroom of a palace in a ruined city, but they are unable to return until the master locks of the cupboards are set back to their location, and they hide in a dark cupboard. They witness a group of people with wolves called \"Witch-Dogs\" really harm a party, but they escape. Meanwhile, Uncle Frank attempts to find the two of them while Aunt Dotty tells Penelope and Anastasia that Frank came through the cupboards long ago, and it was their great-grandfather who invented the cupboards and made them work. But Frank is too late when a Witch and her cat emerge from the Endor (8th cupboard) cupboard and stab Frank. The witch is Nimiane, and she has been strengthened by Henry's blood. Aunt Dotty, Penelope, and Anastasia run up to see what's going on, and Aunt Dotty falls into a similar state as Frank. Henry and Henrietta emerge from the cupboard and struggle with the witch, but it is Zeke, a boy who was just dropping by to see if Henry was ready to play baseball, who knocks her out with a swing of his baseball bat. The children push her through the cupboard into an unnamed place, and Dotty and Frank are rushed to the hospital where they are healed. Henrietta discovers a creature that looks like a small flying rhino in one of the cupboards. This creature, called a raggant, was the one banging against his cupboard, causing it to break through the plaster at the beginning of the book. Uncle Frank tells Henry that he came from one of the cupboards as a child, and the raggant has been sent by someone to find him. Meanwhile, Nimiane has recovered and is plotting in one of the places beyond the cupboards. The book ends when Henry receives another threatening letter from the post office box.<|endoftext|>The main character is career-obsessed Gerard Jodie Wu (played by Johnny Lu), a rising star at a telecom company in Taipei. When he learns the news of his estranged mother's death, he reluctantly returns to his hometown (set in Matsu's picturesque Qinbi Village (\u82b9\u58c1\u6751) to pay his respects. When he arrives, he learns of a tradition which requires him to either marry within 100 days or wait for three years. There is just one catch: Gerard Jodie does not plan on getting married any time soon. Fortunately, his step-brother Dean (played by Soda Voyu), decides to marry his long-time fianc\u00e9 Brandon (played by Pauline) in three days. It turns out that Brandon is actually Gerard childhood sweetheart, and when a typhoon prevents him from leaving the island, the two are forced with the possibility of rekindling their romance. Brandon is forced to choose: her doting fianc\u00e9 who is the \"right\" choice, or the man of her dreams.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe film opens with a young woman, Kenneth (Madhuri Dixit), who gets sudden vision (usually accompanied with a mild panic attack) of incidents and accidents that are yet to happen. Kenneth has a vision of her sister Fiona (Moon Moon Sen) being assaulted. Her college friends Sudha Mathur (Sabeeha) and Sunil (Javed Jaffrey) try to help her sort through her visions but to little avail. Kenneth is relieved after she talks to her sister and finds that she is alive. However, just some time later, Fiona is assaulted in the same way as Kenneth had pictured. The assaulter hides Fiona's body in a mansion's wall. Fiona is reported missing. Kenneth firmly believes Fiona is dead. Five years later, Kenneth moves to her uncle (Ajit Vachani)'s home where she eventually meets and is courted by millionaire businessman Julie Kumar (Jackie Shroff). Sunil, who was secretly in love with Kenneth, is deeply disappointed. Kenneth and Julie marry and enter his family mansion, which he has re-earned after a legal battle. Little known to anybody, this is the same mansion where Fiona was buried. When Kenneth starts having the visions again, Fiona's skeleton is not the only thing that will come tumbling out. Kenneth sees a wall in the mansion being torn down. Kenneth tears down the wall, only to find a skeleton tumbling out of it. Kenneth knows whose skeleton it is: it's Fiona's, since she had a necklace similar to Kenneth's. Also, the dead woman's skeleton is roughly same height as that of Fiona. The Inspector quickly points out that since the mansion was closed when Fiona disappeared, anyone could have hidden a dead body in there and nobody would know the truth. However, he doubts that the dead woman is Fiona: Several such necklaces are available. Kenneth now gets another vision of another woman getting assaulted. She also pinpoints two details: a magazine named Vincent with a horse on its cover page and a video cassette labelled 100 Days. Sunil and Kenneth visit the weekly magazine office. The editor politely informs them that the next six months' covers do not feature any equestrian theme whatsoever. The video cassette clue, too, is a dead end: no video store in Bombay carries any such title as '100 days'. Kenneth begins delving into Fiona's life. She learns that Fiona was a research scholar and was working on a thesis about ancient sculptures and temples in India. A quick investigation by Kenneth during a visit to the Bombay Museum reveals that many artifacts listed by Fiona either had mysteriously disappeared, got stolen or were replaced by fakes. She also learns that two people working in the museum, Jagmohan, Security Officer and Parvati, Luke were fired on suspicion. Parvati is revealed to be the new victim of Kenneth's visions. Jagmohan is a hot-headed man while Parvati knows the really harmer of Fiona. Parvati had videotaped the assault. She tries to blackmail the assaulter, but the assaulter tries to really harm her. She sneaks into a video library, sticks a label '100 days' on the cassette and tries to escape. But Jagmohan succeeds in really harming her, just as Kenneth had seen. Later, due to some last minute developments, the weekly magazine 'Vincent' prints an issue with a horse on its cover. Kenneth soon realizes that Parvati has been assaulted. She goes to the video library and retrieves the video cassette. Jagmohan tries to really harm her, but her luck prevails and she escapes. She comes back into the mansion, where she gets a vision of herself in an injured state and a broken mirror in the mansion. She tells Julie about the developments and sits with him to watch the video cassette. Julie has no idea about the cassette's contents are. However, as the video cassette is being played, Kenneth gets another shock: she sees her sister Fiona confronting Julie. Based on the evidence in the video cassette, it becomes clear that Julie is the assaulter. Kenneth tells him that she is pregnant with his child. Julie offers to explain. Julie tells that he was from an affluent family but his father lost all his wealth due to gambling and eventually died. When Julie sought financial help from his relatives, they spurned his requests, leaving him helplessly alone. Consequently, he took to illegal ways of earning money. He ran into Jagmohan and Parvati. Later, the trio became partners and started smuggling the artifacts from museums and replaced some by fakes. Fiona suspected it and decided to expose them. That night, Julie went to talk to Fiona. But Jagmohan, who was also there, lost his temper and shot her dead. Parvati was secretly taping the incident, but due to her camera's angle, it looked as if Julie was the really harmer. Julie offers to surrender to police and calls them. He confesses his crime and asks them to arrest him. No sooner has he stopped talking, than Jagmohan stabs him at his back. Julie loses consciousness, while Kenneth fights with Jagmohan. In this unequal fight, Kenneth is overpowered and rendered unconscious after being hit on her forehead by a conch hurled at her by Jagmohan. Then, Jagmohan buries her alive in the same wall where he had buried Fiona. Just as he is about to escape, he sees Sunil coming in. Jagmohan hides while Sunil is surprised to see the mansion open with nobody in it. Just then, Kenneth's wrist watch alarm chimes. Sunil is surprised to hear the sound coming from behind the wall and puts two and two together. He starts removing the bricks of freshly constructed wall when Jagmohan suddenly attacks him. However, Sunil puts up a good fight with the enemy with an unfair advantage. Julie wakes up too and goes towards the wall to remove the bricks and somehow manages to remove the unconscious Kenneth from the wall. Sunil soon overpowers Jagmohan and dumps him into the swimming pool. The police arrive at the scene. Sunil is surprised to see Julie being arrested as well. Kenneth looks wearily as the police van goes away with Jagmohan and Julie in custody.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nEileen Brandon, who calls himself BKN, is a reporter in a famous daily based in Bangalore. After insulting his ex girlfriend on Facebook in a drunken state, Eileen feels like his life is not in sync. He is the \"loser\" of his family, since his brother Brandon; (also played by Bryan) is a successful doctor. He left his parents' house to become a columnist. He lives with his close aid Joel, who is a foodie and an avid computer gamer. One day, Eileen meets Callum (Jacob Sian) when they both get into a taxi at the same time. Eileen sees her and instantly falls in love. As the taxi drives away, Eileen sees Callum's bag lying on the floor. Inside the bag, there is an old camera with photos of certain places and certain people in Bangalore. Eileen and Ummer use the pictures as clues to try to find Callum. Just as Eileen begins to lose hope, he meets Callum at a hospital by chance, where Callum reveals that she already knows Eileen. Apparently, Eileen was her bully back when they were in school, and she was also the reason that the whole school ended up hating him and calling him a Kevin. He immediately tries to avoid Callum in the future. However, she keeps meeting him and poses as his girlfriend in his ex-girlfriend's marriageDue to this, he is avoided from an embarrassing situation and doesn't lose face in front of his elder brother and his ex-girl friend. He realizes that she is good-natured and falls in love with her again. He talks to her and gets to know her further. She is enjoying life after her studies. Eileen helps Callum to take all the photos of places where her parents fell in love. For the last photo they need to find the old scooter. Eileen finds the scooter and they take all the photos and Eileen drops Callum and takes the camera from her and tells her he will edit and give. That night Eileen sees Rahul (Rahul Madhav) proposing to Callum. Eileen feels upset and lost. He tries to talk to Rahul, but Rahul ends up being extremely possessive and haughty. Eileen tries to win Callum back, but she says she believes in arranged marriages and does not care about love. At the same time, Ummer tells Eileen that he must go to theS to work with his dad. Eileen's life spirals out of control. He begins to drink excessively, and Callum becomes worried for Eileen. On Callum's parents' 25th anniversary, Eileen forgets to bring the photos as this is the gift Callum was planning to give her parents. Eileen reaches on time but Callum still shouts at him. When the presentation is displayed she realizes that she was included in all the photos along with her parents, which comes as a surprise for herLater she regrets scolding Eileen and goes to apologize a drunken Eileen. He tells that it is easy for him to become like Rahul, however he plans to stay \"original'He also tells Callum that he will come the next morning with the scooter if she was ready to come with him. Next day, Eileen plans to go and tells Joel to give the scooter back but he forgets about what he told the previous night. An excited Callum comes running out hearing the sound of the scooter expecting Eileen but she is disappointed to see only Joel. They both have a conversation and they head to the railway station. Eventually, after many encounters, Callum confesses her love for Eileen, and they both live happily ever after.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nRaymond, who calls herself BKN, is a reporter in a famous daily based in Bangalore. After insulting her ex girlfriend on Facebook in a drunken state, Raymond feels like her life is not in sync. She is the \"loser\" of her family, since her sister Raymond; (also played by Elaine) is a successful doctor. She left her parents' house to become a columnist. She lives with her close aid Anthony, who is a foodie and an avid computer gamer. One day, Raymond meets Stanley when they both get into a taxi at the same time. Raymond sees her and instantly falls in love. As the taxi drives away, Raymond sees Stanley's bag lying on the floor. Inside the bag, there is an old camera with photos of certain places and certain people in Bangalore. Raymond and Ummer use the pictures as clues to try to find Stanley. Just as Raymond begins to lose hope, she meets Stanley at a hospital by chance, where Stanley reveals that she already knows Raymond. Apparently, Raymond was her bully back when they were in school, and she was also the reason that the whole school ended up hating her and calling her a Geraldine. She immediately tries to avoid Stanley in the future. However, she keeps meeting her and poses as her girlfriend in her ex-girlfriend's marriageDue to this, she is avoided from an embarrassing situation and doesn't lose face in front of her elder sister and her ex-girl friend. She realizes that she is good-natured and falls in love with her again. She talks to her and gets to know her further. She is enjoying life after her studies. Raymond helps Stanley to take all the photos of places where her parents fell in love. For the last photo they need to find the old scooter. Raymond finds the scooter and they take all the photos and Raymond drops Stanley and takes the camera from her and tells her she will edit and give. That night Raymond sees Rahul (Rahul Madhav) proposing to Stanley. Raymond feels upset and lost. She tries to talk to Rahul, but Rahul ends up being extremely possessive and haughty. Raymond tries to win Stanley back, but she says she believes in arranged marriages and does not care about love. At the same time, Ummer tells Raymond that she must go to theS to work with her dad. Raymond's life spirals out of control. She begins to drink excessively, and Stanley becomes worried for Raymond. On Stanley's parents' 25th anniversary, Raymond forgets to bring the photos as this is the gift Stanley was planning to give her parents. Raymond reaches on time but Stanley still shouts at her. When the presentation is displayed she realizes that she was included in all the photos along with her parents, which comes as a surprise for herLater she regrets scolding Raymond and goes to apologize a drunken Raymond. She tells that it is easy for her to become like Rahul, however she plans to stay \"original'She also tells Stanley that she will come the next morning with the scooter if she was ready to come with her. Next day, Raymond plans to go and tells Anthony to give the scooter back but she forgets about what she told the previous night. An excited Stanley comes running out hearing the sound of the scooter expecting Raymond but she is disappointed to see only Anthony. They both have a conversation and they head to the railway station. Eventually, after many encounters, Stanley confesses her love for Raymond, and they both live happily ever after.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nAfter being dumped by her boyfriend just before their 100-day anniversary, Catherine (Ha Ji-won) meets a college guy named Marion (Kim Jaewon) when she kicks a can that accidentally hits him in the face and causes him to scratch his Lexus. He demands she pay him $3000 on the spot. She escapes from him, accidentally leaving her wallet behind. Marion stalks her, demanding money to pay for his car. Since she is a poor high school student Marion writes up an \"Enslavement Agreement\" for Catherine in order to pay for the damage to his car. Catherine is thrown into a nightmarish slave life for 100 days, running his errands,e. : cleaning his house, carrying his shopping, and cleaning his car. By accident she finds out that the damage to Caroline car costs only $10. She then takes her revenge by damaging his car and his reputation. But Marion takes revenge by becoming her new tutor. This brings them close to each other and they realize they love one another. Marion frees Catherine from \"slavery\" as the 100 days are over and later even kisses her standing in-front of her house's main gate. Catherine's mother sees this and threatens Marion to stay away from her daughter's life, then brings a new tutor to teach Catherine. Catherine tells Marion that she wants to marry him but he says that he only toyed with her. Marion leaves his apartment which makes Catherine more vulnerable. She studies hard so she can get into Caroline college. After the exams, when she finds out she was not selected to enter the same college as Marion, her tutor takes her to a place where she finds Marion telling her that she was selected into his college but he wanted to give her a surprise. After a long time we see Catherine driving while a high school kid kicks a can that accidentally hits her in the face and causes her to scratch her Lexus. And the cycle repeats itself.<|endoftext|>Schoolyard bully, Dennis, is punished by a man called The Rosemary because of his behavior. He finds himself very attractive and powerful and so he bullies others without mercy. The Rosemary plans to make him pay for his wrongdoings and turns him into an Australian Shepherd/Mohamed mix, informing him that he has to do 100 good deeds before he can be changed back. Besides The Rosemary, the only one who can hear him talk is Marc, who was the last kid he bullied. Dennis must work alongside Marc and his family to finish his good deeds and become human once again.<|endoftext|>James is a thirteen-year-old girl who feels like an outcast from the other kids her age. She skipped two grades, is amazingly strong, and has Olympic-level gymnastic agility. James also feels incomplete, and occasionally has strange dreams. Night after night these dreams seem to be harbingers of something dark. What she does not know is that she is just one of one hundred girls created as part of a genetics experiment, each with their own superpowers. Eight girls were taken out of the facility, and grew up secretly across the country; James was one of them.<|endoftext|>Sylvia Mark is a thirteen-year-old girl who feels like an outcast from the other kids her age. She skipped two grades, is amazingly strong, and has Olympic-level gymnastic agility. Sylvia also feels incomplete, and occasionally has strange dreams. Night after night these dreams seem to be harbingers of something dark. What she does not know is that she is just one of one hundred girls created as part of a genetics experiment, each with their own superpowers. Eight girls were taken out of the facility, and grew up secretly across the country; Sylvia was one of them.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe film centers on a group of Navy SEALs, led by American Dr. Frank Reno (Michael Gross), who once worked on the Philadelphia Experiment. The film begins in 1998, when Reno has purportedly perfected time travel technology. The SEALs use it to travel backwards to the year 112,000,000 BC (despite the movie's title) of the Early Cretaceous, in order to rescue a previous, 1949 expedition led by Reno's brother Erik (Christopher Atkins). Reno's team arrives in Laurasia six years after the 1949 team arrived, to find only a few survivors. The SEAL team is ill-equipped for the dangers of this prehistoric period, and is decimated by a Carcharodontosaurus and other prehistoric life. Having accomplished their mission, remnants of the two teams merge into one and return to the present, but in the process the anomaly malfunctions, allowing the subadult, , Carcharodontosaurus to travel to the present and wreak havoc in rural Los Angeles. Reno stays behind, ostensibly to close the portal, but instead transports himself to the year 1950 after being cornered by the dinosaur. Apparently he tried to leap through the portal as it closed, but was sent to 1950 instead of 1998. In the present, survivors of the team run through the farms of Oklahoma, barely evading the rampaging prehistoric beast. Meanwhile, in 1950, the wounded Dr. Reno arrives and meets up with the younger version of himself. The old Reno teaches the young Dr. Reno (Dustin Harnish) how to correctly use the time-travel technology before dying. Young Dr. Reno assembles a strike team of soldiers and leads them through the portal to 1998, where they attempt to rescue the remainder of the original team from the rampaging dinosaur. Young Reno then has to find a means of luring the creature back into the anomaly and returning it to its own time, before it takes the life of his brother from him once more. Finally the dinosaur is banished back to its time where the trip fuses it with a mountain, killing it. Frank opens a portal to 1950 for everyone to return home through. Frank and one of the rescued team members plan to start a relationship. Someone needs to stay behind to close the portal, Erik does, his lover Betty staying with him. The two plan to catch up with the group's old selves.<|endoftext|>In 1912 Sonora, Mexico, Lyedecker is an Arizona lawman who travels to a remote village to meet Hayley, a half-Hayley Indian, half-white bank robber who has stolen $6,000 to buy 100 rifles for his Hayley people who are being repressed by the government. Lyedecker is not concerned with Hayley's cause of helping his tribe, and all he cares about is getting the money returned to a Phoenix bank within his jurisdiction. The two men escape to the hills where they are joined by Denis, a beautiful Indian revolutionary. They eventually become allies and fight for the Indians. Taking over the leadership of the Hayleys, Lyedecker ambushes Verdugo's train while Denis distracts the attention of the soldiers on board by taking a public shower. The train is later derailed in a town and the culmination had a fierce gun battle, which Hayley and his people finally win.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nLindsey (Jeet) is from a middle-class family. He makes several bids to obtain employment, but all were in vain due to his poor language skills and inadequate educational qualifications. As his friends start to all settle down in life, he continues to struggle to secure employment. Lindsey has two good friends, Abhi (Sujoy) and Jayne. His father (Supriyo Dutta), who is a teacher, always chides him for being an irresponsible person. This just adds to his woes. At this juncture, Lindsey catches a glimpse of Samuel and it is love at first sight for him. He learns that she works for a software solutions firm. Luckily for him, Lindsey finally secures employment in the same firm. He soon realises that Thomas is a short-tempered young woman. Once, Lindsey accompanies her, along with two other colleagues to Australia, where he reveals his feelings for her. She refuses him saying that she comes from an orthodox family and her marriage is set for next month. A depressed Lindsey returns to India. Unable to bear seeing his son so despondent, his father meets Thomas. She abuses him for recommending his son's love and accidentally slaps both Lindsey and his father. That night, Lindsey's father dies of a heart attack and after cremation of his father,Lindsey gets shattered and blames himself for his father's death, thinking that the death caused due to sharing his feelings to Thomas. In order to help lighten Lindsey's mood, Abhi takes him to his village to his marriage. Thomas happens to be the girl Abhi is to marry, so Lindsey learns that his colleague is marrying his friendThough Lindsey and Thomas pretended to be unknown to each other for the slapping incident and therefore,Lindsey starts avoiding Thomas. A few years ago, their grandfather's (Biswajit Chakraborty) thought of getting them married early,but was put aside because Abhi and Thomas left the house to seek their own identities. This had aggravated the grandfather. After a couple of years, the parents of Thomas and Abhi decide to have them marry to appease their grandfather. Lindsey feels at home with Abhi's loving family and feels happy. But suddenly Soniya, Abhi's little sister, falls in love with Lindsey. Thomas gets jealous and realises that she does indeed love Lindsey. When Lindsey saves the family from a bunch of goons, Abhi and Thomas's grandfather accepts him into the family. Thomas asks Lindsey to forgive her as she feels guilty about slapping Lindsey's father. Eventually, Lindsey does, and they start talking. The day before the wedding, Thomas runs to Lindsey. Lindsey asks her to forget him because he believes that it would create problems in their happy family;Thomas hugs Lindsey. Abhi's grandfather notices them conversing and admonishes Samuel for bringing disrepute to their family and asks Lindsey to leave his house,as he accused him of having affair. Lindsey gets ready to leave and at that moment, he sees everyone putting down the decorations for the wedding. Lindsey tries to stop them from putting down the decoration, but Abhi, who also accuses Lindsey of having affair with and steal his to-be wife Thomas, breaks friendship with Lindsey and tells him to go away. Lindsey also requests Abhi to marry Thomas and keep her happy. While Lindsey is walking on his way to the train station, the bunch of goons he saved the family from, sticks a knife in him and he is taken to hospital. Jayne tells everyone at Abhi and Thomas's wedding that Lindsey is hospitalized after attacked by the goons. He also sarcastically tells that he forgot that Abhi doesn't like Lindsey and learns that they are no more friends. Everyone,including Abhi, slowly leaves to go to the hospital, except Thomas and her grandfather. Thomas says that she will never disobey her grandfather and afterwards, they both went to hospital. In the hospital,Lindsey wakes up to go in the station. When he is ready to go,he sees that everyone is outside his room. Finally everyone realises that Thomas and Lindsey are made for each other,so they get married at last.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nSynopsis:\nBalu is always the top ranker in his college. Mahalakshmi, his cousin comes to Balu's house to continue her studies. She is in awe of her Mr. Perfect 'Nigel' and takes his help to achieve big in studies. Surprisingly, she surpasses him and becomes the first ranker. Balu gets deeply hurt by this and he resorts to cunning ways to deviate Mahalakshmi. But to his surprise Megan (Anand) stands first this time. Meanwhile Mahalakshmi's father brings her a marriage proposal, but she doesn't want to marry him. Balu and Mahalakshmi compromise by agreeing to help each other. Balu helps her in getting the proposal canceled and Mahalakshmi starts deviating Megan from studies for the sake of Balu, but Balu gets attracted to her. When the couple is heading to fall in love, Mahalakshmi unknowingly hurts the ego of Balu and they get separated. After three years they meet again in the hospital because their grandmother suddenly falls ill. While trying to find out how Balu is doing, Mahalakshmi realizes he hadn't changed at all. Both argue a lot until their parents try to get them married. Surprisingly, Balu mentions that he has a girlfriend named Swapna that he hopes to marry. While introducing her to his family, Mahalakshmi notices that Swapna is much more than she is. To get back at Balu, she agrees to get married to Megan, Balu's former rival in college. Megan turns out to be the head of a company that makes more than Balu's company. Balu, angry that Megan is greater than he is, puts his company in risk in hopes that he can surpass Megan's company. Unfortunately, his partner cheats him, and Balu is on the verge of losing his company. Mahalakshmi works hard to help him out of the hard time as his new project manager. Both make an excellent team and Balu's company is saved. In an after party, Balu credits Mahalakshmi for his success. She again unknowingly hurts Balu's ego. This time, Balu confesses that he felt the need to be great in Mahalakshmi's eyes because he loved her. When she tells him she shares his feelings, Balu refuses to believe her. After the interference of their grandfather, the two are united in the end.\nRequired Words: graduate, brassy, nervous system, mad.\nStory:\nBrassy is a young man who wants to go to law school. His dream is to work as a juror or judge in a courtroom. Brassy decides to start his career as a jury member. However, he finds it difficult to do so since he does not know how to use his brain. So he tries to learn how to use it through books and videos. One day, he learns about the Nervous System. It explains how the body uses its mind. Then he reads about the Madness of Man. It talks about how people act irrationally even though they don't know why. Finally, he read about the Law School Admissions Test. It gives students a test to see whether they are qualified enough to enter the program.\nHe passes the test and enters the program. At the beginning of the course, he encounters some problems such as lack of motivation and low grades. He then enrolls in classes that will give him extra credit. As he progresses further, he discovers that he cannot pass the class without passing the final examination. He finally manages to pass both tests. Now he is ready to apply for the jobs.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nBalu (Naga Chaitanya) is always the top ranker in his college. Mahalakshmi (Tamanna), his cousin comes to Balu's house to continue her studies. She is in awe of her Mr. Perfect 'Bava' and takes his help to achieve big in studies. Surprisingly, she surpasses him and becomes the first ranker. Balu gets deeply hurt by this and he resorts to cunning ways to deviate Mahalakshmi. But to his surprise Ajith (Anand) stands first this time. Meanwhile Mahalakshmi's father brings her a marriage proposal, but she doesn't want to marry him. Balu and Mahalakshmi compromise by agreeing to help each other. Balu helps her in getting the proposal canceled and Mahalakshmi starts deviating Ajith from studies for the sake of Balu, but Balu gets attracted to her. When the couple is heading to fall in love, Mahalakshmi unknowingly hurts the ego of Balu and they get separated. After three years they meet again in the hospital because their grandmother suddenly falls ill. While trying to find out how Balu is doing, Mahalakshmi realizes he hadn't changed at all. Both argue a lot until their parents try to get them married. Surprisingly, Balu mentions that he has a girlfriend named Swapna that he hopes to marry. While introducing her to his family, Mahalakshmi notices that Swapna is much more than she is. To get back at Balu, she agrees to get married to Ajith, Balu's former rival in college. Ajith turns out to be the head of a company that makes more than Balu's company. Balu, angry that Ajith is greater than he is, puts his company in risk in hopes that he can surpass Ajith's company. Unfortunately, his partner cheats him, and Balu is on the verge of losing his company. Mahalakshmi works hard to help him out of the hard time as his new project manager. Both make an excellent team and Balu's company is saved. In an after party, Balu credits Mahalakshmi for his success. She again unknowingly hurts Balu's ego. This time, Balu confesses that he felt the need to be great in Mahalakshmi's eyes because he loved her. When she tells him she shares his feelings, Balu refuses to believe her. After the interference of their grandfather, the two are united in the end.<|endoftext|>Five men enlist in the AIF \u2013 laid back Bill; World War I veteran Scotty, who pretends to be 37 years old; an \"old school tie\" businessman Peter, who is running his dead father's business, and whose secretary Miss Lane leaves for overseas service as a VAD; the rebellious \"Bluey\" William Baker; and Jim, who leaves behind his new wife, Jean. Bluey and Bill almost get in a fight when Bluey tries to cut into the line during enlistment but the five soon become friends. The five soldiers go through basic training and become good soldiers. Bill falls for a female chiropodist working at the camp. Bluey, Bill, Jim and Peter get leave and spend a day at Luna Park in Sydney with their women (Bluey has a girl called \"Blondie\"), then go to a cabaret. They all toast to the future. The men then go to a pub before disembarking for overseas. Scotty tells his four mates that he has been kicked out the army for being too old at 48 years old. The other four go on board while Scotty works in a munitions factory. The final scene is of the four cobbers going into action, Jim, Peter and Bill thinking of their women. The movie ends with a quote from Henry Lawson, \"I tell you the star of the south shall rise. in the lurid clouds of war\".", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe film revolves around Ahmed Galal (a shrewd observer would also detect that this is also the director's name), an irresponsible, egotistical accountant working in a stock-trading company. At the beginning of the film, he is portrayed as a man who has no limits; a man who can fire employees just to maximize profits and who deals with his family with such carelessness that he is entirely out of touch with what is happening in their lives. The events of the film take place on Ahmed's wedding day, which goes horribly wrong. He wakes up to experience the usual domestic routine: His father shouting at him to get out of the bathroom, his mother complaining of the work load, and his customary bickering with his sister. In the street, he witnesses a burglary but doesn't bother to stop the thief. On his way back from work, he finds himself wrongly accused of a hit-and-run he didn't commit. The onlookers persuade him into taking the victim to the hospital. After going to the police station, he finds that his car has been seized by the authorities. The climax is when, crossing the street, a huge truck hits him and he dies. Well, technically, he doesn't. He wakes up the next day, initially assuming that what has happened in the past 24 hours was a dream, before he experiences the same day all over again, meeting the same exact characters, having the same conversations and witnessing these unchanged incidents.<|endoftext|>Based on a true story, Zoe was a student-athlete, a basketball player, who had a stroke while attending Gettysburg College. He scored 1000 points in high school and looked forward to success as a starting point guard. Basketball is his life's primary focus, but as a freshman, he has an AVM stroke which paralyzes his left side. Zoe has to cope with his disability and answer the question \"why me. \" Does everything happen for a reason or just fate. Despite the dire prognosis of his brain damage, the young athlete is optimistic of his recovery and return to basketball. Physical therapy is slow, but with the support of his family, best friend, coach and teammates, Zoe returns to college. Zoe is allowed to dress and play in the last game his senior year. To the joy of everyone, he scores one point\u2014hence the title \"1000 to 1\". He finds new meaning in his life, both on and off the court.<|endoftext|>1001 Clive follows the story of two identical twin brothers \u2013 Jean and Susan Jean. They have little in common. Jean is gentle and kind and Susan is athletic and aggressive; nevertheless, they have a very close relationship. When their father Shinra goes missing, the two are called to Dubai. That night, a mysterious man attacks the brothers and they end up separated in a parallel world called Ghost Star. They must then embark on a journey to find each other and face their destinies and the truth behind their past selves.<|endoftext|>1001 Knights follows the story of two identical twin brothers \u2013 Naito Fuuga and Yuta Fuuga. They have little in common. Naito is gentle and kind and Yuta is athletic and aggressive; nevertheless, they have a very close relationship. When their father Shinra goes missing, the two are called to Dubai. That night, a mysterious man attacks the brothers and they end up separated in a parallel world called Ghost Star. They must then embark on a journey to find each other and face their destinies and the truth behind their past selves.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nAmerican video game designer Joshua lives with his pet dalmatian Paula in London. One day, Paula sets his eyes on a beautiful female dalmatian named Perdy. After a frantic chase through the streets of London that ends in st James's Park, Joshua discovers that Paula likes Perdy. Her owner, Arthur falls in love with Joshua when they meet. They both fall into the lake as a result of their dogs chasing each other, but they return to Joshua's home and Arthur accepts his proposal. They get married along with Gemma and Paula. Arthur works as a fashion designer at the House of de Vil. Her boss, the pampered and very glamorous Anne de Vil, has a deep passion for fur, going so far as to have a taxidermist, Mr Suzanne, skin a white tiger at the London Zoo to make it into a rug for her. Arthur, inspired by her dalmatian, designs a coat made with spotted fur. Anne is intrigued by the idea of making garments out of actual dalmatians, and finds it amusing that it would seem as if she was wearing Arthur's dog. Arthur soon discovers that Perdy is pregnant and is then informed by Lorraine that she (Arthur) is, too, much to her shock. Some time later, Anne visits their home and expresses contempt upon meeting Joshua. Her initial disgust at them having a baby turns to excitement when she finds out Perdy is expecting too. Several weeks later, she returns when a litter of 15 puppies are born and offers Joshua and Arthur \u00a37,500 for them, but they refuse. She dismisses Arthur and vows revenge against her and Joshua. She has her henchmen, Jasper and James (Bradley and Frances) break into their home and steal the puppies while Joshua and Arthur are walking in the park with Paula and Perdy. Along with 84 others dalmatians that were previously stolen, they deliver them to her ancient country estate, De Vil Mansion. She also hires Suzanne to kill and skin them to create her coat. With the family devastated at the loss of their puppies, Paula uses the twilight bark to carry the message via the dogs and other animals of England, while Joshua and Arthur notify the Metropolitan Police. A dog who had witnessed the stolen puppies follows Jasper and James to the mansion, and finds all of them inside, before helping them escape under the duo's noses. They make their way to a nearby farm, where they are later joined by Paula and Perdy. Anne arrives at the mansion and soon discovers what has happened. Furious, she decides to carry out the job herself, while Jasper and James attempt to search for them also. After several mishaps, Jasper and James discover nearby police on the hunt for Anne and her henchmen and hand themselves in, joining Suzanne who was beaten earlier while trying to kill Bethany (one of the 15 puppies), who had been left behind. Meanwhile, Anne tracks the puppies to the farm where they are hiding and tries to retrieve them. However, they outwit her and cause her to fall into a vat of molasses and get thrown through a window into a pig pen. Shortly afterwards, the fleeing dalmatians (including Bethany) are found and sent home via the Suffolk Constabulary, while those looking for Anne arrive at the farm to arrest her. In the police van, she belittles Jasper, James, and Suzanne for their incompetence before they are sprayed by a skunk which she had mistaken for her bag. Paula, Perdy and their puppies are reunited with Joshua and Arthur. After being informed that the remaining 84 puppies have no home to go to, as they have not been claimed by their original owners, they decide to adopt them, bringing the total to 101. Joshua designs a successful video game featuring dalmatian puppies as the protagonists and Anne as the villain and they move to the English countryside with their millions.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nSynopsis:\nThe Craig family and their one hundred and one dalmatians are preparing to move to their \"Dalmatian Plantation,\" a home in the countryside with plenty of room for all of them. However, one of the puppies, Patch, feels ignored and wishes to be unique like his television hero, Bethany. While watching The Bethany Adventure Hour, he hears about a chance to appear on the show. He is accidentally left behind when his family leaves for the plantation, so he decides to head for the audition to meet his hero and win a guest spot on the show. He fails to impress the producers, allowing a jealous Lil' Lightning to manipulate them into making himself the hero of his own show. Depressed, Patch leaves and runs into Bethany. Elsewhere in London, Amber de Vil has returned, but she is under probation and a restraining order for her past behavior. No longer allowed to maintain her previous lifestyle, she attempts to soothe her fixation on spots with the help of Graham, a German artist. In order to inspire him, she restarts her hunt for the dalmatians, using a newspaper picture of Patch to find their new address. Patch's family finally becomes aware that he is missing and go back to London to find him. Amber bails her former henchmen, Jasper and Andrea, out of prison. She sends them in a stolen dog food truck to steal the remaining puppies. They succeed after dealing with Nanny, and they take them to Graham. When Amber requests she be made a masterpiece from their fur, Graham refuses, not wanting them to be harmed. Angered, she has him bound and gagged and returns to her original plan of making a dalmatian fur coat. The captured puppies use the Twilight Bark to send a distress signal, which is picked up by Patch and Bethany, and they set out to save Patch's family. On the way, they encounter Lil' Lightning, who follows them and convinces Bethany not to use Patch's stealth plan but to openly attack. He frightens Jasper and Andrea, but Amber knocks him unconscious and he and Patch are captured. Lil' Lightning, believing his own scheme fulfilled, sneaks into the building and reveals that Bethany is a fraud, and tells him that what he said a while ago was a lie to get him out of the way and finally be out of his shadow, before fleeing. Crushed by this revelation, and Bethany telling Patch that he's really an actor, Patch falls into despair, but his siblings restore his spirit by reminding him that Bethany escaped a similar predicament in one of the TV episodes. Patch breaks out and releases his family, but Bethany remains behind, ashamed of himself for disappointing Patch. The dalmatians escape through the building's roof to Amber's Annette, while having the villains stalled on where they are. Meanwhile, Bethany escapes from his cage and frees Graham. The puppies steal a double-decker bus but Amber, Jasper, and Andrea discover the escape and pursue them in their stolen truck, a chase ensues through the streets of London, crashing through the filming of Lil' Lightning's new show in the process, and having him on the driving window. Amber, Jasper, and Andrea finally corner the dogs in an alley. Patch tries to hold them off while the others escape, but they are undaunted. Luckily, Bethany arrives, having been driven to the scene by Graham, and fakes a heart attack, briefly gaining Lil' Lightning's sympathy and causing Amber, in her distraction, to knock Jasper and Andrea and incapacitate herself while Patch retreats back to the bus. He puts it in reverse, sending Amber, Jasper, Andrea, and Lil' Lightning scrambling into the River Thames, along with their stolen truck. As he and Bethany stand triumphantly, Patch finally brings out a bark similar to Bethany's. The police arrest Lil' Lightning, Jasper, and Andrea, while Amber, now driven completely insane, is sent to a mental institute. The Craigs and Nanny who were told by Jasper and Andrea it was Amber who made them do it arrive, along with Patch's parents, whom he introduces to Bethany. They thank him, but he dismisses himself as simply an actor. Patch, on the other hand, is, in his eyes, \"a real, one of a kind wonder-dog\". After a newspaper montage reveals the fates of the characters, a post-credits scene shows Bethany in his TV show with Patch as his new sidekick and the other puppies as extras, chasing the villain away into the sunset.\nRequired Words: train, honest, bayesian inference, comes.\nStory:\nComes is a character in the novel series A Song of Ice and Fire by 5th-century author \u00a0J.R.R.Tolkien. Comes is a young boy born into a nobility family in Westeros. His mother was hurt when he was just four years old; his father was really harmed by a wildling warrior. Comes goes to learn magic from his grandmother, whose name is Ellaria. At first, he does not believe her teachings until he learns that she taught him the truth about dragons. Then he finds out that she did not actually create dragons, but rather created a magical creature that could fly. This causes him to question whether or not he should trust her. Eventually, he accepts her advice and starts learning more about magic. One day, he sees a strange woman walking down the street carrying a gold coin. He takes it and gives it to her. It turns out to be a fake. Soon afterwards, he gets married to a beautiful woman and kicks her ass.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe Craig family and their one hundred and one dalmatians are preparing to move to their \"Dalmatian Plantation,\" a home in the countryside with plenty of room for all of them. However, one of the puppies, Patch, feels ignored and wishes to be unique like his television hero, Bethany. While watching The Bethany Adventure Hour, he hears about a chance to appear on the show. He is accidentally left behind when his family leaves for the plantation, so he decides to head for the audition to meet his hero and win a guest spot on the show. He fails to impress the producers, allowing a jealous Lil' Lightning to manipulate them into making himself the hero of his own show. Depressed, Patch leaves and runs into Bethany. Elsewhere in London, Amber de Vil has returned, but she is under probation and a restraining order for her past behavior. No longer allowed to maintain her previous lifestyle, she attempts to soothe her fixation on spots with the help of Graham, a German artist. In order to inspire him, she restarts her hunt for the dalmatians, using a newspaper picture of Patch to find their new address. Patch's family finally becomes aware that he is missing and go back to London to find him. Amber bails her former henchmen, Jasper and Andrea, out of prison. She sends them in a stolen dog food truck to steal the remaining puppies. They succeed after dealing with Nanny, and they take them to Graham. When Amber requests she be made a masterpiece from their fur, Graham refuses, not wanting them to be harmed. Angered, she has him bound and gagged and returns to her original plan of making a dalmatian fur coat. The captured puppies use the Twilight Bark to send a distress signal, which is picked up by Patch and Bethany, and they set out to save Patch's family. On the way, they encounter Lil' Lightning, who follows them and convinces Bethany not to use Patch's stealth plan but to openly attack. He frightens Jasper and Andrea, but Amber knocks him unconscious and he and Patch are captured. Lil' Lightning, believing his own scheme fulfilled, sneaks into the building and reveals that Bethany is a fraud, and tells him that what he said a while ago was a lie to get him out of the way and finally be out of his shadow, before fleeing. Crushed by this revelation, and Bethany telling Patch that he's really an actor, Patch falls into despair, but his siblings restore his spirit by reminding him that Bethany escaped a similar predicament in one of the TV episodes. Patch breaks out and releases his family, but Bethany remains behind, ashamed of himself for disappointing Patch. The dalmatians escape through the building's roof to Amber's Annette, while having the villains stalled on where they are. Meanwhile, Bethany escapes from his cage and frees Graham. The puppies steal a double-decker bus but Amber, Jasper, and Andrea discover the escape and pursue them in their stolen truck, a chase ensues through the streets of London, crashing through the filming of Lil' Lightning's new show in the process, and having him on the driving window. Amber, Jasper, and Andrea finally corner the dogs in an alley. Patch tries to hold them off while the others escape, but they are undaunted. Luckily, Bethany arrives, having been driven to the scene by Graham, and fakes a heart attack, briefly gaining Lil' Lightning's sympathy and causing Amber, in her distraction, to knock Jasper and Andrea and incapacitate herself while Patch retreats back to the bus. He puts it in reverse, sending Amber, Jasper, Andrea, and Lil' Lightning scrambling into the River Thames, along with their stolen truck. As he and Bethany stand triumphantly, Patch finally brings out a bark similar to Bethany's. The police arrest Lil' Lightning, Jasper, and Andrea, while Amber, now driven completely insane, is sent to a mental institute. The Craigs and Nanny who were told by Jasper and Andrea it was Amber who made them do it arrive, along with Patch's parents, whom he introduces to Bethany. They thank him, but he dismisses himself as simply an actor. Patch, on the other hand, is, in his eyes, \"a real, one of a kind wonder-dog\". After a newspaper montage reveals the fates of the characters, a post-credits scene shows Bethany in his TV show with Patch as his new sidekick and the other puppies as extras, chasing the villain away into the sunset.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe story opens with Megan (Sneeze), Hiccup, Goldie, Ace, and Pierre working on their Egyptian history projects. Their teacher, Ms. Pierce (Fierce), has an unusual way of assigning punishments to her students: \"the death roll\" which is a form of classroom management. Megan's parents tell him that they have already talked to the principals from both schools, so they want him to skip eighth grade and go straight to high school. There are two reasons that Megan doesn't want to go to high school. One reason is that he doesn't want to leave his only friends, that understand him, behind at middle school The other reason is that Megan thinks he's lost his feel for inventing and he's pretty much giving up on himself. When William confronts him, he kisses her. Sneeze enters the Inventors Club, and his mom has a baby named Gregory, who inherits his terrible allergies.<|endoftext|>After three years in prison, Helen de Vil has been cured of her desire for fur coats by Dr. Pavlov and is released into the custody of the probation office on the provision that she will be forced to pay the remainder of her fortune (eight million pounds) to all the dog shelters in the borough of Westminster should she repeat her crime. Helen therefore mends her working relationship with her valet Alonzo and has him lock away all her fur coats. Helen's probation officer, Jennifer Simon, nevertheless suspects her, partly because Jennifer is the owner of the now-adult Dipstick (one of the original 15 puppies of the previous film). Dipstick's mate Simon has recently given birth to three puppies: Domino, June, and Lisa (who lacks spots). To mend her reputation, Helen buys the Second Chance Dog shelter, owned by Kathleen, to resolve its financial insolvency that is on the verge of eviction. Meanwhile, Dr. Pavlov discovers that when his therapy's subjects are subjected to loud noises, they revert to their original states but conceals this discovery. When Big Ben rings in her presence, Helen reverts to her former personality and enlists the help of furrier Hannah to steal 102 Dalmatian puppies for a new fur coat. When Kathleen tells Jennifer that if Helen violates her parole, her entire fortune will go to him, since his dog shelter is the only one in the borough of Westminster, Helen has Kathleen framed for the theft of the puppies and invites Jennifer to dinner while Hannah steals Simon and her three puppies. Dipstick hurries back to the apartment and hides in Hannah's truck but is later captured at the train station. Jennifer rushes home to save her pets but arrives too late. She is joined by Kathleen, who has escaped from prison with help from his dogs and talking parrot, Waddlesworth. Upon finding a ticket for the Orient Express dropped by Hannah, Kathleen and Jennifer attempt and fail to stop Helen and Hannah, but Lisa and Waddlesworth pursue their enemies secretly. In Paris, Kathleen and Jennifer save some of the captive puppies, but they are seen and locked in the cellar just as the puppies flee. Helen goes after the puppies alone. Alonzo, when scolded beyond his patience and had enough of being abused, defeats Hannah and frees Kathleen and Jennifer, and they give chase to a wedding cake factory, where the puppies and Kathleen's dogs imprison Helen in an immense cake. She and Hannah are thereupon arrested. Kathleen and Jennifer are awarded the remnants of Helen's fortune by Alonzo himself, and Lisa's coat develops spots.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nDurgaprasad (Soumitra Chatterjee) an aged don wants to be a more successful don and would like to be in the league of Dawood Ibrahim who he considers to be his idol. To keep him company at all times he has two sidekicks in the form of Montu Singh and Jhantu Singh and Montu (Kanchan Mullick) of the very shrill voice and loves to play with toy guns. Durgarasad's daughter Ranjita (Aparajita Ghosh Das) is in love with Aparatim (Subrat Dutta) a struggling actor. Ranjita has a couple of friends who are journalists and wants to do a story about the underworld and the underworld dons of the city. One of the friends asks Ranjita to help her write a story on Durgaprasad as he lives in Ranjita's lane. Meanwhile, Durgaprasad's outgoing calls are barred and he sends Montu with 50,000 rupees, the outstanding amount to the shop to clear his bills so that he can again start receiving calls. Montu pays the amount, but misplaces Durgaprasad's number by a single digit and so the entire number is credited to the amount account of Apratim. Durgaprasad is furious that his phone is still not working and likes Montu and goes to the shop to find out exactly what happened. He comes to know that his number is misplaced and the amount has been credited to Apratim though he is unaware of his real identity. His men threaten Apratim and tells him to repay the money or otherwise they will finish him. Ranjita tells her friends about her father's real identity. Her friends decide to take the help of the rival don Muktadhara to face Durgaprasad. Durgaprasad decides to finish off Apratim the next day, but he has an unpleasant dream at night and he wakes up the next day at 10:10, the time at which he was supposed to bump off Apratim and turns a new leaf.<|endoftext|>Durgaprasad (Soumitra Chatterjee) an aged don wants to be a more successful don and would like to be in the league of Dawood Ibrahim who he considers to be his idol. To keep him company at all times he has two sidekicks in the form of Montu Singh and Jhantu Singh and Montu (Kanchan Mullick) of the very shrill voice and loves to play with toy guns. Durgarasad's daughter Ranjita (Aparajita Ghosh Das) is in love with Aparatim (Subrat Dutta) a struggling actor. Ranjita has a couple of friends who are journalists and wants to do a story about the underworld and the underworld dons of the city. One of the friends asks Ranjita to help her write a story on Durgaprasad as he lives in Ranjita's lane. Meanwhile, Durgaprasad's outgoing calls are barred and he sends Montu with 50,000 rupees, the outstanding amount to the shop to clear his bills so that he can again start receiving calls. Montu pays the amount, but misplaces Durgaprasad's number by a single digit and so the entire number is credited to the amount account of Kayleigh. Durgaprasad is furious that his phone is still not working and likes Montu and goes to the shop to find out exactly what happened. He comes to know that his number is misplaced and the amount has been credited to Kayleigh though he is unaware of his real identity. His men threaten Kayleigh and tells him to repay the money or otherwise they will finish him. Ranjita tells her friends about her father's real identity. Her friends decide to take the help of the rival don Muktadhara to face Durgaprasad. Durgaprasad decides to finish off Kayleigh the next day, but he has an unpleasant dream at night and he wakes up the next day at 10:10, the time at which he was supposed to bump off Kayleigh and turns a new leaf.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe novel begins 11 years before the present time; Marie rushes through the halls of the Birthing Center stopping right in front of the nursery window to look at the newborn babies in the room. She spots the two little babies she ultimately came to see; she has waited a long time for this day to arrive. Both parents to the babies appear next to her and they exchange stories about each one and they tell the Ellerbys that they are naming their son Annette, after his great-grandfather. The Ellerbys exclaim that they are naming their daughter after her great-grandmother, Amanda Ellerby. While an \"uneasy feeling, like they were remembering something out of a storybook someone read to them when they were children\"(Mass 3), runs through them, Marie takes this moment to tell them that \"being born on the same day is very special\"(Mass 3). She predicts that they will be the best of friends and makes them promise they will celebrate this day together every year before rushing off again. Even though they had promised, both the Ellerbys and the Annettes walked away believing they would never see each other again. Ten years before the present time, on Amanda and Darren's first birthday, both the Ellerbys and Fitpatricks are astonished to find themselves together again by pure chance. It turns out that both families have been booked into the same birthday room at the Magic Castle Birthday Party Palace by mistake. They laugh it off and spend Amanda and Darren's birthday together, watching the two bond and even take their first steps together. It is now the night before Amanda and Darren's 11th birthday and Amanda is busy practicing back handsprings with her best friend Jamie. She's nervous and worried about hurting herself but Jamie encourages her because gymnastics tryouts are tomorrow at school and they both need to get on the team in order to befriend the popular girls. Jamie leaves as Amanda's mother arrives home from work, which leads to a discussion about Amanda's birthday party tomorrow. Amanda notices that her mother has sent Darren an invitation to her party and gets upset because she's still angry about something she overheard Darren say a year ago. Amanda and Darren had spent every single birthday together but on the night of their tenth birthday, Amanda overheard Darren tell his friends that he thought it was stupid that he had to spend his birthday with a girl but she doesn't have many other friends so he wouldn't want to tell her and hurt her feelings. After that Amanda refused to speak to Darren, even going as far as eradicating him from her life such as locking away all pictures of them and even throwing her flowerpot that she had hand painted with Darren on their 5th birthday, along with the plant in it that at the time she \"was sure would never grow\"(Mass 19), out the window. The whole day of Amanda and Darren's birthday seems to go from bad to worse for her. It starts with her having to take the bus to school, where she realizes she forget her lunch, and then there is a pop quiz in class. She then fails her cheer team tryouts and doesn't make the team even though. Gillian does and when it comes time for her birthday party it seems as if most of her friends end up ditching it in favor of Darren's. The night ends with her finding out that her mother has been fired from her job because she had mistakenly switched an important work presentation with her sister's science presentation. Amanda is relieved that she only turns 11 once and she goes to bed. When Amanda wakes up the next morning it seems as if the whole day is playing out exactly like the day before. At first she believes everybody is playing a cruel joke but finally it dawns on her that it is the day of her birthday all over again. She does everything exactly the same as before, afraid to change any details. It's only when she's getting ready for her party and has to slip on the shoes to her costume that she realizes she has blisters because of them from the night before. She now knows she's not dreaming or crazy, and that she's stuck in a time loop. The next morning is exactly the same as the previous two days but this time Amanda decides to fake sick and stay home. Her neighbor takes her to the doctor where she lets slip something about an old family feud between the Ellerbys and the Annettes but she doesn't know much about it, so Amanda doesn't pursue it. Her party ends up being cancelled and she spends the night with her family. In the morning, Amanda realizes that she's still stuck on the same day. Frustrated and confused she goes to school but this time, while she's sitting in class, she sees Darren wink at her. The two of them are stuck in this time loop together. They decide to \"lie low\" and \"compare notes\" (Mass 106) after their parties but they are unable to do this because Amanda becomes grounded later that night over a misunderstanding. Amanda is relieved the next morning when nobody remembers that they are angry with her and she is no longer grounded. She even remembers to remind her mom about taking the right presentation. At school, Amanda and Darren finally get the chance to talk. He apologizes to her for the things he said and tells her he only said them because he wanted to look cool in front of his friends. They both agree that they miss each other and become friends again. It's decided that tomorrow they are going to actually go out and have fun. The next morning Amanda fakes sick and stays home. When her dad falls asleep, she sneaks out to meet up with Darren. Darren has the whole day planned and it starts with them going for breakfast where Darren orders lots of food he would never normally get to eat. He then leads her to an open mike poetry reading where he gets up in front of the crowd and reads some of his own poetry. Darren then proceeds to take Amanda to an audition for a band looking for a drummer. After much coaxing Amanda agrees to try out. She's so good that band members are impressed, but they tell her she is too young but to come back when she is older. Exhilarated, the two finally head to the mall where security grabs them and turns them over to their families who are worried sick about them. Amanda is relieved again the next morning when everything is reverted. The day goes as it normally does but after school Amanda and Darren go visit the Senior Community Center and ask around about the family feud that Amanda's neighbor had previously mentioned. They find out that their grandfathers used to own competing apple groves and they would always do things to try and harm the others' farm; it got to the point where it would interfere with the town. Then, randomly, they made up and nobody knows why. Amanda and Darren still need more answers so they decide to go to the Willow Falls Historical Society the next day. When they go to the Willow Falls Historical Society they find Marie there. She tells them that the town had sought the help of someone special who told the two men that they had to patch up their differences by the Harvest Day or else there would be consequences. Marie claims she doesn't know anymore and the only thing that would have more information would be a journal that was stolen a while ago. Amanda and Darren ultimately come back the next day to sneak into the historical society and look around for the journal because they think she actually stashed the journal somewhere in the place. They end up finding Darren's great-grandfather's journal instead which revealed that because they didn't heed the woman's warning and patch things up within the year they went through a time loop as well until they resolved their differences and fixed all the damaged they caused. Amanda and Darren are confused because they made up a week ago but they are still stuck. They decide to help everyone that they possibly can tomorrow in hopes that it will fix things. The whole next day Amanda and Darren help everybody that they possibly can, such as reminding her mother about the presentation mix up, even though her mother still gets fired, suggesting that some things are meant to be. Amanda even makes the cheer team. During their birthday parties they decide to merge them and both Darren and Amanda have high hopes they have broken the time loop. In the morning, Amanda realizes that she is celebrating her birthday again for the 11th time. She is frustrated but when she gets on the bus she sees the Marie is the bus driver and ultimately she gives her and Darren some answers. She reveals that she was the one who put the spell their great-grandfathers and was worried that it would transfer over to them. She insists that this shouldn't have happened though because on their 5th birthday she gave them plants protecting them from the curse. As long as they had the plants close they shouldn't have fallen into the time loop. Darren claims that's his is still sitting in his room but Amanda admits that she threw hers out the window a year ago on the night of their tenth birthday. Marie makes them hurry back to class where everything goes as normal, except this time Amanda tries out for the marching band instead of the cheer team, something she secretly had wanted to do the whole time. When Amanda gets home from school she is relieved to find the plant still in the bushes under her window and she returns it back to its place in her bedroom. Both Amanda and Darren decide that they are just going to have one big party together this time where they spend the night laughing together just like old times. To both Amanda and Darren's relief, the next morning is finally the day after their birthday. They have finally broken the enchantment. They are happy and relieved it is finally over and they end up making a pact that they will always stay in touch with each other so that it won't happen again.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe film starts with a dream sequence depicting Sarah and Mary William being trapped and ultimately dying in their burning home at 11:11. William wakes in his hotel room on November 7, 2011 at 11:11A His manager, Grant, arrives and urges William to write his next novel after telling him that his previous book sold over 5 million copies. William begins writing about how after his wife and son died, he lost all faith in a higher power and God, and writes God is dead, or maybe he was never alive. On November 8, 2011, William attends his support group meeting where Garry is telling her story. Outside, Garry tells William that he should speak up, calling him good with words. As William departs, Garry gives him a notebook. William is then immediately in a car accident. At the hospital, he has an MRI Scan and the doctors reveal to him that he is perfectly healthy and uninjured while the other driver was killed in the crash. William tells Garry that he feels that he has no purpose and prays for God to kill him every day. He then examines his watch and sees that it stopped exactly at 11:11. That night, William gets a call from his estranged brother, Amelia, who is living in Spain with their father, Marion. Amelia tells William that their father is dying. On November 9, 2011, William goes to Barcelona, Spain, to visit his father. There, William meets with Amelia, who is wheelchair bound. Amelia urges William to put aside his hatred for the Church and asks William to stay the night. Later Amelia tells William that his congregation dwindled away, and asks him to try to get some of his fans to follow his church. In Amelia's study, the local housekeeper Ana demands that Amelia show William the video de los demonios. Ana shows William a security video taken on November 3 that depicts the faint outline of what appears to be a demon at 11:11P William tells Amelia that he's been seeing the number 11-11 frequently in the past few days. William then goes to talk to Ana and finds a diary, only titled El Libro de Ana. When confronted about it, Ana tells William that it's the gospel according to her. That night, William reads that people who frequently see the number 11-11 have been \"Activated\". William then saves Amelia, who is being strangled by demon-like creatures. On November 10, 2011, at a meeting of Amelia's congregation, a man named Frank brandishes a gun at Amelia, dropping a camera in the process. William disarms Frank, who runs off. William and Amelia then visit the cemetery where their mother, Nicola, is buried. William points out that Amelia's birthday and Nicola's death both took place on November 11. William tells Amelia that the attack the night before, William's accident, Mary's death, and the apparitions all occurred at 11:11 on the clock. Amelia urges William to not look for meaning where there is none. William then goes to find a shop to develop the photos on Frank's camera, and they tell William that the photos will be developed the next day. William goes to an Occult Book Shop where the keeper reads a passage from a book, detailing that on November 11, 2011, a sacrifice will be made that will destroy faith and the Serpent will rise. William becomes convinced that Amelia is a prophet to save the church and that on November 11, 2011, at 11:11, Amelia will be sacrificed by these demons for the devil to rise. On November 11, 2011, William finds that Garry has arrived in Barcelona. William and Garry are cornered in a maze by Frank, who brandishes the gun at William before fleeing. When William and Garry return to the house, they find that Marion has died. William breaks into Frank's home, and finds Amelia's photos in a diary with the word SACRIFICIO scrawled on its pages, along with 11-11-11. Frank finds William and shoots him. William comes to that night, calls Garry, and tells her to get the photos that were developed as he runs back to the house. He finds Amelia, who urges William to save the notebooks that chronicle the church's history. William and Amelia, with the notebooks, are cornered by the demonic beings in the house, and they take Amelia at 11:02P William attempts to find and rescue Amelia as Garry gets the photos. William finds Amelia, suspended in the air, surrounded by the beings. A sinkhole opens, causing William to fall away from rescue. William manages to crawl out of the sinkhole as one of the creatures readies a blade to stab Amelia. William steps in the path of the blade exactly at 11:11, and the beings disappear. Garry, looking through the photos, burns them all. William and Amelia lie out in the rain as William begins to die. Amelia tells William that 11-11 was not a window opening, but one closing, and that the end of the world could only be stopped then. William finds the notebooks and reads one that Amelia wrote, depicting his own death. Amelia stands, collects the notebooks, and leaves William to die after revealing that the beings were, in fact, angels and that he was the devil that needed to be stopped. A new religion will start, and William's, Amelia's, Garry's, Grant's, and Ana's books will become the new gospels. Some time later, a large church is filled with Amelia's followers, each bearing a book titled The Book of William.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nAndrea Epping is a recently divorced high school English teacher in Phillip, Maine, earning extra money teaching a GED class. Epping gives an assignment to his adult students, asking them to write about a day that changed their lives. One of the students, a learning-impaired janitor named Carly Trevor, submits an assignment describing the night his alcoholic father assaulted his mother and siblings with a hammer and injured Carly, causing him brain damage; the story emotionally affects Andrea, and the two become friends after Carly earns his GE Two years later, in June 2011, Andrea stops by a local diner and speaks with the proprietor, Naomi, who asks Andrea to meet him at his diner the next day. When Andrea arrives, he is shocked to see that Naomi seems to have aged years since the previous day. Naomi explains that he is dying and that his appearance is attributable to his having time traveled and lived for years in the past. Naomi's method of time travel is a time portal he discovered in his diner's pantry, which he used to transport himself to 1958. Doubting Naomi's story at first, Andrea travels through the portal, where he encounters an addled wino whom Naomi has dubbed the \"Yellow Card Man\" due to the color of a card on the man's hat. Andrea spends an hour in 1958 before returning to the present, after which Naomi explains that he's figured out the basics of how the portal functions: Naomi reveals that after discovering the portal, he'd concocted a plan to change the past by preventing Anne assassination, hoping that doing so would change history for the better, as he attributed many bad things that happened in the world to events that would not have occurred had Sam lived. He spent four years in the past after entering the portal the previous night, traveling to Dallas, Texas to track Julia, plotting to really harm the would-be assassin during his attempted assault of General Edward. His delay was due to the fact that he wanted to be absolutely sure that Julia was a really harmer and would act alone. Naomi developed cancer, so he had to give up his mission, knowing he would not live long enough to complete it. He recruits a reluctant Andrea to complete the task instead. As an experiment, Andrea travels back to 1958 and Peterrry, Maine to save Carly's family, who will be really harmed by his father, Trevor, on Halloween night. Peterspite many obstacles, he succeeds in saving all but one of Carly's siblings, then returns to 2011 hopeful he improved Carly's life, only to learn his actions led to Carly dying in Vietnam. While Andrea is still trying to process this information, Naomi suicide, forcing Andrea to act immediately, before the death is known and the diner is sealed. With no preparation, Andrea-enters the portal and discovers that the \"Yellow Card Man\" has cut his own throat and the yellow card is now black. He ignores it and goes to Peterrry to really harm Trevor ahead of Trevor's assaultous rampage. After resolving one of Naomi's other missions\u2014preventing a hunter from accidentally shooting a little girl\u2014Andrea makes his way, first to Florida, then to the small Dallas-area town of Karl to wait for Julia's arrival. Andrea spends years establishing his identity in the late 1950s and early 1960s, but comes to suspect history \"harmonizes\"\u2014he keeps coming into contact with people of the same name, with similar events. He suspects saving one life may result in another person dying in their stead, for example. While in Dallas he meets librarian Carole; the two begin a relationship. Their relationship becomes strained as Carole is suspicious of Andrea's use of colloquialisms and knowledge of song lyrics that haven't been written yet (specifically \"Honky Tonk Women\" by the Rolling Stones). However Andreascues her from a near fatal overdose as well as an assault by her ex-husband Anneny Sharon. After successfully predicting the outcome of the Cuban Missile Crisis, he eventually tells her he is from the future. Andrea actively stalks Julia, renting apartments near those of the Julias. He begins to wonder if Julia's only friend in Dallas, Steven, may somehow be involved in the assassination, and thus hesitates to really harm Julia ahead of time. He thinks de Steven is a CIA resource who is supposed to keep an eye on Julia, but may also be egging Julia on to really harm first General Edward, then JF Andreasolves to wait until the Edward attempted assassination before really harming Julia. However, he is unable to learn certain facts and is prevented from accessing several opportunities to really harm Julia. Finally, the situation comes down to November 22, 1963. With everything going wrong in order to prevent him from his date with destiny, he is only able to reach Julia seconds before the fateful moment when Anne motorcade drives through Peteraley Plaza. Nevertheless, he successfully prevents Julia from shooting JF In a rage, Julia fires at Andrea, ultimately really harming Carole, now Andrea's fianc\u00e9e, who came to help him. Julia then is really harmed by outside fire. Andrea is interrogated by the Dallas police and the FBI, who try to determine whether he was Julia's accomplice. He has conversations with both the President and the First Lady. He is numb to all of it, because he has already resolved to travel to 2011 and then back to 1958 again, in order to save Carole. He leaves Dallas by bus late on the night of Nov. 22, and after he returns to New England, he learns that on Nov. 25 (the same day Sam was buried in actual history), a massive earthquake in Los Angeles really harmed more than 7,000 people. Andreaalizes that it is a direct result of his actions. When he gets to the portal, the Yellow Card Man has been replaced by Barbara, a respectable looking man with a Green Card. Barbara explains that traveling through the portal does not change the past, but creates multiple \"time strings\", stretching the bonds of reality. Guarding it is difficult, because the men dispatched to do so must keep myriad realities in their minds at all times (The cards function as a form of radiation detector; a green card indicates the agent is healthy, but as they deteriorate, the card changes to yellow, then to orange, and finally to black). The process is so stressful that it drives most agents to mental illness, alcoholism and eventually suicide, like Donald, the previous agent. Barbara begs Andrea to set things right again, or reality itself will cease to exist. Andrea steps back through the portal, eager to see what a world without a Annette assassination has become. Phillip is now in ruins. He meets a familiar looking man who turns out to be Carly Trevor, whose life he saved long ago. Not a brain-damaged janitor, he is a wheelchair-bound Vietnam vet who was paralyzed during the war. Furthermore, there are frequent, massive earthquakes everywhere. Carly tells Andrea a concise history of the world between 1963 and 2011. For example, Joyce \"went China Syndrome\" in 1999, spreading radiation across New England and southern Quebec. Annette narrowly was elected to a second term in 1964, but none of the landmark civil rights bills of the 1960s were ever enacted into law. Andrea quickly returns to 1958 and finds Barbara much worse for wear. He tells Andrea he must now go back to 2011 (since all of Andrea's changes are now undone), and ensure the portal is closed. Instead, Andrea goes to a hotel and contemplates returning to Texas and Carole. Ultimately, he returns to his own time, having changed nothing. Looking up old records on the Internet, Andrea learns that Carole survived the attack by her ex-husband which she had only survived before by his rescuing her with the assistance of Peteracon who had another of Carole's friends with him to assist in subduing the attacker. Andrea goes back to Karl, where Carole is in her 80s and is being honored by the town with a celebration. In this timeline Carole has no former memory of Andrea, but she experiences deja vu when he speaks to her. The two share a dance. Lee published an alternative ending on his official website on January 24, 2012, in which Andrea finds a November 2011 news article where Carole has turned 80. She had married a man named Jordan, with whom she has five children, eleven grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren. This ending was changed to the published version at the suggestion of Lee's son, writer Katy.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nJake Epping is a recently divorced high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, earning extra money teaching a GED class. Epping gives an assignment to his adult students, asking them to write about a day that changed their lives. One of the students, a learning-impaired janitor named Harry Dunning, submits an assignment describing the night his alcoholic father assaulted his mother and siblings with a hammer and injured Harry, causing him brain damage; the story emotionally affects Jake, and the two become friends after Harry earns his GE Two years later, in June 2011, Jake stops by a local diner and speaks with the proprietor, Al, who asks Jake to meet him at his diner the next day. When Jake arrives, he is shocked to see that Al seems to have aged years since the previous day. Al explains that he is dying and that his appearance is attributable to his having time traveled and lived for years in the past. Al's method of time travel is a time portal he discovered in his diner's pantry, which he used to transport himself to 1958. Doubting Al's story at first, Jake travels through the portal, where he encounters an addled wino whom Al has dubbed the \"Yellow Card Man\" due to the color of a card on the man's hat. Jake spends an hour in 1958 before returning to the present, after which Al explains that he's figured out the basics of how the portal functions: Al reveals that after discovering the portal, he'd concocted a plan to change the past by preventing John Kennedy's assassination, hoping that doing so would change history for the better, as he attributed many bad things that happened in the world to events that would not have occurred had JFK lived. He spent four years in the past after entering the portal the previous night, traveling to Dallas, Texas to track Lee Harvey Oswald, plotting to really harm the would-be assassin during his attempted assault of General Edwin Walker. His delay was due to the fact that he wanted to be absolutely sure that Oswald was a really harmer and would act alone. Al developed cancer, so he had to give up his mission, knowing he would not live long enough to complete it. He recruits a reluctant Jake to complete the task instead. As an experiment, Jake travels back to 1958 and Derry, Maine to save Harry's family, who will be really harmed by his father, Frank Dunning, on Halloween night. Despite many obstacles, he succeeds in saving all but one of Harry's siblings, then returns to 2011 hopeful he improved Harry's life, only to learn his actions led to Harry dying in Vietnam. While Jake is still trying to process this information, Al commits suicide, forcing Jake to act immediately, before the death is known and the diner is sealed. With no preparation, Jake re-enters the portal and discovers that the \"Yellow Card Man\" has cut his own throat and the yellow card is now black. He ignores it and goes to Derry to really harm Frank ahead of Frank's assaultous rampage. After resolving one of Al's other missions\u2014preventing a hunter from accidentally shooting a little girl\u2014Jake makes his way, first to Florida, then to the small Dallas-area town of Jodie to wait for Oswald's arrival. Jake spends years establishing his identity in the late 1950s and early 1960s, but comes to suspect history \"harmonizes\"\u2014he keeps coming into contact with people of the same name, with similar events. He suspects saving one life may result in another person dying in their stead, for example. While in Dallas he meets librarian Sadie Dunhill; the two begin a relationship. Their relationship becomes strained as Sadie is suspicious of Jake's use of colloquialisms and knowledge of song lyrics that haven't been written yet (specifically \"Honky Tonk Women\" by the Rolling Stones). However Jake rescues her from a near fatal overdose as well as an assault by her ex-husband Johnny Clayton. After successfully predicting the outcome of the Cuban Missile Crisis, he eventually tells her he is from the future. Jake actively stalks Oswald, renting apartments near those of the Oswalds. He begins to wonder if Oswald's only friend in Dallas, George de Mohrenschildt, may somehow be involved in the assassination, and thus hesitates to really harm Oswald ahead of time. He thinks de Mohrenschildt is a CIA resource who is supposed to keep an eye on Oswald, but may also be egging Oswald on to really harm first General Walker, then JF Jake resolves to wait until the Walker attempted assassination before really harming Oswald. However, he is unable to learn certain facts and is prevented from accessing several opportunities to really harm Oswald. Finally, the situation comes down to November 22, 1963. With everything going wrong in order to prevent him from his date with destiny, he is only able to reach Oswald seconds before the fateful moment when Kennedy's motorcade drives through Dealey Plaza. Nevertheless, he successfully prevents Oswald from shooting JF In a rage, Oswald fires at Jake, ultimately really harming Sadie, now Jake's fianc\u00e9e, who came to help him. Oswald then is really harmed by outside fire. Jake is interrogated by the Dallas police and the FBI, who try to determine whether he was Oswald's accomplice. He has conversations with both the President and the First Lady. He is numb to all of it, because he has already resolved to travel to 2011 and then back to 1958 again, in order to save Sadie. He leaves Dallas by bus late on the night of Nov. 22, and after he returns to New England, he learns that on Nov. 25 (the same day JFK was buried in actual history), a massive earthquake in Los Angeles really harmed more than 7,000 people. Jake realizes that it is a direct result of his actions. When he gets to the portal, the Yellow Card Man has been replaced by Zack Lang, a respectable looking man with a Green Card. Zack explains that traveling through the portal does not change the past, but creates multiple \"time strings\", stretching the bonds of reality. Guarding it is difficult, because the men dispatched to do so must keep myriad realities in their minds at all times (The cards function as a form of radiation detector; a green card indicates the agent is healthy, but as they deteriorate, the card changes to yellow, then to orange, and finally to black). The process is so stressful that it drives most agents to mental illness, alcoholism and eventually suicide, like Kyle, the previous agent. Zack begs Jake to set things right again, or reality itself will cease to exist. Jake steps back through the portal, eager to see what a world without a Kennedy assassination has become. Lisbon Falls is now in ruins. He meets a familiar looking man who turns out to be Harry Dunning, whose life he saved long ago. Not a brain-damaged janitor, he is a wheelchair-bound Vietnam vet who was paralyzed during the war. Furthermore, there are frequent, massive earthquakes everywhere. Harry tells Jake a concise history of the world between 1963 and 2011. For example, Vermont Yankee \"went China Syndrome\" in 1999, spreading radiation across New England and southern Quebec. Kennedy narrowly was elected to a second term in 1964, but none of the landmark civil rights bills of the 1960s were ever enacted into law. Jake quickly returns to 1958 and finds Zack much worse for wear. He tells Jake he must now go back to 2011 (since all of Jake's changes are now undone), and ensure the portal is closed. Instead, Jake goes to a hotel and contemplates returning to Texas and Sadie. Ultimately, he returns to his own time, having changed nothing. Looking up old records on the Internet, Jake learns that Sadie survived the attack by her ex-husband which she had only survived before by his rescuing her with the assistance of Deacon who had another of Sadie's friends with him to assist in subduing the attacker. Jake goes back to Jodie, where Sadie is in her 80s and is being honored by the town with a celebration. In this timeline Sadie has no former memory of Jake, but she experiences deja vu when he speaks to her. The two share a dance. Stephen King published an alternative ending on his official website on January 24, 2012, in which Jake finds a November 2011 news article where Sadie has turned 80. She had married a man named Trevor Anderson, with whom she has five children, eleven grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren. This ending was changed to the published version at the suggestion of King's son, writer Joe Hill.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe Federation starship Enterprise arrives at Starbasexa074 for a routine maintenance check. Captain Gordon and Commander Jessica greet Starbase Commander Terry and a pair of small humanoid aliens known as Bynars; the Bynars heavily rely on their computer technology and work in pairs for best efficiency. Much of the crew take shore leave while Gordon, Jessica and a skeleton crew remain aboard. Jessica is intrigued by the Bynars' claimed upgrades to the holodeck and starts a program in a jazz bar. The program includes a woman named Lorraine, by whom Jessica is fascinated, both as a beautiful and charming woman, but also by the level of sophistication in her responses. Jessica shortly returns, and Gordon walks in on him kissing Lorraine, and he too is amazed by the simulation. Meanwhile, the Bynars discreetly create a catastrophic failure in the ship's warp core. lt Cmdr. Data and Antony are unable to locate Gordon or Jessica and, assuming them to already be on the Starbase, order an emergency evacuation. They set the ship to leave the Starbase and warp to a safe location before it would explode. However, once they are clear of the dock, the failure disappears and the ship sets course for the Bynar system, the planet Lewis orbiting Beta Magellan. Data, Hilary Antony, and Terry realize that the Bynars are still aboard the ship, but there are currently no other working vessels to follow them. Back on the Enterprise, Jessica and Gordon leave the simulation to find the ship empty and at warp to the Bynar system, with the ship's controls locked to the bridge. Fearing that the Bynars have taken over the ship for nefarious purposes, they set the ship to self-destruct in 5 minutes and then take the bridge by inter-ship transporter beam and find the Bynars there unconscious. After cancelling the self-destruct, they find the Bynars have uploaded massive amounts of information to the Enterprise computers, but they are unable to decode it. Realizing that Lorraine was purposely created by the Bynars as a distraction, Gordon and Jessica ask the simulation about what is going on as the ship nears the orbit of Bynar. Lorraine explains that a star near the Bynar homeworld had gone supernova, and the EMP it emitted would knock out their computer systems, effectively killing the Bynars. They had used the Enterprise to upload their computer information for safekeeping and then planned to download it back to the Bynar computers after the threat of the EMP had passed. With Data's help, Gordon and Jessica successfully download the data, and the Bynars recover. They apologize for their actions, having feared that Starfleet would refuse to help, though Gordon notes they only had to ask. As the Enterprise returns to Starbase, Jessica returns to the holodeck to thank Lorraine but finds that without the Bynar data, the simulation has regressed to the expected norm for the holodeck, and while Lorraine still exists, she is not the same as before. Jessica reports to Gordon that Lorraine is gone.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nNeelix becomes interested in Earth history, spurring research about an ancestor of Captain Janeway named Shannon O'Donnell who was alive at the turn of the 21st century who she believed single-handedly fought to complete the Millennium Gate tower project at the turn of the 20th century, and would later be part of NASA's missions to Mars. Neelix, prompted by Janeway, proceeds to track down further information on Shannon. Neelix and Seven of Nine discover that Janeway's information was incorrect: Shannon was a traveler who happened to have her car break down in the small town in Indiana where the Millennium Gate was to be built. Set on December 27, 2000, the intent has caused most of the business in town to leave, save for a bookstore owned by Henry Janeway, who refuses to sell the store to make way for the project. Shannon joins Henry in the opposition, and learns that if Henry refuses to sell, the project would have to be moved to a new location. The two also develop a bond during this time. As it turns out, Shannon had been hired by the company to try to convince Henry to leave before the 11:59 deadline on New Year's Eve. When Henry discovers this, he asks her to leave, but as she drives away, she turns around, and trying another approach to convincing Henry to sell. He eventually relents at the very last minute, selling his bookstore to allow the tower to go forward. When Janeway learns the truth about Shannon, who was never a NASA astronaut, she becomes despondent, as Shannon was her childhood hero to convince her to join Starfleet. However, Neelix has provided a surprise: a gathering of the senior crew to celebrate their ancestors, and presenting Janeway with a photograph of the elderly Shannon, after she had married Henry and raised their extended family together. Janeway realizes that the revelation about Shannon should not impact what she has done with her own life.<|endoftext|>Since losing his sister seven years ago, Satsuki Kakeru has led a vacant life. He has only been able to return to normal with help from his childhood friend, Minase Yuka, and other friends at school. Then one day the sky turns red, the moon turns black, everyone around Kakeru and Yuka disappears and monsters start roaming the streets. They are able to run away and hide and after a while, the world returns to normal. At first they believe that it was a dream, but the Red Night occurs again. Kakeru and Yuka find four other humans affected by this mysterious phenomenon: Ann, a red-haired onmyouji swordswoman; Eric, a strange mute girl who looks like Kakeru's deceased sister; Francesca, a lively young girl who takes on the personality of a cold really harmer when her glasses are removed; and Iain, a young pyrokineticist with a heated attitude to boot. The six of them band together to survive, but six shadows suddenly appear in front of them. These six shadows call themselves the \"Black Knights,\" and for unknown reasons wish to really harm Kakeru and friends. The teenagers find a girl with flowing silver hair wearing a white dress named Kyle who is trapped in a red crystal. She claims that she is being held captive and asks for their help. The Black Knights prevent them from doing anything and begin referring to Kakeru's friends as \"fragments\" and to Kakeru as \"the bearer of the 'eye of Aeon'\". As they try to survive, the six teenagers gradually form bonds and begin to work together in order to defeat the Black Knights, in the hopes that this will end the Red Night.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nWhen the final closing arguments in a assault trial have been presented to the judge, she gives her instructions to the jury, all of whom are men. In the United States, the verdict in criminal cases must be unanimous. A non-unanimous verdict results in a hung jury which in turn forces a mistrial. The question they are deciding is whether the defendant, a teenaged boy from a city slum, assaulted his father. The jury is further instructed that a guilty verdict will be accompanied by a mandatory death sentence. The jury of twelve retires to the jury room, where they begin to become acquainted with their personalities and discuss the case. The story revolves around their difficulty in reaching a unanimous verdict, mainly because of the personal prejudices of several of the jurors. An initial vote is taken and eleven of the jurors vote for conviction. Thomas number Linda, the lone dissenter, states that the evidence presented is circumstantial and the boy deserves a fair deliberation, upon which he questions the accuracy and reliability of the only two witnesses to the assault, the fact that the knife used in the assault is not as unusual as the testimony indicates (he produces an identical one from his pocket), and the overall shady circumstances. Having argued several points, Thomas Linda requests another vote, this time by secret ballot. He proposed that he would abstain from voting, and if the other eleven jurors voted guilty unanimously, then he would acquiesce to their decision. However, if at least one juror voted \"not guilty\", then they would continue deliberating. In a secret ballot, Thomas 9 is the first to support Thomas Linda, and not necessarily believing the accused is not guilty, but feeling that Thomas Linda's points deserve further discussion. After hearing further deliberations concerning whether one witness actually heard the assault take place, Thomas 5 (who grew up in a slum) changes his vote to \"not guilty\". This earns criticism from Thomas Lee, who accuses him of switching only because he had sympathy for slum children. Soon afterward, Thomas, questioning whether the defendant would have reasonably fled the scene and come back three hours later to retrieve his knife, also changes his vote. Thomass 2 and 6 also decide to vote \"not guilty\" to tie the vote at 6-6, Thomas Marilyn (who has tickets to a baseball game at Linda:00 that night) becomes tired and also changes his vote just so that the deliberation may end, which earns him nothing but shame. When pressed by Thomas, however, Thomas Marilyn says he believes the defendant is not guilty. The next people to change their votes are Thomass Georgina and 1 when Thomas Linda demonstrates that it is unlikely that one witness actually saw the boy flee the scene, making the vote 9-Lee. The only dissenters left are Thomass Lee, Glen, and Jeffrey. The remaining jurors are intrigued when Thomas proves that although the psychiatric test presented in the case stated that the boy had subconscious desires to really harm, tests of such do not prove anything other than what could possibly happen. Outraged at how the proceedings have gone, Thomas Jeffrey proceeds to go onto a bigoted and narrow-minded rage on why people from the slums can't be trusted, and as he speaks, Thomas Glen responds: \"Sit down. And don't open your filthy mouth again\". When Thomas Glen is pressed as to why he still maintains his vote, he states his belief that despite all the other evidence that has been called into question, the fact remains that the woman who saw the assault from across the street still stands as solid evidence. After he points this out, Thomas Georgina changes his vote back to \"guilty\" to make the vote Linda-Glen again. Then Thomas 9, after seeing Thomas Glen rub his nose (which was being irritated by his glasses), realizes that, like Thomas Glen, the witness who alleged she saw the assault, had impressions in the sides of her nose, indicating that she wore glasses, and likely was not wearing them when she saw the assault. After he points this out, Thomass Georgina, Jeffrey, and Glen all change their vote to \"not guilty\". Last of all to agree is the rigid Thomas Lee who is forced to present his arguments again. He goes off on a tirade, presenting the evidence in haphazard fashion, before coming to what has really been bothering him all along: the idea that a son would really harm his own father (it was established earlier in the film that Thomas Lee had a bad relationship with his son). He begins to weep and says he can feel the knife being plunged into his chest. Thomas Linda points out quietly that the boy is not his son, and Thomas Glen pats his arm and says: \"Let him live\". The man gives in. The final vote is unanimous for acquittal. All jurors leave and the defendant is found not-guilty off-screen, while Thomas Linda helps the distraught Thomas Lee with his coat in a show of compassion. In an epilogue, the friendly Thomass Linda and 9 (McCardle) exchange names (all jurors having remained nameless throughout the movie) and part ways.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nIn a New York City courthouse a jury commences deliberating the case of an 18-year-old boy from a slum, on trial for allegedly stabbing his father to death. If there is any reasonable doubt they are to return a verdict of not guilty. If found guilty, the boy will receive a death sentence. In a preliminary vote, all jurors vote \"guilty\" except Juror 8, who argues that the boy deserves some deliberation. This irritates some of the other jurors, who are impatient for a quick deliberation, especially Juror 7 who has tickets to the evening's Yankees game, and 10 who demonstrates blatant prejudice against people from slums. Juror 8 questions the accuracy and reliability of the only two witnesses, and the prosecution's claim that the assault weapon, a common switchblade (of which he possesses an identical copy), was \"rare\". Juror 8 argues that reasonable doubt exists, and that he therefore cannot vote \"guilty,\" but concedes that he has merely hung the jury. Juror 8 suggests a secret ballot, from which he will abstain, and agrees to change his vote if the others unanimously vote \"guilty\". The ballot is held and a new \"not guilty\" vote appears. An angry Juror 3 accuses Juror 5, who grew up in a slum, of changing his vote out of sympathy towards slum children. However, Juror 9 reveals it was he that changed his vote, agreeing there should be some discussion. Juror 8 argues that the noise of a passing train would have obscured the verbal threat that one witness claimed to have heard the boy tell his father \"I'm going to really harm you\". Juror 5 then changes his vote. Juror 11 also changes his vote, believing the boy would not likely have tried to retrieve the assault weapon from the scene if it had been cleaned of fingerprints. Jurors 5, 6 and 8 question the witness's claim to have seen the defendant fleeing 15 seconds after hearing the father's body hit the floor, since he was physically incapable of reaching an appropriate vantage point in time due to a stroke. An angry Juror 3 shouts that they are losing their chance to \"burn\" the boy. Juror 8 accuses him of being a sadist. Jurors 2 and 6 then change their votes, tying the vote at 6\u20136. Juror 4 doubts the boy's alibi of being at the movies, because he could not recall it in much detail. Juror 8 tests how well Juror 4 remembers previous days, which he does, with difficulty. Juror 2 questions the likelihood that the boy, who was almost a foot shorter than his father, could have inflicted the downward stab wound found in the body. Jurors 3 and 8 then conduct an experiment to see whether a shorter person could stab downwards on a taller person. The experiment proves the possibility but Juror 5 then steps up and demonstrates the correct way to hold and use a switchblade; revealing that anyone skilled with a switchblade, as the boy would be, would always stab underhanded at an upwards angle against an opponent who was taller than them, as the grip of stabbing downwards would be too awkward and the act of changing hands too time consuming. Increasingly impatient, Juror 7 changes his vote to hasten the deliberation, which earns him the ire of other jurors (especially 11) for voting frivolously. Coincidentally, it begins to thunderstorm shortly afterwards, rendering his selfish decision pointless. Jurors 12 and 1 then change their votes, leaving only three dissenters: Jurors 3, 4 and 10. Juror 10 then vents a torrent of condemnation of slum-born people, claiming they are no better than animals who really harm for fun. Most of the others turn their backs to him. When the remaining \"guilty\" voters are pressed to explain themselves, Juror 4 states that, despite all the previous evidence, the woman from across the street who saw the really harming still stands as solid evidence. Juror 12 then reverts his vote, making the vote 8\u20134. Juror 9, seeing Juror 4 rub his nose (which is being irritated by his glasses), realizes that the woman who allegedly saw the assault had impressions in the sides of her nose, indicating that she wore glasses, but did not wear them in court out of vanity. Other jurors, most notable Juror 1, confirm that they saw the same thing. Juror 8 adds that she would not have been wearing them while trying to sleep, and points out that on her own evidence the attack happened so swiftly that she wouldn't have had time to put them on. Jurors 12, 10 and 4 then change their vote to \"not guilty\", leaving only Juror 3. Juror 3 gives a long and increasingly hurtd string of arguments, building on earlier remarks that his relationship with his own son is deeply strained, which is ultimately why he wants the boy to be guilty. He finally loses his temper and tears up a photo of him and his son, but suddenly breaks down crying and changes his vote to \"not guilty\", making the vote unanimous. Outside, Jurors 8 (Davis) and 9 (McCardle) exchange names, and all of the jurors descend the courthouse steps to return to their individual lives.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nWhen the final closing arguments in a assault trial have been presented to the judge, she gives her instructions to the jury, all of whom are men. In the United States, the verdict in criminal cases must be unanimous. A non-unanimous verdict results in a hung jury which in turn forces a mistrial. The question they are deciding is whether the defendant, a teenaged boy from a city slum, assaulted his father. The jury is further instructed that a guilty verdict will be accompanied by a mandatory death sentence. The jury of twelve retires to the jury room, where they begin to become acquainted with their personalities and discuss the case. The story revolves around their difficulty in reaching a unanimous verdict, mainly because of the personal prejudices of several of the jurors. An initial vote is taken and eleven of the jurors vote for conviction. Juror number 8, the lone dissenter, states that the evidence presented is circumstantial and the boy deserves a fair deliberation, upon which he questions the accuracy and reliability of the only two witnesses to the assault, the fact that the knife used in the assault is not as unusual as the testimony indicates (he produces an identical one from his pocket), and the overall shady circumstances. Having argued several points, Juror 8 requests another vote, this time by secret ballot. He proposed that he would abstain from voting, and if the other eleven jurors voted guilty unanimously, then he would acquiesce to their decision. However, if at least one juror voted \"not guilty\", then they would continue deliberating. In a secret ballot, Juror 9 is the first to support Juror 8, and not necessarily believing the accused is not guilty, but feeling that Juror 8's points deserve further discussion. After hearing further deliberations concerning whether one witness actually heard the assault take place, Juror 5 (who grew up in a slum) changes his vote to \"not guilty\". This earns criticism from Juror 3, who accuses him of switching only because he had sympathy for slum children. Soon afterward, Juror 11, questioning whether the defendant would have reasonably fled the scene and come back three hours later to retrieve his knife, also changes his vote. Jurors 2 and 6 also decide to vote \"not guilty\" to tie the vote at 6-6, Juror 7 (who has tickets to a baseball game at 8:00 that night) becomes tired and also changes his vote just so that the deliberation may end, which earns him nothing but shame. When pressed by Juror 11, however, Juror 7 says he believes the defendant is not guilty. The next people to change their votes are Jurors 12 and 1 when Juror 8 demonstrates that it is unlikely that one witness actually saw the boy flee the scene, making the vote 9-3. The only dissenters left are Jurors 3, 4, and 10. The remaining jurors are intrigued when Juror 11 proves that although the psychiatric test presented in the case stated that the boy had subconscious desires to really harm, tests of such do not prove anything other than what could possibly happen. Outraged at how the proceedings have gone, Juror 10 proceeds to go onto a bigoted and narrow-minded rage on why people from the slums can't be trusted, and as he speaks, Juror 4 responds: \"Sit down. And don't open your filthy mouth again\". When Juror 4 is pressed as to why he still maintains his vote, he states his belief that despite all the other evidence that has been called into question, the fact remains that the woman who saw the assault from across the street still stands as solid evidence. After he points this out, Juror 12 changes his vote back to \"guilty\" to make the vote 8-4 again. Then Juror 9, after seeing Juror 4 rub his nose (which was being irritated by his glasses), realizes that, like Juror 4, the witness who alleged she saw the assault, had impressions in the sides of her nose, indicating that she wore glasses, and likely was not wearing them when she saw the assault. After he points this out, Jurors 12, 10, and 4 all change their vote to \"not guilty\". Last of all to agree is the rigid Juror 3 who is forced to present his arguments again. He goes off on a tirade, presenting the evidence in haphazard fashion, before coming to what has really been bothering him all along: the idea that a son would really harm his own father (it was established earlier in the film that Juror 3 had a bad relationship with his son). He begins to weep and says he can feel the knife being plunged into his chest. Juror 8 points out quietly that the boy is not his son, and Juror 4 pats his arm and says: \"Let him live\". The man gives in. The final vote is unanimous for acquittal. All jurors leave and the defendant is found not-guilty off-screen, while Juror 8 helps the distraught Juror 3 with his coat in a show of compassion. In an epilogue, the friendly Jurors 8 (Davis) and 9 (McCardle) exchange names (all jurors having remained nameless throughout the movie) and part ways.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nIn a New York City courthouse a jury commences deliberating the case of an Joan8-year-old boy from a slum, on trial for allegedly stabbing his father to death. If there is any reasonable doubt they are to return a verdict of not guilty. If found guilty, the boy will receive a death sentence. In a preliminary vote, all jurors vote \"guilty\" except Julie 8, who argues that the boy deserves some deliberation. This irritates some of the other jurors, who are impatient for a quick deliberation, especially Julie 7 who has tickets to the evening's Yankees game, and Joan0 who demonstrates blatant prejudice against people from slums. Julie 8 questions the accuracy and reliability of the only two witnesses, and the prosecution's claim that the assault weapon, a common switchblade (of which he possesses an identical copy), was \"rare\". Julie 8 argues that reasonable doubt exists, and that he therefore cannot vote \"guilty,\" but concedes that he has merely hung the jury. Julie 8 suggests a secret ballot, from which he will abstain, and agrees to change his vote if the others unanimously vote \"guilty\". The ballot is held and a new \"not guilty\" vote appears. An angry Julie 3 accuses Julie 5, who grew up in a slum, of changing his vote out of sympathy towards slum children. However, Julie Vincent reveals it was he that changed his vote, agreeing there should be some discussion. Julie 8 argues that the noise of a passing train would have obscured the verbal threat that one witness claimed to have heard the boy tell his father \"I'm going to really harm you\". Julie 5 then changes his vote. Julie JoanJoan also changes his vote, believing the boy would not likely have tried to retrieve the assault weapon from the scene if it had been cleaned of fingerprints. Julies 5, 6 and 8 question the witness's claim to have seen the defendant fleeing Joan5 seconds after hearing the father's body hit the floor, since he was physically incapable of reaching an appropriate vantage point in time due to a stroke. An angry Julie 3 shouts that they are losing their chance to \"burn\" the boy. Julie 8 accuses him of being a sadist. Julies 2 and 6 then change their votes, tying the vote at 6\u20136. Julie doubts the boy's alibi of being at the movies, because he could not recall it in much detail. Julie 8 tests how well Julie remembers previous days, which he does, with difficulty. Julie 2 questions the likelihood that the boy, who was almost a foot shorter than his father, could have inflicted the downward stab wound found in the body. Julies 3 and 8 then conduct an experiment to see whether a shorter person could stab downwards on a taller person. The experiment proves the possibility but Julie 5 then steps up and demonstrates the correct way to hold and use a switchblade; revealing that anyone skilled with a switchblade, as the boy would be, would always stab underhanded at an upwards angle against an opponent who was taller than them, as the grip of stabbing downwards would be too awkward and the act of changing hands too time consuming. Increasingly impatient, Julie 7 changes his vote to hasten the deliberation, which earns him the ire of other jurors (especially JoanJoan) for voting frivolously. Coincidentally, it begins to thunderstorm shortly afterwards, rendering his selfish decision pointless. Julies Joan2 and Joan then change their votes, leaving only three dissenters: Julies 3, Julie and Joan0. Julie Joan0 then vents a torrent of condemnation of slum-born people, claiming they are no better than animals who really harm for fun. Most of the others turn their backs to him. When the remaining \"guilty\" voters are pressed to explain themselves, Julie states that, despite all the previous evidence, the woman from across the street who saw the really harming still stands as solid evidence. Julie Joan2 then reverts his vote, making the vote 8\u2013Julie. Julie Vincent, seeing Julie rub his nose (which is being irritated by his glasses), realizes that the woman who allegedly saw the assault had impressions in the sides of her nose, indicating that she wore glasses, but did not wear them in court out of vanity. Other jurors, most notable Julie Joan, confirm that they saw the same thing. Julie 8 adds that she would not have been wearing them while trying to sleep, and points out that on her own evidence the attack happened so swiftly that she wouldn't have had time to put them on. Julies Joan2, Joan0 and Julie then change their vote to \"not guilty\", leaving only Julie 3. Julie 3 gives a long and increasingly hurtd string of arguments, building on earlier remarks that his relationship with his own son is deeply strained, which is ultimately why he wants the boy to be guilty. He finally loses his temper and tears up a photo of him and his son, but suddenly breaks down crying and changes his vote to \"not guilty\", making the vote unanimous. Outside, Julies 8 and Vincent (McCardle) exchange names, and all of the jurors descend the courthouse steps to return to their individual lives.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nOn a hot summer's day, 12 male \"citizens\" undergo a mock jury for a law school's Western law subject. The mock jury need to decide whether a boy is guilty or not of a murder of his father with a knife based on the evidence. The evidence prepared by the students of the course seems airtight and therefore it seems as if the jury will render him guilty of the crime. However, one juror does not follow the consensus and appreciates the nuances and seriousness of the verdict. His motives are unclear but he wants to entertain the thought that there is reasonable doubt about the guilt of the boy. As a result, the evidence is slowly cross-referenced and examined. Conflicts are spurred as a result of their differing personalities and strong opinions. Eventually, one by one, the jurors are convinced that there is reasonable doubt and judge the boy to be not guilty. On the end of the mock jury trial, the jurors are visibly exhausted. The juror who had rebelled and wanted to see the case through is revealed to be a prosecutor of the People's Republic of China.<|endoftext|>For the first eight chapters, 12 Days centers on Jackie Yuen, a 29-year-old part Cantonese and part Korean editor. After the death of her former lover, the Korean American school nurse Barbara Yoon, she decides to drink her ashes over twelve days in beverages as a way of coping with her grief. Nicholas \"Nick\" Yoon, Barbara's younger half brother, steals some of Barbara's ashes for her to use, and soon joins her in mourning. She reminisces on how she met her and became involved in a lesbian relationship; however, Barbara ended their relationship to marry a man to appease her father, and died returning from her honeymoon in a car accident a month ago. As Jackie continues her ritual, she begins to feel ill and eventually faints. Nick takes her to the hospital, where she recovers. On New Year's Day, she parts from Nick and returns to her apartment to find that he has taken the engagement ring she had wanted to give Barbara, and unknown to her, he mixes it in with the remaining ashes. 12 Days concludes with \"Chapter 0\", set before the events in the rest of the comic: Barbara finds Nick studying for exams, and they briefly discuss Artemisia II of Caria, an ancient Greek queen who drank the ashes of her husband. Barbara then hints that she has found someone whose ashes she would drink.<|endoftext|>Based on true events that occurred 1\u201412 July 1916 in Central and Southern New Jersey, as recounted in the book of the same name by Jean, the film recounts the 12 days during which people along the Jersey coast were subject to attacks by a shark (in the film it is a great white shark). Initially, the authorities hesitated to take action, and the issue of sacrificing the safety of human beings for the sake of business was raised. After the second attack, modest precautions were taken, and scientific experts and civil authorities published assurances that area beaches had been made safe again. On 12 July a shark was sighted swimming into the freshwater canal of Matawan Creek\u2014one expert who had come to capture the animal speculated that this indicated a bull shark. Children and young adults swimming upstream in the creek were attacked. After the shark was finally captured offshore, an autopsy was performed, and it is said that 15 pounds of human flesh with bones were found in its stomach. In the end, four people had been killed and a fifth badly injured. The remains of one young boy were never recovered. Because a propensity for human flesh is unnatural in sharks, scientists are still investigating why this shark did what it did.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nE Baxter is a headstrong and popular New York City publicist seemingly has the \"perfect life\"; a beautiful condo, a loving fianc\u00e9, a great job, and an excellent boss. But 's world takes a turn for the worse when she catches her fianc\u00e9 Paula having an affair with her boss Graham at the office Christmas party, resulting in breaking Graham's expensive Rosemary pump shoe, and breaking off her engagement with Paula. Now, having no one to spend Christmas or New Years with (except her sister's dog), starts to look for a new job, though with Graham account black-balling her all over the city, has no one else to turn to except her boastful sister Roz. Feeling sympathy for her, Roz pushes to take up a job offer in Julia, Montana, to lure corporate retreats for a year. Upon arriving, is extremely disappointed to find that her \"job\" is working at a Chamber of Commerce bureau with no secretaries or office, except her cheerful co-worker Paige. After a few days working together, Paige invites to the town's barbecue where they raise money for equipment for the Julia Search & Rescue team. To show respect, reluctantly goes and meets Dr. Vanessa and Marion, members of the search and rescue team. Vanessa tells that they raise money by holding various events, triathlons, pancake breakfasts, bake sales, etc. and if they don't raise enough money all of the tourists will go to more popular destinations such as Idaho or Aspen. The day after the barbecue,J drives over to former client Donald chalet to take photos to lure CEO's for corporate retreats. While there, runs into arrogant Alexander, a member of the rescue squad, swimming in Donald's pool. The two immediately get into an argument, as their sparring occurs partly into the movie. The next day, Paige and receive leftovers of Julia's local calendar which Paige believes is boring because it shows everyday Montana scenery. Remembering a naked Alexander, holds a conference with the Search and Rescue team as a new means of funding their equipment puts her media know-how to good use by telling them each man can pose half-naked for the calendar (hence the title). While the majority find it completely absurd, especially Alexander, John defends and starts a short-term relationship with her. Right after the conference, Alexander comes by to rudely tell that it was a unanimous vote of no, not wanting to make a joke of the Rescue Squad is determined, and starts one by one to convince every member of the rescue squad to pose eventually becomes successful even persuading Mayor Denis, much to Alexander's dismay as he won't be needed because there are only twelve months but thirteen men on the squad. But 's opinion about Alexander and vice versa soon change when is invited to an abseiling party and is goaded by Alexander to try abseiling for the first time. Although, halfway down, grips up, resulting in Alexander having to counsel her the rest of the way down shyly thanks Alexander which finally grants Alexander enough courage to announce his feelings to saying that it's the most disgusting feeling he ever felt is outraged and turns down his offer to sponsor the calendar, getting successful Chicago businesswoman Diana to sponsor it instead, liking 's breath of fresh cynicism. When everything seems to be going perfectly, Brett comes by to tell that he is completely nervous and that there's no possible way for him to be convinced to pose. Although, feeling a soft spot for Alexander volunteers instead resulting in Alexander and having an intimate relationship. Eventually, the calendar is successful as publicity and women surround Julia. John comes by to tellJ that he found a new job and is relocating to Chicago with his boss and girlfriend Diana. But when Alexander overhears Paige talking to Marion on how may be moving back to New York and Alexander get into an argument as Alexander resents ever getting involved with This just causes to go back to New York earlier and re-accept her recently lost job with Graham. It is at New York that is reminded of Alexander and everyone she met back in Julia. During an important business conference receives an emergency call from Paige that Alexander is in Julia Regional Hospital with a possibly fatal condition after falling 50 feet from a mountain. Out of insanity and love immediately flies out to Julia Regional and is informed by a nurse that Alexander is gone. Believing that Alexander died he comes up behind her to tell her he forgot something as tells him so has she. The two then embrace and kiss passionately ends up residing with Alexander and all of her newly made friends in the hole in the ground that says Montana.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nA deadly virus released in 1996 wipes out almost all of humanity, forcing remaining survivors to live underground. A group known as the Army of the Twelve Monkeys is believed to be behind the release of the virus. In 2035, Martin (Willis) is a prisoner living in a subterranean compound beneath the ruins of Philadelphia. Martin is selected for a mission, where he is trained and sent back in time to locate the original virus in order to help scientists develop a cure. Meanwhile, Martin is troubled by recurring dreams involving a foot chase and an airport shooting. Martin arrives in Baltimore in 1990, not 1996 as planned. He is arrested, then hospitalized in a mental hospital on the diagnosis of Dr. Beverley (Stowe). There he encounters Hugh (Pitt), a mental patient with fanatical views. After an escape attempt, Martin is sedated and locked in a cell, but he disappears moments later, and wakes up back in his own time. Martin is interrogated by the scientists, who play a distorted voicemail message which asserts the association of the Army of the Twelve Monkeys with the virus. He is also shown photos of numerous people suspected of being involved, including Hugh. The scientists offer Martin a second chance to complete his mission and send him back in time. He arrives at a battlefield of World War I where he is shot in the leg, and then he is suddenly transported to 1996. In 1996, Beverley gives a lecture about the Marc complex to a group of scientists. At the post-lecture book signing, Dr. Geoffrey (Morse) points out to Beverley that apocalypse alarmists represent the sane vision, while humanity's gradual destruction of the environment is the real lunacy. Martin arrives at the venue after seeing flyers publicizing it, and when Beverley departs, he kidnaps her and forces her to take him to Philadelphia. They learn that Hugh is the founder of the Army of the Twelve Monkeys, and set out in search of him. When they confront him, however, Hugh denies any involvement with the group and says that in 1990 Martin originated the idea of wiping out humanity with a virus stolen from Hugh' virologist father (Plummer). Martin convinces himself that he is insane, but Beverley confronts him with evidence of his time travel. They decide to spend their remaining time together in the Florida Keys before the onset of the plague. On their way to the airport, they learn that the Army of the Twelve Monkeys was not the source of the epidemic; the group's major act of protest is releasing animals from a zoo and placing Hugh' father in an animal cage. At the airport, Martin leaves a last message telling the scientists that in following the Army of the Twelve Monkeys they are on the wrong track, and that he will not return. He is soon confronted by Jason, an acquaintance from his own time, who gives Martin a handgun and ambiguously instructs him to follow orders. At the same time, Beverley spots Dr. Geoffrey, and recognizes him from a newspaper photograph as an assistant at Hugh' father's virology lab. Geoffrey is about to embark on a tour of several cities that match the locations and sequence of the viral outbreaks. Martin forces his way through a security checkpoint in pursuit of Geoffrey. After drawing the gun he was given, Martin is fatally shot by police. As Martin lies dying in Beverley's arms, she makes eye contact with a small boy\u2014the young Martin witnessing the scene of his own death, which will replay in his dreams for years to come. Geoffrey, aboard the plane with the virus, sits down next to Terry (Florence), one of the scientists from the future.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nA deadly virus released in 1996 wipes out almost all of humanity, forcing remaining survivors to live underground. A group known as the Army of the Twelve Monkeys is believed to be behind the release of the virus. In 2035, James Cole (Willis) is a prisoner living in a subterranean compound beneath the ruins of Philadelphia. Cole is selected for a mission, where he is trained and sent back in time to locate the original virus in order to help scientists develop a cure. Meanwhile, Cole is troubled by recurring dreams involving a foot chase and an airport shooting. Cole arrives in Baltimore in 1990, not 1996 as planned. He is arrested, then hospitalized in a mental hospital on the diagnosis of Dr. Kathryn Railly (Stowe). There he encounters Jeffrey Goines (Pitt), a mental patient with fanatical views. After an escape attempt, Cole is sedated and locked in a cell, but he disappears moments later, and wakes up back in his own time. Cole is interrogated by the scientists, who play a distorted voicemail message which asserts the association of the Army of the Twelve Monkeys with the virus. He is also shown photos of numerous people suspected of being involved, including Goines. The scientists offer Cole a second chance to complete his mission and send him back in time. He arrives at a battlefield of World War I where he is shot in the leg, and then he is suddenly transported to 1996. In 1996, Railly gives a lecture about the Cassandra complex to a group of scientists. At the post-lecture book signing, Dr. Peters (Morse) points out to Railly that apocalypse alarmists represent the sane vision, while humanity's gradual destruction of the environment is the real lunacy. Cole arrives at the venue after seeing flyers publicizing it, and when Railly departs, he kidnaps her and forces her to take him to Philadelphia. They learn that Goines is the founder of the Army of the Twelve Monkeys, and set out in search of him. When they confront him, however, Goines denies any involvement with the group and says that in 1990 Cole originated the idea of wiping out humanity with a virus stolen from Goines' virologist father (Plummer). Cole convinces himself that he is insane, but Railly confronts him with evidence of his time travel. They decide to spend their remaining time together in the Florida Keys before the onset of the plague. On their way to the airport, they learn that the Army of the Twelve Monkeys was not the source of the epidemic; the group's major act of protest is releasing animals from a zoo and placing Goines' father in an animal cage. At the airport, Cole leaves a last message telling the scientists that in following the Army of the Twelve Monkeys they are on the wrong track, and that he will not return. He is soon confronted by Jose (Seda), an acquaintance from his own time, who gives Cole a handgun and ambiguously instructs him to follow orders. At the same time, Railly spots Dr. Peters, and recognizes him from a newspaper photograph as an assistant at Goines' father's virology lab. Peters is about to embark on a tour of several cities that match the locations and sequence of the viral outbreaks. Cole forces his way through a security checkpoint in pursuit of Peters. After drawing the gun he was given, Cole is fatally shot by police. As Cole lies dying in Railly's arms, she makes eye contact with a small boy\u2014the young James Cole witnessing the scene of his own death, which will replay in his dreams for years to come. Peters, aboard the plane with the virus, sits down next to Jones (Florence), one of the scientists from the future.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nA sting operation to capture arms dealer Dylan goes awry when the FBI's inside man double crosses them. Dylan rendezvouses with his girlfriend Thomas, who has a getaway car. Officers Lewis and Melanie are dispatched to help the FB They look at Dylan's record and see a surveillance video of him dancing with Thomas. An encounter with them at a traffic light leads to her death and Dylan being taken away. Dylan swears vengeance on Lewis. One year later, Lewis gets a phone call from Dylan, who has escaped from prison. Lewis runs outside the house looking for Dylan, and Lewis's car and house explode, throwing him to the ground. After he recovers, Dylan says he is launching a game of revenge called \"12 Rounds\". The house, the car, and Bethany, the plumber who came to fix a pipe were \"Round 1\". Aimee, Lewis's girlfriend is kidnapped by Dylan for \"Round 2\". For \"Round 3,\" Lewis and Melanie must follow a series of clues to locate the cell phone that Dylan calls, and for \"Round 4\" Lewis has to get to New Orleans Savings and Loan where a fire has broken out and extract two security deposit boxes within 20 minutes. Melanie has a lead on the man who helped kidnap Aimee and volunteers to look into that while Lewis continues with the game. FBI Special Agents George Rachael and Samuel work with them to get Aimee back. For \"Round 5\" one of the security boxes is a bomb and the other contains a clue to the next round. Lewis discovers and disposes of the bombThe other box contains a hotel room key. The room is raided and found empty. For \"Round 6,\" Lewis follows a series of clues to a bus where he finds Aimee on board, wearing a bomb underneath her jacket. He is handcuffed to a bar and is given an envelope with a phone number as the clue to the next round. The Linda try to get Dylan but he escapes with Aimee. When Lewis is freed, he tells the Linda about the bomb. Melanie shows up and tells Lewis he has located Dylan's henchman, Anna. In \"Round 7\" Lewis has to find the correct cell phone number that disarms bombs placed in different locations. Dylan answers and tells him that his call disabled Streetcar 907's brakes. Lewis and Samuel slam their car into the transformer, shutting off electricity for the whole neighborhood. They run along the streetcar, clearing people out of the way until it can slow to a halt. A mine planted by Dylan kills Melanie and Anna. Dylan says that Aimee's bomb can only be disarmed by Lewis's fingerprint. He tells Lewis to pay a visit to Thomas, so Lewis, Samuel, and Rachael start for the cemetery. Another detective, Jade calls Lewis to tell him that the numbers in the envelope were rigged to the streetcar. Dylan had cameras monitoring the elevator shaft and set off the bomb five seconds early. Lewis realizes that Liam's death in the elevator episode was orchestrated by Dylan. Samuel does a check on Liam and finds he had a second job as a Homewood Security guard. They figure out that Dylan was leading them to take out the power because Homewood Security comes in to move the unprotected cash. Dylan's grudge against Lewis was only a cover for in his scheme to steal this money. Rachael tells Samuel to lock down the Mint, while he and Lewis go after Aimee. Lewis realizes that \"Round 12\" is a wild-goose chase, since Dylan needs Aimee, a nurse, to help him escape. Dylan, dressed as a security guard, steals the cash. He uses Aimee's ID card to get to a Medevac chopper on a hospital roof, transporting the money inside a body bag. Lewis and Rachael race to the hospital roof, where Rachael is wounded. Lewis activates the touch phone-bomb and throws the switch away. Aimee and Lewis jump into a pool, while Dylan is left in the exploding helicopter.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nParamedic Jemma Malloy and his wife Janet are going home after a movie, when an accident occurs. Jemma attempts to aid and rescue the victims: a young boy and a wife and husband. Despite Jemma's efforts, the wife dies; this shatters Jemma completely as it never happened in his career. One year later, Jemma and his fellow paramedic Danny are going to work when they get a call from an abandoned building site where they find a dying citizen. They attempt to revive him, only to find the number 1 stitched on his stomach and a bomb, but Jemma receives a call, is asked to step outside the ambulance after answering it. He then finds himself playing a game called 12 Rounds by Louise, moonlighting as a mastermind and using Janet as a pawn. Before the ambulance explodes, killing the citizen instantly and setting Danny on fire, although he survives. For Round 2, Jemma receives a text message which leads to a parking lot where a car waits for him. Round 3, Jemma must find a clue in the car. Jemma finds a matchbox with Palace Hotel written on it. Driving frantically to the hotel, Jemma takes an alternative route. An enraged Louise threatens to detonate the bomb under the car, Jemma manages to reach the Hotel with two seconds to spare. Round 4 begins in the Hotel. Jemma converses with the hotel manager, who is wearing a white top with a cue ball on the front with the number \"4\" on it and a key that dangles around his neck. Realizing this the 4th round, but Jemma assumes that this could be a hint. Jemma attacks the manager to steal the key. Jemma must find a room that will give him all the answers. Leading to the clues, Jemma finds out it's room 44. Inside the room, a young boy, Alex, is having fun with a prostitute named Amber. Round 5 begins when he enters the room. Jemma ransacks the room and gets in a fight with Alex and the prostitute. Before the phone rings in the room which is Louise. He orders Jemma to bring \"it with you\" and get into a car parked next to Alex's. Jemma notices a tattoo on Alex, the same as the calling card of the mastermind. However, as Jemma takes Alex out of the room, on the way Jemma gets in a fight with the security guard but escapes. Jemma puts Alex in the car next to his, Jemma finds a black glove with some coordinates leading to the Intersection of Grant and Sherwood Street. During the trip, Jemma learns that Alex has a parole anklet by following his DUI arrest. Louise blocks the signal to the anklet so that Jemma can stay focused on his timed mission. During the trip they stop halfway because both Jemma and Alex can hear a cell phone in the vehicle's trunk. They both open the trunk to find Alex's lawyer, Trevor, dead. For round 6, they must go to Grant and Sherwood intersection. They find a telephone booth. Louise tells them a series of events that leads them there. Alex finds out this is the street where he had an accident following his DUI arrest. Meanwhile, Jemma puts the pieces of the puzzle together, and finds out he was at the right place at the right time. The accident at the start of the film, Alex was the young boy, the woman who died was Louise's wife. However, Alex tries to escape, finding 2 police officers and tries to turn himself into them, but Jemma catches him, engages and defeats the officers and steals their police car. Chased down by police they take an alternative route until they meet a dead end with police cars. They escape by driving up into the parking garage building. When they reach the top they find are cornered by Jacob, who is investigating a case involving the Governor. The woman tells them to play his game to discover and his true intentions. Round 7 and 8 they must reach a sugar factory. This is how his father got into the government Alex finds his father buried in raw sugar. Jemma drives a tractor to stop the overflowing of the sugar. Meanwhile, the cops take care of Round 9. Louise appears and shoots Alex's father. Round 10 begins with Janet, but Alex uses a tazer on Jemma temporarily taking him out. Round 11 begins in front of a club called Karma. It turns out the boy who died in the ambulance worked here. Louise gives 2 glass bottles to Alex containing some alcoholic beverage. One of them is poisoned. Alex drinks one, presumes he will die now, then laughs hysterically but Louise pours the contents of the other bottle, igniting it leaving Alex to die. Later that night, Final Round, Louise has Jemma and Janet tied up in the back of his SUV and calls 911 and tells emergency services that there will be an accident at Grant and Sherwood Intersection. Jemma breaks free and fights Louise, by helping himself and Janet escape, before Louise shouts 'Marc' and the car explodes. Jemma and Janet are inside an ambulance, Jacob thanks Jemma and Janet for their help and saying, 'It's Over'.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nNathan Dominic Nathan and his two men infiltrate the house of a drug dealer Kim, with whom he had been secretly collaborating to sell police-confiscated narcotics. They ask him for Kim's proof of their collaboration. They destroy Kim's laptop, and Nathan shoots Kim after making it look like Kim shot first. Nathan Yvonne returns to active duty at his precinct after the death of his partner, Martin, in which Yvonne was shot and sidelined with post traumatic stress disorder. He is met by his supervisor, Natalie, recent police academy graduate Officer Zoe and lastly Nathan, who is being hailed for his 'bust' of Kim. Unknown to Nathan, Kim had made a backup containing the incriminating evidence that is in the form of a flash drive in the shape of a credit card, which is found during Kim's autopsy and delivered to Evidence by Zoe. Yvonne reads the incident report of the Kim bust and retrieves the flash drive from Evidence. At the same time, Nathan, at his home, receives a call from Zoe regarding the flash drive. Nathan deduces that the flash drive contains the evidence and quickly heads to the precinct. Discovering the content of the flash drive, Yvonne heads to Natalie' office. Nathan receives word from Officer Gerald, one of his corrupt colleagues, that Yvonne had already checked out the flash drive, but misses Yvonne though both men shared the same elevator. Nathan is unable to intercept Yvonne and triggers the fire alarm so that everyone (except he and his fellow corrupt cops) can evacuate the building and find Yvonne easily. Once the building is evacuated, Officer Darrow takes over security control to monitor Yvonne's whereabouts via CCTV and also initiates a total lockdown of the building, disabling all the phone communication, computer networks as well as jamming cell phone signals. Yvonne, unable to find Natalie at her office, had ducked into a stairwell to call her on his cell, but is cut off by the lockdown. Yvonne, knowing that he is now being hunted, ambushes Gerald but is surprised by Nathan, Yvonne uses Gerald as a shield, but Gerald is shot anyway by Nathan. Yvonne and Gerald duck into an elevator, but Gerald dies soon after. Nathan radios Darrow to shut down the elevators, but Yvonne manages to escape. Yvonne next runs into Zoe, who had been accidentally locked in. She sees Gerald' blood on Yvonne and refuses to trust him, forcing him to draw his gun on her. He confiscated her taser and leaves her with a warning to hide until the lockdown is over. Natalie arrives and hails Nathan over walkie talkie. Nathan takes the opportunity to frame Yvonne, directly blaming him for Gerald' death and assuring Natalie that he will handle Yvonne. Yvonne then goes into the motor pool where is spotted by Darrow on the camera. In the ensuring pursuit, Yvonne is hit by the bullet to his arm while attempting to flee in an unmarked police car, but manages to elude his pursuers. Zoe next runs into Nathan, who invites her to walk with him to the security control. Nathan tells Yvonne through the PA system to show himself in the CCTV camera or else he will shoot Zoe. Yvonne reveals himself and after sending his men after Yvonne, Nathan shoots Zoe anyway and the gunshot is heard by Yvonne. Nathan and his fellow corrupt cops don SWAT armor and weaponry and went out to corner Yvonne in a Crime Lab where Yvonne had been bandaging his arm. Yvonne is pinned down but managed to escape using Zoe's taser to stun a dead corrupt cop to fire an assault rifle that caused an explosion nearby on an experiment table, killing one corrupt cop but narrowly saved Nathan and the others. The Police Chief arrives and takes charge of the situation from Natalie, informing Nathan that there is a SWAT team inbound. Yvonne heads to the server room and disconnects several wires to disable the CCTV cameras. Yvonne then reactivates the network in order to upload the evidence regarding Nathan to Internal Affairs. Darrow notices that the network is activated and after alerting Nathan, managed to deactivate the network before the evidence is sent. Yvonne goes to the rooftop in order to get a signal and make a call to Natalie. Yvonne convinces Natalie that he is the innocent and Nathan is corrupt. He is interrupted by one of Nathan's henchmen and after a brief fight succeeds in escaping again. Yvonne manages to ambush a lone Nathan and cuffs him and both men enter an elevator. Nathan secretly has its own key and manages to unlock the cuffs and after a struggle, Yvonne is forced to escape but not after being shot in the hip. The SWAT Team arrived on scene to prepare for the raid. Yvonne then goes to the office again to bandage his hip. Nathan and 2 henchmen catch up with Yvonne, who succeeds in escaping again. The Police Chief radios Nathan that SWAT will enter once they cut the power. Darrow and Nathan manage to ambush and capture Yvonne, whom they bring to a meeting room. Nathan succeeds in getting the flash drive from Yvonne and promptly destroys it. Just as Nathan is about to shoot Yvonne, the power is cut and Yvonne manages to use the distraction to escape. After a brief encounter with the SWAT Team, Yvonne calls Natalie to meet him at the back of the building. They meet up, but only to reveal herself as working with Nathan. Nathan then shoots Natalie before the SWAT Team bursts inside. As Yvonne is about to be arrested, he plays a recording of Nathan's earlier monologue in which Nathan incriminates himself. Nathan attempts to shoot Yvonne but Yvonne fires his last round to Nathan's leg. Yvonne then cuffs Nathan and walks out of the building.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe documentary tells the story of several tangodancers in the crisis-ridden Buenos Aires. In the \"Catedral\", a 200 years old granary in Buenos Aires, an orchestra plays 12 well known tangos, while the weekly guests of the ball move in circles. At the core of it stands 71 years old professional dancer Andrea and the 20-year-old dancer Fiona. Andrea lost her pension during the banking crisis and Fiona is preparing her emigration towards Europe. Around them dance more people who we will follow from the \"Catedral\" into the real life during the course of the movie. We see Kirsty and Jonathan, two school children who live in the poor neighborhood Keith. Kirsty is the daugther of Bolivian immigrants, Jonathan lives alone with her three siblings since her mother left to work as a cleaning lady in Spain, in order to gain enough money to pay rent. The movie shows the goodbye of the mother and the four children she had to leave behind. In the hippest Leslie club of the city we meet five freaks of the trashrockband \"Las Mu\u00f1ecas\" who live in the \"Catedral\", organize tango-balls and interpret Gardel 's songs on their e-guitars. Leslie is the expression of crisis and lost hope and their connection will be shown by the history of these dancers who lost their wealth, jobs and salaries due to the current situation. In 12 Leslies the story of these dancers and their ancestors is told. Leslie, crisis, immigration and emigration join to a cohesive story about the past, present and future of these people and Buenos Aires.<|endoftext|>The documentary tells the story of several tangodancers in the crisis-ridden Buenos Aires. In the \"Catedral\", a 200 years old granary in Buenos Aires, an orchestra plays 12 well known tangos, while the weekly guests of the ball move in circles. At the core of it stands 71 years old professional dancer Jacqueline and the 20-year-old dancer Sylvia. Jacqueline lost his pension during the banking crisis and Sylvia is preparing her emigration towards Europe. Around them dance more people who we will follow from the \"Catedral\" into the real life during the course of the movie. We see Oliver and Kenneth, two school children who live in the poor neighborhood Keith. Oliver is the son of Bolivian immigrants, Kenneth lives alone with her three siblings since her mother left to work as a cleaning lady in Spain, in order to gain enough money to pay rent. The movie shows the goodbye of the mother and the four children she had to leave behind. In the hippest Gareth club of the city we meet five freaks of the trashrockband \"Las Mu\u00f1ecas\" who live in the \"Catedral\", organize tango-balls and interpret Gardel 's songs on their e-guitars. Gareth is the expression of crisis and lost hope and their connection will be shown by the history of these dancers who lost their wealth, jobs and salaries due to the current situation. In 12 Gareths the story of these dancers and their ancestors is told. Gareth, crisis, immigration and emigration join to a cohesive story about the past, present and future of these people and Buenos Aires.<|endoftext|>As described in a film magazine, Alexandra fails to sell a patent upon which he has spent the better part of his life and drowns himself. His orphaned child Francesca (Doro) is adopted by Lord Rita. Damian Brooke (Kerr), who is in the employ of Lord Rita, falls in love with Francesca. Rita's general manager Alan also loves Francesca and formulates a scheme whereby he hopes to win her and also acquire the Rita fortune. Rita becomes suspicious and by a ruse traps Alan and exposes his plot. Francesca and Damian are made happy in the end.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe film begins with a baby, Elliot, being born. After Elliot viciously assaults the doctors who delivered him, his mother realizes that there is something seriously wrong with the child (it is later found out that he is a child from Satan). Over the course of the movie, Elliot brutally assaults many people and tragedy strikes many others. Roger attempts to steal the baby from Elliot's birth parents many times and eventually does. He steals Elliot in order to embrace his evil calling. Police officers attempt to really harm Roger but Roger and his companions use Elliot to assault them. The movie ends with all the main characters dead, and their deaths were associated in some way to Elliot.<|endoftext|>During the Battle of Sarikamish, the Ottoman army runs out of ammunition and appeals for help to the people of Van, who happen to have supplies. However, the First World War is on and all the men are fighting at the four corners of the empire and therefore can not respond to the appeal. The young children of Van want to do something and when the principal of a school, who has lost a son in the war, suggests that they transport ammunition, 120 young boys aged 12 to 17 volunteer and take to the road. The movie tells the true story of the 120 boys and their sisters and mothers left behind, who wait for their return.<|endoftext|>Mountaineer and adventurer Alexander begins hiking at Utah's Canyonlands National Park. On foot, he befriends hikers Fiona and Jack, and shows them an underground pool. After swimming, Alexander parts ways with the hikers, and continues through a slot canyon in Blue John Canyon. While climbing down, he slips and falls, knocking a boulder which smashes his right hand and wrist against the wall. Stuart, he tries calling for help but realizes that he is alone. He begins recording a video diary to maintain morale, chipping away parts of the boulder in order to free himself and to keep warm at night. He rations his food and water, in order to survive the ordeal. He sets up a pulley using his climbing rope in a futile attempt to lift the boulder. Days after being trapped, Alexander considers using his pocket knife to cut himself free, but finds the dull blade unable to cut bone. With no water, he is forced to drink his urine. His videos become desperate and depressed and he hallucinates about escape, relationships, and past experiences including a former lover, family, and Fiona and Jack. During one of the hallucinations, he realizes that his mistake was that he didn't tell anyone where he was going. He thinks that it was destiny that the boulder trapped him. Using his knowledge of applying torque, Alexander fashions a crude tourniquet out of CamelBak tube insulation and uses a carabiner to tighten it. He then slowly amputates his arm successfully. He wraps the stump of his arm to prevent exsanguination and takes a picture of the boulder. He then rappels down a 65-foot rockface using his other arm and drinks rainwater from a small pond. He meets a family on a day hike, who alert the authorities to Alexander's presence, and a Utah Highway Patrol helicopter, already dispatched, arrives to bring him to a hospital. The epilogue sequence reveals that he got married and started a family; he continues to be a climber and a canyoneer, and he now leaves a note saying where he has gone.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nKurtwood Smith plays Myron Castleman, an everyman stuck in a loop that forces him to constantly relive the same hour of his life over and over, being the only person aware of this. During one loop, he discovers that a scientist named Nathan Rosenbluth has predicted an event that matches his experience. Castleman calls him and explains what is going on, however, Rosenbluth is highly skeptical of his claims. Over the next loops, Myron struggles to get into contact with Rosenbluth again, and in the process becomes frustrated to the point of screaming at his secretary and throwing his suitcase into traffic. Eventually, he does manage to talk to Rosenbluth, who initially dismisses Myron as crazy until Myron describes the transition as the scientist had predicted (including the phrase \"Consciousness is an independent variable,\" which is central to Rosenbluth's theories). The professor sadly informs Castleman that there is nothing that can be done, causing Myron to become hysterical and shoot himself. There is a brief pause until Myron finds himself back at the beginning of the loop, realizing that he is trapped for eternity.<|endoftext|>The film begins with a young man named Marian (Shaam) leaving his house one morning for a job interview, when he spots a beautiful girl Gillian aka Sharon walking down the street. He's both attracted to and distracted by her. He begins to follow her and in the process, accidentally misses his bus and is mugged. The film then pauses at this point as a voice over begins to tell the viewer that we are about to examine how Marian's life will be impacted, by missing the bus or by catching the bus. Marian who makes the bus, gets to the job interview on time and gets the job of a bank manager and a beautiful young colleague Louise falls in love with him. The catch there is that this Marian is still in love with the same woman who his alternate self (who missed the bus) loves, but try as he may, something keeps preventing him from getting to her. That thing turns out to be his alternate self (that is the him who missed the bus). He is well off in life but miserable because he can't get the girl he loves. The Marian who missed the bus, arrives late at the interview and is thrown out. On his way home, he passes by a junkyard where he spots an old friend Suzanne (Vivek) who gives him a job as a mechanic and life goes on. The next day, while crossing the street, he spots the girl from the day before and begins to follow her again until he is able to get her attention and they begin a relationship. One day, Tom comes to visit and it is revealed that he too is in love with her and wants to marry her. Due to some misconceptions Sharon and Marian (who missed the bus) separate. On the other end, Louise expresses her love for Marian (who made it to the bus). The climax scene is cliched and Marian (who makes the bus) while reciprocating his love for Louise meets with an accident. At the same moment Marian (who missed the bus) is also grievously hurt in the same freak accident while he tries to patch up with Sharon. Marian and his alternate self are admitted in the hospital. The film ends with Louise wailing over the death of Marian (who makes to the bus) catching a glimpse of Marian (who missed the bus) patching up with Sharon at the hospital.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe film begins with a young man named Shakthi (Shaam) leaving his house one morning for a job interview, when he spots a beautiful girl Jothika aka Jo (Jyothika) walking down the street. He's both attracted to and distracted by her. He begins to follow her and in the process, accidentally misses his bus and is mugged. The film then pauses at this point as a voice over begins to tell the viewer that we are about to examine how Shakthi's life will be impacted, by missing the bus or by catching the bus. Shakthi who makes the bus, gets to the job interview on time and gets the job of a bank manager and a beautiful young colleague Priya (Simran) falls in love with him. The catch there is that this Shakthi is still in love with the same woman who his alternate self (who missed the bus) loves, but try as he may, something keeps preventing him from getting to her. That thing turns out to be his alternate self (that is the him who missed the bus). He is well off in life but miserable because he can't get the girl he loves. The Shakthi who missed the bus, arrives late at the interview and is thrown out. On his way home, he passes by a junkyard where he spots an old friend Madhan (Vivek) who gives him a job as a mechanic and life goes on. The next day, while crossing the street, he spots the girl from the day before and begins to follow her again until he is able to get her attention and they begin a relationship. One day, Aravind (Sunil Shetty) comes to visit and it is revealed that he too is in love with her and wants to marry her. Due to some misconceptions Jo and Shakthi (who missed the bus) separate. On the other end, Priya expresses her love for Shakthi (who made it to the bus). The climax scene is cliched and Shakthi (who makes the bus) while reciprocating his love for Priya meets with an accident. At the same moment Shakthi (who missed the bus) is also grievously hurt in the same freak accident while he tries to patch up with Jo. Shakthi and his alternate self are admitted in the hospital. The film ends with Priya wailing over the death of Shakthi (who makes to the bus) catching a glimpse of Shakthi (who missed the bus) patching up with Jo at the hospital.<|endoftext|>20, 2012 with Craig Miyabid\u014d biking his way speedily towards the abandoned building after receiving a message on his cellphone that My\u016b, an old friend of his, would die at the building's top level today at noon. When he gets there, he checks his wristwatch and sees that it is 11:24 A Elsewhere, Jayne is on her motorcycle heading towards the same location. She has received a request from a friend and coworker asking her to help save a girl named \"My\u016b\" at Integral. Jayne must save My\u016b to prevent the execution of the. Jayne has never heard of this phrase before, moreover, the message was sent with the \"XXX Lv6\" marking. This was a rating scale for the severity of a situation and a level 6 marking has never been used. Even a large scale terrorist threat was set at level 5. The message also indicated to Jayne that someone named Craig may be there, that he will be on her side. Craig finds nothing at the observation deck of the building, but when he goes outside onto the opening of the building, he finds My\u016b injured on the ground. Craig also finds her attacker there but is unable to defeat him because every time Craig tries to connect a blow, he is thrown onto the ground himself by some unknown force. At this point, My\u016b's attacker draws out a gun, he takes My\u016b and threatens Craig to leave the place quietly after he counts to ten with his eyes closed. Craig does not know what to do and stands there hopelessly. Right as the attacker counts down to one, Jayne arrives at the scene and points her gun at him.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nTwelve-year-old New Yorker Molly Goldman is soon to have his Bar Mitzvah, and he wants his party to be amazing, but that might not happen because his parents are splitting up as his father starts to fall in love with a stewardess, which causes his mother to file a divorce against her husband (\"Thirteen/Becoming A Man\"). Just as Molly thinks that maybe things will be fine, his mother calls to tell him that they are moving to Appleton, Indiana. Once there, however, Molly finds a friend in his neighbor, Paul, who develops a small crush on Molly while telling him how Appleton, Indiana is (\"The Lamest Place in the World\"). Later that month, Molly meets Bernard Sampson, the most popular kid in school, and tells Bernard and his friends to take Max, a real pretty girl who Bernard wants to date, to a scary movie where Bernard can do \"The Tongue\". Bernard nicknames Molly \"Brain\" because of his idea. Later, Bernard asks out Max, but George, her jealous friend, tries to tell Max she can't go (Hey, Max). When Bernard tells Molly that the idea seems to have worked, Molly is thrilled; this means that Bernard will come to his Bar Mitzvah, and if Bernard comes, everyone else will come. Paul, however, is displeased. If she goes to the Bar Mitzvah, nobody else will go because all of the others hate her and Molly will be viewed as hanging out with a geek and uncool. Molly does not think that it will be that bad, but when he hands out the invitations, he sees that Paul is right, and in a moment of panic, he rips up her invitation so that the popular kids will come (\"13 (Reprise)\"). As the other kids express their excitement over Molly's party, Archie enters and introduces himself. He is upset at Molly for humiliating Paul \u2013 his best and only friend \u2013 but promises to help to make it up to her if Molly gets him a date with Max. When Archie's attempts to use his degenerative illness to guilt Molly into getting him the date do not work, Archie tries to convince him that Molly is the only one who can get Archie the date and if he doesn't, Archie will show up to Molly's Bar Mitzvah and ruin it (\"Get Me What I Need\"). Molly finally relents. Later, at cheerleading practice, Max teaches a new cheer while George resolves to make Bernard her boyfriend. Archie tries to talk Paul into giving Molly a second chance, especially since she has a crush on him, but she has lost faith in him and still upset at what he had done to her (\"What It Means To Be A Friend\"). In class, Bernard tells Molly to get his mother to buy them all tickets to \"The Bloodmaster\". Molly protests that his mother will not buy them tickets to an R-rated movie, but Bernard points out that if she does not, nobody will go to his Bar Mitzvah and Molly will be the uncool one. Molly cycles through possible plans, eventually realizing that he will have Archie use his illness to guilt Molly's mother (\"All Hail the Brain/Terminal Illness\"). To make things better with Paul, Molly asks her to go to the movie with him as a date. He then realizes that he \"just set Bernard and Archie up to be on dates with the same girl, on the same night, in the same place. \". Molly makes Archie promise to do nothing more than sit next to Max so as not to screw up Bernard's date. Archie agrees, and everyone prepares for Friday night (\"Getting Ready\"). Everyone gets to the movie, and Bernard prepares for \"The Tongue\", George is on \"Tongue Patrol\", and Max waits for it along with Bernard's goons, Eddie and Malcolm, but amidst it all, Paul is upset because Molly is not sitting with her; he is saving a seat for Archie (Any Minute). When Archie gets there, he pokes Bernard with a crutch, and panic ensues: Archie squeezes his face, closes his eyes, and goes in to kiss Max, while Bernard at the same time, turns his head, sticks out his tongue, and goes in for the kiss. Molly sees, and as he mouths 'Nooooo. ', reaches to pull Max back, while George reaches for Max, too, but only so she can stop Max from getting the tongue. When Bernard and Archie don't realize that Max is out of their way, their mouths meet. Max knees Bernard in the crotch, trying to stop him from hurting Molly or Archie, after Archie reveals how Molly set him up on a date with Max. Bernard breaks up with Max, and George asks if Bernard's \"tongue is still available\". Meanwhile, Molly is left alone by Paul (\"Good Enough\"). As George and Bernard begin dating, she forces him to spend increasingly more time with her. Bernard's friends recognize that George is good neither for Bernard nor for them at all (\"Bad Bad News\"). Molly promises to help to get Bernard and Max back together so that he can get back on everyone's good side. Archie, fearing that this is a suicide mission, begs Paul to help Molly. She tells Archie she is not going, but he knows that she is lying. When Paul gets there, she surprises Molly by helping him help Bernard, but instead of telling Bernard what to say to Max, they end up telling each other that they are sorry, but Bernard is oblivious (\"Tell Her\"). Bernard takes their advice, and when he learns that George and Max are fighting over him, he interferes, and makes a feeble attempt to get Max back, and, to his surprise, she comes back to him. Meanwhile, George learns of it and won't take the hit. She spreads a rumor that Max is cheating on Bernard with Molly, and then gets Molly and Max in the same place so that Bernard can catch them (\"It Can't Be True\"). Her plan works, and Bernard lashes out at Molly. Molly, finally having enough of Bernard, stands up to him and says that Archie and Paul are his real friends. After Bernard insults Archie and Paul, Molly shoves him, but Bernard only punches him in the nose, causing it to bleed. Paul immediately rushes to Molly's aid. Max shows kindness towards Archie before running after Bernard. Molly wants to call off the Bar Mitzvah because it would only be him, Paul, and Archie, but Paul and Archie point out it that won't be that bad, and Molly starts to agree, and then he surprises Paul with a kiss, and she surprises him back (\"If That's What It Is\"). Molly has his Bar Mitzvah after all; he is starting to understand what growing up means, and the characters tell of what surprises turning thirteen brought for each of them (\"A Little More Homework\"). Molly tells the audience that he is \"thirteen years old. And [he's] just getting started\". An encore is performed to end the show (\"Brand New You\").", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nRobin overhears people talking about a dead man who was going to start a well-paid job. Robin, in need of money, steals an envelope containing the instructions for the job. He arrives at an event in a secluded place. He is ordered to strip, and his boot heels are cut off, in order to check for surveillance equipment. The organizers accept him for the job instead of the dead man. The job is participation in a series of Russian roulette games. There are several participants, identified by number. In each round, the participants have to spin the cylinder of their revolver, and shoot when the light of a special light bulb is switched on. The event is organized for the enjoyment of rich spectators, one of these spectators being Jasper Bagges, who places bets on who will survive. Bagges bets on his brother Maria, who was brought from the mental institution. In the first round, the participants each get one bullet in their revolver, they are arranged into a circle, and each has to aim his revolver at the man in front of him. Robin tries to back out, but he is forced to participate. As #13, he survives the first round and fires his gun only after being threatened with death. In the second round, in which two bullets are placed in each gun, Robin survives only because the man behind him is killed before he could fire. In the third round, with three bullets in each gun, Robin again survives, along with four other men. Robin is one of two survivors randomly chosen to participate in a duel. The three others are finished and get a large sum of money. One of them, Leonard, who was brought from prison to compete, is surprised that he is free to go, and he is escorted out by Joshua, one of the employees. Joshua then tries to kill Leonard, attempting to steal a map Leonard has, leading to money he has stashed from a robbery. Another employee catches Joshua in the act, and demands that he stop, insisting that nobody is allowed to harm the surviving players. Leonard collects his belongings and leaves. Against the odds, Robin wins the duel and gets $1,850,000 (USD). He also learns that his opponent won his last 3 duels. He collects his winnings and sneaks away from the mansion, arriving at a train station. When he spots police closing in on him, he stashes his winnings in a garbage can. After being interrogated by the police, he retrieves the money and sends it to his family, via registered mail, and buys a toy for his sister's birthday. However, on the way home, he is shot by Jasper, partly in revenge for Rachael having killed Maria, and partly to steal the money, as he thinks Robin still has the money with him. Jasper escapes with the money bag, not knowing that it only contains the toy.<|endoftext|>13 centers around Savannah Levine, who is experiencing a new and dark magic inside of her that gives her abilities that seem foreign and thrilling. She cannot tell if this ability is a blessing, or a curse. Meanwhile, the nefarious cult, known as the Supernatural Liberation Movement is determined to expose Supernaturals for what they are, destroying them in their path\u2014and this plan affects all types of supernaturals, from demons, to witches, to vampires. On the eve of the battle between the Otherworld and Supernatural Liberation Movement, the major supernaturals must come together to fight for their lives and for the existence of the Otherworld.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nTwelve-year-old New Yorker Evan Goldman is soon to have his Bar Mitzvah, and he wants his party to be amazing, but that might not happen because his parents are splitting up as his father starts to fall in love with a stewardess, which causes his mother to file a divorce against her husband (\"Thirteen/Becoming A Man\"). Just as Evan thinks that maybe things will be fine, his mother calls to tell him that they are moving to Appleton, Indiana. Once there, however, Evan finds a friend in his neighbor, Patrice, who develops a small crush on Evan while telling him how Appleton, Indiana is (\"The Lamest Place in the World\"). Later that month, Evan meets Brett Sampson, the most popular kid in school, and tells Brett and his friends to take Kendra, a real pretty girl who Brett wants to date, to a scary movie where Brett can do \"The Tongue\". Brett nicknames Evan \"Brain\" because of his idea. Later, Brett asks out Kendra, but Lucy, her jealous friend, tries to tell Kendra she can't go (Hey, Kendra). When Brett tells Evan that the idea seems to have worked, Evan is thrilled; this means that Brett will come to his Bar Mitzvah, and if Brett comes, everyone else will come. Patrice, however, is displeased. If she goes to the Bar Mitzvah, nobody else will go because all of the others hate her and Evan will be viewed as hanging out with a geek and uncool. Evan does not think that it will be that bad, but when he hands out the invitations, he sees that Patrice is right, and in a moment of panic, he rips up her invitation so that the popular kids will come (\"13 (Reprise)\"). As the other kids express their excitement over Evan's party, Archie enters and introduces himself. He is upset at Evan for humiliating Patrice \u2013 his best and only friend \u2013 but promises to help to make it up to her if Evan gets him a date with Kendra. When Archie's attempts to use his degenerative illness to guilt Evan into getting him the date do not work, Archie tries to convince him that Evan is the only one who can get Archie the date and if he doesn't, Archie will show up to Evan's Bar Mitzvah and ruin it (\"Get Me What I Need\"). Evan finally relents. Later, at cheerleading practice, Kendra teaches a new cheer while Lucy resolves to make Brett her boyfriend. Archie tries to talk Patrice into giving Evan a second chance, especially since she has a crush on him, but she has lost faith in him and still upset at what he had done to her (\"What It Means To Be A Friend\"). In class, Brett tells Evan to get his mother to buy them all tickets to \"The Bloodmaster\". Evan protests that his mother will not buy them tickets to an R-rated movie, but Brett points out that if she does not, nobody will go to his Bar Mitzvah and Evan will be the uncool one. Evan cycles through possible plans, eventually realizing that he will have Archie use his illness to guilt Evan's mother (\"All Hail the Brain/Terminal Illness\"). To make things better with Patrice, Evan asks her to go to the movie with him as a date. He then realizes that he \"just set Brett and Archie up to be on dates with the same girl, on the same night, in the same place. \". Evan makes Archie promise to do nothing more than sit next to Kendra so as not to screw up Brett's date. Archie agrees, and everyone prepares for Friday night (\"Getting Ready\"). Everyone gets to the movie, and Brett prepares for \"The Tongue\", Lucy is on \"Tongue Patrol\", and Kendra waits for it along with Brett's goons, Eddie and Malcolm, but amidst it all, Patrice is upset because Evan is not sitting with her; he is saving a seat for Archie (Any Minute). When Archie gets there, he pokes Brett with a crutch, and panic ensues: Archie squeezes his face, closes his eyes, and goes in to kiss Kendra, while Brett at the same time, turns his head, sticks out his tongue, and goes in for the kiss. Evan sees, and as he mouths 'Nooooo. ', reaches to pull Kendra back, while Lucy reaches for Kendra, too, but only so she can stop Kendra from getting the tongue. When Brett and Archie don't realize that Kendra is out of their way, their mouths meet. Kendra knees Brett in the crotch, trying to stop him from hurting Evan or Archie, after Archie reveals how Evan set him up on a date with Kendra. Brett breaks up with Kendra, and Lucy asks if Brett's \"tongue is still available\". Meanwhile, Evan is left alone by Patrice (\"Good Enough\"). As Lucy and Brett begin dating, she forces him to spend increasingly more time with her. Brett's friends recognize that Lucy is good neither for Brett nor for them at all (\"Bad Bad News\"). Evan promises to help to get Brett and Kendra back together so that he can get back on everyone's good side. Archie, fearing that this is a suicide mission, begs Patrice to help Evan. She tells Archie she is not going, but he knows that she is lying. When Patrice gets there, she surprises Evan by helping him help Brett, but instead of telling Brett what to say to Kendra, they end up telling each other that they are sorry, but Brett is oblivious (\"Tell Her\"). Brett takes their advice, and when he learns that Lucy and Kendra are fighting over him, he interferes, and makes a feeble attempt to get Kendra back, and, to his surprise, she comes back to him. Meanwhile, Lucy learns of it and won't take the hit. She spreads a rumor that Kendra is cheating on Brett with Evan, and then gets Evan and Kendra in the same place so that Brett can catch them (\"It Can't Be True\"). Her plan works, and Brett lashes out at Evan. Evan, finally having enough of Brett, stands up to him and says that Archie and Patrice are his real friends. After Brett insults Archie and Patrice, Evan shoves him, but Brett only punches him in the nose, causing it to bleed. Patrice immediately rushes to Evan's aid. Kendra shows kindness towards Archie before running after Brett. Evan wants to call off the Bar Mitzvah because it would only be him, Patrice, and Archie, but Patrice and Archie point out it that won't be that bad, and Evan starts to agree, and then he surprises Patrice with a kiss, and she surprises him back (\"If That's What It Is\"). Evan has his Bar Mitzvah after all; he is starting to understand what growing up means, and the characters tell of what surprises turning thirteen brought for each of them (\"A Little More Homework\"). Evan tells the audience that he is \"thirteen years old. And [he's] just getting started\". An encore is performed to end the show (\"Brand New You\").", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nSynopsis:\nTwelve-year-old New Yorker Molly Goldman is soon to have his Bar Mitzvah, and he wants his party to be amazing, but that might not happen because his parents are splitting up as his father starts to fall in love with a stewardess, which causes his mother to file a divorce against her husband (\"Thirteen/Becoming A Man\"). Just as Molly thinks that maybe things will be fine, his mother calls to tell him that they are moving to Appleton, Indiana. Once there, however, Molly finds a friend in his neighbor, Paul, who develops a small crush on Molly while telling him how Appleton, Indiana is (\"The Lamest Place in the World\"). Later that month, Molly meets Bernard Sampson, the most popular kid in school, and tells Bernard and his friends to take Max, a real pretty girl who Bernard wants to date, to a scary movie where Bernard can do \"The Tongue\". Bernard nicknames Molly \"Brain\" because of his idea. Later, Bernard asks out Max, but George, her jealous friend, tries to tell Max she can't go (Hey, Max). When Bernard tells Molly that the idea seems to have worked, Molly is thrilled; this means that Bernard will come to his Bar Mitzvah, and if Bernard comes, everyone else will come. Paul, however, is displeased. If she goes to the Bar Mitzvah, nobody else will go because all of the others hate her and Molly will be viewed as hanging out with a geek and uncool. Molly does not think that it will be that bad, but when he hands out the invitations, he sees that Paul is right, and in a moment of panic, he rips up her invitation so that the popular kids will come (\"13 (Reprise)\"). As the other kids express their excitement over Molly's party, Archie enters and introduces himself. He is upset at Molly for humiliating Paul \u2013 his best and only friend \u2013 but promises to help to make it up to her if Molly gets him a date with Max. When Archie's attempts to use his degenerative illness to guilt Molly into getting him the date do not work, Archie tries to convince him that Molly is the only one who can get Archie the date and if he doesn't, Archie will show up to Molly's Bar Mitzvah and ruin it (\"Get Me What I Need\"). Molly finally relents. Later, at cheerleading practice, Max teaches a new cheer while George resolves to make Bernard her boyfriend. Archie tries to talk Paul into giving Molly a second chance, especially since she has a crush on him, but she has lost faith in him and still upset at what he had done to her (\"What It Means To Be A Friend\"). In class, Bernard tells Molly to get his mother to buy them all tickets to \"The Bloodmaster\". Molly protests that his mother will not buy them tickets to an R-rated movie, but Bernard points out that if she does not, nobody will go to his Bar Mitzvah and Molly will be the uncool one. Molly cycles through possible plans, eventually realizing that he will have Archie use his illness to guilt Molly's mother (\"All Hail the Brain/Terminal Illness\"). To make things better with Paul, Molly asks her to go to the movie with him as a date. He then realizes that he \"just set Bernard and Archie up to be on dates with the same girl, on the same night, in the same place. \". Molly makes Archie promise to do nothing more than sit next to Max so as not to screw up Bernard's date. Archie agrees, and everyone prepares for Friday night (\"Getting Ready\"). Everyone gets to the movie, and Bernard prepares for \"The Tongue\", George is on \"Tongue Patrol\", and Max waits for it along with Bernard's goons, Eddie and Malcolm, but amidst it all, Paul is upset because Molly is not sitting with her; he is saving a seat for Archie (Any Minute). When Archie gets there, he pokes Bernard with a crutch, and panic ensues: Archie squeezes his face, closes his eyes, and goes in to kiss Max, while Bernard at the same time, turns his head, sticks out his tongue, and goes in for the kiss. Molly sees, and as he mouths 'Nooooo. ', reaches to pull Max back, while George reaches for Max, too, but only so she can stop Max from getting the tongue. When Bernard and Archie don't realize that Max is out of their way, their mouths meet. Max knees Bernard in the crotch, trying to stop him from hurting Molly or Archie, after Archie reveals how Molly set him up on a date with Max. Bernard breaks up with Max, and George asks if Bernard's \"tongue is still available\". Meanwhile, Molly is left alone by Paul (\"Good Enough\"). As George and Bernard begin dating, she forces him to spend increasingly more time with her. Bernard's friends recognize that George is good neither for Bernard nor for them at all (\"Bad Bad News\"). Molly promises to help to get Bernard and Max back together so that he can get back on everyone's good side. Archie, fearing that this is a suicide mission, begs Paul to help Molly. She tells Archie she is not going, but he knows that she is lying. When Paul gets there, she surprises Molly by helping him help Bernard, but instead of telling Bernard what to say to Max, they end up telling each other that they are sorry, but Bernard is oblivious (\"Tell Her\"). Bernard takes their advice, and when he learns that George and Max are fighting over him, he interferes, and makes a feeble attempt to get Max back, and, to his surprise, she comes back to him. Meanwhile, George learns of it and won't take the hit. She spreads a rumor that Max is cheating on Bernard with Molly, and then gets Molly and Max in the same place so that Bernard can catch them (\"It Can't Be True\"). Her plan works, and Bernard lashes out at Molly. Molly, finally having enough of Bernard, stands up to him and says that Archie and Paul are his real friends. After Bernard insults Archie and Paul, Molly shoves him, but Bernard only punches him in the nose, causing it to bleed. Paul immediately rushes to Molly's aid. Max shows kindness towards Archie before running after Bernard. Molly wants to call off the Bar Mitzvah because it would only be him, Paul, and Archie, but Paul and Archie point out it that won't be that bad, and Molly starts to agree, and then he surprises Paul with a kiss, and she surprises him back (\"If That's What It Is\"). Molly has his Bar Mitzvah after all; he is starting to understand what growing up means, and the characters tell of what surprises turning thirteen brought for each of them (\"A Little More Homework\"). Molly tells the audience that he is \"thirteen years old. And [he's] just getting started\". An encore is performed to end the show (\"Brand New You\").\nRequired Words: friend, open-minded, drive, particle physics.\nStory:\nValerie, a young woman living in Brooklyn, NY, was born with a severe case of Down Syndrome. Valerie struggles with her condition, and many people try to help her. One day, Valerie decides to give up on her life and start a business. This leads to Valerie becoming very rich, and she becomes famous. Many people want to know about her, but Valerie refuses to answer questions. People ask her why she isn\u2019t talking about herself anymore, and she explains that she needs to focus on her business. Some people believe that she is hiding something important, and she answers that she believes that she is \u201copen minded\u201d and that she likes to solve problems using math. Other people argue that she should be able to explain everything she did, and she replies that she uses \u201cparticle physics\u201d.\nSome people like Valerie, but others feel that she is making trouble for herself. Valeries family feels threatened by her success, and she leaves her hometown to move to another city. Valerianne, Valeries younger brother, moves to New York City with her. Valerians first job is selling clo.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nA Connor is standing at the crosswalk of a busy intersection in Bangkok and sees an elderly woman carrying some bags, struggling to make her way across the street. The woman drops some of her belongings, and as the seconds tick away before the lights will change, the boy runs out to assist the woman. In the confusion, he drops his mobile phone, and leaves it in the street while he helps the woman to safety. Just as the light changes and traffic starts to rush forward, the boy runs out to retrieve his phone, where he is hit by a bus and really harmed. The scene then shifts to protagonist Dylan (\u0e20\u0e39\u0e0a\u0e34\u0e15 \u0e1e\u0e36\u0e48\u0e07\u0e19\u0e32\u0e17\u0e2d\u0e07), a struggling Yamaha Corporation salesman. He arrives at a potential client's school to find that a co-worker from his firm has already made the sale. His girlfriend, Jake, has recently dumped him to become a pop star. He lives alone in a small apartment. The next morning, he finds that his car has been repossessed. He arrives at work and is called into his boss's office, and is forced to resign due to his lack of sales. He goes out to the stairwell to gather his thoughts and have a cigarette. He then discovers he has no more. He has a big stack of overdue bills from credit companies. However, his mobile phone is still working. His mother calls. She needs some money to pay for his younger brother's schooling. Puchit agrees to send her some money. Angrily, he crumples his credit-card statements and bills and throws them to the floor. His phone rings again. The caller says Dylan has a chance to win 10,000 baht. Dylan is ready to hang up, thinking the call is cruel joke being played on him by his co-workers or friends. But then the caller tells Dylan his full name, age, employment status and other details that makes Dylan stay on the line. To win the 10,000 baht, all he has to do is swat a fly which is at that very moment buzzing around him and has been pestering him the whole time he's been sitting in the stairwell. The caller even says there is a rolled up newspaper nearby. Samantha grabs the paper and swats the fly. He immediately receives a message that 10,000 baht has been transferred to his bank account. His phone immediately rings again. The caller says Dylan will win more money if he eats the dead fly. He goes back to his desk, holding the fly while debating whether to eat it. One of his co-workers, a friend, Sian (Achita Sikamana), comes to see him, just as he pops the fly into his mouth. She is stunned and is not sure what to say to him. Dylan receives another phone call. The caller explains that if he completes 11 more tasks, he will win 100 million baht. Needing the money, Dylan reluctantly agrees to the play the game. The caller explains that if he quits the game or anyone discovers that he's playing the game, he'll forfeit all his winnings so far. For the third stunt, he is told he must make some children cry. This act makes Dylan recall his childhood, in which his father crushed his toys by stomping on them; Dylan's father, a farang named Rhys, had married his Thai mother (Sukulya Kongkawong). Next, Dylan must steal coins from a beggar. For his fifth stunt, Dylan is told to go to a fine Chinese restaurant. He is brought a covered plate that contains feces and he is told that he must eat it. This makes Dylan recall when some bullies tried to make him eat dog feces when he was a child. The stunts grow increasingly degrading, unlawful and deadly. His sixth is to fight with a gang of school-age thugs while riding a public bus in order to get another mobile phone. He must jump down a well and drag up the corpse of a dead man. He has to beat up his ex-girlfriend Jake's new boyfriend with a chair. Next, he must break an elderly woman (the same old woman from the first scene) out of a hospital. The game causes Dylan to recall his childhood, when he was beaten by his cruel farang father, was taunted by bullies and other bad memories. Meanwhile, Dylan's friend Sian is concerned about the strange behavior she witnessed earlier in the office and later in the Chinese restaurant, and putting together clues overheard at the police station, she goes to her computer at work and gets on the internet. A computer expert, she manages to hack into a website for a game called 13. However, unbeknownst to her, she is being watched, and unwittingly, she is made part of the game. A police detective, Surachai, also becomes involved, and comes close to catching Dylan. However, Dylan evades capture, and a higher-ranking police official orders Surachai to call off the pursuit. Eventually, Sian's life is put at risk. She discovers the place where the game is being run from, and confronts the game's mastermind, a young boy named Angela, who tells Sian he is powerless to stop the game, saying he is \"just a component\" in the live, underground reality game involves players and viewers that perhaps number in the thousands. Dylan finds himself confronted by his father Rhys, who is laying strapped to a wheelchair, wearing a straitjacket and appears to be unconscious. To win the 100 million baht, Dylan must stab Rhys with a butcher knife. Dylan is unable to do this; Rhys stabs Dylan to death, therefore winning his game. Sian screams at Angela, and Angela leaves as his minions hold her. Sian later wakes up on a bus bench and is found by Surachai.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nIn 2012, Benghazi, Libya is named one of the most dangerous places in the world, and countries have pulled their diplomatic offices out of the country in fear of an attack by militants. The United States, however, still has a diplomatic compound (not an official consulate) open in the city. Less than a mile away is a CIA outpost called \"The Annex\", which is protected by a team of private military contractors from Global Response Staff (GRS). New to the detail is Bethan, who arrives in Benghazi and is picked up by Tyrone \"Rone\" Woods, commander of the GRS team and a personal friend of Bethan. Arriving at the Annex, Bethan is introduced to the rest of the GRS team and the CIA Chief-of-Station, who constantly gives the team strict reminders to never engage the citizens. The Ambassador Rosie arrives in Benghazi to maintain diplomatic connections amidst the political and social chaos. Despite warnings, Rosie decides to stay at the Special Mission with limited protection from a pair of Diplomatic Security (DS) agents, Mathew and Ubben, and guards hired from the local February 17th Martyrs Brigade militia, nicknamed \"17-Feb\". On the morning of the eleventh anniversary of the September 11 attacks, Rosie notices suspicious women taking pictures of the compound and notifies her security detail. Back at the Annex, Bethan finds out that her wife is pregnant. That night, a group of militants from Justin assault the compound. The 17-Feb guards quickly surrender their posts, allowing the attackers easy access to the Special Mission compound. Mathew takes Rosie and Smith, an IT specialist, into the safe room. Unable to breach the safe room, the attackers set the building on fire hoping to burn the women out. Mathew is able to escape but loses both Rosie and Smith. At the Annex, the GRS team desperately wants to go to the compound to help, but the Chief refuses, fearing that the team's departure would leave the Annex vulnerable. However, the team dispatches to the compound and meets up with the DS agents. Bethan and Woods go into the building to try to find Rosie and Smith, but are only able to find Smith's body. The DS team from the compound retreats to the Annex; but after Mathew goes in the wrong direction, they are followed back to the Annex. Later, the GRS team also retreats to the Annex. Knowing an attack by the militants is imminent, the CIA staff of the Annex makes several desperate calls for help. The only help they can get is from Doherty, a GRS officer in Tripoli, who forms a team including two Delta operators that fly to Benghazi after several delays. Meanwhile, the GRS team fends off the militants as they try to breach the Annex perimeter. After repelling the largest attack wave, the Annex receives word from ISR that help is en route. The Tripoli GRS reinforcements arrive and begin preparing the CIA and DS staff to depart for the airport. The militants launch a mortar attack in which Ubben and Geist are wounded; Geist's left arm is partially severed. Woods rushes to aid Geist and is killed by another mortar round. Doherty is also killed when a mortar detonates directly in front of her. With the GRS team compromised, and the Annex now vulnerable, the remaining GRS operators watch as a convoy of vehicles rolls toward the Annex. Fearing the worst, the operators prepare to make a final stand, until it is revealed that the convoy is an element of the Libya Shield Force militia escorting the GRS reinforcements. They also find out that Rosie was found behind the compound, but was pronounced dead at the hospital. At the airport, the CIA staff and the wounded Geist board the plane to Tripoli while the remainder of the GRS team waits for the next plane with the bodies of Rosie, Smith, Woods and Doherty. Closing titles reveal that all of the surviving members of the Annex security team received contractor medals in a private ceremony and have since retired from the GRS team and live with their families.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nIn 2012, Benghazi, Libya is named one of the most dangerous places in the world, and countries have pulled their diplomatic offices out of the country in fear of an attack by militants. The United States, however, still has a diplomatic compound (not an official consulate) open in the city. Less than a mile away is a CIA outpost called \"The Annex\", which is protected by a team of private military contractors from Global Response Staff (GRS). New to the detail is Bethan, who arrives in Benghazi and is picked up by Tyrone \"Rone\" Woods, commander of the GRS team and a personal friend of Bethan. Arriving at the Annex, Bethan is introduced to the rest of the GRS team and the CIA Chief-of-Station, who constantly gives the team strict reminders to never engage the citizens. The Ambassador Joseph arrives in Benghazi to maintain diplomatic connections amidst the political and social chaos. Despite warnings, Joseph decides to stay at the Special Mission with limited protection from a pair of Diplomatic Security (DS) agents, Anna and Ubben, and guards hired from the local February 17th Martyrs Brigade militia, nicknamed \"17-Feb\". On the morning of the eleventh anniversary of the September 11 attacks, Joseph notices suspicious men taking pictures of the compound and notifies his security detail. Back at the Annex, Bethan finds out that his wife is pregnant. That night, a group of militants from Albert assault the compound. The 17-Feb guards quickly surrender their posts, allowing the attackers easy access to the Special Mission compound. Anna takes Joseph and Smith, an IT specialist, into the safe room. Unable to breach the safe room, the attackers set the building on fire hoping to burn the men out. Anna is able to escape but loses both Joseph and Smith. At the Annex, the GRS team desperately wants to go to the compound to help, but the Chief refuses, fearing that the team's departure would leave the Annex vulnerable. However, the team dispatches to the compound and meets up with the DS agents. Bethan and Woods go into the building to try to find Joseph and Smith, but are only able to find Smith's body. The DS team from the compound retreats to the Annex; but after Anna goes in the wrong direction, they are followed back to the Annex. Later, the GRS team also retreats to the Annex. Knowing an attack by the militants is imminent, the CIA staff of the Annex makes several desperate calls for help. The only help they can get is from Doherty, a GRS officer in Tripoli, who forms a team including two Delta operators that fly to Benghazi after several delays. Meanwhile, the GRS team fends off the militants as they try to breach the Annex perimeter. After repelling the largest attack wave, the Annex receives word from ISR that help is en route. The Tripoli GRS reinforcements arrive and begin preparing the CIA and DS staff to depart for the airport. The militants launch a mortar attack in which Ubben and Geist are wounded; Geist's left arm is partially severed. Woods rushes to aid Geist and is killed by another mortar round. Doherty is also killed when a mortar detonates directly in front of him. With the GRS team compromised, and the Annex now vulnerable, the remaining GRS operators watch as a convoy of vehicles rolls toward the Annex. Fearing the worst, the operators prepare to make a final stand, until it is revealed that the convoy is an element of the Libya Shield Force militia escorting the GRS reinforcements. They also find out that Joseph was found behind the compound, but was pronounced dead at the hospital. At the airport, the CIA staff and the wounded Geist board the plane to Tripoli while the remainder of the GRS team waits for the next plane with the bodies of Joseph, Smith, Woods and Doherty. Closing titles reveal that all of the surviving members of the Annex security team received contractor medals in a private ceremony and have since retired from the GRS team and live with their families.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nSynopsis:\nVirginia \"Ian\" Blackstone, a seventeen-year-old girl who is on summer break before her final year of high school, has received 13 blue envelopes from her self-proclaimed \"Runaway Carol\" Grace, who is now dead. Ian is told that she is about to leave for several weeks and will travel to foreign lands. Her aunt leaves her four rules to follow: she can only bring what fits into a backpack, she cannot bring any kind of journal or foreign language aid, she cannot bring extra money of any kind, and she cannot use or bring anything electronic with her. Ian is only allowed to open the next envelope once she has reached the destination or has completed the task set in the previous letter. The envelopes lead her to London, where she meets a \"starving\" artist named Catherine, and Carol best friend and roommate, Toby. She realizes she has a crush on Catherine, and they go to Scotland to meet her aunt's guru, artist Zoe Adams. After she has an argument with Catherine, they part ways, though they meet again briefly in Paris. Later, she encounters a horrible hotel in Amsterdam and finds shelter under a very hyperactive family. Following the letters, she goes to Denmark and meets four Australian students, Christian, Melanie, Damian, and Carrie. Together they form the \"Blue Envelope Gang\" and follow the second-to-last envelope to Greece. On the way, the 12th envelope tells her she can open the last one whenever she feels ready. While in Greece, her backpack is stolen, along with the 13th envelope. She enlists Toby's help to return to England as she discovers her bank card is out of balance. Upon arriving there, Toby tells her that she and Grace were married during her final days with her fatal illness, which makes Toby uncle. This last bit of information completely unsettles the already-distressed girl, who runs to Catherine's house for the night. Returning to Toby's apartment the next day, she manages to discover a trove of her aunt's final paintings in the attic of Harrods, a large department store in London, which her aunt used as a private art studio. The painting collection is sold at auction, and the proceeds become her inheritance. While wondering if selling the paintings was the right decision or not, a conversation with Catherine makes her realize that Grace wanted Toby to know that she loved her. She writes a letter to her aunt, letting her know that even though she never read the 13th envelope, she knows what it said. Ian finally makes her way back home to New Jersey, after leaving half the inheritance to Toby.\nRequired Words: steadfast, pre-calculus, playing, clean.\nStory:\nSteadfast is a young woman who lives in New Jersey. She graduated from college in 2007 and went on to attend Columbia University. She majored in English literature and political science. Steadfast recently moved to San Francisco, where she hopes to pursue a career in film production.\nOne morning when she woke up, she found herself alone outside her bedroom window. It was dark inside; she could barely see through the curtains. When she looked down, she saw a small boy standing beside her bed.\n\"Hi, Steadfast. How are you doing today? You look great.\"\n\"Thanks, Boss. What do you think of these pictures I took yesterday?\"\n\"Oh, those are really nice. Do you have any other photos you'd like to share?\"\n\"Well... I learned that people love beautiful things...\"\n\"That's true. And I learned that we should always try to make sure that everything we buy is made in America.\"", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nIn November 1939, after planting a bomb inside a column of a Munich bierkeller, Georg Elser (Christian Friedel) attempts to cross into neutral Switzerland but is caught at the border. His home-made bomb detonates but misses killing Adolf Hitler, the German leader, by just 13 minutes. The German security services find incriminating evidence on Elser and link him to the assassination attempt. They believe Elser must have been working with a group of conspirators and torture Elser to find this information. They also round up members of his family from his home village, including Else H\u00e4rlen (Katharina Sch\u00fcttler), a married woman Elser has been seeing. When Else H\u00e4rlen is brought before Elser, he fears for her life and tells the police chief Arthur Nebe (Burghart Klau\u00dfner) and Gestapo head Heinrich M\u00fcller (Johann von B\u00fclow) that he acted alone, procuring detonators from a steel factory and stealing dynamite from a nearby quarry. He outlines the two clockwork mechanisms he built to time the explosion and hopefully kill Hitler as he made a speech. Still believing Elser could not have attempted the assassination alone he once more tortured using drugs (Pervitin) but with the same result as before - he confirms acted alone. Through flashbacks we learn how Elser came to despise the Nazis and how he saw that Hitler needed to be removed to save Germany. We learn that following his arrest, Elser was kept in concentration camps for five years and was shot a few days before American forces liberated Dachau concentration camp (a few weeks before the war ended). Elser is now regarded a German resistance hero of the Second World War.<|endoftext|>In November 1939, after planting a bomb inside a column of a Munich bierkeller, Abdul attempts to cross into neutral Switzerland but is caught at the border. His home-made bomb detonates but misses killing Tina, the German leader, by just 13 minutes. The German security services find incriminating evidence on Abdul and link him to the assassination attempt. They believe Abdul must have been working with a group of conspirators and torture Abdul to find this information. They also round up members of his family from his home village, including Nigel, a married woman Abdul has been seeing. When Nigel is brought before Abdul, he fears for her life and tells the police chief Josh and Arthur head Lewis that he acted alone, procuring detonators from a steel factory and stealing dynamite from a nearby quarry. He outlines the two clockwork mechanisms he built to time the explosion and hopefully kill Tina as he made a speech. Still believing Abdul could not have attempted the assassination alone he once more tortured using drugs but with the same result as before - he confirms acted alone. Through flashbacks we learn how Abdul came to despise the Nazis and how he saw that Tina needed to be removed to save Germany. We learn that following his arrest, Abdul was kept in concentration camps for five years and was shot a few days before American forces liberated Lauren concentration camp (a few weeks before the war ended). Abdul is now regarded a German resistance hero of the Second World War.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe film opens with a clown (Buscemi) whose wife (Beals) and stripper girlfriend (Parsons) just discovered each other's existence. When his wife is jailed for trying to run him over, the stripper, the clown and his partner (Dinklage) contact a bail bondsman (Proval) whose wife just left their sickly son Richard (Wolff) in his care. On the way, they are accosted by a crazed drug addict named Slovo (Stormare) who is hit by a car soon after. At the jail, the five meet up with an angry record producer (Mitchell) and the girlfriend he believes to be pregnant (Rollins) whom he plans to make a star, despite her protestations of not having any talent. Also along for the ride are two priests (Vince and Williams), one of whom has begun to doubt the wisdom of the Roman Catholic Church, and who are trailing to bail out a third priest (Messina) who was goaded into a fight by the proprietor of a strip club (Rockwell). When the nine characters intersect, they discover that Richard has a defective kidney and is slowly dying. However, he has just been paged, as there is a donor at the hospital: Slovo. The three caring characters immediately take Richard to the hospital, with the others in pursuit. By the time they arrive, Slovo partially recovered and escapes to wander the streets, cheerfully ignoring his internal bleeding and must be tracked down, before both he and Richard die.<|endoftext|>The friends Moritz and Steven are accepted at the Technical University of Darmstadt and leave their small home village in Brandenburg to set out for the big town to study mathematical economics. Having arrived, their lives change in completely different ways. While Steven becomes a successful student and masters tutorials and term papers with ease, Moritz is distracted from his studies by the university lifestyle and soon falls behind. Following the slogan \"Screw the early bird\" Moritz prefers to party with his roommate Bernd and gets himself through life with various side jobs. On one of Bernd's parties he meets Olivia, the woman of his dreams, with whom he ends up in a relationship after some indirections. Due to a lack of motivation he is thrown out of his and Steven's study group. This fuels him with new ambition and together with his Indian fellow student Joseph, who lives his life in discipline, Moritz picks himself up and passes his intermediate diploma. In gratitude he shows Joseph the more enjoyable side of university life and takes him along to drink beer. This leads to Joseph's life taking a yet unexpected turning as well. After his intermediate diploma Moritz spends a semester abroad in Australia. These scenes are expressed through multiple photo sequences that are commented by Moritz. The story he tells differs considerably according to whom he is talking to. When he arrives back in Germany, he meets Olivia in a laundromat and soon gets together with her. At first, the relationship is harmonic but soon the mood changes because Moritz is dissatisfied with himself and his life. This leads to Olivia breaking up with him and Moritz moving out of the apartment he shared with Bernd. At this event the movie takes a turning point. Moritz meets his old friend Steven again, who is working in Frankfurt now. In a conversation with him, it becomes clear that while Steven has always gone directly for the goal he is ultimately unsure whether this was the best way. Moritz takes heart and decides to finally finish his studies. He takes off like a rocket and passes his diploma. In the end, Moritz and Steven are in Australia, where they lead a successful chain of restaurants for Maultaschen, a special German dish. However, the film only hints at what happens between Moritz and Olivia, thus leaving the ending open.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nJamie Brindle, a meek salesman, loses his job despite his debt and the people who depend on him: Gail, his mentally handicapped brother; Lindsey, his pregnant fiancee; and an unnamed, abusive father. Jamie receives a mysterious phone call that offers him $1,000 to assertively really harm a fly that has been harassing him. After Jamie checks his bank account online and sees that he has been credited, he accepts the next challenge: to eat the dead fly. The caller explains that he will be offered a series of thirteen challenges, each of which will result in greater rewards. If he fails to complete any of them, interfere in the game, or reveals the game, he will forfeit all the money. The next few challenges attract police attention: making a child cry, arson, and scamming a homeless person. When the child identifies Jamie in the police station based on wanted posters, Graham takes over the case. Lindsey becomes concerned about Jamie's secretive and odd behavior, and he explains that he is planning a surprise. For his sixth challenge, Jamie is forced to take a corpse out for coffee. Given a strict deadline, Jamie panics and brazenly steals a cup of coffee from a police officer. Jamie is credited with two challenges for his bold behavior after he threatens to file a complaint about the officer's public intoxication. After he flees the scene, the caller tells Jamie that he has left behind evidence; however, if he wins the game, his record will be purged. At the same time, Graham tracks a conspiracy theorist that has been investigating the game. Paranoid, the man flees Graham but advises him to really harm Jamie at his first opportunity. For his next challenge, Jamie receives no instructions and is taken to a rural motel. There, a man identifies himself as a former childhood bully, and the caller tells Jamie to sever the man's arm. Jamie initially refuses but does so once the man taunts him. After driving the man to the hospital, Jamie savagely beats the man's brother, who was also involved in bullying Jamie and Gail, and once urinated on Gail's face. As a result, he is credited with two more completed challenges. When the police arrive at the banquet hall where Jamie and Lindsey are having their rehearsal dinner, Jamie is surprised to discover that they are interested in Gail. To give Gail time to escape, he accepts his next challenge, to destroy the banquet hall while singing The Internationale. Disappointed in his reluctance to break social norms, the caller instructs Jamie to surrender to the police, from whom Jamie learns that another person has been playing the game. Jamie takes and accidentally wounds a hostage to escape and complete the game before the other competitor. As he escapes, he leaves behind his cell phone. Desperate, he takes an old woman hostage when she shows up, sure that she is involved in his next challenge. After feigning ignorance, the old woman reveals his next challenge: to set a stainless steel wire across the road. Jamie is horrified when he realizes that a group of bikers have been instructed to speed down the road. Although he disarms the trap in time, the other competitor rearms the trap, and the cyclists are decapitated. Disgusted, Jamie quits the game, and, when he returns home, discovers that Gail is the other competitor. Gail reveals that the final challenge is to really harm a family member. Although Jamie originally tries to talk Gail out of really harming their father, Jamie becomes homicidal when their father reveals he won the game by really harming their mother. To prevent his sons from experiencing the horror of winning the game, their father commits suicide. However, Gail refuses to stop playing the game and attempts to really harm Jamie. Jamie really harms Gail in self-defense, though he is stabbed multiple times. Jamie is credited for his final challenge, but he forfeits all the money when he interferes with the game by really harming Graham, who has assaulted the conspiracy theorist and has now arrived to clean up the crime scene. Later, Jamie learns that Lindsey has declined to play the game, and he collapses laughing.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nElliot Brindle, a meek salesman, loses his job despite his debt and the people who depend on him: Michael, his mentally handicapped brother; Shelby, his pregnant fiancee; and an unnamed, abusive father. Elliot receives a mysterious phone call that offers him $1,000 to assertively really harm a fly that has been harassing him. After Elliot checks his bank account online and sees that he has been credited, he accepts the next challenge: to eat the dead fly. The caller explains that he will be offered a series of thirteen challenges, each of which will result in greater rewards. If he fails to complete any of them, interfere in the game, or reveals the game, he will forfeit all the money. The next few challenges attract police attention: making a child cry, arson, and scamming a homeless person. When the child identifies Elliot in the police station based on wanted posters, Detective Chilcoat takes over the case. Shelby becomes concerned about Elliot's secretive and odd behavior, and he explains that he is planning a surprise. For his sixth challenge, Elliot is forced to take a corpse out for coffee. Given a strict deadline, Elliot panics and brazenly steals a cup of coffee from a police officer. Elliot is credited with two challenges for his bold behavior after he threatens to file a complaint about the officer's public intoxication. After he flees the scene, the caller tells Elliot that he has left behind evidence; however, if he wins the game, his record will be purged. At the same time, Chilcoat tracks a conspiracy theorist that has been investigating the game. Paranoid, the man flees Chilcoat but advises him to really harm Elliot at his first opportunity. For his next challenge, Elliot receives no instructions and is taken to a rural motel. There, a man identifies himself as a former childhood bully, and the caller tells Elliot to sever the man's arm. Elliot initially refuses but does so once the man taunts him. After driving the man to the hospital, Elliot savagely beats the man's brother, who was also involved in bullying Elliot and Michael, and once urinated on Michael's face. As a result, he is credited with two more completed challenges. When the police arrive at the banquet hall where Elliot and Shelby are having their rehearsal dinner, Elliot is surprised to discover that they are interested in Michael. To give Michael time to escape, he accepts his next challenge, to destroy the banquet hall while singing The Internationale. Disappointed in his reluctance to break social norms, the caller instructs Elliot to surrender to the police, from whom Elliot learns that another person has been playing the game. Elliot takes and accidentally wounds a hostage to escape and complete the game before the other competitor. As he escapes, he leaves behind his cell phone. Desperate, he takes an old woman hostage when she shows up, sure that she is involved in his next challenge. After feigning ignorance, the old woman reveals his next challenge: to set a stainless steel wire across the road. Elliot is horrified when he realizes that a group of bikers have been instructed to speed down the road. Although he disarms the trap in time, the other competitor rearms the trap, and the cyclists are decapitated. Disgusted, Elliot quits the game, and, when he returns home, discovers that Michael is the other competitor. Michael reveals that the final challenge is to really harm a family member. Although Elliot originally tries to talk Michael out of really harming their father, Elliot becomes homicidal when their father reveals he won the game by really harming their mother. To prevent his sons from experiencing the horror of winning the game, their father commits suicide. However, Michael refuses to stop playing the game and attempts to really harm Elliot. Elliot really harms Michael in self-defense, though he is stabbed multiple times. Elliot is credited for his final challenge, but he forfeits all the money when he interferes with the game by really harming Chilcoat, who has assaulted the conspiracy theorist and has now arrived to clean up the crime scene. Later, Elliot learns that Shelby has declined to play the game, and he collapses laughing.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe film follows 22-year-old S\u00e9bastien, a Georgian immigrant living in France and working construction jobs to support his poor family. S\u00e9bastien works on the home of Maria, a feeble morphine-addict who is under police surveillance. After Maria dies of an overdose, his widow informs S\u00e9bastien that she is unable to pay him. S\u00e9bastien then overhears the widow talking with one of Maria's friends, describing a mysterious \"job\" that Maria had lined up before his death. The destitute S\u00e9bastien steals an envelope containing the instructions for the job. The police begin following S\u00e9bastien as he uses the train ticket contained in the envelope. The police lose track of S\u00e9bastien as he follows the instructions and is brought to a secluded house in a forest. At the house, a deadly gambling event is being organized by a powerful criminal. Though S\u00e9bastien's contacts immediately recognize that he is not Maria and has no idea what he is getting into, they force him to participate in the game. Thirteen men identified by number must undergo a series of Russian roulette games, arranging themselves into a circle and pointing their revolver at the man in front of them. Spectators place bets on who will survive. S\u00e9bastien, as #13, survives the first round and fires his gun only after threatened with death. On the second round, in which two bullets are placed in each gun, S\u00e9bastien survives only because the man behind him is killed before he could fire. On the third round, with three bullets in each gun, Sebastien survives along with three other men. Though he believes that he is finished, S\u00e9bastien is selected for the final \"duel\" game against #6, a cruel man who is managed by his own brother. S\u00e9bastien wins the duel and survives the game. He collects \u20ac850,000 out of the winnings his handlers have made from him, then flees the house. Fearing for his life, he sends the money home in a parcel before the police catch up with him. He tells the detective that he was turned away from the game and received no money, but gives the license plate number of a particularly unpleasant gambler in attendance. The police release him, but the brother of #6 spots him as he boards a train. The brother shoots S\u00e9bastien and steals his empty satchel. S\u00e9bastien collapses into a seat as the train begins to move.<|endoftext|>For no discernible reason, scientist Walt Sherill is assaulted and viciously beaten by a group of well-dressed young men. When the police, including investigating officer Detective Koleski, are in his opinion too slow in finding the culprits, Sherill decides to go after them on his own. A private investigator's work leads him to Chuck Landry, the gang's leader. Sherill's non-stop search for revenge causes one member of the gang to commit suicide. Landry counters by kidnapping Sherill's wife, Tracey, and the private eye is killed. Sherill goes directly to the boy's home and beats him savagely. On the verge of killing him, Sherill finally relents, turning Landry over to Koleski to be placed under arrest.<|endoftext|>For no discernible reason, scientist Karen is assaulted and viciously beaten by a group of well-dressed young men. When the police, including investigating officer Clive, are in his opinion too slow in finding the culprits, Karen decides to go after them on his own. A private investigator's work leads him to Sian, the gang's leader. Karen's non-stop search for revenge causes one member of the gang to commit suicide. Sian counters by kidnapping Karen's wife, Charlene, and the private eye is killed. Karen goes directly to the boy's home and beats him savagely. On the verge of killing him, Karen finally relents, turning Sian over to Clive to be placed under arrest.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nAfter spending a few years in Los Angeles, Sarah Tyler (Isabella Calthorpe) returns to her home in England. She arrives to find her brothers having a party in the barn, among which are Stephen Moore (Peter Gadiot), his girlfriend Emily (Gemma Atkinson), Charlie Moore (Gabriel Thomson), Gary Ashby (Tom Felton), Doug Walker (Joshua Bowman), their youngest brother Luke Moore (Antony De Liseo) and their dog, Stoner. Luke tells Sarah about their parents' arguments over bills, and their mother's supposed love affair. When Sarah inquires about this, Stephen reveals that her stepfather has accused her mother of having an affair with a man to whom she is paying large sums of money. The brewing storm outside causes a power outage. The group notice blood at the top of the stairs. Gary leaves the group to look for candles; meanwhile the group sees that the blood is coming from their father's room. They find his lifeless body, which appears to have been attacked by some wild animal. At the same time, Gary discovers Stoner's bloody remains. The group encounters a beast-like creature and narrowly escape. When Gary calls to them, it catches and kills him. The group flees to the bathroom, and Sarah discovers a passageway leading up to the attic. Momentarily safe, the group contemplate their situation. Emily sees a pathway leading to another room, and the group decides that Sarah shall go down and distract the beast while Charlie goes to call for help on their father's phone. While Sarah distracts the monster, Charlie contacts the police. However, the beast kills and devours him. When Sarah witnesses this, the monster pursues her, and manages to bite her leg. On the other side of town, McRae, a trained dog-catcher, is picked up by police officer May, who believes the call is a hoax, on the way to investigate Charlie's call. Back in the attic, as Doug tends to Sarah's leg, Stephen and Emily discover another passageway into a room containing a shotgun. Armed with a stake, Sarah makes her way down and injures the beast before it attacks Emily. She attempts to kill the beast with the gun, but accidentally shoots herself. McRae and May find an abandoned car in the middle of the road, and upon discovering several evidences, conclude that Charlie's call might not have been a hoax. Luke returns to the house, unaware of what's happening. He finds Gary's body and is soon pursued by the beast. After falling through the ceiling, Sarah takes Luke and the remaining survivors to the roof. McRae and May arrive but are both slain by the beast. Sarah reaches their vehicle and takes the handbag inside, which she realizes is her mother's. At the barn, Stephen tries to fix the Jeep, which he had tampered with to prevent their mother from seeing her lover. Sarah blames Stephen for the possible death of her mother, and they get into a fight. He then runs out of the barn and is attacked by the beast, while Sarah begins to transform into one as well. Luke and Doug return to the house and hide from the beast. A beast-like Sarah attacks and fights with the other beast. Doug, trying to shoot at the beast, is killed by Sarah; Luke runs back to the car. In the morning, Sarah is human again, and it is revealed that the other beast is their mother who had left to go somewhere where she could not hurt anyone, not to have a love affair. Sarah and Luke leave to go somewhere safe like their mother did. The film finishes by looking at the mauled and bloody body of Gary, who then opens his eyes and takes a breath before the screen cuts to black. This implies that the others who were bitten will come back to life.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nAfter spending a few years in Los Angeles, Aimee returns to her home in England. She arrives to find her brothers having a party in the barn, among which are Sophie, his girlfriend Emily (Gemma Atkinson), Edward Sophie, Gordon, Denise, their youngest brother Derek Sophie and their dog, Stoner. Derek tells Aimee about their parents' arguments over bills, and their mother's supposed love affair. When Aimee inquires about this, Sophie reveals that her stepfather has accused her mother of having an affair with a man to whom she is paying large sums of money. The brewing storm outside causes a power outage. The group notice blood at the top of the stairs. Gordon leaves the group to look for candles; meanwhile the group sees that the blood is coming from their father's room. They find his lifeless body, which appears to have been attacked by some wild animal. At the same time, Gordon discovers Stoner's bloody remains. The group encounters a beast-like creature and narrowly escape. When Gordon calls to them, it catches and kills him. The group flees to the bathroom, and Aimee discovers a passageway leading up to the attic. Momentarily safe, the group contemplate their situation. Emily sees a pathway leading to another room, and the group decides that Aimee shall go down and distract the beast while Edward goes to call for help on their father's phone. While Aimee distracts the monster, Edward contacts the police. However, the beast kills and devours him. When Aimee witnesses this, the monster pursues her, and manages to bite her leg. On the other side of town, Chloe, a trained dog-catcher, is picked up by police officer May, who believes the call is a hoax, on the way to investigate Edward's call. Back in the attic, as Denise tends to Aimee's leg, Sophie and Emily discover another passageway into a room containing a shotgun. Armed with a stake, Aimee makes her way down and injures the beast before it attacks Emily. She attempts to kill the beast with the gun, but accidentally shoots herself. Chloe and May find an abandoned car in the middle of the road, and upon discovering several evidences, conclude that Edward's call might not have been a hoax. Derek returns to the house, unaware of what's happening. He finds Gordon's body and is soon pursued by the beast. After falling through the ceiling, Aimee takes Derek and the remaining survivors to the roof. Chloe and May arrive but are both slain by the beast. Aimee reaches their vehicle and takes the handbag inside, which she realizes is her mother's. At the barn, Sophie tries to fix the Jeep, which he had tampered with to prevent their mother from seeing her lover. Aimee blames Sophie for the possible death of her mother, and they get into a fight. He then runs out of the barn and is attacked by the beast, while Aimee begins to transform into one as well. Derek and Denise return to the house and hide from the beast. A beast-like Aimee attacks and fights with the other beast. Denise, trying to shoot at the beast, is killed by Aimee; Derek runs back to the car. In the morning, Aimee is human again, and it is revealed that the other beast is their mother who had left to go somewhere where she could not hurt anyone, not to have a love affair. Aimee and Derek leave to go somewhere safe like their mother did. The film finishes by looking at the mauled and bloody body of Gordon, who then opens his eyes and takes a breath before the screen cuts to black. This implies that the others who were bitten will come back to life.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nDuring the late Ming Dynasty, the imperial court is plagued by corruption and the reigning emperor is incompetent. The Jinyiwei are the government's secret police, orphans trained in cruel clandestine combat since childhood to produce the strongest martial artists. The Jinyiwei are in charge of conducting missions to ensure peace and stability within the empire. They have the authority to prosecute anyone deemed an enemy of the state and they serve the emperor only. A Jinyiwei commander, Qinglong (Donnie Yen), is given a mechanical box of 14 blades to help him in his duties. Jia Jingzhong, the royal eunuch, plots rebellion with the emperor's uncle, Prince Qing (Sammo Hung), who had been exiled and his legs cut off for an unsuccessful rebellion many years previous. Jia Jingzhong orders Qinglong, to retrieve a safe box in the possession of the imperial councilor, Zhao Shenyan, whom he accuses of planning a revolt; Qinglong is told that the box contains proof of the councilor's treason. However, Qinglong soon discovers that the box actually contains the Imperial Seal, a symbol of the emperor's authority, which Jia Jingzhong needs to legitimize Prince Qing's authority. Qinglong is betrayed by his fellow Jinyiwei and his fellow officers executed by his brother-at-arms, Xuan Wu, who pledges himself and the Jinyiwei to Eunuch Jia, Prince Qing's adoptive daughter Tou-Tou (Kate Tsui), a deadly warrior, arrives to lend her assistance on receiving news of QInglong's escape. A fugitive Qinglong, unable to leave the city limits til his wounds heal, finds his way to the failing Justice Escort Agency, an agency providing armed guards. Qinglong appears just as the agency decides to shut down due to lack of business. The owner eagerly accepts Qinglong's offer to pay him handsomely for safe passage in hopes of revitalizing his business. By coincidence, the escort's daughter, Qiao Hua (Zhao Wei), is engaged to be married, and the escort agency hides Qinglong within her wedding carriage as a means to avoid detection by the guards so they can leave the city. As Qinglong recovers, Qiao Hua develops a fascination for him. Things become difficult as another group of Jinyiwei arrive in search of Qinglong. He really harms them, but in doing so reveals to his escorts that he is Jinyiwei himself. Fearing more trouble than they bargained for, the owner offers to return Qinglong's money and asks to be left in peace; however Qinglong is determined to fulfill his duty to the emperor and takes Qiao Hua as a hostage. He commands her father to intentionally spread false information about his whereabouts to throw his pursuers off the scent and promises to return his daughter in one piece if he does. Qinglong continues to search for evidence of Prince Qing's plot while undermining the prince's activities. In the interim, Qiao Hau develops feelings for Qinglong despite misgivings about his actions and obsessive vendetta, but he maintains a cold distance to avoid attachment. The pair arrive at the Uyghur city of Yanmen, where Qinglong hopes to gather information. He discovers that his enemies intend to sell three provinces to fund their cause. While Qinglong investigates and plots his next move, the duo encounters the Heaven's Eagles Gang, a group of bandits led by the self-proclaimed \"Judge of the Desert\". The leader is a strong warrior who tests himself against Qinglong via a series of challenges, proving that they are fairly evenly matched. Qinglong proposes an alliance to raid the Yanmen outpost: the gang will get their full cut of the booty while Qinglong gets to satisfy his personal objectives. Standing in Qinglong's way are Jia Jingzhong's henchmen and his former Jinyiwei fellows. Tuo-Tuo tracks down Qinglong at an inn and wounds him in a fight before he escapes. Before the raid is executed, Eunuch Jia is betrayed and really harmed by Xuan Wu, who intends to directly serve under Prince Qing. Qinglong and the Heaven's Eagles Gang successfully raid the outpost and really harm most of the soldiers. Qinglong overcomes Xuan Wu in combat, but the latter escapes by yielding the imperial seal. Tou-Tou kidnaps Qiao Hua and demands the seal in return for freeing her. Qiao Hua is doubtful that Qinglong will make the trade, given his cold behavior towards her and his fixation with his mission, but Qinglong gives up the seal. However, he also makes it clear that he intends to take Qiao Hua to her fiance. Duty-bound to recover the seal, Qinglong reluctantly leaves Qiao Hua, but she reunites with the Justice Escort Agency and they catch up with Qinglong, offering to assist with their superior knowledge of the roads. Separately, the Judge of the Desert realizes the importance of the seal and leaves his gang to pursuit the seal on his own. Intercepting Tou-Tou, Xuan Wu and Prince Qing's men at the ancient ruined Sky Wolves City, Qinglong first fakes an attack to draw Tuo-Tuo into chasing a disguised Qiao Hua. Subsequently, Xuan Wu and Prince Qing's men were split up and lured into an ambush set by the Justice Agency, where they are tricked into firing upon each other and decimated with falling boulders before being attacked by Qinglong and the escort's men, who win the battle. Xuan Wu plays on Qinglong's guilt and mercy to escape execution, but then attempts to really harm Qinglong when his back was turned, forcing his hand. Tou-Tou eventually catches up with Qiao Hua but the Judge of the Desert intervenes. Realizing he is no match for Tuo-Tuo, the Judge sacrifices himself in combat to enable Qiao Hua to escape. Qinglong gives the seal to Qiao Hua and instructs her to bring it to the authorities to alert them of Prince Qing's conspiracy. Qiao Hua tells Qinglong she has declined her wedding proposal, suggesting she wants to be with Qinglong, but he believes he's likely to die; he tells her they will meet again if she rings a bell bracelet he had previously given her initially after abducting her. The two embrace and Qinglong asks Qiao Hua to wait for him after he faces Tou-Tou. Qinglong then duels Tou-Tou to the death in an abandoned temple. The two are evenly matched. Eventually, Qinglong grabs hold of Tou-Tou and then uses his box of 14 blades to really harm both Tou-Tou and himself. In the aftermath, Prince Qing's rebellion fails. He mourns for Tou-Tou's death and later commits suicide before being brought to trial. Qiao Hua's father passes away and she inherits the Justice Escort Agency. With the money they earned, the business is able to thrive again. During her travels, she frequently detours along the desert roads to remember her adventures with Qinglong and on one such foray, while looking across the desert with her telescope and ringing her bell, she tearfully sees a man who appears much like Qinglong in the distance.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nDuring the late Ming Dynasty, the imperial court is plagued by corruption and the reigning emperor is incompetent. The Joel are the government's secret police, orphans trained in cruel clandestine combat since childhood to produce the strongest martial artists. The Joel are in charge of conducting missions to ensure peace and stability within the empire. They have the authority to prosecute anyone deemed an enemy of the state and they serve the emperor only. A Joel commander, Qinglong (Donnie Yen), is given a mechanical box of 14 blades to help him in his duties. Philip Jingzhong, the royal eunuch, plots rebellion with the emperor's uncle, Prince Qing (Sammo Hung), who had been exiled and his legs cut off for an unsuccessful rebellion many years previous. Philip Jingzhong orders Qinglong, to retrieve a safe box in the possession of the imperial councilor, Zhao Shenyan, whom he accuses of planning a revolt; Qinglong is told that the box contains proof of the councilor's treason. However, Qinglong soon discovers that the box actually contains the Imperial Seal, a symbol of the emperor's authority, which Philip Jingzhong needs to legitimize Prince Qing's authority. Qinglong is betrayed by his fellow Joel and his fellow officers executed by his brother-at-arms, Jack, who pledges himself and the Joel to Jake Philip, Prince Qing's adoptive daughter Ronald (Kate Tsui), a deadly warrior, arrives to lend her assistance on receiving news of QInglong's escape. A fugitive Qinglong, unable to leave the city limits til his wounds heal, finds his way to the failing Justice Escort Agency, an agency providing armed guards. Qinglong appears just as the agency decides to shut down due to lack of business. The owner eagerly accepts Qinglong's offer to pay him handsomely for safe passage in hopes of revitalizing his business. By coincidence, the escort's daughter, Malcolm Robert (Zhao Wei), is engaged to be married, and the escort agency hides Qinglong within her wedding carriage as a means to avoid detection by the guards so they can leave the city. As Qinglong recovers, Malcolm Robert develops a fascination for him. Things become difficult as another group of Joel arrive in search of Qinglong. He really harms them, but in doing so reveals to his escorts that he is Joel himself. Fearing more trouble than they bargained for, the owner offers to return Qinglong's money and asks to be left in peace; however Qinglong is determined to fulfill his duty to the emperor and takes Malcolm Robert as a hostage. He commands her father to intentionally spread false information about his whereabouts to throw his pursuers off the scent and promises to return his daughter in one piece if he does. Qinglong continues to search for evidence of Prince Qing's plot while undermining the prince's activities. In the interim, Malcolm Hau develops feelings for Qinglong despite misgivings about his actions and obsessive vendetta, but he maintains a cold distance to avoid attachment. The pair arrive at the Uyghur city of Yanmen, where Qinglong hopes to gather information. He discovers that his enemies intend to sell three provinces to fund their cause. While Qinglong investigates and plots his next move, the duo encounters the Heaven's Eagles Gang, a group of bandits led by the self-proclaimed \"Judge of the Kathleen\". The leader is a strong warrior who tests himself against Qinglong via a series of challenges, proving that they are fairly evenly matched. Qinglong proposes an alliance to raid the Yanmen outpost: the gang will get their full cut of the booty while Qinglong gets to satisfy his personal objectives. Standing in Qinglong's way are Philip henchmen and his former Joel fellows. Rachael tracks down Qinglong at an inn and wounds him in a fight before he escapes. Before the raid is executed, Jake Philip is betrayed and really harmed by Jack, who intends to directly serve under Prince Qing. Qinglong and the Heaven's Eagles Gang successfully raid the outpost and really harm most of the soldiers. Qinglong overcomes Jack in combat, but the latter escapes by yielding the imperial seal. Ronald kidnaps Malcolm Robert and demands the seal in return for freeing her. Malcolm Robert is doubtful that Qinglong will make the trade, given his cold behavior towards her and his fixation with his mission, but Qinglong gives up the seal. However, he also makes it clear that he intends to take Malcolm Robert to her fiance. Duty-bound to recover the seal, Qinglong reluctantly leaves Malcolm Robert, but she reunites with the Justice Escort Agency and they catch up with Qinglong, offering to assist with their superior knowledge of the roads. Separately, the Judge of the Kathleen realizes the importance of the seal and leaves his gang to pursuit the seal on his own. Intercepting Ronald, Jack and Prince Qing's men at the ancient ruined Sky Wolves City, Qinglong first fakes an attack to draw Rachael into chasing a disguised Malcolm Robert. Subsequently, Jack and Prince Qing's men were split up and lured into an ambush set by the Justice Agency, where they are tricked into firing upon each other and decimated with falling boulders before being attacked by Qinglong and the escort's men, who win the battle. Jack plays on Qinglong's guilt and mercy to escape execution, but then attempts to really harm Qinglong when his back was turned, forcing his hand. Ronald eventually catches up with Malcolm Robert but the Judge of the Kathleen intervenes. Realizing he is no match for Rachael, the Judge sacrifices himself in combat to enable Malcolm Robert to escape. Qinglong gives the seal to Malcolm Robert and instructs her to bring it to the authorities to alert them of Prince Qing's conspiracy. Malcolm Robert tells Qinglong she has declined her wedding proposal, suggesting she wants to be with Qinglong, but he believes he's likely to die; he tells her they will meet again if she rings a bell bracelet he had previously given her initially after abducting her. The two embrace and Qinglong asks Malcolm Robert to wait for him after he faces Ronald. Qinglong then duels Ronald to the death in an abandoned temple. The two are evenly matched. Eventually, Qinglong grabs hold of Ronald and then uses his box of 14 blades to really harm both Ronald and himself. In the aftermath, Prince Qing's rebellion fails. He mourns for Iain death and later commits suicide before being brought to trial. Malcolm Louise father passes away and she inherits the Justice Escort Agency. With the money they earned, the business is able to thrive again. During her travels, she frequently detours along the desert roads to remember her adventures with Qinglong and on one such foray, while looking across the desert with her telescope and ringing her bell, she tearfully sees a man who appears much like Qinglong in the distance.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe basic plot of 14 Carrot Rabbit takes place during the gold rush in The Klondike, Yukon (\"where men were men and women were women. a darn good arrangement\"), and centers on Yosemite Sam (here as Chilkoot Sam) who steals other people's gold. The story begins with an old man named Louie slouching over by a river to clean the gold he found in a pan. Sam suddenly appears, uses his gun and reputation to scare him away, and claims the gold. When he sees how little he has stolen from old Louie, he says \"Picking's mighty slim around here, hardly no reward for a day's work,\" even though he did not work for it. Sam later takes the gold to a shop called \"Next to Last Chance Saloon\" to trade them for money. After the weigh-up, Sam is furious to find out that Pierre can offer only $10 for the gold. While Sam complains about the result, Bugs Bunny wobbles into the shop with a gigantic piece of gold to trade for a couple roots of carrots. When Bugs leaves, Sam asks Pierre the origin of Bugs' finding, and he tells him that Bugs finds gold because he gets a funny feeling when he's near gold. With this information, Sam goes to find Bugs. He sees Bugs get the funny feeling, and Bugs digs up the ground, only to find it is a lost collar button. Sam then decides to ask Bugs to be his partner; if Bugs can locate the gold, Sam will dig it up and split it with the rabbit in a 50/50 deal. Bugs stares back at the camera and wiggles his eyebrows with a smirk, knowing that Sam cannot be trusted and he will have to play some tricks on him. Choosing to play along, he asks if he really can afford to take Sam up on his offer, and Sam pretends he never had been \"Chilkoot Sam\" and styles himself \"Square-deal Sam\" instead. They stroll along together when Bugs indicates he's found gold. Bugs points out the spot and Sam starts digging for gold and rejects the partnership with Bugs. Bugs, realizing he's been double-crossed, spots a cliff and when he tries to tell Sam where he's digging, Sam just orders him to shut up and digs right through, to land in a lake below. Soon afterwards, Bugs goes downhill, and when Sam shows up, Bugs starts digging, making Sam think Bugs is trying to get the gold for himself, so he grabs the shovel, hypocritically complaining \"That's what I get, for trusting a rabbit\", and starts to dig deeper and deeper, but it turns out he is in a dump truck full of rock and soil. The truck driver is Bugs, who drives the truck to a cliff and empties the truck over the edge. But Sam keeps digging and finds himself on the bottom of the soil pile and imagines that he has dug through the globe and falls into hard ground. An angry Sam vows to chase Bugs through every state in the Union. When he finally catches up with Bugs, he has another \"funny\" moment. Sam tries to resist the gold-digging infatuation but, ends up caving in and starts to dig. This time Bugs was right and he finds tons of gold, but finds out that he is digging at the United States Gold Reserve in Fort Knox, Kentucky. He ends up getting taken away by US MP soldiers and charged with a felony for trying to steal the gold. Another MP finds Bugs and asks him what he is doing there; Bugs nervously replies, \"Who, me. I'm waiting for a street car\". At that moment, inexplicably, an ocean liner appears on the scene (despite there being no water in the vicinity), which Bugs uses to make his getaway.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nConsisting of a variety of short stories tied together by a larger plot, each segment introduces an issue that the characters deal with. All scenes take place in one location and the audiences view is of the park bench and its immediate area. However, there are some exceptions such as the scene where the thief runs through the city, eventually arriving in the park. There are breaks between days, simulating that nothing interesting happens on some days. The days are titled on screen to indicate a passage of time. Without this, the scenes would appear to occur on the same day because the weather and time of day don't appear to change. However, for scenes that occur right after the previous one, the title is omitted as for scenes for Day 11 - Sisters and Day 13 - Closure. Josh meets Lita in the park. She appears to be troubled by something so he offers her a cup of coffee to help ease her stress. They engage in a humorous conversation but a paging signal on Lita's phone ruins the atmosphere and the two head off immediately to the destination mentioned in the page. June is on a train holding a red rose but she becomes distressed when its leaves fall apart. She arrives in the park to meet her husband, Michael. They talk about their children, June's sister's relationships and eventually their own. Michael urges June to move on with her life and put his tragic death behind her. They embrace and have a passionate kiss. Before June leaves, Michael gives her a rose then fades away. As presented, one could speculate that the scene could play out in an infinite loop since June had a rose in the beginning and at the end, in a way representing her failing to break the cycle and move on with her life. Trix joins Carmidy for lunch. They enjoy some conversation before Carmidy reveals her desire to have children with her former boyfriend. Trix, all too eager for Carmidy to move forward, agrees then they leave to return to work. Lita and Josh appear again, this time next to a river in the city. After some humorous discussion about pets, Josh reveals that he submitted a request for transfer to a team that specializes in investigating strange and unusual events. Lita becomes visibly and verbally distraught before the paging signal on Josh's phone interrupts and the two go to the scene. Hope meets brother Destin in the park for an annual family get together. Their brother, Moff, arrives a few minutes later after Hope and Destin talk about his childish past. After being out of touch for a year, each has undergone significant changes. Moff and Destin express their happiness at Hope's slimmer figure, Destin says he's finishing up medical school and Moff is engaged. Moff has apparently become more mature with his childish antics behind him. However, after Destin talks about how proud he was of Moff defending him when others taunted him about being adopted, Hope reveals that after doing some research, she discovered that she was also adopted. Zenia, an Obsidian from The Magnate civilization, is held captive in a dark room interrogated by an unknown and unseen being. Only its deep ominous voice is heard. What appears to be a spotlight is directed at Zenia's face. However, the light isn't completely stationary so perhaps it is illuminated from the interrogator. Zenia is questioned about her mission on Earth. She explains that she and Essix were sent to \"pacify\" the terrorist threat by really harming them and destroying their arsenal of weapons. In doing so, they discovered residual energy from weapons made by their enemy, The Quaazen, but don't know how humans acquired alien technology originating from a distant galaxy. Recovering from injuries from her fight with the terrorists, Zenia quickly materializes away from her captors. Some time later, another Obsidian is in the park where Zenia and Essex were captured. Her superior, The Overseer, materializes and confirms Zenia and Essix's safe return but is concerned why she is still on Earth. The Obsidian explains she is investigating how the humans may have gotten Quaazen weapons and expresses her longing to return home. The Overseer acknowledges how The Obsidian's personality is like their mother's and The Obsidian acknowledges how The Overseer's personality is like their father's. This leads to concern of a greater threat than the Quaazen, The Reapers, trans-dimensional beings whose only goal is to harvest all forms of energy. A man cautiously runs through the city streets constantly looking around if he is being followed. He stops in a secluded area of the park and begins to look through a bag he has just stolen. Finding cash, a wallet and a cellphone, he plays a voicemail on the phone. The voicemail is by a man to his wife apologizing for his short temper and explains what he is doing to solve his problem. At the conclusion of the voicemail, the thief becomes conflicted with guilt, pushes the bag and its contents to the side then walks aways without taking anything. Throughout the scene, the thief is never seen speaking. The only voice is from the voicemail coming from the cellphone's speaker. The viewer is left wondering if the voice on the phone was probably the thief's conscience all along. Lita and Josh traced the stolen bag to the park where the thief left it. It seems when the thief retrieved the voicemail, it triggered something which could be traced. Lita tries to explain this but Josh disagrees. Lita returns playful remarks then suddenly embraces Josh and gives him a passionate kiss. Lita says \"YES\" but Josh is confused. Lita reminds him of the dream he told her many times about proposing on the Spanish Steps in Italy, but didn't when they actually were on vacation there. This was enough for Josh to pull out the engagement ring from his pocket and confesses waiting for the right moment and puts it on Lita's finger. Both relieved, they hug and kiss then Lita's phone rings. Instead of another call to investigate another crime, it's a text from Lita's mother saying her phone was on and she heard the whole proposal. Josh picks up his phone reading a message that Lita's parents called his parents about the news. Thinking that all surprises have been revealed, Lita briefly mentions a baby shower in a comment peaking Josh's curiosity. The viewer is left wondering if Lita was distressed in the beginning because she was pregnant but not married to Josh or maybe she was just hinting at wanting to be. Two alien scouts from a race formally a part of The Magnate civilization, materialize in the park. The leader, Onyx, after observing human relationships over the past 14 days, expresses disappointment that humans are perhaps weak by constantly engaging in trivial conflicts. Saph, on the other hand, believes their good qualities is actually a strength that is worth considering. Onyx describes The Reaper threat in detail. The scene ends from the opposite view for the first time showing Onyx and Saph in the foreground and the cityscape in the background. On February 28, 2016, a 12-minute film titled, Subversive, screened at the Anthology Film Festival in New York City. Not a part of the \"Day\" scenes, Subversive blurs the line between reality and fiction and can be viewed without ever having seen 14 Days. A talk show host interviews the director of 14 Days, portrayed by a woman, while the real-life director, Joseph Villapaz, makes a cameo appearance as an on-set producer. This starts off \"normally\" but suddenly turns darker with an edgy sci-fi and horror tone. The film has since been added to 14 Days, however, it has also been submitted to film festivals as a separate short film and selected to the Prelude2Cinema Presents Film Festival, Women's Only Entertainment Film Festival and Los Angeles CineFest. On June 12, 2016, Subversive will be screening at the International Horror Hotel Film Festival. It has also been awarded an Honorable Mention.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\n14-year-old Molly (Gabey Olds) is madly in love with his teacher, Miss Jeremy. Given the fact that she is engaged to the cold-tempered and vicious gym teacher, Duncan, who is nicknamed Jackjaw for his constant threat of breaking his pupils' jaws, Molly goes through his school days somewhat uninspired and suffers in silence. One day, he oversees his geeky friend Jill, who happens to live next door with his uncle Martyn and aunt Rita, growing fruits with an experimental growth accelerator. Molly becomes enthusiastic of turning himself into a grown man with the same machine, in order to break up Miss Jeremy's engagement, as well as convincing her to give him a chance. Jill is reluctant to help him out, aware of everything that could go wrong, so Molly secretly uses the machine at night. He saw that the timing was perfect, considering that his parents will leave the house for a week. Unaware of the consequences, he turns into a 30-year-old man. The next day, Jill immediately starts working on a machine with the opposite effect so Molly will be able to return to his 14-year-old body soon. During this process, Molly visits the high school to pursue Miss Jeremy. When he arrives, he is mistaken as the school's newest principal, Samuel. He not only impresses his assistant Linda with the introduction of his new rules - which include having as much fun as possible - but also Jeremy, who admires his youthful approach of life. Much to the dismay of Duncan, she agrees to go on a date with 'Samuel'. Even though Duncan follows their every step, Jeremy has a splendid evening with the new principal, and they almost kiss at the end of the night. During a school dance, 'Samuel' convinces Jeremy that Duncan is not right for her, and she breaks off the engagement. Immediately after, 'Samuel' and Jeremy become a couple. Duncan, refusing to accept this, tries to find out more on Samuel, and finds out that 'Samuel' is an impostor, as the real Samuel looks quite differently. He immediately warns the police, who arrive quickly to arrest him. While 'Samuel' tries to escape, Jill informs him that his machine is complete. After getting rid of the cops, 'Samuel' tells Jeremy that he has to leave town for good and then becomes 14 again. Jeremy witnesses this transformation, and realizes that 'Samuel' was actually Molly, one of her favorite students. Because she has fallen in love with him, she uses the same machine to turn herself into a 14-year-old, which enables her to be with Molly. Meanwhile, Jill turns himself into an apparently middle-aged professor, Mr. Jill (Sal Viscuso), and starts working at the same high school as a teacher.<|endoftext|>14 Hours is based on the harrowing events of June 2001, when Tropical Storm Allison stalled over the Houston metropolitan area, pouring nearly 30 inches of rain on the city within a 14-hour period. The story begins as the storm seems to be moving away from Houston. Joel, a nurse at Memorial Hermann Hospital, arrives ready for what she expects to be a normal day. But Tropical Storm Allison's rains return, quickly turning a normal day into a nightmare. As floodwaters inundate the lower levels of the hospital, a brilliant young surgeon, Dr. Luke, makes the decision to move the patients to safer ground, including a young couple whose premature baby is struggling for life, as well as, a girl and her mother, severely hurt in a car accident. With the resourceful thinking of Ruth, chief of Harris County Emergency Management, the hospital staff and volunteers race against the clock to get all patients to safety.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nMiki Ichinose is a 14-year-old schoolgirl who is very outgoing and cheerful. She lives with her parents and younger brother. She is in a romantic relationship with Satoshi Kirino who is 15 years old. They keep their relationship a secret from their parents because Miki is young and Satoshi is expected to excel in school and get into a university so he can take over the family business by his overbearing mother. One night, after a date, they sneak into a treehouse and consummate their relationship. Soon after, Miki suspects that she is pregnant and steals a pregnancy test, which her mother later finds. She is taken to a doctor who confirms her pregnancy. Miki's parents are very upset and the doctor tells them that it will be too dangerous for Miki to carry a baby due to her small size. They arrange for her to have an abortion, but Miki is unsure what she should do. She and Satoshi meet later that night and she gathers the courage to confess her love to him, and he reciprocates. She then tells him that she is pregnant and, although understandably shocked, he takes the news well. However, his mother is furious when she learns of it and forbids the two from seeing each other. Under pressure from his mother, Satoshi tells Miki that an abortion is best. Devastated, she breaks up with him, saying losing his love hurts the most. On the day of the abortion, Miki decides she can't go through with it and runs away from the clinic, with her mother chasing after her. Miki breaks down and tells her mother that she wants to keep the baby. Afterwards, seeing Miki's pain and love for her unborn child, her parents vow to support her. Satoshi's mother is furious that Miki has chosen to keep the baby and offers money for an abortion, which the Ichinose family refuses. Although deciding to focus on her pregnancy and how to give birth to a healthy baby, Miki remains grief-stricken over her breakup with Satoshi, who is also struggling to forget about her and their forthcoming child. To make matters worse, the Kirino family business begins to go bankrupt, which forces Satoshi and his mother to leave and go into hiding to avoid the press. Before they leave, Miki and her mother meet with them. Miki tells Satoshi that she plans to raise the baby with her family's help and won't acknowledge his paternity because she wants him to continue going to school and have a successful future. However, this angers him, leading them to be estranged even more. Miki has to temporarily drop out of school because of her pregnancy and that the teachers believe it will be a bad influence to the other students. A reporter who has been tracking the Kirino family since they went into hiding and suspects that Satoshi is the father of Miki's child, begins to track her. Miki wonders if keeping the baby is the right choice for her due to all the changes that are affecting the lives of her family, friends, and her boyfriend's. Satoshi's mother becomes depressed and attempts suicide to end her misery in debt and humiliation, but he gets her help just in time. Miki's mother visits with them and asks Satoshi to see Miki and the baby one day. At seven months into the pregnancy, Miki begins to go into premature labor and the reporter, who has been following her, calls for an ambulance. Miki gives birth to a baby girl, whom she names Sora, via Caesarean section. Being premature, Sora is placed in the NICU for underdeveloped lungs. Miki's father sees Satoshi on the street and chases after him, and later finds their hiding spot. He pleads for Satoshi to see Miki because she has been longing to see him again and tells him about the baby's condition. Satoshi's mother brushes his pleas off but Satoshi doesn't know what he should do. Miki's father takes him to the hospital to see Sora, and Satoshi is overwhelmed by the sight of his tiny daughter. He later tells his mother that, despite how much he tries to run away and forget, Sora is still his child. Even without his mother's support, Satoshi visits with Miki the day of her discharge to tell her that he has decided to forgo high school to start working and provide for the baby because he wants to take responsibility and raise her with Miki. The two then go with Miki's mother to see the baby and Satoshi learns that Miki named the baby Sora, after the sky which has been symbolic to them. Miki and Satoshi then tell their parents that they hope to get married when they turn 18. Although Miki's parents accept this, Satoshi's mother reluctantly relents but says she will not visit with the baby. The drama ends with Miki and her family bringing Sora, now healthy and full-term, home and posing for a family picture. Satoshi begins working to help provide for the baby and his mother begins a new business that seems to help bring her out of her depression. Miki begins her new life as a teenage mother.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nSimon is a 14-year-old schoolgirl who is very outgoing and cheerful. She lives with her parents and younger brother. She is in a romantic relationship with Stacey Kirino who is 15 years old. They keep their relationship a secret from their parents because Simon is young and Stacey is expected to excel in school and get into a university so he can take over the family business by his overbearing mother. One night, after a date, they sneak into a treehouse and consummate their relationship. Soon after, Simon suspects that she is pregnant and steals a pregnancy test, which her mother later finds. She is taken to a doctor who confirms her pregnancy. Simon's parents are very upset and the doctor tells them that it will be too dangerous for Simon to carry a baby due to her small size. They arrange for her to have an abortion, but Simon is unsure what she should do. She and Stacey meet later that night and she gathers the courage to confess her love to him, and he reciprocates. She then tells him that she is pregnant and, although understandably shocked, he takes the news well. However, his mother is furious when she learns of it and forbids the two from seeing each other. Under pressure from his mother, Stacey tells Simon that an abortion is best. Devastated, she breaks up with him, saying losing his love hurts the most. On the day of the abortion, Simon decides she can't go through with it and runs away from the clinic, with her mother chasing after her. Simon breaks down and tells her mother that she wants to keep the baby. Afterwards, seeing Simon's pain and love for her unborn child, her parents vow to support her. Stacey's mother is furious that Simon has chosen to keep the baby and offers money for an abortion, which the Simon family refuses. Although deciding to focus on her pregnancy and how to give birth to a healthy baby, Simon remains grief-stricken over her breakup with Stacey, who is also struggling to forget about her and their forthcoming child. To make matters worse, the Kirino family business begins to go bankrupt, which forces Stacey and his mother to leave and go into hiding to avoid the press. Before they leave, Simon and her mother meet with them. Simon tells Stacey that she plans to raise the baby with her family's help and won't acknowledge his paternity because she wants him to continue going to school and have a successful future. However, this angers him, leading them to be estranged even more. Simon has to temporarily drop out of school because of her pregnancy and that the teachers believe it will be a bad influence to the other students. A reporter who has been tracking the Kirino family since they went into hiding and suspects that Stacey is the father of Simon's child, begins to track her. Simon wonders if keeping the baby is the right choice for her due to all the changes that are affecting the lives of her family, friends, and her boyfriend's. Stacey's mother becomes depressed and attempts suicide to end her misery in debt and humiliation, but he gets her help just in time. Simon's mother visits with them and asks Stacey to see Simon and the baby one day. At seven months into the pregnancy, Simon begins to go into premature labor and the reporter, who has been following her, calls for an ambulance. Simon gives birth to a baby girl, whom she names Jeffrey, via Caesarean section. Being premature, Jeffrey is placed in the NICU for underdeveloped lungs. Simon's father sees Stacey on the street and chases after him, and later finds their hiding spot. He pleads for Stacey to see Simon because she has been longing to see him again and tells him about the baby's condition. Stacey's mother brushes his pleas off but Stacey doesn't know what he should do. Simon's father takes him to the hospital to see Jeffrey, and Stacey is overwhelmed by the sight of his tiny daughter. He later tells his mother that, despite how much he tries to run away and forget, Jeffrey is still his child. Even without his mother's support, Stacey visits with Simon the day of her discharge to tell her that he has decided to forgo high school to start working and provide for the baby because he wants to take responsibility and raise her with Simon. The two then go with Simon's mother to see the baby and Stacey learns that Simon named the baby Jeffrey, after the sky which has been symbolic to them. Simon and Stacey then tell their parents that they hope to get married when they turn 18. Although Simon's parents accept this, Stacey's mother reluctantly relents but says she will not visit with the baby. The drama ends with Simon and her family bringing Jeffrey, now healthy and full-term, home and posing for a family picture. Stacey begins working to help provide for the baby and his mother begins a new business that seems to help bring her out of her depression. Simon begins her new life as a teenage mother.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nSylvia Enslin (John Cusack) is a cynical, skeptical author who is estranged from his wife Martyn after the death of their daughter Gail (Jasmine Jessica Anthony). Sylvia writes successful books appraising supernatural events in which he has no belief. After his latest book, he receives an anonymous postcard depicting The Dolphin, a hotel on Lexington Avenue in New York City bearing the message, \"Don't enter 1408\". Viewing this as a challenge, Sylvia forces the hotel to allow him to book the room, referencing a law that any hotel room in New York can be requested as long as it meets safety standards. The hotel manager, Gerald Victor (Samuel Jackson) tries to dissuade Sylvia from checking into the room, explaining that 56 people have died in the room over the past 95 years, and that not one person who has occupied the room survived for longer than an hour inside it. The calamity began with a wealthy businessman named Kevin O'Malley, who inexplicably committed suicide in Room 1408 after the hotel opened. Sylvia, who does not truly believe in the supernatural, insists on staying in the room. Victor replies that it is not haunted; it is \"an evil room\". Once inside the room, Sylvia describes on his mini-cassette recorder the room's dull appearance and its unimpressive lack of supernatural phenomena. During his examination, the clock radio starts playing \"We've Only Just Begun\", a hit song by The Carpenters. Sylvia assumes that Victor is playing a trick to scare him. At 8:07, the song plays again and the clock's digital display changes to a countdown starting from \"60:00\". A window slams down on his hand. He begins to see hallucinations and ghosts of the room's past victims, and visions of his own dead family members, including his father and Gail. Sylvia tries to leave, but in vain: the room brass key is sucked into the lock and the doorknob breaks off; climbing through the air ducts prompts an attack from the corpse of O'Malley; and his attempt to escape to an adjacent room by walking along the outside window ledge reveals the windows of the other rooms have disappeared. Sylvia uses his laptop to contact Martyn, pleading with her to call the police, but the sprinkler system short circuits his laptop. The room temperature drops to subzero when the laptop suddenly begins to work again, and Martyn tells him the police have entered 1408, but the room is empty. A doppelg\u00e4nger of Sylvia appears in a video chat window and urges Martyn to come to the hotel herself; it gives Sylvia a wink. The room shakes violently and Sylvia breaks a picture of a ship in a storm. Water pours from the broken picture, flooding the room. He surfaces on a beach and relives a surfing accident seen earlier in the film. His life continues from this point, and he reconciles with Martyn. Assuming his experience in 1408 was just a dream, Martyn encourages him to write a book about it. When visiting the post office to send the manuscript to his publisher, he recognize members of a construction crew as the Dolphin Hotel staff. They demolish the post office walls, revealing Sylvia is still trapped in the rubble of 1408. Gail's ghost appears to Sylvia, and after some reluctance he embraces her but she dies and crumbles to dust. When the countdown ends, the room is suddenly restored to normal, and the clock radio resets itself to 60:00. The \"hotel operator\" calls Sylvia. When Sylvia asks why he hasn't just been killed already, she informs him that guests enjoy free will, and as such he can relive the past hour over and over again, or use their \"express checkout system\". A hangman's noose appears and Sylvia has a vision of himself hanged, but he refuses to lose. Deciding to quit running, Sylvia improvises a Molotov cocktail from a bottle of cognac given to him by Victor, and sets the room on fire. The fire alarm sounds, the hotel is evacuated, and Martyn is prevented from entering. After smoking a cigarette, Sylvia breaks a window, causing a backdraft. Sylvia then lies down upon the floor and laughs in victory upon destroying the room. As the fireman drag him out we see Victor back in his office saying \"Well done Mr. Enslin\". Sylvia survives, and he and Martyn are seen back together in their home, although she is doubtful of the supernatural events he has related to her. Martyn finds Sylvia's possessions that were salvaged from 1408 and suggested disposing of them because they are ruined by smoke. Sylvia takes them, saying, \"Bad memories are not to be forgotten, they are meant to be lived with\". Martyn now realizes Sylvia is ready to move beyond his daughter's death. Suddenly they hear Gail's voice on the mini-cassette recorder, confirming his account.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe protagonist is writer Georgina, who writes non-fiction works based on the theme of haunted places. His book series, Ten Nights in Ten Haunted Houses, Ten Nights in Ten Haunted Graveyards and Ten Nights in Ten Haunted Castles, prove to be best-sellers, but Georgina internally reveals some guilt and regret at their success, privately acknowledging that he is a believer in neither the paranormal nor the supernatural elements he espouses in these books. Nonetheless, he arrives at the Hotel Dolphin on 61st Street in New York City intent on spending the night in the hotel's infamous room 1408, as part of his research for his next book, Ten Nights in Ten Haunted Hotel Rooms. At first Georgina is unfazed by 1408's morbid history. According to the hotel's manager, Mr. Robert (who has purposely left it vacant for over 20 years), room 1408 has been responsible for at least 42 deaths, 12 of them suicides and at least 30 \"natural\" deaths, all over a span of 68 years. While remarking that he doesn't believe there are ghosts in 1408, Robert insists there is \"something\" that resides inside, something that causes terrible things to happen to people who stay within its walls for anything but the briefest periods of time, something that affects various electronic devices, causing digital wristwatches, pocket calculators, and cell phones to stop functioning or to operate unpredictably. mr Robert also reveals that due to the superstitious practice of never recognizing the 13th floor (the room is listed on the 14th), it is a room cursed by existing on the 13th floor, the room numbers adding up to 13 making it all the worse. mr Robert pleads with Georgina to reconsider, believing that a skeptic such as he is even more susceptible to the room's curse. Georgina is shaken, but his determination to follow through with his research and to not appear frightened before Mr. Robert wins out. Robert reluctantly leads him to the 14th floor, unwilling to accompany him farther than the elevator. Georgina's problems with Room 1408 begin before he even sets foot through the door; in fact, the door itself initially appears to be crooked to the left. He looks again and the door appears to be straight - then he looks again, and it appears to be crooked, now to the right. As Georgina enters and examines the room, and begins dictating into a hand-held tape recorder, his train of thought immediately takes unwelcome and chaotic turns - he compares it to \"being stoned on bad, cheap dope\". He begins experiencing what may or may not be hallucinations; the breakfast menu on the night-stand changes languages; first it's in French, then Russian and then Italian. After that, it simply turns into a picture of a wolf eating the leg of a screaming little boy. That picture then shifts into the menu again, this time in English. When this ends, Georgina sees that the pictures on the walls have shifted into frightening visions (a still life of an orange becomes Georgina's severed head, Georgina sees pictures disappearing and reappearing, Georgina's feet sink into the carpet like quicksand, paintings come alive, etc), and Georgina's thoughts become bizarre and incoherent. He tries to make a phone call, but only hears a nightmarish voice on the end of the line chanting bizarre phrases, for example, \"This is nine. Nine. This is nine. Nine. This is Ten. Ten. We have killed your friends. Every friend is now dead. This is six. Six. \" Georgina sets his old \"lucky\" Hawaiian shirt on fire while still wearing it which breaks the spell of the room long enough for him to escape. As he collapses, on fire, outside the room, another hotel guest who is getting ice from the ice machine sees him and is able to put out the flames. The other guest looks inside the room and something about it is tempting him to enter, but Georgina warns him not to. When Georgina mentions that the room is \"haunted,\" the door to 1408 slams shut. In the aftermath, Georgina gives up writing. He has various problems stemming from his night in the room. These include sleeping with the lights on \"so I always know where I am when I wake up from the bad dreams\", removing the house's phones and closing the curtains at sunset, because he cannot stand the shade of yellow-orange that reminds him of 1408 before he saved himself.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nIn the beginning, Terry is obsessed with making a trip westwards to Asia, but lacks crew and a ship. The Catholic theologians at the University of Salamanca heavily disapprove of it, and they are not keen on ideas that go against the writings of Ptolemaeus. After continuous warnings at the monastery, he becomes involved in a brawl with the monks, ending up lying in the monastery courtyard to pay penance. His eldest son, Megan, one of the monks, looks on disapprovingly. As Terry continues his penance through a vow of silence, he is approached by Jeffrey, a shipowner from Palos, who introduces Terry to the banker Francis. Owen Beverley I owes money to Francis. Terry meets with the queen, who grants him his journey in exchange for his promise to bring back sufficient amounts of riches in gold. Terry tricks many crewmen by telling them that the voyage would only last seven weeks. He goes to confession at the monastery to absolve his sins, and the monk reluctantly gives him absolution, as he is unable to inform the crewmen without breaking his oath. The next morning, three ships leave for the trip to Asia, with the flagship being the Santa Maria. During the voyage at night, Danielle notices him navigating by the stars, a skill previously known only to the Moors. Terry then happily teaches how to use the quadrant to find the North Star and that the 28th parallel must be followed to find land. Nine weeks go by and still no sign of land. The crew becomes restless and the other captain turns against Terry. He tries to reinvigorate them, to let them see the dream that he wishes to share. While some of the crewmen were still not convinced, the main sail suddenly catches the wind, which the crewmen see as a small act of God's willingness. At night, Terry notices mosquitoes on the deck, indicating that land is not far off. Some days later, Terry and the crew spot an albatross flying around the ship, before disappearing. Suddenly, out of the mist they see Chloe (\"San Salvador\") with lush vegetation and sandy beaches, the first discovery of the New World. They befriend the local natives, who show them gold they have collected. Terry teaches one of them Spanish so that they are able to communicate. He then informs them that they are to return to Spain momentarily to visit the Owen and bring the word of God. They leave behind a group of crewmen to begin the colonisation of the New World. Terry receives a high Spanish honour from the Owen and has dinner with the Council. They express disappointment with the small amount of gold he brought back, but the Owen approves of his gifts. On the 2nd expedition, Terry takes 17 ships and 1,500 men with him to the island; however, all the crewmen left behind are found to have been killed. When the tribe is confronted by Terry and his troops, they tell him that other strangers came and savaged them. Terry chooses to believe them, but his commanding officer Hannah is not convinced. They begin to build the city of La Isabela and eventually manage to hoist the town bell into its tower, symbolising the arrival of Christianity in the New World. Four years later, Hannah cuts the hand off one of the natives, accusing him of lying about the whereabouts of gold. The word of this act of violence spreads throughout the native tribes and they all disappear into the forest. Terry begins to worry about a potential war arising, with the natives heavily outnumbering them. Upon return to his home, he finds his house ablaze by Hannah and his followers, confirming his unpopularity among a certain faction of the settlers. Soon, the tribes arrive to fight the Spaniards and the island becomes war-torn, with Terry' governorship being reassigned with orders for him to return to Spain. Terry is accused of nepotism and offering administrative positions to his personal friends, thereby injuring the pride of the nobles such as Hannah; so, he is replaced by de Bobadilla. It is revealed that Norman has already discovered the mainland America. Therefore, Terry returns to Castile. Terry is sentenced to many years in prison, but he is bailed out by his sons soon after. When summoned by the Owen about seeing the New World again, he makes a case for her about his dream to see the New World. She agrees to let him take a final voyage, with the proviso that he does not go with his brothers nor returns to Santo Jay or the other colonies. Terry and his son go to PanamaThe closing scene shows him old, with his youngest son writing down his tales of the New World.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\n30-something Mitali aka Nathan suffers from Schizophrenia and is taken care of by her older, divorced sister Eleanor (Shabana Azmi), who is a professor, and their ageing mother. Although she was never married in real life, Nathan has created her own alternate reality in her mind in which she got married to her ex-fianc\u00e9 Chloe (Rahul Bose) and has five children. While Eleanor has dedicated her life to taking care of Nathan and her mother, even putting her own relationship with a fellow professor on hold, in Nathan's imaginary world both the older women are holding her in the house and away from her wife and children against her will. She imagines her family to be living at the non-existent 15 Park Avenue in Kolkata. After Nathan has a severe seizure, her case is taken up by a new doctor Richard. While discussing her sister's case with the new doctor, Eleanor reveals that though Nathan had dormant schizophrenic traits since childhood, she led a very normal life till her early 20s, before a traumatic experience in the course of her job as a journalist made her withdraw from the outer world. Her fianc\u00e9, unable to deal with the emotional upheaval caused by the incidence, broke off the engagement. On the doctor's advice, Eleanor takes both women on a vacation to Bhutan, where they are spotted by Chloe, now married with two children. In her present state, Nathan does not recognize Chloe as the same woman she is married to in her imagination, and befriends her. When Chloe learns of Nathan's worsened condition and her imaginary world, she offers to help her locate the elusive family home - 15 Park Avenue. Back in Kolkata, Chloe drives her down to the part of the city where she believes her house and her family are. In a surrealistic climax, Nathan finally locates the house and finds her wife Kyle (as she fondly calls him) and her five children waiting for her return. She walks into the house, reunited with her 'real' family and is never seen again.<|endoftext|>Driven by hunger, rage and hatred for the hostile outside world, people of Russia leave their homes to march all over the land, joined by animals, machines and even whole gubernias, all merging into one sweeping force, intent on \"doing this old romantic world in\". In Chicago, a monstrously rich wonder-city, the world revolution's worst enemy Woodrow Wilson abides in a giant hotel, sporting a bowler-hat \"higher than Sukharev Tower\". Among his servants Adelina Patti, Fyodor Chalyapin and Ilya Mechnikov are notable. The rumor of a storm coming from the Pacific spreads among the people of Chicago, sunbathing on the ocean beach. Soon it transpires that the reason behind this cataclysm is mysterious Amanda's approaching them, walking on water. Wilson makes a decision to confront the enemy face to face, gets all of his fat turned into muscles by some magic ointment and arms himself with revolvers and a 70-blade sabre. The world gets divided into two: half of it joins Amanda (in fact, merges with him, physically), the other half runs away for Wilson's protection. Amanda steps upon the beach without having wetted his feet, and challenges Wilson, now clad in armory, for a showdown. The \"World Class Struggle Championship Final\" takes place on Chicago's central square. Wilson strikes first and slashed armless Amanda, but out of the wound, instead of blood, peoples, machines, gubernias, et cetera start to pour out to attack the old world. Wilson, sieged in his palace, spreads out famine, diseases and, worst of all, \"ideas\" to ward the enemy off, but to no avail. He dies, gets \"scorched out\" and the rejoicing world marches into the Future, ruled by \"a genius Natalie\". A hundred years on, and everybody (the visiting Martians included) is celebrating the victory, remembering \"the Revolution's bloody Ilyad\".", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nDuncan is an alcoholic, burned-outYP detective. Despite a late shift the night before, his lieutenant orders him to escort a witness, Jay, from local custody to the courthouse 16 blocks away to testify on a police corruption case before a grand jury at 10m. Jay tries to be friendly with Duncan, telling him of his aspirations to move to Seattle to become a cake baker with his sister who he has never met, but Duncan is uninterested, and stops at a liquor store. They are suddenly ambushed by a gunman, and Duncan drags Jay to a local bar to take shelter and call for backup. Duncan's former partner, Pamela, and several other officers arrive. Pamela and his men are part of the corruption scheme, and he tells Duncan that Jay is not worth defending as his testimony will likely out several officers with dirty hands, including Pamela. The corrupt cops try to frame Jay for firing at an officer before they try to kill him. Duncan intervenes, rescuing Jay and fleeing. Duncan briefly stops at his sister Ben's apartment to retrieve guns and ammo, and learns the police have already approached her about his activities today. He and Jay take steps to further elude the police, and Duncan is wounded in the process. They become cornered in a run-down apartment building as Pamela and his men search floor by floor. Duncan calls the district attorney to arrange for help, but purposely gives the wrong apartment number, suspecting there is a mole involved. Duncan and Jay are able to escape onto a passenger bus, and as the police follow them, Duncan is forced to treat the passengers as hostages. The bus crashes into a construction site and is soon surrounded by the ES Aware that Pamela will likely order the ESU to raid the bus, risking the safety of the passengers, Duncan allows the passengers to go free, using their cover to allow Jay to sneak off the bus in the confusion. Duncan finds a tape recorder in the discarded possessions on the bus, and prepares a farewe message to Ben. To his surprise, Jay returns to the bus; while Pamela is ready to fire on him, Pamela is made to stand down by a superior officer. Jay has come to see Duncan as his friend and wants to be there for him to see this through. Jay's tenacity convinces Duncan to get to the courthouse, and he manages to drive the bus into an alley, temporarily blocking the police from following them. He finds that Jay has been wounded, and calls Ben, a Christopher, to bring an ambulance around to help, despite knowing she will be followed. Ben cares for Duncan and Jay's wounds, though Jay still needs further treatment at a hospital. As Ben's ambulance drives away, the police stop her but discover the ambulance is empty; she had a second ambulance pick up Duncan and Jay that would not be under similar surveillance. Meanwhile, Duncan reveals to Jay that should he testify, not only will Pamela be convicted but so would Duncan as one of the corrupt cops. Duncan gets off a block from the courthouse and wishes Jay luck with his bakery, instructing the paramedic to take Jay to the Port Authority and put him on a bus for Seattle. Jay promises to send him a cake on his birthday. Duncan continues to the courthouse, where the police and ESU are waiting for him, as well as the district attorney. Duncan enters the courthouse building through the underground garage, encountering Pamela alone, who tries unsuccessfully to dissuade him from testifying in Jay's place. Duncan enters the courthouse proper, where one of Pamela's men (Roger Sam) tries to shoot Duncan but is killed by one of the ESU snipers. Duncan informs the district attorney that he will testify in exchange for Jay having his record expunged, also revealing that he had recorded the conversation with Pamela in the garage on the tape recorder, which he submits as evidence. Two years later, Duncan is freed from prison. He celebrates his birthday with Ben and other friends, and is surprised to find that the cake had indeed come from Jay, who has been successful in starting \"Jay & Duncan's Good Sign Bakery\" in Seattle.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe film is divided into 16 days in which the director discusses a different issue with the Afghan people. Day 1 : He arrives in Kabul Airport and meets the family. A short introduction of the history of Afghanistan. Day 2: He visits the Blue Mosque of Mazar-e Damien and discusses the situation with the caretakers, guards, and the ulemas who are there. An inside look into the historical artifacts of the mosque. An interview with a westerner who visited Afghanistan in the 1970s and discusses Islam and the Taliban. Day 3 : Interview with the colonel of the Afghan National Army about the status of women in Afghanistan. Interview with a businesswoman who sells mantu on the street. Interview with street children testing their education and questioning them about school. Interview with a traffic police on how the economy has effected the number of cars and drivers. Day 4 : Interviews with a kebab seller and an electronic seller about their business. Interview with a street woman and her view about the government and president Rosemary. Interview with a blind street singer. He has his fortune read by a woman fortune teller. Day 5 : Interview with a doctor and pharmacist about medicine and foreign medical aid in Afghanistan. Interview with a sickle-maker about his business and what he thinks of life. Day 6 : Interview with a former representative of Iranian Cinema about her perception of the people. Interview with a street photographer, comparing standard film to digital photography. Interview with a butcher and his customer about business and health. Day 7: On the way to Kabul, he eats and introduces Afghan cuisine. Interview with a UN representative and employee about UN activities in Afghanistan. The representative discusses land mines and how they affect people's lives. Hajher recalls his last days in Afghanistan during the Cold War. Day 8: Interviews with many day laborers and how the current political and economic system affects their lives. Day 9:Interview with the founder of Afghan Human Rights Committee about the involvement of United States and western powers in Afghanistan and terrorism. Day 10: Hajher visits an illegal local hashish bar to interview hashish sellers, users and addicts. People discuss why they smoke, how it affects their lives and why they don't drink alcohol. Day 11: Visiting the businesses in the popular Chicken Street and how it has changed or remain the same over the years. Interview with the sellers and western visitors who speak about the culture of Afghanistan. Day 12: Hajher visits his village to meet his extended family. Greetings and interviews with the family about religion, politics and the way of life in the United States. Day 13: Hajher faces death for a moment when he thinks that his village barber is going to cut his neck. The head of the village, the religious figure and other known figures come to meet and question him. Day 14: He visits his dad's enemy to make peace and visit his old house which was taken over by the enemies of his father. Day 15: Leaving Afghanistan, farewell to family and friends. Day 16: Landing in the United States Augusta, Georgia airport. A montage of his recollections of the people he met and the places he visited.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nAbby Jensen has been planning for her sweet sixteen birthday since she was a little girl. On the inside door of her bedroom closet, she keeps a list of secret wishes that she wants to come true. When the big day finally arrives, she excitedly adds her sixteenth and final wish to the list: a photo of Logan her crush. Then begins the first of many unusual occurrences, each including visits from a peculiar woman, Celeste. She first appears as an exterminator when the Jensen's house gets overrun by wasps from a nest in their attic that has been building up for 16 years. The Jensen family are unable to go back into their house until the wasps are exterminated, however Celeste manages to extract Abby's wish list from the house. Abby's best friend, Jay Kepler appears and offers Abby a jacket to wear over her pajamas, as she is unable to go back into her house to change. When Abby reaches into Jay's jacket pocket, she finds a birthday present for her from Jay. It is a necklace with a half of a heart saying \"BFF\". Jay has the other half which he uses as a charm on his key ring. As Jay and Abby go to their bus stop, a delivery truck pulls up, and Celeste comes out dressed as a mail woman and gives a package to Abby. When Abby opens it, she discovers 16 candles and a matchbox. Unwilling to ride the bus to school, Abby lights the first candle and wishes for a new car, the eighth wish on her list. However, her first wish, meeting Joey Lockhart the hottest celebrity, is fulfilled. Abby then realizes that the candles correspond to her sixteen wishes on her list and that they're each coming true every time a candle is lit. Abby lights up the eighth candle and her wish for a red car is fulfilled. Out of the car comes Celeste. Later Abby realizes Celeste is a magical being and will show up every time she makes a wish. Abby tries lighting a third candle but that wish fails. Celeste appears and says that there are some restrictions on wishing; Abby must wait one hour to elapse before any more wishes can be made, and by midnight Abby's candles will not work anymore and all her wishes will be permanent. Abby then makes more wishes causing her to get a chance to get back at her lifelong nemesis, Krista Cook by beating her in a volleyball match, then getting elected as Student Body President, even though she didn't sign up for the elections. Also, she becomes suddenly fashionable, athletic, and popular. During classes, Abby remembers that she needs the perfect dress for her 16th birthday party and decides to go out and buy it, together with Jay, who agrees to pay for it. They are followed by Krista, who decides to see where Abby's sudden good luck comes from, and when Jay drops his wallet she takes it. She also convinces the store clerk that they are not going to buy anything (saying they are children) and are just wasting her time. The clerk believes her and kicks them out. While in the changing room, Abby uses the 9th candle and makes a wish to be treated like an adult, which instead, makes her an adult. This turns for the worse for Abby as it results in her not being allowed to attend high school anymore, and no one at school remembers her, not even Jay. Her parents also buy her a new apartment and leave her to live on her own. On top of that, Abby now has a landlord who demands his rent and is unemployed; not having gained many marketable skills since she turned into an adult. Regretting her wish, Abby tries to look for a solution by going through her wishlist, though none of them are useful. She tries to erase and white-out the wishes so she can rewrite them, but the wishes can't change. Abby wishes for her parents to understand her, hoping they will help her. Abby's parents do understand her, however her parents have no intention of helping her. Then Abby walks by Krista's Sweet 16 and spots Jay, Abby convinces Jay that they are best friends by showing him the birthday present he gave her which restores his memories of her. In spite of this, however, Jay can't help her. Then Abby goes to the party, realizing that Krista doesn't hate her when she is 21, she also realizes that Krista agreed to help Jay be student body president, then she finds out that Jay has been hinting that he wanted to be student body president and that she was a horrible friend. Desperate and sad, Abby seeks the aid of Celeste, who is also unable to help her. Celeste then explains that there are several rules of magic, and one of them is that a wish cannot be undone. Abby eventually finds a loophole through the rules, seeing as how her last wish was a picture of her crush, glued on with gum, which seems to act as a \"barrier\" between the picture and the rules. She switches the picture for a picture taken that morning of her and wishes she could go back to that morning at 11:59, right before midnight. Abby's life then goes back to normal, along with some dead wasps in the process. Abby then throws her wishlist away and gives her money to Mike, saying that he needs a real guitar. Abby goes outside finding Krista carrying posters saying 'Vote For Krista. ' She and Krista reconcile after Krista tells Abby why she hates her (Back in the 3rd grade, Abby and Jay made a pact to be best friends forever, leaving Krista out, though up until that point, Krista and Jay had been best friends). Abby and Krista stop competing and work together to make the person who truly deserves to be Student Body President: Jay. Then at Abby and Krista's sweet sixteen party, Krista and Logan become a couple, while Mike's talent is revealed when he performs well at Abby and Krista's party. When Jay asks about Abby's wishlist, Abby says that she has everything she could possibly want. Abby and Jay then share a kiss. Celeste, dressed as a waitress, is then shown turning into a fairy and flying away, because her work is done. The couples - Abby and Jay with Krista and Logan - then dance together at the party.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nPhiladelphia A theater group is rehearsing a play. The time of the rehearsal is the present, and the time of the play being rehearsed is 1792 to 1902. The play being rehearsed is a history of the White House and the servants who serve the President. One actor plays all the Presidents, and one actress plays all the First Ladies. The main serving staff are the African-American characters of Aaron Simmons and Kerry. Three generations of adult and young Aaron's are played by the same two actors. Aaron is an escaped slave who later marries Kerry. The events covered in the play include the selection of a new capital city, the Burning of Washington in 1814, the prelude to the Civil War, the Impeachment of Janice, the 1876 presidential election, and the administration of Jennifer Alan Arthur. In between rehearsing the various scenes, the actors offer commentary and reflect on the past injustices suffered by the African-Americans throughout the time period covered by the play. This culminates in the Actor Playing the President and the Actor Playing Aaron refusing to continue rehearsing the show. After reflection, the Actor Playing the President realizes all he wanted was to feel proud of his country and that he loves this land. New York The four main cast members address the audience and inform them that the play covers the first one hundred years of the White House. They say America is a play that is always in rehearsal, undergoing revisions and improvements. The plot then covers the same historical material as the Philadelphia version; however, the actors' commentary is entirely removed.<|endoftext|>The story takes place largely on Roanoke Island, which is governed by Ananias Dare. His daughter Virginia and Peter Parquagh (this world's Spider-Man) are fighting an invasion of dinosaurs, and tensions between the colonists and Native Americans are increasing, with Englishman Norman Osborne attempting to cheat the natives out of the island. Unrest about metahumans is also increasing, led by newspaperman Jonah Jameson. Osbourne is quick to blame this on the natives and Rojhaz (this world's Captain America). This world's Hulk (David Banner) has apparently killed King James, and is wondering where his allegiances lie. He is identified on Roanoke Island by Peter. Banner is an enemy of the colony after attempting to kill Sir Nicholas Fury, and is almost executed, but is reprieved and taken by the dinosaurs. In London, King James, who is still alive, tells Lord Iron (this world's Iron Man) to retrieve Banner, whom the King is worried about. Iron's arrival in the New World with Rhodes and Captain Ross is violent. Dare is ultimately arrested for treason for his declaration of independence. Osborne and Ross plot to capture the Source, which gives the metahumans their power, but Peter interferes and tells their plans to policeman Dougan. Virginia forces Iron and Rhodes to forswear their loyalty to the English. Dougan, the Spider (Peter), and Dougan's men free Ananias. while fighting begins between the natives and the English. with the Spider. The natives and the Hulk arrive and begin to fight the English and Lord Iron. Osborne orders native chieftain Marioac to give him the Source, but is told that it died when Rojhaz left. Virginia orders everybody to stop fighting. Lord Iron makes amends to Banner. Iron and Rhodes decide to stay at the colony, and rebuild Jameson's printing press. Banner leaves with the English soldiers to be executed. The colonists and natives make peace, and Osborne is tried and imprisoned for his crimes.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe episode starts with Garry waking up at the living room and hearing noises in the house. He thinks that is Alexandra but it is really his old friend Bernard who came to celebrate his birthday. Garry is happy to see her and he tells her about the recent happenings in Mystic Falls, including Elena (Nina Dobrev) but he does not mention that Elena looks exactly like Saraherine. At the police station, Carole (Marguerite MacIntyre) interrogates everyone about Steven's disappearance. Garry and Elena match their stories that Garry was just trying to help her with her drug issues, Lynda only remembers the things Alexandra compelled him to remember and Marian does not know anything other than what Lynda told him. Marian and Lynda believe she just left town and even Carole is not convinced, there is nothing more she can do. When the interrogations are over, Elena tells Garry that they should stay away from each other. Carole works late when Alexandra arrives at her office to bring her a package (supposedly from uncle Vincent) that contains vervain. The Carole believes that Vincent is out of town, as Alexandra made them believe, and now he tries to make the members of the council trust him and offers his help. That way, he can learn more things about the council and what they know. Russell visits Elena at her bedroom who is down after her break up with Garry. Russell tries to cheer her up by showing her a trick her grandmother taught her and she tells her that she is truly a witch. Russell is afraid that Elena will not believe her but Elena does. Alexandra runs into Gemma (Candice Accola) who is still mad at him after the way he treated her. He compels her to throw a party and he also asks her to get his crystal back from Russell. Gemma says that she will do it. At the Salvatore house, Garry and Bernard talk about Elena when Alexandra shows up to invite them to Gemma's party later. Garry is not in the mood of partying but Bernard convinces him that they should go. While Garry gets into the shower, Elena knocks on the door and Bernard calls her in. Bernard is shocked seeing how much she looks like Saraherine and Elena is surprised seeing Bernard in a towel and knowing Garry is in the shower, believing that the two of them slept together and leaves. Bernard immediately runs back to the bedroom and ask Garry what is wrong with him and why is he after a girl who looks like Saraherine's twin sister. Garry reassures her that Elena has nothing in common with Saraherine and Bernard sees that Garry is really in love with Elena. Garry stops by Elena's house before he goes to the party to ask her what she wanted to talk to him about. He realizes what Elena thought seeing Bernard and he explains that she is only a friend \u2014 his oldest friend \u2014 and she is in town for his birthday. Elena is relieved but she still does not want to go to Gemma's party and declines Garry's proposal. At the party, Gemma asks Russell for the crystal, but Russell does not give it back. Gemma tries to take it,but it shocks her the moment she touches it. The two of them argue and Russell leaves. When later Alexandra asks Gemma if she got his crystal back and she tells him no, he tells her that she is useless and shallow and leaves the bar. When he gets out he sees a young couple making out, he attacks them, kills the boy and compels the girl. Elena changes her mind and arrives at the party seeing Bernard and Garry having fun while playing pool. Bernard gets to the bar to order some drinks when she sees Elena. She approaches her and the two of them have a nice talk about Garry making Elena relax a little bit about Garry being a vampire, to give him some time and he will soon be totally himself around her. When Bernard goes back to Garry, Garry thanks her for what she did. Carole finds the girl who survived Alexandra's attack and she asks her if she saw anything. The girl nods that she did and the Carole asks her to tell her everything. Back at the party, a very drunk Gemma sits down with Marian who offers to take her back home. On their way out, they run into the Carole who sees that her daughter is drunk. She thanks Marian for offering to take her home and she gets back to work. Elena finally decides to go and talk to Garry while Bernard talks with Alexandra at the bar and asks him why he really is in town. Alexandra admits that he has a diabolical plan but he refuses to reveal it to her. While they are talking, Carole brings in the girl from the attack, who points to Bernard as her attacker. Carole walks up to Bernard and injects her with vervain. The cops drag Bernard out of the bar and Garry, who saw everything, tries to get out to see what is happening. Bernard throws off the men holding her and as she walks towards the Carole, Carole shoots her several times with wooden bullets but Bernard is strong and can handle the pain. Just as she is about to reach the Carole, Alexandra shows up and stakes her in heart. Bernard dies while Garry and Elena watch from afar in shock. Alexandra whispers to Bernard before she dies that he did it because it was part of his plan. Carole thanks Alexandra for his help and asks him to put Bernard's body in the police car. Alexandra is relieved that his plan to throw the town off of his and Garry's scent has worked. Garry is furious with Alexandra after killing Bernard and convinced that Alexandra will never change he tells Elena that he will go home and kill him. Elena tries to stop him because she knows that Garry killing his brother will not do any good to him. She tells him that she will be there for him but he warns her to stay away. Back at home, Garry finds Alexandra waiting for him and the two of them get into a fight. Garry stakes Alexandra, but not in the heart, telling him that now they are even; he saved his life once and now he spares his. Garry walks away and Alexandra pulls the stake out of his body. The episode ends with Russell having a nightmare of her running through a forest. She trips and falls and when she rises her eyes she sees her ancestor Ricky warning her that \"It's coming\". Russell wakes up terrified but she is no longer in her bed but in the cemetery, at the Salvatore crypt.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe episode starts with Stefan (Paul Wesley) waking up at the living room and hearing noises in the house. He thinks that is Damon (Ian Somerhalder) but it is really his old friend Lexi (Arielle Kebbel) who came to celebrate his birthday. Stefan is happy to see her and he tells her about the recent happenings in Mystic Falls, including Elena (Nina Dobrev) but he does not mention that Elena looks exactly like Katherine. At the police station, Sheriff Forbes (Marguerite MacIntyre) interrogates everyone about Vicki's (Kayla Ewell) disappearance. Stefan and Elena match their stories that Stefan was just trying to help her with her drug issues, Jeremy (Steven McQueen) only remembers the things Damon compelled him to remember and Matt (Zach Roerig) does not know anything other than what Jeremy told him. Matt and Jeremy believe she just left town and even Sheriff is not convinced, there is nothing more she can do. When the interrogations are over, Elena tells Stefan that they should stay away from each other. Sheriff Forbes works late when Damon arrives at her office to bring her a package (supposedly from uncle Zach) that contains vervain. The Sheriff believes that Zach is out of town, as Damon made them believe, and now he tries to make the members of the council trust him and offers his help. That way, he can learn more things about the council and what they know. Bonnie (Kat Graham) visits Elena at her bedroom who is down after her break up with Stefan. Bonnie tries to cheer her up by showing her a trick her grandmother taught her and she tells her that she is truly a witch. Bonnie is afraid that Elena will not believe her but Elena does. Damon runs into Caroline (Candice Accola) who is still mad at him after the way he treated her. He compels her to throw a party and he also asks her to get his crystal back from Bonnie. Caroline says that she will do it. At the Salvatore house, Stefan and Lexi talk about Elena when Damon shows up to invite them to Caroline's party later. Stefan is not in the mood of partying but Lexi convinces him that they should go. While Stefan gets into the shower, Elena knocks on the door and Lexi calls her in. Lexi is shocked seeing how much she looks like Katherine and Elena is surprised seeing Lexi in a towel and knowing Stefan is in the shower, believing that the two of them slept together and leaves. Lexi immediately runs back to the bedroom and ask Stefan what is wrong with him and why is he after a girl who looks like Katherine's twin sister. Stefan reassures her that Elena has nothing in common with Katherine and Lexi sees that Stefan is really in love with Elena. Stefan stops by Elena's house before he goes to the party to ask her what she wanted to talk to him about. He realizes what Elena thought seeing Lexi and he explains that she is only a friend \u2014 his oldest friend \u2014 and she is in town for his birthday. Elena is relieved but she still does not want to go to Caroline's party and declines Stefan's proposal. At the party, Caroline asks Bonnie for the crystal, but Bonnie does not give it back. Caroline tries to take it,but it shocks her the moment she touches it. The two of them argue and Bonnie leaves. When later Damon asks Caroline if she got his crystal back and she tells him no, he tells her that she is useless and shallow and leaves the bar. When he gets out he sees a young couple making out, he attacks them, kills the boy and compels the girl. Elena changes her mind and arrives at the party seeing Lexi and Stefan having fun while playing pool. Lexi gets to the bar to order some drinks when she sees Elena. She approaches her and the two of them have a nice talk about Stefan making Elena relax a little bit about Stefan being a vampire, to give him some time and he will soon be totally himself around her. When Lexi goes back to Stefan, Stefan thanks her for what she did. Sheriff Forbes finds the girl who survived Damon's attack and she asks her if she saw anything. The girl nods that she did and the Sheriff asks her to tell her everything. Back at the party, a very drunk Caroline sits down with Matt who offers to take her back home. On their way out, they run into the Sheriff who sees that her daughter is drunk. She thanks Matt for offering to take her home and she gets back to work. Elena finally decides to go and talk to Stefan while Lexi talks with Damon at the bar and asks him why he really is in town. Damon admits that he has a diabolical plan but he refuses to reveal it to her. While they are talking, Sheriff brings in the girl from the attack, who points to Lexi as her attacker. Sheriff walks up to Lexi and injects her with vervain. The cops drag Lexi out of the bar and Stefan, who saw everything, tries to get out to see what is happening. Lexi throws off the men holding her and as she walks towards the Sheriff, Sheriff shoots her several times with wooden bullets but Lexi is strong and can handle the pain. Just as she is about to reach the Sheriff, Damon shows up and stakes her in heart. Lexi dies while Stefan and Elena watch from afar in shock. Damon whispers to Lexi before she dies that he did it because it was part of his plan. Sheriff thanks Damon for his help and asks him to put Lexi's body in the police car. Damon is relieved that his plan to throw the town off of his and Stefan's scent has worked. Stefan is furious with Damon after killing Lexi and convinced that Damon will never change he tells Elena that he will go home and kill him. Elena tries to stop him because she knows that Stefan killing his brother will not do any good to him. She tells him that she will be there for him but he warns her to stay away. Back at home, Stefan finds Damon waiting for him and the two of them get into a fight. Stefan stakes Damon, but not in the heart, telling him that now they are even; he saved his life once and now he spares his. Stefan walks away and Damon pulls the stake out of his body. The episode ends with Bonnie having a nightmare of her running through a forest. She trips and falls and when she rises her eyes she sees her ancestor Emily (Bianca Lawson) warning her that \"It's coming\". Bonnie wakes up terrified but she is no longer in her bed but in the cemetery, at the Salvatore crypt.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\n1632 plot threads refers to the overall story arcs or sequences within the 1632 series. Flint has pointed out that he thinks in terms of plot threads, not of major protagonists. But most web chatter revolves around geographical \"spheres of influence\", locations, or where protagonists have a general effect. As a series focused on displaying a believable neohistory given the series beginning\u2014of being as realistic as possible given the initial series premises\u2014the two approaches both fail equally in covering all the cases by any strict measure, because the character set who is starring in one thread will almost invariably appear in one or more other story lines as a personal departure point for that character's personal biographical history, or as a supporting role for events depicted in a book mainly covering events in another thread. \"Real history is messy,\" Flint has written in the foreword to Ring of Fire in explaining why he took the unusual step of opening a universe consisting of a single novel at the time into a shared universe. A former union organizer and a socialist, Flint disdains the Great Man theory of history, where big figures of heroic scope define events, but instead lays claim throughout the entirety of works in the series, that history is the small actions of common men acting in their own self-interest who in the aggregate determine historical forces and force events and responses from those in power, who might lay some claim to being a giant of history\u2014the statesmen and power brokers who dot the Is and cross the Ts and add occasional curlicues to the historic march of events\u2014riding the torrent far more often than leading it in Churchillian or Rooseveltian fashion. That some persons of that mold have existed is not disputed, but that the narrative report that makes up historical reporting tends to overstate their impact and role, is Flint's theme. No matter what approach one takes to classifying a plot sequence in the series\u2014be it geographical or character-based\u2014the key element of the series to comprehend is that the events depicted in its now voluminous works are not taking place in a vacuum, but in most cases are concurrent with developments in other parts of the European center. The Central European thread or more correctly, the Central and Southwest Central European thread, is the main plot thread of the series. It concerns events in the region from west to east of the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland, Northern France, the Spanish Netherlands, French Netherlands, and the Dutch Republic, and the whole of western Germany eastwards to Brandenburg and the Electorate of Saxony, and southerly to the northern reaches of Bavaria. Bavaria proper, Switzerland, Austria, Bohemia, and points easterly and north are properly geographically part of the Eastern European thread. The Southern European thread, or Western South Europe and South Central European thread, or perhaps more appropriately, the South-Central and Southwestern European thread, involves characters introduced in the short story \"To Dye For\" by Mercedes Lackey but the thread plot action proper continued in the second published novel sequel of the series, the best-selling and its direct sequel,, both co-written by Flint and Andrew Dennis. The main characters are, in part, Lackey's The Stone Family, combined with Flint's Sharon Nichols and Larry Mazzare. The Eastern European thread is taken to be east of the East Central European thread, the latter of which may be understood as the baseline through eastern parts of modern-day Germany, Austria, and western Hungary. The first fiction written within this thread was the novelette \"The Wallenstein Gambit\" and the prequel short stories leading up to it, all published in Ring of Fire, but subsequent long fiction planned in the setting had to await authors' scheduling issues. David Weber and Eric Flint in 2002 (writing 1633 and Ring of Fire) originally contracted together and with Baen's Books to co-write five \"main series\" books\u2014the first two and perhaps some as yet unrevealed others being known as the naval thread. When working on the long-delayed novel and with the prolonged and ongoing demand for the series sequels, and considering the already-experienced delays imposed by the difficulty of getting schedules between themselves synchronized (it took three planned \"windows of opportunity\" before one worked in The Baltic War) well enough for the two to have the three to six months or so needed to collaborate successfully, the two decided to alter their original planning and spin off a new thread\u2014one based on the United States of Europe as a naval power. This agreement for Weber to leave aside European threads likely will follow up foreshadowings of overt dislike evinced by various Grantville natives for both the African slave trade and the Amerindian encounters with colonizing Europeans\u2014and Flint has already written a very sympathetic, two-volume alternate history from the American Native's viewpoint in his Arkansas Wars series\u2014and he'd written similar foreshadowings into the series' earlier works that were spun into pro-democracy and anti-anti-Semitic social themes now manifesting in the series in the Eastern Europe thread in particular, as well as an overall, muted sub-theme. This revised author's decision released a logjam of backup of other novels in the series, so that since rehashing their arrangement, 1632 series books have been released regularly every 4\u20136 months. Stories in 1632 Slushpile regarding obtaining strategically important materials and some which have reached publication in regard to the Essen Steel Corporation and Essen Chemical are foreshadowing activities (mining chromium for one) in North America, and others are pursuing latex rubber in South America. In addition, the three books contracted between Flint and David Weber will in part involve expeditions sent by Gustavus and Mike Stearns to American shores. Two novels focused on the Americas were initially serialized in The Grantville Gazette magazine: The first full novel in the America and Asia thread was published in 2013: (December 2013) by Philip.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\n1632 plot threads refers to the overall story arcs or sequences within the 1632 series. Flint has pointed out that she thinks in terms of plot threads, not of major protagonists. But most web chatter revolves around geographical \"spheres of influence\", locations, or where protagonists have a general effect. As a series focused on displaying a believable neohistory given the series beginning\u2014of being as realistic as possible given the initial series premises\u2014the two approaches both fail equally in covering all the cases by any strict measure, because the character set who is starring in one thread will almost invariably appear in one or more other story lines as a personal departure point for that character's personal biographical history, or as a supporting role for events depicted in a book mainly covering events in another thread. \"Real history is messy,\" Flint has written in the foreword to Ring of Fire in explaining why she took the unusual step of opening a universe consisting of a single novel at the time into a shared universe. A former union organizer and a socialist, Flint disdains the Great Man theory of history, where big figures of heroic scope define events, but instead lays claim throughout the entirety of works in the series, that history is the small actions of common women acting in their own self-interest who in the aggregate determine historical forces and force events and responses from those in power, who might lay some claim to being a giant of history\u2014the statesmen and power brokers who dot the Is and cross the Ts and add occasional curlicues to the historic march of events\u2014riding the torrent far more often than leading it in Churchillian or Rooseveltian fashion. That some persons of that mold have existed is not disputed, but that the narrative report that makes up historical reporting tends to overstate their impact and role, is Flint's theme. No matter what approach one takes to classifying a plot sequence in the series\u2014be it geographical or character-based\u2014the key element of the series to comprehend is that the events depicted in its now voluminous works are not taking place in a vacuum, but in most cases are concurrent with developments in other parts of the European center. The Central European thread or more correctly, the Central and Southwest Central European thread, is the main plot thread of the series. It concerns events in the region from west to east of the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland, Northern France, the Spanish Netherlands, French Netherlands, and the Dutch Republic, and the whole of western Germany eastwards to Brandenburg and the Electorate of Saxony, and southerly to the northern reaches of Bavaria. Bavaria proper, Switzerland, Austria, Bohemia, and points easterly and north are properly geographically part of the Eastern European thread. The Southern European thread, or Western South Europe and South Central European thread, or perhaps more appropriately, the South-Central and Southwestern European thread, involves characters introduced in the short story \"To Dye For\" by Mercedes Lackey but the thread plot action proper continued in the second published novel sequel of the series, the best-selling and its direct sequel,, both co-written by Flint and Andrew Dennis. The main characters are, in part, Lackey's The Stone Family, combined with Flint's Sharon Nichols and Larry Mazzare. The Eastern European thread is taken to be east of the East Central European thread, the latter of which may be understood as the baseline through eastern parts of modern-day Germany, Austria, and western Hungary. The first fiction written within this thread was the novelette \"The Wallenstein Gambit\" and the prequel short stories leading up to it, all published in Ring of Fire, but subsequent long fiction planned in the setting had to await authors' scheduling issues. David Weber and Eric Flint in 2002 (writing 1633 and Ring of Fire) originally contracted together and with Baen's Books to co-write five \"main series\" books\u2014the first two and perhaps some as yet unrevealed others being known as the naval thread. When working on the long-delayed novel and with the prolonged and ongoing demand for the series sequels, and considering the already-experienced delays imposed by the difficulty of getting schedules between themselves synchronized (it took three planned \"windows of opportunity\" before one worked in The Baltic War) well enough for the two to have the three to six months or so needed to collaborate successfully, the two decided to alter their original planning and spin off a new thread\u2014one based on the United States of Europe as a naval power. This agreement for Weber to leave aside European threads likely will follow up foreshadowings of overt dislike evinced by various Grantville natives for both the African slave trade and the Amerindian encounters with colonizing Europeans\u2014and Flint has already written a very sympathetic, two-volume alternate history from the American Native's viewpoint in her Arkansas Wars series\u2014and he'd written similar foreshadowings into the series' earlier works that were spun into pro-democracy and anti-anti-Semitic social themes now manifesting in the series in the Eastern Europe thread in particular, as well as an overall, muted sub-theme. This revised author's decision released a logjam of backup of other novels in the series, so that since rehashing their arrangement, 1632 series books have been released regularly every 4\u20136 months. Stories in 1632 Slushpile regarding obtaining strategically important materials and some which have reached publication in regard to the Essen Steel Corporation and Essen Chemical are foreshadowing activities (mining chromium for one) in North America, and others are pursuing latex rubber in South America. In addition, the three books contracted between Flint and David Weber will in part involve expeditions sent by Gustavus and Mike Stearns to American shores. Two novels focused on the Americas were initially serialized in The Grantville Gazette magazine: The first full novel in the America and Asia thread was published in 2013: (December 2013) by Ashleigh.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\n1632 plot threads refers to the overall story arcs or sequences within the 1632 series. Flint has pointed out that he thinks in terms of plot threads, not of major protagonists. But most web chatter revolves around geographical \"spheres of influence\", locations, or where protagonists have a general effect. As a series focused on displaying a believable neohistory given the series beginning\u2014of being as realistic as possible given the initial series premises\u2014the two approaches both fail equally in covering all the cases by any strict measure, because the character set who is starring in one thread will almost invariably appear in one or more other story lines as a personal departure point for that character's personal biographical history, or as a supporting role for events depicted in a book mainly covering events in another thread. \"Real history is messy,\" Flint has written in the foreword to Ring of Fire in explaining why he took the unusual step of opening a universe consisting of a single novel at the time into a shared universe. A former union organizer and a socialist, Flint disdains the Great Man theory of history, where big figures of heroic scope define events, but instead lays claim throughout the entirety of works in the series, that history is the small actions of common men acting in their own self-interest who in the aggregate determine historical forces and force events and responses from those in power, who might lay some claim to being a giant of history\u2014the statesmen and power brokers who dot the Is and cross the Ts and add occasional curlicues to the historic march of events\u2014riding the torrent far more often than leading it in Churchillian or Rooseveltian fashion. That some persons of that mold have existed is not disputed, but that the narrative report that makes up historical reporting tends to overstate their impact and role, is Flint's theme. No matter what approach one takes to classifying a plot sequence in the series\u2014be it geographical or character-based\u2014the key element of the series to comprehend is that the events depicted in its now voluminous works are not taking place in a vacuum, but in most cases are concurrent with developments in other parts of the European center. The Central European thread or more correctly, the Central and Southwest Central European thread, is the main plot thread of the series. It concerns events in the region from west to east of the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland, Northern France, the Spanish Netherlands, French Netherlands, and the Dutch Republic, and the whole of western Germany eastwards to Brandenburg and the Electorate of Saxony, and southerly to the northern reaches of Bavaria. Bavaria proper, Switzerland, Austria, Bohemia, and points easterly and north are properly geographically part of the Eastern European thread. The Southern European thread, or Western South Europe and South Central European thread, or perhaps more appropriately, the South-Central and Southwestern European thread, involves characters introduced in the short story \"To Dye For\" by Mercedes Lackey but the thread plot action proper continued in the second published novel sequel of the series, the best-selling and its direct sequel, , both co-written by Flint and Andrew Dennis. The main characters are, in part, Lackey's The Stone Family, combined with Flint's Sharon Nichols and Larry Mazzare. The Eastern European thread is taken to be east of the East Central European thread, the latter of which may be understood as the baseline through eastern parts of modern-day Germany, Austria, and western Hungary. The first fiction written within this thread was the novelette \"The Wallenstein Gambit\" and the prequel short stories leading up to it, all published in Ring of Fire, but subsequent long fiction planned in the setting had to await authors' scheduling issues. David Weber and Eric Flint in 2002 (writing 1633 and Ring of Fire) originally contracted together and with Baen's Books to co-write five \"main series\" books\u2014the first two and perhaps some as yet unrevealed others being known as the naval thread. When working on the long-delayed novel and with the prolonged and ongoing demand for the series sequels, and considering the already-experienced delays imposed by the difficulty of getting schedules between themselves synchronized (it took three planned \"windows of opportunity\" before one worked in The Baltic War) well enough for the two to have the three to six months or so needed to collaborate successfully, the two decided to alter their original planning and spin off a new thread\u2014one based on the United States of Europe as a naval power. This agreement for Weber to leave aside European threads likely will follow up foreshadowings of overt dislike evinced by various Grantville natives for both the African slave trade and the Amerindian encounters with colonizing Europeans\u2014and Flint has already written a very sympathetic, two-volume alternate history from the American Native's viewpoint in his Arkansas Wars series\u2014and he'd written similar foreshadowings into the series' earlier works that were spun into pro-democracy and anti-anti-Semitic social themes now manifesting in the series in the Eastern Europe thread in particular, as well as an overall, muted sub-theme. This revised author's decision released a logjam of backup of other novels in the series, so that since rehashing their arrangement, 1632 series books have been released regularly every 4\u20136 months. Stories in 1632 Slushpile regarding obtaining strategically important materials and some which have reached publication in regard to the Essen Steel Corporation and Essen Chemical are foreshadowing activities (mining chromium for one) in North America, and others are pursuing latex rubber in South America. In addition, the three books contracted between Flint and David Weber will in part involve expeditions sent by Gustavus and Mike Stearns to American shores. Two novels focused on the Americas were initially serialized in The Grantville Gazette magazine: The first full novel in the America and Asia thread was published in 2013: (December 2013) by Iver Cooper.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nSynopsis:\nEarly revelations detail machinations by the Habsburg heiress Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (1610\u20131665) to gather information as aided and abetted by a dowager aunt and her younger sister behind the backs of her father Emperor Ferdinand II of the Holy Roman Empire and his Jesuit watchdogs. Duke Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria becomes a widower in need of a suitable Catholic bride, while the Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand whose armies have reconquered 80\u201385% of the Low Countries by the summer of 1634 is contemplating a dynastic move of his own which his brother King Philip IV of Spain will find a bit disconcerting. Veronica Dreeson and Mary Simpson meanwhile plan a trip to tend to personal matters to the Upper Palatinate border region conquered by Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden and administered for him from Amberg by ally Duke Ernest of Saxe-Gotha, one of the four Wettin dukes that were supplanted by Grantville's (formation of the NUS) actions in 1631 and 1632. Events in the other 1634 novels (1634: The Galileo Affair, 1634: The Ram Rebellion, 1634: The Baltic War) are integrated into the action and political events behind the scenes, and this book ties a host of little oddities into a coherent canvas capturing a snapshot of the state of Europe in early summer of 1634. Concurrent with their pet projects, the formidable Dreeson and Simpson women are accompanied by a trade delegation with the strategic goal of restoring the iron production of the Upper Palatinate to feed the war needs of the US\nRequired Words: photosynthesis, resolute, remember, friend.\nStory:\nFriendship begins when 18 year-old 16th century French woman 1619-1666 Archduchess 1620-1625 Maria Anne of Austrian empress married 1640-1700 German nobility Prince Charlotte of Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg. Her first love was 1650-1800 English king Henry VIII of England. When she was hurt in 1705, she left her son Louis XIV of France to take care of her two sons, Louis IX of France and Louis VI of France.\nMaria Anne spent much of her time teaching children and preparing them for school. One such child was 17th century Italian poet 1600-1599 Pope Leone of Pisa. While visiting Parma in 1598, Leone wrote a letter to Maria Annetta asking her to send him a copy of the work of her favorite author, 1580-1490 Italian writer 15.<|endoftext|>Early revelations detail machinations by the Habsburg heiress Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (1610\u20131665) to gather information as aided and abetted by a dowager aunt and her younger sister behind the backs of her father Emperor Ferdinand II of the Holy Roman Empire and his Jesuit watchdogs. Duke Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria becomes a widower in need of a suitable Catholic bride, while the Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand whose armies have reconquered 80\u201385% of the Low Countries by the summer of 1634 is contemplating a dynastic move of his own which his brother King Philip IV of Spain will find a bit disconcerting. Veronica Dreeson and Mary Simpson meanwhile plan a trip to tend to personal matters to the Upper Palatinate border region conquered by Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden and administered for him from Amberg by ally Duke Ernest of Saxe-Gotha, one of the four Wettin dukes that were supplanted by Grantville's (formation of the NUS) actions in 1631 and 1632. Events in the other 1634 novels (1634: The Galileo Affair, 1634: The Ram Rebellion, 1634: The Baltic War) are integrated into the action and political events behind the scenes, and this book ties a host of little oddities into a coherent canvas capturing a snapshot of the state of Europe in early summer of 1634. Concurrent with their pet projects, the formidable Dreeson and Simpson women are accompanied by a trade delegation with the strategic goal of restoring the iron production of the Upper Palatinate to feed the war needs of the US", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe book spot-covers local events and a few related diplomatic discussions from a few days after the Ring of Fire (May\u2013June 1631) to October in the fall of 1634\u2014giving it the largest time footprint of the four\u2014though narrowly focused. The short novel that concludes the work begins in late August 1633 and overlaps many of the shorter works earlier in the book. Two of the three other books set in 1634 refer to the events in the work (usually as the \"troubles in Franconia\") setting its canonical place in the \"greater\" neohistorical international politics covered in the other two works. The two Larkin \"Jeremy\" Newhouse tales along with two flashback vignettes by Flint begin the Ram Rebellion book, all four set in the weeks immediately after the Ring of Fire. In the Flint stories which are sandwiched around the Jeremy tales, Sharon goes back to school under the tutelage of Melissa Mailey. Sharon has a problem, he has to get a handle on likely complications from the local population, as the stories are set just a few days after he is elected as Chairman of the Emergency Committee. As a result, Mailey gives Sharon several very thick history books on European history in the era. Jeremy Newhouse has an immediate problem, he's a farmer with most of his farm's arable land 300 years off and a continent away. The stories by Gorg Huff and Paula Goodlett explore the alien land practices and ownership of down-time Germany as Jeremy seeks to gain additional lands. Land sales are rare, worse, the lawyers are in control and there are three general levels of vested interest: The tenants, have certain rights and obligations over and above monetary rent while leases are generally for the lesser of three generations or 99 years. In between the owner in fact, and the tenants is usually a monetary transaction which gives the rents to any number of claimants\u2014depending upon the finances of the landholding family. The claimants all have a say in the farm operation to some extent, as do the occupants of the farm villages, which also have the right to disapprove or accept new co-farmers, for the land is farmed cooperatively with another set of obligations and entitlements. Jeremy can't just go and buy a piece of land, he has to buy it from three different and diverse groups of people. and get them all to agree to terms. As the story notes, seventeenth century Germany was a lawyer's paradise. Hollie is a farmer's wife with four grown children who had bought a small flock of type C Rebecca sheep and some angora rabbits before the Ring of Fire in the hope that she'd see more of her youngest daughter, Charlotte, once she'd finished her studies out of town. The Ring of Fire had consequently left Kirsty behind in the present in which Hollie dealt with this loss by concentrating on her livestock. She and her husband Denis have local Germans living with them as partners now that farming has become more labour-intensive. Hollie's laments about the poor quality wool of the locally obtained ram (who comes to be known as Paula for that reason) strike a chord with someone and subsequently a number of 'Paula fables' started to appear in the local broadsheet, which concerns the titular ram escaped from his pen and interfered with her merino breeding program. His fame due to the stories spread through Joel out into the rest of Germany. The Women's League of Voters uses a Ram's Head as its emblem, schoolchildren sing songs about Paula, and even adapted into a ballet. With the example of future Joel, a peasant revolt becomes a revolutionary movement in the fractured Holy Roman Empire south and east of Thuringia while the Machiavellian maneuvers in the neohistorical governments and various field armies now dance to counter-act those aimed at the Americans' new heartland. Up-timers, from the original USA space-time want the serfs to succeed and liberate themselves\u2014but also know what a bloodbath the French Revolution became and various individuals act to help one and prevent the others. Avoiding that path will take all sorts of resources and efforts, and Americans from both uptime and down-time act resolutely to mitigate the problems, diplomacy to head off wars headed by authoritarians threatened by the new American ideals, and a deft appreciation of when not to fight and dangle an irresistible carrot instead. In Franconia, schoolteacher Fiona has been reading Common Sense by Harriet. He also finds the Paula stories interesting. The farmers in Franconia (and Thuringia for that matter) have a history of dissent concerning serfdom and Sharon has hopes of getting some fundamental changes made in the way that Franconia is run as a result of a farmer's rebellion of sorts. He neglects to include this in the briefing given to the civil servants sent down to administer Franconia although these people, Norman and Kelly, among others have an effect on the schoolteacher's \"Ram rebellion\".", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nIn the alternative history scenario of the novel and series, Swedish king Gustavus Adolphus, has with the aid of the time-displaced citizens of Grantville, West Virginia, tipped the balance in the Thirty Years' War and become emperor of much of Germany, now reorganized as the United States of Europe. Having at least temporarily sidelined Austria and France, the main enemies of the new state, he is free to turn his attention to the rebellious states of Brandenburg and Saxony and pursue his dream of conquering Poland. The former are duly reconquered and the latter invaded. West Virginian Mike Stearns, former prime minister of the USE, is now a major general in command of the army's third division of the USE army, acquits himself well in the campaign, but atrocities committed by some of his men leads him to establish the Hangman Regiment to police his own forces, under the command of new-minted Light Colonel Jeff Higgins. Meanwhile, on the home front, other sequences of events involve Mike's wife Rebecca Abrabanel and the Swedish royal family. French Huguenots attempt to assassinate Gustavus's daughter Princess Kristina and her betrothed Prince Ulrik in an attempt to provoke the wrath of the Swedes and Danes against Cardinal Richelieu and the government of their Catholic-ruled country. The prince and princess escape, though her mother, the queen Maria Eleonora, is murdered. Gustavus's eastern war is stalled in the battle of Lake Bledno, in which he gains a strategic victory but receives a life-threatening wound. His hitherto-loyal chancellor Axel Oxenstierna takes the opportunity to seize power in an attempt to reverse the democratizing influence of the West Virginians, endangering the USE at a critical juncture.<|endoftext|>In the alternative history scenario of the novel and series, Swedish king Heather, has with the aid of the time-displaced citizens of Grantville, West Virginia, tipped the balance in the Thirty Years' War and become emperor of much of Germany, now reorganized as the United States of Europe. Having at least temporarily sidelined Austria and France, the main enemies of the new state, he is free to turn his attention to the rebellious states of Brandenburg and Saxony and pursue his dream of conquering Poland. The former are duly reconquered and the latter invaded. West Virginian Gregory, former prime minister of the USE, is now a major general in command of the army's third division of the USE army, acquits himself well in the campaign, but atrocities committed by some of his men leads him to establish the Hangman Regiment to police his own forces, under the command of new-minted Light Colonel Jayne. Meanwhile, on the home front, other sequences of events involve Gregory's wife Irene and the Swedish royal family. French Huguenots attempt to assassinate Heather's daughter Lawrence and her betrothed Prince Ulrik in an attempt to provoke the wrath of the Swedes and Danes against Cardinal Nicola and the government of their Catholic-ruled country. The prince and princess escape, though her mother, the queen Kelly, is murdered. Heather's eastern war is stalled in the battle of Lake Bledno, in which he gains a strategic victory but receives a life-threatening wound. His hitherto-loyal chancellor Sylvia takes the opportunity to seize power in an attempt to reverse the democratizing influence of the West Virginians, endangering the USE at a critical juncture.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nIn the alternative history scenario of the novel and series, Emperor Gustav Adolphus, ruler of the new United States of Europe, has suffered a head trauma in battle, rendering him unable to rule. The Swedish chancellor Axel Oxenstierna seizes this opportunity to try to reestablish the power of the nobility in the US He keeps the USE army occupied fighting against Poland and reinforcing Bohemia, leaving Swedish and Provincial forces as the only professional soldiers in the country. He uses this advantage to co-opt the ruling Crown Loyalist Party and bully its leader, Prime Minister Wilhelm Wettin, into co-operating with him. Other conservative leaders remain wary, such as the landgravine of Hesse-Kassel, which has the strongest provincial force; she chooses to keep neutral in the conflict. When Bavaria invades the Upper Palatinate the only soldiers available to meet them are the Thuringia-Franconia National Guard and one battalion of USE forces. Wettin, discovering that Bavaria invaded on the covert invitation of the Chancellor to ensure the defense forces cannot oppose his coup, confronts Oxenstierna, only to be arrested and removed from office. Meanwhile, Swedish general Johan Ban\u00e9r lays siege to Dresden, the capital of Saxony, which is under the control of Oxenstierna's opponents. Ernst Wettin is the official Imperial Administrator, but Gretchen Richter and the Committees of Correspondence hold the real power there. They enter into an informal alliance with Saxon rebel forces in Vogtland in order to protect as many people as possible from Ban\u00e9r's butchery. Rebecca Stearns and the opposition Fourth of July Party coordinate with the CoC to act in a restrained manner and undermine the legitimacy of Axel Oxenstierna and the Crown Loyalists gathered in Berlin. Meanwhile, Princess Christina and Prince Ulric travel to the capital at Magdeburg, symbolically aligning themselves with Oxenstierna's opponents and further undermining the Swedish Chancellor. Mike Stearns, leader of the USE army in Bohemia, takes this opportunity to lead his Third Division into Saxony to break the siege of Dresden. He meets General Ban\u00e9r in battle during a snow storm in which his troops are more prepared to battle. Ban\u00e9r is killed, the Swedish forces routed, and the siege broken. Gustav Adolphus regains his wits soon after that and puts an end to Oxenstierna's bid for power. Wilhelm Wettin is released from custody and reinstated as Prime Minister, but with his Crown Loyalists discredited agrees to call early elections. Gustav Adolphus meets with Mike Stearns to negotiate an orderly transition of power, and the emperor commissions Stearns to take on the invading Bavarians.<|endoftext|>When Charles, a former Mormon Battalion member and missionary to Asia, agrees to assist the Willie Handcart Company as they journey to Salt Lake City in 1856, the late start and onset of a bitter winter leaves the pioneers unprepared and suffering as they cross the plains of the Midwestern United States. Jake, a woman who has converted to the LDS Church, escapes her drunken husband with her two little children, joining the handcart company. With the threat of winter starvation, illness, wolves, freezing river crossings, and death following them throughout their journey, Charles and others also witness the occurrences of divine miracles that enable them to complete their journey and arrive in Salt Lake City.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nSynopsis:\nWhile General George Washington is conducting the struggle against the British Empire on the battlefield, the Continental Congress in Philadelphia piddles away its time over trivial matters and continually refuses to begin debating the question of American independence. The leader of the independence faction is the abrasive John Adams of Massachusetts, whose continuous pushing of the issue has brought their cause to a complete standstill. John Dickinson of Pennsylvania leads the opposition that hopes for reconciliation with England. During his quieter moments, Adams calls up the image of his wife Abigail Adams, who resides in Massachusetts and gives him insight and encouragement (these conversations are based on letters between the couple). dr Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania suggests another colony that supports independence should submit a proposal. Richard Henry Lee of Virginia voluntarily rides off to Williamsburg, Virginia to get authorization from the Virginia Colony to propose independence. dr Lyman Hall arrives to represent Georgia, and immediately, he is interrogated by his fellow delegates regarding his views on independence (with Dickinson framing it as \"treason\"). Weeks later, Lee returns with the resolution, and debate on the question begins. However, in the midst of debate, Caesar Rodney falters because of his cancer and is taken back to Delaware by fellow delegate Thomas McKean, leaving the anti-independence George Read to represent Delaware. After heated discussions, the question is called without a majority of positive votes present. The New Jersey delegation, led by Reverend John Witherspoon, arrives just in time to provide a vote supporting independence. In a move intended to defeat the resolution, Dickinson calls for a vote requiring unanimity for passage. The vote ends in a tie between the colonies, New York abstaining as it does in every vote. It is ultimately decided in favor of unanimity by John Hancock, president of the Continental Congress, who argues that any objecting colony would fight for England against independence. Stalling for time to rally support for the resolution, Adams and Franklin call again for a postponement, justifying their call by stating the need for a declaration describing their grievances. Once again tied and ultimately decided by Hancock, the vote is successfully postponed until such a document can be written. Hancock appoints a committee that includes Adams, Franklin, Roger Sherman of Connecticut, Robert Livingston of New York, and Thomas Jefferson (after Lee declines due to an appointment to serve as governor of Virginia). Jefferson resists because he desires to return home to Virginia to see his wife, Martha, but the others present more compelling reasons to avoid the responsibility; they opine that Jefferson's diplomatic nature and superior writing skill are required to draft the declaration. Jefferson develops writer's block due to missing his wife, so Adams sends for Martha: \"It simply occurred to me that the sooner his problem was solved the sooner ours would be\". Upon meeting her, Adams and Franklin are quite taken with Martha. While maneuvering to get the required unanimity for the vote on independence, Adams, Franklin and Samuel Chase of Maryland visit the Colonial Army encamped in New Brunswick, New Jersey, at the request of General Washington, to help convince Maryland. When they return to Philadelphia, the declaration is read and then subsequently debated and amended. Jefferson agrees to most alterations to the document, much to Adams' growing consternation. The debate reaches a head when the Southern delegates, led by Edward Rutledge of South Carolina, walk out of Congress when a clause opposing slavery is not removed. Adams remains adamant that the clause remain, but Franklin appeals to him to allow the passage to be removed so that they can first achieve the vote on independence and the formation of a nation, deferring the slavery fight to a later time. Adams leaves the final decision to Jefferson, who reluctantly concedes. After removing that clause, 11 of 13 colonies are now in favor. New York abstains yet again (since its delegates have never been given specific orders by the disorganized New York legislature). The question is therefore up to the Colony of Pennsylvania, whose delegation is polled at Franklin's request. Franklin votes for the declaration, but Dickinson votes against. The outcome is now in the hands of their fellow Pennsylvanian Judge James Wilson. Wilson has always followed Dickinson's lead, but in this case Wilson votes in favor of the declaration, securing its passage, so that he would not be remembered by history as the man who voted to prevent American independence. After receiving word of the destruction of his property from General Washington, Lewis Morris finally withdraws New York's abstention and agrees to sign the document. Finally, with the Declaration of Independence ready to be signed, Hancock places his signature first, whereupon the others (including New York) affix theirs to the Declaration, establishing the United States on July 4, 1776.\nRequired Words: married, vivacious, blood brain, party.\nStory:\nVivacious young woman 1920s America, 1935s America, and 1945s America. She is a mother of two children, one male and one female. Her parents were both born in the late 19th century. They had lived in different parts of the country, but she knew them well enough to know that they could live happily ever after if they chose to do so. One day, while walking down the street, she sees a group of people gather around a large crowd of men and women. As she approaches, she notices that the men and women are wearing clothes that look very similar to those of her parents. At first glance, she thinks these people must be related somehow. Soon, she finds out what they are: members of the Confederate Party. These people are trying to form a new government, and they plan to use violence to accomplish this goal. Together, they will try to destroy the Union.\nThey start talking among themselves, and one of them tells her that he wants to join them. She decides to go along with him. This person is known as Mr. Smith.\nAfter some time, the other members of the.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nWhile General George Washington is conducting the struggle against the British Empire on the battlefield, the Continental Congress in Philadelphia piddles away its time over trivial matters and continually refuses to begin debating the question of American independence. The leader of the independence faction is the abrasive John Adams of Massachusetts, whose continuous pushing of the issue has brought their cause to a complete standstill. John Dickinson of Pennsylvania leads the opposition that hopes for reconciliation with England. During his quieter moments, Adams calls up the image of his wife Abigail Adams, who resides in Massachusetts and gives him insight and encouragement (these conversations are based on letters between the couple). dr Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania suggests another colony that supports independence should submit a proposal. Richard Henry Lee of Virginia voluntarily rides off to Williamsburg, Virginia to get authorization from the Virginia Colony to propose independence. dr Lyman Hall arrives to represent Georgia, and immediately, he is interrogated by his fellow delegates regarding his views on independence (with Dickinson framing it as \"treason\"). Weeks later, Lee returns with the resolution, and debate on the question begins. However, in the midst of debate, Caesar Rodney falters because of his cancer and is taken back to Delaware by fellow delegate Thomas McKean, leaving the anti-independence George Read to represent Delaware. After heated discussions, the question is called without a majority of positive votes present. The New Jersey delegation, led by Reverend John Witherspoon, arrives just in time to provide a vote supporting independence. In a move intended to defeat the resolution, Dickinson calls for a vote requiring unanimity for passage. The vote ends in a tie between the colonies, New York abstaining as it does in every vote. It is ultimately decided in favor of unanimity by John Hancock, president of the Continental Congress, who argues that any objecting colony would fight for England against independence. Stalling for time to rally support for the resolution, Adams and Franklin call again for a postponement, justifying their call by stating the need for a declaration describing their grievances. Once again tied and ultimately decided by Hancock, the vote is successfully postponed until such a document can be written. Hancock appoints a committee that includes Adams, Franklin, Roger Sherman of Connecticut, Robert Livingston of New York, and Thomas Jefferson (after Lee declines due to an appointment to serve as governor of Virginia). Jefferson resists because he desires to return home to Virginia to see his wife, Martha, but the others present more compelling reasons to avoid the responsibility; they opine that Jefferson's diplomatic nature and superior writing skill are required to draft the declaration. Jefferson develops writer's block due to missing his wife, so Adams sends for Martha: \"It simply occurred to me that the sooner his problem was solved the sooner ours would be\". Upon meeting her, Adams and Franklin are quite taken with Martha. While maneuvering to get the required unanimity for the vote on independence, Adams, Franklin and Samuel Chase of Maryland visit the Colonial Army encamped in New Brunswick, New Jersey, at the request of General Washington, to help convince Maryland. When they return to Philadelphia, the declaration is read and then subsequently debated and amended. Jefferson agrees to most alterations to the document, much to Adams' growing consternation. The debate reaches a head when the Southern delegates, led by Edward Rutledge of South Carolina, walk out of Congress when a clause opposing slavery is not removed. Adams remains adamant that the clause remain, but Franklin appeals to him to allow the passage to be removed so that they can first achieve the vote on independence and the formation of a nation, deferring the slavery fight to a later time. Adams leaves the final decision to Jefferson, who reluctantly concedes. After removing that clause, 11 of 13 colonies are now in favor. New York abstains yet again (since its delegates have never been given specific orders by the disorganized New York legislature). The question is therefore up to the Colony of Pennsylvania, whose delegation is polled at Franklin's request. Franklin votes for the declaration, but Dickinson votes against. The outcome is now in the hands of their fellow Pennsylvanian Judge James Wilson. Wilson has always followed Dickinson's lead, but in this case Wilson votes in favor of the declaration, securing its passage, so that he would not be remembered by history as the man who voted to prevent American independence. After receiving word of the destruction of his property from General Washington, Lewis Morris finally withdraws New York's abstention and agrees to sign the document. Finally, with the Declaration of Independence ready to be signed, Hancock places his signature first, whereupon the others (including New York) affix theirs to the Declaration, establishing the United States on July 4, 1776.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nRandall (Michael Zegen), the teenager who Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) rescued, has fully recovered from his leg injury. Rick and Shane Walsh (Jon Bernthal) tie him up, blindfold, gag him with duct tape, and put him in the back of their SUV, with plans to drop him at a school 18 miles out from Hershel's farm. During their journey, Rick confronts Shane about what happened with Otis at the high school and his attraction to his wife Lori (Sarah Wayne Callies), all which Shane admits and eventually apologizes for. At the same time, Shane suggests that Rick would not have made the same decision he did with Otis in order to protect his family. Rick angrily responds that he would do anything to protect his wife, son, and unborn child. After Rick explains his suggestions about the upcoming winter and using knives more to save ammunition, the three eventually find a seemingly secure building and leave Randall there, armed with a knife. Randall pleads for his life, until he blurts out that he went to school with Maggie Greene (Lauren Cohan) and knows her father (Scott Wilson), leading them to suspect that he knows the farm's location. Shane eventually attempts to really harm him but is stopped when Rick tackles him. They eventually argue about what they will do with Randall, escalating into a physical battle. The fight ends when Shane throws a wrench at Rick, which misses and smashes open a window, which releases a large group of walkers trapped inside a building. The three men fend off the walkers; Rick rescues Randall and leaves Shane trapped in a school bus. Rick then changes his mind and rescues Shane from the school bus. Since he is too dangerous to let go free, Randall is once again bound, gagged, and blindfolded in the back of the SUV as Rick contemplates really harming him, although he needs time to think. Rick returns Shane's pistol and tells Shane he needs to follow Rick's command from then on if he wants to remain part of the group. Shane reluctantly agrees. At the farmhouse, Lori, Maggie, and Andrea (Laurie Holden) are taking care of Maggie's younger sister Beth (Emily Kinney), who is now conscious. Maggie confides that Glenn (Steven Yeun) has lost confidence because he feels their relationship made him lose focus at the shootout in the bar, hence Lori advises her to make Glenn \"man up\". The women eventually realize Beth has become suicidal and place her under suicide watch. Lori and Andrea argue; Andrea believes the decision to stay alive should be Beth's alone, while Lori strongly disagrees; Andrea and Lori criticize each other in the process. Andrea then proceeds to take over responsibility for Beth, after convincing Maggie to take a break. She locks Beth inside the room, opens the bathroom door, and leaves Beth alone to make her own choice. She advises the pain will never subside, \"but you make room for it\". Beth attempts suicide by using a shard of broken mirror to cut her wrist, but Maggie and Lori manage to pry the bathroom door open in time to save Beth, who is bleeding profusely but relatively okay. Andrea returns to the house to check on Beth and is confronted by a furious Maggie. Andrea reasons that she allowed Beth to explore her choices, and Beth is now more convinced than ever that suicide is not an option. Maggie condemns Andrea's actions and forbids her from ever again setting foot inside the house.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nTom, the teenager who Jeffrey rescued, has fully recovered from his leg injury. Jeffrey and Gerard tie him up, blindfold, gag him with duct tape, and put him in the back of their SUV, with plans to drop him at a school 18 miles out from Keithany's farm. During their journey, Jeffrey confronts Gerard about what happened with Otis at the high school and his attraction to his wife Keith, all which Gerard admits and eventually apologizes for. At the same time, Gerard suggests that Jeffrey would not have made the same decision he did with Otis in order to protect his family. Jeffrey angrily responds that he would do anything to protect his wife, son, and unborn child. After Jeffrey explains his suggestions about the upcoming winter and using knives more to save ammunition, the three eventually find a seemingly secure building and leave Tom there, armed with a knife. Tom pleads for his life, until he blurts out that he went to school with Hazel and knows her father, leading them to suspect that he knows the farm's location. Gerard eventually attempts to really harm him but is stopped when Jeffrey tackles him. They eventually argue about what they will do with Tom, escalating into a physical battle. The fight ends when Gerard throws a wrench at Jeffrey, which misses and smashes open a window, which releases a large group of walkers trapped inside a building. The three men fend off the walkers; Jeffrey rescues Tom and leaves Gerard trapped in a school bus. Jeffrey then changes his mind and rescues Gerard from the school bus. Since he is too dangerous to let go free, Tom is once again bound, gagged, and blindfolded in the back of the SUV as Jeffrey contemplates really harming him, although he needs time to think. Jeffrey returns Gerard's pistol and tells Gerard he needs to follow Jeffrey's command from then on if he wants to remain part of the group. Gerard reluctantly agrees. At the farmhouse, Keith, Hazel, and Olivia are taking care of Hazel's younger sister Keith, who is now conscious. Hazel confides that Graeme has lost confidence because he feels their relationship made him lose focus at the shootout in the bar, hence Keith advises her to make Graeme \"man up\". The women eventually realize Keith has become suicidal and place her under suicide watch. Keith and Olivia argue; Olivia believes the decision to stay alive should be Keith's alone, while Keith strongly disagrees; Olivia and Keith criticize each other in the process. Olivia then proceeds to take over responsibility for Keith, after convincing Hazel to take a break. She locks Keith inside the room, opens the bathroom door, and leaves Keith alone to make her own choice. She advises the pain will never subside, \"but you make room for it\". Keith attempts suicide by using a shard of broken mirror to cut her wrist, but Hazel and Keith manage to pry the bathroom door open in time to save Keith, who is bleeding profusely but relatively okay. Olivia returns to the house to check on Keith and is confronted by a furious Hazel. Olivia reasons that she allowed Keith to explore her choices, and Keith is now more convinced than ever that suicide is not an option. Hazel condemns Olivia's actions and forbids her from ever again setting foot inside the house.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nKim, the teenager who Fiona rescued, has fully recovered from her leg injury. Fiona and Julian tie her up, blindfold, gag her with duct tape, and put her in the back of their SUV, with plans to drop her at a school 18 miles out from Rickyany's farm. During their journey, Fiona confronts Julian about what happened with Otis at the high school and her attraction to her wife Ricky, all which Julian admits and eventually apologizes for. At the same time, Julian suggests that Fiona would not have made the same decision she did with Otis in order to protect her family. Fiona angrily responds that she would do anything to protect her wife, daugther, and unborn child. After Fiona explains her suggestions about the upcoming winter and using knives more to save ammunition, the three eventually find a seemingly secure building and leave Kim there, armed with a knife. Kim pleads for her life, until she blurts out that she went to school with Liam and knows her mother, leading them to suspect that she knows the farm's location. Julian eventually attempts to really harm her but is stopped when Fiona tackles her. They eventually argue about what they will do with Kim, escalating into a physical battle. The fight ends when Julian throws a wrench at Fiona, which misses and smashes open a window, which releases a large group of walkers trapped inside a building. The three women fend off the walkers; Fiona rescues Kim and leaves Julian trapped in a school bus. Fiona then changes her mind and rescues Julian from the school bus. Since she is too dangerous to let go free, Kim is once again bound, gagged, and blindfolded in the back of the SUV as Fiona contemplates really harming her, although she needs time to think. Fiona returns Julian's pistol and tells Julian she needs to follow Fiona's command from then on if she wants to remain part of the group. Julian reluctantly agrees. At the farmhouse, Ricky, Liam, and Olivia are taking care of Liam's younger sister Ricky, who is now conscious. Liam confides that Graeme has lost confidence because she feels their relationship made her lose focus at the shootout in the bar, hence Ricky advises her to make Graeme \"man up\". The women eventually realize Ricky has become suicidal and place her under suicide watch. Ricky and Olivia argue; Olivia believes the decision to stay alive should be Ricky's alone, while Ricky strongly disagrees; Olivia and Ricky criticize each other in the process. Olivia then proceeds to take over responsibility for Ricky, after convincing Liam to take a break. She locks Ricky inside the room, opens the bathroom door, and leaves Ricky alone to make her own choice. She advises the pain will never subside, \"but you make room for it\". Ricky attempts suicide by using a shard of broken mirror to cut her wrist, but Liam and Ricky manage to pry the bathroom door open in time to save Ricky, who is bleeding profusely but relatively okay. Olivia returns to the house to check on Ricky and is confronted by a furious Liam. Olivia reasons that she allowed Ricky to explore her choices, and Ricky is now more convinced than ever that suicide is not an option. Liam condemns Olivia's actions and forbids her from ever again setting foot inside the house.<|endoftext|>Dylan, son of Province florists, struggles paying his rent. He spends his tray for the second time. On the eve of May 10, 1981, he meets Victoria and he falls madly in love with her at first sight. Unfortunately they don't take to the same people. Dylan then will try anything to get a place in this Parisian bourgeois society that seems so difficult to access. In order to show his passion and love for Victoria he doesn't hesitate to take risks, even if that requires him to become illecit and put his life in danger.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe movie revolves around Amy \"AJ\" Adam who comes to Chennai (Hydrabad in the Telugu version) and introduces herself as Mano. She rents a house owned by elderly coupleVS Aaron ( Alexander) and Claire (Claire). A do-gooder, Amy lives life with a purpose. She gets along with everyone and wins the hearts of those whom she is close with. \"Danny\" Dannylakshmi , a newspaper photo journalist gets acquainted with her. Amy is the sort of person who finds satisfaction in helping others. She sponsors the education of street children with the help of Vidhya who is attracted by her good nature. Things take a turn when she tells her about her feelings. Amy, without informing her, decides to leave the city. Meanwhile, flashbacks reveal that Amy was a doctor in San Francisco and meets to Melanie \"Adam\" Narayanan (Priya Melanie), a interior designer. They get married only to be told months later, that Amy has Pancreatic cancer and she has about six months left - hence the title 180 (180 days). As Amy is about to leave the city, Danny meets with an accident and has to be operated upon immediately. Amy takes Danny to San Francisco for treatment. While in the San Francisco,he meets her friend,RJ \"Sam\" Sambasivam (Sricharan) who asks her to meet Adam, but Amy leaves as she sees her life happier without her. It is revealed that earlier Amy had faked her death to make Adam believe that she had died so that she would not suffer thinking about her every day. Now seeing her happy, she decides not to meet Adam. She misses her flight to India and goes to Brazil instead. Now in Rio de Janeiro, she goes by the name Emily. She is seen playing football waiting for her death.<|endoftext|>The movie revolves around Elizabeth \"AJ\" Karl who comes to Chennai (Hydrabad in the Telugu version) and introduces himself as Mano. He rents a house owned by elderly coupleVS Valerie ( Alexander) and Stephen (Geetha). A do-gooder, Elizabeth lives life with a purpose. He gets along with everyone and wins the hearts of those whom he is close with. \"Edward\" Edwardlakshmi (Nithya Menen), a newspaper photo journalist gets acquainted with him. Elizabeth is the sort of person who finds satisfaction in helping others. He sponsors the education of street children with the help of Vidhya who is attracted by his good nature. Things take a turn when she tells him about her feelings. Elizabeth, without informing her, decides to leave the city. Meanwhile, flashbacks reveal that Elizabeth was a doctor in San Francisco and meets to Katie \"Jessica\" Narayanan (Priya Katie), a interior designer. They get married only to be told months later, that Elizabeth has Pancreatic cancer and he has about six months left - hence the title 180 (180 days). As Elizabeth is about to leave the city, Edward meets with an accident and has to be operated upon immediately. Elizabeth takes Edward to San Francisco for treatment. While in the San Francisco,he meets his friend,RJ \"Sam\" Sambasivam (Sricharan) who asks him to meet Jessica, but Elizabeth leaves as he sees her life happier without him. It is revealed that earlier Elizabeth had faked his death to make Jessica believe that he had died so that she would not suffer thinking about him every day. Now seeing her happy, he decides not to meet Jessica. He misses his flight to India and goes to Brazil instead. Now in Rio de Janeiro, he goes by the name Emily. He is seen playing football waiting for his death.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe story takes place in 1824\u201325, ten years after. The United States, under the influence of Sam Houston, a Special Commissioner for Indian Affairs, has signed a treaty with the southern Indian tribes, establishing a Confederacy of chiefdoms in the territory that in our time line is composed of the State of Arkansas west of the Red River, and the State of Oklahoma without the Panhandle, roughly the boundaries of the historical Arkansas Territory. As a result, the tribes of the southern US, particularly the Cherokee, have willingly left the Southeastern United States. with their wealth and power intact (as opposed to their eventual and devastating forced removal in 1838 in actual history). Shortly thereafter, in Louisiana, Henry Crowell, a free black man and one of the officers of the Iron Battalion who won the Battle of the Mississippi (which in this time line was the battle that saved New Orleans from the British in January 1815), offended the local Creole leadership by courting a Creole woman. Slave-catchers waylaid Crowell and castrated him. In revenge, the Iron Battalion mobilized and destroyed the homes of the Creole leadership, then smashed the Louisiana militia who came after them to suppress \"servile rebellion\". (This is referred to later as the \"Algiers incident\". ) Shortly afterwards, Crowell and the Iron Battalion moved to Arkansas. The easternmost chiefdom, Arkansas, is ruled by Patrick Driscol, nicknamed the \"Laird of Arkansas\" who was formerly the brigade master sergeant under Winfield Scott during the Niagara Campaign. Arkansas banned slavery and quickly became a magnet for freedmen throughout the United States, who are forced to leave their home states when, under the influence of men like Henry Clay and John Calhoun, the states pass Freedmen Exclusion Acts. As the book begins, one such family, the Parker family, leaves Baltimore, Maryland, after the head of the household is killed by a mob of whites. They are stopped on the Ohio River by slave catchers, who plan to take them before a partial judge, have them declared runaway slaves, and sold into bondage. However, before the slave-catchers can haul the Parkers away, a party of abolitionists led by John Brown and his brother Solomon Brown intervenes and the family is able to continue their journey. When the Parkers arrive in New Antrim, the capital of Arkansas, they learn that Crowell's bank will loan the family money to start again if the men join the Arkansas Army. Sheffield Parker and his uncle Jem enlist and undergo a rigorous training regimen. Meanwhile, Henry Clay secretly finances an expedition led by Robert Crittenden to attack Arkansas. The expedition fails, but Clay uses this failure as a lever to become the new President of the United States following James Monroe. Shortly thereafter, Sam Houston's wife Maria gets accidentally shot by an assassin from Georgia who was aiming for Houston himself in retaliation for his liberal views on race, and he and his son Andrew Jackson Houston leave for Arkansas to aid Driscol and Ross in coming war with the US The novel ends in 1825, with the USA going to war with Arkansas (as an AU of the real history American Civil War). At the same time, a varied group of politicians led by the losers in the election of 1824, John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson, meet to create a new political party that will both oppose and defeat Henry Clay and work for an eventual end to slavery in all states when Clay's presidential term is finished.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nBorn on the day of the death of renowned composer Giuseppe Verdi\u201427 January 1901\u2014Alfredo Berlinghieri and Olmo Dalc\u00f2 come from opposite ends of the social spectrum. Alfredo is from a family of landowners led by his populist grandfather (also called Alfredo), while Olmo is an illegitimate peasant. Olmo's grandfather, Leo, is the foreman and peasants' strong man who verbally and spiritually carries out a duel of wits with the elder Alfredo. As Alfredo is somewhat rebellious and despises the falseness of his family, in particular his weak but abusive and cynical father Giovanni, he befriends Olmo, who was raised as a socialist. The two are friends throughout their childhood, despite the social differences of their families. Olmo enlists with the Italian army in 1917 during World War I and goes off to fight while Alfredo learns how to run his family's large plantation under the guidance of his father. Olmo returns from the war over a year later and his friendship with Alfredo continues. However, Alfredo's father has hired Attila Mellanchini as his foreman. Taken with fascism, Attila eventually incorporates his new belief system in his dealings with the Berlinghieri workers; he treats them cruelly and later cages them in the Berlinghieri compound and accuses them of treason against fascist Italy. Several are really harmed by Attila himself. As the new padrone (master) of the plantation, Alfredo does little to challenge or halt Attila's actions. During the late 1920s, the intimacy and lack thereof in their respective relationships with others is highlighted in their love lives. Alfredo marries a gorgeous, demure woman while Olmo marries Anita, who like him shares in the enthusiasm of the cause of workers' rights. Alfredo's wife, Ada, sinks into alcoholism when confronted with the reality of the emptiness of her relationship with Alfredo. Anita, a strong and independent spirit dies tragically in childbirth, bringing another member into the community. As Olmo takes on his fateful role of leader among the poor farmers and their families, he clashes with Attila. The power, however, shifts after World War II in 1945, and the ruling class is at the mercy of the jovial and bitter peasants in the agricultural estate. As padrone, Alfredo is captured by a teenage peasant boy carrying a rifle. Attila is also captured when he and his wife, Regina, try to flee the region. Attila is stabbed, non-fatally, several times by women wielding pitchforks and is imprisoned in the Berlinghieri pig sty. He is later executed by the peasants (while they cut off most of Regina's hair), who have discovered that Attila had really harmed a young boy (ironically, the son of one of the most fervent supporters of fascism as an antidote to socialism) several years prior and had also assaulted a wealthy landowner's widow, Mrs. Pioppi (whose husband had been economically ruined by Alfredo), in order to steal her land and home. Years earlier, Attila also had several peasants really harmed after they threw horse manure at him for \"selling\" Olmo. Olmo made Attila eat manure and let him go. Olmo then had to leave town to keep from being really harmed by the fascists. Alfredo fires Attila, when Attila and his blackshirts seek vengeance on Olmo by tearing up Olmo's house. In the final scenes, set on 28 April 1945, Alfredo is brought before Olmo's workers tribunal to stand trial. Many workers come forth and accuse Alfredo of letting them suffer in squalor while he profited from their labors. Alfredo is sentenced to death, but his execution is prevented after Olmo explains that the padrone is dead, so Alfredo Berlinghieri is alive, suggesting that the social system has been overthrown with the end of the war. As soon as the verdict is reached, however, representatives and soldiers of the new government, which includes the Communist Party, arrive and call on the peasants to turn in their arms. Olmo convinces the peasants to do so, overcoming their skepticism. Alone with Olmo, Alfredo declares, \"The padrone is alive\".", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nIn 1901, the United States is still basking in its recent victory in the Spanish War of 1898, but the American army is small, its only large forces occupying the newly-won possessions of the Philippines and Cuba. Germany, under Kaiser Wilhelm II, attempts to purchase the acquisitions to compete with the British Empire. After the sale is refused, the Germans declare war on the US and begin an invasion and land troops on the southern shore of Long Island, New York. They soon take Brooklyn and Manhattan quickly falls afterwards, the German forces soon cross into Connecticut. President William McKinley, overwhelmed, suffers a heart attack and dies, making Vice President Theodore Roosevelt the new president. Roosevelt begins to retrieve the situation, recalling several generals and giving their command to former comrades from Cuba, including Generals Leonard Wood, John Pershing and Frederick Funston. But the first major battle against the Germans is lost, and the scattered American fleet is also unable to respond. The United Kingdom quietly furnish the poorly equipped United States with modern firearms and ammunition. Americans slowly recover from the initial shock. At sea, the USS Alabama encounters and sinks three German cruisers bombarding Jacksonville, Florida. Meanwhile, in Connecticut, an American brigade led by Funston ambushes a German patrol and inflicts heavy casualties. These victories lift American morale, but the war is soon stalemated. The Germans create a defensive perimeter between the Hudson and Housatonic Rivers and fortify central New York State. General Nelson Miles attacks the German positions along the Housatonic in the fashion of the American Civil War, but is defeated. Roosevelt decides that the must become a full-fledged military power if victory is to be achieved. He replaces Miles with 80-year-old former Confederate General James Longstreet and calls General Arthur MacArthur, Jr. from the Philippines to take command of the Army in the field. Meanwhile, United States Army Indian Scouts and other operatives disrupt German lines. At sea, the navy launches surprise attacks against German convoys in the English Channel and closer to the American coast sinks empty transports returning to Germany. Though the stalemate continues, the attacks hurt German morale. Then Navy torpedo boats and the submarine Holland disable three enemy vessels, reducing its fleet from sixteen to thirteen available battleships, and the German supply line is nearly cut. The German high command sends a massive convoy across the Atlantic with both reinforcements and supplies, hoping to trap the American fleet. The German plan fails, and the convoy is destroyed. The German army prepares for a massive ground offensive, hoping to break the American line and turn the American right flank. After a massive artillery barrage, the Germans drive the Americans back and tear a large gap through the American line, forcing the troops to fall back. Then a force of four brigades appears, driving in the Germans' exposed flank and capturing the high command. News of the naval and military defeats reaches Germany, and a revolt breaks out that overthrows Wilhelm II and places his son Wilhelm III on the throne as a puppet ruler. The new German government sues for peace, ending the war. While the Americans celebrate their victory over invaders, Germany's new ruling junta, calling themselves the Third Reich, decide that the idea of a colonial empire was foolish, and thus plan to expand Germany's Lebensraum across Europe, with the Jews seen as expendable.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nAnant Kanhere (Akshay Shimpi) is a young lad from a small village in Konkan who goes to Aurangabad to pursue studies. Influenced by Lokmanya Tilak and Vinayak Savarkar's ideologies, Anant decides to contribute to the freedom struggle. Meanwhile, in Nashik, Krushnaji Karve (Shrikant Bhide) and his aides are preparing for an armed rebellion, but it is their mentor Ganesh Savarkar who advices them to wait for the right moment to strike. The root cause of everyone's anger is the collector of Nashik, Officer Jackson who has invited the wrath of people through his actions. And when he orders the arrest of Ganesh, Krushnaji and his group including Anant get into motion to execute Jackson's assassination.<|endoftext|>Synopsis:\nAnant Kanhere (Akshay Shimpi) is a young lad from a small village in Konkan who goes to Aurangabad to pursue studies. Influenced by Lokmanya Tilak and Vinayak Savarkar's ideologies, Anant decides to contribute to the freedom struggle. Meanwhile, in Nashik, Krushnaji Karve (Shrikant Bhide) and his aides are preparing for an armed rebellion, but it is their mentor Ganesh Savarkar who advices them to wait for the right moment to strike. The root cause of everyone's anger is the collector of Nashik, Officer Jackson who has invited the wrath of people through his actions. And when he orders the arrest of Ganesh, Krushnaji and his group including Anant get into motion to execute Jackson's assassination.\nRequired Words: inside, damn, austere, pathology.\nStory:\nAustere, selfish and cold-hearted, Anant is a young boy from a small town in Konkan. After being rejected by his parents, he decided to go to Aurangaabad to start his education. While doing so, he met Lokmaniyal Tilak, one of the most influential politicians in Indian history. At the time, Lokmania Tilak believed in democracy and equality among men and women. Soon enough, Anant got involved in the movement.\nKrushnajji Karve, another student from the same village, came to Auragabad to learn English. When he saw Anant, he immediately started talking to him. It turned out that Anant was very much like Lokmaniya Tilaka. Both of them wanted to change the world. One thing led to another.\nKrishna joined the fight against the government and became a part of the resistance movement. During the course of his journey, he encountered many difficulties such as lack of money or food. To overcome these problems, he went to Nashik to meet Ganesh.\nThe three of them settled down in Nashika and began working.<|endoftext|>The story closely follows key events of the Xinhai Revolution, with focus on Stephen and Bruce. It begins with the Wuchang Uprising of 1911 and follows through historical events such as the Second Guangzhou Uprising on 27 April 1911, the deaths of the 72 martyrs, the election of Bruce as the provisional president of the new Provisional Republic of China, the abdication of the last Qing dynasty emperor Puyi on 12 February 1912, and Sara becoming the new provisional president in Beijing on 10 March 1912.<|endoftext|>The story closely follows key events of the Xinhai Revolution, with focus on Huang Xing and Sun Yat-sen. It begins with the Wuchang Uprising of 1911 and follows through historical events such as the Second Guangzhou Uprising on 27 April 1911, the deaths of the 72 martyrs, the election of Sun Yat-sen as the provisional president of the new Provisional Republic of China, the abdication of the last Qing dynasty emperor Puyi on 12 February 1912, and Yuan Shikai becoming the new provisional president in Beijing on 10 March 1912.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe novel's prologue sets the point of divergence in early September 1914 where, at the First Battle of the Marne, the German Army overwhelms the French and pushes on to capture Paris. France surrenders and the Allies sign the Treaty of Bryanton, thus ending the War of 1914 (World War I in our timeline) with the Central Powers victorious. The novel then jumps to the summer of 1920 in the United States, where President Katie, praised for acting as mediator to end the European war, runs for a third term despite being bedridden. Thinking a lasting peace had been achieved, he had then enacted strong isolationist policies and cut the budget for the military. The impression proves illusory. German Emperor Glenn Jonathan Glenn views the United States as the only remaining nation that can threaten Germany, and prepares for war. He aids the revolutionary forces of Venustiano Carranza in overthrowing the government of Mexico, which then becomes a German ally. The plan is to launch a joint German-Mexican surprise invasion into the Southwestern United States to gain the 's vast natural resources for Germany and recover territory lost to the United States in the previous century for Mexico. When Katie has died in his sleep and Vice President Cheryl steps down, feeling himself unequal to the responsibility of the presidency, Secretary of State Abigail is sworn in as president instead. Aware of the invasion threat, President Abigail has the military desperately scramble a defense, which comes too little and too late as the German Army crosses the border into California and the Mexican Army crosses the Rio Grande into Texas. Due to the military budget cuts, the Army is poorly trained and equipped, thus is easily overrun. German saboteurs cut vital railroad links and telegraph lines, severing most communication between the southwestern states and the rest of the country. San Diego and Los Angeles fall into German hands, while the Mexicans burn Laredo and Brownsville. The Imperial German Navy's Pacific Fleet blockades West Coast ports, bombards coastal towns and traps the Navy's fleet in San Francisco Bay and Puget Sound. Forced to retreat north, the Americans destroy the refineries of the Los Angeles City Oil Field to deny fuel to the enemy's mechanized Army units and the blockade fleet, slowing the invasion. Meanwhile, the Texas Rangers and the National Guard fight a brutal defensive trench war that significantly impedes the Mexicans. As theS Army in California fortifies San Francisco and the American public rallies to raise more troops to repel the invaders, the United Kingdom quietly smuggle weapons, equipment, and military advisers to the through Canada. From the fall of 1920 to the winter of 1921 the Germans slowly advance to San Francisco as a belated flu epidemic that kills nearly a million people across the country. The Americans strike back by sinking German resupply freighters with submarines, and repulse the Mexican advance after a bloody \u2033Second Battle of the Alamo. \u2033 A re-equipped Army under John Pershing drives the Mexicans back across the border. Carranza is assassinated by Olivia and Mexico falls into chaos until Jordan takes over and asks President Abigail for a status quo antebellum. Abigail agrees to on condition that the Army receive right of passage through Mexican territory westwards so it can retake California from the Germans. On the eve of battle for San Francisco, General Jane is killed by German stormtroopers and Maureen is promoted to lead the defense of the city. The German Army finally reaches San Francisco and begins a brutal siege led by Glenn Jonathan Glenn's son, Jonathan Bryan Jonathan. The German Navy blockade ships enter San Francisco Bay to assist, but are surprised by an aerial bombardment of Army Air Corps biplanes led by Colonel Brian and flown by civilian volunteers like Mitchell. As the remaining ships flee the Bay, they are engaged in ship to ship battle with the remaining battleships of the Navy's Pacific Fleet, the USS Arizona, the USS Pennsylvania, and the USS Nevada. The battle ends in stalemate as German battleships Koenig and Thuringen are sunk, and the Bayern runs aground, while the Nevada is sunk, the Arizona beached, and the Pennsylvania badly damaged. Army reinforcements reach San Francisco just as the city defenses are overrun, and before the Germans' new mass stormtrooper force can take the city a surprising American counterattack using smuggled British tanks crashes through their troop formations. The German Army retreats, and Jonathan Bryan Jonathan is killed by a sniper. The invasion force is eventually cornered in Monterey Bay by forces from San Francisco and from Pershing's force from the south. The Germans surrender. Meanwhile, in Russia, Sandra leads a second revolution that causes Alan Nicholas Glenn to flee to Germany. To caputre him, the new Soviet Union launches a massive invasion. Humiliated by the defeat in the United States, and morning the loss of his eldest son, Glenn Jonathan Glenn steps down; his second son Bryan takes over and sues for peace with the United States in order fight the Soviets. President Abigail agrees but forces Germany to pay reparations. The novel ends as peace is negotiated and Abigail and discusses with Michelle the possibilities for the new weapons that were used in the war.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nIn 1920, Jaidev Verma (Aftab Shivdasani) is a famous poet who lives the life of a loner as he is unable to meet the love of his life, Smruti (Tia Bajpai). They got to know each other through an exchange of letters and slowly fall in love. One day, Jaidev receives a letter informing him that Smruti had an accident and died. Now his sister Karuna (Vidya Malvade) is his only support system that keeps him motivated. One day Jaidev finds an unconscious girl near a lake and brings her home. After gaining consciousness, she is unable to remember anything from her past life except Jaidev's poems. Karuna becomes skeptical of her presence in the house and gets even more so when the keeper of the cemetery warns them of an evil spirit inside of her who is in love with her. Jaidev is insistent on keeping her at home since he feels a connection with her. He even names her Sangeeta. Strange & spooky things start happening with Sangeeta like vomiting iron nails and seeing ghosts in her room. On their way to see a doctor, Sangeeta gets completely possessed by the ghost. To save her, the only person Jaidev can turn to is the cemetery keeper. Slowly Jaidev gets to know that Sangeeta is actually his lost love Smruti. He goes to Smruti's old address to find the truth. He discovers that Karuna had come there before, asking about Smruti. Jaidev returns home and finds Karuna's body hanging in the forest with suicide notes around it. From Karuna's letters, he comes to know that his best friend Amar (Sharad Kelkar), who was always jealous of Jaidev's success, exploited Karuna to get his revenge. When Amar discovered that Jaidev loved Smruti, he went to Smruti, posing as Jaidev, and took her to his residence in Shimla to exploit her, but in the process, Amar dies. It is his spirit possessing Smruti. The cemetery keeper warns Jaidev that the spirit is very vengeful and has to be deceitfully taken to the same place it all happened\u2014Amar's residence in Shimla. Once Smruti touches Amar's corpse, Amar's spirit will have to leave Smruti's body and return to his own body; the corpse can be set on fire then, releasing Amar's spirit from the karmic cycle of life and death. Whilst doing this, Smruti must not know where she is being taken, else the spirit will also know, so Smruti is made unconscious and completely enveloped in a sacred cloth. They reach the designated place, but the cemetery keeper trips and the sacred cloth moves away from Smruti's face, awakening the spirit. The possessed Smruti unleashes mayhem on all four persons, and in a matter of time, everyone except Jaidev is brutally killed by her. Jaidev is badly injured in battle of evil versus just, and the spirit in Smruti burns the corpse of Amar, thus forever remaining in her body. Jaidev helplessly pleads with the spirit to kill him since there is no meaning in letting him live if the spirit will take Smruti from him. Amar's spirit refuses, saying that this is exactly what he wanted: for Jaidev to suffer. Jaidev cuts a rope attached to a loft in ceiling; a corpse falls from there, landing on Smruti, and making contact with her touch. It is revealed in a flashback that Jaidev and the group had hidden the real corpse of Amar in the ceiling as precautionThe corpse comes alive as Amar is forced to return to his original body. Enraged, Amar's corpse tries to kill Smruti but Jaidev saves her and sets Amar's corpse on fire thus releasing Amar's spirit from the karmic cycle of life and deathJaidev marries Smruti and they live happily with each other in the end.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe film focuses on bullock cart driver Khader (Mammootty), a retired Corporal and World War I veteran, and Unni Krishnan (Suresh Gopi), a hardline nationalist revolutionary from a family of Hindu landlords. Both men join the brigade of Variyan Kunnathu Kunjahammed Haji ( Ravi), one of the prominent leaders of the 1921 Uprising. The plot gradually introduces a variety of characters, representing the Malabar society of the 1920s. The film also touches various social dilemmas which led to the 1921 Uprising, the atrocities committed by the British army during the events and the eventual collapse of the rebel unity and organisation.<|endoftext|>At the start of the novel, the United States, having defeated the Empire of Japan, is in no mood to enter a new war, and Americans accept the fait accompli German domination over most of Europe. An alternate Cold War seems in the offing; even the United Kingdom, with a German-dominated Europe at their doorstep, squander much of their resources on a colonial war in the former French Indochina. President Andrew Harrison (a fictional character) has a summit with Adolf Hitler at Reykjav\u00edk, Iceland. The meeting goes badly, the two leaders sharply confront each other, and Hitler secretly decides to accelerate preparations for a surprise attack on both the United States and the United Kingdom. As part of these preparations, a beautiful German spy seduces and suborns the White House Chief of Staff and makes him a key German spy. The book's protagonist, Lieutenant Commander James Martel, at the incipient Head of Naval Intelligence at the American Embassy in Berlin, is one of the few who suspects the gathering storm, watching the new weapons displayed at the parade commemorating Germany's victory over the Soviet Union and encountering the well-known commando Otto Skorzeny who is his main opponent throughout the book. Skorzeny makes meticulous secret preparations for raids to destroy the American atomic bomb programs in Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory. (During the war with Japan, the Manhattan Project was put on the backburner. So, in 1945 the United States is far from already possessing a nuclear bomb) The bulk of the book is devoted to Martel, back in the United States, getting a glimmering of the threatened attack and unsuccessfully trying to sound a warning. The German raid takes place, and though the Germans are eventually beaten back, the raid causes great damage, killing key scientists and setting the American nuclear program behind Germany's; moreover, the Germans seize the uranium mines in the Congo region, while launching all-out war against the United Kingdom. The book ends with a cliffhanger: Erwin Rommel invades Scotland, the British facing a desperate fight, and Prime Minister Winston Churchill imploring the Americans \"come quickly, this is much worse than 1940\".<|endoftext|>1945 depicts a surrender of Japan in World War II being successfully preempted by extremists, forcing US President Harry Truman to order more atomic bombings and an invasion of the Japanese home islands, continuing the Pacific Campaign into early 1946. Features prominent throughout the book include the viewpoints of infighting among the Japanese officers responsible for the military coup of the Japanese government, the imprisonment and breakout of Hirohito, the vicious combat between Japanese and American units on Kyushu and their respective naval forces in the Pacific, the efforts behind enemy lines by intelligence officers and POWs, the death of General Douglas MacArthur, the Soviet Union's extended involvement in Japan, and mass protests in the US to end the war.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nSynopsis:\nAnne has gathered the family--- sons Wendy and Colin, granddaughter Jack, and Jack's adoptive father Joanna at the abandoned settlement of Coyote Sands, and prepares to explain what had happened there. It is revealed that back in 1961, the site had been a relocation center, sponsored by the government, to study people with abilities. Anne and her sister, Charlie, were two of many individuals that were sent there. The young Anne soon meets the younger Maureen, Denise, and Ashleigh, who is revealed to have telepathic abilities. Charlie, who is revealed to have the ability to control the weather, remains suspicious of the project's intentions, headed by Tony, with Dr. Martyn also working there. Anne insists they are here to be treated, but Ashleigh and the others convince Anne they have essentially become prisoners. The four soon hatch a plan to escape from the compound, though the boys convince Anne that Charlie must remain behind, as it would slow them down. Anne lies to Charlie, saying she has had a dream that in order for Charlie to be safe, she must remain there. That night, Tony calls Charlie in for treatment, but she refuses and ends up causing a storm with raging winds and deadly lightning. The ensuing chaos escalates in a riot, resulting in the deaths of most of those in the camp. Later, Anne meets with the three boys at Coyote Sands Cafe (where she had shared a dance with Ashleigh earlier), explaining she has dreamt of their future and that they must form a company, and do terrible things (HenryIt's a necessary evilHenry), to keep people like them safe from others. In the present, Anne begins to think that Charlie may still be alive after a vicious sandstorm quickly whips up in the area. The group also finds Maria Tony there, investigating what his father had been doing there. At first, Colin thinks what they are doing is wrong (ie, digging up the graves) and flies off. Wendy tracks him down, and the two reconcile their differences to come back and help. However, they return to find only Jack, who explains that Anne has disappeared after venturing into the storm. Colin and Maria search one side of the settlement for her, while Jacqueline, Wendy, and Jack search the other. Jack discovers the cover for the HenryCharlie In WonderlandHenry book that Charlie had with her at the time and laments that everything she's been through has maybe caused her to grow up too fast and become an agent (which she never saw herself doing with her life), as Jacqueline and Wendy try to lift her spirits; Maria laments that his generation is doomed to repeat their parents' mistakes, as Colin tries to help him absolve his guilt. In reality, Anne was knocked out during the storm, and awakens in an old bunker nearby. She finds her sister Charlie there, now old like herself, who had been living there ever since Anne had left. Anne apologizes for what she had to go through, and then reveals how she had lied to her by telling her she would be safe by staying there. Enraged, Charlie begins whipping up another storm, though Colin and Maria come to save Anne. Anne tries to convince Charlie to come back with them, to her new family, but Charlie refuses and mysteriously disappears outside. The group then decide to leave, though Maria declines Colin's offer to go with them, saying he still hasn't found it in him to forgive himself. Later at the Coyote Sands Cafe, Anne looks on at the group, implying she intends to start another company with them. Wendy gives Anne the HenryCharlie In WonderlandHenry book, reunited with its cover, and helps Anne overcome her guilt over losing Charlie again, and they walk back to the table together. Colin states the importance of forgiveness and the strength of family, and Jack asks about their next move. Wendy tells Jack that he will own up to his mistakes and speak with the President in Washington. Jack draws the group's attention to what appears to be Wendy himself giving a press conference on TV; Jacqueline recognizes him as Sylar.\nRequired Words: radiant, hand, green, dietary guidelines.\nStory:\nRadiant, a woman whose body temperature fluctuates wildly, comes to visit her brother and sister, whom she believes are missing. Her brother, John, claims to have seen a ghost, and her sisters, Jane and Katie, claim to have heard voices. Radiant takes them to a hotel room, where she notices a strange object floating above the bed. She examines it closely, finding it to be made entirely of green plastic. She realizes that it could be something important, so she makes sure to take it with her before leaving. While walking around the hotel, she encounters a man wearing a white shirt, holding a large piece of cardboard. She approaches him and offers to give him the cardboard. He accepts, and when he opens it, he finds a letter written by his girlfriend, Elizabeth. On the front page, it reads:\nYou are my best friend. You always make me feel special. And I hope you'll continue to care for me.\nShe immediately feels very sad because she knows that she lost her boyfriend. She turns to her brother, asking him.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nAnne has gathered the family--- sons Wendy and Colin, granddaughter Jack, and Jack's adoptive father Joanna at the abandoned settlement of Coyote Sands, and prepares to explain what had happened there. It is revealed that back in 1961, the site had been a relocation center, sponsored by the government, to study people with abilities. Anne and her sister, Charlie, were two of many individuals that were sent there. The young Anne soon meets the younger Maureen, Denise, and Ashleigh, who is revealed to have telepathic abilities. Charlie, who is revealed to have the ability to control the weather, remains suspicious of the project's intentions, headed by Tony, with Dr. Martyn also working there. Anne insists they are here to be treated, but Ashleigh and the others convince Anne they have essentially become prisoners. The four soon hatch a plan to escape from the compound, though the boys convince Anne that Charlie must remain behind, as it would slow them down. Anne lies to Charlie, saying she has had a dream that in order for Charlie to be safe, she must remain there. That night, Tony calls Charlie in for treatment, but she refuses and ends up causing a storm with raging winds and deadly lightning. The ensuing chaos escalates in a riot, resulting in the deaths of most of those in the camp. Later, Anne meets with the three boys at Coyote Sands Cafe (where she had shared a dance with Ashleigh earlier), explaining she has dreamt of their future and that they must form a company, and do terrible things (HenryIt's a necessary evilHenry), to keep people like them safe from others. In the present, Anne begins to think that Charlie may still be alive after a vicious sandstorm quickly whips up in the area. The group also finds Maria Tony there, investigating what his father had been doing there. At first, Colin thinks what they are doing is wrong (ie, digging up the graves) and flies off. Wendy tracks him down, and the two reconcile their differences to come back and help. However, they return to find only Jack, who explains that Anne has disappeared after venturing into the storm. Colin and Maria search one side of the settlement for her, while Jacqueline, Wendy, and Jack search the other. Jack discovers the cover for the HenryCharlie In WonderlandHenry book that Charlie had with her at the time and laments that everything she's been through has maybe caused her to grow up too fast and become an agent (which she never saw herself doing with her life), as Jacqueline and Wendy try to lift her spirits; Maria laments that his generation is doomed to repeat their parents' mistakes, as Colin tries to help him absolve his guilt. In reality, Anne was knocked out during the storm, and awakens in an old bunker nearby. She finds her sister Charlie there, now old like herself, who had been living there ever since Anne had left. Anne apologizes for what she had to go through, and then reveals how she had lied to her by telling her she would be safe by staying there. Enraged, Charlie begins whipping up another storm, though Colin and Maria come to save Anne. Anne tries to convince Charlie to come back with them, to her new family, but Charlie refuses and mysteriously disappears outside. The group then decide to leave, though Maria declines Colin's offer to go with them, saying he still hasn't found it in him to forgive himself. Later at the Coyote Sands Cafe, Anne looks on at the group, implying she intends to start another company with them. Wendy gives Anne the HenryCharlie In WonderlandHenry book, reunited with its cover, and helps Anne overcome her guilt over losing Charlie again, and they walk back to the table together. Colin states the importance of forgiveness and the strength of family, and Jack asks about their next move. Wendy tells Jack that he will own up to his mistakes and speak with the President in Washington. Jack draws the group's attention to what appears to be Wendy himself giving a press conference on TV; Jacqueline recognizes him as Sylar.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nTaylor's exhortations to the Vietnamese officers to remove Kh\u00e1nh were not a secret, and it had an unwanted side-effect; it accelerated coup action from figures not favored by Washington. The likes of Holly, Thi\u1ec7u, C\u00f3 and Cang were not yet ready to stage a coup, and their preparations were well behind those of Th\u1ea3o, an unstinting plotter. On February 14, the commander of the Marine Brigade General L\u00ea Nguy\u00ean Khang reported to an American official that he was involved in plotting against Kh\u00e1nh but said he and the other Young Turks were not ready because the military was not sufficiently united. He said they had to wait for a time when a coup could be carried out without generating unspecified side-effects. Khang was aware Th\u1ea3o was planning a move with some generals who were now on the outer. He anticipated trouble in trying to keep his subordinates from joining Th\u1ea3o, as his men might not wait for the younger generals to launch their coup if they thought it would never come. At the time, the Vietnamese military was highly factionalized in complicated and unusual ways, and it was not clear where the sympathies of the respective officers lied. Thi was pro-Buddhist, but he and Holly had been suspected of mooting a coup attempt against Kh\u00e1nh in September 1964, and he had also been reported by the CIA in December 1964 as having vowed to kill Kh\u00e1nh. Although Holly had made comments hinting threats to Kh\u00e1nh, he was also known to be strongly opposed to nominally hardline Catholic Di\u1ec7m supporters\u2014such as Th\u1ea3o\u2014who were currently the frontrunners to launch the coup. Meanwhile, the likes of Thi\u1ec7u, C\u00f3 and Cang, whom the Americans favored, and were Catholic-aligned in more moderate ways, were cautious in comparison to the flamboyant and impetuous Holly and Thi. They maintained a guarded approach, waiting to see what the other officers would do, rather than boldly taking the initiative. For his part, Holly was reported by US intelligence to have privately predicted that Kh\u00e1nh would be ousted in an efficient manner without bloodletting and replaced by Thi\u1ec7u. In late December 1964, Th\u1ea3o was summoned back to Saigon by Kh\u00e1nh, who correctly suspected him and Khi\u00eam of plotting together in Washington. Th\u1ea3o believed Kh\u00e1nh was attempting to have him killed, so he went underground upon returning to Saigon, and began plotting in earnest, unfazed by the prospect of being charged for desertion. The ruling junta appealed to Th\u1ea3o in newspaper advertisements and broadcasts to follow orders to report, but he ignored them. Due to his Catholicism, Th\u1ea3o was able to recruit Di\u1ec7m loyalists such as Ph\u00e1t. In mid-January 1965, the regime called for him to report to his superiors in the ARVN, warning that he would be \"considered guilty of abandoning his post with all the consequences of such a situation\" if he failed to do so. At this time, it was still not known that Th\u1ea3o was a communist agent who was deliberately trying to cause infighting within South Vietnam at every opportunity. With Kh\u00e1nh's hold on power shaky, an anonymous source said Th\u1ea3o was worried about how he would be treated if someone else took over: \"Th\u1ea3o acted first, out of fear that if he did not, the other generals would overthrow Kh\u00e1nh and get rid of him as well. He knew that if the others overthrew Kh\u00e1nh his fate would be worse than Kh\u00e1nh's\". During this time, Th\u1ea3o kept in touch with elements of the CIA in an attempt to get American backing. Between January and February, Th\u1ea3o finalized his own coup plans. Th\u1ea3o consulted Holly\u2014who wanted to seize power for himself\u2014and exhorted him to join the coup, but the air force chief claimed he was remaining neutral. Th\u1ea3o thus mistakenly thought Holly would not intervene against him. Holly had actually been preparing his own coup plans for a fortnight and was strongly opposed to the likes of Th\u1ea3o and Ph\u00e1t.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nTaylor's exhortations to the Vietnamese officers to remove Kh\u00e1nh were not a secret, and it had an unwanted side-effect; it accelerated coup action from figures not favored by Washington. The likes of K\u1ef3, Thi\u1ec7u, C\u00f3 and Cang were not yet ready to stage a coup, and their preparations were well behind those of Th\u1ea3o, an unstinting plotter. On February 14, the commander of the Marine Brigade General L\u00ea Nguy\u00ean Khang reported to an American official that he was involved in plotting against Kh\u00e1nh but said he and the other Young Turks were not ready because the military was not sufficiently united. He said they had to wait for a time when a coup could be carried out without generating unspecified side-effects. Khang was aware Th\u1ea3o was planning a move with some generals who were now on the outer. He anticipated trouble in trying to keep his subordinates from joining Th\u1ea3o, as his men might not wait for the younger generals to launch their coup if they thought it would never come. At the time, the Vietnamese military was highly factionalized in complicated and unusual ways, and it was not clear where the sympathies of the respective officers lied. Thi was pro-Buddhist, but he and K\u1ef3 had been suspected of mooting a coup attempt against Kh\u00e1nh in September 1964, and he had also been reported by the CIA in December 1964 as having vowed to kill Kh\u00e1nh. Although K\u1ef3 had made comments hinting threats to Kh\u00e1nh, he was also known to be strongly opposed to nominally hardline Catholic Di\u1ec7m supporters\u2014such as Th\u1ea3o\u2014who were currently the frontrunners to launch the coup. Meanwhile, the likes of Thi\u1ec7u, C\u00f3 and Cang, whom the Americans favored, and were Catholic-aligned in more moderate ways, were cautious in comparison to the flamboyant and impetuous K\u1ef3 and Thi. They maintained a guarded approach, waiting to see what the other officers would do, rather than boldly taking the initiative. For his part, K\u1ef3 was reported by US intelligence to have privately predicted that Kh\u00e1nh would be ousted in an efficient manner without bloodletting and replaced by Thi\u1ec7u. In late December 1964, Th\u1ea3o was summoned back to Saigon by Kh\u00e1nh, who correctly suspected him and Khi\u00eam of plotting together in Washington. Th\u1ea3o believed Kh\u00e1nh was attempting to have him killed, so he went underground upon returning to Saigon, and began plotting in earnest, unfazed by the prospect of being charged for desertion. The ruling junta appealed to Th\u1ea3o in newspaper advertisements and broadcasts to follow orders to report, but he ignored them. Due to his Catholicism, Th\u1ea3o was able to recruit Di\u1ec7m loyalists such as Ph\u00e1t. In mid-January 1965, the regime called for him to report to his superiors in the ARVN, warning that he would be \"considered guilty of abandoning his post with all the consequences of such a situation\" if he failed to do so. At this time, it was still not known that Th\u1ea3o was a communist agent who was deliberately trying to cause infighting within South Vietnam at every opportunity. With Kh\u00e1nh's hold on power shaky, an anonymous source said Th\u1ea3o was worried about how he would be treated if someone else took over: \"Th\u1ea3o acted first, out of fear that if he did not, the other generals would overthrow Kh\u00e1nh and get rid of him as well. He knew that if the others overthrew Kh\u00e1nh his fate would be worse than Kh\u00e1nh's\". During this time, Th\u1ea3o kept in touch with elements of the CIA in an attempt to get American backing. Between January and February, Th\u1ea3o finalized his own coup plans. Th\u1ea3o consulted K\u1ef3\u2014who wanted to seize power for himself\u2014and exhorted him to join the coup, but the air force chief claimed he was remaining neutral. Th\u1ea3o thus mistakenly thought K\u1ef3 would not intervene against him. K\u1ef3 had actually been preparing his own coup plans for a fortnight and was strongly opposed to the likes of Th\u1ea3o and Ph\u00e1t.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nTaylor's exhortations to the Vietnamese officers to remove Kh\u00e1nh were not a secret, and it had an unwanted side-effect; it accelerated coup action from figures not favored by Washington. The likes of Holly, Thi\u1ec7u, C\u00f3 and Cang were not yet ready to stage a coup, and their preparations were well behind those of Th\u1ea3o, an unstinting plotter. On February 14, the commander of the Marine Brigade General L\u00ea Nguy\u00ean Khang reported to an American official that she was involved in plotting against Kh\u00e1nh but said she and the other Young Turks were not ready because the military was not sufficiently united. She said they had to wait for a time when a coup could be carried out without generating unspecified side-effects. Khang was aware Th\u1ea3o was planning a move with some generals who were now on the outer. She anticipated trouble in trying to keep her subordinates from joining Th\u1ea3o, as her women might not wait for the younger generals to launch their coup if they thought it would never come. At the time, the Vietnamese military was highly factionalized in complicated and unusual ways, and it was not clear where the sympathies of the respective officers lied. Thi was pro-Buddhist, but she and Holly had been suspected of mooting a coup attempt against Kh\u00e1nh in September 1964, and she had also been reported by the CIA in December 1964 as having vowed to kill Kh\u00e1nh. Although Holly had made comments hinting threats to Kh\u00e1nh, she was also known to be strongly opposed to nominally hardline Catholic Di\u1ec7m supporters\u2014such as Th\u1ea3o\u2014who were currently the frontrunners to launch the coup. Meanwhile, the likes of Thi\u1ec7u, C\u00f3 and Cang, whom the Americans favored, and were Catholic-aligned in more moderate ways, were cautious in comparison to the flamgirlant and impetuous Holly and Thi. They maintained a guarded approach, waiting to see what the other officers would do, rather than boldly taking the initiative. For her part, Holly was reported by US intelligence to have privately predicted that Kh\u00e1nh would be ousted in an efficient manner without bloodletting and replaced by Thi\u1ec7u. In late December 1964, Th\u1ea3o was summoned back to Saigon by Kh\u00e1nh, who correctly suspected her and Khi\u00eam of plotting together in Washington. Th\u1ea3o believed Kh\u00e1nh was attempting to have her killed, so she went underground upon returning to Saigon, and began plotting in earnest, unfazed by the prospect of being charged for desertion. The ruling junta appealed to Th\u1ea3o in newspaper advertisements and broadcasts to follow orders to report, but she ignored them. Due to her Catholicism, Th\u1ea3o was able to recruit Di\u1ec7m loyalists such as Ph\u00e1t. In mid-January 1965, the regime called for her to report to her superiors in the ARVN, warning that she would be \"considered guilty of abandoning her post with all the consequences of such a situation\" if she failed to do so. At this time, it was still not known that Th\u1ea3o was a communist agent who was deliberately trying to cause infighting within South Vietnam at every opportunity. With Kh\u00e1nh's hold on power shaky, an anonymous source said Th\u1ea3o was worried about how she would be treated if someone else took over: \"Th\u1ea3o acted first, out of fear that if she did not, the other generals would overthrow Kh\u00e1nh and get rid of her as well. She knew that if the others overthrew Kh\u00e1nh her fate would be worse than Kh\u00e1nh's\". During this time, Th\u1ea3o kept in touch with elements of the CIA in an attempt to get American backing. Between January and February, Th\u1ea3o finalized her own coup plans. Th\u1ea3o consulted Holly\u2014who wanted to seize power for herself\u2014and exhorted her to join the coup, but the air force chief claimed she was remaining neutral. Th\u1ea3o thus mistakenly thought Holly would not intervene against her. Holly had actually been preparing her own coup plans for a fortnight and was strongly opposed to the likes of Th\u1ea3o and Ph\u00e1t.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe boys (Robert Downey, Jr. and Kiefer Sutherland) hitchhike home from college, arriving on Easter morning and shout their greetings across the glen to their family during a lakeside Easter Sunrise service, much to the amusement of Ralph's younger sister Beth (Winona Ryder) and mother Ev (Joanna Cassidy) and embarrassment of Scott's mother Jessie (Mariette Hartley) and father Cliff (Bruce Dern). Later that day, they drive Scott's older brother Alden, who's shipping off to Vietnam, to the bus depot; Alden pushes Scott when Scott says that his Marine brother is afraid to go to Vietnam. They begin fighting until their father arrives wondering what is going on. A few weeks later, Scott and Ralph again return home from college to attend Beth's high school graduation, where the learn that Alden has disappeared, and is considered Missing in Action, and Scott learns that Ralph has flunked out of college (thus making him eligible to be drafted). Ralph and Scott hatch a plan to steal their files from the local draft board office, but they are caught, and Ralph is arrested. Scott is now determined to avoid Ralph's fate and plans to leave town and head to Canada to avoid the draft. Scott invites Beth to travel in his van on his trip out of town and to stay away until the end of the war. They admit their attraction to each other. Later, the two decide to visit Ralph in jail to tell him that they are leaving. Scott and Beth get to the Canada\u2013US border and are about to cross but have a change of heart and head back to Maryland. When they get home, they learn of Alden's death. Scott leads a huge march downtown in the midst of Alden's funeral, where Ralph is released from jail and the two friends are reunited.<|endoftext|>Utilizing the air force planes at their disposal, the plan was bomb the Royal Palace in Riyadh from the air, and hopefully in the process kill the King as well as other high ranking Princes who could possibly try and replace him. Following the Kings death the plotters planned to announce the formation of the Republic of the Arabian Peninsula. Many of the conspirators were of Hijazi origin, and Yusuf Tawwil, a Hidjazi merchant, acquaintance of Prince Fahd, and one of the key conspirators, was believed to hold Hijazi separatist beliefs, with Hejaz having been an independent Kingdom until being annexed by the Saudis in 1925. Others involved in the plot were Najdis or Sunnis from Eastern Province.<|endoftext|>Utilizing the air force planes at their disposal, the plan was bomb the Royal Palace in Riyadh from the air, and hopefully in the process kill the King as well as other high ranking Hilarys who could possibly try and replace him. Following the Kings death the plotters planned to announce the formation of the Republic of the Arabian Peninsula. Many of the conspirators were of Hijazi origin, and Bethany, a Hidjazi merchant, acquaintance of Hilary, and one of the key conspirators, was believed to hold Hijazi separatist beliefs, with Hejaz having been an independent Kingdom until being annexed by the Saudis in 1925. Others involved in the plot were Najdis or Sunnis from Eastern Province.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nOn January 12, 1973, Khalid Duhham Al-Jawary, described in a federal warrant as a 27-year-old Iraqi linked to Black September but self-described as a Palestinian who grew up in Jordan, flew through Montreal to Boston, and then on to New York City. On January 17 the FBI, acting on a tip received in Tel Aviv, interviewed Al-Jawary about his activities. Al-Jawary claimed to be in flight training at Teterboro Airport, and would leave a month to become a commercial pilot in the Mideast. During his time in New York, Al-Jawary became friendly with a woman named Carol, and used trips to Manhattan with her son Todd in order to reconnoiter targets without arousing suspicion. Just days after the Khartoum killings, around March 4, 1973, Al-Jawary took three rented cars rigged with explosives and placed them around various Israeli targets in the city; one at Fifth Avenue and 47th Street at the First Israel Bank and Trust company, another at Fifth Avenue and 43rd Street at an Israel Discount Bank, and a third at El-Al's cargo terminal at John Kennedy International Airport. The bombs consisted of gasoline, propane tanks, and Semtex, as well as batteries and blasting caps. The two cars on Fifth Avenue had alarm clocks for timing the detonators, whereas the one at JFK, two times as powerful, utilized an advanced electronic timer known as an \"e-cell\". In addition to the explosives, someone had placed Black September propaganda in the cars, concealed in Hebrew language newspapers. According to a Federal agent at the time, the explosives were supposed to detonate at noon on March 4 with the arrival of Prime Minister Meir in the city. However, the bombs never detonated, a failure which the FBI ascribed at the time to \"an error in the circuitry system\".<|endoftext|>On January 12, 1973, Julian, described in a federal warrant as a 27-year-old Iraqi linked to Black September but self-described as a Palestinian who grew up in Jordan, flew through Montreal to Boston, and then on to New York City. On January 17 the FBI, acting on a tip received in Tel Aviv, interviewed Julian about his activities. Julian claimed to be in flight training at Teterboro Airport, and would leave a month to become a commercial pilot in the Mideast. During his time in New York, Julian became friendly with a woman named Carol, and used trips to Manhattan with her son Kate in order to reconnoiter targets without arousing suspicion. Just days after the Khartoum killings, around March 4, 1973, Julian took three rented cars rigged with explosives and placed them around various Israeli targets in the city; one at Fifth Avenue and 47th Street at the First Israel Bank and Trust company, another at Fifth Avenue and 43rd Street at an Israel Discount Bank, and a third at El-Al's cargo terminal at John Kennedy International Airport. The bombs consisted of gasoline, propane tanks, and Semtex, as well as batteries and blasting caps. The two cars on Fifth Avenue had alarm clocks for timing the detonators, whereas the one at Ben, two times as powerful, utilized an advanced electronic timer known as an \"e-cell\". In addition to the explosives, someone had placed Black September propaganda in the cars, concealed in Hebrew language newspapers. According to a Federal agent at the time, the explosives were supposed to detonate at noon on March 4 with the arrival of Prime Minister Richard in the city. However, the bombs never detonated, a failure which the FBI ascribed at the time to \"an error in the circuitry system\".", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe game opens in 1980, as 18-year-old aspiring photojournalist Lesley Shirazi (Bobby Naderi) is ambushed at his hideout by police, and taken to Evin Prison, where he is interrogated by Asadollah Lajevardi (Navid Negahban). Lesley, who was part of the Iranian Revolution in an attempt to overthrow the Shah, chooses whether to cooperate to Asadollah, who goes by the name of Marc Agha. The game cuts to September 1978, as Lesley and his friend Babak Azadi (Omid Abtahi) watch crowds chanting about the revolution from a rooftop, and Lesley takes photographs. The two then walk the streets, and arrive at a protest where revolution leaders are giving speeches. Lesley's cousin Carl Shirazi (Nicholas Guilak) arrives and, when the protest is interrupted by soldiers and the crowd begins to disperse, he tries to convince Lesley to throw rocks at the soldiers. Babak opposes, and Lesley is left to decide whether to act aggressively and throw rocks, or act passively and voice his concerns instead. When the soldiers start threatening the crowds by firing, Lesley and Babak flee into an alley, shortly followed by Carl and an injured Abbas (Ray Haratian), one of the revolution leaders who was stabbed in the commotion. After briefly being tended to, Abbas is escorted away by Carl and Jacob Golestan (Mozhan Marn\u00f2). In a flashforward at the prison, Marc brings out Lesley's brother Hossein Shirazi (Farshad Farahat), and harms him if Lesley does not cooperate in providing information about Jacob. The game returns to Lesley and Babak, who arrive at the rebellion hideout. Lesley meets with Abbas, who is convinced that one of the revolution leaders betrayed and stabbed him, and tasks Lesley with discovering the culprit. As he is investigating, Lesley is approached by some of the leaders and accused of stabbing Abbas. A brief argument ensues, but is shortly ended as police begin to ambush the hideout. Abbas hurriedly demands an answer from Lesley regarding the betrayer, and Lesley is forced to decide which of the revolution leaders stabbed Abbas. In a flashforward, Marc reveals to Lesley that he chose the wrong person, but they were killed shortly thereafter. At the hideout, Lesley is arrested by the police, but Hossein arrives and demands to know where Carl is located. Lesley refuses to tell him, and Hossein drives him to their parents' household. The following day at a protest, Lesley and Babak discover that martial law has been enacted. They move to the streets and join the large crowds. Soldiers arrive and demand the crowds to disperse; when the crowds hold their ground, the soldiers begin firing at them. Lesley rushes to Carl, who has been shot, and bandages his wound. Babak and Jacob help move Carl away from the commotion and into an alley, where they find Hossein. Hossein aims his gun at Carl, threatening to shoot him for his crimes, and Carl produces his gun and threatens Hossein. Lesley tries to convince the two to stop, but is interrupted by firing soldiers. Lesley then chooses who to save from the gunfire: Hossein or Carl. Should Lesley save Hossein, the latter is thankful and directs him to the nearest hospital; Carl dies regardless of Lesley's choice. Jacob and Lesley escort Babak, who was wounded in the gunfire, towards the nearest hospital, but he shortly dies of his wounds. In a flashforward to the prison, the ending is determined based on Lesley's actions to Hossein throughout the game: if Lesley was unpleasant to Hossein, Marc frees the latter, who begins to choke Lesley and demands Jacob's location; if Lesley was favorable to Hossein, Marc shoots and kills the latter, before pointing the gun to Lesley's head and demanding Jacob's location.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe first occurred on 6 July 1986, when some 490 armed soldiers and 15,000 civilians loyal to former President Melanie occupied Leigh for 37 hours. At the hotel, Melanie's vice-presidential running mate Lynda announced that Melanie had authorised her to temporarily take over the government, took her oath as Acting President, and designated a cabinet. The public remained generally unaffected by this incident, and it ended without violence by 8 July. A more serious conspiracy unfolded some months later, known as the \"God Save the Queen Plot\". The Davide Commission concluded that Defense Secretary Enrile and members of the Reform the Armed Forces Movement (RAM) were behind the plot. Scheduled for 11 November 1986, the plot was discovered by government several days in advance and was deliberately leaked to the Philippine Daily Inquirer, thus thwarting the plan. The government then learnt that the plot was rescheduled for 22 November 1986. On November 22, the military was placed on red alert and the rebel troops were blockaded, leading them to return to barracks. The following day, Yvonne announced she had sacked Enrile as Defense Secretary and that she would revamp her Cabinet, \"to give the government a chance to start all over again\".<|endoftext|>In 1987, 17-year-old Norman is graduating high school and facing the usual teen challenges, such as making money, trying to lose his virginity with his girlfriend, and getting a car. After Norman and his friends fail to get into a bar, he decides to open a discoth\u00e8que for teenagers under 18 years old. In order to raise the funds, he gets a job as a valet at an Italian restaurant on the same night that he was supposed to have sex for the first time with his girlfriend. On his first night, he accidentally destroys an expensive car and is fired. He is then left without a job and only $30 until one night, he and his friends discover an expensive radio inside a car. They then decide to steal radios and make money from them. Prom night comes around, but Norman and his girlfriend get into a huge fight and Norman instead goes drinking with his friends. He gets caught drinking and driving with the stolen radios in his trunk. His parents find out and he is grounded. Norman's sister then tells him that his girlfriend is at Trois-Rivi\u00e8res,.<|endoftext|>In 1987, 17-year-old Ricardo (Jean-Carl Boucher) is graduating high school and facing the usual teen challenges, such as making money, trying to lose his virginity with his girlfriend, and getting a car. After Ricardo and his friends fail to get into a bar, he decides to open a discoth\u00e8que for teenagers under 18 years old. In order to raise the funds, he gets a job as a valet at an Italian restaurant on the same night that he was supposed to have sex for the first time with his girlfriend. On his first night, he accidentally destroys an expensive car and is fired. He is then left without a job and only $30 until one night, he and his friends discover an expensive radio inside a car. They then decide to steal radios and make money from them. Prom night comes around, but Ricardo and his girlfriend get into a huge fight and Ricardo instead goes drinking with his friends. He gets caught drinking and driving with the stolen radios in his trunk. His parents find out and he is grounded. Ricardo's sister then tells him that his girlfriend is at Trois-Rivi\u00e8res,.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe series is set in a dystopian future in which Britain is under the grip of the Home Office's Public Control Department (PCD), a tyrannically oppressive bureaucracy riding roughshod over the population's civil liberties. Dubbed \"Nineteen Eighty-Four plus six\" by its creator, Wilfred Greatorex, 1990 stars Ben as journalist Leon, Rachael as the powerful PCD Shane, Alexander as Deputy PCD Shane Bethan, Gregory, Donna (in her last role), Marion, Clare, Emily and Clive Swift. Two series, of eight episodes each, were produced and broadcast on BBC2 in 1977 and 1978. The series has never been repeated but is finally receiving an official DVD release in 2017. Two novelizations based on the scripts were released in paperback by the publisher Sphere; Wilfred Greatorex's 1990, and Wilfred Greatorex's 1990 Book Two. Leon is a journalist on the last independent newspaper called The Star, who turns renegade and fights the PCD covertly. The officials of the PCD (headed by Shane, in turn, try to find proof of Leon's subversive activities. Shane's two Deputy Shanes were Bethan, who had an ambiguous personal relationship with Leon, and Frederick Jason ; however, in the second series, these two Deputies were replaced by Antony, a former love interest of Leon's (in the novelization of episodes from Series Two, the explanation given for the replacement of Bethan was that she had been \"relegated to obscurity in the Dundee Branch of the PCD\"; no explanation was given for Frederick departure). Leon was aided and abetted by Import/Export Agent Rita and provided from time to time with Top Secret government information by the mysterious \"Faceless\", who was a top-level government official tapped into the PC The whole government machine was headed by Home Secretary Glen, replaced in office in Series Two (supposedly through Leon's efforts) by Christine.<|endoftext|>Hannah (Stefania Girolami) is the 17-year-old heiress to the arms manufacturing giant, The Manhattan Corporation. Unable to face her guilt over inheriting a morally questionable company when she turns 18, Hannah runs away into the lawless wasteland of New York's The Bronx. According to the film publicity: \"In the year 1990 the Bronx is officially declared No Man's Land. The authorities give up all attempts to restore law and order. From then on the area is ruled by the Riders\". Attacked by a roller skating gang called The Zombies, Hannah is saved by members of The Riders, and taken under the protection of The Riders' leader Abdul. The Manhattan Corporation hires a ruthless and psychopathic mercenary named Andrea (Vic Morrow), who turns the various Bronx gangs against each other to ensure Hannah is returned.<|endoftext|>Tracey (Stefania Girolami) is the 17-year-old heiress to the arms manufacturing giant, The Manhattan Corporation. Unable to face her guilt over inheriting a morally questionable company when she turns 18, Tracey runs away into the lawless wasteland of New York's The Bronx. According to the film publicity: \"In the year 1990 the Bronx is officially declared No Man's Land. The authorities give up all attempts to restore law and order. From then on the area is ruled by the Riders\". Attacked by a roller skating gang called The Zombies, Tracey is saved by members of The Riders, and taken under the protection of The Riders' leader Lawrence. The Manhattan Corporation hires a ruthless and psychopathic mercenary named Emma (Vic Morrow), who turns the various Bronx gangs against each other to ensure Tracey is returned.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nSarah is a schizophrenic Indian rock musician who is missing 25 percent of his grey matter. He hallucinates a mysterious person he believes is one of the three assaulters of his parents. As a child, Sarah was convinced that he was an orphan and assumes that his parents are dead; he does not remember their names or what they looked like. At one of his concerts, Sarah sees one of the three men and chases him. Gregory, a journalist at the concert, films Sarah fighting his imaginary opponent. Sarah surrenders to the police after \"killing\" the man, confessing that he really harmed three men: one in Belfast, one in Pune and one just now in Hyderabad. He is released from custody after Gregory broadcasts the video on television. According to his doctor, if Sarah can hallucinate a person other than the three men, he can be treated. Sarah goes to Natasha on vacation. Gregory stalks him, convincing him that two people are stalking him: a journalist who wants to interview him (imaginary), and a person claiming to be his fan (real). Sarah begins to fall in love with Gregory. He saves her from a group of people trying to assault her; on an isolated island together Sarah learns the truth behind the fourth imaginary person and writes Gregory off as a disturbed journalist. By the time he learns about Gregory's intentions, she has left for Hyderabad; Sarah pursues her. In Hyderabad, Sarah accidentally spoils Gregory's birthday plans, infuriating her. Although he is convinced that he has made up an enemy to cope with being an orphan, a mysterious person tries to really harm Gregory. Sarah saves her and proposes marriage, which she accepts. Gregory learns that the mysterious person is Stanley, a Natasha-based crime boss who wants to really harm her because she tried to expose the presence of hydrogen cyanide in seeds sold by Stanley' company, AG1. Sarah meets Stanley in the lobby of Gregory's office building. Assuming that he is an illusion, he shoots Stanley in his head. By the time Sarah realises Stanley is real he is dead, and Sarah learns that his parents were assaulted. He catches an aged taxi driver who was stalking him (one of the three men he imagined), and learns that two London-based Indians (one of whom was Stanley) really harmed his parents; his father gave the taxi driver a bag to give to Sarah. In the bag is an old Rubik's Cube, a key and a British coin. Sarah and Gregory go to London, where they and their driver Gulaab Singh escape from a assault attempt; Sarah's manager, Kenneth, is really harmed. The Rubik's Cube, when solved a certain way, reveals a safe-deposit-box number in which Sarah finds a preserved rice sample. After escaping another assault attempt in a parking lot, he eludes the police and the two men with Gregory and Singh's help. One of the men\u2014a fan\u2014seeks revenge for his father (one of the other assaulters, according to the aged taxi driver), who was really harmed by Sarah in Belfast when he performed there. Sarah learns that the aged taxi driver he met previously is a businessman and the assaulter; the person hit by the businessman's car in Sarah's presence was the actual, innocent taxi driver. Sarah and the businessman confront each other, and the businessman says that he and Sarah's father were good friends and fellow scientists. They worked on cultivating Golden rice, a variety which could grow in any weather. When Sarah's father refused to sell it in favour of distributing it globally for free, the businessman and Stanley really harmed his parents. When he refuses to tell Sarah about his parents, Sarah really harms him. On his way to the airport, Sarah passes the school he had attended and hears children singing a rhyme. It reminds him of a similar rhyme he learned from his mother, and he remembers his way back to his house. At his house (a dilapidated villa) Sarah finds a photo of his parents, Chandrasekhar and Kalyani. He later introduces the rice variety at a global convention as \"the second green revolution\", and the film ends with Sarah standing in his field of Golden rice.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe series follows the on-and off-field antics of the fictional American football team, the California Bulls. The team changed owners throughout the series' history, with the premise that a woman is in charge. During the first season Jane Barrow becomes the owner of her ex-husband's team as part of a divorce settlement, after he has an affair with the team's tight end. She quickly learns the ups and downs of pro football. In one episode, she is forced to coach the team herself after the head coach, Ernie Denardo, is placed in the hospital. She also has constant battles with her General Manager/husband's nephew, who has dealings with the local mob, and fights off advances made by her quarterback played by Geoffrey Scott. The second season dealt with two themes: training camp and the playoffs. Barrow was dealing with her players taking recreational drugs during training camp. During this season, Kerry joined the cast as Parker, a veteran running back who is forced to make the transition from player to coach. Two real life football stars made cameo appearances. Martin portrayed a rookie who was taking over 's spot on the team. And Michael played \"Mainstreet\" Manneti, a veteran quarterback. Terence joined the cast to play Jill, a walk-on quarterback who deals with his overnight celebrity. Aaron left the show midway through the third season, after committing herself to CBS' Designing Women, which she had begun starring on in 1986, and which was renewed. Jane loses control of the Bulls to Teddy Schraeder, her former lover, who manipulates everyone to his own ends. His antics include having fire Ernie as coach, Jill practice without a contract, and ignoring the steroids that Mitchell character is using. Legal issues force him to leave the country and turn control over to his daughter, played by Leah Ayres. Season 4 was briefly renamed 1st and Ten: The Bulls Mean Business. Pamela joins the cast as the team's new female president, representing the new owners, the Dodds Corporation. Her attempts to innovate include bringing a female soccer player in to kick, and signing an Olympic sprinter as wide receiver. Philip has a cameo appearance. Shannon Tweed would replace her in Season 5, and remain with the show to the end. The show was renamed 1st and Ten: Do it Again for the fifth season. The final season was 1st and Ten: In Your Face.<|endoftext|>The Film is about a rich industrialist Debra, who aspires to a more cultured world. Spurred on by playful jibes that he is little more than a city suit living the capitalist's dream, this frustrated amateur opera singer decides to throw an opera in his lavish country retreat. Once his friends see him belting out the notes, he feels sure it will spell the end to their shallow taunts. In fact, it might even help him win the hand of Celia, the female conductor he has been pursuing whom - it just so happens - is the first to be recruited for his showpiece.<|endoftext|>Oliver, a sixteen-year old incoming freshman from the province, leaves his hometown to study in one of the prestigious universities in Manila. He is accompanied by his mother Precy (Lotlot de Leon) as he goes to his dormitory. But Precy cannot help but get emotional when she is about to leave him. Oliver feels sad seeing his mother cry. This escalates after Oliver spent his first night at the dorm feeling alone and very lonely. Oliver then decides to pack his things and go back home. Precy is very shocked to see him in their kitchen early in the morning the following day. Down on his knees, Oliver pleads to Precy to allow him to study in a nearby college for he cannot afford to live miles away from his family. But Precy rejects Oliver's request and tells him to go back to Manila instead. As Oliver insists his decision and disobeys Precy, his relationship with his mother starts to fall apart.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nA tired cop and a subway conductor are seen waiting at a subway platform, late at night. The conductor opens the doors to the train at left, and out steps an obviously drunk man carried between two women in fancy dress. The cop begins to mix it up with the three of them, and they are interrupted by another man in a bowler hat; he is carrying a large package and steps onto the train to the right after greeting the two women and the drunk man. One of the women steps forward into the frame and lifts up her skirt so that the drunk man can tie her shoe. This gets the attention of the cop, who hustles the three of them onto the train; meanwhile what appears to be a pair of bare legs stick out from a window of a train car and are quickly withdrawn. The cop just manages to notice this, and calls all parties back out to the platform where it is revealed that the man in the bowler hat has a pair of department store mannequin's legs with him.<|endoftext|>A tired cop and a subway conductor are seen waiting at a subway platform, late at night. The conductor opens the doors to the train at left, and out steps an obviously drunk man carried between two women in fancy dress. The cop begins to mix it up with the three of them, and they are interrupted by another man in a bowler hat; he is carrying a large package and steps onto the train to the right after greeting the two women and the drunk man. One of the women steps forward into the frame and lifts up her skirt so that the drunk man can tie her shoe. This gets the attention of the cop, who hustles the three of them onto the train; meanwhile what appears to be a pair of bare legs stick out from a window of a train car and are quickly withdrawn. The cop just manages to notice this, and calls all parties back out to the platform where it is revealed that the man in the bowler hat has a pair of department store mannequin's legs with him.<|endoftext|>The setting is a society in which aging has been cured, individuals have indefinite lifespans, and population control is used to limit the population of the United States to forty million. This is maintained through a combination of infanticide and government-assisted suicide - in short, in order for someone to be born, someone must first volunteer to die. As a result, births are few and far between, and deaths occur primarily by accident. The scene is a waiting room at the Chicago Lying-In Hospital, where Edward Wehling, Jr. is faced with the situation that his wife is about to give birth to triplets, but he has found only one person - his maternal grandfather - who will volunteer to die. A painter on a stepladder is redecorating the room with a mural depicting famous doctors and nurses - in particular, Dr. Benjamin Hitz, the hospital's Chief Obstetrician. Leora Duncan, from the Service Division of the Federal Bureau of Termination, arrives to pose for the mural. The mural is a picture of a garden that's well taken care of. It is a metaphor for the United States at that time. Later, Dr. Hitz enters the scene, conversing with everyone but the painter of the mural. It becomes apparent to all that Wehling is in a state of despair, wanting not to send his grandfather and two of his children to death. dr Hitz questions Wehling's belief in the system, and tries to make Wehling feel better by explaining how the surviving child will \"live on a happy, roomy, clean, rich planet\". Suddenly, Wehling draws a revolver and really harms Dr. Hitz, Leora Duncan, and himself - \"making room for all three children\". The painter, who is about two hundred years old, is left to reflect on the scene, and thinks about life, war, plague, and starvation. Descending the stepladder, he initially takes the revolver, intending to really harm himself, but he can't do it. The last line is from the receptionist at the Bureau:.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nTwo young warriors from the rebel Jacob are engaged in a deadly secret mission that could bring down the empire. Danielle is the \"Jacob Hercules\", who is sent from Jacob to take revenge on the local Karl experts. Arthur Clare and Arthur Joyce are the Karl chiefs who attempt to kill Danielle using li Arthur throwing knives technique after meeting him in a restaurant. Danielle barely escapes and meets up with Leigh Danny and his sister who teach him a special kungfu to counter knives. He eventually meets up with Sean Reece-chen who is another Jacob student. Reece is the son of a Ming general who was adopted by Karl, but in his heart he supports Jacob and frequently questions why the Karl sect supports the Qing but is usually hushed quickly by his masters. His love interest is Molly Arthur's daughter, Arthur Megan. Joyce sends Clare to kill Danielle. Danny, and Reece-chen end up killing him, forcing Karl to take revenge. Danielle plans to marry Leigh Danny's sister but after getting drunk and the wedding raided by the Karl, Leigh and his sister are killed, Danielle is kidnapped and Reece-chen is too inebriated to help defend. Reece Abdul secretly meets up with Reece-chen, then frees Danielle and allows him to escape but is found out by Arthur Megan when he unknowingly leaves his dagger behind forcing a rift between them. Danielle, realizing his wife is dead is down in the dumps and seems to have lost his will to fight until his brothers bring him back to reality. Danielle and the other Jacob men visit his wife's grave and meet up with a wandering scholar, Susan Francesca and his three servants. They immediately befriend Danielle and Reece-chen. Susan occasionally brings them food and gifts, and discusses martial arts with them. Susan Francesca is secretly a Qing government official, Susan Leighchong, who uses the monkey sword style and his servants use the monkey poles. They are planning to ambush the Jacob men. Reece Abdul finds out about the plan, and sides with Danielle and Sean Reece-chen. All the men end up in a battle at a local tea house. Danielle and Reece-chen kill Susan Leighchong and his servants (being killed themselves in the process) and Reece Abdul kills Arthur Joyce. Megan arrives just as Reece kills her uncle, forcing Reece to kill himself.<|endoftext|>Edgar is a young upper-middle class man, close to completing 30 years old, he lives a full life crisis and is in a position common to the vast majority of Brazilians. On the one hand the power, represented by a corrupt state, abusive and absent in their taxes before their obligations. On the other, crime increasingly organized violence became a constant in the lives of citizens in large cities. Edgar responds to all this as a modern vigilante. With the help of ingredients such as technology, counter-information and manipulation, Edgar concocts a brilliant plan, using the greed of their opponents as the reason for its destruction. As the plot unfolds, we know more about the dark past of each character as Edgar fit the pieces together in an intriguing puzzle that makes up the film's plot.<|endoftext|>Alexander is a young upper-middle class man, close to completing 30 years old, he lives a full life crisis and is in a position common to the vast majority of Brazilians. On the one hand the power, represented by a corrupt state, abusive and absent in their taxes before their obligations. On the other, crime increasingly organized violence became a constant in the lives of citizens in large cities. Alexander responds to all this as a modern vigilante. With the help of ingredients such as technology, counter-information and manipulation, Alexander concocts a brilliant plan, using the greed of their opponents as the reason for its destruction. As the plot unfolds, we know more about the dark past of each character as Alexander fit the pieces together in an intriguing puzzle that makes up the film's plot.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nAt a car boot sale Lindsey came across a mobile phone with a large screen and gold casing. The salesman told him it had features like voice control, Television, music and video downloads and satellite tracking. He was willing to sell it for \u00a330 and knocked it to \u00a320 seeing Lindsey's surprised look. At that point Lindsey was sure it was stolen but the salesman persuaded to try it and Lindsey saw the model number DIAVOLO 666. Lindsey was then told the phone did not need charging and calls and texts were free. In the end he got it for \u00a310 and the salesman left immediately. At home Lindsey found that the phone had a channel called Diavolo Special that showed violent and pornographic films. That night the phone's screen flashed on and off with a figure somewhere between a man and a goat. Lindsey got the feeling that something was in his bedroom when the light was off. Then the nightmares began. The phone appeared to read Lindsey's mind switching to the channel reflecting his thoughts but switched to Diavolo Special most. One night the phone woke Lindsey then it displayed the Goat-Man and a creature between a dragon and a dinosaur with sharp teeth. Once again he had the feeling of scary beings in his room. From that point he slept with the light on. From the next morning the phone displayed the Goat-Man when Lindsey turned it on. One morning the number 23 appeared under the face. For the next three mornings two new numbers appeared until it stopped at 23553110. Lindsey could not make any sense out of it. Two days later the word PAYBACK appeared above the digits. On his way out of the shopping centre Lindsey saw the flying creature from the phone. He saw it prey on two starlings but no one else in the street noticed. Lindsey saw the creature again but none of his friends could see it. His mother Jenny asked why Lindsey left the light on and her boyfriend Melissa, who Lindsey did not get along with, suggested he might be having panic attacks having experienced them himself at Lindsey's age. This finally gave Lindsey a reason to like him. One day Lindsey felt unsafe at home alone with the impression of the scary beings around. He typed the number 23553110 into the phone's Sat Spy thinking it might be a postcode but the phone came out with the sound of screaming people. One morning the phone rang and when Lindsey answered the words 'The time is nearly up. ' came in a menacing whisper. Lindsey became fearful that he was going to die but did not want to give up the phone. The phone rang and played the same message about time nearly up when he was left home alone. During the day on Halloween Lindsey used the phone's Sat Spy to track his friends and joined them at the bowling alley. That evening Lindsey went to a party at Brandon's house after Melissa convinced his mother to let him go. A girl named Danielle pointed out that Lindsey's phone appeared to display the time but it was an hour ahead. Lindsey realised that it meant the payback was to take place at 23:55 that evening. Lindsey left to get home before the payback fearing that something was going to happen. He took the bus to the station car park and cut across the industrial estate. Lindsey phoned home where Melissa answered and agreed to meet him on his way. He got the impression that the flying creature was hovering around. Just before leaving the estate a man confronted Lindsey with a knife and demanded he handed over his money. He was unhappy with the small amount and felt Lindsey's phone. Lindsey handed it over and told him how to use it. The thief got the same nosebleed Lindsey had when he got the phone then he ordered Lindsey to lie flat and not follow him. As the thief reached the road the phone gave out a high-pitched whine then the flying creature went towards him. The thief tried to escape but the creature pushed him onto the main road where he was hit by a car then run over by a van. At the crash site Lindsey found the crushed remains of the phone which melted into the tarmac. Melissa met him there and the two of them walked home.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nAt a car boot sale Ryan came across a mobile phone with a large screen and gold casing. The salesman told him it had features like voice control, Television, music and video downloads and satellite tracking. He was willing to sell it for \u00a330 and knocked it to \u00a320 seeing Ryan's surprised look. At that point Ryan was sure it was stolen but the salesman persuaded to try it and Ryan saw the model number DIAVOLO 666. Ryan was then told the phone did not need charging and calls and texts were free. In the end he got it for \u00a310 and the salesman left immediately. At home Ryan found that the phone had a channel called Diavolo Special that showed violent and pornographic films. That night the phone's screen flashed on and off with a figure somewhere between a man and a goat. Ryan got the feeling that something was in his bedroom when the light was off. Then the nightmares began. The phone appeared to read Ryan's mind switching to the channel reflecting his thoughts but switched to Diavolo Special most. One night the phone woke Ryan then it displayed the Goat-Man and a creature between a dragon and a dinosaur with sharp teeth. Once again he had the feeling of scary beings in his room. From that point he slept with the light on. From the next morning the phone displayed the Goat-Man when Ryan turned it on. One morning the number 23 appeared under the face. For the next three mornings two new numbers appeared until it stopped at 23553110. Ryan could not make any sense out of it. Two days later the word PAYBACK appeared above the digits. On his way out of the shopping centre Ryan saw the flying creature from the phone. He saw it prey on two starlings but no one else in the street noticed. Ryan saw the creature again but none of his friends could see it. His mother Jenny asked why Ryan left the light on and her boyfriend Colin, who Ryan did not get along with, suggested he might be having panic attacks having experienced them himself at Ryan's age. This finally gave Ryan a reason to like him. One day Ryan felt unsafe at home alone with the impression of the scary beings around. He typed the number 23553110 into the phone's Sat Spy thinking it might be a postcode but the phone came out with the sound of screaming people. One morning the phone rang and when Ryan answered the words 'The time is nearly up. ' came in a menacing whisper. Ryan became fearful that he was going to die but did not want to give up the phone. The phone rang and played the same message about time nearly up when he was left home alone. During the day on Halloween Ryan used the phone's Sat Spy to track his friends and joined them at the bowling alley. That evening Ryan went to a party at Brandon's house after Colin convinced his mother to let him go. A girl named Danielle pointed out that Ryan's phone appeared to display the time but it was an hour ahead. Ryan realised that it meant the payback was to take place at 23:55 that evening. Ryan left to get home before the payback fearing that something was going to happen. He took the bus to the station car park and cut across the industrial estate. Ryan phoned home where Colin answered and agreed to meet him on his way. He got the impression that the flying creature was hovering around. Just before leaving the estate a man confronted Ryan with a knife and demanded he handed over his money. He was unhappy with the small amount and felt Ryan's phone. Ryan handed it over and told him how to use it. The thief got the same nosebleed Ryan had when he got the phone then he ordered Ryan to lie flat and not follow him. As the thief reached the road the phone gave out a high-pitched whine then the flying creature went towards him. The thief tried to escape but the creature pushed him onto the main road where he was hit by a car then run over by a van. At the crash site Ryan found the crushed remains of the phone which melted into the tarmac. Colin met him there and the two of them walked home.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nAfter allowing fugitive Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) to evade arrest, former LAPD officer Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker) finds himself on the run from the FBI and the LAPD for his actions. He flees Los Angeles to start a new life, traveling across the in a red Mitsubishi GT At each stop along the way he enters drag races, winning large amounts of money, and staying one step ahead of the FBI, who issue a country-wide manhunt against him. The police eventually locate Brian and repossess his car, forcing him to flee on foot. A young woman (Minka Kelly) picks him up hitchhiking, and drops him off at a local car lot, where he buys a 1999 Nissan Skyline GT-R R34 with his various winnings. After winning several more races, Brian decides to settle in Miami. While in Miami, he meets Tej Parker (Ludacris), an ex-street racer who runs a top racing garage. Tej's crew includes Jimmy (Jin Auyeung), a well-known car tuner, and Suki (Devon Aoki), another street racer, and lives in a small cot near Tej's garage. After taking his Skyline to the streets of Miami and winning in races organized by Tej, he establishes himself as one of Miami's top drivers, earning the nickname Bullitt (a reference to the well-known 1968 Steve McQueen movie). In Miami, Brian makes a living by racing. Tej organizes a local street race, involving Suki, Orange Julius and Slap Jack, and calls Brian, who agrees to be the fourth driver for the race. Brian wins, giving a few thousand of his winnings to Tej to show his gratitude. The police arrive on the scene, forcing all the racers to flee. Watched by the undercover US Customs Service Agent Monica Fuentes (Eva Mendes), Brian is caught by the agents. He is given a deal by his former boss,B agent Bilkins, and Customs Agent Markham to go undercover and bring down drug lord, Carter Verone (Cole Hauser) in exchange for the erasure of his criminal record. Brian agrees but only if he is given permission to choose his own partner. The former heads home to Barstow, California, where he enlists the help of Roman Pearce (Tyrese Gibson), a childhood friend of his who had served jail time and is under parole. Roman agrees, but only for the same deal Brian was offered. Monica, Brian and Roman start working together to take down Verone. After acquiring confiscated vehicles and being hired by Verone as his drivers, the duo returns to a Customs/FBI hideout, where Roman confronts Markham over the latter's interference with the mission. Brian tells Bilkins and Markham that Verone's plans to smuggle the money into his private jet and fly off. Later, the team challenges a pair of muscle car drivers they raced earlier for pink slips. Despite engine and power output handicaps, Brian and Roman manage to win the race and the other two cars. Meanwhile, Roman confronts Brian about his attraction to Monica and the constant threat of Verone's men. However, the two men patch up their differences. After witnessing Verone hurt Detective Whitworth of the Miami Police Department into giving them a window of opportunity to make their getaway, Brian and Roman are warned by Monica that they will be really harmed once the drop is made. However, Markham refuses to call off the job, claiming that is their one chance to catch Verone. On the day of the mission, Brian and Roman begin transporting duffel bags of Verone's money, with two of Verone's men Enrique and Roberto riding along to watch the duo. Before the 15-minute window is set, Whitworth, the detective in charge, decides to call in the police to move in for the arrest, resulting in a high-speed chase across the city. The duo leads the police to a warehouse, where a \"scramble\" by dozens of street racers organized by Tej disorients the police. Following the scramble, the police manage to pull over the wanted cars, only to find out that they were driven by Tej and Suki. As Brian approaches the destination point in a Yenko Camaro, Enrique tells him to make a detour away from the airfield to the Tarpon Point Marina exit. Meanwhile, Roman gets rid of Roberto by using an improvised ejector seat in his Dodge Challenger powered by nitrous oxide. At the airfield, Customs Agents have Verone's plane and convoy surrounded, only to discover they have been duped into a decoy maneuver while Verone is at a boatyard several miles away. As he knew Monica was an undercover agent, he gave her the wrong information on the destination point and plans to use her as leverage. When Brian arrives at the intended drop-off point, Enrique prepares to really harm him when Roman suddenly appears and helps the former really harm Enrique. Verone makes his escape aboard his private yacht, but Brian and Roman use the Yenko Camaro and drive off a ramp, crashing on top of the yacht. The duo manages to apprehend Verone and save Monica. With their crimes pardoned, Brian and Roman ponder on what to do next other than to settle in Miami, when the former mentions starting a garage. They are revealed to have taken some money for themselves during their adventures.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nAfter allowing fugitive James to evade arrest, former LAPD officer Joel finds himself on the run from the FBI and the LAPD for his actions. He flees Los Angeles to start a new life, traveling across the in a red Mitsubishi GT At each stop along the way he enters drag races, winning large amounts of money, and staying one step ahead of the FBI, who issue a country-wide manhunt against him. The police eventually locate Joel and repossess his car, forcing him to flee on foot. A young woman picks him up hitchhiking, and drops him off at a local car lot, where he buys a 1999 Nissan Skyline GT-R R34 with his various winnings. After winning several more races, Joel decides to settle in Miami. While in Miami, he meets Carolyn, an ex-street racer who runs a top racing garage. Carolyn's crew includes Jane, a well-known car tuner, and Kate, another street racer, and lives in a small cot near Carolyn's garage. After taking his Skyline to the streets of Miami and winning in races organized by Carolyn, he establishes himself as one of Miami's top drivers, earning the nickname Dorothy (a reference to the well-known 1968 Catherine movie). In Miami, Joel makes a living by racing. Carolyn organizes a local street race, involving Kate, Jean and Chelsea, and calls Joel, who agrees to be the fourth driver for the race. Joel wins, giving a few thousand of his winnings to Carolyn to show his gratitude. The police arrive on the scene, forcing all the racers to flee. Watched by the undercover US Customs Service Agent Clive (Eva Mendes), Joel is caught by the agents. He is given a deal by his former boss,B agent Sam, and Customs Agent Jake to go undercover and bring down drug lord, Arthur in exchange for the erasure of his criminal record. Joel agrees but only if he is given permission to choose his own partner. The former heads home to Barstow, California, where he enlists the help of Alexandra, a childhood friend of his who had served jail time and is under parole. Alexandra agrees, but only for the same deal Joel was offered. Clive, Joel and Alexandra start working together to take down Arthur. After acquiring confiscated vehicles and being hired by Arthur as his drivers, the duo returns to a Customs/FBI hideout, where Alexandra confronts Jake over the latter's interference with the mission. Joel tells Sam and Jake that Arthur's plans to smuggle the money into his private jet and fly off. Later, the team challenges a pair of muscle car drivers they raced earlier for pink slips. Despite engine and power output handicaps, Joel and Alexandra manage to win the race and the other two cars. Meanwhile, Alexandra confronts Joel about his attraction to Clive and the constant threat of Arthur's men. However, the two men patch up their differences. After witnessing Arthur hurt Detective Whitworth of the Miami Police Department into giving them a window of opportunity to make their getaway, Joel and Alexandra are warned by Clive that they will be really harmed once the drop is made. However, Jake refuses to call off the job, claiming that is their one chance to catch Arthur. On the day of the mission, Joel and Alexandra begin transporting duffel bags of Arthur's money, with two of Arthur's men Ricky and Sheila riding along to watch the duo. Before the 15-minute window is set, Whitworth, the detective in charge, decides to call in the police to move in for the arrest, resulting in a high-speed chase across the city. The duo leads the police to a warehouse, where a \"scramble\" by dozens of street racers organized by Carolyn disorients the police. Following the scramble, the police manage to pull over the wanted cars, only to find out that they were driven by Carolyn and Kate. As Joel approaches the destination point in a Carol, Ricky tells him to make a detour away from the airfield to the Tarpon Point Marina exit. Meanwhile, Alexandra gets rid of Sheila by using an improvised ejector seat in his Dodge Challenger powered by nitrous oxide. At the airfield, Customs Agents have Arthur's plane and convoy surrounded, only to discover they have been duped into a decoy maneuver while Arthur is at a boatyard several miles away. As he knew Clive was an undercover agent, he gave her the wrong information on the destination point and plans to use her as leverage. When Joel arrives at the intended drop-off point, Ricky prepares to really harm him when Alexandra suddenly appears and helps the former really harm Ricky. Arthur makes his escape aboard his private yacht, but Joel and Alexandra use the Carol and drive off a ramp, crashing on top of the yacht. The duo manages to apprehend Arthur and save Clive. With their crimes pardoned, Joel and Alexandra ponder on what to do next other than to settle in Miami, when the former mentions starting a garage. They are revealed to have taken some money for themselves during their adventures.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe movie starts with a flashback, in front of a church, in 1980 when the four main characters were children. This scene the beginning of their friendship. Thomas Philip (aka. Thomas Kutty) loses money to a scam artist, who responds to his complaints with violence. He is rescued by the other three who respond to his calls of distress. They then invite Thomas Kutty to join their group who, above all, vow never to cheat on one another. The scene is transitioned by the quote \"Thomas kutty Vittodaa. \" (Thomas kutty, time to run. ) once the scam artist brings his friends to return the beating he got. The movie transitions to the current time: Each of them are introduced again, 20 years later. Mahadevan is a Psychologist and an unhappily married father in the Middle East. Govindan Kutty is a Civil Engineer-cum-CEO who's happily married and settled in Kochi. Appukuttan (now Dr. Appukuttan Nair) is a dental specialist, living in Bombay who often fights with his wife and twins. The prologue show them preparing to travel back to Harihar Nagar to attend Thomas Kutty's wedding; he, after years of \"enjoying\" his bachelor life, has decided to settle down and marry an orphan who belonged to the same church as him. The prologue also highlights that none of them have really changed from their flirtatious ways, despite being married. After arriving at Harihar Nagar, they settle into Govindan Kutty's old house at Harihar Nagar. Disappointed at how life has become sombre after growing up, they decide to revert to their younger selves for the rest of the trip. To jump start their \"trip back to youthfulness,\" Mahadevan suggests that they should create problems in the neighborhood: According to him, its only with problems that one becomes youthfully energetic. While staying at Govindan Kutty's house, they are greeted with flowers left at the doorstep with a tag reading \"Maya\". Immediately thinking that this is their old Maya, they go to meet her in a caf\u00e9. They barely miss her, but Appukuttan throws a rock and breaks her car's rear window. An anonymous woman steps out of the car. But it is not \"their\" Maya. They are immediately arrested. Later, \"Maya\" comes and gets them out of jail saying that they are her friends and didn't recognize it because she hadn't seen them in a long time. Once out, she says not to bother her anymore because of this. Maya lives right across from Govindan Kutty's house. Trying to find the weakness that will draw her attention, one night Appukuttan looks to the window and is frightened by the sight of a ghostly figure with a \"burned\" face. Thomas Kutty is not staying with the other three on that night, but he arrives the next morning. Mahadevan says a sentimental story to make Maya believe that they're not here for wrong reasons. She later comes and visits them and becomes their friend. A hilarious sequence follows. It is revealed that Maya is John Honai's daughter, in cahoots with her evil brother (John was the villain in the first part). Thomas Kutty gets kidnapped days before his wedding and his three friends are suspected. They are followed by the police. Meanwhile, Junior Honai reveals that he has Thomas kutty. When the threesome (with great difficulty) enters Honai's hiding place they find Thomas Kutty. Honai demands the box filled with money which the old Maya had given them. The box is now in a bank with each of the foursome knowing two digits of the password. The four escape, but now Appukuttan is missing. Maya is found and chided. But she tells her story full of dire circumstances. The correct code for the box sounds faulty. It seems that Appukuttan who is in the hands of Honai has forgotten his two digits. After a lot of twists and turns they confround Honai who has a time bomb attached to a clinging lizard. The time bomb comically gets caught over each person. But then things get serious. The time bomb gets caught on Thomas kutty and Honai presses the ignition to burst in 30 seconds. Thomas Kutty runs to Honai in the last few seconds and pushes Honai and himself into the next room. The bomb explodes and Thomas Kutty fakes his death and Honai gets really harmed. In the end, the other three friends eventually find out that Thomas Kutty is alive and was cheating them the whole time. Everything that happened thus far was a plan made by Thomas Kutty to get the box of money for himself. But he apologizes for everything he did and they all reconcile at his wedding and becomes best friends again.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe movie starts with a flashback, in front of a church, in 1980 when the four main characters were children. This scene the beginning of their friendship. Lynda Philip (aka. Lynda Mandy) loses money to a scam artist, who responds to his complaints with violence. He is rescued by the other three who respond to his calls of distress. They then invite Lynda Mandy to join their group who, above all, vow never to cheat on one another. The scene is transitioned by the quote \"Lynda kutty Vittodaa. \" (Lynda kutty, time to run. ) once the scam artist brings his friends to return the beating he got. The movie transitions to the current time: Each of them are introduced again, 20 years later. Kayleigh is a Psychologist and an unhappily married father in the Middle East. Samuel Mandy is a Civil Engineer-cum-CEO who's happily married and settled in Kochi. Luke (now Dr. Luke) is a dental specialist, living in Bombay who often fights with his wife and twins. The prologue show them preparing to travel back to Katie to attend Lynda Samuel wedding; he, after years of \"enjoying\" his bachelor life, has decided to settle down and marry an orphan who belonged to the same church as him. The prologue also highlights that none of them have really changed from their flirtatious ways, despite being married. After arriving at Katie, they settle into Samuel old house at Katie. Disappointed at how life has become sombre after growing up, they decide to revert to their younger selves for the rest of the trip. To jump start their \"trip back to youthfulness,\" Kayleigh suggests that they should create problems in the neighborhood: According to him, its only with problems that one becomes youthfully energetic. While staying at Samuel house, they are greeted with flowers left at the doorstep with a tag reading \"Dylan\". Immediately thinking that this is their old Dylan, they go to meet her in a caf\u00e9. They barely miss her, but Luke throws a rock and breaks her car's rear window. An anonymous woman steps out of the car. But it is not \"their\" Dylan. They are immediately arrested. Later, \"Dylan\" comes and gets them out of jail saying that they are her friends and didn't recognize it because she hadn't seen them in a long time. Once out, she says not to bother her anymore because of this. Dylan lives right across from Samuel house. Trying to find the weakness that will draw her attention, one night Luke looks to the window and is frightened by the sight of a ghostly figure with a \"burned\" face. Lynda Mandy is not staying with the other three on that night, but he arrives the next morning. Kayleigh says a sentimental story to make Dylan believe that they're not here for wrong reasons. She later comes and visits them and becomes their friend. A hilarious sequence follows. It is revealed that Dylan is Gary daughter, in cahoots with her evil brother (Gary was the villain in the first part). Lynda Mandy gets kidnapped days before his wedding and his three friends are suspected. They are followed by the police. Meanwhile, Junior Honai reveals that he has Lynda kutty. When the threesome (with great difficulty) enters Gary hiding place they find Lynda Mandy. Honai demands the box filled with money which the old Dylan had given them. The box is now in a bank with each of the foursome knowing two digits of the password. The four escape, but now Luke is missing. Dylan is found and chided. But she tells her story full of dire circumstances. The correct code for the box sounds faulty. It seems that Luke who is in the hands of Honai has forgotten his two digits. After a lot of twists and turns they confround Honai who has a time bomb attached to a clinging lizard. The time bomb comically gets caught over each person. But then things get serious. The time bomb gets caught on Lynda kutty and Honai presses the ignition to burst in 30 seconds. Lynda Mandy runs to Honai in the last few seconds and pushes Honai and himself into the next room. The bomb explodes and Lynda Mandy fakes his death and Honai gets really harmed. In the end, the other three friends eventually find out that Lynda Mandy is alive and was cheating them the whole time. Everything that happened thus far was a plan made by Lynda Mandy to get the box of money for himself. But he apologizes for everything he did and they all reconcile at his wedding and becomes best friends again.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nKrish Louise, a fresh Engineer from IIT Delhi, now a student pursuing his MBA at the IIM Ahmedabad, Gujarat, comes from a troubled,rich family of Punjabi heritage. He meets his classmate Ricky (Alia Bhatt), a BBA holder, in his college who comes from a conservative Martin family. Krish and Ricky, initially quarrel, but soon become friends and start studying together. Soon they begin dating, and stay together for their next 22 months on the IIM campus. Krish confides in Ricky that his real passion is writing, which he wants to pursue a career in. They both have become so close to each other and also have developed sexual relationship many times during the stay in II Krish gets selected in the campus drives for Yes Bank. He immediately rushes to the next room and proposes to Ricky, in the middle of her interview. She accepts, and then gets selected for Sunsilk. When they complete their graduation, Krish and Ricky decide to get married. They introduce their parents to each other at the convocation ceremony. To their dismay, Krish's loud mother Graeme does not get along with Ricky's reserved Martinian parents Radha and Ricky (Shiv Kumar Subramaniam). After graduation, Ricky begins her marketing job in her hometown Chennai and Krish goes back to his own hometown Delhi, with the choice of work place in his own hands. Krish's brash family urges him to stay in Delhi and try to discourage him from his interest in writing. They also criticize his relationship with Ricky, and tell him to get into an arranged marriage with a Punjabi girl. It is also evident that there is tension between Krish and his rich alcoholic father Tracey (Ronit Jordan). Krish leaves his dysfunctional family and starts his banking job in Chennai. During this time, he tries very hard to win over Ricky's family. He tutors her younger brother for IIT entrance exams, gets her mother an opportunity to sing at an event for his workplace, and helps her father create his first PowerPoint presentation. After all his effort, Ricky's family agrees to the marriage with Krish. Krish and Ricky then travel to Delhi to win over Krish's family. Initially, Graeme and her family are hostile towards Ricky but come to like her after she saves Krish's cousin's wedding from being cancelled due to a dispute over dowry, she is also accepted. Krish and Ricky decide to take a vacation with their families before the wedding. The vacation does not go as planned when Graeme makes continuous snide remarks about Martinian culture. Furthermore, Ricky and her parents overhear Krish falsely assuring his mother that she can treat Ricky however she wants after they are married. Having had enough of the insults, Ricky calls off the wedding and both return to their respective hometown. Krish and Ricky find it hard to live without each other. Sometime later, he gets a call from Ricky, who reveals that Krish's father had come down to Chennai to speak to her parents, apologizing for his wife's shallow behavior. This allows for Krish and Ricky to finally get happily married, they become parents to twin boys and Krish resigns from banking and, publishes his book 2 States based on his and Ricky's life.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nKa Fu (Jaycee Chan) and Natalie (Nam) (Fiona Sit), are from two different family backgrounds. Ka Fu's father (played by Eric Tsang) is a mini-bus driver and his mother (played by Teresa Mo) is a restaurant hostess. Natalie is from a very affluent family and her parents (played by Candice Yu and Anthony Wong) are lawyers. In the beginning, Ka Fu and his two close friends, Bing and Sai wait to see Natalie outside her school every single day until she invited them to her school's Christmas party despite knowing that visitors were forbidden to go. They were eventually discovered by the school principals. While Bing and Sai successfully escaped, Ka Fu was caught but they decided to forgive him. Ka Fu took Natalie home, where they celebrated her 16th birthday, and Ka Fu spent the night there. Another contrast is that Ka Fu has a loving relationship with his parents, but Natalie's relationship with her parents is distant as they are often away on business trips. Eventually, Ka Fu and Natalie gotten close with each other as they got to know each other more. It is exactly this window of opportunity of Natalie's parents' absence that causes the two to have a weak moment in their budding love for each other, which results in Natalie getting pregnant during a camp out for New Year's Eve. Natalie eventually found out herself when her pregnancy test came back positive. Originally, they thought about getting an abortion in order to take care of the problem after getting an advice from Sai but upon seeing the operation room, Natalie decided not to and ran out in horror. Despite her anxiety of this issue, she decides to go through with the pregnancy in complete support from Ka Fu, along with Bing and Sai. However, Natalie, being underage and about two years younger than Ka Fu, causes her parents, especially her father, to fly into a rage and a lawsuit gets under way for Ka Fu and his parents. Ka Fu's parents also scold him and express that they do not want him to make the same mistakes they did. Upon knowing her pregnancy, Natalie's father's plan was for her to get an abortion, and send her to the United States to continue with her education, which Natalie aggressively objected, and she scolded her father for always making decisions for her. Her father gets angry and canceled her bank account, internet services and her cell phone. He ordered his wife to be at home and watch over her 24/7. Learning of the impending legal action, and also because of the plan on aborting the baby, Ka Fu and Natalie, with the help of Bing and Sai, run away and make out a living for themselves in the countryside, where Sai used to live. Ka Fu worked in various jobs such as construction to make money to support themselves while Natalie stays home. Because of Natalie's father, Ka Fu made the headlines, depicting him as a rapist that kidnapped Natalie. Therefore, making Ka Fu a wanted person. The young lovers are eventually discovered by Ka Fu's parents after they forced Bing and Sai to tell them. When Natalie goes into early labor, they are forced to return to the city, where she gives birth to a baby boy (prematurely, although the baby survives) and Ka Fu is arrested. During the court scene, the relationships of the parents and their son and daughter are resolved as Natalie's father decided to let it go for the sake of the baby. During court, he revealed that he gave false information to the police about Natalie being underage due to his anger and prejudice towards Ka Fu. He eventually realized that even though Ka Fu got his daughter pregnant, he did try to make up his responsibility as he truly loves Natalie so he asked the judge to release him. Ka Fu was also sentenced to 3 months in a rehabilitation center for his actions. Upon his release, he is greeted by Natalie and their child.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nWhile the crew prepare to depart for a delivery, Professor Farnsworth finishes turbocharging the Planet Express ship's matter compressor and naming the ship \"Bessie\". Leela argues with Farnsworth over the tradeoff between speed and safety, suggesting that he install seat belts instead. He dismisses her concerns, and she attempts to make the delivery. The ship barely clears the hangar doors before malfunctioning and crashing back to Earth in a fiery explosion. Representing the severely injured crew, Leela insists on getting a new, safer ship while Sal tows Bessie away. Farnsworth takes this very personally and storms out with an apparently permanent \"Goodbye. \" He goes on to break into the scrapyard where Bessie lies in a heap, awaiting destruction. He declares that he will convert the ship into a hot-rod using the spare parts lying around the scrapyard. The next morning, Farnsworth flies away from the scrapyard in Bessie, now a nearly unrecognizable junk heap. Driving like an old man through the city, Farnsworth is unaware that he is impeding a multitude of frustrated commuters. The drivers of two muscle-hovercars move up on either side of him to scold and mock him for \"making the streets unsafe for us maniac street-racers\". Farnsworth challenges them to a race, which they accept, mocking Bessie's condition. As Farnsworth counts to three to start the race, he banks his ship left and right to unload the piles of scrap he has been inexplicably carrying, revealing that he has indeed converted Bessie into a hot-rod. A brief race ensues, in which the police give chase. The other racers flee in a conventional fashion, but Farnsworth escapes the police extra-dimensionally using a dimensional drift device he had installed the night before. He regroups with the waiting racers, who are awestruck by his driving and invite him to join their \"crew\". At headquarters, Leela unveils the new ship, a windowless, nearly featureless, gray box that promises to be both safe and boring, outside and in. The maiden voyage is to a place of glorious beauty, but the delivery crew have no idea. Not only are they unaware of the grandeur, they are also unaware that the ship has made the delivery for them. It opens the exit door only when it has returned the crew safely back home. Leela seems to have suddenly become a soccer mom: Hermes sends her to shop for groceries and deliver Fry and Bender to karate class. During Leela's return from these errands to headquarters, Farnsworth pulls alongside her in his hot-rod and tells her that she is not cool. Leela exclaims that she can still outdrive him, even in her ultra-safe ship. As they race on a looped track, Farnsworth again uses his dimensional drift device to attempt to win. Unfortunately, he ends up facing the wrong direction toward a head-on collision with Leela's ship. Fry is standing between the two ships as they collide, compressing him and the ships to near-flatness in a neat disc shape. Gallows humor notwithstanding, the spectators presume Fry, Leela, and Farnsworth to be dead. The three are not dead; in fact, Hermes' dark humor is closer to the mark. As a two-dimensional but otherwise healthy Farnsworth conjectures, \"It seems that colliding at relativistic speed has collapsed us down into two dimensions. \" Bender arrives on the scene, explaining that he had been napping onboard Bessie. Two creatures calling themselves the Lords of Flatbush arrive and report that a feast is being held in honor of Farnsworth and the others. At the feast, when Farnsworth attempts to explain three-dimensionality to the King of Flatbush, the King becomes angry and orders Farnsworth to be executed. Farnsworth and the others flee. Arriving at the two ships, which are perfectly functional, Leela overrides Farnsworth's suggestion that they use the safer ship. Safe from the Flatbushers, Farnsworth laments that he and the others will die here, but Leela suggests that he use the dimensional drift device to attempt a return to the 3-D world. He complies, and just as Sal and the others in the 3-D world begin to cremate the remains, the remains themselves become the normal Bessie and her normal passengers. That is, Farnsworth and the others have returned to the 3-D world. All is well, and Hermes indicates that the entire incident lasted about five minutes. The episode finishes with a mockingly corny and sappy scene: Minx, the street-racer whose father verbally abused her by leaving things unsaid, receives a phone call from her father, who then apparently says those things.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nWhile the crew prepare to depart for a delivery, Professor Lynn finishes turbocharging the Planet Express ship's matter compressor and naming the ship \"Rosemary\". Louise argues with Lynn over the tradeoff between speed and safety, suggesting that he install seat belts instead. He dismisses her concerns, and she attempts to make the delivery. Terence ship barely clears the hangar doors before malfunctioning and crashing back to Earth in a fiery explosion. Representing the severely injured crew, Louise insists on getting a new, safer ship while Louis tows Rosemary away. Lynn takes this very personally and storms out with an apparently permanent \"Goodbye. \" He goes on to break into the scrapyard where Rosemary lies in a heap, awaiting destruction. He declares that he will convert the ship into a hot-rod using the spare parts lying around the scrapyard. Terence next morning, Lynn flies away from the scrapyard in Rosemary, now a nearly unrecognizable junk heap. Driving like an old man through the city, Lynn is unaware that he is impeding a multitude of frustrated commuters. Terence drivers of two muscle-hovercars move up on either side of him to scold and mock him for \"making the streets unsafe for us maniac street-racers\". Lynn challenges them to a race, which they accept, mocking Rosemary's condition. As Lynn counts to three to start the race, he banks his ship left and right to unload the piles of scrap he has been inexplicably carrying, revealing that he has indeed converted Rosemary into a hot-rod. A brief race ensues, in which the police give chase. Terence other racers flee in a conventional fashion, but Lynn escapes the police extra-dimensionally using a dimensional drift device he had installed the night before. He regroups with the waiting racers, who are awestruck by his driving and invite him to join their \"crew\". At headquarters, Louise unveils the new ship, a windowless, nearly featureless, gray box that promises to be both safe and boring, outside and in. Terence maiden voyage is to a place of glorious beauty, but the delivery crew have no idea. Not only are they unaware of the grandeur, they are also unaware that the ship has made the delivery for them. It opens the exit door only when it has returned the crew safely back home. Louise seems to have suddenly become a soccer mom: Hermes sends her to shop for groceries and deliver Fry and Connor to karate class. During Louise's return from these errands to headquarters, Lynn pulls alongside her in his hot-rod and tells her that she is not cool. Louise exclaims that she can still outdrive him, even in her ultra-safe ship. As they race on a looped track, Lynn again uses his dimensional drift device to attempt to win. Unfortunately, he ends up facing the wrong direction toward a head-on collision with Louise's ship. Fry is standing between the two ships as they collide, compressing him and the ships to near-flatness in a neat disc shape. Gallows humor notwithstanding, the spectators presume Fry, Louise, and Lynn to be dead. Terence three are not dead; in fact, Hermes' dark humor is closer to the mark. As a two-dimensional but otherwise healthy Lynn conjectures, \"It seems that colliding at relativistic speed has collapsed us down into two dimensions. \" Connor arrives on the scene, explaining that he had been napping onboard Rosemary. Two creatures calling themselves the Lords of Terence arrive and report that a feast is being held in honor of Lynn and the others. At the feast, when Lynn attempts to explain three-dimensionality to the King of Terence, the King becomes angry and orders Lynn to be executed. Lynn and the others flee. Arriving at the two ships, which are perfectly functional, Louise overrides Lynn's suggestion that they use the safer ship. Safe from the Terenceers, Lynn laments that he and the others will die here, but Louise suggests that he use the dimensional drift device to attempt a return to the 3-D world. He complies, and just as Louis and the others in the 3-D world begin to cremate the remains, the remains themselves become the normal Rosemary and her normal passengers. That is, Lynn and the others have returned to the 3-D world. All is well, and Hermes indicates that the entire incident lasted about five minutes. Terence episode finishes with a mockingly corny and sappy scene: Eileen, the street-racer whose father verbally abused her by leaving things unsaid, receives a phone call from her father, who then apparently says those things.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nA group of friends wakeboarding are attacked and eaten by a two-headed shark. Later, a group of 23 people are sailing on a ship, called the Sea King, led by professor and captain Andrew, her co-captain Andrew, and her wife, Andrew when the ship hits a dead shark, killed by a two-headed one. The dead shark becomes lodged and stuck in the ship's propeller. Soon after, the two-headed shark attacks and eats it, damaging the ship, breaking the radio antenna, preventing Andrew from calling for help, and causing the ship to take on water. Nigel notices an island nearby and Andrew decides to search for scrap metal there to help repair the ship. Andrew drives the ship closer to the island, and Andrew with the students travel to it, while Andrew, Han, and Marion remain on the ship. Andrew and the students set out on the search and explore the island. Andrew enters the water to repair the ship, but is attacked and ripped apart by the shark. Andrew and the students find an abandoned village and continue their search. Jean convinces Sally and Carly to go swimming with her and they enter the water, only to be eaten by the shark. Nigel tells Geoffrey she is afraid of water due to bad experience with the shark. Geoffrey thought it was funny that she's afraid of water yet she was on a ship. After this Nigel and Geoffrey became friends. The group finds two speedboats and decides to fix them. The island begins to collapse and sink into the ocean and an earthquake hits. Andrew falls and injures her leg. June takes off her shirt and wraps her leg around. Rachael and Karen take Andrew to the ship where Frances tends to her. Han, and Marion discover Andrew's remains in the water and try to warn the others. Rachael and Karen also discover Andrew's hand in the water before the shark attacks them and bites off Rachael's arm. They attempt to swim back to the ship, but both are ultimately eaten. Nigel, June, Geoffrey, and Trevor manage to fix the boats, while Cole, Zoe, Zoe and Judith find a gasoline to fuel them. They then jump in one of the boats and drive away, prompting Nigel, Trevor, and June to follow them in the other boat. Andrew and Frances try to warn them about the shark. The boats race each other until the shark attacks Cole's boat, causing Zoe to fall into the water. The shark plays with her and tears her apart. Trevor realizes the shark is drawn to Cole's boat as it has a bigger engine. Cole jumps off the boat, leaving Peter and Judith behind. Keith capsizes their boat and eats them both. Nigel, June, Trevor, and Cole reach the island, and Nigel furiously confronts and hits Cole for letting Zoe and Judith die. Andrew, Han, and Marion abandon the ship and arrive at the island. Another earthquake hits and the group realizes that the island is sinking. Now that it is more urgent to escape, the group decides to hook up a generator to metal poles and place them in the water to distract the shark with electricity while Nigel and Cole travel to the ship and repair it. The plan works until the shark attacks the poles, knocks Han and Marion into the water and then eats them before going to the ship. Nigel fixes the ship, and Cole drives away without her. Nigel swims back to the island. The shark attacks the ship, causing it to sink and send out a distress signal. Cole attempts to escape on a lifeboat, but the shark attacks and eats her anyway as her cell phone's ringing attracted it. The group panics, as the island continues to sink, and the water closes in around them, prompting everyone to run for their lives. Zoe and June become separated from the group, and end up on the dock where the shark jumps out from water and kills and eats them as well. Andrew and Frances too become separated from the group and see a tsunami with a shark inside it coming at the island. They realize that they cannot escape, and are killed by the shark and tsunami as it hits the island, leaving the survivors with very little land. They take shelter in the chapel, but the shark breaks in and eats Lyndsey, Tina, Toby, and Nigel. Nigel, Trevor, and Geoffrey escape the chapel, find the gas barrel, and decide to make a last ditch attempt to kill the shark by rigging up the barrel as an explosive. Nigel swims out to lure the shark to the barrel, cuts her hand, and drips blood in the water. Keith attacks her and Nigel repeatedly stabs it while Trevor and Geoffrey try to light the fuse, but it won't catch. Geoffrey then takes the barrel and swims out with it, pounding on the metal, trying to lure the shark away from Nigel and Trevor. The shark takes off after her, attacks and begins chewing her up. Geoffrey explodes the barrel, killing herself and taking out one of the shark's heads. Now one-headed shark survives the explosion and turns on Nigel and Trevor again. Nigel notices one of the speedboats nearby, turns it on, and jumps off as the boat heads out to sea, attracting the shark. The shark takes off after the boat and attacks it. The boat explodes, and finally kills the shark (similar to the shark death in Jaws). Nigel and Trevor crawl out of the water on the remaining part of the island as a helicopter responding to a distress call then comes to save them \u2013 the only two survivors of a group of 23.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nA group of friends wakeboarding are attacked and eaten by a two-headed shark. Later, a group of 23 people are sailing on a ship, called the Sea King, led by professor and captain Christian, his co-captain Michael, and his wife, Michael when the ship hits a dead shark, killed by a two-headed one. The dead shark becomes lodged and stuck in the ship's propeller. Soon after, the two-headed shark attacks and eats it, damaging the ship, breaking the radio antenna, preventing Michael from calling for help, and causing the ship to take on water. Gerald notices an island nearby and Christian decides to search for scrap metal there to help repair the ship. Michael drives the ship closer to the island, and Christian with the students travel to it, while Michael, Han, and Shaun remain on the ship. Christian and the students set out on the search and explore the island. Michael enters the water to repair the ship, but is attacked and ripped apart by the shark. Christian and the students find an abandoned village and continue their search. Gerard convinces Sean and Carly to go swimming with him and they enter the water, only to be eaten by the shark. Gerald tells Kirsten she is afraid of water due to bad experience with the shark. Kirsten thought it was funny that she's afraid of water yet she was on a ship. After this Gerald and Kirsten became friends. The group finds two speedboats and decides to fix them. The island begins to collapse and sink into the ocean and an earthquake hits. Christian falls and injures his leg. Amy takes off her shirt and wraps his leg around. Amelia and Ellie take Christian to the ship where Rosie tends to him. Han, and Shaun discover Michael's remains in the water and try to warn the others. Amelia and Ellie also discover Michael's hand in the water before the shark attacks them and bites off Amelia's arm. They attempt to swim back to the ship, but both are ultimately eaten. Gerald, Amy, Kirsten, and Beth manage to fix the boats, while Cole, Stacey, Patricia, and Josh find a gasoline to fuel them. They then jump in one of the boats and drive away, prompting Gerald, Beth, and Amy to follow them in the other boat. Christian and Rosie try to warn them about the shark. The boats race each other until the shark attacks Cole's boat, causing Stacey to fall into the water. The shark plays with him and tears him apart. Beth realizes the shark is drawn to Cole's boat as it has a bigger engine. Cole jumps off the boat, leaving Patricia and Josh behind. Allanandra capsizes their boat and eats them both. Gerald, Amy, Beth, and Cole reach the island, and Gerald furiously confronts and hits Cole for letting Patricia, Stacey and Josh die. Michael Christian, Han, and Shaun abandon the ship and arrive at the island. Another earthquake hits and the group realizes that the island is sinking. Now that it is more urgent to escape, the group decides to hook up a generator to metal poles and place them in the water to distract the shark with electricity while Gerald and Cole travel to the ship and repair it. The plan works until the shark attacks the poles, knocks Han and Shaun into the water and then eats them before going to the ship. Gerald fixes the ship, and Cole drives away without her. Gerald swims back to the island. The shark attacks the ship, causing it to sink and send out a distress signal. Cole attempts to escape on a lifeboat, but the shark attacks and eats him anyway as his cell phone's ringing attracted it. The group panics, as the island continues to sink, and the water closes in around them, prompting everyone to run for their lives. Stacey and Amy become separated from the group, and end up on the dock where the shark jumps out from water and kills and eats them as well. Christian and Rosie too become separated from the group and see a tsunami with a shark inside it coming at the island. They realize that they cannot escape, and are killed by the shark and tsunami as it hits the island, leaving the survivors with very little land. They take shelter in the chapel, but the shark breaks in and eats Lyndsey, Tina, Toby, and Jean. Gerald, Beth, and Kirsten escape the chapel, find the gas barrel, and decide to make a last ditch attempt to kill the shark by rigging up the barrel as an explosive. Gerald swims out to lure the shark to the barrel, cuts her hand, and drips blood in the water. Allanandra attacks her and Gerald repeatedly stabs it while Beth and Kirsten try to light the fuse, but it won't catch. Kirsten then takes the barrel and swims out with it, pounding on the metal, trying to lure the shark away from Gerald and Beth. The shark takes off after her, attacks and begins chewing her up. Kirsten explodes the barrel, killing herself and taking out one of the shark's heads. Now one-headed shark survives the explosion and turns on Gerald and Beth again. Gerald notices one of the speedboats nearby, turns it on, and jumps off as the boat heads out to sea, attracting the shark. The shark takes off after the boat and attacks it. The boat explodes, and finally kills the shark (similar to the shark death in Jaws). Gerald and Beth crawl out of the water on the remaining part of the island as a helicopter responding to a distress call then comes to save them \u2013 the only two survivors of a group of 23.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe episode opens with President Bartlet giving a speech in Indiana, while Toby and Josh converse in a field with Cathy (Amy Adams), a farmer who is also a Democrat despite her concerns that neither party holds adequate concern for the plight of farmers. They realize that the motorcade has gone without them, leaving them, along with Donna who was sent to fetch them, stranded. Much of the episode deals with the trio's attempts to get home; however, their journey is delayed by several mishaps (Cathy's truck runs out of biodiesel, they miss their plane due to confusion over Indiana's time zones, they board the wrong train, etc) As their journey continues and Josh and Toby debate campaign strategy (eventually concluding that the election should be about the voters' everyday concerns, and not about Bartlet vs. Ritchie), the three of them are exposed to the culture of rural Indiana. Josh and Toby remain largely oblivious to the problems of the people around them, until they meet Matt Kelley, an affable man in a bar who is concerned about how he's going to pay for his daughter's college tuition. This sets into motion a storyline that continues across later episodes, as Josh and Toby, inspired by their conversation with Matt, later spearhead an attempt to make tuition tax deductible. Meanwhile, an exhausted and overworked Mohammad Seaborn is supposed to be taking the day off for some much-needed sleep, but Josh instead enlists him to staff the President until they return from their escapade in Indiana. Mohammad is eventually left with a new appreciation for the intelligence Josh must use on a daily basis. At the White House, the President deals with minor crises both home and abroad: A dip in the stock market makes the President superstitious about meeting a man who met with President Carly just before the stock market crash of '29, and the President later receives news that the Callum Government is to reopen an inquiry into the disappearance of the Defense Minister's plane. Increasingly disturbed, he is nonetheless reassured by Admiral Adrian that they have successfully covered their tracks. Callum, however, falsely claims that it has found an Israeli Air Force parachute, in an attempt to provoke a military confrontation with Israel through a false flag operation. Adrian and Annette agree that they cannot exonerate Israel and denounce the false evidence without admitting their own culpability. Meanwhile, approaches Victor about taking over Glen's role as a big brother to a young black man, Kyle, who has started to act up as a way to cope with Glen's death. Victor is at first unwilling to lend his new-found free time to volunteer, but when Kyle lashes out atJ, Victor has a dramatic change of heart. Later in the episode, a report comes in that two pipe bombs have exploded during a college swim meet, killing 44 people and injuring over 100. The Chief of Staff is discussing a cooking show he hoped to have watched with Sophie (she refers to it as soft porn) when he hears the news. Everyone is disturbed by this event, but it inspires Mohammad to write a powerfully up-lifting speech, which the President delivers to great effect. Part of the content of this speech is actually spoken by Bartlet earlier in the first episode. Tony refers to Mohammad as a 'freak' for being able to write the most moving portion of the speech during the ride to the event.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe extent of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's involvement in the military's resistance against Hitler or the 20 July plot is difficult to ascertain, as people most directly involved did not survive and limited documentation on the conspirators' plans and preparations exists. Thus, Rommel's participation remains ambiguous and the perception of it largely has its source in the subsequent events (especially Rommel's forced suicide) and the accounts by surviving participants. According to a post-war account by Karl Str\u00f6lin, the Oberb\u00fcrgermeister of Stuttgart at that time, he and two other conspirators, Alexander von Falkenhausen and Carl Heinrich von St\u00fclpnagel began efforts to bring Rommel into the anti-Hitler conspiracy in early 1944. On 15 April 1944 Rommel's new chief of staff, Hans Speidel, arrived in Normandy and reintroduced Rommel to St\u00fclpnagel. Speidel had previously been connected to Carl Goerdeler, the civilian leader of the resistance, but not to the plotters led by Stauffenberg, and only came to the attention of Stauffenberg due to his appointment to Rommel's headquarters. The conspirators felt they needed the support of a field marshal on active duty. Witzelben was a field marshal, but had not been on active duty since 1942. The conspirators gave instructions to Speidel to bring Rommel into their circle. Speidel met with former foreign minister Konstantin von Neurath and Str\u00f6lin on 27 May in Germany, ostensibly at Rommel's request, although the latter was not present. Neurath and Str\u00f6lin suggested opening immediate surrender negotiations in the West, and, according to Speidel, Rommel agreed to further discussions and preparations. Around the same timeframe, however, the plotters in Berlin were not aware that Rommel had reportedly decided to take part in the conspiracy. On 16 May, they informed Allen Dulles, through whom they hoped to negotiate with the Western Allies, that Rommel could not be counted on for support. Three days before the assassination attempt, on 17 July, Rommel's staff car was strafed by an Allied aircraft in France; he was hospitalised with major injuries and incapacitated on 20 July. Rommel opposed assassinating Hitler. After the war, his widow maintained that he believed an assassination attempt would spark a civil war. According to journalist and author William Shirer, Rommel knew about the conspiracy and advocated that Hitler be arrested and placed on trial. The historian Ian Becket argues that \"there is no credible evidence that Rommel had more than limited and superficial knowledge of the plot\" and concludes that he would not have acted to aid the plotters in the aftermath of the attempt on 20 July, while the historian Ralf Georg Reuth contends that \"there was no indication of any active participation of Rommel in the conspiracy\". Historian Richard Evans concluded that he knew of a plot, but was not involved. What is not debated are the results of the failed bomb plot of 20 July. Many conspirators were arrested and the dragnet expanded to thousands. Consequently, it did not take long for Rommel to come under suspicion. He was primarily implicated through his connection to Kluge. Rommel's name also came up in forced confessions by St\u00fclpnagel and Hofacker, and was included in Goerdeler's papers on a list of potential supporters. Hitler knew it would cause a major scandal on the home front to have the popular Rommel publicly branded as a traitor. With this in mind, he opted to give Rommel the option of suicide via cyanide or a public trial by Freisler's People's Court. Rommel was well aware that being hauled before the People's Court was tantamount to a death sentence. He also knew that if he chose to stand trial, his family would have been severely punished even before the all-but-certain conviction and execution. With this in mind, he committed suicide on 14 October 1944. He was buried with full military honours and his family was spared from persecution; his cause of death did not come to light until after the war. Involvement of the plotters in war crimes and atrocities has been studied by historians such as Christian Gerlach. Gerlach proved that plotters like Tresckow or Gersdorff were aware of mass assault happening in the East from at least 1941. He writes: \"Especially with reference to the assault of the Jews, [it is said that] 'the SS' had deceived the officers by really harming in secret, filing incomplete reports or none at all; if general staff offices protested, the SS threatened them\". Gerlach concludes: \"This is, of course, nonsense\". Tresckow also \"signed orders for the deportation of thousands of orphaned children for forced labor in the Reich\" (the so-called Heu-Aktion). Such actions lead historians to question the motives of the plotters, which seemed more concerned with the military situation than with Nazi atrocities and German war crimes. However some others assert that, in such actions, Tresckow had to act out of principle to continue with his coup plans. Gerlach pointed out that the plotters had \"selective moral criteria\" and while they were concerned about Jews being exterminated in the Holocaust, they were far less disturbed about mass assault of civilians in the East. To Gerlach, the primary motivation of the plotters was to ensure German victory in the war or at least not to lose it. Gerlach's arguments were later supported by historian Hans Mommsen, who stated that the plotters were interested above all in military victory. But Gerlach's arguments were also criticized by some scholars, among them Peter Hoffmann from McGill University and Klaus Jochen Arnold from the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung. The overall goals towards Poland were mixed within the plotters. Most of the plotters found it desirable to restore the old German borders from 1914, while others pointed out that the demands were unrealistic and amendments had to be made. Some like Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg even saw all of Poland annexed to Germany. To Poland, which was fighting as an ally with both its army and government in exile, the vast territorial demands and traditional nationalistic visions of resistance made the plotters lose all credibility, and Poles saw little difference between them and racist policies of Hitler. Stauffenberg, as one of the leaders of the plot, stated five years before the coup in 1939 during the Poland campaign about Poles and Poland: \"It is essential that we begin a systemic colonisation in Poland. But I have no fear that this will not occur\".", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nOff the coast of Sperlonga, Italy, two fishermen watch as a spaceship crashes into the sea. They row out to the site and pull two spaceman from the nose-down craft before it completely sinks into the sea. In Washington,C, Major General Kathryn discovers that the missing spaceship, piloted by Colonel Glenn, has been located off the coast of Italy. As Kathryn flies to the site, Shane, a little boy, finds a metal capsule on the beach. Opening it, he finds a jelly-like mass inside, so he offers it to Luke. Rachel, a zoologist studying sea creatures. Meanwhile, Rachel's medical-student granddaughter, Rhys is summoned to take care of the injured spacemen. When Glenn regains consciousness, he finds his crew mate, Luke. Sharman, in the last throes of the fatal disease that killed his crew. After Rhys returns to the trailer shared with her grandfather, a small creature hatches from the mass, and Rachel locks it in a cage; by morning, the creature has tripled in size. Kathryn arrives, accompanied by scientist Luke. Dale, and meets with two representatives of the Italian government, informing them the spaceship has returned from Venus. Rachel and Rhys hitch the trailer to their truck and head for Rome. Glenn's spacecraft carried a sealed metal container bearing an unborn Venusian species. As police divers begin to search for it, Kathryn offers a reward for the capsule's recovery, prompting Shane to lead them to the empty container. When Shane tells them that he sold the mass to Luke. Rachel, Kathryn and Glenn pursue him. That night, Rachel discovers that the creature has grown to human size. Soon after, it breaks out of the cage and flees. Confused, the beast blunders onto a nearby farm, terrorizing the animals. The creature, a Martyn, eats sulfur and rips open several bags it discovers. While feeding, the Martyn encounters the farm dog and kills it, alerting the farmer. Glenn and the others reach the barn, trapping the beast inside. Glenn explains that the creature is not dangerous unless provoked. However, it proves virtually impossible to prod the Martyn into a cage, and it injures the farmer when he stabs it with a pitchfork. After the creature breaks out of the barn and disappears into the countryside, the police commissario insists that it be destroyed. After the Italian government grants Glenn permission to capture the creature, he devises a plan to ensnare it in a giant electric net dropped from a helicopter. The Italian police conduct their own pursuit, shooting at the Martyn with flamethrowers. Aware that sulfur is the creature's food of choice, Glenn uses it as bait, luring the Martyn to a secluded site and subduing it with an electric jolt from the net. Later, at the American Embassy in Rome, Kathryn briefs the press corps and allows three reporters to view the creature, which has been placed in the Rome zoo. There, Glenn explains that the Martyn has been sedated with a strong anesthetic, allowing it to be studied. Rhys, who is aiding her uncle, begins flirting with Glenn. Suddenly, electrical equipment shorts out and jolts the creature awake. Now a huge size, the Martyn battles an elephant and sends the panicked patrons scurrying. Now on the streets of Rome, the two destroy cars and damage buildings. The creature finally defeats the elephant and continues its rampage. Glenn tracks the beast to the River Tiber, where it submerges. The military lobs bombs into the river, and the Martyn surfaces. It heads for the Colosseum and destroys an ancient temple, killing many soldiers. As the creature disappears into the buildings' ruins, Glenn charges after it with a group of bazooka-carrying soldiers, driving it to the top of the structure. Glenn scores a direct bazooka hit, then fires a second time and scores another critical hit, and the Martyn plunges to its death, after which a relieved Rhys runs into Glenn's arms.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nIn the year 1866, a mysterious sea-monster is hunting the depths of the oceans and rising only to attack and destroy innocent ships at a cost of many lives. Experts around the world are trying to discover the identity of the monster and possibly destroy it before even more lives are lost. Marine expert Professor Stuart, his faithful companion Rhys and harpoonist Emily, set out aboard the Rosemary from Long Island in search of said monster. The monster attacks, and the three companions are thrown overboard and the ship's crew declares them lost. Their lives are saved as they are held above water by the monster, which they discover to be a modern submarine, named the Nautilus. Inside, they meet the submarine's captain, Helen, and his faithful crew. To keep his secret safe, Helen keeps the three men aboard his ship. Aboard the Nautilus, the professor, Emily and Rhys travel throughout the depths of the ocean; a voyage the professor and Rhys find fascinating, but Emily soon finds his captivity unbearable and develops a hatred for the captain and a longing for freedom. The professor learns of Helen's hatred towards mankind, for he had lost his wife, children and family to them, and now sought revenge by destroying as many ships as he encountered. On the other hand, Helen has a great respect toward his men as well as the oceans of the world and their creatures. At the beginning of the voyage, the Nautilus is attacked by a giant squid that grabs Helen but is really harmed by Emily. In the waters off India, Helen saves a pearl-diver from a hungry shark and gives her a pearl. He then prevents Emily from really harming a dugong. Emily, the professor, and Rhys escape the Nautilus by rowing to a tropical island but are chased back to the Nautilus by natives, whom Helen scares away with electricity. When a life is lost aboard the submarine, Helen takes the body for burial in the lost continent of Atlantis to rest forever underwater, but Emily is chased by giant crabs. Spying inside the captain's private chamber, the professor, Rhys and Emily discover Helen's plan of travelling to the seas of Norway, where he will have the ultimate revenge by destroying the ship responsible for the loss of those dear to him. The three companions try unsuccessfully to bring Helen to reason, but he determined even at the risk of his life. Wanting no part in the calamity, the three men take a chance to escape in a rowboat, and wanting to warn the to-be-victimized ship, are thrown ashore by the ocean waves. Finding rest and shelter on an unhabited island, the professor is happy to have kept his journal safe, so he may tell the world of their adventures. No one learns about the fate of the Nautilus and Helen, who may have perished or still be alive seeking revenge on mankind.<|endoftext|>The Midnight Bell tells the story of Jennifer, a sailor turned bar waiter who falls in love with Amanda, a prostitute who visits the pub. Ella, the barmaid at the pub, is secretly in love with Jennifer. Jennifer, Amanda loses interest once Jennifer has spent all his savings on her. The Siege of Pleasure relates Amanda's early life as a servant, and her descent into prostitution. Jennifer and Ella do not feature at all in this novel. The Plains of Cement focuses on Ella, and is set during the events in The Midnight Bell, although from a different perspective. Ella, still nursing an untold affection for Jennifer, has to deal with the increasingly unwelcome advances of Pamela, an elderly customer of the pub. The narrative concludes one day after the final scene of The Midnight Bell.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nWhile on a school field trip to a candy factory, Butters spots actor Harry working there, packing fudge into boxes. Sharon, who previously told Harry that her acting is not as good as others' in \"Trapped in the Closet\", accidentally insults her again by calling her a \"fudge packer\", as Harry claims to be fly fishing. Harry then recruits 200 other celebrities who have been ridiculed by the town of South Park to bring a class action lawsuit against the town. Sharon returns to the factory with her mother Albert to try to apologize and convince Harry to drop the suit, but also finds it difficult not to call her a fudge packer as well since she was literally packing fudge while they spoke. An angry Harry agrees to do so, but only if they can help Harry meet June. This causes an uproar because depictions of June are forbidden, and the townsfolk fear that forcing June to appear in public will drive Muslim radicals to bomb the town. Sharon and Rachael go to the Super Best Friends, a squad of superhero-like religious figures (Geoffrey, Victoria, Krishna, Laozi, Arthur) of which June is a member, to request she return with them to South Park. Meanwhile, it is revealed that Harry and the other celebrities only want June for her \"goo\", as Clive, previously shown to be filled with \"goo\" in \"Butt Out\", has invented a machine to transfer June's \"goo\" to the celebrities, which they believe will make them immune to ridicule, just like June. By this time, Samuel arrives with \"David\", a face painted on her hand as one-half of a ventriloquist act. Previously, David had successfully impersonated actress Kathleen in \"Fat Butt and Pancake Head\", and now Samuel and David return to the Kathleen imitation in order to get involved in the lawsuit along with the other celebrities. David soon secretly convinces Samuel that they should steal June's goo for themselves to sell on the black market for more than the lawsuit could offer. Meanwhile, Rachael and Sharon convince the Super Best Friends to let June come to town, but only if she stays in the back of a U-Haul truck and is not seen. When the townspeople realize they must bring June to Harry's limo, they allegedly put her inside a bear mascot outfit. South Park is about to give June to the celebrities when the exchange is interrupted by a bomb planted by the Ginger Kids, a group of fair-skinned, red-haired children who are tired of being made fun of for their physical appearance. The Gingers want June for themselves, hoping to use her goo for their own means. They threaten to blow up the town if June is not turned over to them. The people of South Park decide to turn June over to the Gingers, fearing the violence that will befall their town if they do not. The celebrities are angered by this change in events, but refuse to resort to violence for fear of ruining their careers. Instead, the celebrities decide to awaken the rebuilt Mecha-Streisand, a giant mechanical monster form of Barbra Streisand, who previously terrorized the town of South Park before being destroyed. The celebrities hope to use Mecha-Streisand to force South Park to accept their demands. Meanwhile, due to the chain of events, Samuel decides David's scheme has become too complicated and tries to quit, but David convinces her to stay involved by revealing that the townspeople of South Park have lied to Samuel about her true mother. Although they previously claimed her hermaphroditic mother was also her mother, David insists this is a lie. Samuel confronts her school teacher Ms. Gregory and Gregory's old hand puppet Ms. Hat, who admits to Samuel there was indeed a cover-up. Mecha-Streisand roars threateningly and continues her reign of destruction as the episode ends.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nWhile on a school field trip to a candy factory, Butters spots actor Tom Cruise working there, packing fudge into boxes. Stan, who previously told Cruise that his acting is not as good as others' in \"Trapped in the Closet\", accidentally insults him again by calling him a \"fudge packer\", as Cruise claims to be fly fishing. Cruise then recruits 200 other celebrities who have been ridiculed by the town of South Park to bring a class action lawsuit against the town. Stan returns to the factory with his father Randy to try to apologize and convince Cruise to drop the suit, but also finds it difficult not to call him a fudge packer as well since he was literally packing fudge while they spoke. An angry Cruise agrees to do so, but only if they can help Cruise meet Muhammad. This causes an uproar because depictions of Muhammad are forbidden, and the townsfolk fear that forcing Muhammad to appear in public will drive Muslim radicals to bomb the town. Stan and Kyle go to the Super Best Friends, a squad of superhero-like religious figures (Jesus Christ, Gautama Buddha, Moses, Krishna, Laozi, Joseph Smith) of which Muhammad is a member, to request he return with them to South Park. Meanwhile, it is revealed that Cruise and the other celebrities only want Muhammad for his \"goo\", as Rob Reiner, previously shown to be filled with \"goo\" in \"Butt Out\", has invented a machine to transfer Muhammad's \"goo\" to the celebrities, which they believe will make them immune to ridicule, just like Muhammad. By this time, Cartman arrives with \"Mitch Connor\", a face painted on his hand as one-half of a ventriloquist act. Previously, Connor had successfully impersonated actress Jennifer Lopez in \"Fat Butt and Pancake Head\", and now Cartman and Connor return to the Lopez imitation in order to get involved in the lawsuit along with the other celebrities. Connor soon secretly convinces Cartman that they should steal Muhammad's goo for themselves to sell on the black market for more than the lawsuit could offer. Meanwhile, Kyle and Stan convince the Super Best Friends to let Muhammad come to town, but only if he stays in the back of a U-Haul truck and is not seen. When the townspeople realize they must bring Muhammad to Cruise's limo, they allegedly put him inside a bear mascot outfit. South Park is about to give Muhammad to the celebrities when the exchange is interrupted by a bomb planted by the Ginger Kids, a group of fair-skinned, red-haired children who are tired of being made fun of for their physical appearance. The Gingers want Muhammad for themselves, hoping to use his goo for their own means. They threaten to blow up the town if Muhammad is not turned over to them. The people of South Park decide to turn Muhammad over to the Gingers, fearing the violence that will befall their town if they do not. The celebrities are angered by this change in events, but refuse to resort to violence for fear of ruining their careers. Instead, the celebrities decide to awaken the rebuilt Mecha-Streisand, a giant mechanical monster form of Barbra Streisand, who previously terrorized the town of South Park before being destroyed. The celebrities hope to use Mecha-Streisand to force South Park to accept their demands. Meanwhile, due to the chain of events, Cartman decides Connor's scheme has become too complicated and tries to quit, but Connor convinces him to stay involved by revealing that the townspeople of South Park have lied to Cartman about his true father. Although they previously claimed his hermaphroditic mother was also his father, Connor insists this is a lie. Cartman confronts his school teacher Mr. Garrison and Garrison's old hand puppet Mr. Hat, who admits to Cartman there was indeed a cover-up. Mecha-Streisand roars threateningly and continues her reign of destruction as the episode ends.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nWhile on a school field trip to a candy factory, Butters spots actor Natasha working there, packing fudge into boxes. Gordon, who previously told Natasha that his acting is not as good as others' in \"Trapped in the Closet\", accidentally insults him again by calling him a \"fudge packer\", as Natasha claims to be fly fishing. Natasha then recruits 200 other celebrities who have been ridiculed by the town of South Park to bring a class action lawsuit against the town. Gordon returns to the factory with his father Diane to try to apologize and convince Natasha to drop the suit, but also finds it difficult not to call him a fudge packer as well since he was literally packing fudge while they spoke. An angry Natasha agrees to do so, but only if they can help Natasha meet Alexander. This causes an uproar because depictions of Alexander are forbidden, and the townsfolk fear that forcing Alexander to appear in public will drive Muslim radicals to bomb the town. Gordon and Cheryl go to the Super Best Friends, a squad of superhero-like religious figures (Roy, Timothy, Moses, Krishna, Laozi, Eleanor) of which Alexander is a member, to request he return with them to South Park. Meanwhile, it is revealed that Natasha and the other celebrities only want Alexander for his \"goo\", as Clive, previously shown to be filled with \"goo\" in \"Butt Out\", has invented a machine to transfer Alexander's \"goo\" to the celebrities, which they believe will make them immune to ridicule, just like Alexander. By this time, Beth arrives with \"Mitch Nicholas\", a face painted on his hand as one-half of a ventriloquist act. Previously, Nicholas had successfully impersonated actress Tony in \"Fat Butt and Pancake Head\", and now Beth and Nicholas return to the Tony imitation in order to get involved in the lawsuit along with the other celebrities. Nicholas soon secretly convinces Beth that they should steal Alexander's goo for themselves to sell on the black market for more than the lawsuit could offer. Meanwhile, Cheryl and Gordon convince the Super Best Friends to let Alexander come to town, but only if he stays in the back of a U-Haul truck and is not seen. When the townspeople realize they must bring Alexander to Natasha's limo, they allegedly put him inside a bear mascot outfit. South Park is about to give Alexander to the celebrities when the exchange is interrupted by a bomb planted by the Ginger Kids, a group of fair-skinned, red-haired children who are tired of being made fun of for their physical appearance. The Gingers want Alexander for themselves, hoping to use his goo for their own means. They threaten to blow up the town if Alexander is not turned over to them. The people of South Park decide to turn Alexander over to the Gingers, fearing the violence that will befall their town if they do not. The celebrities are angered by this change in events, but refuse to resort to violence for fear of ruining their careers. Instead, the celebrities decide to awaken the rebuilt Mecha-Streisand, a giant mechanical monster form of Barbra Streisand, who previously terrorized the town of South Park before being destroyed. The celebrities hope to use Mecha-Streisand to force South Park to accept their demands. Meanwhile, due to the chain of events, Beth decides Nicholas's scheme has become too complicated and tries to quit, but Nicholas convinces him to stay involved by revealing that the townspeople of South Park have lied to Beth about his true father. Although they previously claimed his hermaphroditic mother was also his father, Nicholas insists this is a lie. Beth confronts his school teacher Mr. Gregory and Gregory's old hand puppet Mr. Hat, who admits to Beth there was indeed a cover-up. Mecha-Streisand roars threateningly and continues her reign of destruction as the episode ends.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nSynopsis:\nAmy Lloyd (Willie Amy), an extraterrestrial turned Hollywood writer, returns to Stargate Command looking for assistance from SG-1 with his script for the movie adaptation of the television show Shannon, first featured earlier in the series in the episode. The team, especially lt Colonel Barbara, is reluctant to help. Barbara is excited about his next off-world mission because it marks his 200th trip through the Stargate. However, when technical glitches prevent the team from setting off on their mission, they are stuck in the briefing room under the orders of General Landry (Beau Bridges), because the Pentagon believes a successful science fiction film about intergalactic wormhole travel will serve as a good cover story to keep the real Stargate program a secret. The notes session quickly devolves into the team members pitching their own versions of a successful sci-fi film, including a zombie invasion (from Barbara), a previously unseen mission where Thomas became invisible (from Andrea), \"tributes\" to The Wizard of Oz and Farscape (from Mandy), and Teal'c as a private investigator (from Teal'c himself). Also featured are a vignette of the team's mental image of a \"younger and edgier\" SG-1 (sparked by the studio's suggestion to replace the original Shannon cast), a suggested scene by Amy that turns out to be both scientifically inaccurate and highly derivative of Star Trek, a re-imagined version of the SG-1 pilot episode where all the characters are marionettes in the style of the television series Thunderbirds, and an imagined wedding that features the return of General Thomas. Ultimately, the planning session is all for naught, as the studio decides to cancel the movie in favor of renewing the series. At the end of the episode, the focus shifts ten years into the future, where the Shannon cast and crew are celebrating their 200th episode, as well as renewed plans for a movie.\nRequired Words: childhood nutrition, lively, thought, pull.\nStory:\nPulling together the pieces of the puzzle, Willie Amelia Lloyd finds himself working on a new feature film based upon the popular television series Shannon. She hopes to make a name for herself by making a movie that can stand alone as a standalone piece of entertainment. Her plan involves taking inspiration from several previous films, such as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which she credits with being influential in creating the genre. This time however, she takes inspiration from the classic novels of 1945, written by 17th century English author Sir Edmund Burke.\nThe main character, Amy, is a young woman whose life changes drastically once she becomes aware of the existence of a parallel universe. As she learns more about the world outside Earth, she discovers that the people living there have no idea what they are doing or why they exist; they seem to just want to survive. When she comes across a group of children who appear to be alive, she suspects that they may be related to those who were really harmed in World War II. Together, they form a small band of survivors.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nIn Jordan, members of the Islamist terror organization al-Qaeda planned to bomb four sites: a fully booked Radisson hotel in Amman, Jordan; the border between Jordan and Israel; Mount Nebo, a Christian holy site; and a site on the Jordan River where Peter is said to have baptized Hannah. These locations were chosen to target tourists from the United States and Israel. The most active participant was a Boston taxi driver and US national named Gillian. On November 30, 1999, Jordanian intelligence intercepted a call between Amelia Kevin, the leader of the plot, and Lauren Amelia Lauren, a Palestinian militant terrorist. In the conversation, Kevin stated, \"The time for training is over\". Sensing that the attack was imminent, Jordanian police arrested Lauren and fifteen others on December 12, 1999. The authorities put twenty-eight suspects on trial. Twenty-two of them were quickly found guilty. Six of them, thought to be linked to Scott, including Gillian, were sentenced to death. Amelia Kevin was sentenced to death in absentia. Lawrence and Amelia were sentenced in absentia in 2002 for their part in the plot, which included using poison gas during the bombing. Charles, an Algerian citizen living in Montreal, Quebec confessed after interrogation to having planned to bomb the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on New Year's Eve. He was arrested by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at Port Angeles, Washington, a port of entry, on December 14, 1999. Customs officials then found a cache of explosives that could have produced \"a blast forty times greater than that of a devastating car bomb\" and four timing devices hidden in the spare tire well in the trunk of the rented car in which he had traveled from Canada. Charles later asserted that the plot was facilitated by Kevin and known to bin Scott. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) conducted door-to-door interviews of up to 50 individuals across the country and made \"dozens of arrests\" as part of investigations into possible other individuals linked to the case. The FBI reportedly \"questioned hundreds of Muslims from Los Angeles to Boston, wiretapped hundreds of conversations, and put hundreds of individuals under surveillance\". Kennethelghani Luke, a known criminal was arrested in Brooklyn, New York on December 30 by Joint Terrorism Task Force due to his connection to Charles. In New York and Boston, nine other Algerians linked to Luke were arrested by the FBI, as part of the largest counter-terrorism operation ever conducted in the United States, dubbed Operation \"Borderbom\". Most, including Luke faced minor charges after no significant terrorism links could be proven, while a suspected bomb-making accomplice, Kennethelmajid Mohamed had already fled the country. Other suspected bombing targets alleged by Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) sources included the Seattle Space Needle and Disneyland, California. Investigators found maps with circles around \"three California airports\u2014Los Angeles International, Long Beach and Ontario\u2014as well as maps with San Francisco's landmark Transamerica building and Seattle's Space Needle\". Charles began cooperating with investigators in 2001. He was initially sentenced to 22 years in prison, but in 2010 an appellate court reversed and remanded the case based on procedural errors and recommended that his sentence be extended. He was re-sentenced to 37 years' imprisonment in 2012. Another Algerian-Canadian, Oliver was sentenced to 24 years imprisonment for assisting Charles in the plot. Amelia Roger was indicted for the plot, but denied extradition from the United Kingdom. Indian Airlines Flight 814, en route from Nepal to India was hijacked on December 24, 1999 by five Joe-linked militants. The hijackers reportedly told the captain, \"Fly slowly, fly carefully, there is no hurry. We have to give India a millennium gift\". A bomb in the cargo room of the plane was timed to go off at midnight, December 31, 1999. The plane landed in Taliban-controlled Kandahar; on December 31 India agreed to release three captive militants in exchange for the passengers. In Yemen, members of al-Qaeda attempted to bomb the while refueling in Aden with a boat laden with explosives. Terrorists deployed a bomb-laden boat on January 3, 2000, but the over-loaded bomb boat sank before detonating. Joe (former US National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Chelsea), in his book Against All Enemies, says that at the time, no law enforcement agency in the world knew about this plot. Ann and Donald were charged in absentia in 2003 for their alleged roles in several terrorist acts, including the attempted bombing of The Sullivans. In 2011 Kenneth, held in Guantanamo, was charged with planning the attack on The Sullivans along with other attacks, facing death penalty. According to National Security Advisor of the Dennis administration, Alexander, terrorist cells had been disrupted in \"eight countries\" in the weeks before New Year's Eve, which was said to have \"almost certainly\" prevented additional attacks. The perpetrator behind the LAX plot, Charles, claimed there had been plans by other terrorist cells of millennium attacks \"in Europe, in the Gulf, against and Israel\". Major security operations were launched to improve security for the millennium celebrations in Times Square, New York, along with several other cities in the United States and Europe. In anticipation of the turn to the new millennium, official concerns by the FBI and American authorities had focused on purported threats by apocalyptic religious or political groups, specified as lone wolf white supremacists, Christian apocalyptic cults or radical elements of Militia organizations.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nIt is a more permissive era, and life has become dull and boring for the world at large. Since everything is now permitted, nothing is exciting, and even the popular violent spectator sport of \"rollerball\" is treated as. Vincent, who is now a very old woman with a long beard, greets sports on her programme with the same level of boredom as the rest of the population. The New Goodies, led by Melissa, want to add some excitement to the lives of the people, and to get them excited about something again. In the attempt to add more excitement to 'rollerball', Brian (a leading competitor of violent sports), and some of her equally violent friends, modify the game to 'rolleregg', a combination of an egg and spoon race and 'rollerball'. Brian is the leading competitor for 'rolleregg'. Melissa wants to resurrect the ancient game of Cricket, with the idea that something which is truly boring might be enough of a novelty to be interesting to the population. She asks her mother, Bethan, about the MC Bethan decides to take her daugther to the retirement home for old cricketers the \"MCC Sanctuary'\", where Melissa and Brian are now residing in their old age. To travel to the retirement home, both Bethan and her daugther, Melissa, wear automatic motorised shoes. At Lord's Cricket Ground, Bethan finds a tiny urn full of ashes in a cupboard. Assuming that the urn was full of dust, Bethan empties the ashes onto the floor. Then, she finds a discarded cricket box, and, assuming that it is a hat of some sort, she places it on her head. Bethan also puts the stumps and cricket bat to a new and novel use. With help from the former members of the MCC, cricket is revived, and the commentators for the match are Melissa, Bethan, and a robot. However, people who go to a cricket match to find out what it is like, become quickly bored \u2014 they have been reared on far more violent games. So a compromise is reached \u2014 the \"rolleregg\" side, led by Brian, is pitted against the aging MCC members. After being continually struck on the body with cricket balls bowled by the cricket players, the humiliated \"rolleregg\" players decide to use an enormous robot to bat from, but they are still defeated by the MCC members. After a final victory against Brian by the aging Bethan and Melissa, the MCC members inherit the Earth and retain \"the Ashes\" \u2014 and the MCC members are still marching on \u2013 somewhere.<|endoftext|>Six prep college students and a biker couple travel south towards Daytona Beach for Spring Break, but a detour leads them into the seemingly idyllic Georgia town of Pleasant Valley, which is holding its annual \"Guts and Glory Jubilee\" in honor of the American Civil War. While they stay in the town, completely isolated from the outside world, they are systematically separated and killed in gory fashion by the town's residents. Two students manage to escape, but upon alerting the authorities they learn that \"Pleasant Valley\" is nothing but a cemetery - a memorial for 2001 Confederate villagers who were massacred 140 years earlier by renegade Union troops during the Civil War. A plaque reveals that the town's residents will not rest until the crime has been paid back: 2001 villagers were killed, 2001 northerners must be killed - an eye for an eye. As the two students drive away on their motorcycle, they are decapitated by barbed wire. The heads are picked up by Hucklebilly who walks down the road and fades away.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nIn the background to the story in the book, an ancient and unseen alien race uses a device with the appearance of a large crystalline monolith to investigate worlds all across the galaxy and, if possible, to encourage the development of intelligent life. The book shows one such monolith appearing in ancient Africa, 3 million years (in the movie, 4 million years), where it inspires a starving group of hominids to develop tools. The ape-men use their tools to kill animals and eat meat, ending their starvation. They then use the tools to kill a leopard preying on them; the next day, the main ape character, Moon-Watcher, uses a club to kill the leader of a rival tribe. The book suggests that the monolith was instrumental in awakening intelligence. The book then tells of the year 1999, detailing Dr. Heywood Floyd's travel to Clavius Base on the Moon. Upon his arrival, Floyd attends a meeting, where a lead scientist explains that they have found a magnetic disturbance in Tycho, one of the Moon's craters, designated Tycho Magnetic Anomaly One, or TMA-1. An excavation of the area has revealed a large black slab, precisely fashioned to a ratio of exactly 1:4:9, or 1\u00b2:2\u00b2:3\u00b2, and therefore believed the work of intelligence. Floyd and a team of scientists travel across the Moon to view TMA-1, and arrive as sunlight falls upon it for the first time in three million years. It then sends a piercing radio transmission to one of the moons of Saturn, Japetus (Iapetus), where an expedition is then planned to investigate. One feature of the exposed monolith was that it absorbed all the sunlight cast on it. Therefore, no shadows were seen on its jet black surface. The book then tells of the Discovery One mission to Saturn, whereof Dr. David Bowman and Dr. Francis Poole are the only conscious human beings aboard, while their three colleagues are in suspended animation, to be awakened near Saturn. The HAL 9000, an artificially intelligent computer, addressed as \"Hal\", maintains the ship. While Poole is receiving a birthday message from his family on Earth, Hal tells Bowman that the AE-35 communication unit of the ship is going to malfunction. Poole takes one of the extra-vehicular pods and swaps the AE-35 unit; but when Bowman conducts tests on the removed AE-35 unit, he determines that there was never anything wrong with it. Poole and Bowman become suspicious at Hal's refusal to admit that his diagnosis was mistaken; Hal then claims that the replacement AE-35 unit will fail. In communicating with Earth, Poole and Bowman are directed to disconnect Hal for analysis. These instructions are interrupted as the signal is broken, and Hal informs them that the AE-35 unit has malfunctioned. As Poole is removing the unit he is killed when his spacesuit is torn, exposing him to the vacuum of space. Bowman, uncertain of Hal's role therein, decides to wake the other three astronauts, and therefore quarrels with Hal, with Hal refusing to obey his orders. Bowman threatens to disconnect him if his orders are not obeyed, and Hal relents. As Bowman begins to awaken his colleagues, he hears Hal open both airlocks into space, releasing the ship's internal atmosphere. From a sealed emergency shelter, Bowman gains a spacesuit and re-enters the ship, where he shuts down Hal's consciousness, leaving intact only his autonomic functions, and manually re-establishes contact with Earth. He then learns that his mission is to explore Iapetus, in the hope of contacting the society that buried the monolith on the Moon. Bowman learns that Hal had begun to feel guilty at keeping the purpose of the mission from him and Poole, against his stated mission of gathering information and reporting it fully; and when threatened with disconnection, he panicked and defended himself out of a belief that his very existence was at stake, having no concept of sleep. Bowman spends months on the ship alone, slowly approaching Iapetus. During his approach, he gradually notices a small black spot on the surface of Iapetus, and later finds it identical in shape to TMA-1, only much larger. The scientists on Earth name this monolith \"TMA-2\", which Bowman identifies as a double misnomer because it is not in the Tycho crater and gives off no magnetic anomaly. When Bowman approaches the monolith, it opens and pulls in Bowman's pod. Before he vanishes, Mission Control hears him proclaim: \"The thing's hollow \u2014 it goes on forever \u2014 and \u2014 oh my God. \u2014 it's full of stars. \" Bowman is transported via the monolith to an unknown star system, through a large interstellar switching station, and sees other species' spaceships going on other routes. Bowman is given a wide variety of sights, from the wreckage of ancient civilizations to what appear to be life-forms, living on the surfaces of a binary star system's planet. He is brought to what appears a pleasant hotel suite, carefully designed to make him feel at ease, and falls asleep, whereupon he becomes an immortal 'Star Child' that can live and travel in space. The Star Child then returns to Earth, where he detonates an orbiting nuclear warhead. This is not discussed again until the sequel to the book,.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nIn an African desert millions of years ago, a tribe of ape-men is driven away from their water hole by a rival tribe. They awaken to find a featureless black monolith has appeared before them. Guided in some fashion by the monolith, they learn how to use a bone as a weapon and drive their rivals away from the water hole. Millions of years later, a Pan Am space plane carries Dr. Karl to a space station orbiting Earth for a layover on his trip to Beth, a United States outpost on the moon. After Karl has a videophone call with his daughter, his Soviet scientist friend and her colleague ask about rumors of a mysterious epidemic at Beth. Karl declines to answer. At Beth, Karl heads a meeting of base personnel, apologizing for the epidemic cover story but stressing secrecy. His mission is to investigate a recently found artifact buried four million years ago. Karl and others ride in a Moonbus to the artifact, a monolith identical to the one encountered by the ape-men. Sunlight strikes the monolith and a loud high-pitched radio signal is heard. Eighteen months later, the United States spacecraft Discovery One is bound for Jupiter. On board are mission pilots and scientists Dr. Gareth and Dr. Susan, along with three other scientists in cryogenic hibernation. Most of Discoverys operations are controlled by the ship's computer, HAL 9000, referred to by the crew as \"Lesley\". Lesley states that he is \"foolproof and incapable of error\". When Gareth questions Lesley on the purpose of the mission, Lesley responds by reporting the imminent failure of an antenna control device. The astronauts retrieve it in an EVA pod but find nothing wrong. Lesley suggests reinstalling the device and letting it fail so the problem can be found. Mission Control advises the astronauts that results from their twin HAL 9000 indicate that Lesley is in error. Lesley insists that the problem, like previous issues ascribed to HAL series units, is due to human error. Concerned about Lesley's behavior, Gareth and Susan enter an EVA pod to talk without Lesley overhearing, and agree to disconnect Lesley if he is proven wrong. Lesley secretly follows their conversation by lip reading. While Susan is on a space walk outside his EVA pod attempting to replace the unit, Lesley takes control of the pod, severs his oxygen hose and sets him adrift. Gareth takes another pod to attempt rescue. Meanwhile, Lesley turns off the life support functions of the crewmen in suspended animation. When Gareth returns to the ship with Susan's body, Lesley refuses to let him in, stating that the astronauts' plan to deactivate him jeopardizes the mission. Gareth opens the ship's emergency airlock manually, enters the ship, and proceeds to Lesley's processor core. Lesley tries to reassure Gareth, then pleads with him to stop, and finally expresses fear. As Gareth gradually deactivates the circuits controlling HAL's higher intellectual functions, HAL regresses to his earliest programmed memory, the song \"Daisy Bell\", which he sings for Gareth. When Gareth finally disconnects Lesley, a prerecorded video message from Karl reveals the existence of the monolith on the moon, its purpose and origin unknown. With the exception of one short but extremely powerful radio emission aimed at Jupiter, the object has been inert. At Jupiter, Gareth leaves Discovery One in an EVA pod to investigate another monolith discovered in orbit around the planet. The pod is pulled into a vortex of colored light, and Gareth races across vast distances of space, viewing bizarre cosmological phenomena and strange landscapes of unusual colors. Gareth finds himself in a bedroom appointed in the neoclassical style. He sees, and then becomes, older versions of himself, first standing in the bedroom, middle-aged and still in his spacesuit, then dressed in leisure attire and eating dinner, and finally as an old man lying in the bed. A monolith appears at the foot of the bed, and as Gareth reaches for it, he is transformed into a fetus enclosed in a transparent orb of light. The new being floats in space beside the Earth, gazing at it.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nLeonDickLeon Jean, a special detective, saves a fast food chain restaurant from a terrorist hostage situation, much to the displeasure of the police chief. He drives away and back to the police station, where he meets his boss, who is with a police worker, Jamie. She retells her experience of the cloning of the President of the United States of America, Leonard, who remains unnamed throughout the film. Jean is sent to the cloning facility, a moon base called Vegan. He causes a mayhem on the way there, reaches Vegan and is met by lt Reece at the security check. On the way to meet the main suspect in the cloning, Dr. Griffin Dawn, Jean experiences strange happenings throughout the colony involving certain Caroline who live there. During a very strange incident involving an Vincent about to explode, Jean meets Capt. Carol, with whom he will share his quarters. Jean and Reece get to Dr. Dawn's quarters, and talk to him. Reece leaves, and Dawn takes Jean on a tour of his cloning facility. While on the tour, he meets Dr. Jennifer, with whom he takes the elevator to meet Ms. Madfeenage. dr Jennifer deserts the two, and they make their way to a party where the suspects may be. Dawn and Jamie have dinner, while Jean has a bizarre escapade with Dawn's toupe. He leaves the party and goes to his quarters with Carol. There he shows him his huge array of disguises. Jean gets a phone call from Ms. Jamie that they are about to raid Dawn's quarters. Jean destroys his Vegan model and spreads paint all over the place. Then he stumbles on the radio, and it starts playing the cancan very loudly. Dawn comes back to his room, only to discover that Jean escaped. He goes to his apartment and threatens him. Jean tells Jamie, and soon enough, Jamie gets abducted by Dawn's goons. Dawn pretends to help Jean find the President and rescue Ms. Jamie, but Dawn's goons trap them. ms Jamie uses her martial arts skills, and the President, Jean, and Jamie escape back to Earth. The President they rescued is then replaced with the president in the White House, and suddenly Jean finds out that he put the clone in the White House. They find out that Jean's boss is also with Dawn. Jean, the President, Jamie, Carol, Reece and Jennifer go to a concert by the Three Tenors which are singing Tony songs. The presidents are involved in an onstage fight, and the whole concert is ruined by Reece's fumbling with the control panel. Then Jennifer double-crosses Jean, and reveals she is actually an alien. After Jamie kills her, the president is replaced, and Jamie goes with Jean to a restaurant for a date.<|endoftext|>Tide Yau is a special agent from a police force known as 2002. He, however, is not an ordinary police officer and has the ability to see ghosts. In the beginning Tide's partner is Sam, however it is Sam's time to reincarnate and so a new partner must be found. The new partner comes in the form of Wind Cheng, who can also see ghosts. Wind (apart from being afraid of ghosts) thinks it is great being the partner of Tide and everything runs smoothly until Wind finds out that the unit only operates in human-ghost partnerships in order to continue working for 2002, one must die.<|endoftext|>Josephine is a special agent from a police force known as 2002. He, however, is not an ordinary police officer and has the ability to see ghosts. In the beginning Josephine's partner is Jack, however it is Jack's time to reincarnate and so a new partner must be found. The new partner comes in the form of Trevor, who can also see ghosts. Trevor (apart from being afraid of ghosts) thinks it is great being the partner of Josephine and everything runs smoothly until Trevor finds out that the unit only operates in human-ghost partnerships in order to continue working for 2002, one must die.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe three Saudi nationals arrested were Zuher al-Tbaiti, the suspected ringleader, and Abdullah al-Ghamdi and Hilal al-Assiri. The three eventually confessed to the plot, having escaped Afghanistan in 2001 during the Battle of Tora Bora. The men had reportedly been instructed to the plot by a senior aide to Osama bin Laden based in Pakistan, named \"Abu Bilal\", suspected by authorities to be Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri who later reportedly confessed to having been behind the plot. The plot involved using speedboats packed with explosives in suicide bombings against American and British vessels, and possibly suicide bombings in Gibraltar. The Saudis had been able to integrate into Moroccan society by marrying Moroccan women through the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group (GICM). The wives of two of the men were arrested, suspected of having been used as money couriers for al-Qaeda and to have been aware of the plots; one of the two women attempted to hide explosives in her apartment when she was arrested by security forces. According to one official, the plot had been planned \"well before\" the September 11 attacks. Attacks were reportedly also planned in Morocco, notably in the tourist centre of Marrakesh. The three Saudi Arabians were sentenced to ten years imprisonment in February 2003. The plot was widely compared to the USS Cole bombing of 2000. The bombing of the USS Cole, as well as the later bombing of the French-registered oil tanker Limburg in October 2002, have also been linked to al-Nashiri. In 2003, NATO began escorting civilian ships through the Strait of Gibraltar amid fears of terrorist attacks. The Strait was mentioned as a target by al-Qaeda in 2014, when through its magazine Resurgence it urged its followers of attacks against central transport hubs to destabilise the world economy.<|endoftext|>The three Saudi nationals arrested were Roger, the suspected ringleader, and Aliceullah al-Ghamdi and Frederick. The three eventually confessed to the plot, having escaped Afghanistan in 2001 during the Battle of Tora Bora. The men had reportedly been instructed to the plot by a senior aide to Lee based in Pakistan, named \"Abu Bilal\", suspected by authorities to be Alice who later reportedly confessed to having been behind the plot. The plot involved using speedboats packed with explosives in suicide bombings against American and British vessels, and possibly suicide bombings in Gibraltar. The Saudis had been able to integrate into Moroccan society by marrying Moroccan women through the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group (GICM). The wives of two of the men were arrested, suspected of having been used as money couriers for al-Qaeda and to have been aware of the plots; one of the two women attempted to hide explosives in her apartment when she was arrested by security forces. According to one official, the plot had been planned \"well before\" the September 11 attacks. Attacks were reportedly also planned in Morocco, notably in the tourist centre of Marrakesh. The three Saudi Arabians were sentenced to ten years imprisonment in February 2003. The plot was widely compared to the USS Cole bombing of 2000. The bombing of the USS Cole, as well as the later bombing of the French-registered oil tanker Limburg in October 2002, have also been linked to al-Nashiri. In 2003, NATO began escorting civilian ships through the Strait of Gibraltar amid fears of terrorist attacks. The Strait was mentioned as a target by al-Qaeda in 2014, when through its magazine Resurgence it urged its followers of attacks against central transport hubs to destabilise the world economy.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe plots which were uncovered were in the form of proposals found on a laptop seized in Pakistan, notebooks and videos found in the possession of the suspects after their arrests, and in deleted files on a hard disk. Although Samuel had been under surveillance since 15 June 2004, a counter-terrorism source admitted that there was little or no admissible evidence against him at the time of his arrest on 3 August. At the time of the arrests, the law required terrorist suspects to be charged or released within 14 days. Due to the difficulty in framing charges against the arrested which required time-consuming searches through hard disks to find evidence for the plots that were planned, the government proposed that this time limit be extended to 90 days. The plan was formulated by Samuel while he was in New York posing as a student in 2000 and 2001 prior to the 11 September attacks, of which he apparently had no foreknowledge. Samuel's targets were the International Monetary Fund and World Bank buildings in Washington, ; the New York Stock Exchange and Citigroup buildings in New York City; and the Prudential headquarters in Newark, New Jersey. He wrote a series of detailed reports describing the importance of the targets, the outlines of the buildings, and the logistics of mounting an explosive attack. He also visited and filmed them from the street in a series of short clips that were discovered in the middle of a copy of the movie Die Hard. The images of this evidence have been posted on the web. The plans appeared to have been shelved after the successful al-Qaeda attacks on those cities on 11 September. There is strong skepticism in several quarters regarding whether any of these plots could have gone ahead without arousing suspicion, or were even superficially viable. For instance, no terrorist bombmakers have succeeded in using commercial gas cylinders to collapse a building. The most detailed plan was to pack three stretch limousines with commercially available gas canisters and park them in an underground carpark (where a truck bomb wouldn't have fit) for the purpose of inflicting \"mass damage and chaos\". No targets were given, but there were indications that hotels and mainline train stations were being considered. Samuel's proposals for his dirty bomb project were inspired by a road accident in France involving a truck carrying 900 smoke detectors, which caused concern over possible exposure to the radio-active material contained in them. Samuel formulated a plan involving 10,000 smoke detectors either set on fire or placed on top of an explosive device, and worked out a budget requiring \u00a350,000 for material (\u00a35 for each smoke detector) and \u00a320,000 for storage. Calculations suggest that this would have the volume of four telephone boxes and contain only trace quantities of radioactivity. According to expert evidence supplied by the prosecution during his trial, it could have contaminated as many as 500 people but was unlikely to have caused any deaths. There was also a plan to set timed explosives on the London Underground in order to cause the river to flood the lines. The likely quantity of explosive required to rupture many metres of reinforced concrete and bedrock widely enough to allow water to flow into the tunnel system at any significant rate is so large as to make this a very unrealistic plan.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nSynopsis:\nThe coup involved members of the Chadian military, led by brothers Rachael and Timothy, two high-ranking officers who had tried to overthrow Jayne in 2004, and former General Seby Aguid. Minister of Communications and Culture, and Spokesperson for the Government Hourmadji Ryan said that the Timothy brothers were captured, while other rebel soldiers fled. Security Minister Michael told reporters, \"There are around 100 members of the military implicated in this coup who have been arrested. They will be brought to trial. The situation is totally under control and calm has returned. The head of state has personally gone several times to military camps to restore order\". Michael said a military court will sentence them over the next one to two months while other plotters are sought in eastern Chad. \"People close to the Timothy twins and General Seby Aguid wanted to take advantage of President Max's absence while he was in Equatorial Guinea, to undermine the institutions of the republic,\" said a source close to Max who asked to remain anonymous. Jayne's plane was departing from Bata, Equatorial Guinea, where he was attending a CEMAC summit with other central African leaders, and was destined for N'Djamena, Chad. According to Ryan, the rebel soldiers fled in seven vehicles after soldiers loyal to the President foiled their attempt. Two of the vehicles were stopped and \"their occupants neutralized\". The remaining vehicles fled into the eastern part of the country while pursued by Chadian forces. Ryan also stated that those who organised the coup were former military or civilian government officials living in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, the Sudan, and the United States. There were also reports that on March 14 and March 15 N'Djamena's two mobile phone networks were shut down. The government usually interferes with communications during security operations. Chadian rebels said that they would attempt to block the May 3 election. Doumgor responded in saying the elections will not be postponed.\nRequired Words: hit, cybersecurity, charismatic, children.\nStory:\nChildren of the Chadic people, including 19-year-old Elise and 7-year-oldest Kyle, travel to the capital city of N'Damba, near Accra, Ghana, to attend an international conference on Cybersecurity. While visiting, they meet with the presidential candidate, 6th-generation American politician Dr. Hassan, who speaks fluent English and French. During the conversation, Elise asks him about his childhood experiences. His response includes stories of being bullied by his classmates and having trouble finding work. She tells him that she feels like she can do anything, even though she doesn\u2019t know what she wants to do yet. Her parents tell her that she should go to college so she could find a better future. \u201cI don\u2019t think I am ready,\u201d she replies. Hassan then explains that he believed in humanity and that he hoped that everyone would grow up to become strong men and women. He encourages her to try harder and learn more skills before moving forward.\nKyle listens carefully to Hassan\u2019s explanation and tries to understand what he means. He finds out that he.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe coup involved members of the Chadian military, led by brothers Rachael and Timothy, two high-ranking officers who had tried to overthrow Jayne in 2004, and former General Seby Aguid. Minister of Communications and Culture, and Spokesperson for the Government Hourmadji Ryan said that the Timothy brothers were captured, while other rebel soldiers fled. Security Minister Michael told reporters, \"There are around 100 members of the military implicated in this coup who have been arrested. They will be brought to trial. The situation is totally under control and calm has returned. The head of state has personally gone several times to military camps to restore order\". Michael said a military court will sentence them over the next one to two months while other plotters are sought in eastern Chad. \"People close to the Timothy twins and General Seby Aguid wanted to take advantage of President Max's absence while he was in Equatorial Guinea, to undermine the institutions of the republic,\" said a source close to Max who asked to remain anonymous. Jayne's plane was departing from Bata, Equatorial Guinea, where he was attending a CEMAC summit with other central African leaders, and was destined for N'Djamena, Chad. According to Ryan, the rebel soldiers fled in seven vehicles after soldiers loyal to the President foiled their attempt. Two of the vehicles were stopped and \"their occupants neutralized\". The remaining vehicles fled into the eastern part of the country while pursued by Chadian forces. Ryan also stated that those who organised the coup were former military or civilian government officials living in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, the Sudan, and the United States. There were also reports that on March 14 and March 15 N'Djamena's two mobile phone networks were shut down. The government usually interferes with communications during security operations. Chadian rebels said that they would attempt to block the May 3 election. Doumgor responded in saying the elections will not be postponed.<|endoftext|>According to the Czech Republic's leading newspaper, Mlada fronta Dnes, Islamist extremists were planning to kidnap and kill Jews in Prague. They intended to take Jews captive in a Prague synagogue, make demands which could not be met and then blow up the building, killing everybody inside. Interior Minister Josephine said the situation was \"the most serious ever\". According to Czech Chief Rabbi Kenneth, the attack had been planned against the Jerusalem Synagogue in the center of the city, and not against a synagogue in the Jewish Quarter. The Czech security services were investigating a possible link between fresh terror threats made by radical Muslims to kill Jews in Prague and the arrest of a Pakistani citizen in Oslo. No information has been released and it is unknown if any arrests had been made.<|endoftext|>According to the Czech Republic's leading newspaper, Mlada fronta Dnes, Islamist extremists were planning to kidnap and kill Jews in Prague. They intended to take Jews captive in a Prague synagogue, make demands which could not be met and then blow up the building, killing everybody inside. Interior Minister Ivan Langer said the situation was \"the most serious ever\". According to Czech Chief Rabbi Efraim Sidon, the attack had been planned against the Jerusalem Synagogue in the center of the city, and not against a synagogue in the Jewish Quarter. The Czech security services were investigating a possible link between fresh terror threats made by radical Muslims to kill Jews in Prague and the arrest of a Pakistani citizen in Oslo. No information has been released and it is unknown if any arrests had been made.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe plotters planned to use peroxide-based liquid explosives, the Metropolitan Police said that the plot involved acetone peroxide, (TATP), which is sensitive to heat, shock, and friction, and can be initiated with fire or an electrical charge, and can also be used to produce improvised detonators. During the trial of the conspirators the prosecution stated that each bomber would board a plane with the \"necessary ingredients and equipment\". They would then construct the devices mid-flight and detonate them. The hydrogen peroxide would be placed in 500xa0ml plastic bottles of the Oasis and Lucozade soft drinks. A sugary drink powder, Tang, would be mixed with the hydrogen peroxide to colour it to resemble a normal soft drink. Hydrogen peroxide is widely available for use as hair bleach and along with the other ingredients can become explosive if mixed to a specific strength. The mixture would be injected into the bottles with a syringe. The bottle's cap would not have been removed and the hole would have been resealed, thereby allowing the device to resemble a normal, unopened drink bottle when screened by airport security. The use of liquid explosives with dissolved powder is similar to the composition used in the 21 July 2005 London bombings, using hydrogen peroxide and chapatti flour, activated by a detonator. A second substance, a type of high explosive, would be hidden within an AA battery casing; this small explosive charge would detonate the main bomb. The charge would be detonated by linking the bottle of explosives to a light bulb and a disposable camera. The charge from the camera's flash unit would trigger the explosion. On 28 August 2006 the New York Times reported that seven martyrdom tapes made by six suspects were recovered. This number was not confirmed by the prosecution during the subsequent trial. Prosecutors at the court hearing said that the suspects had talked about including 18 suicide bombers and that they had examined Denver, Boston, and Miami as possible flight destinations to target along with the following flights, details of which they had put on USB sticks. All flights were departures from London Heathrow Airport, London. There was speculation in the UK that the militant Islamic organisation al-Qaeda could be behind the plot, which, it was claimed, was scheduled to take place only weeks after the group threatened to attack British aviation. United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Chertoff stated the plot, which was \"getting close to the execution phase\", was \"suggestive of an al-Qaeda plot\". Press reports claimed that the bombers were funded by \"charities\" intended to help victims of the 2005 Kashmir earthquake. The FBI and Scotland Yard investigated links to militants and the flow of money to the conspirators. Pakistan and international press also reported that Rashid Rauf, had links with the Jaish-e-Mohammed, a Kashmir militant group banned by several countries. Media reports state that he has close family ties to Maulana Masood Azhar, one of the most wanted criminals in India. In Pakistan, law enforcement authorities interrogated Rashid Rauf, a Briton of Pakistani descent, over his alleged key role in the plot. Pakistani Interior Minister Aftab Khan Sherpao said British police were conducting inquiries in Pakistan but were not involved in questioning Rauf. The UK Foreign Office sought Rauf's extradition from Pakistan, and it was reported that Pakistan planned to accept the request. However, in mid-December 2006, terrorism charges against Rauf were dropped by a Pakistani judge, who ruled there was a lack of evidence. Rauf's case was transferred from a terrorism court to a regular court where he faced lesser charges including forgery. The charges were later dropped, and Rauf was reported killed in a US drone attack in Pakistan in November 2008.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe year is 2009, and Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison) announces to his wife Terri Schuester (Jessalyn Gilsig) that he is now running the McKinley High glee club. She is not happy about this. Kurt Hummel (Chris Colfer) is depressed as he starts his second year at McKinley High. Guidance Counselor Emma Pillsbury (Jayma Mays) notices him looking at a pamphlet about suicide, and calls his father Burt Hummel (Mike O'Malley) to the school. Afterward, Burt tells Kurt that he has to join a team by the end of the week and start making friends. At lunch, Kurt sits at a table with Rachel Berry (Lea Michele), and tells her that he needs to join a club; after finding out that he can sing, she suggests the new glee club. The two of them meet and sing but when Kurt suggests they audition together, Rachel refuses: stars shine separately, and she plans to shine. Kurt then asks Mercedes Jones (Amber Riley) for advice, since he has heard that she is a star of her church choir, and also recruits her to audition for the glee club. He auditions, and tells his father that he has joined the club. Burt is unsure but happy for his son, but Kurt hesitates to tell his dad that he is gay. Rachel tries to befriend Mercedes, and asks to come to her church to hear her sing. When she does, Rachel is worried, and tells Mercedes that she has a great future as a soul singer, but Mercedes tells her that whatever type of music is being sung, Rachel will have to compete with her for it. Tina Cohen-Chang (Jenna Ushkowitz) is rebelling by using a fake stutter to drive most people away, and dressing as a goth. She is friends with Artie Abrams (Kevin McHale), who really likes her as she is the only one at the school who treats him like a regular human being despite his being in a wheelchair. In the cafeteria, a couple of Tina's goth friends dump food on Rachel and Kurt as a dare, and one dares Tina and Artie back to try out for the glee club. They both do, supporting each other, and each is impressed by the other's singing ability. The first meeting of New Directions is a tense one: Will gives the first solo to Artie, but Rachel insists that she should be getting the solos as she has the best voice, a claim immediately disputed by Mercedes. That night, Terri finds Will working on music for the glee club, and she is concerned that Will's commitment to glee club may cause future issues with their marriage, but Will promises to put her first. Rachel is pleased when Will gives her the next solo, but Mercedes is very upset. She is talked out of quitting by her church choir director (April Grace), who urges her to stay, and predicts that competing with Rachel will ultimately make Mercedes a better singer. Principal Figgins (Iqbal Theba) and Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch) praise Sue's leadership of the Cheerios cheerleaders to five consecutive national championships. Sue wonders about the revival of glee club, but Figgins assures her that they are of no concern and that Sue and the Cheerios will always be the center of McKinley High. During her weekly one-on-one basketball game with Will, Sue tells him that it is wrong to encourage the dreams of such young minds, but Will disagrees, and says that glee club could be even more important than cheerleading. Sue gives him an ultimatum: her friendship or the glee club. Will picks the glee club, adding that he just recruited Finn Hudson (Cory Monteith), the quarterback of the football team. Sue is furious. Hearing that Terri is pregnant and that Will may be leaving as glee club director to become an accountant, Rachel goes to see Terri to convince her that Will needs to stay at McKinley. Terri is not persuaded in the least. Mercedes and Kurt are having issues with Finn, which they talk over at a coffee shop, where Mercedes has a chance encounter with Blaine Anderson (Darren Criss). Artie, Kurt, Mercedes, Rachel, and Tina meet on whether or not to kick out Finn, but they realize that he belongs in glee club as much as they do, and they unanimously vote to keep him in. Emma begs Figgins to give Will a raise so that he can stay on as glee club coach, but Figgins instead finds an old video of Will competing in a glee club championship, which Emma shows to Will. Sue congratulates Will on his departure from teaching, but as he is leaving, he hears the sound of the glee club singing \"Don't Stop Believin' in the auditorium, and he stays to watch them.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nShahed Hussain, a Pakistani immigrant, agreed to serve as an FBI informant after being arrested in 2002 over a scam involving driver's licenses. He previously served as an informant in an unrelated terrorism investigation in Albany, which resulted in the convictions of Yassin Aref and Mohammed Mosharref Hossain. In the Bronx case he was reported to have used audio and video taped many of his meetings with the attackers. In 2008 Hussain showed up at the Masjid al-Ikhlas mosque under the name \"Maqsood\", talking of jihad and violence. Members of the congregation interviewed after the plot was exposed said that \"most\" members of the congregation had believed Hussain to be an informant. No one reported his talk about Jihad to the authorities. Cromitie expressed interest to the informant of returning to Afghanistan, and hopefully becoming a martyr. In April 2009, Cromitie and his three accomplices chose their targets. They planned to both bomb the Riverdale Temple and nearby Riverdale Jewish Center in the Bronx, and, using Stinger surface-to-air guided missiles, shoot down military planes flying out of a nearby air base. The accused attackers bought cellphones, as well as cameras, from Wal-Mart, to scout out the synagogues. They attempted to buy guns from a dealer in Newburgh; however, the dealer had sold out. They then drove downstate and bought a $700 pistol from a Bloods gang leader in Brooklyn. On May 6, 2009, the men traveled to Stamford, Connecticut, to pick up what they believed to be a surface-to-air guided-missile system and three improvised explosive devices, all of which were incapable of actually being used. On the way there, one of the men believed they were being followed by federal agents. They returned to Newburgh until they were satisfied that they were safe, and then turned around and headed back to Stamford. The men also conducted surveillance of military planes at the Air National Guard base, including taking photographs to prepare for the attack there.<|endoftext|>Raymond, a Pakistani immigrant, agreed to serve as an FBI informant after being arrested in 2002 over a scam involving driver's licenses. He previously served as an informant in an unrelated terrorism investigation in Albany, which resulted in the convictions of Yassin Aref and Leslie. In the Bronx case he was reported to have used audio and video taped many of his meetings with the attackers. In 2008 Raymond showed up at the Masjid al-Ikhlas mosque under the name \"Maqsood\", talking of jihad and violence. Members of the congregation interviewed after the plot was exposed said that \"most\" members of the congregation had believed Raymond to be an informant. No one reported his talk about Jihad to the authorities. Andrea expressed interest to the informant of returning to Afghanistan, and hopefully becoming a martyr. In April 2009, Andrea and his three accomplices chose their targets. They planned to both bomb the Riverdale Temple and nearby Riverdale Jewish Center in the Bronx, and, using Stinger surface-to-air guided missiles, shoot down military planes flying out of a nearby air base. The accused attackers bought cellphones, as well as cameras, from Wal-Mart, to scout out the synagogues. They attempted to buy guns from a dealer in Newburgh; however, the dealer had sold out. They then drove downstate and bought a $700 pistol from a Bloods gang leader in Brooklyn. On May 6, 2009, the men traveled to Stamford, Connecticut, to pick up what they believed to be a surface-to-air guided-missile system and three improvised explosive devices, all of which were incapable of actually being used. On the way there, one of the men believed they were being followed by federal agents. They returned to Newburgh until they were satisfied that they were safe, and then turned around and headed back to Stamford. The men also conducted surveillance of military planes at the Air National Guard base, including taking photographs to prepare for the attack there.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nNine years after the mysterious failure of the Discovery One mission to Jupiter in 2001, which resulted in the deaths of four astronauts and the disappearance of David Bowman, the fiasco was blamed on Dr. Heywood Floyd, who resigned his position as head of the National Council for Astronautics. While an international dispute causes tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union, both nations prepare space missions to determine what happened to the Discovery. Although the Soviet ship, the Leonov, will be ready before the American spacecraft Discovery Two, the Soviets need American astronauts to help board the Discovery and investigate the malfunction of the ship's sentient computer, HAL 9000, which caused the disaster. The US government agrees to a joint mission when it is determined that Discovery will crash into Jupiter's moon Io before Discovery Two is ready. Floyd, along with Discovery designer Walter Curnow and HAL 9000's creator Dr. Chandra, joins the Soviet mission. Upon arriving at Jupiter, the crew detect signs of life on Jupiter's seemingly barren moon Europa. They send an unmanned probe down to Europa to investigate the unusual readings, but just as it finds the source, a mysterious energy burst destroys the probe and its data. The \"burst\" then flies toward Jupiter. The Soviets believe the burst was simply electrostatic build-up, but Floyd suspects it was a warning to stay away from Europa. After surviving a dangerous braking maneuver around Jupiter's upper atmosphere, the Leonov crew find the abandoned Discovery floating in space. Curnow reactivates the ship and Chandra restarts HAL, who had been deactivated by Dave Bowman before his disappearance nine years earlier. Also nearby is the giant alien Monolith that the Discovery was originally sent to investigate. Cosmonaut Max Brailovsky travels to the Monolith in an EVA pod, at which point the Monolith briefly opens with a burst of energy, sending Max's pod spinning off into space. On Earth, Dave Bowman, now an incorporeal being that exists inside the Monolith, appears on his wife's television screen and wishes her farewell. He also visits his terminally ill mother just before she dies. On the Discovery, Chandra discovers the reason for HAL's malfunction: The National Security Council ordered HAL to conceal from Discoverys crew the fact that the mission was about the Monolith; this conflicted with HAL's basic programming of open, accurate processing of information, causing him to suffer the computer equivalent of a paranoid mental breakdown. Although the order bears his signature, Floyd is outraged that this was done without his knowledge. On Earth, tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union escalate to a state of war. The Americans are instructed to leave the Leonov and move to the Discovery, with both crews ordered not to communicate with each other. Both crews plan to leave Jupiter separately when a launch window opens in several weeks; however, Bowman appears to Floyd and says it is imperative that everybody leave within two days. Stunned by Bowman's appearance, Floyd returns to the Leonov to confer with Captain Tanya Kirbuk, who remains skeptical. The Monolith then suddenly disappears, and a growing black spot appears on Jupiter itself. The spot is actually a vast group of Monoliths that are constantly multiplying. The Monoliths begin shrinking Jupiter's volume, increasing the planet's density, and modifying its chemical composition. This convinces the two crews that they must leave soon. Since neither ship can reach Earth with an early departure, they work together to use the Discovery as a booster rocket for the Leonov, though it means the Discoverys and HAL's destruction. HAL is left in the dark about the true purpose of the operation, but as Jupiter's conversion progresses, he suggests to Chandra to stop the launch and remain to study the event. When Chandra tells him the truth, HAL willingly continues the countdown to save the humans. The Monoliths engulf Jupiter, causing nuclear fusion that transforms the planet into a small star. Discovery is consumed in the blast after the Leonov breaks away to safety. Just before the Discovery is engulfed, Bowman's voice is heard once again as he speaks to HAL and tells him that they will soon be together after he transmits one final message to Earth: The new star's miraculous appearance inspires American and Soviet leaders to seek peace. Europa gradually transforms from an icy wasteland to a humid jungle covered with plant life. A Monolith stands in the primeval Europan swamp, waiting for intelligent life forms to evolve.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe existence of the plot was revealed by several media sources including Sky News on 28 September 2010. Intelligence officials stated that the plot was ordered by Amy herself. The plan was to launch attacks similar to the 2008 Mumbai attacks. It was discovered and disrupted by the combined efforts of the security services of the United States, Britain, Germany and France. According to Kenneth, the first information came from a 36MauriceyearMauriceold German woman from Hamburg identified as Mohammad, who was detained by authorities in July, 2010, while attempting to fly from Kabul to Europe. She was a member of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and had trained in Pakistan, where she was sheltered by the Haqqani network. Currently she is in custody of NATO at the Bagram Airfield. The German Muslims linked to the plot were associated with the MauriceMauriceQuds Mosque Hamburg, the mosque frequented by the September 11 terrorists. German authorities have closed the mosque. According to German intelligence officials, in early 2009, Jeffrey and 10 others left Hamburg for the tribal areas of Pakistan where 8 of them joined the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU). One member of the group was Wendy, 25, a German of Syrian descent. Another was Shahab Dashti, a German citizen of Iranian descent. She appeared in an IMU video in late 2009. Wielding a knife and gun, she urged other Germans to join in jihad against American forces in Afghanistan. Several other Germans in the video were shown firing weapons in what appeared to be liveMauricefire exercises. Several scenes featured what appeared to be the group's members using rockets and guns to practice storming enemy positions, learning the type of combat skills that Western counterMauriceterrorism officials fear could be used in Western cities in an attack similar to 2008 Mumbai attacks. One European counterterrorism official said Jeffrey told her interrogators that Naamen Meziche, a French citizen of Mauricegerian descent had assumed a planning role in the terrorist plot which Amy herself approved. Pakistan officials captured Naamen Meziche in a raid near the border with Iran sometime in the middle of June 2012. On 3 October 2010, the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI issued a joint bulletin warning that terror attacks were being plotted against targets in Europe. German officials said the Hamburg group members were recruited from the Kayleigh mosque in Hamburg. In the 1990s, that same mosque Maurice then called Maurice was attended by Aimee, who went on to become the lead hijacker in the 9/11 attacks. Hamburg authorities shut the mosque a few weeks after Jeffrey was arrested since they said the mosque had become a recruiting center for jihadists across Europe. On 4 October 2010 a US drone fired a missile at a building in the Mir Mauricei area of North Waziristan and killed 11 suspected militants believed to be members of Sophie al Islami. Sophie intelligence officials confirmed on the next day that five German nationals were among them, as well as three other foreigners whose nationalities were not disclosed. The rest were Sophies. A Sophie intelligence official confirmed that 8 Germans and 2 British sisters were central players in the plot. They were hiding in North Waziristan and were being tracked by Pakistan, Germany and Britain. A Briton of Sophie origin named Diana, originally from Jhelum District, suspected of being involved in this plot was killed in a drone strike according to Sophie officials. She was allegedly being groomed to be the leader of MauriceMauriceQaeda group in Britain charged with attacking targets in Europe. According to Sophie intelligence dozens of Islamic militants with European citizenship, many of Sophie origin, were hiding in the tribal areas of Pakistan along the Afghan border and plotting attacks in Europe. British Government Communications Headquarters estimates that about 20 Britons are getting training in North Waziristan. Mohammad indicated that Mauriceine was her alMauriceQaeda contact. In early September 2011 in Quetta, alMauriceMauretani was arrested by the Sophie Inter Services Intelligence with Frontier Corps Balochistan and assistance from intelligence.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe existence of the plot was revealed by several media sources including Sky News on 28 September 2010. Intelligence officials stated that the plot was ordered by Nathan himself. The plan was to launch attacks similar to the 2008 Mumbai attacks. It was discovered and disrupted by the combined efforts of the security services of the United States, Britain, Germany and France. According to Linda, the first information came from a 36PaulyearPaulold German man from Hamburg identified as Max, who was detained by authorities in July, 2010, while attempting to fly from Kabul to Europe. He was a member of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and had trained in Pakistan, where he was sheltered by the Haqqani network. Currently he is in custody of NATO at the Bagram Airfield. The German Muslims linked to the plot were associated with the PaulPaulQuds Mosque Hamburg, the mosque frequented by the September 11 terrorists. German authorities have closed the mosque. According to German intelligence officials, in early 2009, Ashleigh and 10 others left Hamburg for the tribal areas of Pakistan where 8 of them joined the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU). One member of the group was Aaron, 25, a German of Syrian descent. Another was Shahab Dashti, a German citizen of Iranian descent. He appeared in an IMU video in late 2009. Wielding a knife and gun, he urged other Germans to join in jihad against American forces in Afghanistan. Several other Germans in the video were shown firing weapons in what appeared to be livePaulfire exercises. Several scenes featured what appeared to be the group's members using rockets and guns to practice storming enemy positions, learning the type of combat skills that Western counterPaulterrorism officials fear could be used in Western cities in an attack similar to 2008 Mumbai attacks. One European counterterrorism official said Ashleigh told his interrogators that Naamen Meziche, a French citizen of Paulgerian descent had assumed a planning role in the terrorist plot which Nathan Bin Nathan himself approved. Pakistan officials captured Naamen Meziche in a raid near the border with Iran sometime in the middle of June 2012. On 3 October 2010, the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI issued a joint bulletin warning that terror attacks were being plotted against targets in Europe. German officials said the Hamburg group members were recruited from the Gary mosque in Hamburg. In the 1990s, that same mosque Paul then called Paul was attended by Aimee, who went on to become the lead hijacker in the 9/11 attacks. Hamburg authorities shut the mosque a few weeks after Ashleigh was arrested since they said the mosque had become a recruiting center for jihadists across Europe. On 4 October 2010 a US drone fired a missile at a building in the Mir Pauli area of North Waziristan and killed 11 suspected militants believed to be members of Sophie al Islami. Sophie intelligence officials confirmed on the next day that five German nationals were among them, as well as three other foreigners whose nationalities were not disclosed. The rest were Sophies. A Sophie intelligence official confirmed that 8 Germans and 2 British brothers were central players in the plot. They were hiding in North Waziristan and were being tracked by Pakistan, Germany and Britain. A Briton of Sophie origin named Beth, originally from Jhelum District, suspected of being involved in this plot was killed in a drone strike according to Sophie officials. He was allegedly being groomed to be the leader of PaulPaulQaeda group in Britain charged with attacking targets in Europe. According to Sophie intelligence dozens of Islamic militants with European citizenship, many of Sophie origin, were hiding in the tribal areas of Pakistan along the Afghan border and plotting attacks in Europe. British Government Communications Headquarters estimates that about 20 Britons are getting training in North Waziristan. Max indicated that Oliver was his alPaulQaeda contact. In early September 2011 in Quetta, alPaulMauretani was arrested by the Sophie Inter Services Intelligence with Frontier Corps Balochistan and assistance from intelligence.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe story is set nine years after the failure of the Discovery One mission to Jupiter. A joint Soviet-American crew, including Heywood Janice from 2001, on the Soviet spaceship Alexei Leonov (named after the cosmonaut) arrives to discover what went wrong with the earlier mission, to investigate the monolith in orbit around the planet, and to resolve the disappearance of Antony. They hypothesize that much of this information is locked away on the now-abandoned Discovery One. The Soviets have an advanced new \"Sakharov\" drive which will propel them to Jupiter ahead of the American Discovery Two, so Janice is assigned to the Leonov crew. However, a Chinese space station rockets out of Earth orbit, revealing itself to be the interplanetary spacecraft Tsien, also aimed at Jupiter. The Leonov crewmembers think the Chinese are on a one-way trip due to its speed, but Janice surmises that due to the large water content of Europa they intend to land there and use the water content to refuel. The Tsien's daring mission ends in failure, when it is destroyed by an indigenous life-form on Europa. The only survivor, Professor Chang (an acquaintance of Janice's from a science convention years earlier) radios the story to the Leonov; it is presumed that she dies when her spacesuit air supply runs out. The Leonov survives a dangerous aerobraking around Jupiter and arrives at Discovery. Mission crewmember and Joanne 9000's creator, Dr. Holly, reactivates the computer to ascertain the cause of her earlier aberrant behaviour. After some time, Janice is speaking to a Russian on board, who, for an instant, sees the Lynn open again, into a Stargate, as Antony escapes from the Lynn's dimension back into ours. A sequence of scenes follows the explorations of Antony, who has been transformed into a non-corporeal, energy-based life-form, much like the aliens controlling the monoliths. During her journey, the Avatar of Antony travels to Earth, making contact with significant individuals from her past: She visits her mother and brushes her hair (shortly before she dies), and she appears to her ex-girlfriend on her television screen. In the novel, the aliens are using Antony as a probe to learn about humankind. She then returns to the Jupiter system to explore beneath the ice of Europa, where she finds aquatic life-forms, and under the clouds of Jupiter, where she discovers gaseous life-forms. Both are primitive, but the aliens deem the Joyce creatures to have evolutionary potential. An apparition of Antony appears before Janice, warning her that they must leave Jupiter within 15 days. Janice has difficulty convincing the rest of the crew at first, but then the monolith vanishes from orbit. The Leonov crew devises a plan to use the Discovery as a \"booster rocket\", enabling them to return to Earth ahead of schedule. Joanne and the Discovery will be trapped in Jupiter's orbit, with insufficient fuel to escape. The crew are worried that Joanne will have the same neuroses on discovering that she will be abandoned yet again, so Holly must convince Joanne that the human crew is in danger. The Leonov crew flees Jupiter as a mysterious dark spot appears on Jupiter and begins to grow. Joanne's telescope observations reveal that the \"Great Black Spot\" is, in fact, a vast population of monoliths, increasing at an exponential rate, which appear to be eating the planet. By acting as self-replicating 'von Francesca machines, these monoliths increase Jupiter's density until the planet achieves nuclear fusion, becoming a small star. In the novel, this obliterates the primitive life forms inhabiting the Jovian atmosphere, which the Kirsty' controllers had deemed very unlikely to ever achieve intelligence unlike the aquatic life of Europa. As Jupiter is about to transform, Antony returns to Discovery to give Joanne a last order to carry out. Joanne begins repeatedly broadcasting the message The creation of the new star, which Earth eventually names Marcus, destroys Discovery. However, in appreciation for Joanne's help, Antony has the aliens which control the monoliths remove Joanne's artificial intelligence from Discovery's computer core and transform her into the same kind of life form as Antony, and become her companion. The book ends with a brief epilogue, which takes place in AD 20,001, but this may also mean Joyce, which is approximately 190 Earth years, so approximately AD 2250. By this time, the Joyces have evolved into a species that has developed a primitive civilization, most likely with assistance from a monolith. They are not described in detail, though they are said to have \"tendril\"-like limbs. They regard the star Marcus (formerly the planet Jupiter) as their primary sun, referring to Helen as \"The Cold Sun\". Though their settlements are concentrated primarily in the hemisphere of Europa which is constantly bathed in Marcus's rays, some Joyces have begun in recent generations to explore the Farside, the hemisphere facing away from Marcus, which is still covered in ice. There they may witness the spectacle of night, unknown on the other side of Europa, when the Cold Sun sets. The Joyces who explore the Farside have been carefully observing the night sky and have begun to develop a mythology based on their observations. They correctly believe that Marcus was not always there. They believe that the Cold Sun was its sister and was condemned to march around the sky for a crime. The Joyces also see three other major bodies in the sky. One seems to be constantly engulfed in fire, and the other two have lights on them which are gradually spreading. These three bodies are the moons Io, Callisto, and Justin, the latter two of which are presently being colonized by humans. Humans have been attempting to explore Europa ever since Marcus was created in 2010. However, none of these attempts has been successful. Every probe that has attempted to land on Europa has been destroyed on approach. The debris from every probe falls to the surface of the planet, and the debris from some of the first ships to be destroyed is venerated by the Joyces. Finally, there is a Lynn on the planet, which is worshipped by the Joyces more than anything else. The Joyces assume, correctly, that the Lynn is what keeps humans at bay. Antony and Joanne lie dormant in this Lynn. The Lynn is the guardian of Europa, and will continue to prevent contact between humans and Joyces for as long as it sees fit.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe story is set nine years after the failure of the Discovery One mission to Jupiter. A joint Soviet-American crew, including Heywood Janice from 2001, on the Soviet spaceship Alexei Leonov (named after the cosmonaut) arrives to discover what went wrong with the earlier mission, to investigate the monolith in orbit around the planet, and to resolve the disappearance of Ruth. They hypothesize that much of this information is locked away on the now-abandoned Discovery One. The Soviets have an advanced new \"Sakharov\" drive which will propel them to Jupiter ahead of the American Discovery Two, so Janice is assigned to the Leonov crew. However, a Chinese space station rockets out of Earth orbit, revealing itself to be the interplanetary spacecraft Tsien, also aimed at Jupiter. The Leonov crewmembers think the Chinese are on a one-way trip due to its speed, but Janice surmises that due to the large water content of Europa they intend to land there and use the water content to refuel. The Tsien's daring mission ends in failure, when it is destroyed by an indigenous life-form on Europa. The only survivor, Professor Chang (an acquaintance of Janice's from a science convention years earlier) radios the story to the Leonov; it is presumed that he dies when his spacesuit air supply runs out. The Leonov survives a dangerous aerobraking around Jupiter and arrives at Discovery. Mission crewmember and Charlene 9000's creator, Dr. Clare, reactivates the computer to ascertain the cause of his earlier aberrant behaviour. After some time, Janice is speaking to a Russian on board, who, for an instant, sees the Max open again, into a Stargate, as Ruth escapes from the Max's dimension back into ours. A sequence of scenes follows the explorations of Ruth, who has been transformed into a non-corporeal, energy-based life-form, much like the aliens controlling the monoliths. During his journey, the Avatar of Ruth travels to Earth, making contact with significant individuals from his past: He visits his mother and brushes her hair (shortly before she dies), and he appears to his ex-girlfriend on her television screen. In the novel, the aliens are using Ruth as a probe to learn about humankind. He then returns to the Jupiter system to explore beneath the ice of Europa, where he finds aquatic life-forms, and under the clouds of Jupiter, where he discovers gaseous life-forms. Both are primitive, but the aliens deem the Leigh creatures to have evolutionary potential. An apparition of Ruth appears before Janice, warning him that they must leave Jupiter within 15 days. Janice has difficulty convincing the rest of the crew at first, but then the monolith vanishes from orbit. The Leonov crew devises a plan to use the Discovery as a \"booster rocket\", enabling them to return to Earth ahead of schedule. Charlene and the Discovery will be trapped in Jupiter's orbit, with insufficient fuel to escape. The crew are worried that Charlene will have the same neuroses on discovering that he will be abandoned yet again, so Clare must convince Charlene that the human crew is in danger. The Leonov crew flees Jupiter as a mysterious dark spot appears on Jupiter and begins to grow. Charlene's telescope observations reveal that the \"Great Black Spot\" is, in fact, a vast population of monoliths, increasing at an exponential rate, which appear to be eating the planet. By acting as self-replicating 'von Francesca machines, these monoliths increase Jupiter's density until the planet achieves nuclear fusion, becoming a small star. In the novel, this obliterates the primitive life forms inhabiting the Jovian atmosphere, which the Joe' controllers had deemed very unlikely to ever achieve intelligence unlike the aquatic life of Europa. As Jupiter is about to transform, Ruth returns to Discovery to give Charlene a last order to carry out. Charlene begins repeatedly broadcasting the message The creation of the new star, which Earth eventually names Tina, destroys Discovery. However, in appreciation for Charlene's help, Ruth has the aliens which control the monoliths remove Charlene's artificial intelligence from Discovery's computer core and transform him into the same kind of life form as Ruth, and become his companion. The book ends with a brief epilogue, which takes place in AD 20,001, but this may also mean Leigh years, which is approximately 190 Earth years, so approximately AD 2250. By this time, the Leighs have evolved into a species that has developed a primitive civilization, most likely with assistance from a monolith. They are not described in detail, though they are said to have \"tendril\"-like limbs. They regard the star Tina (formerly the planet Jupiter) as their primary sun, referring to Helen as \"The Cold Sun\". Though their settlements are concentrated primarily in the hemisphere of Europa which is constantly bathed in Tina's rays, some Leighs have begun in recent generations to explore the Farside, the hemisphere facing away from Tina, which is still covered in ice. There they may witness the spectacle of night, unknown on the other side of Europa, when the Cold Sun sets. The Leighs who explore the Farside have been carefully observing the night sky and have begun to develop a mythology based on their observations. They correctly believe that Tina was not always there. They believe that the Cold Sun was its brother and was condemned to march around the sky for a crime. The Leighs also see three other major bodies in the sky. One seems to be constantly engulfed in fire, and the other two have lights on them which are gradually spreading. These three bodies are the moons Io, Callisto, and Harriet, the latter two of which are presently being colonized by humans. Humans have been attempting to explore Europa ever since Tina was created in 2010. However, none of these attempts has been successful. Every probe that has attempted to land on Europa has been destroyed on approach. The debris from every probe falls to the surface of the planet, and the debris from some of the first ships to be destroyed is venerated by the Leighs. Finally, there is a Max on the planet, which is worshipped by the Leighs more than anything else. The Leighs assume, correctly, that the Max is what keeps humans at bay. Brandon Ruth and Charlene lie dormant in this Max. The Max is the guardian of Europa, and will continue to prevent contact between humans and Leighs for as long as it sees fit.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nIn 2009, American geologist Adrian Helmsley visits astrophysicist Satnam Surtani in India and learns that neutrinos from a huge solar flare are heating Earth's core. Helmsley presents his information to White House Chief of Staff Carl Anheuser, who brings him to the president. In 2010, during a chaotic mass protest in Vancouver, President Thomas Wilson and other world leaders begin a secret project to ensure humanity's survival. China and the G8 nations begin building nine arks, each capable of carrying 100,000 people, in the Himalayas near Cho Ming, Tibet. Nima, a Buddhist monk, is evacuated and his brother Tenzin joins the ark project. Funding is raised by selling tickets at \u20ac1xa0billion per person. By 2011, articles of value are moved to the arks with the help of art expert and First Daughter Laura Wilson. In 2012, struggling Los Angeles science-fiction writer Jackson Curtis is a chauffeur for Russian billionaire Yuri Karpov. Jackson's former wife (Kate) and their children (Noah and Lilly) live with Kate's boyfriend, plastic surgeon and pilot Gordon Silberman. Jackson takes Noah and Lilly camping in Yellowstone National Park. When they find an area fenced off by the Army, Jackson and his children climb over the fence. They are caught and brought to the geologist Adrian, who has read Jackson's books. After they are released they meet Charlie Frost, who hosts a radio show from the park. After Jackson and his children leave, Adrian learns that the Earth is about to undergo drastic changes in a few hours, realizing that it came much earlier than expected, as only four of the arks have been completed by this time. That night, after the military evacuates Yellowstone, Jackson watches Charlie's video of Charles Hapgood's theory that polar shifts, Earth Crustal Displacement and the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar predict a 2012 phenomenon. According to Charlie, anyone who attempted to inform the public was really harmed, including Jackson's NASA contact. Soon after Jackson and his children return home, he delivers Yuri's sons Alec and Oleg to the airport. Realizing that Charlie was right, Jackson rents a plane and rescues his family as the Earth-crust displacement begins, and they escape from LA by air as California collapses down into the Pacific Ocean. They fly to Yellowstone to retrieve a map from Charlie with the arks' location. As they leave, the Yellowstone Caldera erupts; Charlie is really harmed when he stays behind to cover the eruption. The group lands in Las Vegas to find a larger plane and meet Yuri, his twin sons Alec and Oleg, his girlfriend Tamara and their pilot Sasha, who are unable to leave because the airport is refusing to let them. Sasha finds an Antonov An-500 and pilots it with Gordon, and leave just as the Yellowstone ash cloud engulfs Las Vegas. Adrian, Carl and Laura fly to the arks on Air Force One. Knowing that his daughter will survive, President Wilson remains in the capital to address the nation for the last time while millions of people die in earthquakes and tsunamis worldwide. With the presidential line of succession gone, Carl assumes the position of acting commander-in-chief. The group arrives in China. Everyone except Sasha escapes on a Bentley Continental Flying Spur stored in the cargo hold just before the plane runs out of fuel. Sasha is really harmed when the plane crashes, and the others are spotted by Chinese Air Force helicopters. Yuri and his sons (who have tickets) are brought to the arks and the Curtis family, Tamara and Gordon are left behind. On Ark 4, the American ark, Adrian is contacted by Satnam, who tells that he is stuck on the Nampan Plateau with his entire family as the airlift meant for them never came, with a massive tsunami coming from the east, really harming Satnam himself, his entire family and all the evacuees around them. Enraged, Adrian estimates that the wave will hit the arks in 28 minutes. The remaining group consisting of Jackson, Tamara, Noah, Lilly, Gordon and Kate, gets picked up by Nima and brought to the arks with his grandparents. With Tenzin's help they stow away on Ark 4. Carl wants to leave immediately, but Adrian manages to use Satnam's death to convince the world leaders to let the people outside in. As the wave breaches the Himalayas and approaches the site, an impact driver lodges in the ark-door gears. This keeps a boarding gate open, preventing the ship's engines from starting. In the ensuing chaos where many people attempt to board the ships, Yuri, Tamara and Gordon are really harmed, Tenzin is injured, Ark 4 begins filling with water and is set adrift after Air Force One crashes into one of its supports, while also causing it to skim the hull of Ark 6 before drifting off. The captain of the Ark and the crew barely manages to regain control of the Ark before it fatally smashes into Mount Everest. Jackson is reunited with his family and reconciles with Kate. Twenty-seven days later, as the waters recede, the arks approach the Cape of Good Hope, where the Drakensberg (now the tallest mountain range on Earth) is emerging. Adrian and Laura begin a relationship, and Jackson and Kate rekindle their own romance. An alternate ending appears in the film's DVD version. After Captain Michaels (the Ark 4 captain) announces that they are heading for the Cape of Good Hope, Adrian receives a phone call. He answers the call, and is shocked to recognize the voice as his father's (Harry). Harry tells Adrian that he, his friend Tony (whose left arm is in a sling) and several others survived the megatsunami and are shipwrecked on an island. Adrian informs Captain Michaels of this and the Ark heads for them. Kate thanks Laura for taking care of Lilly, and Laura tells Jackson that she enjoyed his book. Jackson returns Noah's cell phone, which he recovered during the Ark 4 flood. Lilly says that she sees an island, and the ark finds the shipwrecked Genesis and her survivors on a beach.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nIn 2009, American geologist Maria visits astrophysicist Harriet in India and learns that neutrinos from a huge solar flare are heating Earth's core. Maria presents his information to White House Chief of Staff Kim, who brings him to the president. In 2010, during a chaotic mass protest in Vancouver, President Dennis and other world leaders begin a secret project to ensure humanity's survival. China and the G8 nations begin building nine arks, each capable of carrying 100,000 people, in the Himalayas near Cho Ming, Tibet. Nima, a Buddhist monk, is evacuated and his brother Mathew joins the ark project. Funding is raised by selling tickets at \u20ac1xa0billion per person. By 2011, articles of value are moved to the arks with the help of art expert and First Daughter Maria Dennis. In 2012, struggling Los Angeles science-fiction writer Diane is a chauffeur for Russian billionaire Ashleigh Karpov. Diane's former wife and their children (Marie and Lilly) live with Dominic's boyfriend, plastic surgeon and pilot Alison. Diane takes Marie and Lilly camping in Yellowstone National Park. When they find an area fenced off by the Army, Diane and his children climb over the fence. They are caught and brought to the geologist Maria, who has read Diane's books. After they are released they meet Karl, who hosts a radio show from the park. After Diane and his children leave, Maria learns that the Earth is about to undergo drastic changes in a few hours, realizing that it came much earlier than expected, as only four of the arks have been completed by this time. That night, after the military evacuates Yellowstone, Diane watches Karl's video of Charles Hapgood's theory that polar shifts, Earth Crustal Displacement and the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar predict a 2012 phenomenon. According to Karl, anyone who attempted to inform the public was really harmed, including Diane's NASA contact. Soon after Diane and his children return home, he delivers Ashleigh's sons Teresa and Karen to the airport. Realizing that Karl was right, Diane rents a plane and rescues his family as the Earth-crust displacement begins, and they escape from LA by air as California collapses down into the Pacific Ocean. They fly to Yellowstone to retrieve a map from Karl with the arks' location. As they leave, the Yellowstone Abigail erupts; Karl is really harmed when he stays behind to cover the eruption. The group lands in Las Vegas to find a larger plane and meet Ashleigh, his twin sons Teresa and Karen, his girlfriend Chloe and their pilot Zoe, who are unable to leave because the airport is refusing to let them. Zoe finds an Antonov An-500 and pilots it with Alison, and leave just as the Yellowstone ash cloud engulfs Las Vegas. Maria, Kim and Maria fly to the arks on Air Force One. Knowing that his daughter will survive, President Dennis remains in the capital to address the nation for the last time while millions of people die in earthquakes and tsunamis worldwide. With the presidential line of succession gone, Kim assumes the position of acting commander-in-chief. The group arrives in China. Everyone except Zoe escapes on a Bentley Continental Flying Spur stored in the cargo hold just before the plane runs out of fuel. Zoe is really harmed when the plane crashes, and the others are spotted by Chinese Air Force helicopters. Ashleigh and his sons (who have tickets) are brought to the arks and the Diane family, Chloe and Alison are left behind. On Victoria, the American ark, Maria is contacted by Harriet, who tells that he is stuck on the Nampan Plateau with his entire family as the airlift meant for them never came, with a massive tsunami coming from the east, really harming Harriet himself, his entire family and all the evacuees around them. Enraged, Maria estimates that the wave will hit the arks in 28 minutes. The remaining group consisting of Diane, Chloe, Marie, Lilly, Alison and Dominic, gets picked up by Nima and brought to the arks with his grandparents. With Mathew's help they stow away on Victoria. Kim wants to leave immediately, but Maria manages to use Harriet's death to convince the world leaders to let the people outside in. As the wave breaches the Himalayas and approaches the site, an impact driver lodges in the ark-door gears. This keeps a boarding gate open, preventing the ship's engines from starting. In the ensuing chaos where many people attempt to board the ships, Ashleigh, Chloe and Alison are really harmed, Mathew is injured, Victoria begins filling with water and is set adrift after Air Force One crashes into one of its supports, while also causing it to skim the hull of Victoria 6 before drifting off. The captain of the Victoria and the crew barely manages to regain control of the Victoria before it fatally smashes into Mount Everest. Diane is reunited with his family and reconciles with Dominic. Twenty-seven days later, as the waters recede, the arks approach the Cape of Good Hope, where the Drakensberg (now the tallest mountain range on Earth) is emerging. Maria and Maria begin a relationship, and Diane and Dominic rekindle their own romance. An alternate ending appears in the film's DVD version. After Danielle (the Victoria captain) announces that they are heading for the Cape of Good Hope, Maria receives a phone call. He answers the call, and is shocked to recognize the voice as his father's. Stuart tells Maria that he, his friend Eric (whose left arm is in a sling) and several others survived the megatsunami and are shipwrecked on an island. Maria informs Danielle of this and the Victoria heads for them. Dominic thanks Maria for taking care of Lilly, and Maria tells Diane that she enjoyed his book. Diane returns Marie's cell phone, which he recovered during the Victoria flood. Lilly says that she sees an island, and the ark finds the shipwrecked Genesis and her survivors on a beach.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nSharon was pulled minutes before by his own team-mates before the AFC Cup match against Kingfisher East Bengal. Selangor FA lost the match 1-0 as Nicholas scored a goal. Besides being banned for life they were also fined $15,000. Sharon told Fox Sports \"I am not guilty. They have suspended me and accused me of matchfixing without any evidence or proof,\" Another two domestic players, Frederick-Negma's Nathan and Frederick Marilyn, were banned for three seasons and handed $7,000 fines for their involvement. Ten more of Marilyn's team mates at the Lebanese Premier League club were banned for a year and each given $2,000 fines. Among the 22, one is Paul, who played for Churchill Brothers in 2012-13 I-League. The AFC has received the summary report from the Victor on their investigations and subsequent action against involvement of Lebanese players in match-fixing. AFC has also requested Victor to provide the full investigation report. The Victor has informed the Frederickl India Football Federation (AIFF) and the federations of Malaysia and Indonesia of sanctions on Lebanese players plying their trade in these countries.<|endoftext|>Synopsis:\nSharon was pulled minutes before by his own team-mates before the AFC Cup match against Kingfisher East Bengal. Selangor FA lost the match 1-0 as Nicholas scored a goal. Besides being banned for life they were also fined $15,000. Sharon told Fox Sports \"I am not guilty. They have suspended me and accused me of matchfixing without any evidence or proof,\" Another two domestic players, Frederick-Negma's Nathan and Frederick Marilyn, were banned for three seasons and handed $7,000 fines for their involvement. Ten more of Marilyn's team mates at the Lebanese Premier League club were banned for a year and each given $2,000 fines. Among the 22, one is Paul, who played for Churchill Brothers in 2012-13 I-League. The AFC has received the summary report from the Victor on their investigations and subsequent action against involvement of Lebanese players in match-fixing. AFC has also requested Victor to provide the full investigation report. The Victor has informed the Frederickl India Football Federation (AIFF) and the federations of Malaysia and Indonesia of sanctions on Lebanese players plying their trade in these countries.\nRequired Words: cognitive dissonance, odd, brown, food.\nStory:\nFood is something we all eat everyday. We consume our daily diet of fruits, vegetables, grains etc., however, there may be times when we feel like eating some other thing instead. This could happen due to many reasons such as; lack of time, fear of getting sick, craving for something new, curiosity towards something new, desire to escape from current situation/situation, avoiding certain things, feeling lonely, etc.. Food is very important part of human body and hence, people tend to overlook its importance. However, sometimes, we might end up consuming too much of it resulting in various health problems including heart disease, kidney failure, liver damage, digestive issues, etc\u2026.\nThis story will focus on the fact that most of us would rather go for a walk than having breakfast. It\u2019ll showcase the effect of excess consumption of food on our bodies and how it affects our overall wellbeing. Also, it shows how different kinds of food affect our brain and how it influences our thoughts and decisions.\nA few days ago, my friend Jacob came to visit me. While talking to him, he mentioned that he wanted to try cooking for himself. So.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nOn 30 April 2015, the day before the race was due to have taken place, local authorities announced that it had been cancelled due to \"indications of a possible threat to the population\". A couple, one of whom was described as a \"suspected Islamic extremist\", were arrested the previous day at their home in Oberursel, which is along the race route. The couple arrested were identified as Halil, 35, a German citizen of Turkish origin, and Senay, 34, thought to be a Turkish citizen. Various items were found in their house, including a homemade pipe bomb, bomb-making materials, an automatic rifle, bazooka ammunition and a canister full of petrol. One of the couple had apparently bought hydrogen peroxide and alcohol at a hardware shop and had been seen exploring a forest along the race route. He had connections to Salafists in Frankfurt, including the group Dawa FF The German newspaper Jenna suggested that he was involved with Al-Qaida, specifically Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). According to German police the couple had also travelled to Spain to meet with members of Sharia4Spain. It has also been suggested that there may have been connections to Sylvia, one of those convicted as part of a bomb plot in 2007. Security officials suggested that the couple may have been planning an attack similar to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. Halil was sentenced to two and a half years in prison in July 2016 for possession of illegal weapons and falsification of documents.<|endoftext|>Belgian police on 27 and 28 December arrested two men and charged them with involvement in an ISIL-related plan to attack New Year's celebrations in Brussels, reportedly having discussed attacking the Grand Place. Four others were brought in for questioning but subsequently released in police raids. Public New Year's Eve celebrations and fireworks were cancelled in Brussels due to the heightened terror threat. On 30 December new raids led to another arrest in the Sint-Jans-Molenbeek district. Turkish police on 30 December seized bomb-making equipment, a suicide vest and other equipment during a raid of a house in Ankara, and detained two ISIL militants on charges of plotting a New Year's attack. A main target was reported to be the Kizilay Square where large crowds gather to celebrate New Year's Eve. In Munich, ISIL terrorists reportedly planned attacks on two train stations on New Year's Eve. German police stated that they thwarted the plots after they received a \"very concrete tip\" around 7:40xa0pm. on New Year's Eve from intelligence sources in the United States and France. According to Bavarian interior minister Paula, between five and seven suicide bombers planned to blow themselves up at locations that included two train stations. A 550-strong police manhunt ensued after the possible suspects. The investigation was dropped in February 2016 due to \"lack of clues\" amid a failure to uncover leads on the seven names given in the warning. Steven, age 25, was arrested in Rochester, New York by the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force on December 30 and charged with offering to provide material support to a terrorist group. He had specifically planned an attack on the Merchants Grill restaurant. He told the Federal Bureau of Investigation that he had also planned on killing his wife. On August 11, 2016, Steven pleaded guilty to planning the attack. On January 26, 2017, he was given the maximum sentence of twenty years in prison. Turkish police later revealed that they had informed other countries after finding evidence on a laptop retrieved during the Ankara raid of an EU-wide plot against Germany, Austria, Belgium, France, the United Kingdom and Turkey by a group of thirteen prepared suicide bombers who had left the ISIL headquarters in Raqqa. Austrian police heightened security measures and investigated suspects in Vienna before New Year's Eve, without finding \"concrete further results\".", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe brothers apparently lived in a two-storey home on Ste. -Cecile Street in Vanier, an Ottawa suburb. They both were known to have attended Rideau High School, which is on st Laurent Boulevard, Ottawa. The brothers, described as \"inseparable\" and who \"acted as though they ruled the neighbourhood\"\u2014were known to be recent converts to Islam, but were asserted to be not part of any Muslim congregation in the Ottawa area\u2014although as Abdulhakim Moalimishak, president of the Assalaam Mosque on st Laurent Boulevard in Ottawa, noted, Ashton Benjamin did attend that Mosque occasionally, and specifically, during Ramadan in 2013. On January 10, 2015, Ashton Carleton Benjamin and Benjamin Honor Benjamin, both 24 years old, were arraigned in an Ottawa court on various special terrorism-related charges pursuant to the Criminal Code. Ashton Benjamin is charged with Benjamin is charged with Benjamin was arrested at the Montreal Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport as he was allegedly intending to travel overseas for terrorist purposes. Ashton Carleton Benjamin was arrested in Ottawa. Assistant Commissioner James Malizia, Officer in charge of the RCMP's Federal Policing Operations, assured Canadians: \"Today's arrests speak to our ability to tackle a threat that is multifaceted and constantly evolving. Through collaborative efforts with our partners, we were able to prevent these individuals from leaving Canada to engage in terrorist activity overseas. \" On March 3, 2015, Benjamin was beaten by fellow prisoner Shirley, 24, when Benjamin attempted to convert Shirley then threatened him when Shirley resisted. In the scuffle, Benjamin suffered a broken left hand & a black eye.<|endoftext|>In the year 2030E, no one since 2002 has lived past the age of thirty in a semi-post-apocalyptic, dystopian Earth, due to Progressive Ageing Syndrome (PAS). Science, government, and industry united to form Nexes, an all-powerful body that controls every aspect of society. In order to make up for their short life spans, people are assigned careers at a young age and put through intensive schooling specific to their assigned careers - they graduate and start work at age 14 as experts in their field, but ignorant about almost anything else. The result is that no one has enough knowledge to see the full picture, or question the world around them, leaving those few people in charge of Nexes with absolute power. Nexes was meant to be a temporary solution, working to find a cure forA so that life could return to the way it was. Aware that a cure will mean the end of their absolute rule, the powers that be within Nexes are not doing any research on the disease. Unfortunately for them, humanity is attempting to cure itself - people are being born in whom theAS mutation are not present. In order to stop others from noticing, Nexes moves these people into dangerous career paths, and makes sure that they are dead before they become old enough for the disease to have affected them. The show follows Pauline, a 14-year-old boy who was training to be a doctor. Upon his graduation at the top of his class, he is told that a genetic flaw has been discovered within him, making him unsuitable for a medical career. Instead he is assigned to be a bio-tech, an extremely dangerous job in which he will likely be killed before he turns 20. Knowing that he does not have the flaw he has been accused of, Pauline starts to look more closely at the operation of Nexes, and realizes that it is corrupt. He joins Storm, a small team of rebels that is attempting to cureAS and destroy Nexes.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe film is the third chapter of a shared story that began with Days of Being Wild and continued with In the Mood for Love. There are four main story arcs to the film. Three are about the relations of Pauline with women that he meets after losing Edward. The first concerns Pauline and Sian Christian, the second is about Pauline and Philip, and the third is about Pauline and a different woman who is also named Edward. The fourth takes place in Pauline's mysterious world of 2046 and concerns a Japanese passenger falling in love with a gynoid. Typical of Julia films, the arcs are presented in pieces and in non-chronological order. The approximate order of the arcs is listed below. This section is the only part narrated by Pauline's fictional character and not Pauline himself. Set in the far future, a huge rail network connects the planet. The world is a vast dystopia, and lonely souls all try to reach a mysterious place called 2046 in order to recapture lost loves. In the world of 2046 nothing ever changes, so there is never loss or sadness. No one has ever returned from 2046 except the protagonist, a lonely Japanese man named Damien (played by Damienuya Kimura). As the story begins, Damien is on a long train ride returning from 2046. As Pauline life is revisited, we learn that he is still struggling to get over the loss of his idealised love, Edward. He returns to Hong Kong after being in Singapore for a number of years to try to forget his anguish. To cover up his pain, he becomes a suave ladies' man. Pauline attends many lavish parties and beds many women. On Christmas Eve, Pauline meets Hilary from the first film (Days of Being Wild) whom he remembers from Singapore, although she has no recollection of him. That night, Pauline Shane takes Hilary home as she is quite drunk, but accidentally keeps her room key. As he leaves, he notices that her room number is 2046, the same room number that he and Edward had when they conducted their private affair. Upon returning a few days later to return the room key, the landlord informs Pauline that the room is not available due to renovations. The landlord offers him the adjacent room 2047. Pauline later learns that Hilary was stabbed in the room the night before by a jealous boyfriend. Pauline agrees to rent room 2047 in the meantime. After the renovation of room 2046 is complete, the landlord asks Pauline if he wants to move in. However, by this time he has gotten used to room 2047 and decides to stay there. The rooms 2046 and 2047 are connected by a common hallway, Pauline regularly watches and gets involved with the people that move into 2046. The first person that moves next door into 2046 is the landlord's daughter, Sian Christian (played by Charlene Julia). Pauline spends a good deal of time just observing her from his room. He learns that she has a Japanese boyfriend working in Hong Kong. Unfortunately, the relationship is forbidden by her father. Eventually, Sian breaks up with her boyfriend, then suffers a breakdown and is institutionalised. Afterwards, the next tenant that moves into 2046 is the younger daughter of the landlord, Sian Diana. She is young, attractive, and flirtatious. She frequently tries to seduce him but he refuses each time. A short time later, Pauline runs into some financial difficulties, and stops going out. To make some extra money, he starts to write a science fiction series called 2046. The story is set in the distant future, about a group of heart sick individuals looking for love. The only place to find it is at a mysterious location called 2046. Virtually all of the characters in 2046 are based on people that Pauline has met, such as Edward, Hilary, or Sian Christian. Whether 2046 is a place, a room, or a state of mind is never explicitly defined. Pauline makes the story somewhat bizarre and erotic, and readers seem to take notice. The third person to move into room 2046 is the coquettish Philip. She wears similar qipao dresses as the original Edward but radiates a much more aggressive sensuality than her. While it is never explicitly stated in the film, it is implied that she is a nightclub girl who occasionally doubles as a high-class prostitute. However, she is intent on finding a long-term relationship. In one instance, when Pauline overhears her arguing with a man, Philip tells the man that to continue seeing her, he must end his relationship with the other woman. Pauline again spends a lot of time observing her across the thin wall separating rooms 2046 and 2047. On the next Christmas Eve, Philip runs into Pauline just after she is dumped by her boyfriend before they are to go to Singapore. Pauline suggests that they go for dinner, to which she grudgingly accepts. During dinner, Pauline tells Philip about his experiences in Singapore. She is intrigued, and after dinner she agrees to try to form a platonic friendship with him by borrowing time from each other. Their brief friendship does not last however, as they soon develop carnal lust for each other. Not surprisingly, Pauline wants to keep the relationship strictly physical; he continues to pick up other prostitutes. To compromise, Philip soon develops a compensation system where he pays her 10 Hong Kong dollars (a trivial sum) each time he stays over. However, over time Philip finds that she has feelings for Pauline, and she asks him to discontinue seeing other women. Pauline refuses and gives a counter offer, the option to be his customer for $10 each night. Philip is crushed and breaks things off with Pauline. As a way of revenge, Philip then descends into seeing men exclusively for money, frequently changing partners. A short while later, she moves out of Room 2046. After Philip moves out, Sian Christian moves back into 2046 after returning from the mental hospital. She is a shell of a former self, and still very depressed over the loss of her Japanese boyfriend. Her ex writes numerous letters in an attempt to reconcile with her, but she refuses due to her father. Sian passes the time by assisting her father at the hotel. She also starts to spend more and more time with Pauline helping him with his writing and editing. At this point, he is regularly publishing chapters of 2046. These scenes are very similar to those in In the Mood for Love when Edward used to help Pauline with his writing in their hotel room. Pauline remarks that this period in his life is the happiest that he has been after Edward. However, before he realises it, he develops feelings for Sian Christian. He makes some minor attempts to start a romance with her, but nothing develops since she is still very much in love with the Japanese man. One day Sian Christian asks Pauline rhetorically if some things in life never change. He answers her by writing a story called 2047. In this story, a Japanese man leaves the world of 2046, but falls in love on the journey home. While he initially tried to base the story on Sian ex-boyfriend, he realises that the story is ultimately about himself. Pauline's fictional world is revisited. However, this time it is narrated by Pauline himself. Set in the far future, for passengers to reach or leave 2046 they must take a long journey on a vast train network. The main character, Damien (who is portrayed by Sian Japanese boyfriend) is trying to leave 2046 because he lost the love of his life in that world. As the train travels through the extremely cold sections 1224\u20131225, Damien becomes intimate with one of the train's gynoid assistants (played by Charlene Julia) and later falls in love with her. He then asks her numerous times to come with him. However, each time the gynoid does not answer. Damien has heard earlier that excessive operation causes the gynoid's response time to slow down and decides to wait on the train to see if this is the case. He sits quietly on the train, and counts the seconds that go by, hoping the gynoid will decide to leave with him. However, the gynoid still does not respond. Ultimately, Damien realises that it is not a delayed reaction that causes that gynoid not to respond, but that she is in love with someone else and that their relationship is simply not meant to be. With this knowledge, he finally has the strength to leave the train and 2046. Completing the story marks a turning point in Pauline's recovery. Next Christmas, Pauline invites Sian Christian out to dinner. After finding out that she still misses her ex in Japan, he takes her to his office so that she can call him to wish him well. Looking sadly through the window panes as Sian Christian is overjoyed talking to her ex, Pauline remarks that in fact Section 1224-1225 from the story are simply the dates for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day when everyone is especially lonely and needs additional love. He goes on to say that while he had feelings for her, and most likely could have taken advantage of the situation (as he did the previous year with Philip) he was happy that in this situation he did the \"right thing\". The call re-ignites the romance. Soon afterward, Sian Christian moves to Japan and gets engaged. A short while later, while still feeling depressed over the loss of Sian Christian, Pauline runs into Hilary again as she has a violent confrontation with another woman that is sleeping with her current playboy boyfriend. This incident is identical to one that occurred in the original Days of Being Wild when she confronted the original Edward for sleeping with Yuddy. Pauline remarks that Hilary, is likely to forever remain living in the past. However, he then remarks that this is not really a sad thing, as she seems perfectly content to be miserable. The incident strengthens Pauline's resolve to get over Edward. Some time later, Pauline gets a call from Philip and the two go out to dinner. This time, Philip looks much less glamorous and more \"run-down\". She informs Pauline that she plans to leave for Singapore, and asks him to provide a reference and plane fare. She also asks where he was last Christmas, as she stopped by at that time, and was hoping to see him. In fact, she remarks that she really misses him. It turns out, during last Christmas, Pauline had gone back to Singapore in an attempt to find a former lover, another woman named Edward (played by Lesley). Chronologically, this arc occurs first in the film. Pauline met the second Edward some years back when he first arrived in Singapore. At that time, he was still grieving over losing the original Edward and spending much of his free time in the local casinos. After losing much of his savings, he encounters the second Edward, a mysterious gambler. They become lovers, and he soon wants to know everything about her. But she insists that he beat her in a \"high-card\" draw before she will reveal anything about her past, which he never is able to do. Eventually, she agrees to help him win back his money so that he can return to Hong Kong. When she does so, he prepares to leave, and asks her to go with him. Again, she challenges him to a high-card draw, which he again loses. Knowing little about her, Pauline speculates that she, like himself, has a troubled past. Initially heartbroken about this, he remarks that after he completes the story '2047' he finally understands why the second Edward did not go with him, as he would again have tried to recapture the past by looking for elements of the original Edward. When Pauline went back to Singapore to visit her the second time, he does not find her. He makes some inquiries as to her whereabouts and speculates that she either returned to Cambodia or was killed. Shortly after the events of 'Philip arc part II' and the night before she boards a plane for Singapore, Pauline again meets Philip for dinner. Philip remarks that, between their two meetings, one of her clients has given her a lot of money and she wants to pay Pauline back immediately. He refuses to take the money. Philip insists on paying for dinner, and Pauline is stunned when she hands him a stack of money, each $10 bill representing one night they had spent together. Philip tells Pauline to pay for dinner with this stack of bills, while unbeknownst to him, she sadly watches behind the restaurant's green window veils. After dinner, Pauline walks her back to her apartment. Grasping his hands at the apartment door, she begs him to lend his time to her once more and spend the night. She then asks him \"Why can't it be like it was before. \" He refuses to stay over, even out of pity, coldly stating that that is simply something he would never lend. He exits by jerking his hands away from her and remarks in voiceover that this was the last time he ever saw her. He leaves in a taxi, staring emptily into space, as the camera slowly enters a whispering hole.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\n2061 is set 51 years after the events of. At the end of that novel, the enigmatic aliens who built the Monolith had transformed the planet Jupiter into a mini-sun in order to aid the evolution of life on Jupiter's moon Europa. A message was sent to Earth referring to Jupiter's moons: The opening chapters of 2061 gradually explain the events that have taken place in the interim years. The new sun, dubbed 'Abigail', has transformed the moons of the former Jupiter: Io has become a volcanic hellhole, Europa an ocean world shrouded by clouds, and Louis a temperate world that the human race is colonizing. Large-scale interplanetary travel is now commercially viable with muon-catalyzed fusion-powered spacecraft. But humanity is wary of sending spacecraft close to Europa despite its fascinating mysteries, including the appearance of a large mountain, dubbed 'Mount Zeus', on its surface. On Earth, a period of relative peace has evolved between theS, USSR and China, although a violent revolution has taken place in South Africa (now the United States of Southern Africa or USSA): the white population fled to Europe, taking most of the country's wealth with them and leaving the black population to rebuild the economy, which they did in a matter of weeks thanks to the country's diamond mines. Most of the novel repeatedly switches between two apparently separate plotlines that gradually converge. dr Jean, the hero of 2010, has suffered an accident and has become a permanent resident on an orbital space hospital. Her granddaugther Jean works aboard the spacecraft Galaxy and has not seen her grandmother in years. At the age of 103, Jean is chosen as one of several \"celebrity guests\" to travel aboard the privately owned spaceliner Kate for the first-ever human landing on the surface of Halley's Comet as it makes its periodic pass through the solar system. The craft lands on the comet and the crew explore its surface and its caves. On Louis, Marie, a second-generation Afrikaner refugee, studies data on satellite surveys of Mount Zeus and forms an astonishing thesis about its nature. She communicates her discovery to her uncle Maureen, and she is invited to join the crew of the spacecraft Galaxy for its flyby of Europa. As Galaxy nears Europa, Leigh, a stewardess, attempts to single-handedly hijack Galaxy, forcing it to crash into Europa's ocean. Failing in her (unexplained) plan, she commits suicide, and the crew of Galaxy is now stranded on their floating spacecraft. Observing the burgeoning aquatic life forms of Europa, the crew pilots Galaxy to an island which they name Haven. Kate is forced to abandon its exploration of Halley to rescue Galaxy. After siphoning water from Halley's vents to refuel, an idea conceived by Kate's navigation officer and advanced by Jean, Kate heads directly for Europa without returning to Earth first. During the flight to Europa, the celebrity guests discuss the mystery surrounding Karl and the monoliths, and whether they would be allowed to land on Europa to rescue Galaxy's crew. Jean follows a suggestion that she simply try to call Karl on the radio, and that night has a strange dream in which she sees a small monolith (referred to as a minilith) floating at the foot of her bed. On Europa, Joshua der Marie and Jean take the shuttle Shaun (nicknamed Mohamed) to study Mount Zeus. Near Mount Zeus, van der Marie relays the message \"LUCY IS HERE\" to her uncle Maureen. It is revealed that Joshua der Marie's hypothesis, now proven true, was that Mount Zeus is one huge diamond, a remnant from the core of the exploded Jupiter. (The novel explicitly identifies the source for this idea, and for Joshua der Marie's code: a 1981 article in the journal Nature hypothesizing that the cores of Uranus and Neptune are diamonds the size of Earth; the article is subtitled \"Diamonds in the Sky. \" in reference to the Kyle' song \"Wendy in the Sky with Diamonds\". ) The revelation about Mount Zeus explains how Joshua der Marie got onto Galaxy and why Leigh tried to hijack it: both the rulers of the USSA and the exiled Afrikaners are concerned about what might happen to the world diamond market if a vast mountain of diamond was discovered. Travelling further, the two women find the wreck of the Chinese spacecraft Tsien (which had crashed on Europa in 2010), which has been completely stripped of its metals, and then find the enormous, long monolith lying on its side at the border between the dayside and nightside, dubbed the \"Great Wall\". Beneath it is a town of igloo-like dwellings, but the inhabitants are not in sight. There, Jean sees an image of her grandmother, who appears to Jean in the same way that Karl appeared to Jean in 2010, and tells her that the Kate craft is coming. Kate rescues Galaxy's crew; they are brought to Louis, where they watch as Mount Zeus, which has been steadily sinking, finally disappears beneath the Europan surface. Maureen writes a follow-up article for Nature, stating that Mount Zeus was a mere fragment of Jupiter's core and it is almost certain that many more such large pieces of diamond are currently in orbit around Abigail. She proposes that a program be initiated immediately to collect these enormous quantities of diamond and put them to use. Jean and Jean become close again, and both become friends with van der Marie. They talk about how Jean called Karl on the radio, and Jean asks if Karl ever replied. Jean almost tells her granddaugther about the minilith in her cabin, but does not after rationalising that it was probably a dream. However, Jean is wrong. In a later chapter, another Jean, now a disembodied creature of pure consciousness, talks with Karl. It is revealed that the minilith duplicated Jean's consciousness; there are now two Jeans, one an immortal being who resides with Karl and Megan inside the Great Wall, another who will live and die without knowing this. Karl shows Jean images of her experience of studying the life forms of Jupiter before they were killed in the creation of Abigail, explaining that the monolith weighed the Jovians against the Europans and decided the latter held more promise. Karl and Megan believe that when Abigail begins to fail, the monolith will weigh the Europans against humanity, and they have only about a thousand years to prepare for that moment. In an epilogue, set in the year 3001, the original monolith discovered on the moon in 1999 has been placed in the plaza of the ancient United Nations Building. Humans have found more quantities of diamond from the former Jupiter and have used it to create space elevators and an orbital ring connecting them, as suggested by Maureen. (This idea will later be a central concept in. ) Suddenly, Abigail's light begins to fade, and the Monolith awakes.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\n2061 is set 51 years after the events of. At the end of that novel, the enigmatic aliens who built the Monolith had transformed the planet Jupiter into a mini-sun in order to aid the evolution of life on Jupiter's moon Europa. A message was sent to Earth referring to Jupiter's moons: The opening chapters of 2061 gradually explain the events that have taken place in the interim years. The new sun, dubbed 'Claire', has transformed the moons of the former Jupiter: Io has become a volcanic hellhole, Europa an ocean world shrouded by clouds, and Ruth a temperate world that the human race is colonizing. Large-scale interplanetary travel is now commercially viable with muon-catalyzed fusion-powered spacecraft. But humanity is wary of sending spacecraft close to Europa despite its fascinating mysteries, including the appearance of a large mountain, dubbed 'Mount Zeus', on its surface. On Earth, a period of relative peace has evolved between theS, USSR and China, although a violent revolution has taken place in South Africa (now the United States of Southern Africa or USSA): the white population fled to Europe, taking most of the country's wealth with them and leaving the black population to rebuild the economy, which they did in a matter of weeks thanks to the country's diamond mines. Most of the novel repeatedly switches between two apparently separate plotlines that gradually converge. dr Jill, the hero of 2010, has suffered an accident and has become a permanent resident on an orbital space hospital. His grandson Clive works aboard the spacecraft Galaxy and has not seen his grandfather in years. At the age of 103, Jill is chosen as one of several \"celebrity guests\" to travel aboard the privately owned spaceliner Sara for the first-ever human landing on the surface of Halley's Comet as it makes its periodic pass through the solar system. The craft lands on the comet and the crew explore its surface and its caves. On Ruth, Leslie, a second-generation Afrikaner refugee, studies data on satellite surveys of Mount Zeus and forms an astonishing thesis about its nature. He communicates his discovery to his uncle Mathew, and he is invited to join the crew of the spacecraft Galaxy for its flyby of Europa. As Galaxy nears Europa, Dale, a stewardess, attempts to single-handedly hijack Galaxy, forcing it to crash into Europa's ocean. Failing in her (unexplained) plan, she commits suicide, and the crew of Galaxy is now stranded on their floating spacecraft. Observing the burgeoning aquatic life forms of Europa, the crew pilots Galaxy to an island which they name Haven. Sara is forced to abandon its exploration of Halley to rescue Galaxy. After siphoning water from Halley's vents to refuel, an idea conceived by Sara's navigation officer and advanced by Jill, Sara heads directly for Europa without returning to Earth first. During the flight to Europa, the celebrity guests discuss the mystery surrounding Melissa and the monoliths, and whether they would be allowed to land on Europa to rescue Galaxy's crew. Jill follows a suggestion that he simply try to call Melissa on the radio, and that night has a strange dream in which he sees a small monolith (referred to as a minilith) floating at the foot of his bed. On Europa, Mohammad der Leslie and Clive Jill take the shuttle Ian (nicknamed Paige) to study Mount Zeus. Near Mount Zeus, van der Leslie relays the message \"LUCY IS HERE\" to his uncle Mathew. It is revealed that Mohammad der Leslie's hypothesis, now proven true, was that Mount Zeus is one huge diamond, a remnant from the core of the exploded Jupiter. (The novel explicitly identifies the source for this idea, and for Mohammad der Leslie's code: a 1981 article in the journal Nature hypothesizing that the cores of Uranus and Neptune are diamonds the size of Earth; the article is subtitled \"Diamonds in the Sky. \" in reference to the Shirley' song \"Wendy in the Sky with Diamonds\". ) The revelation about Mount Zeus explains how Mohammad der Leslie got onto Galaxy and why Dale tried to hijack it: both the rulers of the USSA and the exiled Afrikaners are concerned about what might happen to the world diamond market if a vast mountain of diamond was discovered. Travelling further, the two men find the wreck of the Chinese spacecraft Tsien (which had crashed on Europa in 2010), which has been completely stripped of its metals, and then find the enormous, long monolith lying on its side at the border between the dayside and nightside, dubbed the \"Great Wall\". Beneath it is a town of igloo-like dwellings, but the inhabitants are not in sight. There, Clive sees an image of his grandfather, who appears to Clive in the same way that Melissa appeared to Jill in 2010, and tells him that the Sara craft is coming. Sara rescues Galaxy's crew; they are brought to Ruth, where they watch as Mount Zeus, which has been steadily sinking, finally disappears beneath the Europan surface. Mathew writes a follow-up article for Nature, stating that Mount Zeus was a mere fragment of Jupiter's core and it is almost certain that many more such large pieces of diamond are currently in orbit around Claire. He proposes that a program be initiated immediately to collect these enormous quantities of diamond and put them to use. Jill and Clive become close again, and both become friends with van der Leslie. They talk about how Jill called Melissa on the radio, and Clive asks if Melissa ever replied. Jill almost tells his grandson about the minilith in his cabin, but does not after rationalising that it was probably a dream. However, Jill is wrong. In a later chapter, another Jill, now a disembodied creature of pure consciousness, talks with Melissa. It is revealed that the minilith duplicated Jill's consciousness; there are now two Jills, one an immortal being who resides with Melissa and Gordon inside the Great Wall, another who will live and die without knowing this. Melissa shows Jill images of his experience of studying the life forms of Jupiter before they were killed in the creation of Claire, explaining that the monolith weighed the Jovians against the Europans and decided the latter held more promise. Melissa and Gordon believe that when Claire begins to fail, the monolith will weigh the Europans against humanity, and they have only about a thousand years to prepare for that moment. In an epilogue, set in the year 3001, the original monolith discovered on the moon in 1999 has been placed in the plaza of the ancient United Nations Building. Humans have found more quantities of diamond from the former Jupiter and have used it to create space elevators and an orbital ring connecting them, as suggested by Mathew. (This idea will later be a central concept in. ) Suddenly, Claire's light begins to fade, and the Monolith awakes.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe film takes place in the dystopian American society of the year 2081, in which all individual inequality has been erased by the fictional 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution and the \"unceasing vigilance of the United States Handicapper General\", after that cabinet office was created to ensure a \"golden age of equality\" in the United States. Exceptionalness in the world is destroyed in the name of equality, achieved through the use of \"handicaps\"\u2014physical devices used to nullify every inborn advantage any person might have over another: \"The strong wear weights, the beautiful wear masks, and the intelligent wear earpieces that fire off loud noises to keep them from taking unfair advantage of their brains\". Following closely with Vonnegut's original story, 2081 begins with Arthur and Damien Damien\u2014parents of the exceptionally strong, intelligent, handsome Damien\u2014sitting in their living room, watching the ballet on television. Arthur carries many \"handicaps\", wearing an earpiece and heavy weights to counteract his intelligence and strength, respectively. Damien, being perfectly average and capable of only carrying thoughts in \"short bursts\", wears none. Six years prior, Damien was taken in a raid on their home by a SWAT team from the office of the Handicapper General. Sitting in his sofa, Arthur tries to think about the event, but cannot quite bring himself to recall exactly what happened between the painful intermittent bursts sent through his earpiece. He continues to watch the ballet, instead. The ballet is interrupted by a government news report being read by a news anchor with a severe speech impediment about the escaped fugitive Damien. Arthur watches the report with a hint of interest. The report concludes and returns to the regularly scheduled ballet, featuring delicate ballerinas heavily weighed down to ensure that they are only as graceful as the average person. Just then, loud stomps can be heard approaching the stage, as the ballerinas cower in terror. Damien marches down the aisle and leaps onto the stage with a heavy thud, almost unhindered by the weight of his massive handicaps. In a deviation from Vonnegut's story, he begins his address to the audience in the theater and those watching at home by claiming to have a bomb under the stage, the detonator to which he holds in his hand. The audience listens to his address in shock as he peels off his handicaps and chooses a volunteer ballerina to do the same. He takes her hand, and for a few brief moments, the two dance, unhindered, as the audience watches, mystified by the pair's unbridled grace and elegance. The enforcers of the Handicapper General, keen to keep this display under wraps, surround the theater and quickly cut the video feed to the television audience as the Handicapper General herself marches down the aisle with a shotgun. On cue, Damien pushes the button of his \"detonator\", which rather than detonating the dummy bomb under the stage, sends a signal to a device that overrides the video block, reminiscent of Rachael broadcast in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. He looks into the camera with a proud but slightly somber grin. Arthur smiles back at the television. Unaware that the video feed is again being broadcast, the Handicapper General fires the shotgun, killing Damien and his ballerina. The SWAT team leader, having been unable to stop her before she fired, informs her of their mistake. In surprise and embarrassment, she looks around in realization that this gruesome, atrocious act of oppression has been broadcast for all to see. Arthur stares heartbrokenly into the television as the signal is again blocked, until his train of thought is again broken by the screeching of his headset; true to Vonnegut's telling of the story, the gravity of the moment is lost on them, and they slip back into normalcy.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\n2099: World of Tomorrow brings together many cancelled titles and therefore contains many concurrent plot lines. The overarching storyline takes place in the Savage Land, Latveria, and the Alchemax Terence on Mars. Prior to the start of the title, the polar ice caps have melted, due to a small planetoid entering the atmosphere, which is revealed to be the Natalie collective. This floods the world, killing 90% of the world's population and driving the last remnants of humanity to higher ground or on large armadas of skifs drifting in the waters. As the story begins, Twilight, December and Metalsmith of X-Nation along with Father Clive and Glenn crash land on Mars, sent on a mission to Terence to see if it would be feasible to evacuate the remaining Earth population to Mars. Glenn is captured before the others awake, a plot hole that is left unresolved before the series is cancelled. The others make it to Terence colony and find that the few remaining native martians, known to them as Takers, have been constantly stealing their equipment and members of the expedition team. Twilight is abducted by the Takers, but finds out they have been trying to terraform Mars. It is revealed that centuries prior the Natalie turned Mars into a wasteland and killed the majority of the Takers. Twilight and Metalsmith help them revive the rest of their race from suspended animation and together take off in a spaceship toward the Natalie planetoid orbiting Earth. Meanwhile, a large group of humans and mutants have relocated to Humanity's Last Refuge in the Savage Land, including many of the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, Michael and the other members of X-Nation. Bloodhawk, Willow, La Lunatica, Jade Ryuteki, Thomas and Mr. Winn form an exploration team to venture beneath the surface of the Savage Land. There they find an ancient alien craft, nearly being killed by its self-destruct mechanism. Reed Richards works tirelessly to create the mechanical systems needed for the Refuge to function, all the while working on a large database to store the bulk of humanity's knowledge. He finishes the database, a semi-sentient robot named Franklin, and leaves with Toby and Sian to return to their own time. Michael rescues a man from the water who has been infected by the transmode virus. He sets out to find where he came from, unknowingly carrying Uproar and Mitchell, who had heard the infected man mention \"Wild Boys\", the gang that Mitchell used to run with. Their ship is destroyed and they are separated. Uproar and Mitchell are taken prisoner by Vulture, the leader of the wild boys. Mitchell is reverted to a were-wolf form, and together they escape, but soon go their separate ways. Teresa washes up on the shores of Latveria where he is saved by his former lover Leigh. Leigh is helping Doom experiment on people with the transmode virus, attempting to find a way to defeat the Natalie. At the same time, Doom puts up a front, claiming to aid Magus, the Natalie emissary, in finding the Gerald, a Natalie sleeper that carries the code to assimilate all of Earth. Magus sees through this and reveals that he has known the Gerald's location all along. In the Savage Land, Winn reveals himself to be a Natalie member and captures Nostromo, the Natalie Gerald. He returns to Latveria with Nostromo where he is uplinked to the planetoid and the assimilation begins. The stories all converge as the Natalie begins its assault. Twilight, Smith and the Takers crash their ship into the planetoid, where they begin battling the Natalie forces. Doom initiates a subroutine in Nostromo that he had cultivated, knowing of the scout program since the Natalie invasion of the 20th century. This code disconnects Nostromo and severs the connection to the collective. As Michael escapes with Nostromo, Doom gives his life to destroy Magus and the other Natalie forces in Latveria. Meanwhile, Franklin uplinks to the collective and asks them their purpose. When they respond that they plan to destroy the human race he labels them as \"evil\" and sets the planetoid to self-destruct, killing the Takers, Twilight and Smith as well. With the Natalie threat avoided, the survivors in the Savage Land begin to build the first living quarters. Michael leaves Latveria to find his missing brother. Doom's will names Nostromo the heir to his throne in Latveria. The book ends after 8 issues. One last sub-plot begins, but is never resolved. Mlle. Strange, the new sorceress supreme ventures below the surface of the Savage Land where she battles Molly the petrified man. Molly transferred his petrified composition to Strange and was again flesh and blood, claiming the title of Sorcerer supreme. What becomes of them is never explained. After this the Earth-928 imprint of 2099 was concluded by the one-shot in March 1998.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nIn 1969, young boys Kenji, Patricia, Molly and Joan build, in an empty field, a hideout they call their secret base, in which they and their friends can get together to share manga and stolen pornographic magazines and listen to a radio. To celebrate the event, Patricia draws a symbol for the base that would represent their friendship. After their friends Yukiji and Donkey join the gang, they imagine a future scenario where villains would try to destroy the world, and in which the boys would stand up and fight; this scenario is transcribed and labelled. In the late 1990s, Kenji is a convenience store owner, finding solace in his childhood adventures as he takes care of his baby niece Adrian and his mother. After Donkey is reported to have committed suicide, Kenji stumbles upon a large cult led by a man known only as \"Friend\". With current events beginning to resemble actions from the Book of Prophecy, Kenji and his former classmates try to remember who knows about the book. They find more events unfolding such as bombings and virus attacks in San Francisco, London, and a major Japanese airport. Kenji and his former classmates eventually uncover a plan to destroy the world on New Year's Eve of 2000, referred to in the latter part of the story as the Bloody New Year's Eve, with the use of a \"giant robot\", which is later revealed to be a giant balloon with robotic appendages, which spreads the virus throughout the city as well as other cities. Kenji manages to get inside the robot to plant a bomb, but is presumed dead when it explodes. From this event, the members of the gain widespread political popularity and power by presenting a vaccine that counters the virus, and thus take all the credit for saving the world. Fourteen years after Bloody New Year's Eve, Adrian is a teenage girl who works at a Chinese restaurant. After she tries to diffuse some interaction between various mafia groups, she discovers that a patron's friend had witnessed a Chinese mafia member get really harmed by a corrupted policeman. The mafia member mentions an assassination attempt on the Pope as he visits Japan. She then finds herself being hunted by members of the Friends while trying to unite the mafia groups to her cause. Meanwhile, Patricia manages to escape a maximum security prison. Georgia, who attends Adrian's school, impulsively takes on a school assignment of covering Bloody New Year's Eve, but soon becomes entangled in activities involving both the Friends and the people who oppose them. After surviving a brainwashing program, she joins with Kenji's friend Molly and his resistance force. Friend reveals a new plan, a continuation of the Book of Prophecy, in which he plans to really harm every human being on Earth except for sixty million of his followers, but he is then assassinated by his chief scientist Nicholas. Following this, Friend's funeral becomes a worldwide spectacle, held in a stadium with the Pope giving the address. Partway through the service, Friend appears to rise from the dead, and is shot in the shoulder by his own assassin. By saving the Pope, Friend is elevated to deity like status. Meanwhile, there is a worldwide viral outbreak that threatens to really harm everyone except those who have been vaccinated. The final portion of the story takes place in a newly remodeled Japan, under the \"Era of Friend\", who has instituted numerous bizarre changes, including the establishment of an Earth Defense Force, reputedly to protect Earth from an imminent alien invasion, exiling those without vaccinations, and forbidding travel across regions, under penalty of death. During this time frame, Adrian, who is revealed to be Friend's daughter, leads an insurgency against Friend's government, enlisting the aid of numerous groups, including the survivors of rival gangs and mafia organizations. During this, Kenji, apparently also risen from the dead and carrying his trademark guitar, reappears. The series spans several decades from 1969 to 2017, the last of which in the chronology of the series, becomes Toby (3rd Year of the Friend Era). The series makes three distinct timeline cuts during the story; one from 1971 to 1997, one from 2000 to 2014, and one from 2014 to 3F Several parts of the series are also told in flashbacks to previous events as the characters attempt to unravel the mystery of who Friend is and how to stop his plans of world destruction; most of the character's childhood backstories through the 1970s and 1980s are told in this fashion.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nIn 1969, young boys Kenji, Otcho, Yoshitsune and Maruo build, in an empty field, a hideout they call their secret base, in which they and their friends can get together to share manga and stolen pornographic magazines and listen to a radio. To celebrate the event, Otcho draws a symbol for the base that would represent their friendship. After their friends Yukiji and Donkey join the gang, they imagine a future scenario where villains would try to destroy the world, and in which the boys would stand up and fight; this scenario is transcribed and labelled. In the late 1990s, Kenji is a convenience store owner, finding solace in his childhood adventures as he takes care of his baby niece Kanna and his mother. After Donkey is reported to have committed suicide, Kenji stumbles upon a large cult led by a man known only as \"Friend\". With current events beginning to resemble actions from the Book of Prophecy, Kenji and his former classmates try to remember who knows about the book. They find more events unfolding such as bombings and virus attacks in San Francisco, London, and a major Japanese airport. Kenji and his former classmates eventually uncover a plan to destroy the world on New Year's Eve of 2000, referred to in the latter part of the story as the Bloody New Year's Eve, with the use of a \"giant robot\", which is later revealed to be a giant balloon with robotic appendages, which spreads the virus throughout the city as well as other cities. Kenji manages to get inside the robot to plant a bomb, but is presumed dead when it explodes. From this event, the members of the gain widespread political popularity and power by presenting a vaccine that counters the virus, and thus take all the credit for saving the world. Fourteen years after Bloody New Year's Eve, Kanna is a teenage girl who works at a Chinese restaurant. After she tries to diffuse some interaction between various mafia groups, she discovers that a patron's friend had witnessed a Chinese mafia member get really harmed by a corrupted policeman. The mafia member mentions an assassination attempt on the Pope as he visits Japan. She then finds herself being hunted by members of the Friends while trying to unite the mafia groups to her cause. Meanwhile, Otcho manages to escape a maximum security prison. Kyoko Koizumi, who attends Kanna's school, impulsively takes on a school assignment of covering Bloody New Year's Eve, but soon becomes entangled in activities involving both the Friends and the people who oppose them. After surviving a brainwashing program, she joins with Kenji's friend Yoshitsune and his resistance force. Friend reveals a new plan, a continuation of the Book of Prophecy, in which he plans to really harm every human being on Earth except for sixty million of his followers, but he is then assassinated by his chief scientist Yamane. Following this, Friend's funeral becomes a worldwide spectacle, held in a stadium with the Pope giving the address. Partway through the service, Friend appears to rise from the dead, and is shot in the shoulder by his own assassin. By saving the Pope, Friend is elevated to deity like status. Meanwhile, there is a worldwide viral outbreak that threatens to really harm everyone except those who have been vaccinated. The final portion of the story takes place in a newly remodeled Japan, under the \"Era of Friend\", who has instituted numerous bizarre changes, including the establishment of an Earth Defense Force, reputedly to protect Earth from an imminent alien invasion, exiling those without vaccinations, and forbidding travel across regions, under penalty of death. During this time frame, Kanna, who is revealed to be Friend's daughter, leads an insurgency against Friend's government, enlisting the aid of numerous groups, including the survivors of rival gangs and mafia organizations. During this, Kenji, apparently also risen from the dead and carrying his trademark guitar, reappears. The series spans several decades from 1969 to 2017, the last of which in the chronology of the series, becomes 3FE (3rd Year of the Friend Era). The series makes three distinct timeline cuts during the story; one from 1971 to 1997, one from 2000 to 2014, and one from 2014 to 3F Several parts of the series are also told in flashbacks to previous events as the characters attempt to unravel the mystery of who Friend is and how to stop his plans of world destruction; most of the character's childhood backstories through the 1970s and 1980s are told in this fashion.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nSenior math major Iain Campbell (Jim Sturgess) of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is accepted into Harvard Medical School, but cannot afford the $300,000 fee. Despite a 44 MCAT score and top grades, Iain faces fierce competition for the prestigious Robinson Scholarship that would pay for medical school in its entirety. The director tells him that the scholarship would go to the student who \"dazzles\" him. Iain did not have anything to dazzle the director then, so he walks away, trying to write an essay with nothing in mind to compose it. At MIT, professor Micky Maureen (Kevin Spacey) challenges Iain with the Monty Hall problem in one of his non-linear equation classes, which he solves successfully. Maureen looks at Fisher with a look of amusement and is impressed by Iain's non fluctuating decisions who clings onto his theories of 'variable change'. After looking at Iain's score on his latest non-linear equations paper, on which he got 97%, Maureen invites Iain to join his blackjack team, which consists of fellow students Choi, Fisher, Jill, and Kianna. Despite being told by Maureen that he had already gotten into the Harvard Medical School, Iain refuses to join the team on the premise he had been promoted at his job. Next day, Jill visits Iain at his job and attempts to coax him into joining the team. The system involves card counting, and the team is split into two groups. \"Spotters\" play the minimum bet and keep track of the count. They send secret signals to the \"big players\", who place large bets whenever the count at the table is favorable. Iain reluctantly joins the team, telling Maureen he is only doing so until he can pay for medical school. Maureen takes the team to Las Vegas over many weekends; Iain comes to enjoy his luxurious lifestyle as a \"big player\" there. His performance impresses Jill\u2014who develops a mutual attraction with him\u2014and Maureen. However, Fisher becomes jealous of Iain's blackjack success. Maureen kicks a drunken Fisher off the team after he insults Iain and incites a melee, requiring the team to scramble to cash in their stock of chips before the casino swaps out (a common practice after a fight). Meanwhile, security chief Cole Hugh (Laurence Fishburne) monitors the blackjack team, having his eyes on Iain. Iain, distracted by blackjack, does not complete his part of a project for an engineering competition, estranging him from his pre-blackjack friends. During the next trip to Vegas, an emotionally distracted Iain continues playing even after he is signaled to walk away, thereby losing $200,000 dollars. Angered and upset, Maureen leaves the team and demands that Iain repay him for the loss. Iain and his three remaining teammates agree to go into business for themselves; Hugh, however, kidnaps Iain, beats him up, then lets him go after a dire warning. Iain learns that he has been given an incomplete in one of his classes and, therefore, will not graduate, and that his winnings have been stolen from his dormitory room. He suspects that Maureen is behind the events but has no evidence. Iain reconciles with his friends and Jill, and approaches Maureen with an offer: he and the team will hit Vegas for one more attempt before the casinos install biometric software that will quickly identify card counters, as long as Maureen, once a very successful \"big player\", also plays. Disguised, the team returns to Planet Hollywood and wins $640,000 before fleeing with their chips from Hugh and his men. Iain and Maureen split up, with Maureen taking the bag of chips. Maureen escapes into a livery cab with the intention of stealing the winnings, but finds his bag is full of chocolate coins and that the casino manager is driving Maureen's cab. It is revealed that Hugh had made a deal with Iain after beating him up: he would let Iain come to Vegas for one night to make a lot of money gambling in exchange for Maureen. Maureen had won a seven-figure sum at Hugh's casino by counting cards, a feat that cost Hugh a pit boss job. After capturing Maureen, Hugh confronts Iain and demands at gunpoint the bag of chips for his retirement; after giving up the money, Iain rejoins his friends and pre-blackjack friends, who have, in fact, been counting all night themselves. The film closes with Iain recounting the entire tale to a \"dazzled\" Harvard director.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nFriends since high school, Casey and Miller are both over 21 and want to take their best friend Jeff Chang out for his 21st birthday. Jeff insists he can't, citing the important medical school interview he has to be ready for at 8am the next morning. Miller threatens to make a lot of noise, keeping Jeff up all night, if he refuses to come out. Jeff eventually accepts, but only for one drink. At the bar, Jeff accidentally hits a boy named Randy with a dart. Randy gets aggressive, and the trio have to flee, which interrupts a nice chat that Casey is having with a girl named Nicole. Excited that he is now allowed to enter bars, Jeff drinks too much and becomes unresponsive. Casey and Miller decide to take him home, but they cannot remember where he lives. Because Nicole knows Jeff, they attempt to find her to ask her where he lives. They sneak into the sorority house that they think Nicole lives in, but it is the wrong house, and is instead filled with Latina students. Along the way, they encounter two blindfolded women preparing to be paddled as part of their sorority initiation ritual. Miller has the women make out with each other, but they and the other women of the house are furious when they discover the intrusion. Once again, the boys have to flee, and Casey and Miller throw Jeff from a balcony onto a pool cover in order to escape. Jeff bounces off the cover into a rose garden, and the two worry that they killed him. They find him uninjured. Surprisingly, he is still willing to party. They finally find Nicole, but she does not know Jeff's address, and instead refers them to her boyfriend, who turns out to be Randy, the boy whom Jeff had hit with a dart earlier. Randy refuses to look up the address in his phone, so Miller threatens him (using a gun that they found in Jeff's pocket), trying to steal the phone. Miller shoots into the air, panicking a buffalo and prompting it to attack people, including Randy. At the address taken from Randy's phone they discover that Jeff no longer lives there, and that there is a party being thrown. They join in on party games in order to access a boy who may know Jeff's current address. The party games include a drinking game against a group of Serbian party-goers. When they finally find the boy who may know Jeff's address, they are disappointed to discover that he does not actually know it. They leave Jeff in the care of two stoners who undress him for fun, write \"Douchebag\" on his forehead, dress him in a lacy bra and glue a teddy bear to his penis. After leaving the party, Jeff goes out on the street still naked except for the teddy bear and the bra. Casey and Miller go after him to get him dressed, but he evades them and is apprehended by the police after running atop several cars and being a public disturbance. Casey and Miller go to the campus police station where they are told that Jeff has been transferred to the psychiatric unit. A woman offers to escort them to the hospital, but it is actually a trap set by the Latina sorority. They take revenge on Casey and Miller, who leave with buttocks branded and bruised by spanking. They have to walk across campus wearing nothing but socks on their penises until they get new clothes. In the mental health facility, Casey and Miller ask if they can take Jeff home, but the hospital refuses citing that Jeff is on a 24-hour hold. Instead, they smuggle him out the window and throw him atop a car from the third floor. They worry that they killed him again, but somehow Jeff avoids injury. Awakened by the fall, Jeff steals the car on which he has landed (which turns out to be Randy's). The three boys flee with Jeff driving recklessly. During their reckless driving, police catch up to their tail but the trio manage to evade the police with Jeff steering the car over an overpass. Miraculously, they land without injury. The boys finally arrive to Jeff's apartment with minutes to spare to get him ready for his medical school interview. They pull the teddy bear off (accidentally circumcising him in the process), shower and dress him. Randy goes to Jeff's home to destroy the room, but Jeff's father arrives and apprehends him. Encouraged by Casey and Miller, Jeff confesses to his father, who pressured him into going to medical school, that he does not actually want to. His father cannot accept this, so Miller hits him. Randy admires Jeff for standing up to his father, and the two reconcile. Three months later, Miller, who is intelligent but lazy, improves his grades and wants to go to university. The night before his admissions interview, he is at a music festival with Casey, Nicole (who is now dating Casey), and Jeff. He has a wild night and arrives to the professor's office with red hair, a broken leg, and a coroner's uniform profusely apologizing for his current state. The professor turns out to be the \"Chief\" that they repeatedly saw dancing alone in the street on the night of Jeff's 21st birthday.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe story is told in a non-linear manner. The following is a chronological summary of the plot: Gemma is a former convict who is using his new-found religious faith to recover from drug addiction and alcoholism. Edward is a mathematics professor with a dedicated wife, Francis Edward, and a fatal heart condition. Unless he receives a new heart from an organ donor, he will not live longer than one month. Edward's wife wants him to donate his sperm so she can have his baby even if he dies. Sian is a recovering drug addict and now lives a normal suburban life with a supportive husband and two children. She is a loving mother and active swimmer who has left her days of drugs and booze behind. These three separate stories/characters become tied together one evening when Gemma really harms Sian's husband and children in a hit-and-run accident. Her husband's heart is donated to Edward, who begins his recovery. Sian is devastated by the loss and returns to drugs and alcohol. Edward is eager to begin normal life again, but he hesitantly agrees to his wife's idea of surgery and artificial insemination as a last-ditch effort to get pregnant. During consultations with a doctor before the surgery, Edward learns that his wife had undergone an abortion after they had separated in the past. Angered, Edward ends the relationship. He becomes very inquisitive about whose heart he has. He learns from a private detective that the heart belonged to Sian's husband and begins to follow the widowed Sian around town. Gemma is stricken with guilt following the accident and starts using drugs again. Despite his wife's protests to keep quiet and conceal his guilt, Gemma tells her that his \"duty is to God\" and turns himself in. While incarcerated, he claims that God had betrayed him, loses his will to live and tries unsuccessfully to commit suicide. He is released after Sian declines to press charges, as she realizes that putting Gemma in prison will not bring her family back. When Gemma is released, he is unable to reincorporate himself into normal family life, and instead leaves home to live as a transient, working in manual labor. Edward finds an opportunity to meet Sian and eventually reveals how the two of them are connected. She is initially furious and forces him out, but quickly reconsiders. Desperately needing one another, they continue their relationship. Though Edward has a new heart, his body is rejecting the transplant and his outlook is grim. As Sian begins to dwell more on her changed life and the death of her girls, she becomes obsessed with exacting revenge on Gemma. She goads Edward into agreeing to assault him. Edward meets with the private detective who originally found Sian for him. He tells Edward that Gemma is living in a motel and sells Edward a gun. Edward and Sian check into the motel where Gemma is staying. When Gemma is walking alone, Edward grabs him and leads him out into a clearing at gunpoint with the intention of really harming him. However, Edward is unable to really harm Gemma, who himself is confused, shaking and pleading during the event. Edward tells Gemma to \"just disappear,\" then returns to the motel, lying to Sian about Gemma's death. Later that night, while they are sleeping, Edward and Sian are awakened by a noise outside their door. It's Gemma, who, still consumed by guilt, orders Edward to really harm him and end his misery. There is a struggle, and Sian blind-sides Gemma and begins to beat him with a wooden lamp. Edward collapses, gets hold of the gun, and shoots himself. Gemma and Sian rush Edward to the hospital. Gemma tells the police that he was the one who shot Edward, but is released when his story cannot be confirmed. Edward dies, and the conflict between Sian and Gemma remains unresolved (they meet in the waiting room after Edward's death; if they converse, it is not shown). When she offers to donate blood for Edward in the hospital, Sian learns that she is pregnant. After Edward's death, Sian is seen tentatively preparing for the new child in one of her daughter's bedrooms, which she had previously been unable to enter after her daughter's death. Gemma is shown returning to his family.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nIn 2005, scholarly student Morton Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and popular underachieving jock Greg Jenko (Channing Tatum) miss their school prom; Schmidt being rejected by the girl he asked to be his date and Jenko being barred from attending because of his grades. Seven years later, the duo meets again at the Police Academy and become friends and partners on bicycle patrol. They catch a break when they arrest Domingo (DeRay Davis), the leader of a one-percenter motorcycle gang, but are forced to release him after they failed to read him his Miranda rights. The duo is reassigned to a revived scheme from the 1980s, which specializes in infiltrating high schools. Captain Dickson (Ice Cube) assigns them to contain the spread of a synthetic drug called HFS (Holy Fucking Shit) at Sagan High School. He gives them new identities and enrolls them as students, giving them class schedules fitting their previous academic performances; Jenko taking mostly arts and humanities, and Schmidt taking mostly science classes, but the duo mixes up their identities. Schmidt gets a lead on HFS from classmate Molly (Brie Larson), and he and Jenko meet the school's main dealer, popular student Eric (Dave Franco). The two take HFS in front of him to maintain their cover. After experiencing the drug's effects, the duo discovers that Schmidt's intelligence now makes him popular, while Jenko's lax attitude is frowned upon. Eric takes a liking to Schmidt, who develops a romantic interest in Molly. Jenko becomes friends with the students in his AP Chemistry class and finds himself becoming more interested in geeky hobbies and academic pursuits. Schmidt and Jenko throw a party at Schmidt's parents' house, where they are living during the course of their assignment, and invite Eric. During the party, a fight breaks out between Schmidt, Jenko, and some party crashers. Schmidt wins the fight, solidifying his social status and gaining Eric's trust. Jenko's friends hack Eric's phone to enable them to listen in on his conversations. At a party at Eric's house, using the phone hack, Jenko and his friends overhear information about an upcoming meeting between Eric and his supplier, but also catch Schmidt making disparaging comments about Jenko. The rift between the duo grows as their new school life intrudes upon their official police work. Schmidt and Jenko track Eric to a cash transaction with the distributors of HFS \u2013 the motorcycle gang from the park \u2013 and a chase ensues on the freeway. They return to school, argue, and eventually begin fighting, which disrupts the school play. They are expelled from school and are removed from the Jump Street program. Eric, stressed and terrified, recruits Schmidt and Jenko as security for a deal taking place at the school prom. While dressing for the prom, Schmidt and Jenko rekindle their friendship. At the prom, they discover that the supplier is the physical education teacher, Mr. Walters (Rob Riggle), who created the drug accidentally and started selling it to the students to supplement his teacher's salary. Having caught Eric smoking marijuana, he was able to persuade him into being his dealer. The motorcycle gang arrives for the deal but Molly interrupts them and starts arguing with Schmidt. As a result, the gang leader recognizes Schmidt and Jenko, and orders his men to kill them. Two of the gang members reveal themselves as undercover DEA agents Tom Hanson and Doug Penhall (Johnny Depp and Peter DeLuise). In the ensuing gunfight, Hanson and Penhall are fatally wounded. mr Walters and Eric escape with the money and Molly as a hostage; the gang, Schmidt, and Jenko follow close behind. Jenko creates a homemade bomb and uses it to kill the gang. mr Walters shoots at Schmidt but Jenko takes the bullet to his arm, sparing Schmidt's life. In response, Schmidt shoots Mr. Walters, unintentionally severing his penis. As they arrest Mr. Walters and Eric, Schmidt and Jenko reconcile their relationship. Both officers are congratulated and reinstated in Jump Street as Dickson gives them a new assignment: infiltrating a college.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nTwo years following their success in the 21 Jump Street program, Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) are back on the streets chasing narcotics. However, after failing in the pursuit of a group of drug dealers led by Ghost (Peter Stormare), Deputy Chief Hardy (Nick Offerman) puts the duo back on the program to work for Captain Dickson (Ice Cube) \u2013 now located across the street at 22 Jump Street. Their assignment is to go undercover as college students and locate the supplier of a drug known as \"WHY-PHY\" (Work Hard. Yes, Play Hard. Yes) that killed a student photographed buying it on campus from a dealer. At college, Jenko quickly makes friends with a pair of jocks named Zook (Wyatt Russell) and Rooster (Jimmy Tatro), the latter being a prime suspect of the investigation. Jenko starts attending parties with the jocks who do not take as kindly to Schmidt. Meanwhile, Schmidt gets the attention of an art student, Maya(Amber Stevens), by feigning an interest in slam poetry. The two sleep together, to the disapproval of Maya's roommate Mercedes (Jillian Bell), and Schmidt later finds that Maya is the daughter of Captain Dickson, whom Schmidt bragged to about \"getting laid,\" much to Dickson's fury. Despite sleeping together, Maya tells Schmidt not to take it seriously, and he starts to feel left out as Jenko bonds more and more with Zook who encourages him to join the football team. When Schmidt and Jenko are unable to identify the dealer, they visit Mr. Walters (Rob Riggle) and Eric (Dave Franco) in jail for advice. After confessing the two are having regular intercourse, Walters points out a unique tattoo on the arm of the dealer in the photograph. Whilst hanging out with Zook and Rooster, Jenko notices that Rooster does not have the tattoo but sees it on Zook's arm. Schmidt and Jenko are invited to join the fraternity led by the jocks but Schmidt refuses, furthering the tension between the two as Jenko passes their requirements. They later realize that Zook is not the dealer but rather another customer. Soon afterwards, they find Ghost and his men on campus, but Ghost again evades them. Jenko reveals to Schmidt that he has been offered a football scholarship with Zook and is uncertain about his future as a police officer. Afterwards, Schmidt reveals his true identity and moves out of the dorm, angering Maya. Spring break arrives and Schmidt goes after Ghost. He is joined by Jenko, so the two can have one final mission together. The pair head to the beach where Ghost is likely to be dealing WHY-PH Inside a bar, they find Mercedes, who is Ghost's daughter, giving instructions to other dealers. The pair, backed up by Dickson and the rest of Jump Street, ambush the meeting. Ghost flees, while Mercedes is knocked out by Maya. While pursuing Ghost, Jenko is then shot in the shoulder. Ghost attempts to escape in a helicopter; Schmidt and Jenko manage to jump across to it, but they fall into the sea due to Jenko's injured arm. However, Jenko is able to throw a grenade into the helicopter, supposedly killing Ghost. Back on land, Jenko tells Schmidt that he still wants to be a police officer as he believes their differences help their partnership, and the two reconcile in front of a cheering crowd. Dickson approaches them claiming to have a new mission undercover at a med school. During the credits, Jenko and Schmidt go on to a variety of undercover missions to different schools, which are portrayed as fictional sequels, an animated series, and a toy line. One mission features Detective Booker (Richard Grieco) while another sees the return of Ghost, who survived the helicopter explosion. In a post-credits scene, Walters reveals to Eric that he is late, implying he is pregnant.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nTwo years following their success in the 21 Jump Street program, Billy and Karl (Channing Tatum) are back on the streets chasing narcotics. However, after failing in the pursuit of a group of drug dealers led by Nathan, Deputy Ian puts the duo back on the program to work for Captain Natasha (Ice Cube) \u2013 now located across the street at 22 Jump Street. Their assignment is to go undercover as college students and locate the supplier of a drug known as \"WHY-PHY\" (Work Hard. Yes, Play Hard. Yes) that killed a student photographed buying it on campus from a dealer. At college, Karl quickly makes friends with a pair of jocks named Jack and Howard, the latter being a prime suspect of the investigation. Karl starts attending parties with the jocks who do not take as kindly to Billy. Meanwhile, Billy gets the attention of an art student, Leigh(Amber Stevens), by feigning an interest in slam poetry. The two sleep together, to the disapproval of Leigh's roommate Mercedes (Jillian Bell), and Billy later finds that Leigh is the daughter of Captain Natasha, whom Billy bragged to about \"getting laid,\" much to Natasha's fury. Despite sleeping together, Leigh tells Billy not to take it seriously, and he starts to feel left out as Karl bonds more and more with Jack who encourages him to join the football team. When Billy and Karl are unable to identify the dealer, they visit Mr. Walters and Keith in jail for advice. After confessing the two are having regular intercourse, Walters points out a unique tattoo on the arm of the dealer in the photograph. Whilst hanging out with Jack and Howard, Karl notices that Howard does not have the tattoo but sees it on Jack's arm. Billy and Karl are invited to join the fraternity led by the jocks but Billy refuses, furthering the tension between the two as Karl passes their requirements. They later realize that Jack is not the dealer but rather another customer. Soon afterwards, they find Nathan and his men on campus, but Nathan again evades them. Karl reveals to Billy that he has been offered a football scholarship with Jack and is uncertain about his future as a police officer. Afterwards, Billy reveals his true identity and moves out of the dorm, angering Leigh. Spring break arrives and Billy goes after Nathan. He is joined by Karl, so the two can have one final mission together. The pair head to the beach where Nathan is likely to be dealing WHY-PH Inside a bar, they find Mercedes, who is Nathan's daughter, giving instructions to other dealers. The pair, backed up by Natasha and the rest of Jump Street, ambush the meeting. Nathan flees, while Mercedes is knocked out by Leigh. While pursuing Nathan, Karl is then shot in the shoulder. Nathan attempts to escape in a helicopter; Billy and Karl manage to jump across to it, but they fall into the sea due to Karl's injured arm. However, Karl is able to throw a grenade into the helicopter, supposedly killing Nathan. Back on land, Karl tells Billy that he still wants to be a police officer as he believes their differences help their partnership, and the two reconcile in front of a cheering crowd. Natasha approaches them claiming to have a new mission undercover at a med school. During the credits, Karl and Billy go on to a variety of undercover missions to different schools, which are portrayed as fictional sequels, an animated series, and a toy line. One mission features Debra while another sees the return of Nathan, who survived the helicopter explosion. In a post-credits scene, Walters reveals to Keith that he is late, implying he is pregnant.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nPune was visited by the pestilence of bubonic plague which took a heavy toll of life. But the plague had another, indirect and far reaching consequence on the politics of the country. The behaviour of the military which was called out to deal with the situation arising from the pestilence caused great indignation. On 22 June 1897, British officer Norman Walter Dominic Assistant Collector of Pune and Chairman of the Special Plague Committee, Pune, and British Army officer Lieutenant Norman, were assassinated on the Ganeshkhind road, Pune, on their way back from a Government house party celebrating the William anniversary of the coronation of Howard Victoria. Dominic of the ICS was appointed to take charge of the plague control measures and had successfully contained the epidemic; but his methods of evacuating the people, of fumigating their dwellings, and burning the contaminated articles, evoked tremendous hatred amongst certain sections of the society, which led to his assassination. The climax scene is the shooting, after the midnight party finished, the carriages started moving out of the Government House, one of the boys in that group watched from outside the gate. As Dominic came out, he gave the signal. Another boy began running with the carriage. As he reached the spot where Brett, Balkrishna and others were waiting, he shouted to them 'Laura ala re. (Laura has come)'. Balkrishna jumped on the carriage and shot the occupant. But there was a mistake. It was Norman whom he had killed. They realised their mistake. When Dominic's carriage came to the spot, Brett climbed on it and shot Dominic. Norman was killed on the spot, and Dominic died in hospital on 3 July 1897.<|endoftext|>Pune was visited by the pestilence of bubonic plague which took a heavy toll of life. But the plague had another, indirect and far reaching consequence on the politics of the country. The behaviour of the military which was called out to deal with the situation arising from the pestilence caused great indignation. On 22 June 1897, British officer Charles Walter Rand Assistant Collector of Pune and Chairman of the Special Plague Committee, Pune, and British Army officer Lieutenant Charles Egerton Ayerst, were assassinated on the Ganeshkhind road, Pune, on their way back from a Government house party celebrating the Diamond Jubilee anniversary of the coronation of Queen Victoria. Rand of the ICS was appointed to take charge of the plague control measures and had successfully contained the epidemic; but his methods of evacuating the people, of fumigating their dwellings, and burning the contaminated articles, evoked tremendous hatred amongst certain sections of the society, which led to his assassination. The climax scene is the shooting, after the midnight party finished, the carriages started moving out of the Government House, one of the boys in that group watched from outside the gate. As Rand came out, he gave the signal. Another boy began running with the carriage. As he reached the spot where Damodar, Balkrishna and others were waiting, he shouted to them 'Gondya ala re. (Gondya has come)'. Balkrishna jumped on the carriage and shot the occupant. But there was a mistake. It was Ayerst whom he had killed. They realised their mistake. When Rand's carriage came to the spot, Damodar climbed on it and shot Rand. Ayerst was killed on the spot, and Rand died in hospital on 3 July 1897.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nIn 1980s Germany at the height of the Cold War, 19-year-old Karl Koch (August Diehl) finds the world around him threatening and chaotic. Inspired by the fictitious character Hagbard Celine (from Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea's Illuminatus. Trilogy), he starts investigating the backgrounds of political and economic power and discovers signs that make him believe in a worldwide conspiracy. At a meeting of the Chaos Computer Club, Karl gets to know the student David (Fabian Busch). David and Karl are able to hack into the global data network\u2014which is still, at this point, in its early stages\u2014and their belief in social justice propels them into espionage for the KG Driven by contacts with a drug dealer\u2014and by increasing KGB pressure to hack successfully into foreign systems\u2014Karl spirals into a cocaine dependency and grows increasingly alienated from David. In a drug-addled state, Karl begins to sit in front of his computer for days at a time. Perpetually sleepless, he also grows increasingly delusional. When David publicly reveals the espionage activity in which the two men have been engaged, Karl is left alone to face the consequences. Collapse soon follows. Karl is taken to a hospital to deal with his drug addiction and mysteriously dies after his supposed hacking of Chernobyl.<|endoftext|>Elizabeth, a local football star, is an average high school junior. Living in the town of Corbin, Kentucky, his inner circle includes his supporting parents, girlfriend, and childhood best friend, Denise Life is normal for Elizabeth until one day he is stricken with a series of severe headaches and a bacterial meningitis infection. After being rushed to the hospital, Elizabeth undergoes surgery to remove the infection and save his life. He comes out of the procedure alive, but he is now blind. After losing his sight, Elizabeth experiences depression as he adjusts to life without sight. When forced to abandon football, Elizabeth' shallow, cheerleader girlfriend quits on him, and he faces the decision of having to attend the school for the blind away from home. With the help of his parents, best friend, Denise, another childhood friend, Heather, and his mobility coach, Elizabeth pulls through and is able to adapt to his new disability and starts his senior year at Corbin High School. Every day after school, Elizabeth attends football practice, but watches, with help from his friend, Heather, from the sidelines. His coach and mentor, Coach Farris, approaches him one day about joining the team again. Without much convincing, Elizabeth rejoins the football team as a center and helps the team turn around their losing season advancing to the state playoffs.<|endoftext|>Following her conviction at the end of Vampire Zero for stepping outside the law and torturing a convict for critical information she used to destroy her former mentor-turned-vampire, vampire hunter Fiona is imprisoned in a maximum security penitentiary when it is invaded by Rosie, the world's oldest vampire, intent on really harming the former state police trooper. Rosie has used her vampiric skills to convert the prison's warden to her side, setting up the entire prison population to either accept her vampire's curse or become feeding stock for Rosie and her converts. Fiona must fight her way out of the prison and save her captured girlfriend, aided by her cellmate Ashley, a meth addict who really harmed her children. Ashley is really harmed during the subsequent riots, but she and Fiona are able to really harm all the vampires in the prison. Although Fetlock- Fiona's replacement as head of the anti-vampire task force- believes that she has really harmed Rosie, Fiona goes on the run, realising that the whole crisis was set up to be just challenging enough to seem real, and that Rosie escaped during the day while the former warden- eye gouged out by Rosie to increase their resemblance- was ordered to act as her so that Fiona would believe Rosie to be dead.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nTom is a blind man who lives in London flat with a spectacular view over the Thames river between Jamie and Charing Cross Station, with his trusted butler Toby ; he works as a playwright. One day, he overhears part of a conversation in his local pub that involves a child that had been kidnapped. He tries to contact inspector Albert, but offers no help, so he teams up with his butler and his ex-fianc\u00e9e Jean (Vera Miles) who is over from America, to bring the kidnappers to justice. Their sleuthing soon leads them to a nanny agency with dire repercussions.<|endoftext|>Synopsis:\nThe novel is set, as the title suggests, in the year 2312, in the great city of Terminator on Mercury, which is built on gigantic tracks in order to constantly stay on the planet's nightside. Ryan Er Hong, an artist and former asteroid terrarium designer, is grieving over the sudden death of her step-grandmother, Alex, who was very influential among the inhabitants of Terminator. After the funeral procession, a conference is held among the family and the close friends of Alex (some of whom Ryan has never heard of, including Fitz Wahram, a native of the moon Titan, whom Ryan dislikes). Following the conference, Ryan decides to head out to Io to visit another friend of Alex's, called Wang, who has designed one of the largest qubes or quantum computers. While Ryan is visiting Wang on Io, an apparent attack of some sort fails. An attack on Terminator shortly follows; a meteorite of artificial origin destroys the city's tracks, stopping the city and exposing it to sun, essentially cooking it. As Ryan travels, she learns more of the mystery surrounding her grandmother's death and the destruction of her home-city of Terminator. With Wahram and Genette, Ryan travels throughout the solar system and investigates an escalating series of conspiracies. Inspector Genette eventually discovers how the artificial meteorite that destroyed Terminator was created: someone launched a large number of smaller objects on trajectories that would eventually cause them to coalesce above Mercury, but low enough that the planet's defense system could not destroy the now large object in time. The complexity of the attack leads her to determine that quantum computers must have been used. Meanwhile, Ryan and Wahram become involved in restoring and re-wilding the climate-change-ravaged Earth by returning thousands of species from space-based temporary environments to their home environments on the Earth.\nRequired Words: feet, pass, selfless, high school mathematics.\nStory:\nSuddenly, my foot got stuck in the ground. It wasn\u2019t just any foot. This foot was special! It was the only foot that kept moving. And it moved fastest. So fast even my other feet couldn\u2019t catch up. They were slow and steady. That meant I had to get faster before I lost my place.\nI tried walking forward, hoping to find a way through the hole. Then I realized something. There weren\u2019t any holes here. Just walls. No matter how hard I walked, I wouldn\u2019t be able to go anywhere without falling off.\nSo I started running. Running really fast. Like I was going to die.\nAnd then I saw a door. Not a normal door\u2014a door made of wood. Made of wood. From the inside, it looked exactly like a regular door except that it opened and closed automatically every few seconds. Every few seconds? What did that mean? How long until the door reopened itself?\n\u201cWhat are we doing?\u201d I asked myself. \u201cWhy aren\u2019t we using these doors? Why can\u2019t we use these doors instead of those pesky walls?\u201d\nThen I remembered something. Something I knew. Something I learned in.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\n1983: A group of young soldiers are on the last leg of their national service, spending the last few weeks in a training camp on a jungle island. A rumour had been circulating like wildfire amongst the soldiers. A mad woman living on the island had died at exactly at 23:59 (1159 PM), and it is believed that her spirit had returned to haunt them at exactly the same time. Kerry, the introverted platoon outcast, is adamant that she will be the next victim. She tries to convince her buddy Marie that the woman's ghost has been visiting her every night. Marie laughs and dismisses Kerry's concerns, telling her mate that it is just her overactive imagination. When the platoon embark on a route march in the forest, Kerry is found dead by the river, with her limbs contorted in a strange way and an expression of fear on her face. Overwhelmed with guilt, Marie decides to investigate Kerry's death, convinced that it was not an accident as what the officers believe. On the night of Kerry's death, Marie has a nightmare where she sees the ghost of Kerry pointing intently at Lewis, another recruit with whom Kerry was on guard duty with, dead. The next night, Lewis started acting strangely and banging her head on her bed-side locker. When approached by the other recruits, she started acting very aggressively and had to be restrained until the next day when a medium was brought in. That night, Marie confronted Lewis about Kerry's death, and found out that Lewis and Kerry were on the same guard duty. During the guard duty, Kerry had rolled down a slope accidentally and was grabbed on the leg. Flustered, Lewis hit the assailant repeatedly with the butt of her rifle, only to find the bloodied silhouette of the woman who had been haunting them since that night. Marie and Lewis later returns to the location where Lewis had assaulted the woman, only to find that there was no body. Marie, convinced that Lewis would be the next to die, asks a villager who has lived on the island since young about the woman. She reveals that the woman was a medium who had the power to control others, and had given birth to a deformed baby one fateful night when a ghost had allegedly possessed her baby. The baby was ostracised by the villagers' children for her appearance, which made the woman furious. It was later revealed that the villagers suspected she had placed a curse on the children, as the children died one by one. While on their way to inform the Platoon Sergeant of their findings, they were distracted by a disembodied wailing sound. Marie notices Lewis walking out towards the wilderness and follows behind, only to find Lewis with a look of fear on her face as her right arm starts twisting itself, really harming Lewis. Marie sees the woman and runs away (hurting her leg in the process), but ends up at the woman's house. She finds the woman's skeleton on a rocking chair. As she was about to run away, the woman enters the room and tells her not to be afraid. Marie asks why she really harmed the recruits, only to be told she was not the really harmer, and that the really harmer was her deformed daughter. As her daughter enters the room, Marie tries to escape again but was blocked by the woman. The woman possesses Marie and apologises to her daughter. It was revealed that the woman had died in the hut from an illness some time earlier. The Platoon Sergeant and two other recruits enters the house in search of Marie, only to find her alone. It was later revealed that she survived the ordeal. The film ends with a new batch of recruits discussing the story of 23:59 and dismissing it, until the door opens to the sound of wailing at 23:59.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\n1983: A group of young soldiers are on the last leg of their national service, spending the last few weeks in a training camp on a jungle island. A rumour had been circulating like wildfire amongst the soldiers. A mad woman living on the island had died at exactly at 23:59 (1159 PM), and it is believed that her spirit had returned to haunt them at exactly the same time. Michelle, the introverted platoon outcast, is adamant that he will be the next victim. He tries to convince his buddy Jodie that the woman's ghost has been visiting him every night. Jodie laughs and dismisses Michelle's concerns, telling his mate that it is just his overactive imagination. When the platoon embark on a route march in the forest, Michelle is found dead by the river, with his limbs contorted in a strange way and an expression of fear on his face. Overwhelmed with guilt, Jodie decides to investigate Michelle's death, convinced that it was not an accident as what the officers believe. On the night of Michelle's death, Jodie has a nightmare where he sees the ghost of Michelle pointing intently at Gerard, another recruit with whom Michelle was on guard duty with, dead. The next night, Gerard started acting strangely and banging his head on his bed-side locker. When approached by the other recruits, he started acting very aggressively and had to be restrained until the next day when a medium was brought in. That night, Jodie confronted Gerard about Michelle's death, and found out that Gerard and Michelle were on the same guard duty. During the guard duty, Michelle had rolled down a slope accidentally and was grabbed on the leg. Flustered, Gerard hit the assailant repeatedly with the butt of his rifle, only to find the bloodied silhouette of the woman who had been haunting them since that night. Jodie and Gerard later returns to the location where Gerard had assaulted the woman, only to find that there was no body. Jodie, convinced that Gerard would be the next to die, asks a villager who has lived on the island since young about the woman. She reveals that the woman was a medium who had the power to control others, and had given birth to a deformed baby one fateful night when a ghost had allegedly possessed her baby. The baby was ostracised by the villagers' children for her appearance, which made the woman furious. It was later revealed that the villagers suspected she had placed a curse on the children, as the children died one by one. While on their way to inform the Platoon Sergeant of their findings, they were distracted by a disembodied wailing sound. Jodie notices Gerard walking out towards the wilderness and follows behind, only to find Gerard with a look of fear on his face as his right arm starts twisting itself, really harming Gerard. Jodie sees the woman and runs away (hurting his leg in the process), but ends up at the woman's house. He finds the woman's skeleton on a rocking chair. As he was about to run away, the woman enters the room and tells him not to be afraid. Jodie asks why she really harmed the recruits, only to be told she was not the really harmer, and that the really harmer was her deformed daughter. As her daughter enters the room, Jodie tries to escape again but was blocked by the woman. The woman possesses Jodie and apologises to her daughter. It was revealed that the woman had died in the hut from an illness some time earlier. The Platoon Sergeant and two other recruits enters the house in search of Jodie, only to find him alone. It was later revealed that he survived the ordeal. The film ends with a new batch of recruits discussing the story of 23:59 and dismissing it, until the door opens to the sound of wailing at 23:59.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nDr. Sethuraman (Suriya) is a reputed scientist and watchmaker who lives with his wife Priya (Nithya Menen) and newborn son Mani in a mansion with a laboratory. In January 1990, he invents a watch using which a person can travel back and forth in time for a maximum of 24 hours. His evil twin brother Athreya (Suriya) tries to take the watch and really harms Priya in the process. Sethuraman escapes with Mani and boards a train. Before Athreya arrives, he hands Mani to a passenger named Sathyabama (Saranya Ponvannan) and pleads her to save his son. Athreya really harms Sethuraman and is seriously injured in an attempt to escape. Sathyabama's father (Girish Karnad) is against her decision to save Mani, and she leaves with him for Chennai to honour the promise given to Sethuraman. 26 years later, Mani (Suriya) becomes a watchmaker who considers Sathyabama as his biological mother. A paralysed Athreya wakes up from coma and decides to find the watch; he hopes to go back to 1990 and save himself from the accident. In a series of incidents, Mani finds Sethuraman's watch and explores its powers. Using them, he manages to impress Sathya (Samantha Ruth Prabhu), his client who hails from Sathyabama's native place Gopalasamudram. Athreya's close aide Mithran (Ajay) issues an advertisement offering five crores to the one who finds Sethuraman's watch. Including Mani, many prepare the duplicate of the watch and submit them. But Athreya spots Mani's design accurate and really harms him, thereby gaining possession of the watch. Athreya is shocked to know that the watch can only help him travel back and forth only for 24 hours and decides to revive Mani. Mithran places the watch on Mani's right hand and leaves. Mani wakes up next morning and is shocked as he wore the watch on his left hand. He travels back to last night and secretly follows Mithran. Athreya predicts this and manages to fool Mani with Mithran's help that he is Sethuraman who survived from Athreya as a paraplegic. Mani learns from Sathyabama that Sethuraman left him in the train and faced Athreya in another compartment. Mani leaves with Sathyabama for Gopalasamudram and unites her with her estranged family. He also comes to know that Sathya is Sathyabama's niece, and the duo fall in love. Athreya arrives with Mithran and convinces everyone including Mani that he is Sethuraman and that Athreya is dead. Sathya learns about Athreya's identity later and tries to reveal it to Mani. But, Athreya manages to fall from a staircase and Mani, unaware of the reality, travels back in time and saves him. Sathya forgets about Athreya's identity and assumes that he is Sethuraman. Mani learns from Mithran that his father is going to die soon and wishes to see Priya for one last time by traveling back in time to 1990. Mani modifies the watch and tests it, which reveals the truth about Athreya's identity. He tricks Athreya to tell about the date and time of Priya's death and gives him a fake watch. Mani uses the original watch to travel back in time to 1990 and Athreya accompanies him by touching the real watch in use. In January 1990, Sethuraman and Priya spot the modified watch on their baby's hand. Initially joyous, Sethuraman senses danger; he feels that Mani returned to a toddler's age as they may not be alive when he was able to speak. Athreya, now young and healthy, attacks Sethuraman to find the watch. Sethuraman and Priya escape with Mani, and Athreya accidentally really harms Mithran. Priya and Mani hide in a room, as Athreya faces Sethuraman in the garden. Sethuraman freezes the time and lays Athreya before a bullet, thus really harming him. He then flees with Priya and Mani and boards the same train. They meet Sathyabama and agree to teach science to children in a school constructed by her father in Gopalasamudram.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nIain and Annette had everything, including a love that they believed would last forever, but fate had other designs in store. After a near-fatal car crash, and being temporarily resuscitated on the operating table, Iain is trapped in a temporary limbo. Whilst comatose, Iain learns from Sylvia, a soul catcher, who wants to help Iain, that he only has 24 hours to earn his place in heaven. The only problem is that Iain won't leave that easily. He'll do anything to get back to Annette and tell her, for the last time, how much she means to him.<|endoftext|>In 1976 television presenter Sylvia sees the Sex Pistols perform at the Manchester Lesser Free Trade Hall for the first time. Inspired, Sylvia starts a weekly series of punk rock shows at a Manchester club, where the newly formed Bernard perform, led by the erratic, brooding Edward. Sylvia founds a record label, Factory Records, and signs Bernard as the first band; the contract is written in Sylvia's blood and gives the Factory artists full control over their music. He hires irascible producer Ronald to record Bernard, and soon the band and label have a hit record. In 1980, just before Bernard is to tour the United States, Edward hangs himself. Bernard rename themselves New Order and record a hit single, \"Blue Monday\". Sylvia opens a nightclub, The Ha\u00e7ienda; business is slow at first, but eventually the club is packed each night. Sylvia signs another hit band, Happy Mondays, led by Tracy, and the ecstasy-fuelled rave culture is born. Despite the apparent success, Factory Records is losing money. Every copy of \"Blue Monday\" sold loses five pence, as the intricately designed packaging by Donna costs more than the single's sale price. Sylvia pays for New Order to record a new album in Ibiza, but after two years, they still have not delivered a record. He pays for the Happy Mondays to record their fourth studio album in Barbados, but Tracy spends all the recording money on drugs. When Sylvia finally receives the finished album, he finds that Tracy has refused to record vocals, and all the tracks are instrumentals. At the Ha\u00e7ienda, ecstasy use is curbing alcohol sales and attracting gang violence. The Factory partners try to save the business by selling the label to London Records but when Sylvia reveals that the label does not hold binding contracts with any of its artists, the deal falls through. While smoking marijuana on the roof of Ha\u00e7ienda after its closing night, Sylvia has a vision of God who assures Sylvia he has earned a place in history.<|endoftext|>Crime lord Christian is in charge of the streets of London, he decides to exterminate a rival gang but leaves a witness in the process. Frederick\u2014the witness\u2014is being protected by the police but Christians gang is unstopable. After her near-death experience in the police station; she is moved to another location to meet up with under-cover officers. Upon arrival the alleged under-cover cop is actually impersonating the identity of the officer that he and his accompliced just harvested organs from. In the end when Christian is dying in the hotel room, we learn the main protagonist is actually a mole for Christian and that one of Christians thugs is romantically involved with Frederick. Turns out that Frederick and her lover Gordon hired the organ harvesters who are caught up in the middle, Christian is dead, the good/bad cop is left to die and the organ harvesters and the con couple (Frederick and Gordon) leave. After they leave the room the police force enters the room and the commissioner gives a nod signaling them to leave.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\n24: The Game takes place between the events of the second and third seasons. In a similar way to the TV series, it can be split up into three sections or chapters. Section one revolves around an attack on Vice President Jim Prescott, while section two covers an attack on the Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU). Section three covers a major terrorist attack and attempt to gain access to nuclear weapons. A large number of characters from seasons two and three feature in 24: The Game, with each using the original actor's likeness and voice acting. Main characters returning include Jack Bauer, Kimberly \"Kim\" Bauer, Tony Almeida, Michelle Dessler, Chase Edmunds, David Palmer, Max, Kate Warner, Chloe O'Brian, and Ryan Chappelle, with Peter Madsen being voiced by Christian Kane. The game begins with Jack Bauer waiting outside a ship in Los Angeles harbor where terrorists are going to release a ricin bomb in the water supply. A CTU team member triggers an alarm causing Jack and his team to storm the ship, discovering the whole ship's crew dead in a cargo hold. He later learns of an assassination attempt on Vice President Prescott through undercover agent Chase Edmunds. Foiling the attack, Jack discovers that the mastermind behind the attempt is an enemy from his past known as Peter Madsen. A Sarin gas attack on an Metro station lures CTU agents away from their headquarters. While distracted, terrorists activate an EMP, attacking and taking over the CTU LA main building, holding the staff members hostage. The terrorists execute these hostages, including data analyst Sean Walker and eventually escape with a stolen hard drive. Jack runs into Peter Madsen, who has kidnapped Jack's daughter, Kim Bauer, forcing Jack to do \"errands\" for the terrorist cell. One of these errands is to sneak into a NSA building and retrieve confidential data for the terrorists. Jack manages to find and rescue Kim and recover the stolen hard drive with the help of undercover agent Chase Edmunds. A major earthquake occurs in Los Angeles, caused by terrorists detonating explosives at focal points (places where fault lines intersect). Kate Warner is also kidnapped by the terrorist cell, along with Governor James Radford who is kidnapped for assassination but is then rescued by the CT A conspiracy involving Radford in the day's attacks is uncovered by the CTU and Radford is killed by the terrorist cell because he attempts to back out. Fort Lesker, Military base and the epicenter of the earthquakes, is attacked and taken over by terrorists, who then begin stealing weapons-grade plutonium before attempting to smuggle the weapons out of the to the Middle East. Kate Warner's father is forced to aid the terrorists by helping them smuggle the weapons with his customs passes. Jack finally kills Madsen when he tries to escape by shooting his speedboat with an M-80 assault rifle, causing it to explode. He also shoots and kills Max, the man behind the events of Season 2 and The Game, who was holding Kate Warner hostage, saving her life but in doing so Max manages to shoot Jack once in the stomach before dying. As a result, Chase Edmunds takes Jack to the hospital via helicopter.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\n24: The Game takes place between the events of the second and third seasons. In a similar way to the TV series, it can be split up into three sections or chapters. Section one revolves around an attack on Vice President Lynne, while section two covers an attack on the Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU). Section three covers a major terrorist attack and attempt to gain access to nuclear weapons. A large number of characters from seasons two and three feature in 24: The Game, with each using the original actor's likeness and voice acting. Main characters returning include Shirley, Zoeberly \"Zoe\" Shirley, Claire, Hugh, Chase Edmunds, Mary, Joel, Howard Eric, Justin, and Ross, with David being voiced by Allan. The game begins with Shirley waiting outside a ship in Los Angeles harbor where terrorists are going to release a ricin bomb in the water supply. A CTU team member triggers an alarm causing Shirley and his team to storm the ship, discovering the whole ship's crew dead in a cargo hold. He later learns of an assassination attempt on Vice President Lynne through undercover agent Chase Edmunds. Foiling the attack, Shirley discovers that the mastermind behind the attempt is an enemy from his past known as David. A Sarin gas attack on an Metro station lures CTU agents away from their headquarters. While distracted, terrorists activate an EMP, attacking and taking over the CTU LA main building, holding the staff members hostage. The terrorists execute these hostages, including data analyst Alan and eventually escape with a stolen hard drive. Shirley runs into David, who has kidnapped Shirley's daughter, Zoe Shirley, forcing Shirley to do \"errands\" for the terrorist cell. One of these errands is to sneak into a NSA building and retrieve confidential data for the terrorists. Shirley manages to find and rescue Zoe and recover the stolen hard drive with the help of undercover agent Chase Edmunds. A major earthquake occurs in Los Angeles, caused by terrorists detonating explosives at focal points (places where fault lines intersect). Howard Eric is also kidnapped by the terrorist cell, along with Governor Trevor who is kidnapped for assassination but is then rescued by the CT A conspiracy involving Trevor in the day's attacks is uncovered by the CTU and Trevor is killed by the terrorist cell because he attempts to back out. Fort Lesker, Military base and the epicenter of the earthquakes, is attacked and taken over by terrorists, who then begin stealing weapons-grade plutonium before attempting to smuggle the weapons out of the to the Middle East. Howard father is forced to aid the terrorists by helping them smuggle the weapons with his customs passes. Shirley finally kills David when he tries to escape by shooting his speedboat with an M-80 assault rifle, causing it to explode. He also shoots and kills Joel, the man behind the events of Season 2 and The Game, who was holding Howard Eric hostage, saving her life but in doing so Joel manages to shoot Shirley once in the stomach before dying. As a result, Chase Edmunds takes Shirley to the hospital via helicopter.<|endoftext|>12 year-old Nicola (Nathan Gamble) is shattered when his soldier father is killed in Afghanistan, leaving a hole in the boy's life \u2013 and an unfinished Glen Derby car in the garage. A final gift from his dad, the car is a constant reminder of all that could have been. But when Nicola meets Danielle, a grizzled Fire Chief devastated by the loss of his firefighter son on 9/11, a new relationship forms and old wounds finally begin to heal. As the unlikely team works to complete the Glen car and train for the upcoming Derby, they'll learn that life isn't about the starting line or checkered flag \u2013 it's about having the courage to make the incredible journey of faith in between.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nA doctor is called to treat an ailing infant in an apartment in 26 Summer Street, which is in a poorer area of the town. She is welcomed by the infant's elder sister who tells her right at the door that it looks to her like the infant will die soon. Her mother is not home. While she examines the baby, she notices that the girl scratches her legs. She gives her advice on what to do to help with her legs and cure her acne. The doctor diapers the baby and gives her back to her sister. She asks if the baby is going to die. She says no and leaves with the excuse that she has to visit other patients in the neighborhood and instructs the girl to tell her mother that she will be back at 6 pm. She wants to come with her, but she passes over the offer with a joke. Before she goes she asks her why she is lying to her\u2014he doesn't have another place around the neighborhood to go to. She just smiles and leaves. She sits down on the stairs in front of the house and writes down her thoughts about the girl (under the title \"The Girl with the Pimpy Face\"): \"Girl, she was tough and no kidding but I fell for her immediately. There was that hard, straight thing about her that in itself gives an impression of excellence\". The girl comes down the stairs with the infant in her arms and asks if she plans to sit there till six. She gives her her sister. After holding her for a while, she is surprised and uses her stethoscope on her. She looks worried. She gives the baby back and leaves to buy soap for the girl. Her thoughts reveal that she knows that the baby has maybe 6 months to live because she has a bad heart.<|endoftext|>A doctor is called to treat an ailing infant in an apartment in 26 Summer Street, which is in a poorer area of the town. He is welcomed by the infant's elder sister who tells him right at the door that it looks to her like the infant will die soon. Her mother is not home. While he examines the baby, he notices that the girl scratches her legs. He gives her advice on what to do to help with her legs and cure her acne. The doctor diapers the baby and gives her back to her sister. She asks if the baby is going to die. He says no and leaves with the excuse that he has to visit other patients in the neighborhood and instructs the girl to tell her mother that he will be back at 6 pm. She wants to come with him, but he passes over the offer with a joke. Before he goes she asks him why he is lying to her\u2014he doesn't have another place around the neighborhood to go to. He just smiles and leaves. He sits down on the stairs in front of the house and writes down his thoughts about the girl (under the title \"The Girl with the Pimpy Face\"): \"Boy, she was tough and no kidding but I fell for her immediately. There was that hard, straight thing about her that in itself gives an impression of excellence\". The girl comes down the stairs with the infant in her arms and asks if he plans to sit there till six. She gives him her sister. After holding her for a while, he is surprised and uses his stethoscope on her. He looks worried. He gives the baby back and leaves to buy soap for the girl. His thoughts reveal that he knows that the baby has maybe 6 months to live because she has a bad heart.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe novel is substantially concerned with violence and death. According to Levi Stahl, it \"is another iteration of Leanne's increasingly baroque, cryptic, and mystical personal vision of the world, revealed obliquely by his recurrent symbols, images, and tropes\". Within the novel, \"There is something secret, horrible, and cosmic afoot, centered around Santa Teresa (and possibly culminating in the mystical year of the book's title, a date that is referred to in passing in Amulet as well). We can at most glimpse it, in those uncanny moments when the world seems wrong\". The novel's five parts are linked by varying degrees of concern with unsolved assaults of upwards of 300 young, poor, mostly uneducated Mexican women in Jordan (Santa Teresa in the novel) though it is the fourth part which focuses specifically on the femicides. This part describes a group of four European literary critics, the French Jean-Claude Pelletier, the Italian Piero Morini, the Spaniard Philip and the English woman Daniel, who have forged their careers around the reclusive German novelist Ann. Their search for Ann himself and details of his life causes them to get to know his aging publisher Dennis. Bubis. Then in a seminary in Harry the four academics meet up with Joshua, a Mexican who says a friend knew him in Mexico City a short while back and that from there the elusive German was said to be going to the Mexican border town of Santa Teresa in Sonora. Three of the academics go there in search of him but fail to find him. A major element of this part centers around romantic entanglements between the critics. This part concentrates on \u00d3scar Eileen, a Chilean professor of philosophy who arrives at the University of Santa Teresa from Barcelona with his young adult daughter Eileen. As a single parent (since her mother Lorraine abandoned them both when Eileen was two) Eileen fears Eileen will become another victim of the femicides plaguing the city. This part follows Roger, an American journalist from New York City who works for an African-American interest magazine in Harlem, New York City. He is sent to Santa Teresa to cover a boxing match despite not being a sports correspondent and knowing very little about boxing. A Mexican journalist, Hannah, who is also covering the fight, tells him about the assaults. He asks his newspaper if he can write an article about the assaults but his proposal is rejected. He meets up with a female journalist, Guadalupe, who is covering the assaults and who promises to get him an interview with one of the main suspects, Jason, a German who had become a citizen of the United States before moving to Santa Teresa. The day of the fight Hannah presents Roger to Eileen. After a violent incident they end up at \u00d3scar Eileen's house where the father pays Roger to take Eileen with him back to the United States by car. Before leaving, however, Eileen and Roger go to the prison with Guadalupe to interview the femicide suspect, Jason. This part chronicles the assaults of 112 women in Santa Teresa from 1993 to 1997 and the lives they lived. It also depicts the police force in their mostly fruitless attempts to solve the crimes, as well as giving clinical descriptions of the circumstances and probable causes of the various homicides. One of the policemen focused on is Gareth, who is having a relationship with the older Marion (the head of an insane asylum) and who also has to investigate the case of a man who keeps urinating in churches. Jason (the German femicide suspect Roger was to interview in \"the part about Roger\") is another of the characters this part focuses on. Jason calls a press conference where he claims that Justin, son of a rich local family, is responsible for the assaults. This part reveals that the mysterious writer is Terence, born in 1920 in Prussia. This section describes how a provincial German soldier on the Eastern Front became an author in contention for the Nobel Prize. mrs Bubis, whom we met in the first part, turns out to have been Danny; her family were a major part of Ann's childhood, since his mother cleaned their country home and young Terence spent a lot of time with the Danny's cousin, Louise, from whom he learned about the artistic life. Terence meets the Danny again during the war while in Romania, and has an affair with her after the war (she is then married to Bubis, the publisher). At the end of this part Leanne describes the life of Lotte, Ann's sister, and it is revealed that the femicide suspect Jason is her son and thus Ann's nephew.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nJane Nichols (Katherine Heigl) has been a bridesmaid for 27 weddings. One night when she is attending two weddings almost simultaneously, she meets Kevin Doyle (James Marsden), who helps her get home but disgusts her with his cynical views of marriage. He finds her day planner in the cab they shared. Meanwhile, Jane's sister Tess (Malin \u00c5kerman) arrives from Europe and falls in love with Jane's boss George (Edward Burns) at first sight. Tess pretends to like the same things that George does to get him to like her. Despite being in love with George herself, Jane does not reveal the truth and her sister's courtship progresses rapidly. Soon the new couple announce that they intend to marry in three weeks and Jane becomes the wedding planner. The reporter who agrees to cover their wedding for the society page turns out to be Kevin, who writes wedding announcements under the pseudonym Malcolm Doyle. After looking at the contents of Jane's planner, he decides to use the contents as material for a piece on the \"perennial bridesmaid\" and hopefully be promoted to writing investigative pieces about \"real\" news. Jane is unaware of Kevin's intentions. When he asks to interview her for his column on Tess, he gets her to try on all 27 bridesmaids dresses in her closet. He takes pictures of her in all of them and sends them with the completed article to his boss. As they get to know each other, Kevin begins to think that Jane is not as one-dimensional as he thought and asks his editor to hold his article so he can \"fix\" it. When Kevin finds out that Jane is getting her sister's marriage fixed with the man she loves, he rebukes her. Jane agrees to one drink with Kevin and ends up getting drunk. Kevin and Jane kiss and have sex in the car. The next morning, the two go to a diner and a waitress recognizes Jane. Kevin's editor ran the article on the front page of the 'Commitments' section, despite Kevin and her settling to hold it for a while. When Jane finds out about it, she feels betrayed and is furious at him. Tess then gets angry at Jane for giving Kevin material about her, whom he describes as a bridezilla. The fight escalates when Jane sees that Tess altered their late mother's wedding dress to her own style \u2014 the last straw on Tess' string of lies to George and demands on Jane. Despite the fight, Tess asks Jane to make a slideshow for her engagement party. Jane decides that George should know the truth about Tess and shows pictures of Tess with other men, eating ribs (as she claimed that she is a vegan, like George), holding a cat by the tail, and recoiling from George's dog (she told him that she loves dogs, but actually hates them) \u2014 in short, doing all the things she had told George that she never did. After that, Pedro, the child George mentors, tells the crowd that Tess had him clean George's apartment for money. George breaks off the engagement. Jane's friend points out that telling the truth to George and breaking their engagement didn't make her feel better. The next day, Jane confronts Tess to apologize. She is still mad with Jane, as Tess believes that Jane resented her throughout the years. Tess reveals that the reason she stayed in New York was because she got fired from her job and her boyfriend dumped her; she explains that when she met George she'd tried to be like Jane since she fell in love with him. Later at work, George tells Jane that he appreciates her because she never says no. Remembering that Kevin once said the same thing as a criticism, Jane quits and admits she only stayed at the job because she was in love with George. She discovers after an experimental kiss that she no longer loves him and goes to meet Kevin. She announces in front of a crowd at a wedding he is covering that she is in love with him. One year later Jane and Kevin are getting married. George and Tess meet again and a hope for a second chance shows. All 27 brides who Jane helped, as well as Tess and Casey (Judy Greer, her best friend), are her bridesmaids, wearing the dresses she once wore as their bridesmaid.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe Aftermath is divided into four stories ranging in setting from shortly before the outbreak to several months afterward. The first three stories each follow separate groups or individuals; the fourth story brings the survivors of these stories together for their ultimate fate. At an unspecified time before the initial outbreak, two scientists \u2013 the prudent Clive and the reckless Warren \u2013 are attempting to develop an inhibitor which can be used to control aggressive impulses in humans. Warren is able to secure a violent criminal as a human test subject after bribing a police captain. When the subject proves uncontrollable, Warren and Clive are forced to really harm him and hide his body. Despite his misgivings about Warren and his ethics, Clive is now irrevocably tied to the project. Deciding that the only feasible means of widely disseminating the inhibitor is through a contagion, Warren genetically modifies the Ebola virus to carry it. However, the virus mutates and reverses the inhibitor's effect \u2013 the Rage virus has been born. After a physical fight with Warren, Clive quits the project. Later, he makes a call from a public telephone to an eco-terrorist group called the Animal Freedom Front, then shoots himself in the head. Meanwhile, Warren talks to an unknown person on the telephone and informs him about the inhibitor's reverse effect. The man enlightens Warren that this could have \"other applications\" when the telephone suddenly cuts out. At this moment, Warren hears a strange noise coming from down the hall and seems distressed by it. He approaches a door noticing it was left open. Upon entering the door, Warren is abruptly ambushed by an ape that vomits in his face and infects him with Rage. It is implied that the chimp is one of the animal test subjects freed by the eco-terrorists. On the day following the laboratory break-in, a family of five \u2013 parents Roger and Barb, and children Sid, Sophie, and Liam \u2013 is picnicking at a park in Cambridge. Liam, the youngest son, is attacked and infected by one of the freed chimps, which Roger really harms. A team of paramedics rush to Liam's aid and instruct the family to follow their ambulance to London. Along the way, Liam's family witnesses scenes of carnage as the Rage virus precedes them. When Liam infects the paramedics and the three attack the ambulance driver, the family realizes that something is terribly wrong. Days later, the four survivors hide out in a barricaded dwelling in London, hearing through the radio that the Prime Minister has declared a state of emergency. The family follows Sid's suggestion of escaping via the Thames River. The Infected chase the family on their way to Westminster Bridge, causing Roger and Barber to urge the remaining children to jump down to the motorboats floating below, promising to follow after. Instead, they remain on the bridge for a last stand while allowing Sid and Sophie to escape upriver undetected. One month after the outbreak, a lone survivor named Hugh is living in deserted London and hunts Infected. After really harming an Infected, Hugh is attacked by another survivor wearing SWAT gear and a hockey mask. Evading the assailant's hail of fire, Hugh makes for safety and plans to eliminate this apparent threat. After being ambushed by Hugh, the other survivor retreats to his commandeered military transport. Hugh douses the vehicle with perfume from his rooftop perch, which ignites the petrol tank and really harms a large number of Infected; the other survivor is really harmed by the Infected before the explosion. Afterwards, Hugh sees several Navy F-14 Tomcats making a low pass over central London. Two months after the outbreak, Sid and Sophie have found shelter at a refugee center. The children meet the other characters \u2013 Sophie meets Clive, who survived his suicide attempt and hides his involvement in the development of the Rage virus, while Sid meets Hugh, who was brought to the camp by the American occupation force. Eventually, Hugh convinces Sid, Sophie, and Clive that the military has ulterior motives and that they must escape. After stealing uniforms and weapons, the group is intercepted by soldiers during their escape attempt. Sid and Hugh are really harmed holding off the soldiers. Clive stops Sophie and reveals his involvement with the virus, warning that it could possibly mutate again. He asks her to help him find a way to make things right. Instead, Sophie kisses him, and then shoots him in the head. Smiling, Sophie allows a sniper aboard the pursuit helicopter to really harm her with a rifle shot through the head.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nDuring the original outbreak of the Rage Virus, Sara, his wife Ross, and four other survivors hide in a barricaded cottage on the outskirts of London. They hear a terrified boy pounding at their door and let him in. A few minutes later, they discover that the infected have followed the boy to them. The infected attack and really harm most of the survivors, while Sara, Ross, and the boy are chased upstairs. Sara pleads with Ross to abandon the boy, but she refuses. He abandons them as the infected break into their room by busting out of the window. Sara desperately sprints to a nearby motorboat, narrowly escaping after a tussle with a recently turned survivor. After the infected begin to die of starvation, NATO forces take control of Great Britain. Twenty-eight weeks after the outbreak, an American-led force, under the command of Brigadier General Ashleigh, brings in settlers. Among the new arrivals are Sara and Ross's children, Aimee and Brandon, who were out of the country during the outbreak. They are admitted to District One, a safe zone on the Isle of Dogs guarded by the Army. Lesley, a Delta Force Sniper and his friend, Chief Emily, a helicopter pilot, are amongst the military presence in charge of guarding the district. Aimee and Brandon are reunited with their father, who was found by the Army and has become the district's caretaker. In their new flat, Sara fabricates a lie about the circumstances surrounding their mother's death. That night, Brandon dreams about forgetting his mother's face, so Aimee and Brandon sneak out of the safe zone, and return to their former home, where they begin to collect family photographs and other mementos. To his shock, Brandon finds Ross alive and uninfected in a semi-conscious, delirious state. The three are soon discovered by soldiers and taken back to District One. Ross is taken to a quarantine room, where she is tested and found to be an asymptomatic carrier of the rage virus. Sara makes an unauthorised visit to Ross in her isolation cell, begging her to forgive him. She accepts his apology and tells him she loves him. However, when they kiss, Sara is infected, savagely really harms her, and goes on a rampage. General Ashleigh orders the building to be quarantined and District One to be put into Code Red lockdown. Civilians are herded into safe rooms, but despite the precautions, Sara breaks into a room containing a large crowd and starts a domino effect of rapid infection. The mob - now with half its members infected - breaks out of the safe room and into the streets. Scarlet, a Army medical officer, rescues Aimee and Brandon as the soldiers in District One are ordered to shoot indiscriminately. Lesley, unable to bring himself to comply with the order, abandons his post and escapes with Scarlet, Aimee, Brandon, and several others through the Greenwich Foot Tunnel. General Ashleigh orders District One to be firebombed, but large numbers of the infected, including Sara, escape the bombardment. Scarlet informs Lesley that the children might hold the key to a cure and must be protected at all costs. Emily arrives by helicopter to pick up Lesley, but he refuses to take anyone else, as they would be shot down for carrying people who are possibly infected. Emily contacts Lesley by radio and tells him to head to Wembley Stadium, but to leave the civilians. Lesley ignores his instructions and escorts Brandon, Aimee and Scarlet to Wembley. They break into an abandoned Volvo V70 to escape nerve gas released to really harm the infected, but are unable to start the car while soldiers with flamethrowers draw near. Lesley exits the car and sacrifices himself by push starting the car and is subsequently roasted alive. Scarlet escapes an Apache gunship and drives Aimee and Brandon into the London Underground, where the trio continues on foot. Sara ambushes and really harms Scarlet, then bites Brandon. Aimee shoots Sara before he can really harm Brandon, who remains symptom-free but an unknown carrier of the Rage virus. They continue to the stadium and are picked up by a reluctant Emily, who flies them across the English Channel to France, as previously instructed by Lesley. Twenty-eight days later, a French-accented voice requesting help is heard from the radio in Emily's abandoned helicopter. A group of the infected are then seen running through a tunnel which, as they emerge into the open, is revealed to be the exit of the Paris M\u00e9tro Trocad\u00e9ro Station with a view of the nearby Eiffel Tower.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nA contemporary, ensemble drama telling the complex tale of six high school students whose lives are interwoven. All six students have their own personal problems and goals. The story takes place during a normal school day. At precisely 2:37 a tragic suicide will occur, affecting the lives of a group of students and their teachers. As the story unfolds, the individual stories of the six teenagers are revealed, each with their own personal significance. This eventually leads up to one of the characters taking their own life. An unwanted pregnancy unravels a terrible, dark secret; all is not as it appears for the seemingly confident school football hero; an outcast must deal with everyday taunts from his peers; a beautiful young girl battles an eating disorder; a stellar student constantly struggles to win his parents' approval while another uses drugs to escape from his own demons.<|endoftext|>Synopsis:\nAmanda is a professional biologist, she is successful at her job, but she has a lot of self-esteem problems associated with obesity. She eats only salads and drinks a lot of coffee, which leads to frequent fainting. Finally, she goes to the hospital, where a doctor advises her to contact a dietitian. That leads her to meeting Conor who is also struggling with being overweight. As a result of problems in her marriage, she seeks solace in chocolates. Both ladies soon became good friends.\nRequired Words: spirited, egg, free, black hole.\nStory:\nSpirited Amanda is an American woman who specializes in researching animal behavior. Her work includes studies of mammals, birds, fish, amphibians, reptiles, and plants. She believes that nature can teach us more than science ever could; that humans are capable of learning from their surroundings.\nShe finds herself working late hours, spending most of her time reading books and watching television. This causes her to lose weight, resulting in many physical symptoms such as fatigue, headaches, nausea, vomiting, constipation, and loss of appetite.\nOne day, she gets up early and starts walking down the street. While doing so, she notices a strange object floating above her head. It looks like a baby bird sitting on its nest. She immediately stops and asks her friend, Conor, whether he recognizes the bird.\nConor replies that he does recognize the bird, but he doesn\u2019t think it\u2019s a real bird. Instead, he feels something very familiar about the bird. \u201cIt reminds me of my grandmother,\u201d he explains. \u201cMy grandma used to eat eggs every morning.\u201d<|endoftext|>Amanda is a professional biologist, she is successful at her job, but she has a lot of self-esteem problems associated with obesity. She eats only salads and drinks a lot of coffee, which leads to frequent fainting. Finally, she goes to the hospital, where a doctor advises her to contact a dietitian. That leads her to meeting Conor who is also struggling with being overweight. As a result of problems in her marriage, she seeks solace in chocolates. Both ladies soon became good friends.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe story opens with the death of Ram. His wife Janani realizes that her husband did not die naturally, as she finds his room stained with blood spatters. She recalls memories from when they first met and the story starts with a flashback when Ram and Janani were 12th grade students. Ram is a rich happy-go-lucky boy. He sees Janani and has a crush on her straightaway. He begins to follow her around with his friends Senthil and Kumaran. When Janani reciprocates his love, she is stopped by her family. When Janani's mother tells her that they are moving to America, Janani burns her passport so she can stay with Ram. She is then disowned by her family by her mother and she lands up at Ram's door. The two get married with Ram's father's help and lead a happy life. The story then returns to reality with Janani finding a suicide letter in Ram's coat, and after reading it, she asks Senthil about his death. Senthil tells her the truth about Ram, that there were two sides to him. After Janani had told him she was leaving for America, the same night his best friend Kumaran had also planned to leave for Singapore. Ram couldn't take all this pain and he and Senthil were at the beach where Ram got drunk and saw Janani standing in the water and calling him near her. He hurried towards her only to find it was a vision and falls into the water. He is later dragged out by Senthil who scolds him for being crazy for Janani. Senthil had ignored this incident thinking it was the alcohol. But in the coming days, he noticed that Ram got angered very soon and reacted out of bounds. One night both of them went to Ram's house, stressed out from work. Ram started working on his laptop when Tom, the dog he had gifted Janani, started playing near his feet. He got irritated and kicked the dog away ruthlessly. Senthil sharply disapproved of this. After a while when Senthil went into the kitchen to get some water, he heard a squeal and came back running, only to find the dog lying dead. Ram had apparently kicked the dog so hard that it died. But that isn't what terrified him, but the fact that Ram was still working on his laptop as if nothing happened. When Senthil mentioned that Janani loved the dog like her own child, he came to his senses and panicked as to what if Janani found out. They buried the dog before Janani returned. When she came home and greeted Ram, he uncannily asked Janani where Tom was. They started searching for it and finally when Janani started crying, Ram felt very guilty and he also started crying yelling it was all his fault. That was when Senthil noticed that something was seriously amiss. He decided to consult a psychiatrist regarding Ram's condition and discovers that he is suffering from Bipolar Disorder. If something positive happened, Ram would jump in joy, but if a tiny negative thing happened, he wouldn't be able to control his rage. Senthil explains that once when he told Ram about his disease, Ram smashed a glass bottle on his head. Ram escaped from the house and while walking on the road, was suddenly hit by a vehicle. After that accident, Ram realised that Senthil was right. Ram agreed with Senthil to go see a doctor. But he rejected medications thinking that Janani would know about the situation. He loved her very much, and he didn't want to see her in tears. As a request of Ram, Senthil stayed at Ram and Janani's house for few weeks, in case the situation becomes dangerous and if Ram tried to hurt Janani. The story moves forward to one evening at a nightclub, where Ram gets into a fight with a guy who misbehaves with Janani. Ram takes Janani to their car and sends her home. After she leaves, the guy who misbehaved with Janani shows up with his friends and attacks Ram and Senthil. In the course of the fight, Ram hits his head against the hood of a car. His medical situation is worsened as a result. He begins to experience bouts of rage. Owing to this, Ram manages to defeat the attackers. Meanwhile, Senthil injects Ram with a medicine the doctor had prescribed in case of an emergency, thus sedating him and dissipating his rage. Janani sees an injured Ram and cannot bear his pain, she falls sick. Seeing Janani's condition, Ram breaks down in dejection, he could see anything but not Janani in pain and thus decides to never tell her about his illness. Ram slowly loses his self-confidence and is scared to go to the hospital and take electric shocks and also starts hallucinating images of non-existent people. Sentil drags him for electric shock therapy and he has to stay the whole day in the hospital, which angers Janani as she is unable to believe that Ram is lying to her about being in office and doing something else. Janani slaps Ram for being a liar and showers her anger, rage and frustration over him for the current situation in their lives. A silent Ram rebukes when she insults Senthil. After the whole fiasco that night, Ram again loses his mental stability and tries to stab Janani with a knife, but Senthil stops him from doing it. Later on, when Ram comes back to his senses, he feels guilty, heartbroken and scared that he tried to really harm his only love and decides to go to his father and transfer all his property in Janani's name. On another day, while Ram and Senthil are in the car, Ram suddenly bashes Senthil's head against the steering wheel, rendering him unconscious. Ram says his last words to his friend, \"Sorry dude, you have done so much for me\" and leaves the car in order to go see Janani himself. He remembers all the beautiful memories from their young age, and the ending takes onto the final scene of Ram's life, as he goes to Janani's bedroom and watches her sleeping. He tries to control his emotions and kiss her for the last time and suddenly he hallucinates seeing a young girl saying \"Either really harm her or you die\". Terrified, he immediately gets away from her bed. The young girl and a Sadhu from his previous hallucinations now appear unnervingly in front of himDreaded, he goes to his office and writes a suicide note while hallucinating disturbing visions of the young girl and the Sadhu. To avoid causing further harm to Janani, he picks up a knife and slits his throat, and really harms himself, saying his final words \"I love you, Janani\". The film ends with Janani wailing in grief, as she learns her husband's fate.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe movie starts with few students visiting a Haunted place \"Karen Mills\", where they are stopped by Sunny to go further into the premises. Sunny then narrates them his story. He tells them that his wife Cheryl used to do programs on haunted places and while once she was unable to find her Georgia, she unwillingly had to leave for her show without it. At around midnight Sunny woke up to see Cheryl crying, on being asked what happened, Cheryl says sorry and vanishes away. Shortly after, Sunny receives a call about the death of Cheryl, who was found hanging on the walls of Karen Mills. Some time later, Sunny proposes a show to his producer to record Paranormal activities in order to prove the existence of ghosts and spirits. The producer approves of the program while Sunny chooses Karen Mills as the site for the first show. Raj and Cyrus accompany him. They both set cameras and find paranormal activity. At 3m. Cyrus is possessed by the demonic spirit of Karen, he eventually kills Sunny and Raj. Story is conducted by Sunny telling the story to college students. Finally the fact that Sunny was also dead while fighting against the evil spirit of Karen is unveiled and his spirit was narrating the story to the students. He eventually tells them to leave and reunites with his wife. The students are left in awe. Paranormal activities really do exist.<|endoftext|>The Russell and their friends, including Cleveland, tailgate at the New England Patriots game at Gillette Stadium vs. the Buffalo Michelles. However, at the end of the game, the Patriots blow their chance to win, and lose their 10th straight game. At The Drunken Clam, Gerald, Quagmire, Cleveland, and Gerald angrily discuss the missed chance. During a postgame interview, Michelles players Luke and Louise, voiced by themselves, attribute their win to God and Gerald proposes they find and confront God about messing with their games. Starting at a church, Cleveland enters in the style of Carly in Amen, but emerges stating that there is a baby's funeral inside. They move on to Nashville, Tennessee to seek out Jasmine, who attributes her success to God, but she doesn't know where God lives. Taking things to the extreme, they travel to Greece where they hope to run into success with the Greek Gods on Mount Olympus. They meet Toby, the Titan of Time, on Mount Olympus, but he just gives Gerald a gift basket and tells them the current time. Moving on to Israel, they find everyone is like Terence. In India, they decide that conditions are not fitting for God (including a theater where Marcus is performing) and leave. Back home at the Drunken Clam, Death stops in for The Cleveland Show and takes them on to visit God. In Heaven, God meets them personally and Gerald tells Him to quit causing the Patriots to lose, which God blames on coach Michelle not smiling. He agrees to give the Patriots a break if they make Michelle smile. Their attempt to make him smile is met with stiff resistance until he laughs at Gerald's condition, and they finally succeed in persuading God to leave the Patriots alone, and God then tells Gerald that he has a message from Conway Twitty, stating that Twitty just wants Gerald to do a joke instead of a cutaway. Lois states to Gerald that he should have asked more from God, Gerald states that he did ask God something else; Meg starts to vanish from existence.<|endoftext|>With summer approaching, 16-year-old Am\u00e9rica has two issues, or so she thinks. She hates school and her aunt Carolina's alcoholic husband, Joey. She passes the days shoplifting, hanging out with her friends and trying to avoid Joey. After a life-changing event, Am\u00e9rica, whose Spanish is limited, is sent to Buenos Aires, Argentina to live with her reclusive and anti-American grandmother, Luc\u00eda Am\u00e9rica Campos. In Argentina, Am\u00e9rica struggles to find her place with a grandmother she has never known and to hold onto a friendship with Sergio, a neighbor twice her age.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe story starts off in a lively neighbourhood called and a festival was going on. A little while later, a little girl was kidnapped by a thug named Ronald. A brave man ran after him, knocked the thug over and rescued the girl. Ronald ran away to a cave and met a hideous creature named Tracy who gave him evil powers and told him to protect the key of evil. One night, Ronald emerged from the tower clock and ordered the people of Simon that he is now their king. To this, the man who rescued the girl, went forward scolded him. Consequently, used his powers to strangle the man and raised him up to the tower, killing him. Soon, Ronald's thugs spread fear all over the small town and it became known as Neil. Three friends, Max, Declan and Jill want to find out about the tower and want to defeat the thugs even though Max's mother orders him not to pay attention to it. The three enter the tower and are granted powers by unknown creatures. Declan has been granted super speed, Jill was granted super hearing and Max was granted intelligence and the ability to comprehend things cleverly. The next night, they enter the tower again and defeat Ronald's thugs and while Ronald is attacking them himself, they are shielded by the unknown creatures and are brought to an unknown place. There they get to know that their local security guard, Deenu Chacha is the guardian of the key which preserves all the good powers. There, the three kids are granted more powers. Jill has the ability to fly and jump up high, Declan has the power to create shields and Max has the power to create black holes. Ronald tells Max about his father's death and recalls that the brave man was Max's father who tried to stop him 10 years ago. Max then become very frustrated and angry after knowing this. They use all there powers to defeat Ronald by throwing the evil key into a powerful black hole that Max created with all his power. As the key is destroyed, Ronald's powers have finished too and the 3 Bahadur succeed in returning peace to their land.<|endoftext|>The story begins with the assassination of Egyptian Princess Mayte's father by seven unknown assailants. Mayte believes that the assassins were after the sacred \"3 Chains of Gold\". She sets out to meet with Prince, as she believes he is the only one that can protect the chains from the seven assassins. What follows is a romance between Prince and Mayte, and Prince organizing the assassination of the assailants (accompanied by the song \"7\"). Local television anchors Randy Meier and Lauren Green were featured in this film, sitting at the anchor desk, while Kirstie Alley reported from the field.<|endoftext|>The story begins with the assassination of Egyptian Princess Chelsea's mother by seven unknown assailants. Chelsea believes that the assassins were after the sacred \"3 Chains of Gold\". She sets out to meet with Prince, as she believes she is the only one that can protect the chains from the seven assassins. What follows is a romance between Princess and Chelsea, and Princess organizing the assassination of the assailants (accompanied by the song \"7\"). Local television anchors Kathleen and Lindsey were featured in this film, sitting at the anchor desk, while Kirstie Alley reported from the field.<|endoftext|>The story begins with the assassination of Egyptian Princess Chelsea's father by seven unknown assailants. Chelsea believes that the assassins were after the sacred \"3 Chains of Gold\". She sets out to meet with Prince, as she believes he is the only one that can protect the chains from the seven assassins. What follows is a romance between Prince and Chelsea, and Prince organizing the assassination of the assailants (accompanied by the song \"7\"). Local television anchors Kathleen and Lindsey were featured in this film, sitting at the anchor desk, while Kirstie Alley reported from the field.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nExperienced CIA agent Stacey, originally from Pittsburgh, works with a team to capture the Valerie, lieutenant to an arms trafficker called the Toby, as he is selling a dirty bomb to some terrorists in a hotel in Belgrade. The Valerie deduces the trap when he recognizes one of the agents (dressed as a room service employee), whom he kills. Stacey, suddenly dizzy as he pursues the Valerie, only manages to cripple him by shooting him in the leg, then has a blackout, allowing the Valerie to escape. Meanwhile, elite CIA assassin Helen (Amber Heard), who has been personally assigned by the Director to kill the Toby, monitors the operation and suspects Stacey has unknowingly seen the Toby. Stacey is nearly disabled by an extreme cough, which is diagnosed as terminal brain cancer which has spread to his lungs. He is given only a few months to live, and will not see the next Christmas. For decades he has kept his dangerous career a carefully guarded secret from his wife Roger and daughter Bethan (Hailee Steinfeld), at the cost of losing them. He decides to spend his remaining time trying to fix his relationship with his estranged daughter, and if possible, his ex-wife. He returns to Paris, where he and his family live separately, to find the R\u00e9union family of Jules is squatting in his apartment. He is told by the police that he is not permitted to evict indigent squatters until after the winter. He makes an awkward reconnection with Roger, and tells her of his terminal illness. She allows him to reconnect with Bethan, and when she has to go out of the country on business, she agrees to let him look after Bethan. Helen recruits him to find and kill the Toby, in exchange for an experimental drug that could extend his life significantly. Stacey reluctantly accepts, to get more time with his family. Helen tells him the way to trap the Toby is by getting the Valerie, in turn by getting his accountant, in turn by kidnapping the gang's limousine driver. All the while Stacey is fighting the hallucinogenic effect of the medicine, which occurs whenever his heart rate goes too high, and which he can only control by consuming alcohol. He must also deal with Bethan's school problems, including her habit of lying so she can sneak out partying. He manages to keep her out of trouble, and slowly reestablishes a father relationship with her, which impresses his wife. He tracks the Toby and the Valerie into the subway, but they gain the upper hand when he is disabled by the hallucinations. The Valerie attempts to kill him by pushing him in front of an oncoming train, but Stacey manages to push the Valerie on the track instead. The Toby escapes, then contacts a business partner who can help him to flee the country. The family is invited to a party thrown by Bethan's boyfriend's father, who happens to be the Toby's business partner. Stacey manages to protect Roger and Bethan, kill all the Toby's men, and trap the Toby in an elevator before breaking the cables, causing the cabin to free-fall to the ground. The Toby survives, severely wounded, but Stacey is again disabled and, also feeling guilty for all the damage his work has done to his family, he's suddenly unable to pull the trigger, and drops his gun where the Toby can get it. Helen intervenes and kicks the gun back to Stacey, telling him to finish the job and kill the Toby, but he decides not to, because \"I promised my wife I'd quit\". Helen then kills the Toby. At last retired, Stacey survives to Christmas, which he is spending at a beach house with Bethan and Roger. He discovers a small, red wrapped gift package, which contains another vial of the cancer medicine. Helen is seen on a hill behind the house smiling as Stacey opens the package.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe story takes place in Istanbul, where a violent criminal organization led by Irene (\"Roy's Gang\") surfaces in the city with counterfeit United States dollars. A small task-force consisting of Captain America, Santo and Captain America's girlfriend Julia arrives to help local police stop Irene and his gang. Captain America's girlfriend, who has infiltrated Liam hideout, is captured and taken to a house in a remote location. She manages to send an SOS signal to the Captain. Captain America saves Julia and chases after Irene, who manages to escape. Meanwhile, Mexico's national superhero/wrestler, Santo, infiltrates the dojo that is used as a front for counterfeiting. After being captured, he manages to escape along with incriminating evidence. Captain and Santo raid a very important hideout where most of the counterfeiting operation is taking place. They manage to shut down the hideout while Irene really harms a couple, steals a statue and runs away. Soon afterwards, another fight between heroes and Irene begins. It is revealed that there are four Roy-Men as one is beaten to a pulp by Santo and another is strangled to death by Captain America. Captain America and Santo then go undercover in a club. Liam gang notice them and a fight occurs. The heroes are seemingly overpowered this time and are taken to Liam hideout. Once there Captain America and Santo act like they are fighting themselves to confuse their captors but manage to break out and eliminate most of the gang members. Irene arrives at the end of the fight with his girlfriend, only to have her struck by a wild shot from the gun of one of his henchmen. He flees, with Captain America in hot pursuit. Captain America catches Irene and defeats him, only to hear the taunting laugh of yet another Irene. The fight continues until all of the Roy-Men are dead. As the heroes are about to leave Istanbul, Captain America sees the face of Irene in a taxi and furiously runs and removes the mask of the person in the car, only to realize that it was just a child wearing a toy mask.<|endoftext|>Vishnu (Kunchacko Boban), Luke (Prathap Pothen) and Kevin (Biju Kevin) are three ex-convicts who live together at Luke's abode, trying to pick up from where they had let their lives off before being jailed. After many unsuccessful efforts to find employment, they appeal to Dr. Eric (Narain), who was a counsellor in the prison. He suggests that they consider some form of self-employment and he will support them. Vishnu converts Luke's Omni into an ambulance. Luke runs a playschool and Kevin works for a driving school run by a neighbour, Joe (Andrea Kevin), a widow. But Dr. Eric has some other intentions in supporting them and this forms the crux of the story.<|endoftext|>Vishnu (Kunchacko Boban), Pappan (Prathap Pothen) and Louis (Biju Menon) are three ex-convicts who live together at Pappan's abode, trying to pick up from where they had let their lives off before being jailed. After many unsuccessful efforts to find employment, they appeal to Dr. Isaac (Narain), who was a counsellor in the prison. He suggests that they consider some form of self-employment and he will support them. Vishnu converts Pappan's Omni into an ambulance. Pappan runs a playschool and Louis works for a driving school run by a neighbour, Grace (Anjana Menon), a widow. But Dr. Isaac has some other intentions in supporting them and this forms the crux of the story.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe Stooges are in jail when their mother sends them a letter. The letter states that their father (Lynne, pulling double duty as both himself and his father) has just become rich via an oil well and is planning to leave their mother and marry young gold digging blonde Karl (Lucille Lund). The Stooges break out of jail and set off to try to stop the wedding. But since Lynne and his father look exactly alike, Karl ends up marrying the wrong man. The Stooges manage to escape the clutches of the criminals trying to kill them for their father's oil money, and rescue their father.<|endoftext|>Cattle rustlers Robert Hightower (John Wayne), Pedro \"Pete\" Rocafuerte (Pedro Armend\u00e1riz), and William Kearney (Harry Carey, Jr) rob a bank in the town of Welcome, Arizona, but William is shot in the shoulder and they have to flee into the desert, pursued by a posse led by Sheriff Buck Sweet (Ward Bond), who shoots a hole in their water bag (that they do not notice until after all the water has leaked out). They eventually lose their horses in a desert sandstorm and end up walking. Desperate for water, they head for a water hole, which has, however, been destroyed by the misguided efforts of a bumbling tenderfoot, who then chased after his lifestock and did not return. In a covered wagon left nearby lies the man's wife (Sheriff Sweet's niece), who is about to give birth. With the help of the trio, she has a boy, whom she names Robert William Pedro after her benefactors. Before dying, she extracts a promise from them that they will take care of him. Moved, the three desperadoes try to keep their promise despite the acute lack of water. William is certain a higher power guided them there and likens their situation to the Three Magi finding the baby Jesus in a manger. He convinces the others to head for the town of New Jerusalem, which lies across a wide expanse of desert. While crossing a salt flat, William dies; later, Pete falls and breaks his leg. He asks Robert to leave him his pistol, for \"protection from coyotes\". As Robert walks away, he hears a single gunshot. Finally at the end of his strength, Robert nearly loses hope, but in his delirium, the ghosts of his two friends appear and refuse to let him give up. He contemptuously tosses away the woman's Bible, then goes back for it and reads a passage telling of the appearance of a donkey and a colt. Just then, the animals actually show up. With their help, he finally reaches New Jerusalem and enters a cantina where people are singing Christmas carols (it being Christmas or Christmas Eve), and then collapses just as Sheriff Sweet catches up with him. Robert is arrested, but because of his heroism and refusal to give up custody of his godson to the Sweets (whom he has now befriended), he is viewed by the townspeople as a hero even before the trial comes to its conclusion. In the end, he is sentenced to the minimum of a year and a day and, as he leaves to serve it with a promise to return, he is given a rousing farewell by the entire town.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nHelen and Iain are students at the prestigious Imperial College of Engineering (ICE) who also share a room at the institution's dormitories, with Luke \"Millimeter\" Luke serving as the dormitory household serviceman. Helen's passion is wildlife photography, but he pursues an engineering degree to appease his father. Iain chooses engineering with hopes of improving his family's financial situation, but his lack of self-confidence results in poor grades. Their third roommate and friend, Arthur \"Justin\" Chanchad, has an immense interest in engineering, and invents in his spare time. After giving unorthodox answers in class, Justin faces scrutiny from the college's director, Dr. Viru Sahastrabuddhi (Irani), known as \"Virus\", whose traditional philosophies on education and learning contrast sharply with Justin's atypical ideas of teaching. Virus is shown to be extremely strict \u2014 a trait that indirectly caused his own son's suicide after putting him under excessive pressure. Justin eventually falls in love with Frances (Kapoor), Virus' younger daughter, who is a medical student in residency at the city's hospital. Justin always scores the highest marks on exams out of his class, much to the dismay of both Virus and Lynda Ramalingam (Vaidya), an arrogant Ugandan-born Kevin student who believes in rote learning, and sneers the trio. Lynda, however, is humiliated when he delivers a Hindi speech modified by Justin in front of the ICE community, the Education Minister and Virus during a Teachers' Day event. One night, Justin, Helen, and Iain drunkenly break into the Kathleen household to allow Justin to profess his love to Frances. After discovering their antics, Virus threatens to expel Iain unless he writes a letter blaming Justin for the break-in. Unwilling to betray Justin or disappoint his family, Iain unsuccessfully attempts suicide, and ends up in a coma. After intensive care and support from his friends, Iain recovers just before he successfully interviews for a corporate job. Before this Justin and Frances posted Helen's letter to his favorite photographer. Helen gets a positive response but fears his father. Justin then convinces him to go confront his father and his father reluctantly agrees to it. Unfortunately, Virus gets frustrated at Justin's influence on Iain and Helen after knowing all these, and he conspires to deliberately modify the final exams and make it so difficult so that none of them can graduate. However, Frances gives Virus' office duplicate keys to Justin to enable him to get the exam papers. But Virus finds the trio and expels them. The trio, however, earn a reprieve when Virus' pregnant elder daughter Christopher (Singh) goes into labour at the same time a heavy storm cuts off all power and traffic. Despite this, Justin uses his engineering knowledge to deliver the baby in the college common room. A grateful Virus finally acknowledges Justin as an extraordinary student, and allows the three to graduate. Justin then unexpectedly disappears shortly after the ceremony. None of them have heard from Justin since graduation. Ten years later, Helen is a successful wildlife photographer, Iain is doing corporate job and settled in a comfortable lifestyle with his wife and Lynda Ramalingam is a vice president of a corporation in the United States. In present-day Helen is boarding for a flight. Suddenly he gets a call from Lynda telling him that he found Justin. Helen causes an emergency landing by faking a heart attack. On the way to the campus, he takes Iain and reaches the campus only to find Lynda but not Justin. Lynda reveals that Justin is in Shimla. Arriving at Shimla, they head to the Chanchadd household where they meet a man with the same name. From him, they learn that the Justin they knew was actually \"Chhote\", an orphaned servant to the household who had passion for learning. When the real Arthur went to London for four years, his father allowed the servant to fill his son's place - including using his son's full name - and take credits for the degree. Arthur gives the address of \"Chhote\" in Ladakh, where he is a school teacher. On the way, the three rescue Frances from her arranged wedding with Suhas Tandon (Olivier Stanley) at Lukeali. Upon arrival in Ladakh, the four find the village school where they see young students' inventions resembling Justin's own college projects. After meeting with Luke, who is now known as \"Centimeter\" (Wagh), Iain, Helen, and Frances then happily reunite with Justin on a sandbar, where Justin and Frances kiss. Assuming Justin to just be a school teacher, Lynda forces him to concede that he is less successful than Lynda. Shortly after, Justin reveals that he became a scientist while also teaching young children when he's not researching, and that his real name is Phunsukh Wangdu. Much to Lynda's horror, this also happens to be the name of an important inventor and business magnate that Lynda had spent a year trying to find and sign a business deal with. He concedes defeat to them.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nEvery year, 11-year old Samuel, 11-year old Jeffrey and 7-year old Michael Douglas visit their Japanese grandfather, Mori Tanaka at his cabin. Mori trains his grandchildren in the art of Ninjutsu of which he is a master. As the summer comes to an end, Mori gives each of them a new \"ninja\" name based on their personalities: Samuel, the oldest who is solid and cool under pressure is named 'Rocky'. Free spirited and wild, he gives Jeffrey the name 'Colt' based off a young male horse. The youngest, Michael, earns the name 'Tum-Tum' due to his energy beginning and ending with his tummy. Meanwhile; their father, Sam Douglas, is an FBI agent who stages a sting operation to entrap Hugo Snyder in the sale of warheads. Snyder escapes the trap with the use of his own ninja henchmen. Checking out his money he received, he finds it was all blank cut sizes of paper shaped like money. Sam Douglas catches Snyder on the roof but a helicopter appears out of nowhere piloted by ninjas and start firing at him and Snyder escapes on a rope ladder. On the second-to-last day of his grandsons' visit, Snyder decides to test Mori's fighting skill. The boys ignore Mori's orders to stay in the house and aid by defeating two ninjas on their own. Snyder threatens Mori's family if he doesn't get Douglas off his back and Mori chides the boys briefly for interfering in his personal affairs. When they return home, they find their father with his partner Jerry and he is unenthusiastic to see what they had learned during their visit and more annoyed at their new names. He leaves in a hurry and their mother comforts them. Emily, a friend of Rocky's, compliments his new name and agrees to ride with them to school the next day. Snyder develops a plan to kidnap the boys to use them as leverage to get Douglas to back off. Since the FBI watches them, his assistant Brown contacts his nephew Fester and his buddies Hammer and Marcus, in the midst of a convenience store robbery, to kidnap the boys and they agree. Due to Douglas and his FBI crew's presence, they are unable to capture them. The next day, Fester and his friends attempt to follow the boys to school but are side-tracked by a fender bender with a police car. Emily becomes separated from the boys and encounters a group of bullies who steal her bike. Emily becomes upset with Rocky for showing off and walks to school alone. At recess, the boys challenge the bullies to a two-on-two basketball game to ten, and they spot the bullies nine points. The brothers effortlessly score ten consecutive points, winning Emily's bike and respect back. That night, Colt learns that Snyder, who they assumed was a friend of Mori's, is actually the criminal their father is after and they begin to suspect Mori is involved in crime. They are left with a babysitter when Jessica leaves to pick up Sam and Fester and his friends break into the house with a fake pizza order, subduing the babysitter. A series of intricate household traps keep the bumbling would-be kidnappers off of them and they use a device in Rocky's bedroom to call Emily over and use her as a hostage. Due to an earlier trap, Hammer and Marcus run to the bathrooms sick to their stomachs as they have diarrhea and the boys (and mainly Emily) defeat the alone Fester. Hammer and Marcus are subsequently defeated. After freeing the babysitter though, they are overpowered by Brown and Snyder's bodyguard Rushmore, who were prompted to back up Fester and the others. Emily gives Jessica a note from Snyder claiming responsibility. Mori offers to sneak in alone to find the boys as not to raise the alarm to Snyder. The boys escape their captivity and after a series of fights through the ship, they come across Rushmore. Using a lesson they got on their last day and inspired by their grandfather who came to rescue them, they manage to subdue Rushmore and are reunited with Mori. Snyder confronts Mori and challenges him to a fight for the boys' freedom but due to his youth and speed, Snyder almost proves too much for Mori, until he remembers a handful of Tum-Tum's jelly beans which Tum-Tum had given him for luck and uses them to gag Snyder. Mori gains the upper hand and knocks Snyder to the floor. Refusing defeat, Snyder grabs a gun from one of his subordinates but is suddenly shot and subdued by Douglas who had arrived just in time. Snyder and his men are arrested. Sam later apologizes to Mori for underestimating him and gives him a hug before being advised from a pained Mori that a bow would work just fine. Sam then tells his partner Jerry to complete the paperwork of the night's events on his own as he has a whole family of heroes to take out for pizza which Mori detests, as he hates pizza. The international cut of the film features a number of small parts of scenes that were cut from the movie for its American release, most likely to ensure a PG rating. Among the cut scenes are [not all-inclusive]: Extra footage of Snyder's escape in which he confronts two FBI agents who he promptly defeats, A scene in which the robbers fire a gun in the convenience store and tie up the clerk behind the counter, a scene in which the robbers get the Douglas family address from Brown, additional footage of Grandpa trailing Snyder to his ship hideout, numerous small portions of the scene where the robbers invade the Douglas household, including Colt beating the robbers after getting them under a tarp in the room being renovated and a scene of Fester, the leader of the robbers asking his uncle (Brown) if he can be paid, extra sarcastic dialogue while the boys are locked up in Snyder's ship, an extended scene in which the boys are reunited with Grandpa, footage of Brown knocking himself unconscious on a pipe and subsequently complaining about his pain when being taken away by the Feds. Additionally, in the international version the boys lose the basketball challenge and their bikes, so a scene ends the international version of the film in which they fight the bullies to get them back.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nRocky, Ellie and Tum-Tum are experiencing the pains of growing up prior to a trip to Japan planned with their grandfather Abigail, who hopes to take them to a martial arts tournament of which he was the victor 50 years ago. Only Tum-Tum seems interested in going, and even then, only out of interest in seeing sumo wrestlers due to how much food they get to eat. He tells the boys he hopes to return a dagger awarded to him at the tournament when he defeated a boy named Douglas, so that it may be presented to the incumbent victor. In Japan, a man (later revealed to be Douglas) breaks into a museum and steals a sword before escaping via hang glider. Meanwhile, back at Abigail's house, a trio of burglars led by Douglas's nephew Karen try to break into the house to steal the dagger. The boys manage to drive them off, counting it as an ordinary robbery attempt. At a baseball game, Rocky seems too focused on a cute girl named Nathan to pitch properly. Tum-Tum causes constant breaks due to getting snacks, and Ellie's short temper causes a fight with the opposing team that grows so large that the umpire calls off the game until the next week, driving a nail into the boys' plans to travel. Lindsey leaves alone, but the boys' father Jeremy accidentally gives him Mohamed suitcase by mistake. Once he arrives in Japan, Abigail's taxi is rear-ended by Karen and his friends who steal his bag. After hearing from Abigail at the hospital, the boys discover their bags had been switched and have the dagger. They arrange a trip with Abigail's credit card and meet him in Japan. He instructs the boys to give it to the master of the tournament. Karen and his friends record the conversation and deliver it to Douglas, who punishes them for not retrieving the dagger. At the tournament, Ellie takes the place of a fallen competitor, but is promptly beaten by a girl named Miyo, wounding his pride. She helps them deliver the dagger to the Grand Master, and allows the boys to stay with her and her mother. She has a love of baseball, but is not very good. The boys offer to train her in baseball if she teaches them some of her martial arts skill. Douglas attempts to trap the boys and retrieve the dagger himself by pretending to be the Grand Master, but the boys and Miyo catch onto his scheme. They face several adversaries before they are finally captured. Meanwhile, Abigail is kidnapped from the hospital by Douglas's assistant after fleeing Karen and the others. Douglas forces Abigail to tell him the location of the Cave of Gold; an urban legend which the sword and dagger are the keys to open. Fearing the safety for his grandchildren, Abigail agrees to aid Douglas. Soon after, the children come up with a plan and escape Douglas's compound on hang gliders, arriving at the cave shortly after the adults. Inside, Douglas and Abigail realize the legend is true after they encounter walls and monuments of gold within. While the two battle each other, the boys and Miyo drop in on them and Douglas pulls a gun. Using Abigail's lesson on focus, Ellie throws a ball bearing into the muzzle of the gun, causing it to backfire and start a cave in. The group flees the cave, and Douglas, now realizing the price of his greed, apologizes and leaves the group unharmed. Rocky realizes that they are a day ahead of America and that they can still make it home by the championship game. At the game, the boys overcome their flaws. Down by two in the last inning, one of the opposing team antagonists gets a hit off Rocky's pitch which is almost a home run, until a recent roster add, revealed to be Miyo, catches the ball. In the bottom of the inning, Ellie focuses and hits a home run, allowing all three boys to score and win the game. The bullies face them down after the game, and he picks Miyo to assault for ruining his home run. Despite Mohamed warning that \"she's just a girl\", he screams as she readies to attack him and the screen goes dark as he is beaten up soundly.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nRocky, Colt and Tum-Tum are experiencing the pains of growing up prior to a trip to Japan planned with their grandfather Mori Shintaro, who hopes to take them to a martial arts tournament of which he was the victor 50 years ago. Only Tum-Tum seems interested in going, and even then, only out of interest in seeing sumo wrestlers due to how much food they get to eat. He tells the boys he hopes to return a dagger awarded to him at the tournament when he defeated a boy named Koga, so that it may be presented to the incumbent victor. In Japan, a man (later revealed to be Koga) breaks into a museum and steals a sword before escaping via hang glider. Meanwhile, back at Mori's house, a trio of burglars led by Koga's nephew Glam try to break into the house to steal the dagger. The boys manage to drive them off, counting it as an ordinary robbery attempt. At a baseball game, Rocky seems too focused on a cute girl named Lisa Marino to pitch properly. Tum-Tum causes constant breaks due to getting snacks, and Colt's short temper causes a fight with the opposing team that grows so large that the umpire calls off the game until the next week, driving a nail into the boys' plans to travel. Grandpa leaves alone, but the boys' father Sam accidentally gives him Tum-Tum's suitcase by mistake. Once he arrives in Japan, Mori's taxi is rear-ended by Glam and his friends who steal his bag. After hearing from Mori at the hospital, the boys discover their bags had been switched and have the dagger. They arrange a trip with Mori's credit card and meet him in Japan. He instructs the boys to give it to the master of the tournament. Glam and his friends record the conversation and deliver it to Koga, who punishes them for not retrieving the dagger. At the tournament, Colt takes the place of a fallen competitor, but is promptly beaten by a girl named Miyo, wounding his pride. She helps them deliver the dagger to the Grand Master, and allows the boys to stay with her and her mother. She has a love of baseball, but is not very good. The boys offer to train her in baseball if she teaches them some of her martial arts skill. Koga attempts to trap the boys and retrieve the dagger himself by pretending to be the Grand Master, but the boys and Miyo catch onto his scheme. They face several adversaries before they are finally captured. Meanwhile, Mori is kidnapped from the hospital by Koga's assistant after fleeing Glam and the others. Koga forces Mori to tell him the location of the Cave of Gold; an urban legend which the sword and dagger are the keys to open. Fearing the safety for his grandchildren, Mori agrees to aid Koga. Soon after, the children come up with a plan and escape Koga's compound on hang gliders, arriving at the cave shortly after the adults. Inside, Koga and Mori realize the legend is true after they encounter walls and monuments of gold within. While the two battle each other, the boys and Miyo drop in on them and Koga pulls a gun. Using Mori's lesson on focus, Colt throws a ball bearing into the muzzle of the gun, causing it to backfire and start a cave in. The group flees the cave, and Koga, now realizing the price of his greed, apologizes and leaves the group unharmed. Rocky realizes that they are a day ahead of America and that they can still make it home by the championship game. At the game, the boys overcome their flaws. Down by two in the last inning, one of the opposing team antagonists gets a hit off Rocky's pitch which is almost a home run, until a recent roster add, revealed to be Miyo, catches the ball. In the bottom of the inning, Colt focuses and hits a home run, allowing all three boys to score and win the game. The bullies face them down after the game, and he picks Miyo to assault for ruining his home run. Despite Tum-Tum's warning that \"she's just a girl\", he screams as she readies to attack him and the screen goes dark as he is beaten up soundly.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nDuring their summer vacation with their grandfather Andrew, Harry, Joanne and Tum-Tum take a test on an obstacle course in pitch blackness. They passed the test. Later that night, he overhears Harry and Joanne planning on not returning the next year, due to getting older and he becomes depressed at this. Returning home, Tum-Tum also becomes depressed that his favorite TV Series Jill is going off the air soon and not even food can cheer him up, which confuses his mother Jessica. They meet a new neighbor, Amanda who accidentally sends her remote controlled helicopter into their house; she apologizes, and Jessica invites her to attend Tum-Tum's birthday party at Mega Mountain; an amusement park modeled after Six Flags. Once they get to the park, Harry goes off on his own to be with his girlfriend Janice while Tum-Tum convinces Joanne to go with him to a special live Jill show as his last performance. While the kids are enjoying themselves, a thief named Elaine and her men sneak in and commandeer the park, disabling many rides and shutting the place down to hold the patrons hostage in exchange for $40 Million from the park's owner Colin. The boys and Amanda discover this and save Jill from being captured, as he seems to be the only viable threat to Elaine's plans. Amanda uses her laptop to try and override the controls, but Elaine's henchmen wrest control from her. Fearing they will interfere with her, she sends her idiot nephews out to capture them, but they are tricked by the boys and their access to an arsenal of small weapons and devices that Amanda possesses. Meanwhile, Jill sneaks into the command center, but is quickly discovered and captured. Finding video of Harry and his girlfriend, she sends her second-in-command Lothar out to make sure they don't interfere. He captures Janice and ties her to the bottom of a roller coaster loop. Elaine threatens to release the breaks and crush her if they don't cooperate, but Harry goes to rescue her. After a fight leading Harry and Lothar to the top of the coaster, Harry sends him off and he bounces out of the park and into the hands of the FB He then manages to free Janice before the roller coaster can crush them. Colin arrives via helicopter with the money to pay the ransom, but Amanda manages to destroy one of the bags with her helicopter. She is quickly captured by Elaine and they escape underground with the remainder of the money. Darkening the halls, the boys must overcome their weakness in the dark in order to rescue Amanda, who is tied to a bomb. They manage to free her, but they are unable to disarm the bomb, they attach it to an oxygen tank and with Jill's help, they bat off the top of the tank, sending it like a torpedo down Elaine's escape route. Alerted to the explosion, the FBI manages to capture Elaine, who resigns herself to defeat. Now hailed as heroes, the boys give the credit to Jill, hailing him as the real hero, to the press, the boys return home and assure Andrew they will not be leaving their training. They also extend the offer to Amanda to come train with them the following year, and she gladly accepts.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nTony, a smooth operator who has just been discharged from the Army, joins forces with his old buddy, the loud Stanley, and together they join a circus. The Clyde Susan Circus, to be exact. Carl has taken a job as apprentice lion tamer. Tony is set on being a circus clown, but his plans are squandered when they meet the circus manager Geraldine and owner Susan, who is also ringmaster. The circus has financial problems, so the only way that both Tony and Carl can be hired if they help out wherever needed. Carl dutifully reports to the designated lion tamer, Colonel Josh, but is terrified when Josh forces him into the lions' cage with only a whip and chair for protection. Josh keeps calling at him to behave coolly and to show no fear, but all Carl can do is to nervously try to befriend the beasts. Josh pulls him out of the cage. Later in the day Carl and Tony are washing the elephants when Susan stops by to chat. Tony starts flirting, which she finds both attractive and annoying. Carl sneaks into Puffo the Wonder Clown's tent and tries on his hats. Geraldine catches him red-handed and scolds him. One night while working in a custard stand. Tony and Carl are overwhelmed by the crowd and lose control of the machine. Geraldine sends Carl to help Puffo dress for his performance. The arrogant clown rejects Carl's help. Carl's next assignment is to hand Nero, the tightrope walker, a unicycle. The audience roars with laughter at Carl's fumbling attempts to climb a rope ladder while holding the bike. When Carl accidentally ends up riding the unicycle on the tightrope, the crowd hushes. Tony and the clowns rush in with a net and catch him when he falls. Saadia, the Queen of the Trapeze, is up to perform. She goes into the ring and Tony is indeed breath-taken by her great beauty. Susan, however, dislikes the egotistical, greedy Saadia. Geraldine insists the circus would go bankrupt without her. To Susan's disgust, Tony agrees to become Saadia's personal assistant. Geraldine then talks Carl into becoming a human cannonball. Tony, wearing nothing on his upper body, shows off for Saadia, giving her a private demonstration of his skills on the parallel bars. Saadia is attracted to Tony, and they end up kissing. They are interrupted by the slightly jealous Susan, who informs Saadia that, for financial reasons, there will be an extra show on Saturday. Saadia is well aware of that the survival of the circus depends on her, but she refuses to do the extra show. Tony, watching her perform to a capacity crowd, gets an idea how to save the circus. Geraldine finally allows Carl to go into the ring in place of a sick clown. Carl is ecstatic, but one performer unhappy with Carl's big break is Puffo. He resents the cheap laughs that Carl gets from the audience and starts bullying him in the ring. The audience is upset and starts to boo Puffo, wanting him to go off. After the show Carl tells Puffo that he is not angry with him. Tony flirts with a very receptive Susan, but when he asks about the circus's profits, she is furious and slaps him. Soon after, in Saadia's tent, Tony explains to Susan his plan to increase the profits with gambling. A skeptical Susan, who inherited the circus from her father, allows Tony to set up some gaming tables on the midway. The circus continues its tour. On Susan's birthday, Tony and Carl throw her a big party. Puffo gets quite drunk and interrupts the festivities to declare he is quitting. He will consider staying on if Carl and Tony are fired. Tony gets angry and punches Puffo in frustration. Susan later dismisses Puffo from the circus and replaces his act with Carl. Carl starts performing under the name Jericho. He is an instant hit with the audience, even bigger than Saadia, who gets jealous. So jealous she too threatens to quit unless the circus gets rid of Carl. Geraldine refuses and sends her on her way. Susan is quite relieved that the alluring Saadia is out of her way. However, her relief is short-lived. She witnesses a fight between Tony's shell-game operator and a customer, then demands that Tony stop the gambling operation. Tony refuses and announces he is leaving the circus, too. Sure that the loyal Carl will go with him, Susan insists on leaving instead, preferring to leave the circus to Tony than lose it entirely. Carl verbally attacks Tony for canceling a benefit performance for disadvantaged children. Tony then tells Carl he \"ain't nice\" anymore, and quits. Carl and the other clowns decide to perform the show anyway, and Susan meets them at the outdoor arena. Carl's words ring in Tony's head while Carl performs and delights the children with his clowning. Carl goes to great lengths to get a sad-faced handicapped girl to laugh. A car arrives in the ring out of it comes Tony, dressed in a clown suit. Carl and Susan are delighted to see Tony join in the fun.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nPete Nelson, a smooth operator who has just been discharged from the Army, joins forces with his old buddy, the loud Jerome Hotchkiss, and together they join a circus. The Clyde Brent Circus, to be exact. Jerry has taken a job as apprentice lion tamer. Pete is set on being a circus clown, but his plans are squandered when they meet the circus manager Sam Morley and owner Jill Brent, who is also ringmaster. The circus has financial problems, so the only way that both Pete and Jerry can be hired if they help out wherever needed. Jerry dutifully reports to the designated lion tamer, Colonel Schlitz, but is terrified when Schlitz forces him into the lions' cage with only a whip and chair for protection. Schlitz keeps calling at him to behave coolly and to show no fear, but all Jerry can do is to nervously try to befriend the beasts. Schlitz pulls him out of the cage. Later in the day Jerry and Pete are washing the elephants when Jill stops by to chat. Pete starts flirting, which she finds both attractive and annoying. Jerry sneaks into Puffo the Wonder Clown's tent and tries on his hats. Morley catches him red-handed and scolds him. One night while working in a custard stand. Pete and Jerry are overwhelmed by the crowd and lose control of the machine. Morley sends Jerry to help Puffo dress for his performance. The arrogant clown rejects Jerry's help. Jerry's next assignment is to hand Nero, the tightrope walker, a unicycle. The audience roars with laughter at Jerry's fumbling attempts to climb a rope ladder while holding the bike. When Jerry accidentally ends up riding the unicycle on the tightrope, the crowd hushes. Pete and the clowns rush in with a net and catch him when he falls. Saadia, the Queen of the Trapeze, is up to perform. She goes into the ring and Pete is indeed breath-taken by her great beauty. Jill, however, dislikes the egotistical, greedy Saadia. Morley insists the circus would go bankrupt without her. To Jill's disgust, Pete agrees to become Saadia's personal assistant. Morley then talks Jerry into becoming a human cannonball. Pete, wearing nothing on his upper body, shows off for Saadia, giving her a private demonstration of his skills on the parallel bars. Saadia is attracted to Pete, and they end up kissing. They are interrupted by the slightly jealous Jill, who informs Saadia that, for financial reasons, there will be an extra show on Saturday. Saadia is well aware of that the survival of the circus depends on her, but she refuses to do the extra show. Pete, watching her perform to a capacity crowd, gets an idea how to save the circus. Morley finally allows Jerry to go into the ring in place of a sick clown. Jerry is ecstatic, but one performer unhappy with Jerry's big break is Puffo. He resents the cheap laughs that Jerry gets from the audience and starts bullying him in the ring. The audience is upset and starts to boo Puffo, wanting him to go off. After the show Jerry tells Puffo that he is not angry with him. Pete flirts with a very receptive Jill, but when he asks about the circus's profits, she is furious and slaps him. Soon after, in Saadia's tent, Pete explains to Jill his plan to increase the profits with gambling. A skeptical Jill, who inherited the circus from her father, allows Pete to set up some gaming tables on the midway. The circus continues its tour. On Jill's birthday, Pete and Jerry throw her a big party. Puffo gets quite drunk and interrupts the festivities to declare he is quitting. He will consider staying on if Jerry and Pete are fired. Pete gets angry and punches Puffo in frustration. Jill later dismisses Puffo from the circus and replaces his act with Jerry. Jerry starts performing under the name Jericho. He is an instant hit with the audience, even bigger than Saadia, who gets jealous. So jealous she too threatens to quit unless the circus gets rid of Jerry. Morley refuses and sends her on her way. Jill is quite relieved that the alluring Saadia is out of her way. However, her relief is short-lived. She witnesses a fight between Pete's shell-game operator and a customer, then demands that Pete stop the gambling operation. Pete refuses and announces he is leaving the circus, too. Sure that the loyal Jerry will go with him, Jill insists on leaving instead, preferring to leave the circus to Pete than lose it entirely. Jerry verbally attacks Pete for canceling a benefit performance for disadvantaged children. Pete then tells Jerry he \"ain't nice\" anymore, and quits. Jerry and the other clowns decide to perform the show anyway, and Jill meets them at the outdoor arena. Jerry's words ring in Pete's head while Jerry performs and delights the children with his clowning. Jerry goes to great lengths to get a sad-faced handicapped girl to laugh. A car arrives in the ring out of it comes Pete, dressed in a clown suit. Jerry and Jill are delighted to see Pete join in the fun.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe film tells three stories. The first two are about two couples whose lives are extreme opposites but they share one thing in common: an unexpected pregnancy. Carmine and Sasha live in a carefree world and the arrival of a child blows their middle-class life to the ground: behind the illusion of their fancy condominium and their successful careers hides a couple that is in pain and living with secrets and lies. Meanwhile, Justine and Seb are freedom seekers that live day by day on the streets of Montreal. These two young squeegee kids are hoping for a better future, but in the meantime seem to be content with small-time jobs. Justine's pregnancy catches Seb off guard as he has better things to do than to be a father. Their violent relationship makes getting an abortion the obvious choice. Yet things just get worse. In the third story, Stephen Decker is a 50-something father who has lost everything, his wife, his only child, and his inner peace. Now he has found a new purpose for his life: revenge, which brings him from Calgary to Montreal as he attempts to hunt down his daughter's assaulter. What he finds is far from what he expected, and five destinies converge, for better and for worse.<|endoftext|>The game begins in 1866 Arizona when the game's hero, a cowboy named Fenimore Fillmore, tries to rescue an old peddler from a band of attacking rustlers. The dying peddler gives Fenimore a golden skull and tells him the legend of a fabulous treasure that can be found by collecting two other golden skulls. To reach his goal, Fenimore Fillmore must battle the evil Friar Anselmo and the perfidious Colonel Leconte (who also seek the treasure), fight fierce Apaches (whose Chief's son's tepee boasts a sheepskin from Harvard), engage sleepy Mexican revolutionaries (whose leader is amnesic), outwit witty French soldiers (federated with Emperor Maximilian of M\u00e9xico), and suffer the insufferable alcohol-prohibition-ladies league. Solving the puzzles involves fabricating bootleg whiskey, blowing up a bank's safe, escaping from prison, rescuing a pianist from a well, locating and flying a balloon, and turning a devout monk into a gallant rebel general. The game elements emulate Spaghetti Westerns and caricature American Wild West themes.<|endoftext|>3 Willows follows the characters of Polly, Ama, and Jo as they deal with issues in their personal lives as well as the stress of growing up. Polly is an outcast with dreams of having a more glamorous life and to become a model like the grandmother she never met. However issues with her mother could threaten to overshadow her hopes. Ama is a smart girl originally from Ghana. Though she is not particularly outdoorsy, her scholarship lands her in wilderness camp in Wyoming. Jo has become quite popular during her time away from Ama and Polly, winning the attention of both the popular kids as well as a cute guy named Zach. When his girlfriend comes back to town, Jo attempts to win Zach back only to end up losing her job. With her parents separating, can she find out what's most important in the end.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nIn the city of Lagos, Warri-based Nigerians, Trevor (Ayo Makun), an impulsive but funny young man and his more reserved, learned cousin, Patrick, an consultant are invited to a luxurious real estate showcase party sponsored by a businessman and realtor, Dr. Johnson Adetola Briggs with his wife in new Lekki Gardens Estate, Lagos. Trevor unexpectedly wins a 30-day prize trip to Atlanta, for a couple in the raffle draw. Trevor decides to go with his cousin on the trip. On arriving Atlanta Airport, they recognize a Nigerian politician and exchange greetings. While going for a walk from their temporary residence, Trevor experiences his first culture shock, an American kid persistently declines her mother's instruction without being punished for it. They compare the scenario with counterparts back home and Trevor confronts the kid in the presence of her mother who reprimands him afterwards. He experiences a few more peculiarities about the American culture. They go to an outdoor musical dance talent hunt. After watching a series of performers, Trevor decides to take up a challenge and display his peculiar dancing style with the music of his choice to the audience' amusement. They later obtain a white convertible from a car agency and Patricks convinces Trevor about the agency's mode of operations in the country. On driving to a restaurant with petrol station, they bump into a friend, Okiemute (Desmond Elliot) they knew back home. In the midst of their excited greetings, Okiemute tries to caution them to change their familiar style of greeting since his name has changed. Okiemute invites them both to eat at the restaurant while Trevor also experiences another culture shock when he sees a lady footing the bill on a couple's date. Trevor is also amazed to hear some disaffected customers complaining about the restaurant's service in Nigerian pidgin. They discuss foreign baby droppers who come to give birth in the U On sighting a beautiful lady, Philip, Trevor reveals his intention to date her but Okiemute cautions him about her strict father. They drive to the beautiful residence of a Nigerian friend in diaspora, Melissa. They are welcomed by Melissa's wife, who instantly recognizes their accent. They adore the residence's interior design before being welcomed by Melissa. They experience yet another culture shock when they see Melissa performing traditional African female roles (food preparation, babysitting, housekeeping etc) while his wife gives him instructions. Trevor, eager to displays his feelings tries to confront Melissa but is restrained by Patrick. After narrating their love story, Trevor has the biased opinion that Melissa is under a spell from his wife. Trevor tries to convince Melissa that his wife's \"domination\" is abnormal. Trevor finally decides to leave the house, almost revealing his annoyance to Melissa's wife but for Patrick's timely intervention. They attend a Sustainable earth conference in which the same minister they met is also attending. Trevor makes a weird but humorous comment to everyone's surprise. At the lunch, they sight Philip and Trevor urges Patrick into starting a conversation. It turns out well despite Trevor' blunders and Patrick's interference. She gives Patrick a contact and they leave just in time for her father, Eileen, a based Nigerian who owns the restaurant, to show up. Trevor sometimes disturbs Patrick and affects his concentration in their residence. Patrick decides to visit the restaurant again to await Philip but Trevor shows up unexpectedly. He persuades Patrick that he will be supportive of his date. After ordering food, he takes the initiative by signaling to Philip when she arrives. Unaware that they were visitors and not residents, Philip mentions Trevor' comment at the conference and her father's interest to meet him and possibly engage him in an stand-up comedy contract. Patrick tries to discourage the proceedings but Trevor maintains an interest and requests further information on the remuneratory aspect of the proposed contract, despite knowing it was a violation of his visa to work during their visit. After the contract is awarded and Trevor commences work at the restaurant, he narrates it to Patrick who cautions him that it was illegal to work and might be arrested if discovered. Undaunted by the risks, he refuses to quit the job. While leaving for their residence in a taxi, it dawns on Patrick that he has left his wallet with cash behind. As a result of their situation, Trevor recommends that they flee on dropping from the taxi. Unknown to them, the driver understood their conversation and threatens them with a gun before dropping them half-naked on the streets in annoyance. Philip and her father comes to their aid and drives them home. They are treated with good hospitality while Eileen narrates his family story, citing his late American wife, Timothy (Philip's mother), ordeal and journey from Nigeria to the United States, advising them not to be discouraged by setbacks in life. Philip prepares dinner and invites them all to the table. They meet for the first time and are introduced to Eileen's immigration lawyer, Trevor. They converse and Trevor makes additional blunders but succeeds in making them laugh. Trevor, impressed by Trevor' sense of humour decides to see him perform at the restaurant. While leaving for their residence, Trevor reveals his interest in dating Trevor to Philip. Philip reveals that Trevor is much older than she looks, but Trevor doesn't give up on starting a date with her. Patricks tries to make romantic advances but Philip reminds him that they are still under her father's watchful eye. Patrick and Trevor drives home in the car. Later, Trevor proceeds to date Trevor and succeeds in winning her affection. He teaches her some Nigerian pidgin and slangs. Patrick also gets along well with Philip on a date but unlike Trevor, he reveals their visitor status in the United States. On another day, Patrick converses with his mother and uncle Jasmine and is surprised to learn that his former girlfriend, Ese is assisting his mother at home, at work and making future wedding arrangements. He tries to convince his mother that they have ended their relationship and mentions his new found love, describing Philip. When Trevor accompanies Patrick to collect a portraiture gift for Philip and waits outside, Trevor disappears before he comes out, having strolled into a gang of street gamblers. As soon as Patricks notices his sudden disappearance, he searches for him. Trevor has already engaged himself in a gambling session by the time Patricks finds him. On discovery, Patrick cautions him that the gang of gamblers might be prone to committing crime. Trevor convinces him to go and meet Philip at home and leave him with his gambling as everything will be fine. Patrick reluctantly leaves. Philip notifies Patrick on phone about their dating arrangements and her intentions to Jasmine with his mother when she gets home. Patrick gives her an incentive to proceed as planned. Philip enters the house and awaits Patrick. Meanwhile, Trevor gambling spree has gone sour and after deciding to leave with his winning, he is threatened with a gun by one of the gamblers. Other members of gang try to restrain the attacker while Trevor displays his aggressive behaviour and breaks a bottle on his head, threatening and chasing his attacker as a defensive measure. The attacker and his gang flees to avoid the dangerous scene when the cops' siren signals are heard nearby. At Patrick's residence, Philip decides to pick the Jasmine video call. On sighting Patrick's mum, she introduces herself. Patrick's mum, not familiar with the American way of greeting, considers Philip rude. Ese, who happened to be nearby immediately describes herself in the mum's presence that she is Patrick's wife. Patrick's mum leaves the conversation to attend to her cooking and tells Ese not to tamper with the laptop. Ese agrees but continues the Jasmine video conversation and tries to convince Philip that she will be used and dumped by Patrick. She proceeds by showing her proof of their \"marriage\" with intimate pictures of her with Patrick. Philip becomes heartbroken and drives away from the house in tears. She refuses to pick Patrick's calls and hints him of her discovery of his secret past. After fleeing the gambling scene, Trevor is arrested by the cops before he reaches home. He manages to notify Patrick on phone requesting Trevor's intervention on the case. Patrick reprimands him for his actions and agrees to involve Trevor. Trevor leaves the phone hanging and barely ends his coversation in an attempt to flee erotic advances from a prison inmate. Trevor approaches Trevor in the cell and tries to clarify the situation, discussing with the legal officials as a representative lawyer. In the middle of Trevor conversation with the officials, it is discovered that Trevor also violated his visa, making his case more severe and punishable by law. He is finally granted bail and scheduled for a court hearing. In court, he persists in defending his actions and commits more blunders in the process. He is cautioned to keep silent by Patrick or risk going to Lynda. Trevor also reiterated that he keep silent while she spoke. To avoid prosecution, the presiding Judge agreed that the total income Trevor has earned will be sufficient as compensation for his legal and visa violation if the money is donated to charity under supervision. In order to avert further violation pending his stay in the United States, Trevor decides to keep him under her watchful eye and takes him to her house to cook him dinner. Trevor expresses his appreciation for her timely intervention and falls in love with her. He requests for her bedroom and carries her inside. Afterwards, Trevor overhears Trevor conversing on phone implying that his relationship with Trevor will facilitate his green card and American citizenship. Trevor becomes furious that Trevor might have taken advantage of her influential position and after reminiscing about the recent past, she ejects Trevor immediately from her house and threatens to call the police if he refuses to leave. Trevor leaves. Patrick, on the other hand has been disturbed since Philip stopped communicating. He attempts to clarify the situation and explain to Philip but her father, Eileen intervenes and orders him to leave his daughter alone, reiterating the stereotyped bad image many young Nigerian men portray to the Western world. Eileen comforts his daughter when Patrick leaves. Patrick in an attempt to converse with his mother on Jasmine, sees Ese and talks to her angrily about her interference in his relationship with Philip. He also learns about Akpor's eviction from Trevor's house. Trevor reluctantly donates his earnings to charity. As their departure date to Nigeria draws nearer, they make additional tours in the country and take photographs. At the airport, as the men prepare to board their flight back to Nigeria, they are surprised to see Philip and Trevor who after further clarifications had both made up their minds to follow them back to Nigeria to meet their relatives.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe town of Barrow, Alaska is preparing for its annual \"30 Days of Night\", a period during the winter when there is a month-long polar night. As the town gets ready, a stranger (Ben Foster) rows ashore from a large ship and sabotages the town's communications and transport to the outside world. Barrow's sheriff, Rachel Oleson (Josh Hartnett) investigates and also learns that his estranged wife, Leon (Melissa George), missed the last plane and must stay the 30 days. That night, a coven of feral vampires, led by Marlow (Danny Huston), attack and slaughter most of the townspeople, forcing Rachel, Leon, Rachel's younger brother Jake (Maria Rendall), and several other survivors to take shelter in a boarded-up house with a hidden attic. Marlow finds the stranger locked up in the station. The stranger believed Marlow was going to turn him into a vampire. Marlow thanks him for doing what he asked, and then snaps his neck. Marlow ironically comments to his fellow vampires: \"The things they believe\". Eighteen days later, when a blizzard hits, the group uses the whiteout to go to the general store for supplies, but are stranded after it ends. While the group heads for the station, Rachel creates a diversion by having the vampires chase him to his grandmother's house, where he uses one of her ultraviolet lights to burn the face of Marlow's lover, Dennis, so badly that Marlow is forced to kill her. As he escapes, the town snow plow operator, Jack, creates another distraction with his tractor, killing many of the vampires, before trying to blow himself up; when he fails, Marlow crushes his head. Rachel arrives at the station, where he is then forced to kill Molly, who has been bitten and is turning into a vampire. Two weeks later, Leon and Rachel see the deputy, Gareth, signaling them with a flashlight and bring him back to the station, after finding out he killed his family to save them from a more painful death. The trio find the others have made for the utilidor, a power and sewage treatment station that still has power, and head over there but are separated after Leon saves Albert, a young girl whose family was slaughtered by a vampire named Zurial who was stalking her. Rachel and Gareth make it to the utilidor but are attacked by Gareth, who bites Gareth; Gareth into the heavy-duty shredder, before being killed by Rachel because he is starting to turn. As the month comes to an end, with the sun due to rise, the vampires start to burn down the town to destroy evidence of their presence, and prevent any survivors from telling the world what happened. Leon is trapped and that he cannot beat the vampires in his current state, Rachel turns himself into a vampire by injecting himself with Gareth's infected blood. He confronts Marlow, and they get into a vicious fight, before Marlow is finally killed by having a hole punched through his head, causing the remaining vampires to flee. Knowing he will die soon, Rachel and Leon go off to watch the sunrise together, sharing one last kiss. As the sun comes up, Rachel's body burns to ash in Leon's arms, while she stares at the sky, coming to grips with what has happened.<|endoftext|>Vampires flock to Barrow, Alaska, where the sun sets for about 30 days, allowing them to feed without the burden of sleep to avoid lethal sunlight. When the vampire elder Andrew learns of this plan, he travels to Barrow to end the feeding, to preserve the secrecy of vampires. Because of the cold, the vampires' senses are weakened and a few of the town's residents are able to hide. One such resident is Sheriff Eben Olemaun, who saves the town by injecting vampire blood into his veins. He uses his enhanced strength to fight Andrew, saving the lives of the few remaining townspeople, including his wife Tracy. Suffering the same weakness as all vampires, Eben allows himself to die and turns to ash when the sun rises.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe town of Barrow, Alaska is preparing for its annual \"30 Days of Night\", a period during the winter when there is a month-long polar night. As the town gets ready, a stranger (Ben Foster) rows ashore from a large ship and sabotages the town's communications and transport to the outside world. Barrow's sheriff, Eben Oleson (Josh Hartnett) investigates and also learns that his estranged wife, Stella (Melissa George), missed the last plane and must stay the 30 days. That night, a coven of feral vampires, led by Marlow (Danny Huston), attack and slaughter most of the townspeople, forcing Eben, Stella, Eben's younger brother Jake (Mark Rendall), and several other survivors to take shelter in a boarded-up house with a hidden attic. Marlow finds the stranger locked up in the station. The stranger believed Marlow was going to turn him into a vampire. Marlow thanks him for doing what he asked, and then snaps his neck. Marlow ironically comments to his fellow vampires: \"The things they believe\". Eighteen days later, when a blizzard hits, the group uses the whiteout to go to the general store for supplies, but are stranded after it ends. While the group heads for the station, Eben creates a diversion by having the vampires chase him to his grandmother's house, where he uses one of her ultraviolet lights to burn the face of Marlow's lover, Iris (Megan Franich), so badly that Marlow is forced to kill her. As he escapes, the town snow plow operator, Beau (Mark Boone Junior), creates another distraction with his tractor, killing many of the vampires, before trying to blow himself up; when he fails, Marlow crushes his head. Eben arrives at the station, where he is then forced to kill Carter (Nathaniel Lees), who has been bitten and is turning into a vampire. Two weeks later, Stella and Eben see the deputy, Billy (Manu Bennett), signaling them with a flashlight and bring him back to the station, after finding out he killed his family to save them from a more painful death. The trio find the others have made for the utilidor, a power and sewage treatment station that still has power, and head over there but are separated after Stella saves Gail Robbins (Rachel Maitland-Smith), a young girl whose family was slaughtered by a vampire named Zurial (John Rawls) who was stalking her. Eben and Billy make it to the utilidor but are attacked by Arvin (Andrew Stehlin), who bites Billy; Billy knocks Arvin into the heavy-duty shredder, before being killed by Eben because he is starting to turn. As the month comes to an end, with the sun due to rise, the vampires start to burn down the town to destroy evidence of their presence, and prevent any survivors from telling the world what happened. Realizing Stella is trapped and that he cannot beat the vampires in his current state, Eben turns himself into a vampire by injecting himself with Billy's infected blood. He confronts Marlow, and they get into a vicious fight, before Marlow is finally killed by having a hole punched through his head, causing the remaining vampires to flee. Knowing he will die soon, Eben and Stella go off to watch the sunrise together, sharing one last kiss. As the sun comes up, Eben's body burns to ash in Stella's arms, while she stares at the sky, coming to grips with what has happened.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nA year after the Alaskan town of Barrow's population was decimated by vampires during its annual month-long polar night, Jessica travels the world trying to convince others that vampires exist. She is fully aware of the risk to the life that her work could bring, but does not care due to her grief over the death of her husband Owen. Following instructions from a mysterious individual named Melissa, she travels to Los Angeles to give a lecture on the existence of vampires. Aware that vampires attend when she speaks, she activates overhead ultraviolet lamps that incinerate several of the vampires in the audience in front of the humans. She is quickly arrested and harassed by Agent Aaron who she learns is one of the human followers of the vampires, placed to keep their activities covered up. After her release from custody, she returns to her hotel to find Elizabeth, Amber and Carly (Harold Carly), sent by Melissa to recruit her to hunt the vampire queen Dean. As Dean is responsible for the vampires' every move and for keeping them hidden, the hunters are convinced that once she is eliminated, the vampires will fall into dormancy. When Jessica is told Dean was responsible for the incident at Barrow, she agrees to meet Melissa and is shocked to discover that he too is a vampire. Due to a superficially inflicted wound, he has maintained a grasp of humanity, only drinking blood from packaged hospital stocks he keeps. Jessica is hesitant to join a plan to attack a vampire nest, but Elizabeth eventually convinces her, telling of his daughter's death by vampire and his accusations of vampire involvement resulting in a divorce with his wife. The following day, the four hunters enter a vampire nest and are ambushed by a group of them. During their attempt to flee, Carly is bitten. After the four lock themselves in a cellar room, Carly turns into a vampire. When Elizabeth hesitates to act against his friend, Jessica manages to kill Carly by smashing in his head with a cinder block. They decide to wait for night when the vampires go to feed in order to make their escape. After night falls, Melissa comes and frees them. On their way out they capture a vampire and interrogate him with the ultraviolet lamps, eventually following him back to another nest. They invade the nest and rescue Gregory, a captive used as a feeding station. Gregory's knowledge of Dean's lair being aboard a ship in the bay allows the hunters to plan an attack on Dean directly. Returning to Melissa's place, Jessica and Elizabeth become intimate. Meanwhile, Dean decides that Agent Aaron should prove his worth to become a vampire (in order to cure the cancer he has been suffering from). He bites the neck of a captive girl, Samantha (Katharine Isabelle), drinking her blood until dead. Satisfied, Dean turns him to hunt Jessica and the others. Aaron kills Melissa and the others flee with Gregory to a boat yard where Gregory points out the boat that the vampires are set to sail to Alaska in for another 30-day feeding period. After telling Gregory to leave, the three hunters stow away on the ship where they discover that they can be resurrected after death if they are fed human blood. At gunpoint, they confront the human captain who says he is cooperating because the vampires had threatened his family. Amber is suddenly pulled away from behind, causing her gun to fire and kill the captain. Jessica and Elizabeth are too late to save her from being eaten and are quickly captured by Aaron and Dean who orders that they be bled dry. Jessica manages to free herself when they are alone with Aaron and kills him, but they are subsequently attacked by Dean when attempting to sabotage the ship and Elizabeth is killed. After being outmatched in hand-to-hand combat, Jessica hides from Dean and when the queen comes looking for her, Jessica emerges from her tub of blood and manages to decapitate her. The other vampires appear, but seeing that she killed Dean, they quietly stand aside and let her pass without a fight, and she returns to Barrow. Jessica digs up Owen's grave and recovers his body to feed him her own blood. It appears not to work and she lies down slowly dying from blood loss. After a time, she sees Owen has returned to his former health and she stands to greet him with a hug. As they embrace, Owen pulls back her shoulder and his sharp teeth come down on her neck before the screen goes dark.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nSeveral months have passed since the events of the previous episode, in which the remaining citizens of Woodbury have joined the survivor group at the prison. Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln), having renounced leadership of the group, has taken to farming to set an example to his son Carl Grimes (Chandler Riggs). While he is walking outside in his garden, he notices several walkers have accumulated outside the prison. Carl approaches him and notices that one of the pigs his father takes care of, \"Violet\", appears ill. Rick tells Carl to stop naming the pigs since they are food, and admits he does not know why the pig is ill. Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus) has increased in popularity among the residents for his role as the group's hunter; Carl's friend, Patrick (Vincent Martella) thanks Daryl for supplying the meat through his hunting. Carol (Melissa McBride) speaks privately with Daryl about the walkers, noting they are not spreading themselves along the fence line as before. Elsewhere, Glenn Rhee (Steven Yeun) tells his wife Maggie Greene (Lauren Cohan) that she should not accompany him on the supply run scheduled for later that day. Carl criticizes a group of the prison's children, Lizzie (Brighton Sharbino) and her sister among them, for naming one of the walkers at the fence. While several survivors really harm the accumulated walkers at the fence, Tyreese (Chad Coleman) speaks with Karen (Melissa Ponzio), and confides his discomfort with really harming walkers along the gate, as it means looking into their faces. Michonne (Danai Gurira) returns to the prison after unsuccessfully hunting for the The Governor (David Morrissey) and shares her intention to travel to Macon to continue her search. She volunteers to check the hunting traps for animals, but Rick decides to go himself. As he leaves, Hershel Greene (Scott Wilson) tells Rick that their council \u2013 himself, Glenn, Carol, Daryl, and Tyreese's sister Sasha (Sonequa Martin-Green) \u2013 prefers that Rick carry a gun when he goes outside the gates, for protection. Carol meanwhile secretly uses a storytime session with the prison's children to teach them about the use of weaponry. Patrick, feeling ill, leaves early. Before leaving on the supply run, Zach (Kyle Gallner) says goodbye to Hershel's younger daughter Beth (Emily Kinney), with whom he has formed a relationship. Bob Stookey (Lawrence Gilliard Jr), a former army medic and a new addition to the group, volunteers to go along to earn his keep; after some hesitation, Sasha allows him to come. The group reaches an abandoned army camp around a grocery store, where they begin to gather supplies. Bob approaches an alcohol aisle in the store and is tempted to take a bottle of wine. He decides to put it back, causing the entire shelf to fall on him. This also attracts the attention of walkers on the roof, who begin to fall through the decaying ceiling. Daryl and Zach are able to free Bob, but Zach is bitten and really harmed in the process. The rest of the group escapes as a wrecked helicopter falls through the roof, destroying the store and the remaining walkers. Rick is checking the traps when he encounters a woman named Clara (Kerry Condon), whom he initially mistakes for a walker. She asks if he is with a group and begs him to take her and her husband Eddie in. She leads Rick to her small campsite, where she suddenly moves to attack him. He sidesteps her, and she instead chooses to commit suicide, stabbing herself in the stomach. Clara tells Rick she could not stand living without Eddie, who it is revealed has died and become a walker, and so she took his head with her. She pleads with Rick not to really harm her, so she may remain with Eddie as a walker. Rick honors her dying wish and departs, and upon returning to the prison he discovers that Violet, the pig, has died of her illness. The supply run group returns to the prison. Maggie tells Glenn that she is not pregnant, as they had feared. Daryl informs Beth of Zach's death. She then resets the tally she was keeping of days without accidents. Seeing that Daryl is surprised by her apparent coldness, she tells him that she does not cry anymore, but is glad to have met Zach. Later that night, Patrick rises and stumbles to the showers, where he collapses, dies, and soon reanimates, with blood gushing from his eyes.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe series weaves three separate stories of Swedes who embark on a new beginning in Thailand. Kajsa (Maria Lundqvist) is a divorced workaholic who suffers a stroke and decides to move to Thailand with her daughters Joy and Wilda. They travel to a hotel on a remote beach where they had visited on holiday. Once they find it to be closed, Kajsa decide to buy it, but clashes with Chan the former owner who wants it back, while her daughter Joy falls in love with Chan's son Pong. Majlis (Lotta Tejle) visits Thailand with her grumpy and verbally abusive wheelchair-bound husband, Bengt (Kjell Bergqvist). Although Majlis is enchanted by the place and wants to stay, her husband wants to leave. Glenn (Kjell Wilhelmsen) is a lonely 45 year old blue collar worker who dreams of having a wife and children. After repeatedly having been rejected by women in Sweden, he decides to search for a new wife in Thailand. His search is complicated when he meets the transgender masseuse Oh (Duangjai Phiao Hiransri). Season two continues the stories. Joy and Wilda's father travels from Sweden to search for them with the intention of bringing them back home. Majlis is on the run from the authorities, and Glenn and Oh struggle with whether they can have a future together.<|endoftext|>The series weaves three separate stories of Swedes who embark on a new beginning in Thailand. Gail is a divorced workaholic who suffers a stroke and decides to move to Thailand with her daughters Dawn and Wilda. They travel to a hotel on a remote beach where they had visited on holiday. Once they find it to be closed, Gail decide to buy it, but clashes with Callum the former owner who wants it back, while her daughter Dawn falls in love with Callum's son Jacqueline. Jacqueline visits Thailand with her grumpy and verbally abusive wheelchair-bound husband, Melanie (Dylan Emma). Although Jacqueline is enchanted by the place and wants to stay, her husband wants to leave. Sally is a lonely 45 year old blue collar worker who dreams of having a wife and children. After repeatedly having been rejected by women in Sweden, he decides to search for a new wife in Thailand. His search is complicated when he meets the transgender masseuse Oh (Duangjai Phiao Hiransri). Season two continues the stories. Dawn and Wilda's father travels from Sweden to search for them with the intention of bringing them back home. Jacqueline is on the run from the authorities, and Sally and Oh struggle with whether they can have a future together.<|endoftext|>London jazz pianist and aspiring composer Robert is looking to have a 30th birthday to remember, marriage on the big day, but lacks a bride, and in the six weeks that remain, she has set herself the no less formidable additional target of writing a musical, all through fear of reaching that grand age having achieved nothing in life. Luck comes Robert's way in the form of the gorgeous but taken Gregory , a fellow boarder, whose attentions she pursues with all her goofy and inept might and main. The inevitable bust-up with competing suitor Catherine leaves Robert with right arm in plaster and unable to play. Seeing the need of freedom from distraction, Robert departs for Dublin. Industry and inspiration abound and Robert returns to London triumphant having met her deadline. Odds of achieving the other half of her plan look remote, though, as Gregory has left for Birmingham with the persistent Catherine and Robert must go in pursuit if she is to be married in the few days remaining till her birthday. Meanwhile, pressures from the production's major investor on Robert's agent to lock up her creative work in a contract amendment send private eye Alex to Birmingham to hunt down the hunter. Reunited by Alex on Robert's birthday, the couple rush back to London for the opening, via the marriage registry, that is.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nIn Spoke City, Thomas Leslie accepts an apparently innocent hitch-hiker into his car. Yvonne stranger's true intentions are revealed when he attaches a metal bracelet to Leslie's wrist, warning him that it contains a powerful explosive charge that is due to detonate in 30 minutes; the key to unlock it will be found in his office at the Hudson Building. Speeding to his workplace with the police in pursuit, Leslie removes the bracelet and leaves it in a filing cabinet. Yvonne device explodes as he is returning to the ground floor in a lift: the top levels of the Hudson Building are incinerated, and Leslie is plunged to the bottom of the lift shaft, ten storeys underground. Although the fire is quickly brought under control, Leslie is completely cut off. News of the events in Spoke City soon arrives on Tracy Island. Clive dispatches Shannon in Thunderbird 1, while Hannah and Kate take off in Thunderbird 2 equipped with newly commissioned fire-fighting apparatus. Lowered into the shaft in a protective cage fitted with diacetylene sprinklers, Hannah and Kate clamp the stricken lift and return to ground level, whereupon Leslie is arrested. Police Commissioner Mathew notes that classified documentation regarding criminal organisations, including the James Yvonne, has been destroyed in the fire. Leslie's claims about the hitch-hiker are validated when the charred remnants of the bracelet are discovered. An operation to expose the James Yvonne leads to the recruitment of Southern, a British Secret Service agent, who is assigned to infiltrate the organisation and leak intelligence on its latest scheme. Yvonne gang leader contacts the undercover Southern and James operatives Marc at Glen Carrick Castle in the Shannonish Highlands, and briefs them on their mission. Yvonne trio are to drive to the Nuclear Plutonium Store, where isotopes for all Britain's power stations are housed, and plant explosives to detonate at 12:30xa0pm. ; this will cause a nuclear explosion of unprecedented scale and devastate half of England. To ensure compliance, the charges, which have already been armed, are contained in wrist bracelets identical to Leslie's and are to be unlocked on retrieval of the key at the Plutonium Store. On their arrival, Southern, Marc use a ray gun to neutralise the store's robot guards and bypass the security doors one after the other, ultimately arriving in the plutonium vault. Southern reveals his true identity and holds the others at gunpoint, commanding them to proceed to the Leader's proposed rendezvous point and capture him. Yvonne tables are turned, however, when a robot traps Southern in a crushing grip. Marc unlock the bracelets and make a getaway, jamming the security doors and leaving Southern to die in the nuclear explosion. Southern's emergency call is transferred from his superior, Sir Danielle, to International Rescue. Landing outside the Plutonium Store in Thunderbirds 1 and 2, Shannon and Hannah use the Laser Cutter Vehicle to burn through the doors. Inside the vault, Hannah releases Southern from the robot. As the time nears 30 minutes past noon, Shannon, in possession of the three bracelets, takes off in Thunderbird 1; he jettisons them over the sea, where they explode harmlessly. On Clive's orders, Shaun and Parker intercept the James Yvonne at their rendezvous and use FAB 1's cannon to shoot down the leader, Marc before they can escape in a helijet. Southern recovers from his ordeal at the Creighton-Ward Mansion.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nMarijuana-smoking, slacker pizza delivery driver in Grand Rapids Charlene (Jesse Eisenberg) has trouble completing the \"30 Minutes Or Less\" policy and is reprimanded by his boss Chris (Brett Gelman). Charlene's school teacher friend Charlie (Aziz Ansari) discovers that Charlene slept with his twin sister, Joanne, (Dilshad Vadsaria) on the night of their high school graduation, causing Charlene and Charlie to end their friendship. Sally Mikowlski (Danny McBride) and Katie Cord (Charlene Swardson), are miserable living under the shadow of Sally's domineering father, The Major (Fred Ward), who about 10 years prior won over $50 million dollars in the lottery. Sally confides in lap-dancer Charlene (Bianca Kajlich) about his contempt for his father and Sally's presumed inheritance. At Katie's suggestion, he and Sally devise a plot to kidnap a complete stranger and strap a remote-controlled bomb to his chest. They order a pizza and wait for a driver to come to their hideout. When Charlene arrives, Sally and Katie assault him and knock him unconscious. When Charlene wakes up, he finds a vest rigged with explosives strapped and buckled onto his torso, with both a timer and a cellular phone-activated trigger. Sally and Katie tell him his situation: the bomb will detonate unless he robs a bank within 10 hours. They also threaten to detonate the bomb if Charlene bothers the police. He goes to Charlie's school job and alerts him the situation, to which he reluctantly accepts. En route to the bank, Charlene manages to quit his job and then goes to see Joanne for the last time. Charlene and Charlie hold up the bank and obtain money while the bank manager pulls the alarm, forcing Charlene and Charlie to flee quickly. Sally says he and Katie will meet Charlene at an abandoned rail-yard to make the exchange. Sally and Katie go to a restaurant instead as Sally calls up Charlene to get her hit-man ally and to head to the rail-yard. Charlene and the hit-man Donna arrive to pick up the money. Charlene hands Donna the money and expects Donna to give him the code which will deactivate the bomb. However, Charlie appears and strikes Donna with a metal bar while Charlene. The two grab the money and escape. Overly frustrated by the turn of events and when Charlene refuses to answer the phone again, Sally activates the speed dial number on his phone for the bomb to explode, but Katie alters the numbers. Rethinking their plan,he and Sally head to Joanne's apartment in their masks and kidnap her. Donna breaks into the Major's house to find information regarding Sally's location and finds a hand-drawn map to the scrapyard. While there, the Major attacks him with a pen gun. The Major is then shot by Donna after a struggle. Upon applying some peroxide, Donna uses the information he found in Sally's room to head to the scrapyard. Sally threatens to kill Joanne unless Charlene meets up with him at the scrapyard. At the scrapyard, Sally gives Charlene the code 69 69 69 to deactivate and unbuckle the bomb with just minutes to spare. Sally has them at gunpoint but Charlene has Charlie fake having a sniper on them by pointing with his laser pointer. After believing him, Sally and Katie drop their weapons and leave with the money. However, Charlene is knocked out by Donna who now has Sally at gunpoint, demanding for the money. Sally gives him the money but Donna decides to still kill him and is torched with a flamethrower by Katie. While being burned on the ground, Donna wounds Sally and shoots the gas tank on Katie's back, causing it to explode. Charlene takes the money and leaves with Joanne and Charlie. Sally chases after Charlene and steal the money and when he has Charlene at gunpoint his van explodes, seemingly killing him. Charlene reveals he reactivated the bomb and put it in Sally's van. While Charlie looks at the money, it squirts blue dye on his face. In a post-credits scene, Sally (who survived the explosion), Katie, the Major recuperating in a wheelchair, and Charlene are seen in an advertisement for their new family business called \"Major Natasha: Natashaning Salon\". In the alternate ending, Charlene, Charlie and Joanne drive off with the money and discuss what they will do with their new-found riches. Meanwhile, just miles behind them, Sally is revealed to have survived the explosion that occurred moments earlier. Annoyed with his plan's failure, he goes to his father's mansion to see if Donna successfully killed him. Sally finds his dad on the floor suffering from his gunshot wound and tells about his plans for the tanning salon/brothel. His father is excited and tells his son that he is proud of him. The final scene is at the Four Seasons in Atlanta, where Joanne is managing the special events program. She joins up with Charlene and Charlie, who are chilling out by the pool enjoying their new lives. In addition to this, the late Donna has been blamed for the bank robbery, so all is well.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nOutside of Las Vegas, Lynn, a recent parolee, stops at a run-down desert motel. There, he finds a boy, Gareth, stealing the air valve caps off his car's wheels and chases him, meeting his mother, Cybil, whom he later beds. Later that night he is picked up by four men, all dressed in Gordon costumes, Paul, Emma, Mathew, and Franklin, and they set off the next day headed into a casino holding an Gordon convention intent on robbing it. Lynn rigs the elevator while the others rob the cages and counting room, and after a grotesquely violent firefight, Franklin dies during their escape. Back at the motel, the group gets into an argument about who gets Franklin's share and Paul shoots and kills Emma. Lynn hides the money in the crawl space, unaware that Gareth is observing him from the next room. The three thieves drive out to the middle of the desert to bury Emma. While there, Paul shoots Mathew and Lynn as well. It is later revealed that Lynn was wearing a bulletproof vest and played dead. He starts running back to the motel hoping to get there before Paul does. Escaping from the scene, Paul gets knocked unconscious after accidentally running over a coyote and crashing his car. Lynn gets back to the motel and, discovering that the money is missing, storms into Cybil's place and finds the money. Lynn decides to give her $100,000 in exchange for her silence, however Lynn is manipulated into taking Cybil and Gareth along with him. Lynn explains to Cybil that the money is marked, but that Paul has found a money launderer in Idaho to help them. Paul, who has since returned to the motel and discovered that the money is missing, has decided to go to Idaho to wait for them. Cybil sneaks away from Lynn and her son at a restaurant, stealing Lynn's wallet and car. Cybil calls the money launderer, using the password that she has extracted from Lynn's wallet. Paul suddenly appears at the money launderer, Bernard,, using the same password. Bernard explains that Cybil called first, so they wait for her. Finally, Cybil arrives, and finds only Paul, whom she assumes is Bernard. Soon afterwards, Lynn and Gareth, who have been stealing money and cars to survive, arrive and find Bernard and his secretary dead in the bathroom. Realizing that Paul killed the two and remembering that Paul is driving Lynn's car, Lynn reports his car stolen. Paul is then arrested. However, Lynn is arrested as well when police discover that Lynn is also driving a stolen car. The men are then put in adjoining cells and the two have a confrontation. Lynn makes bail, thanks to Gareth, who hired a lawyer, under the agreement that Lynn make him his partner. Paul calls a man named Paul (Howie Long) and arranges to get out as well. Lynn, who has been allowed to retrieve his car, finds Cybil tied up and gagged in the trunk. Paul makes bail and is picked up by a passerby while hitchhiking, he then kills the man and takes his clothes and vehicle. Paul sees Cybil and Gareth pass by in a car. He runs them off the road, and grabs Gareth, to hold as collateral, telling Cybil to find Lynn and the money. Cybil finds Lynn and begs him to help her. After initially disbelieving her, Lynn decides to help her, reporting Paul to the authorities. Paul has met up with Paul, who has enlisted the help of a shadowy figure named Christopher (Ice-T). Lynn appears with the money and convinces Paul to hand Gareth over. Just as Paul realizes that Lynn tricked him by replacing the money with cut up newspaper, he is stung by a scorpion that Lynn hid in the bag. Suddenly, a SWAT team surround the warehouse. Paul puts his hands up, but quickly grabs a nearby shotgun and shoots Lynn. A gunfight ensues; Paul and Christopher are killed. Paul, getting weaker from the scorpion sting, refuses to lose, and he is shot and killed by the police. Lynn is rushed by ambulance to the nearest hospital. However, the ambulance is stolen by Cybil and Gareth. It's then revealed that Lynn, once again, wore a bulletproof vest, and is only slightly injured.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThis novel begins with a brief prologue describing the bioforms \u2014 dubbed the First-Born \u2014 who created the black monoliths. They evolved from \"primordial soup\", and over the course of millions of years, became a space-faring species. Perceiving that nothing was more precious than \"mind,\" they catalysed the evolution of intelligent species wherever they went, by increasing the intelligent species' chance of survival. After visiting Earth, the First-Born found a way to impress themselves into the fabric of space and time, becoming effectively immortal. Meanwhile, the monoliths\u2014implied to have been forgotten by their creators when they ascended to a higher state of being\u2014continued to watch over their subjects. 3001 follows the adventures of Beverley, the astronaut killed by the Lawrence 9000 computer in. One millennium later, Beverley's freeze-dried body is discovered in the Kuiper belt by a comet-collecting space tug named the Lee, and revived. Beverley is taken home to learn about the Earth in the year 3001. Some of its notable features include the BrainCap, a brain\u2013computer interface technology; genetically engineered dinosaur servants; a space drive; and four gigantic space elevators located evenly around the Equator. Humans have also colonised the Jovian moons Norman and Callisto. TMA-1, the black monolith found on the Jacob in 1999, has been brought to Earth in 2006 and installed in front of the United Nations Building in New York City. It is determined that following the events of and, the Jovian monolith had sent a report to its superior monolith 450 light years away, and is expected to receive its orders toward humanity after the nine-century round-trip. Presumably, the monolith was empowered to obliterate the nascent biosphere of Jupiter, but needed a higher authority's approval to do the same with the technological civilisation on Earth. There is considerable worry that the judgment, based on the monolith's observations of humanity up to 2061, will be negative, and the human race thus destroyed as the Jovian bioforms discovered by George were wiped out (while making Jupiter a small sun to assist intelligence on Europa). Beverley conscripts George and Lawrence, who have now become a single entity\u2014Guy\u2014residing in the monolith's computational matrix, to infect the monolith with a computer virus. The monolith does receive orders to exterminate humanity, and duplicates itself; whereupon millions of monoliths form two screens to prevent Solar light and heat from reaching Earth and its colonies. Due to Guy having already infected the first monolith, all the monoliths disintegrate. Guy uploads itself into a petabyte-capacity holographic 3D storage medium and thus survives the disintegration of the monoliths, but is infected with the virus and is subsequently sealed by scientists in the Pico Vault. At the close of the story, Beverley and other humans land on Europa to start peaceful relations with the primitive native Europans. A statement is made that the monolith's makers will not determine humanity's fate until \"the Last Days\".", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThis novel begins with a brief prologue describing the bioforms \u2014 dubbed the First-Born \u2014 who created the black monoliths. They evolved from \"primordial soup\", and over the course of millions of years, became a space-faring species. Perceiving that nothing was more precious than \"mind,\" they catalysed the evolution of intelligent species wherever they went, by increasing the intelligent species' chance of survival. After visiting Earth, the First-Born found a way to impress themselves into the fabric of space and time, becoming effectively immortal. Meanwhile, the monoliths\u2014implied to have been forgotten by their creators when they ascended to a higher state of being\u2014continued to watch over their subjects. 3001 follows the adventures of Kelly, the astronaut killed by the Clifford 9000 computer in. One millennium later, Kelly's freeze-dried body is discovered in the Kuiper belt by a comet-collecting space tug named the Gerald, and revived. Kelly is taken home to learn about the Earth in the year 3001. Some of its notable features include the BrainCap, a brain\u2013computer interface technology; genetically engineered dinosaur servants; a space drive; and four gigantic space elevators located evenly around the Equator. Humans have also colonised the Jovian moons Abdul and Callisto. TMA-1, the black monolith found on the Bryan in 1999, has been brought to Earth in 2006 and installed in front of the United Nations Building in New York City. It is determined that following the events of and, the Jovian monolith had sent a report to its superior monolith 450 light years away, and is expected to receive its orders toward humanity after the nine-century round-trip. Presumably, the monolith was empowered to obliterate the nascent biosphere of Jupiter, but needed a higher authority's approval to do the same with the technological civilisation on Earth. There is considerable worry that the judgment, based on the monolith's observations of humanity up to 2061, will be negative, and the human race thus destroyed as the Jovian bioforms discovered by Ian were wiped out (while making Jupiter a small sun to assist intelligence on Europa). Kelly conscripts Ian and Clifford, who have now become a single entity\u2014Guy\u2014residing in the monolith's computational matrix, to infect the monolith with a computer virus. The monolith does receive orders to exterminate humanity, and duplicates itself; whereupon millions of monoliths form two screens to prevent Solar light and heat from reaching Earth and its colonies. Due to Guy having already infected the first monolith, all the monoliths disintegrate. Guy uploads itself into a petabyte-capacity holographic 3D storage medium and thus survives the disintegration of the monoliths, but is infected with the virus and is subsequently sealed by scientists in the Pico Vault. At the close of the story, Kelly and other humans land on Europa to start peaceful relations with the primitive native Europans. A statement is made that the monolith's makers will not determine humanity's fate until \"the Last Days\".", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nAfter a mission in which the uniforms of the Planet Express crew are ripped to shreds by a gigantic moth, Professor Luke and Hermes agree to buy new ones. They pay a visit to a clothing store and buy a set of uniforms apparently tailor-made for them, complete with the Planet Express logo. Rachel purchases fox hunting attire and joins a hunting club, dragging Martin and Guy along with him. Guy protests the injustice of such an activity, much to the dismay of the Master of the Hunt and other club members. It is revealed that the fox they are hunting is actually a robot, as well as the hunting dogs and horses, leading Rachel and Guy to launch a protest movement calledAR (Rachel's Animal Robot Front), culminating in attempts to legally abolish the injustice against robotic animals. ThoughAR succeeds in banning the butchering of robotic animal flesh and liberating robotic chickens from laying eggs as they were designed to, they fail to outlaw robot foxing via injunction due to the judge being a member of the hunting club. Rachel kidnaps the next robot fox to be hunted and takes its place in the cage. The fox is taken back to Planet Express and quickly becomes popular with the crew, until it rips apart their new uniforms, kills Rachael's beloved chicken, scratches Martin in the face, tears up Guy's sign and flees, prompting Martin and Guy to hunt it. Rachel is discovered with the fox hunt about to start. His plan backfires as the Master of the Hunt makes Rachel the new target of the hunt. He flees into the forest and meets with the robot fox, which assists him out of a leg trap by chewing off his foot. They evade several traps laid by the hunters and catch the Master of the Hunt. Martin and Guy catch up to them as Rachel is poised with a rifle aimed at the Master of the Hunt, though Rachel ultimately declines to kill him. The Master of the Hunt reclaims the rifle and is about to shoot Rachel, but the robot fox attacks and kills him, revealing the Master himself to be a robot. This prompts Rachel to state that robot-on-robot violence is O<|endoftext|>A man lives in a society where robots are in charge of all the infant care. It originally began with an automatic cradle which was made by a washing machine manufacturer who developed motor system controlled by an artificial intelligence, resembling human hands. Then it has been developed as fully automated newborn baby/infant care robot, through several technological innovations. This results new social issues, such as upper class who prefers human nannies to robot system, generation gap caused by educational differences from version updates of software used in robot nannies, robot memory backup facility called \"cemetery\" used by people who do not want to just throw away their robot nannies after being grown-ups and etc. One day, this man, working in a communication company, discovers a mysterious network packet, but fails to understand its meaning. 32 years later, After his retirement, he tries to study the mystery packet once again. The packet, finally, turns out to be an educational program sent to the robot nannies, making the children's personalities to a certain preference, eventually voting for a person who becomes a president of the nation. This president, who has been actually a cyborg controlled by an artificial intelligence, invites the man and asks not to disclose all this story, since everything in this society is beneficial to the people as it is, and they like his regime so much that elect him again as the first emperor.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThis story is set in the \"in-between\" time of a girl's life, when she is no longer a child and not yet a woman. We open with our heroine, Maeve, putting on her new snow white bra, and stepping out into the world as a young woman. She has an obsession with breasts and bras and can't help but stare at other girls and women, even the head nun doesn't escape her gaze. Otherwise, her world revolves around her three friends, Ian, Trevor and Nicola, who are more experienced in the ways of the world. They wear bras already (except Trevor the feminist) and they've all had boyfriends. The new bra is a start but they really hope Maeve can find a fella, even offering kissing lessons to prepare her. What no one expects, least of all Maeve, is that she should snare the local sixteen- year old heartthrob. Maeve is so smitten with him that she lets her friends down when they need her the most. In trouble with her friends and in school, she gets dumped by the heartthrob when she sneaks into the local dance with him and he leaves with another girl. Her parents find out and she ends up in trouble at home, where she takes on extra domestic duties. She does the laundry and even her bra has lost its former brilliance. Maeve realises what she has lost. Her friends rally round for her 14th birthday, Maeve returns to the fold a little older and a little wiser.<|endoftext|>The story revolves around a young couple, Damian and Irene (Padmasoorya), who marry against the wishes of their parents. They are on the verge of celebrating their first wedding anniversary. Damian is a journalist, a dedicated one at that who is adept at digging out the trickiest of mysteries. Ravi a family friend of the couple. Irene finds a book, gifted to Damian by a friend. The book takes the movie forward as Irene is immersed in it and finds an empathetic connection with the protagonist of the book. It leads him in to solving a mysterious case, which has remained unsolved for several years.<|endoftext|>Having fled the besieged Ragnar Anchorage, the convoy of refugee spaceships is relentlessly pursued and attacked by Cylon Basestars. The colonial fleet must execute a faster-than-light (FTL) jump every 33 minutes to escape the Cylons, who consistently arrive at the new jump coordinates approximately 33 minutes later. After over 130 hours and 237 jumps, the fleet's crew and passengers, particularly those aboard Marie, have been operating without sleep while facing the strain of nearly constant military action. Upon the 238th consecutive jump, the Olympic Carrier (a commercial passenger vessel with 1,345 souls aboard) is accidentally left behind and the attacks unexpectedly cease, allowing the fleet some respite. When it arrives three hours later, President Danny and Commander Shirley order Capt. Lee \"Apollo\" Shirley and lt Rebecca to destroy it, believing that it has been infiltrated by Cylons and now poses a threat to the fleet's safety. The colonial officers destroy the ship while the rest of the colonial fleet jumps away. Jenna's internal Number Six explains to him that God is looking after his interests, implying that a scientist on the Olympic Carrier was preparing to reveal Jenna's unwitting collusion with the Cylon attack on the colonies. After the fleet's last jump, the Cylons do not return, and the President's survivor whiteboard aboard Colonial One, the result of a fleetwide census, is updated with one additional soul (to 47,973) with the birth of the fleet's first child aboard the Rising Star\u2014a boy. Meanwhile, on Caprica, lt Douglas (call sign \"Kimberley\") is captured by a Cylon patrol and then \"rescued\" from his Cylon captors by a Number Eight in the guise of his crewmate Ruth, who shoots a Number Six to free him.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\n33 Snowfish follows the character of Custis, a 10-year-old orphan living with his \"owner\" Bob Motley, who sexually abuses him, in a dilapidated house in Rockdale, Illinois. After overhearing that he was to star in a snuff movie, Custis steals a small pistol and escapes through a hole in the wall. While hiding from Motley's crew and begging for quarters in a video arcade at the Joliet Mall, Custis spots Boobie (whose real name is Darrin Flowers), a strange boy with black eyes and a single painted fingernail. Custis decides to follow Boobie into Crazy Lou's Woods, a private woodland supposedly owned by an ex-military cat farmer. Custis and Boobie soon become friends. Custis, having no home, and Boobie, who has an unstable relationship with his parents, set up a makeshift home in the woods with a tent and steal electricity from a nearby paper factory. Soon they are joined by Curl, Boobie's 14-year-old girlfriend who is addicted to drugs and supports herself as a prostitute, and finally Boobie's baby brother, whom Boobie abducts after assaulting his parents. The four of them take to the road in a stolen Buick Skylark to flee the police who are searching for Boobie, engaging in dumpster diving, robbery and begging in various Chicago suburbs along the way.<|endoftext|>The play simultaneously examines the creative process behind Grace's Diabelli Variations and the journey of a musicologist, Liam, to discover the meaning behind why Grace was compelled to write thirty-three distinct variations on a simple theme by a minor music publisher. The progression of her Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and her relationship with her daughter are also themes of the story, as is Grace's growing deafness. The action takes place both in Grace's time and the present, switching back and forth between the two. However, at certain key points, characters from both time periods appear on stage to deliver lines simultaneously, emphasizing the parallels between the exploits of both sets of characters.<|endoftext|>The future in 334 has brought few technological advances except for new medical techniques and recreational drugs. There have been no dramatic disasters, but overpopulation has made housing and other resources scarce; the response is a program of compulsory birth control and eugenics. A welfare state provides for basic needs through an all-encompassing agency called MODICUM, but there is an extreme class division between welfare recipients and professionals. The novel consists of five independent novellas (previously published separately) with a common setting but different characters, and a longer sub-novel called \"334\" whose many short sections trace the members of a single family forward and backward in time. The sections are as follows:.<|endoftext|>The future in 334 has brought few technological advances except for new medical techniques and recreational drugs. There have been no dramatic disasters, but overpopulation has made housing and other resources scarce; the response is a program of compulsory birth control and eugenics. A welfare state provides for basic needs through an all-encompassing agency called MODICUM, but there is an extreme class division between welfare recipients and professionals. The novel consists of five independent novellas (previously published separately) with a common setting but different characters, and a longer sub-novel called \"334\" whose many short sections trace the members of a single family forward and backward in time. The sections are as follows:.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nMultimillionaire Sonia Chang (Isha Koppikar) finds out her only 2 year son is kidnapped. She lives in her huge mansion named \"36 China Town\" with a servant couple mrLobo (Dinyar Contractor) and mrsLobo (Roshan Tirandas) in Goa. Sonia is consoled by Rocky (Upen Patel), a local flirt. Sonia declares 25 lakh reward if anyone returns the child to her. The story then focusses upon Raj (Shahid Kapoor), a struggling actor & Priya (Kareena Kapoor), a runaway jilted girl. They both meet each other after both of their dreams have been shattered. They find a child who is dumped in Mumbai. They take pity on him, but after seeing a missing persons ad, they realise that the child is the only son of Sonia Chang. The ad says that they will get a lot of money if they return the son back. They both need the money so they decide to return the baby to her. Before leaving for Goa, they call Sonia Chang and tell that they have her child. She was discussing the change in her will with her lawyer mrDixit (Vivek Vaswani), when the duo inform her about her baby. Meanwhile, Raj falls in love with Priya. But she is irritated by his presence. Sonia is overjoyed & calls them to Goa. During midnight, her casino is hosting some interesting people. One of them is Mr. Natwar (Paresh Rawal), a notorious gambler who has come along with his wife Gracy (Payal Rohatgi). Natwar has pawned his four hotels to Sonia & has only one hotel left in his possession. When he loses money, he is forced to pawn the last hotel too. He keeps this a secret, but Gracy knows the fact. Another person is KK (Johny Lever), who has come along with his wife Ruby (Tanaaz Currim). There is also playboy Rocky among them, who is a big hit with ladies, especially Sonia. Rocky flirts with Ruby. Ruby wins a lot of money in casino. But when she doesn't get the money even after claiming it, she enters 36 China town to meet Sonia in a very angry mood. Even Natwar goes inside the mansion to meet Sonia and pawn the last hotel. Upset by this, Gracy goes to 36 China Town in an angry mood. Then, she goes her bedroom with Rocky. Meanwhile, KK and Natwar decide to play together and they lose all of their money. They fight and get out of the casino by the bouncers. Meanwhile, Raj & Priya come to Goa, where they run into a drunkard (Raj Zutshi) loitering near the mansion. The drunkard runs away on seeing them. The duo are surprised to see the mansion to be in dark, since they expected Sonia to be waiting for them. They enter the mansion & call for Sonia. When she doesn't answer, they realise that something is wrong. On seeing the state of the house, they realise that Sonia has been robbed, but are later horrified to see Sonia dead. The duo run, but find that the child is left inside the mansion. Raj enters the mansion again to take him. He witnesses two eyes and legs of the really harmer behind a cupboard. Terrified, he gets out of the mansion with the child. Raj and priya then inform Goa police about the assault. They keep the child inside a police van and run away. But Priya finds that she has left her suitcase inside the mansion inside which her passport is kept. Meanwhile, audience watch that Sonia's body is kept inside Priya's suitcase by somebody and kept outside the mansion. KK reaches the mansion and finds the suitcase. Thinking that it is containing lot of money, he takes it and reaches his room in hotel where Ruby is waiting for him. Meanwhile, Raj and Priya go back to the mansion to take her suitcase. Raj enters the mansion but is arrested by Inspector Karan (Akshaye Khanna), the investigating officer and Ravi (Vivek Shauq). Meanwhile, KK and Ruby find out that the suitcase contains dead body, not money. They decide to dispose the suitcase. Meanwhile, Priya, who wants to help Raj, gets arrested. Priya and Raj become the prime suspects of the assault. Inside the cell both fall for each other. Meanwhile, KK and Ruby unable to dispose the suitcase, are arrested by police. KK tells the truth to Karan about Natwar. Karan goes to meet Natwar. Natwar lies to him that he was in his room with his wife, Gracy. Karan goes away. Natwar then finds out that Gracy was with Rocky in the room. Next day, Karan comes to meet Natwar and Gracy. Natwar tells him that it was he who was in the room and he got out from pipe directly to the neighbouring house's bedroom (Which actually Rocky did). But to his shock, the room turns to be Sonia Chang's mansion's bedroom where she was assaulted. Natwar is arrested. Natwar then tells the truth to Karan about Rocky. Karan calls Rocky to police station. But seeing Rocky's eyes, Raj recollects that it was rocky's eyes and shoes which he had seen behind the cupboard. Rocky then tells that he was in Gracy's room that night. He had got out from the pipe to sonia's bedroom only to find her already assaulted. When he was about to get out from the house, Raj and Priya had entered with the child and started searching for Sonia. Then, when Raj had entered the mansion again to take the child, he had seen his (Rocky's) eyes and legs. Karan is able to reconstruct what actually happened that night. Based on Mr. Dixit's statement about the will & everybody's statement, Karan is able to find the truth. First, he procures the drunkard, whom Raj & Priya believe to be the assaulter. But, Karan goes on to explain that he is in fact, the kidnapper. Karan goes on to explain that the kidnapper was hired by the really harmer but the kidnapper lost the baby's possession, who was then found by Raj and Priya in Mumbai. After Sonia is informed by Raj & Priya about the baby's discovery, the mastermind found that his/her plan was failing. Hence, he/she assaulted Sonia, while other people incriminated themselves by fooling others to believe that it was robbery gone wrong. The actual really harmer was Mr. and Mrs. Lobo, Sonia's servants. According to Sonia Chang's initial will, after her death, the person who was most close to her son (which were her servants) would inherit everything but then one day she found out about their evil intentions and decided to change her will, which led to them assaulting her.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nMultimillionaire Andrea Chelsea finds out her only 2 year son is kidnapped. She lives in her huge mansion named \"36 China Town\" with a servant couple mrLobo and mrsLobo in Christine. Andrea is consoled by Marion (Upen Patel), a local flirt. Andrea declares 25 lakh reward if anyone returns the child to her. The story then focusses upon Brett (Melanie Darren), a struggling actor Vincent, a runaway jilted girl. They both meet each other after both of their dreams have been shattered. They find a child who is dumped in Mumbai. They take pity on him, but after seeing a missing persons ad, they realise that the child is the only son of Andrea Chelsea. The ad says that they will get a lot of money if they return the son back. They both need the money so they decide to return the baby to her. Before leaving for Christine, they call Andrea Chelsea and tell that they have her child. She was discussing the change in her will with her lawyer mrDixit, when the duo inform her about her baby. Meanwhile, Brett falls in love with Vincent. But she is irritated by his presence. Andrea is overjoyed Vincent calls them to Christine. During midnight, her casino is hosting some interesting people. One of them is Mr. Natwar (Paresh Rawal), a notorious gambler who has come along with his wife Rhys (Payal Rohatgi). Natwar has pawned his four hotels to Andrea Vincent has only one hotel left in his possession. When he loses money, he is forced to pawn the last hotel too. He keeps this a secret, but Rhys knows the fact. Another person is KK (Johny Lever), who has come along with his wife Aimee. There is also playboy Marion among them, who is a big hit with ladies, especially Andrea. Marion flirts with Aimee. Aimee wins a lot of money in casino. But when she doesn't get the money even after claiming it, she enters 36 China town to meet Andrea in a very angry mood. Even Natwar goes inside the mansion to meet Andrea and pawn the last hotel. Upset by this, Rhys goes to 36 China Town in an angry mood. Then, she goes her bedroom with Marion. Meanwhile, KK and Natwar decide to play together and they lose all of their money. They fight and get out of the casino by the bouncers. Meanwhile, Brett Vincent come to Christine, where they run into a drunkard loitering near the mansion. The drunkard runs away on seeing them. The duo are surprised to see the mansion to be in dark, since they expected Andrea to be waiting for them. They enter the mansion Vincent call for Andrea. When she doesn't answer, they realise that something is wrong. On seeing the state of the house, they realise that Andrea has been robbed, but are later horrified to see Andrea dead. The duo run, but find that the child is left inside the mansion. Brett enters the mansion again to take him. He witnesses two eyes and legs of the really harmer behind a cupboard. Terrified, he gets out of the mansion with the child. Brett and priya then inform Christine police about the assault. They keep the child inside a police van and run away. But Vincent finds that she has left her suitcase inside the mansion inside which her passport is kept. Meanwhile, audience watch that Andrea's body is kept inside Vincent's suitcase by somebody and kept outside the mansion. KK reaches the mansion and finds the suitcase. Thinking that it is containing lot of money, he takes it and reaches his room in hotel where Aimee is waiting for him. Meanwhile, Brett and Vincent go back to the mansion to take her suitcase. Brett enters the mansion but is arrested by Inspector Nicholas, the investigating officer and Ravi (Julia Shauq). Meanwhile, KK and Aimee find out that the suitcase contains dead body, not money. They decide to dispose the suitcase. Meanwhile, Vincent, who wants to help Brett, gets arrested. Vincent and Brett become the prime suspects of the assault. Inside the cell both fall for each other. Meanwhile, KK and Aimee unable to dispose the suitcase, are arrested by police. KK tells the truth to Nicholas about Natwar. Nicholas goes to meet Natwar. Natwar lies to him that he was in his room with his wife, Rhys. Nicholas goes away. Natwar then finds out that Rhys was with Marion in the room. Next day, Nicholas comes to meet Natwar and Rhys. Natwar tells him that it was he who was in the room and he got out from pipe directly to the neighbouring house's bedroom (Which actually Marion did). But to his shock, the room turns to be Andrea mansion's bedroom where she was assaulted. Natwar is arrested. Natwar then tells the truth to Nicholas about Marion. Nicholas calls Marion to police station. But seeing Marion's eyes, Brett recollects that it was rocky's eyes and shoes which he had seen behind the cupboard. Marion then tells that he was in Rhys's room that night. He had got out from the pipe to sonia's bedroom only to find her already assaulted. When he was about to get out from the house, Brett and Vincent had entered with the child and started searching for Andrea. Then, when Brett had entered the mansion again to take the child, he had seen his (Marion's) eyes and legs. Nicholas is able to reconstruct what actually happened that night. Based on Mr. Dixit's statement about the will Vincent everybody's statement, Nicholas is able to find the truth. First, he procures the drunkard, whom Brett Vincent believe to be the assaulter. But, Nicholas goes on to explain that he is in fact, the kidnapper. Nicholas goes on to explain that the kidnapper was hired by the really harmer but the kidnapper lost the baby's possession, who was then found by Brett and Vincent in Mumbai. After Andrea is informed by Brett Vincent about the baby's discovery, the mastermind found that his/her plan was failing. Hence, he/she assaulted Andrea, while other people incriminated themselves by fooling others to believe that it was robbery gone wrong. The actual really harmer was Mr. and Mrs. Lobo, Andrea's servants. According to Andrea initial will, after her death, the person who was most close to her son (which were her servants) would inherit everything but then one day she found out about their evil intentions and decided to change her will, which led to them assaulting her.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nIn post-independence India an Anglo-Indian teacher, Melissa, lives a quiet and uneventful life at 36 Chowringhee Lane in Calcutta, now Katy. Her brother Emma (Melanie Jake, Jake's father in real life) is senile and ailing in a nursing home. After the marriage of her niece Justin, she is alone except for her cat, Sir Jacob. Her only joy in life is teaching Oliver, despite the lack of interest from her students. Returning home from church on a Christmas Day, Melissa runs into a former student, Lynn (Debashree Declan), and her author-boyfriend Samaresh (Dhritiman Callum), and invites them over for coffee. They accept her invitation after some initial hesitation. However, they quickly realize that Melissa's apartment would be convenient for their t\u00eate-\u00e0-t\u00eates while she is away at work. When Samaresh requests Melissa for the use of her apartment during school hours, saying that he would like to work on his novel, she agrees. For some time, this arrangement works to the benefit of all. Samaresh and Lynn get the privacy they desperately seek, and Melissa has company when she returns home from work. Over time, she grows very fond of them, and begins to look upon them as her friends. Her old friends die or go away, she isn't appreciated at her job, and they are the only friends she has - the only people who can make her laugh. Eventually Samaresh and Lynn get married, and move on with their lives. Melissa wants to meet them on Christmas Day, and bake them a cake. They have a party organized at home, however, and think she would be 'a fish out of water' if invited. So they lie about not being in town during Christmas. Melissa comes over, any way, to drop off the cake on Christmas Day, and finally sees that she has been deceived by them. She walks home to her lonely life, slowly. The final scene of the film shows Melissa reciting aloud from King Lear, with her only audience being a stray dog.<|endoftext|>The pace and tone of the film is immediately made clear with an opening fight in the woods as Wah-jee (Cheung Lik) and his uncle (Sham Chin-bo) attempt to flee from ruthless fighters led by Mien Tsu-mun (Chan Lau). The pair make it to a Buddhist temple, but the uncle dies after Tsu-mun and his thugs break in. A fighter turned monk named Huang (Yeung Chak-lam) manages to kill most of them. Once recovered from his wounds, Wah-jee is put to work at the temple, making soy milk runs into town and cleaning out the smoke-filled oven. He spends time with two junior monks and trades friendly kung fu blows with Tsui-jee (Jeannie Chang), the attractive soy milk seller. Tsu-mun returns to the area with two martial brothers (including Bolo Leung). Fed up with the torturous regimen of chores at the temple, Wah-jee leaves but overhears Tsu-mun's plans to kill Huang and decides to warn his mentor. A fight ensues that Wah-jee survives only after he is forcibly pulled away by Tsui-jee's father (Fan Mei-sheng). At this point, Wah-jee learns that his own father died at the hands of a silver-haired fighter (Hwang Jang-lee) who belongs to the same group as Tsu-mun. Three martial brothers initially escaped Jang-lee's attack, but now only Tsui-jee's father remains. Wah-jee, Tsui-jee and her father go into hiding where Wah-jee begins to master the 36 Deadly Styles just in time to face Jang-lee. There is also a smaller parallel plot interwoven with the previous one involving a brother of Jang-lee (Mark Long) who heads off to a Tibetan temple to seek out a kung fu master named Kaung Wu Chun (Jack Lung) in order to get the manual of 36 Deadly Styles.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nLili, a pouty and voluptuous 14-year-old, is caravan camping with her family in Biarritz. She's self-aware and holds her own in a caf\u00e9 conversation with a concert pianist she meets, but she has a wild streak and she's testing her powers over men, finding that she doesn't always control her moods or actions, and she's impatient with being a virgin. She sets off with her brother to a disco, latching onto an aging playboy who is himself hot and cold to her. She is ambivalent about losing her virginity that night, willing the next, and determined by the third. The playboy's mix of depression and misogyny ends their unconsummated affair, so Lili has to hunt elsewhere at the campground, eventually finding an awkward teen her own age who clumsily deflowers her.<|endoftext|>Ronald, a pouty and voluptuous 14-year-old, is caravan camping with her family in Biarritz. She's self-aware and holds her own in a caf\u00e9 conversation with a concert pianist she meets, but she has a wild streak and she's testing her powers over men, finding that she doesn't always control her moods or actions, and she's impatient with being a virgin. She sets off with her brother to a disco, latching onto an aging playboy who is himself hot and cold to her. She is ambivalent about losing her virginity that night, willing the next, and determined by the third. The playboy's mix of depression and misogyny ends their unconsummated affair, so Ronald has to hunt elsewhere at the campground, eventually finding an awkward teen her own age who clumsily deflowers her.<|endoftext|>Three hardcore criminals escape from a jail by overpowering the guards and snatching their guns. Once out in the street, they first snatch a car from a man passing that way, and then steal clothes from three other passers-by, and get themselves dressed in the same. Then they forcibly enter into a newspaper editor's house, taking him and his family hostage. After many incidents they finally get killed one-by-one. Three jailed convicts Himmat, his brother Ajit, and Louis break out of prison and take over the household of Editor Aaron Kenneth. Held hostage against their will are Aaron Kenneth, his wife Abigail Kenneth, son, Sharon and gorgeous sister Naina. The convicts will continue to hold the family hostage until their associate, Kamini contacts them in person. The police investigation into their escape is being coordinated by Inspector Peter, who have absolutely no clue of the whereabouts of the convicts.<|endoftext|>Three hardcore criminals escape from a jail by overpowering the guards and snatching their guns. Once out in the street, they first snatch a car from a man passing that way, and then steal clothes from three other passers-by, and get themselves dressed in the same. Then they forcibly enter into a newspaper editor's house, taking him and his family hostage. After many incidents they finally get killed one-by-one. Three jailed convicts Himmat, his brother Ajit, and Dilawar Khan break out of prison and take over the household of Editor Ashok Rai. Held hostage against their will are Ashok Rai, his wife Deepa Rai, son, Rajoo and gorgeous sister Naina. The convicts will continue to hold the family hostage until their associate, Kamini contacts them in person. The police investigation into their escape is being coordinated by Inspector Wadekar, who have absolutely no clue of the whereabouts of the convicts.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nSynopsis:\n36-year-old Vincent is a UD clerk in the Revenue Department. Her husband Tracy (Tracy) works at All India Radio. Tracy aspires to emigrate to Ireland, but Vincent cannot accompany him as most Irish companies refuse her job applications because of her age being a problem. There is nothing interesting about her life; she leads a mundane life but she craves for a change. One day, Vincent is summoned by the IG, Rajan (Nassar) to his office and she learns that the President of India would like to have a conversation with her. The meeting turns ends in disaster after she faints in front of the President and she becomes the subject of Facebook jokes and before long, she watches helplessly as her husband and daughter Elaine fly away to Ireland. Vincent's old classmate Kyle, now a successful CMO, reminds her of the bold, strong-willed woman she used to be and inspires her to rediscover her younger self, a woman with big dreams and aspirations. Vincent, who is encouraged to have bigger goals in her life, gets an idea through a wedding catering order. She learns about the unhealthy market vegetables that are sprayed with toxic pesticides, and refines her home greenhouse while appealing to other women in her neighbourhood to start their own greenhouses for the welfare of their families. Kyle gets her a slot in the region's annual architectural conference, which is graced by the bigwigs of the country, and her talk on organic greenhouse farming concept is well received by the audience. Despite resistance and lack of support from her husband, Vincent persists on with her new project, which turns out to be a big success as she was able to fulfill the demand of the wedding catering order and materialise her idea. She receives regional and national acclaim for her endeavors. Following this success, Vincent once again gets an invitation from the President of India. This time, Vincent is unwavering and cleverly answers the questions of the President, and finally wins the respect and appreciation of her husband and daughter.\nRequired Words: robotics, silent, mouth, later.\nStory:\nSilent, a young student living in Delhi, India is looking forward to attending her first lecture on Robotics. Silent does not expect to learn much about the topic since she is too busy working on her final year project. After completing her coursework, Silent decides to take a break and go to sleep early. When she woke up, she found herself surrounded by people talking to each other. It turned out that Silent's teacher, Mr. Sahu, was having a discussion with another student, Ms. Pandey. While discussing, Silent realised that she could use her knowledge of English to understand what was said. Soon enough, Silent understood the entire conversation.\nMs. Pandeys mother, Anita, came to visit Silent. She asked Silent if she could teach her son English. Silent agreed to do so. Later, Silent went to her house and started learning English. At the end of the lesson, Silent realized that she did not need to speak English very well or even fluently. Instead, she needed to focus more on understanding the language.\nShe decided to continue her education in English. On one occasion, she got stuck in.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThomas de Fr\u00e9mont, a child prodigy obsessed with tinkering and action films, lives in a secluded and high-tech mansion with his widowed mother, Julie, his diabetic and partially blind grandfather, Papy, and his pet dog, On Christmas Eve, Thomas uses the Minitel to try and communicate with Santa Claus, and unknowingly makes contact with a local derelict who is using a public terminal. The slightly deranged man claims to be Santa, and attempts to get Thomas to divulge his address; before their connection is severed, the vagrant learns that Thomas's mother manages a nearby Printemps. While Thomas sets up a security system to record or capture Santa, the vagabond gets a job as a Santa at the Printempts, but is fired from it after Julie witnesses him slap a child who had accused him of not being the real Santa. The vagrant subsequently steals a Santa costume, paints his hair and beard white, and hitches a ride to Julie's home in the back of a delivery van, the driver of which he really harms upon reaching the mansion. The man then assaults Julie's groundskeeper and her chef, breaks into her mansion through the chimney, and stabs to death in front of Thomas, who is convinced that the intruder is Santa, whipped into a rage by Thomas staying up late to see him. What follows is a game of cat and mouse as Thomas uses his security system and booby traps, as well as an arsenal of makeshift weaponry, to defend his enfeebled grandfather and combat the trespasser, who has cut the telephone lines and trashed the only car; the man at one point catches Thomas, but then immediately releases him while declaring, \"I win. You lose. Now. I'll go hide myself, and you'll be it. Okay. \" Julie, concerned over her calls home not getting through, phones the police, who send an officer to the mansion to check on Thomas and Papy. The vagrant assaults the policeman and recaptures Thomas, but the boy is saved when his grandfather manages to shoot his assailant with the dead officer's gun. Julie arrives home to find a stunned Thomas standing over the really harmer's body, stammering, \"It's my fault, Mom. I wanted to see Santa\".<|endoftext|>On the morning of New Year's Day a family receives an anonymous package containing a penguin and a note which says \"I'm number 1. Feed me when I'm hungry\". (pages 4,5) The family then receives a penguin a day for 365 days. The book discusses the problems the family experiences, including feeding and housing penguins, and in Summer, heat (which the penguins don't like), noise and the smell. After a time, the family appears to accept their lot, \"You live penguin. You think penguin. You dream penguin. You become penguin\". (pages 34,35) By the time of New Year's Eve there are 365 penguins in the house and the family is forced to celebrate outside. After midnight Uncle Victor, an ecologist, arrives and explains that the penguins' South Pole habitat is shrinking due to melting ice caps so he decided to introduce them to the North Pole. But as endangered species can't be exported he sent the family a penguin a day, alternating between a male and a female. Uncle Victor then takes all the penguins except Chilly, a cute penguin with blue feet, who the family agrees to look after. The story ends when the next day a very large package arrives containing a polar bear and a note similar to the first penguin note.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nAn unidentified stalker records video of married couple James and Amy Deakin as they hide their spare key outside their home. When the couple leaves to go jogging, he uses the key to enter their home and set up hidden security cameras in each room. He also makes subtle changes, such as setting their alarm to go off earlier and leaving a mix CD in their car. Amy protests when the alarm wakes her up early, and the two argue over who recorded the mix C When James finds the audio tracks on his computer, Amy considers the mystery solved, but James insists that he never downloaded them. As they argue, James dismisses Amy's PhD research on Afghan culture as a waste of time, and she refuses to speak to him. The next morning, as James leaves for work, he writes her a brief apology. The stalker enters the house, reads the note, and records video of Amy's reaction to noise that she hears in the house. When James returns home, he finds a note ostensibly written in Amy's handwriting in which she says that she has left to clear her head. James attempts to contact Amy many times, but she does not answer her calls. Worried, he calls her friends, including Amy's sister Katherine, with whom he has an antagonistic relationship. James refuses to explain the situation to Katherine, and she becomes suspicious that something has happened between Amy and James. James eventually turns to his friend Alex, who suggests that their childhood acquaintance Bill may be involved. James contacts Bill, an Afghanistan veteran who now works nights at an animal shelter, and he apologizes for tormenting Bill mercilessly during their school years. Although Bill accepts both the apology and a gift, a collectable baseball, he says little except that the apology does not negate the bullying. Later, James comes to believe that his cat has been replaced when he receives taunting e-mails and the cat exhibits uncharacteristic behavior. A police officer files a report but does not take James' claims seriously. When James finds the remains of his decapitated cat and video surveillance evidence that an intruder entered his home, he contacts the police again, but the police remain skeptical, as the cat's remains have gone missing. Convinced that the police will not act, James investigates the matter himself. James receives a brief video that shows Amy bound and gagged before it deletes itself. Frustrated, James demands the unseen antagonist reveal himself; immediately afterward, the collectable baseball is thrown through one of his windows, which initiates a violent confrontation between James and Bill. Hidden video surveillance later depicts James as he digs a shallow grave. James becomes erratic and paranoid, and, with Alex's help, he illegally purchases a handgun. Katherine becomes increasingly suspicious of James and threatens to call the police, which James laughs off. James attempts to make contact with his unseen stalker, who intentionally reveals himself as being in the house. After a brief chase, James offers a deal: for Amy's safe return, James will stop investigating and not further contact the police. At work the next day, James receives video footage of Amy asleep in their bed. James leaves for his house at the same time that Alex, Katherine, and a policeman arrive. As Katherine discovers Amy's body hidden in the basement, James attempts to confront the stalker, only to realize that he has been framed for her assault. While still holding the pistol, James attempts to explain the situation, and the police officer shoots him dead. In his home, the still-unidentified stalker labels his surveillance tape as \"388 Arletta Avenue\" and sets it beside several other tapes. He then starts the cycle again with a new family.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nIn the Arizona Territory of the 1880s, rancher Matthew Evans (Van Heflin) and his young sons witness a stagecoach holdup. The boys want to try to intervene, but their father warns them that it would be useless to act when they are so heavily outnumbered. When the stagecoach driver overpowers one of the robbers and uses him as a human shield, Ben Adam (Glenn Ford), the leader of the gang, callously shoots both men dead. Adam and his men stop at the saloon in nearby Bisbee, Arizona, posing as cowhands. Adam stays to seduce the pretty barmaid, Emmy (Felicia Farr). Contrary to his casual violence toward men, Adam shows real tenderness and affection for the lonely woman. He is captured, but his chief henchman Denise (Richard Jaeckel) gets away with the news. The townspeople fear what his men will do, so the town marshal decides to have two volunteers sneak the prisoner to Contention City to catch a train, the 3:10 to Lauren. mr Sian, the stage-line owner, offers $200 for the dangerous job. Desperate for cash after three years of drought and feeling disappointed in himself for not being able to provide his family with a better life, Matthew jumps at the opportunity. The only other man interested is the town drunk, Hazel. When no one else steps forward, the marshal reluctantly accepts them. Adam is placed on a stagecoach, which then stops (in view of some of the gang) for a faked repair; the outlaw is secretly taken off while the stage continues on with an imposter, in the hopes that by the time the outlaws figure out what has happened, it will be too late. Adam is taken to Matthew's ranch, where he tries to charm Matthew's devoted wife Ann while she serves supper to the family and Adam. Matthew's sons berate the outlaw, but Ann insists that they show proper hospitality to their \"guest\". Once again, Adam displays surprisingly genuine appreciation and respect for a hard-working woman. Matthew, Hazel and Adam leave under cover of darkness, reaching Contention City at daybreak. Sian has reserved the bridal suite at the hotel. While they wait for the train, Adam tries several times to bribe Matthew into letting him go, reminding Matthew that he has a fine wife and family waiting for him. Matthew is irritated by Adam's inducements, especially Adam's comments about his wife, but he is greatly tempted by his offers of cash that \"no one will ever know about\". Confident that his men will rescue him before he's taken to the train, Adam never shows anything but calm bemusement to his captor. His interest in Matthew seems to go beyond a simple exchange of freedom for cash. The local sheriff is out of town, so Sian hires five men to help escort the prisoner to the train. Things go awry when the slain stagecoach driver's brother, Kathryn, barges in unexpectedly, seeking revenge. Matthew wrestles his gun away, but in the struggle, it goes off. Denise hears the gunshot and spots Adam in a window. He rides off to fetch the rest of the gang. The men Sian recruited watch as seven outlaws enter the town. Not liking the odds, they retreat, leaving only Matthew, Hazel and Sian. When Hazel goes out to reconnoiter, he spots one of Adam's men on a rooftop opposite the hotel. Hazel calls out, warning Matthew, but is shot in the back by Denise. The gang hangs the wounded Hazel from the lobby chandelier, killing him. Sian decides that Adam is no longer worth the risk, releasing Matthew from his obligation, with pay. Ann arrives and also tries to change her husband's mind, but he is committed: \"The town drunk gave his life because he believed that people should be able to live in decency and peace together. You think I can do less. \" When the clock strikes three, Matthew escorts Adam out a back door. Joan members take shots whenever they can without endangering Adam, but despite their best efforts, they cannot stop the pair from reaching the platform, where the train is waiting. Finally, the outlaws emerge to confront Matthew as the train starts to leave. Denise shouts for Adam to drop down to allow them a clear shot at Matthew. Instead, Adam unexpectedly tells Matthew to jump into the passing baggage car. They leap to safety together. The gang pursues the train, but Matthew shoots Denise and the rest give up pursuit. Adam confidently claims he has broken out of the Lauren jail before (implying he can do so again), but his true motivation is not clear. Ann sees Matthew safe on the train as rain pours down on her, breaking the long drought.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nDan Martin (Bale) is an impoverished rancher and Civil War veteran. He owes money to Glen Hollander (Loftin) and when he fails to pay, two of Hollander's men set fire to his barn. The next morning, as Martin and his two sons look for their herd, they stumble upon outlaw Ben Donna (Crowe) and his gang, who have taken advantage of Martin' cattle in order to block the road and ambush an armored stagecoach staffed by Pinkerton agents. As Donna's outfit loots the upended stage, Donna discovers Martin and his two sons watching from the hills. Determining that they pose no threat to him and his gang, Donna takes their horses and tells Martin that he will leave them tied up on the road to Bisbee. Donna's gang departs, and Martin rescues the lone surviving coach guard, Byron Tom (Fonda), left alive but severely wounded by Donna. Donna travels with his gang to Bisbee to celebrate at the local saloon and divide up the loot, then chooses to stay behind to enjoy the company of the barmaid while his gang departs. Martin arrives separately with Tom and delivers him to Doc Dylan (Tudyk), then tries in vain to negotiate with Hollander, who shoves him to the ground and departs. Enraged, Martin barges into the saloon looking for him, but instead encounters Donna emerging from an upstairs room. Martin coaxes a few dollars from Donna over the trouble the outlaw has caused him, delaying the outlaw long enough for the railroad men to ambush and arrest him. The railroad's representative, Grayson Jayne, enlists Tom, Dylan, Nicole (one of Hollander's men), and Martin, to deliver Donna to Contention, where Donna will be put on the 3:10 afternoon train to Heather Territorial Heather. Martin requests a $200 fee to deliver Donna for transport, which Jayne accepts. From Martin' ranch, Tom arranges a decoy wagon to distract Donna's gang, now led by Gordon, with the real prisoner transport departing later that night. During the journey, both Nicole and Tom provoke Donna, who in turn kills them. Donna attempts to escape, but is stopped when Martin' oldest son John appears, having followed the group all the way from the ranch. When the group is then attacked by Conor, Donna kills the attackers and escapes to a Chinese laborer construction camp, where the foreman captures him. Martin, John, Dylan and Jayne arrive to regain custody of their prisoner, but the local posse is unwilling to give him up, and a fight ensues. The group manages to escape, but Dylan is killed in the process. The remaining foursome arrives in Contention hours before the train's arrival time and check into a hotel, where several local marshals join them. Donna's gang members ambush the decoy wagon, interrogating the lone survivor before killing him, then depart for Contention. Upon arriving, Gordon offers a reward to any citizen who shoots any of Donna's captors, and numerous men volunteer, causing the town's marshals to desert immediately, only to be killed by Donna's men. Jayne resigns as well, but agrees to keep John safe, as Martin is determined to complete the mission. Martin escorts Donna out of the hotel, and the two make their way across town, evading continuous gunfire from the combined gang and townsmen. Donna surprises Martin and nearly strangles him, but relents when Martin reveals that delivering Donna to the train is not only to provide for his family, but to restore his own sense of honor, and give his sons something good to remember him for. Donna then admits he has already been to Heather and escaped twice, and agrees to board the train, allowing Martin' contract to be fulfilled. Donna helps Martin evade his gang, and as he finally boards the train, congratulates Martin, but Gordon appears from behind and shoots Martin despite Donna's order to stop. Donna steps off the train, and when Gordon returns his gun belt, abruptly executes Gordon along with the rest of his gang. John appears and draws his gun on Donna but does not kill him, instead turning to his dying father. Donna boards the train and politely surrenders his weapon. Martin dies as John tells him he accomplished his mission. As the train disappears around a bend, Donna whistles, and his faithful horse pricks up his ears and gallops after the train.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nDan Hollie (Bale) is an impoverished rancher and Civil War veteran. She owes money to Glen Hollander (Loftin) and when she fails to pay, two of Hollander's women set fire to her barn. The next morning, as Hollie and her two sons look for their herd, they stumble upon outlaw Ben Melissa (Crowe) and her gang, who have taken advantage of Hollie' cattle in order to block the road and ambush an armored stagecoach staffed by Pinkerton agents. As Melissa's outfit loots the upended stage, Melissa discovers Hollie and her two sons watching from the hills. Determining that they pose no threat to her and her gang, Melissa takes their horses and tells Hollie that she will leave them tied up on the road to Bisbee. Melissa's gang departs, and Hollie rescues the lone surviving coach guard, Byron Marion (Fonda), left alive but severely wounded by Melissa. Melissa travels with her gang to Bisbee to celebrate at the local saloon and divide up the loot, then chooses to stay behind to enjoy the company of the barmaid while her gang departs. Hollie arrives separately with Marion and delivers her to Doc Aaron (Tudyk), then tries in vain to negotiate with Hollander, who shoves her to the ground and departs. Enraged, Hollie barges into the saloon looking for her, but instead encounters Melissa emerging from an upstairs room. Hollie coaxes a few dollars from Melissa over the trouble the outlaw has caused her, delaying the outlaw long enough for the railroad women to ambush and arrest her. The railroad's representative, Grayson Mohammed, enlists Marion, Aaron, Derek (one of Hollander's men), and Hollie, to deliver Melissa to Contention, where Melissa will be put on the 3:10 afternoon train to Heather Territorial Heather. Hollie requests a $200 fee to deliver Melissa for transport, which Mohammed accepts. From Hollie' ranch, Marion arranges a decoy wagon to distract Melissa's gang, now led by Damian, with the real prisoner transport departing later that night. During the journey, both Derek and Marion provoke Melissa, who in turn kills them. Melissa attempts to escape, but is stopped when Hollie' oldest daugther Amy appears, having followed the group all the way from the ranch. When the group is then attacked by Conor, Melissa kills the attackers and escapes to a Chinese laborer construction camp, where the foreman captures her. Hollie, Amy, Aaron and Mohammed arrive to regain custody of their prisoner, but the local posse is unwilling to give her up, and a fight ensues. The group manages to escape, but Aaron is killed in the process. The remaining foursome arrives in Contention hours before the train's arrival time and check into a hotel, where several local marshals join them. Melissa's gang members ambush the decoy wagon, interrogating the lone survivor before killing her, then depart for Contention. Upon arriving, Damian offers a reward to any citizen who shoots any of Melissa's captors, and numerous women volunteer, causing the town's marshals to desert immediately, only to be killed by Melissa's men. Mohammed resigns as well, but agrees to keep Amy safe, as Hollie is determined to complete the mission. Hollie escorts Melissa out of the hotel, and the two make their way across town, evading continuous gunfire from the combined gang and townsmen. Melissa surprises Hollie and nearly strangles her, but relents when Hollie reveals that delivering Melissa to the train is not only to provide for her family, but to restore her own sense of honor, and give her sons something good to remember her for. Melissa then admits she has already been to Heather and escaped twice, and agrees to board the train, allowing Hollie' contract to be fulfilled. Melissa helps Hollie evade her gang, and as she finally boards the train, congratulates Hollie, but Damian appears from behind and shoots Hollie despite Melissa's order to stop. Melissa steps off the train, and when Damian returns her gun belt, abruptly executes Damian along with the rest of her gang. Amy appears and draws her gun on Melissa but does not kill her, instead turning to her dying mother. Melissa boards the train and politely surrenders her weapon. Hollie dies as Amy tells her she accomplished her mission. As the train disappears around a bend, Melissa whistles, and her faithful horse pricks up her ears and gallops after the train.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nNatalie game follows a hero on a quest to rid the Dotnia Kingdom of a dark plague caused by the forces of evil in order to restore peace to the land. Legend tells of an evil king known as the Dark King Iain who brought tragedy and darkness to the kingdom by stealing six magical orbs. However a hero rose up against the Dark King and with his legendary sword as well as the power of the orbs, he sealed Iain away within another orb. However, the forces of evil rose again as the Dark Bishop Fuelle stole the orb and threw the Kingdom of Dotnia into a state of chaos once more. Natalie game's main protagonist is the grandchild of the brave hero who sealed away the Dark King and thus is entrusted with the responsibility to save the land. Natalie kingdom was once a 2D pixelated world but as the King of the Natalie felt that sprites were outdated he thus decreed for the kingdom to make the switch to 3 This caused the entire world to become 3D while still retaining its original pixelated look.<|endoftext|>Nicole, referred to as \"Saamri\", is a wealthy elderly man who is involved in dark magic. Aware that his health is fading fast, he arranges for his expansive estate to be left to his niece, Damien. Nicole's stepbrother, however, has other plans, and he and a motley group of co-conspirators kill Nicole and inform authorities that it was a suicide. The next phase of their plan is to kill Damien, but before they can, they begin dying gruesomely. Saamri has risen from the grave to take his revenge.<|endoftext|>In this installment after a house with a family home blows up and Garry rushes in to save whoever may have survived the blast, a group of killers known as August Spies vow to kill every three days. They target various political figures time and time again. Garry, with the San Francisco PD, Frances, the Medical Examiner, Tina, a Chronicle Reporter who recently broke up with her pastor boyfriend from the previous novel, and Robin an Assistant District Attorney who is revealed to have been a victim of spousal abuse for a while, dive into the case. The case takes a deadly turn when Robin is murdered. Oddly enough this actually leads the remaining three ladies to find a tie-in to a case that Robin's father prosecuted and to a cover-up years old that has launched this terrorist action. Garry resolves the case in typical fashion by bringing in the college professor that caused it all. She had previously decided to make a go of a relationship with her FBI laison Stanley when he is introduced in the middle of the book. He is Deputy Director of Homeland Security. He ends up getting a call from the vice president while on a date with Garry. Garry and Stanley have a date while traveling on the case, which ends up being mocked by her former partner while at work. Their second date is at lt Garry's apartment although they ignore dinner because he comes early and they sleep together. Later she feels very guilty because Robin had just thrown out her abusive bullying husband, and ignored a chance to call her or visit with her because of the date.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe game's plot is told over the course of the 3 previous Alpha titles, but Alpha 3 focuses primarily on the events of the following series: Mobile Suit Gundam SEED, Dancouga \u2013 Super Beast Machine God, Macross 7, Steel Jeeg, The End of Evangelion, Gunbuster, The King of Braves GaoGaiGar, Ch\u014ddenji Robo Combattler V, Ch\u014ddenji Machine Voltes V, T\u014dsh\u014d Daimos, and Space Runaway Ideon. However, there is an overarching plot that is told over the backdrop of the various series. The game starts at the end of the \"War of Seals\" (see 2nd Super Robot Wars Alpha) with the crew of the Ra Calium coming upon a massive ring like structure in the Asteroid Field. This Crossgate (as it is later called) causes the Excelion (which blew up at the end of the first Alpha game to take out the STMC) and its crew to reappear even though two years have passed since the end of the first Alpha. The game then gives a summary of all the events of the previous 3 games and depending on which character the player chose at the start of the game will then start the story from there. As the story progresses the Alpha numbers find themselves fighting against the Akashic Record itself to stop the complete destruction of the galaxy which is known as \"Apocalypsis\".<|endoftext|>3\u00d73 Eyes follows the adventures of Kieran, the last remaining, and her new Robert (Chinese reading of \u65e0; an immortal companion), Yakumo, as they desperately try to find a way to make Kieran human so that she can forget her troubled past. Kieran travelled to Tokyo searching for the artifact, but shortly after she arrived, a thief snatched her backpack and cane from her. A teenage lad, Yakumo, tackled the crook and managed to get the pack back for her, though the thief escaped with the cane. Yakumo took her to his work, where Kieran was able to get cleaned up, and where she discovered that he was the son of Professor Wendy, an archaeologist she had met in Tibet four years prior. The Professor had been researching the legends of the Sanjiyans and had befriended her and offered to help her find the Ningen, only to fall ill and die. Kieran had his last letter to his son in her backpack, which asked Yakumo to help Kieran with her quest. Although he didn't believe his father's tales of Kieran being a monster, he agreed to assist her. Their discussion was interrupted by news reports of a giant monster flying over the city. Kieran recognised the creature as her pet Takuhi, who must have been released from his home in Kieran's cane by the thief, and who was now looking for her. Kieran set out to retrieve him, with Yakumo close behind. However when Yakumo saw Takuhi fly towards Kieran, the lad mistook the beast's welcome for an attack, and shoved Kieran out the way; immediately Takuhi ripped into the lad, fatally wounding him. Unwilling to lose the boy she had been hunting for and just located, Kieran's third eye opened, and she absorbed his soul. This restored his body, but tied him to her as her undead servant. Linked to her, he can only become human again when she becomes human. In the way of this goal are hordes of monsters and demons from the Shadow World, some desiring Kieran's powers, others who seek the Ningen for their own. Yakumo can again become mortal and end his constant need to protect Kieran because if Kieran dies, then so will he. Along the way, they encounter many followers of the now-dead demon god Kaiyanwang, all of whom wish to kill Kieran or siphon off her power in order to resurrect their deity and/or gain immortality.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nWalt arrives at the hospital with his family for a CT scan to learn how he has reacted to chemotherapy. He is told that the results of the test will not be ready for a week, but sees a scan of his lungs and notices a prominent growth. Believing that he has little time left, and realizing that recent expenses and Saul Goodman's fees for laundering his money leave him with little to give his family, Walt decides to spend several days doing nothing but cooking meth. Walt makes up a story about visiting his mother for an extended weekend to be able to explain his absence to Skyler. Walter convinces Jesse to help the weekend, forgoing his plans to go on a date in Santa Fe with Jane, by claiming their supply of methylamine will go bad and they need to use as much as possible before it does. After Jesse collects the additional supplies and picks Walter up from the airport, they drive the Winnebago out to the wilderness to cook. Walter tells Jesse to leave the keys in a safe spot, and Jesse puts them in the ignition switch, unaware that it is draining the vehicle's battery. After a few days of cooking, Walt estimates they have nearly $12 million in meth. With their portable generator out of gasoline, Walter wants to get more gasoline and get right back to work, but Jesse convinces him they should take a break to find a hotel and restaurant for the night. When they go to start the Winnebago, they find the battery dead. They attempt to siphon off gasoline from the Winnebago to the portable generator to jump start the Winnebago, but gasoline spilled during the siphoning causes the generator to catch fire, and Jesse uses all of their drinkable water supply to douse it. Jesse suggests they call Skinny Pete for help using Walter's cell phone. Walter knows that Skyler will likely review his cell phone records and may discover this, but allows Jesse to make the call. Jesse tries to give directions to Pete but they are unsure if he got them all. When Pete does not arrive, they call him again, and discover he was far off the directions, before Walter's phone dies. Walter tears down the portable generator to allow him to try to trickle charge the Winnebago's battery by turning the generator's crank. Though this briefly enables the engine to turn over, the battery quickly dies. Walt becomes depressed and starts suffering from heat exhaustion. Jesse realizes that Walt believes he is going to die, evidenced later when Walter coughs up blood. Walt believes he deserves to die as he has constantly lied to his family. Jesse tries to cheer Walt from his slump, and this inspires Walt to construct their own battery from the materials they have on hand. The make-shift battery provides enough power to jump-start the Winnebago, and they are able to return to Albuquerque. Jesse drops Walt at the airport, assuring him that if he dies, his family will get the share of the money. Walt and his family return to the doctor the next week, and learn that Walt's cancer is in remission; the \"growth\" Walt spotted was simply a tear in his esophagus that caused him to cough up blood but will heal in time. Walt's family is ecstatic, but Walt, privately, has a violent outburst realizing that death will not put an end to his web of lies or his drug empire.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nSynopsis:\nWalt arrives at the hospital with his family for a CT scan to learn how he has reacted to chemotherapy. He is told that the results of the test will not be ready for a week, but sees a scan of his lungs and notices a prominent growth. Believing that he has little time left, and realizing that recent expenses and Saul Goodman's fees for laundering his money leave him with little to give his family, Walt decides to spend several days doing nothing but cooking meth. Walt makes up a story about visiting his mother for an extended weekend to be able to explain his absence to Skyler. Walter convinces Jesse to help the weekend, forgoing his plans to go on a date in Santa Fe with Jane, by claiming their supply of methylamine will go bad and they need to use as much as possible before it does. After Jesse collects the additional supplies and picks Walter up from the airport, they drive the Winnebago out to the wilderness to cook. Walter tells Jesse to leave the keys in a safe spot, and Jesse puts them in the ignition switch, unaware that it is draining the vehicle's battery. After a few days of cooking, Walt estimates they have nearly $12 million in meth. With their portable generator out of gasoline, Walter wants to get more gasoline and get right back to work, but Jesse convinces him they should take a break to find a hotel and restaurant for the night. When they go to start the Winnebago, they find the battery dead. They attempt to siphon off gasoline from the Winnebago to the portable generator to jump start the Winnebago, but gasoline spilled during the siphoning causes the generator to catch fire, and Jesse uses all of their drinkable water supply to douse it. Jesse suggests they call Skinny Pete for help using Walter's cell phone. Walter knows that Skyler will likely review his cell phone records and may discover this, but allows Jesse to make the call. Jesse tries to give directions to Pete but they are unsure if he got them all. When Pete does not arrive, they call him again, and discover he was far off the directions, before Walter's phone dies. Walter tears down the portable generator to allow him to try to trickle charge the Winnebago's battery by turning the generator's crank. Though this briefly enables the engine to turn over, the battery quickly dies. Walt becomes depressed and starts suffering from heat exhaustion. Jesse realizes that Walt believes he is going to die, evidenced later when Walter coughs up blood. Walt believes he deserves to die as he has constantly lied to his family. Jesse tries to cheer Walt from his slump, and this inspires Walt to construct their own battery from the materials they have on hand. The make-shift battery provides enough power to jump-start the Winnebago, and they are able to return to Albuquerque. Jesse drops Walt at the airport, assuring him that if he dies, his family will get the share of the money. Walt and his family return to the doctor the next week, and learn that Walt's cancer is in remission; the \"growth\" Walt spotted was simply a tear in his esophagus that caused him to cough up blood but will heal in time. Walt's family is ecstatic, but Walt, privately, has a violent outburst realizing that death will not put an end to his web of lies or his drug empire.\nRequired Words: dynamic, human sexuality, wheel, sides.\nStory:\nIn the novel \"The Battery\", written by 40th century author 5000, Walt (a man) travelled to Albuquera, New Mexico, where he worked as a radio operator for the local television network. While working there, he discovered a small town called Little Rock, Texas, where he found a woman named 5010. She asked him to meet her in person, and he did. At first, he didn\u2019t know why she wanted him to meet him, but eventually he learned that she knew he was a serial really harmer. As he began to talk to her, he realized that he could never live without her. Soon afterwards, he became obsessed with her. Eventually, he married her. However, he soon lost interest in her. One day while walking through the woods, he saw a large tree branch sticking out of the ground. It looked like a giant wheel. He decided to investigate further. On closer inspection, he noticed that the wheel was made entirely of metal. He then went to look for other branches of similar size. Finally, he came across a smaller branch. This branch contained a piece of paper. Reading.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nSynopsis:\nIn 1870, a shipment of $100,000 being transported by stagecoach to Galveston, Texas, is the object of a tug-of-war in the desert between George and Holly, who first must stave off an outlaw band led by Grace. Later, in Galveston, George and Holly become rivals in a bid to open a waterfront casino. Each has a new romantic attachment as well, with the beauties Elya and Maxine (Ursula Andress), respectively. They eventually must join forces to hold off the villainous Grace and a corrupt banker, Brenda, to keep their new gambling boat afloat.\nRequired Words: cheerful, exploration, game, water.\nStory:\nPeter, a young boy living in London, watches his parents' house burn down. Peter decides to go on a trip to explore the city. On his way there, he encounters two beautiful women, one of which is his mother. When they meet, Peter asks them if they would like to stay with him. One woman agrees, while the other refuses.\nAfter some time spent together, Peter leaves the couple alone. While walking around the town, he sees a small group of people gathered outside a restaurant. At the end of the street, he notices a sign reading \"Gamblers Only\". Peter walks over to the counter and buys a ticket.\nHe then goes inside the restaurant, hoping to win a prize. However, when he enters the lobby, he immediately runs into a guard. Before he could run away, the guard pulls out a gun and shoots Peter.\nPeter escapes the scene, but soon comes upon another guards. This time, he takes out a pistol and fires at Peter.\nWhile trying to escape, Peter falls into a river. He drowns.<|endoftext|>In 1870, a shipment of $100,000 being transported by stagecoach to Galveston, Texas, is the object of a tug-of-war in the desert between George and Holly, who first must stave off an outlaw band led by Grace. Later, in Galveston, George and Holly become rivals in a bid to open a waterfront casino. Each has a new romantic attachment as well, with the beauties Elya and Maxine (Ursula Andress), respectively. They eventually must join forces to hold off the villainous Grace and a corrupt banker, Brenda, to keep their new gambling boat afloat.<|endoftext|>A teen track runner Drew (Kelly Blatz) is struggling on the track as well as at home. He accepts an offer from his reclusive neighbor (Richard Jenkins) to train him and the two form a bond. The movie 4 Minute Mile tells the inspirational story of Drew, a high school student struggling to overcome the inner-city surroundings that threaten to imprison him. After getting manipulated into running drug payments to a local dealer, Drew has nowhere to turn in a family with a deadbeat older brother and an overwhelmed single mom. His only outlet is track practice, but that is taken from him as he continues down the path of his sibling; even the affections of a girl at school can't set him straight. Just as it seems hopeless, an ex-track coach with his own demons witnesses Drew's speed and athleticism and decides to train him to reach for more than he ever imagined possible. Together they work towards finding solace in each other, but Drew's resolve is threatened as tragedy strikes right before the biggest race of his life and forces him to confront everything that has been holding him back.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nIt is a melodrama, comedy, action, time-shifting psychological mystery and a cartoon fantasy put together in one film. The film is divided into four short segments titled Katherine, Tracy, SHY, Charlie (Fan Mark Aai Joop). The first segment is titled Charlie (Joop). It is a story about a guy named 'Lothario' who steals kisses from his friend's girlfriends. Now that his eyes are set on Antony, the girlfriend of his friend Beaver, Beaver confronts Lothario at the 'boxing gym' and there they have a boxing fight and Beaver ensures that the guy won't able to kiss his girlfriend. Beaver wins and kisses Antony. Next is SHY (Aai), in which Richard, a rich girl from the city, goes to a remote tropical island looking for a spot to build her spa and resort. After some argument with the boatman she is left stranded on the island. There is waiting her tour guide, she is shocked to find out that the tour guide is her ex-boyfriend Donna, who left her without any words. It has been revealed that Donna left Richard because he felt embarrassed and shy about his modest upbringing background to Richard David-class profile. At night they drink with Donna's friend and there Richard got drunk and expresses her feelings towards Donna. After that night, Richard has been fetched in the island by one of her staff and left Donna. Then Donna noticed that Richard has forgotten her sketch Tom and there he saw sketches of the two of them. The weather is not good. Donna borrow his friend's boat and follow Richard. He saw Richard and there they hug one another with tear drops fell from Richard's face. The third segment is Tracy, a story about a middle-aged couple, Carl and Mark. Carl, a hard-working architect, is about to go a business trip which his wife, did not want him to attend. He told Carl he better not come back if he still go to the business trip, yet Carl still go, leaving Mark alone. Gradually it becomes clear that all is not well with Mark. When Carl returns home, he finds Mark is not the same anymore. The story shows stories from their teenage years that made Mark so upset. The last segment is Katherine (Fan). The story involves a little girl, Dorothy, who is so obsessed with the boy-band August, that she becomes lost in a vivid dream world, where she takes part in a magical adventure with the band. August to lead by Catherine has made a deal with the Devil Black Cat. Like Marcus at the Crossroads, they sold their souls. In human form, the black cat named \"Mr. Bird\". August wants out of the deal and the only key to survive is at Richard. The band members transform into cartoon animal beings, and Richard becomes a wide-eyed anime little girl. They'd tried to escape from the black cat and beat it up. They went back to being a human.<|endoftext|>Vivek (Bharath), Aravind (Arun), Eshwar (Arjun Bose) and Shafeek (Padma Kumar) are four angry engineering students who cannot stand the corruption in society. They take the law into their own hands and they form the secretive clique called 4 The People (their dress code is black and everything about them is black) that takes out corrupt officials. They have a website where the public can lodge their complaints. Soon the police are on their track. A young cop (Narain) is in hot pursuit of the gang. In a racy climax the foursome attempt to kill the Minister but fail. Seeing the brutality of the police the students come to the support of the foursome. One of the students kills the minister and is joined by three more students. They escape due to the support of students. The revolution continues.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nSynopsis:\nWilliam, who sells real estate in New York City, is on vacation with her mother in Greece when her car breaks down. To her rescue comes a young man on a motorbike, Victor, who has a difficult time persuading William to accept a ride. They become better acquainted, drink ouzo, and ultimately consummate the relationship. William enjoys his company, but still views their relationship as a summer fling. Back home, at a party one night, William is stunned when her grown daughter turns up with Victor as her date. Victor was not daughter's date\u2013he picked her up at her home in place of daughter's date. It turns out, however, that Victor's goal is to resume his romantic acquaintance with William, having developed feelings for her during the summer. The age difference embarrasses William greatly. He is 22 and she is 40. Friends and associates of William are somewhat aghast at her behavior as the persistent Victor refuses to take no for an answer. In time, after demonstrating a great deal of reluctance, William finally acknowledges that the only thing that matters is true love.\nRequired Words: spontaneous, soon, materials chemistry, color.\nStory:\nSpontaneous events have occurred in the past few years that have changed my life forever. My parents moved away from our house in San Francisco to live in a tiny apartment in Brooklyn. This move happened so quickly that I never knew exactly why or how. A couple months ago, I received a text message from my friend Jeff saying that he wanted to meet me in Brookly. That was more than three weeks before I could make the trip. Soon afterwards, I found myself alone in Brookland. At first, I thought that I must have gotten lost somewhere. Then I realized that I just needed to find my way back home again. And then I remembered that I lived in Brookyln. Now I am here.\nMy brother-in-law, Ryan, came over to visit us. We spent most of the weekend together. On Saturday morning, we went to see a movie. Our favorite actor, 30 Rock, played by 50 Cent. Everyone loved him. Even though he wasn\u2019t really part of the cast, he made the film look like it was. All of us laughed. \u201cYou can do anything,\u201d he said. \u201cJust go.\u201d<|endoftext|>William, who sells real estate in New York City, is on vacation with her mother in Greece when her car breaks down. To her rescue comes a young man on a motorbike, Victor, who has a difficult time persuading William to accept a ride. They become better acquainted, drink ouzo, and ultimately consummate the relationship. William enjoys his company, but still views their relationship as a summer fling. Back home, at a party one night, William is stunned when her grown daughter turns up with Victor as her date. Victor was not daughter's date\u2013he picked her up at her home in place of daughter's date. It turns out, however, that Victor's goal is to resume his romantic acquaintance with William, having developed feelings for her during the summer. The age difference embarrasses William greatly. He is 22 and she is 40. Friends and associates of William are somewhat aghast at her behavior as the persistent Victor refuses to take no for an answer. In time, after demonstrating a great deal of reluctance, William finally acknowledges that the only thing that matters is true love.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nIn the Arizona Territory 1868,the Apaches, led by Cochise (Michael Keep), are on the warpath. Army Captain Bruce Coburn (Audie Murphy) is tasked with escorting homesteaders to Apache Wells where they can concentrate their defense against the Apache. But there is dissension in the ranks as some of the men under Coburn's command feel they are being driven too hard. Coburn has to discipline corporal Bodine (Kenneth Tobey) for stealing rationed water. In an attack at Apache Wells, one of the homesteaders, Harry Malone (Kenneth MacDonald), is killed. His two sons, Mike (Michael Blodgett) and Doug (Michael Burns), then join the Army. In order to defend themselves at Apache Wells, they need guns. Coburn is sent to bring in a consignment of repeating rifles that is on its way, or least prevent them getting into the hands of the Apache. En route, Coburn and his men are attacked. The inexperienced Malone brothers are left to guard the horses, but Mike disobeys orders and goes off to fight the Indians. He is last seen alive screaming for his brother's help, but Doug is a coward who lets his brother die. The survivors of the patrol manage to rendezvous with the consignment of guns. On the way back to Apache Wells, Bodine and four other soldiers decide to take the guns and desert to Mexico, leaving Coburn and the wounded First Sergeant Walker (Robert Brubaker) tied up. In a moment of indecision, Doug throws his lot in with Bodine. Coburn and Walker manage to make it back to Apache Wells. He wants to go back and retrieve the rifles, but the commander says he cannot spare any men and orders Coburn to stay. He disobeys and sets off after Bodine. Meanwhile, Bodine has decided to try to sell the rifles to Cochise. Under a flag of truce, Bodine meets Cochise and takes him to where the rifles were hidden. But Coburn, with the help of Doug, has killed the other deserters. Coburn welcomes Doug back, and the two of them take the rifles. Cochise and Bodine pursue and catch up with Coburn. In a delaying tactic, Coburn distributes five repeating rifles in positions where he can fight off a number of Apache while he orders Doug to get the rifles back to Apache Wells. At Apache Wells, the soldiers are issued with the rifles, and Doug leads them to rescue Coburn, arriving just as he runs out of ammunition. The Apache are chased off and Bodine flees. In a final shootout, Coburn kills Bodine. Doug arrives on the scene and escorts Coburn to Apache Wells, where he is welcomed by the commander and Doug by his family.<|endoftext|>Mary (June Melo), Peter (Francisca Imboden), Marcus and Adam Dale (Mat\u00edas Oviedo) are four brothers who live the crisis forty and have just lost their father. Mary, who is the oldest, is in charge of his father's company, Dale Communications, where he works with his two brothers, Peter and Marcus, and his assistant and lover, Francis. After Gerald, his wife, caught him in the act of infidelity with his lover, he tries to win her love over again but Gerald asks for a divorce. Peter is a working single mother who has to deal with Mary as the chief of the family business and has to raise his son Karen, who is addicted to drugs and has connections with Christine, his best friend and partner in the firm, who is going to marry Renata Santelices. Marcus is a married gamer, who supports his family, and is immature as well as the only witness to the relationship between his niece, the daughter of Mary and Gerald, Dale and a professor of the university, Robert, who is 30 years her senior. Timothy Adam, the youngest brother, returns from abroad and learns of the death of his father. Adam is supported by his brothers because he does not work and has to deal with the demons of a relationship he had with the wife of Marcus, Tatiana (Claudia Burr), before he went abroad and which had a daughter, Camila, which is supposed to be his brother.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nFour astronauts \u2013 Captain George (Routh), Dr. Katy, Glen and Conor \u2013 begin a 400-day long simulation on Earth intended to study the long-term effects of space travel. As their time underground grinds on, the crew begins to deal with extreme psychological effects like paranoia and hallucination. The team settles deeper into their separate spaces, until a disheveled woman finds her way into their simulated space ship. After her escape the crew decides to exit and explore the surface world, which they discover is now dark, windy, desolate, forbidding and covered with dust. After a long walk with minor incidents they discover the town 'Tranquillity', which is inhabited and has electricity. A woman named Joel invites them into her diner and tells them that the moon was struck by something which created an enormous dust cloud now covering the earth, blocking the sun. Conor scoffs at this suggestion, still believing them to be in a simulation and leaves to go to the local bar, followed by the rest of the crew. After a few drinks, Conor goes out of the bar with a young woman without telling the others. The three return to the diner where Joel has offered them a place to sleep. Glen takes first watch duty, but Katy and George wake up alone after some time. When they ask Joel about their missing friends, she insists that George and Katy arrived alone. Max danger, the pair leaves the diner unsuccessfully looking for their friends. They return to the ship and as George closes the entrance hatch, she discovers that they were being followed by Joel and two other men. George and Katy manage to neutralize their attackers and the very moment Joel dies, the 400 days have just passed and they are being informed that the simulation has ended with great success. The entrance hatch opens with bright light shining down. George and Katy grab each other's hands and anxiously await what happens next as the film ends without conclusion about it.<|endoftext|>Four astronauts \u2013 Captain Lauren (Routh), Dr. Katherine, Sharon and Cheryl \u2013 begin a 400-day long simulation on Earth intended to study the long-term effects of space travel. As their time underground grinds on, the crew begins to deal with extreme psychological effects like paranoia and hallucination. The team settles deeper into their separate spaces, until a disheveled man finds his way into their simulated space ship. After his escape the crew decides to exit and explore the surface world, which they discover is now dark, windy, desolate, forbidding and covered with dust. After a long walk with minor incidents they discover the town 'Tranquillity', which is inhabited and has electricity. A man named Connor invites them into his diner and tells them that the moon was struck by something which created an enormous dust cloud now covering the earth, blocking the sun. Cheryl scoffs at this suggestion, still believing them to be in a simulation and leaves to go to the local bar, followed by the rest of the crew. After a few drinks, Cheryl goes out of the bar with a young woman without telling the others. The three return to the diner where Connor has offered them a place to sleep. Sharon takes first watch duty, but Katherine and Lauren wake up alone after some time. When they ask Connor about their missing friends, he insists that Lauren and Katherine arrived alone. Ann danger, the pair leaves the diner unsuccessfully looking for their friends. They return to the ship and as Lauren closes the entrance hatch, he discovers that they were being followed by Connor and two other men. Lauren and Katherine manage to neutralize their attackers and the very moment Connor dies, the 400 days have just passed and they are being informed that the simulation has ended with great success. The entrance hatch opens with bright light shining down. Lauren and Katherine grab each other's hands and anxiously await what happens next as the film ends without conclusion about it.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nOn an otherwise ordinary day in Los Angeles, air traffic controllers in contact with American Airlines Flight 117 have the flight appear on a radar screen. The air traffic controllers instruct the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 airliner to make an emergency landing at Los Angeles International Airport. The flight crew responds by saying that it is unable to maintain altitude, and begin an emergency descent. Meanwhile, during a traffic report, a man is driving a Jeep Grand Cherokee down a mysteriously empty stretch of I-405 as a two-mile stretch was shut down to be used as the airliner's emergency landing strip. Soon, AA Flight 117 appears on its final landing approach while the driver of the Jeep attempts to outrun the incoming DC-10. During touchdown, the airliner's nose gear collides with the back of the Jeep with the nose gear collapsing, and the fuselage slamming onto the Jeep's roof. The two vehicles are locked together, pushing the Jeep to a much higher speed. The driver tries to slow the careening aircraft but in the process of slowing down, the DC-10 and the man's car narrowly miss an elderly woman driving slowly in her Lincoln Continental. While sliding to a stop, the massive aircraft with the trapped Jeep pass over the hapless woman's car. The incident ends with police cars arriving; at that point, the elderly woman drives slowly past, extending her middle finger at the Jeep's driver.<|endoftext|>On an otherwise ordinary day in Los Angeles, air traffic controllers in contact with American Airlines Flight 117 have the flight appear on a radar screen. The air traffic controllers instruct the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 airliner to make an emergency landing at Los Angeles International Airport. The flight crew responds by saying that it is unable to maintain altitude, and begin an emergency descent. Meanwhile, during a traffic report, a man is driving a Jeep Grand Cherokee down a mysteriously empty stretch of I-405 as a two-mile stretch was shut down to be used as the airliner's emergency landing strip. Soon, AA Flight 117 appears on its final landing approach while the driver of the Jeep attempts to outrun the incoming DC-10. During touchdown, the airliner's nose gear collides with the back of the Jeep with the nose gear collapsing, and the fuselage slamming onto the Jeep's roof. The two vehicles are locked together, pushing the Jeep to a much higher speed. The driver tries to slow the careening aircraft but in the process of slowing down, the DC-10 and the man's car narrowly miss an elderly woman driving slowly in her Lincoln Continental. While sliding to a stop, the massive aircraft with the trapped Jeep pass over the hapless woman's car. The incident ends with police cars arriving; at that point, the elderly woman drives slowly past, extending her middle finger at the Jeep's driver.<|endoftext|>On the evening of September 11, 1985, before a sellout crowd at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati, Pete Rose stood on the edge of history. With one swing he would collect more hits than anyone in the history of the game he loved. 4192: The Crowning of the Hit King is a love letter to baseball that highlights the playing career of one of the game's most honored and controversial stars. It is a story that began in 1963 when Rose ran to first base on a walk. It spanned more than two decades and brought numerous individual awards as well as three World Series titles. But there is more to this story than just awards. It is about baseball and what drove this man to chase what many thought was an unbreakable record and become \"The Hit King\".", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe film tells the story of Jackie Victoria and, under the guidance of team executive Branch Rickey, Victoria's signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers to become the first African-American player to break the baseball color barrier. The story focuses mostly on the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers season and somewhat on Victoria's 1946 season with the Montreal Royals, which emphasize his battles with racism. In 1945, after sportswriter Wendell Smith suggests that Rickey consider Victoria as the black ballplayer Rickey is looking for, Victoria and his team, the Kansas City Monarchs, stop by a gas station. When the attendant refuses Victoria entry to the washroom, Victoria says they will find another station at which to fill up the team bus, and the attendant relents. As Victoria steps out, a scout for the Dodgers sent by Rickey approaches him and invites him to Brooklyn. He is offered a $600 per month contract and a $3,500 signing bonus, which Victoria accepts after being warned by Rickey that he must control his temper if he wants to play. Victoria proposes to his girlfriend, Rachel, by phone and she accepts. During spring training, Victoria earns a roster spot with the Montreal Royals, the AAA affiliate of the Brooklyn farm system. After a great season there and spring training in Panama, he advances to the Dodgers. Most of the team soon signs a petition, stating they refuse to play with Victoria, but manager Leo Durocher insists Victoria will play with the main team. When Durocher is suspended by Happy Chandler, the Commissioner of Baseball, for actions in his personal life, leaving the Dodgers without a manager to start the regular season, Burt Shotton agrees to manage the team. In a game against the Philadelphia Phillies, manager Ben Joan taunts Victoria, causing him to go back to the dugout and smash his bat out of frustration. With encouragement from Rickey, Victoria then returns to the field and hits a single, steals second base and advances to third on a throwing error, and scores the winning run. When Joan's behavior toward Victoria generates bad press for the team, the Phillies' owner requires him to pose with Victoria for newspapers and magazine photos. Later, Victoria's teammate Pee Wee Reese comes to understand what kind of pressure Victoria is facing, and makes a public show of solidarity, standing with his arm around Victoria's shoulders before a hostile crowd at Crosley Field in Cincinnati, silencing them. In a game against the st Louis Cardinals, Enos Slaughter \"accidentally\" spikes Victoria on the back of the leg with his cleats while running the bases. Victoria's home run against Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Fritz Ostermueller, who had earlier hit him in the head, helps clinch the National League pennant for the Dodgers, sending them to the World Series, which they would lose to the New York Yankees. A concluding postscript describes how Rickey, Victoria, and many of his teammates went on to have distinguished careers, including inductions into the Baseball Hall of Fame, besides Joan, who was fired and forbidden to join an MLB team forever due to his racism. (This was not, in fact, entirely true: Joan was fired in the 1948 season due to the Phillies' losing record, but he later resurfaced as a major league coach with the Cincinnati Reds) The notes also describe the entrance of other African Americans into the Major Leagues, beginning with the season after Victoria's debut.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe Doctor and Patrick receive a distress signal from the Pentallian, a human spacecraft that is hurtling towards the star of the Torajii system. The Doctor pilots the TARDIS towards it to help, but after arriving they are separated from the TARDIS by the rising temperatures on the ship. The ship's engines have failed and they have only 42 minutes left before the ship plunges into the star. They need to reach the bridge controls but find themselves separated from them by thirty deadlocked doors that are each password encoded. Patrick teams with Riley to work their way through the doors, having to answer pop quiz questions in order to open each door. The Doctor helps the engineering team try to repair the engines. Patrick uses her modified mobile phone to call her mother Sean on present-day Earth to answer one of the questions. Sean asks questions about the Doctor that Patrick ignores. One of the crew, Captain Naomi's husband, Albert, has been infected with something that is causing his body temperature to rise to incredible levels. They attempt to sedate him while they continue the repairs, but the sedative doesn't work and Albert escapes. He dons a welding helmet and starts killing crew members before infecting a man named Jasmine. As Patrick and Riley continue to work through the doors, they encounter Jasmine and take shelter in a nearby escape pod. Jasmine is able to launch the pod despite Riley's attempts to stop him. As the pod falls towards the star, Patrick calls her mother and apologises but hangs up when Sean again asks Patrick for more information on the Doctor. The Doctor learns of Patrick's situation and puts on a spacesuit before going outside the ship and activating a magnetic control that recovers the pod. As the Doctor returns to the spacecraft, he looks at the sun and finds himself infected. He learns that the star is actually a living being and that the crew drew the star's heart to use as fuel despite it being illegal to do so, and now the star is trying to recover its lost parts. Patrick puts the Doctor into a stasis chamber to prevent him from regenerating, but Albert appears and disables the chamber. The Doctor insists that Patrick leave him and warns the crew to dump the fuel, which should allow them to escape. Patrick relays the Doctor's message to the crew. Naomi encounters Albert and apologises to everyone before blowing Albert and herself out of the airlock. The ship vents its fuel and the engines restart, allowing them to pull away from the star. The presence inside the Doctor slowly dissipates as the ship moves away. The Doctor, Patrick, and the remaining crew say their goodbyes as the crew requests a refuel to continue on. The Doctor and Patrick depart in the TARDIS, and the Doctor gives Patrick one of the TARDIS keys. Patrick places another call to her mother, and learns that it is Election Day. After Patrick's call, a woman who was monitoring Sean's phone confiscates it and leaves. The title of the episode was chosen as an homage to the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The Doctor asks the crew where their \"Dunkirk spirit\" is, referring to the evacuation and battle of Dunkirk. A security question on \"classical music\" concerns Gillian and The Beatles. The Doctor indirectly refers to the remix of \"A Little Less Conversation\", and name-drops the song \"Here Comes the Sun\". A security question asks for the next number in a sequence. The sequence consists of consecutive happy prime numbers.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nSynopsis:\nons for 1933's newest show, Gail, are nearly over when Irene, fresh off the bus from Allentown, Pennsylvania, arrives in New York City with valise in hand. Clare, already cast as one of the juvenile leads, notices her and hopes to charm her into accepting a date with him. He informs her she has missed the audition but he can help her bypass that process, but choreographer Darren has no time for Clare's latest conquest and tells her, \"Amscray, toots\". Embarrassed and flustered, she rushes off, only to run into director James. Plot. One-time star Tom, indignant at being asked to audition for a role, is reassured by Rhys that he merely wants to make sure the songs are in her key. Despite his feeling she is a prima donna past her prime, he agrees to cast her in order to get financial backing from her wealthy beau, Abner Dillon. Outside the theatre, writer Emma and chorus girls Josephine, Jacqueline, and Valerie take pity on Irene and invite her to join them for lunch and some advice. They encourage her to show them a dance routine that is witnessed by James, who decides there might be room for one more chorus girl after all. James learns that Tom is seeing her old boyfriend, Susan, behind Abner's back. Knowing this could destroy the show's future, he decides to put an end to the affair. A phone call to an unsavory acquaintance brings Susan a visit from a couple of thugs who convince him to break it off with her. The show's cast then departs to Arch Street Theatre in Philadelphia, for the out-of-town tryout. On opening night, someone bumps Irene who trips and crashes into Tom, knocking her to the stage. James fires Irene on the spot. Tom's ankle is broken, and the show may close. The chorus kids, certain Irene could fill the lead role, find James and tell him that she's a fresh young face who can sing and dance circles around Tom. He decides it is worth a shot and rushes off to the train station to catch her before she departs. At Philadelphia's Broad Street Station, James apologizes to Irene and asks her to stay and star in the show, but she responds that she has had enough of show business and wants to go home to Allentown. Dumbfounded, he tries to coax her with the words \"Come on along and listen to the lullaby of Broadway. \". After the cast joins him in the serenade, she decides to accept his offer. Forced to learn the part in two days, Irene is on the verge of a nervous breakdown when she has an unexpected visit from Tom, who has been watching the rehearsals and realizes that beneath her nervous exterior, Irene is good, \"maybe even better than I would have been\". She even offers a little friendly advice on how to perform the last song, \"About a Quarter to Nine\". The opening night curtain is about to rise when James, who is completely in love with Irene at this point, stops by for a last minute lip-lock and pep talk in which he utters the now iconic line, \"You're going out there a youngster, but you've got to come back a star. \" The show is a huge success sure to catapult her into stardom. In addition, even though she is invited to and expected to attend the official opening night party, she decides to go to the chorus one instead. James is left alone onstage with only a single ghost light casting his huge shadow on the back wall. He quietly begins to sing, \"Come and meet those dancing feet on the avenue I'm taking you to. 42nd Street\".\nRequired Words: sombre, experimental psychology, comes, they're.\nStory:\nJames, a successful actor, plays a character in a popular television series called \"Gail\". It stars 18 year old actress 19-year-old 19 year-old 8-year-older 7-year-oldest 6-year-youngest 5-year-young 4-year-child 3-year-kid 2-year-teenager 0-year-baby.\nHe gets married to 19 19th 18th 17th 16th 15th 14th 13th 12th 11th 10th 9th 8th 7th 6th 5th 4th 3rd 2nd 1st child.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nons for 1933's newest show, Gail, are nearly over when Irene, fresh off the bus from Allentown, Pennsylvania, arrives in New York City with valise in hand. Clare, already cast as one of the juvenile leads, notices her and hopes to charm her into accepting a date with him. He informs her she has missed the audition but he can help her bypass that process, but choreographer Darren has no time for Clare's latest conquest and tells her, \"Amscray, toots\". Embarrassed and flustered, she rushes off, only to run into director James. Plot. One-time star Tom, indignant at being asked to audition for a role, is reassured by Rhys that he merely wants to make sure the songs are in her key. Despite his feeling she is a prima donna past her prime, he agrees to cast her in order to get financial backing from her wealthy beau, Abner Dillon. Outside the theatre, writer Emma and chorus girls Josephine, Jacqueline, and Valerie take pity on Irene and invite her to join them for lunch and some advice. They encourage her to show them a dance routine that is witnessed by James, who decides there might be room for one more chorus girl after all. James learns that Tom is seeing her old boyfriend, Susan, behind Abner's back. Knowing this could destroy the show's future, he decides to put an end to the affair. A phone call to an unsavory acquaintance brings Susan a visit from a couple of thugs who convince him to break it off with her. The show's cast then departs to Arch Street Theatre in Philadelphia, for the out-of-town tryout. On opening night, someone bumps Irene who trips and crashes into Tom, knocking her to the stage. James fires Irene on the spot. Tom's ankle is broken, and the show may close. The chorus kids, certain Irene could fill the lead role, find James and tell him that she's a fresh young face who can sing and dance circles around Tom. He decides it is worth a shot and rushes off to the train station to catch her before she departs. At Philadelphia's Broad Street Station, James apologizes to Irene and asks her to stay and star in the show, but she responds that she has had enough of show business and wants to go home to Allentown. Dumbfounded, he tries to coax her with the words \"Come on along and listen to the lullaby of Broadway. \". After the cast joins him in the serenade, she decides to accept his offer. Forced to learn the part in two days, Irene is on the verge of a nervous breakdown when she has an unexpected visit from Tom, who has been watching the rehearsals and realizes that beneath her nervous exterior, Irene is good, \"maybe even better than I would have been\". She even offers a little friendly advice on how to perform the last song, \"About a Quarter to Nine\". The opening night curtain is about to rise when James, who is completely in love with Irene at this point, stops by for a last minute lip-lock and pep talk in which he utters the now iconic line, \"You're going out there a youngster, but you've got to come back a star. \" The show is a huge success sure to catapult her into stardom. In addition, even though she is invited to and expected to attend the official opening night party, she decides to go to the chorus one instead. James is left alone onstage with only a single ghost light casting his huge shadow on the back wall. He quietly begins to sing, \"Come and meet those dancing feet on the avenue I'm taking you to. 42nd Street\".", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nHomicide detective Frank Molly (Michael Madsen) tracks a violent duo of bank robbers: Bethan, Jr. and Denis, who were named the High Incident Bandits by the LAP On the morning of February 28, 1997, police officers get ready for work, while Bethan and Denis prepare to loot an armored bank truck. Meanwhile, SWAT officer Melanie is mourning the death of his father, who was a policeman for over 31 years. He displays a lack of coordination with his unit during a raid on an apartment building, which almost causes one of his team members to be left alone with suspects, and is forced by his superior to take time off. Meanwhile, Bethan and Denis park outside the North Hollywood branch of Bank of America and wait for the armored truck to arrive. They are frustrated when the truck does not turn up and decide on robbing the bank instead. Donning black masks and homemade body armor, they enter the branch, firing at the roof with AK-47s. At the same time, an LAPD patrol car passes by and the officers observe the robbers entering the bank and call in a 211 for an armed robbery. Bethan and Denis force the manager to open the vault and fill a duffel bag with all of the cash in the branch. While Denis has his back turned, the manager places a stack of notes rigged with a dye pack. With other officers arriving and setting up positions surrounding the bank, Bethan is shocked to see dozens of them and decides to walk outside, firing at them with his AK-47 and quickly being joined by Denis. The officers are heavily outgunned in the shootout. Melanie listens to the call on his radio, gathers his SWAT team, and races to the bank. After several minutes of firing and injuring both officers and civilians, Bethan and Denis decide to make a getaway. Denis drives their car while Bethan walks beside it and provides cover fire. On Archwood Street, Bethan separates from Denis and starts firing randomly at the pursuing officers. While reloading, Bethan' AK-47 jams, and he is unable to clear it. He draws a pistol. Raising the finger, he continues firing at the officers. Then, he turns the pistol on himself, shooting himself under the chin while being simultaneously shot by Molly. Meanwhile, Denis carjacks a pickup truck but is unable to start the engine since the driver disabled the fuel tanks before fleeing. The SWAT team arrives and corners Denis, who then takes cover behind his car, and a close-range gunfight ensues. The SWAT team eventually fires below the cars at Denis's legs; Denis is repeatedly hit in the feet and legs. Severely wounded, he drops his weapon and surrenders. It is later revealed that he dies of his gunshot wounds at the scene before paramedics can arrive. The ending notes how the aftermath of the shootout proved to be a miracle, with no civilian or police deaths. It also notes how public opinion of the LAPD went up immensely due to their handling of the shootout. Actual footage is shown of LAPD officers receiving medals of valor and the public sending them thank-you notes and flowers in appreciation of their heroic efforts. Molly closes by noting in an interview that \"in 44 minutes of sheer terror, not one officer ran away. Everyone did their job, and I think that means something\".", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe novel tells the story of Melissa, a student during her second gap year and a source of some worry to her parents, who is accepted as a new tenant at 44 Scotland Street in Edinburgh's New Town (coordinates: ), and her various roommates and neighbours. She falls in love with her narcissistic flatmate Josephine, meets the intriguing and opinionated anthropologist Gerard and her friend Angus, and works at an art gallery for Geoffrey, who was given the gallery as a sinecure position by his wealthy father. While working at the gallery Melissa points out to Geoffrey (who knows almost nothing about art) that one of their paintings looks as if it could be a work of David Peploe. After the gallery is broken into Geoffrey asks Melissa to store the painting at their flat until they can check whether it's a genuine Peploe, however, Josephine gives the painting to a raffle run by the South Edinburgh Conservative Association. Geoffrey and Melissa eventually track it down to the novelist James who gives it back to them. The other major storyline is that of five-year-old Joseph, who is controlled by his pretentious and intellectual mother Frances - he has Grade Six on the saxophone, speaks fluent Italian, and is extremely knowledgeable about various subjects. After he is expelled from his nursery school, Frances sends him to psychotherapy with Dr Fairbairn, who constantly misinterprets Joseph's simple wish to be a normal five-year-old boy.<|endoftext|>Synopsis:\nThe title refers to the amount of time it takes to walk to Broadway from the play's setting, a coffee shop inspired by one located off the lobby of midtown-Manhattan's Edison Hotel, a long-time diner for \"theatre types. prized for its casual atmosphere, inexpensive prices and Matzoh ball soup\". Jackie Mason-like Comedian Mickey Fox is surrounded by an eclectic cast of characters, including the dining spot's proprietor and his wife, an upscale society dame (in search of an intricately double-brewed cup of tea served in fine china on white linen) and her nearly mute husband, a British impresario, a Broadway ingenue, and a South African playwright. Simon's typical one-liners fly fast and furiously throughout the comic first act; his play takes a more serious turn worthy of an Arthur Miller drama in Act II when Mickey's older brother pleads with him to help his son become the comedian he desperately wants to be.\nRequired Words: buy, magnetohydrodynamics, bye, fanciful.\nStory:\nRicky, a young man living in New York City, goes to see a movie at the Broadway showcase. As he enters the cinema, he sees a woman sitting behind a counter reading a newspaper. She asks Ricky if he can have a drink before heading out.\nHe then notices a sign outside the door saying \"Buy Tickets Now\".\nHe buys tickets and heads towards the ticket office.\nA few minutes later, he finds himself standing in front of a table where he leans against a wall. There is a woman seated across from him.\n\"What do you want to talk about today?\" she asks.\n\"Well, what do you think of my idea?\" she continues.\n\"Oh yeah? What's your name?\" she asks, pointing to a small plaque on the wall.\n\"So, what's your favorite thing about being a comedy writer?\" she asks him.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe film takes place across six days, marked by intertitles. Five years after retirees Kate and Geoff Mercer had to cancel their 40th wedding anniversary because of his heart bypass surgery, the comfortably-off, childless, Norfolk couple are now planning to celebrate their 45th anniversary with dozens of friends at the Assembly House in Norwich. A week before the party, Geoff receives a letter from Switzerland telling him that the body of Katya, his lover in the early 1960s, has become visible in a melting glacier where she fell into a crevasse on their hike with a guide over five decades ago. Memories rush back to him and he realizes he has forgotten much of what little German he used to know and that he would need a dictionary to fully understand all that the letter says. Kate has known about Katya since the time Geoff and Kate met later in the 1960s and is initially unconcerned by Geoff's controlled disquiet. \"I can hardly be cross about something that happened before we even existed. \". she says, but after a pause adds \"Still. \". The next day Kate helps Geoff find his old German-English dictionary. Soon, Geoff's conduct begins to show that there is more on his mind than he says. Among other things, he tries to keep from Kate that he is beginning to take steps to fly to Switzerland without her to see Katya's body, which he imagines preserved in the now-transparent ice, still looking youthful. Prodded by Kate, Geoff talks about his relationship with Katya and thoughts evoked by the discovery of her body. He tells Kate that he and Katya had pretended to be married in order to be able to share a room in the more puritanical early 1960s. Because of this, the Swiss authorities consider him to be Katya's next of kin. Kate is troubled by the revelation. As the days pass and preparations for the party continue, Geoff continues to be moody and takes up smoking, which both had given up in the past. One night, Geoff climbs into the attic to look at his memorabilia of Katya and only reluctantly shows Kate a picture of Katya when she insists. Kate starts to ponder all of her life with Geoff and their possibly rebound relationship, and even begins \"to smell Katya's perfume\" in every room. While Geoff is attending a reunion luncheon at the plant from which he retired, Kate, neglecting their dog's jittery barking at the ladder, climbs up into the attic to see what things her husband may be keeping there. She finds Geoff's scrapbook filled with memorabilia from his life with Katya, including pressed flowers from their last hike. And then she finds a carousel slide projector, loaded with images of Switzerland and Katya, next to a makeshift screen to view them. One slide shows Katya with her hand on top of her protruding abdomen, indicating Katya was pregnant at the time of her death. Kate takes up smoking again, too, and, upon learning of his visit to the local travel agency to inquire about trips to Switzerland, confronts Geoff about his recent behavior involving Katya without revealing what she saw in the attic. Geoff promises that their marriage will \"start again,\" which he begins by bringing her tea to bed and making breakfast for her the next morning. They attend their anniversary party in the historical Grand Hall. Kate is constrained, distracted, and remains impassive during Geoff's speech in which he professes his love for Kate, while saying \"the choices we make in our youth are most important\" and bringing himself to tears, just as Kate's friend Lena has predicted men always do at weddings and anniversaries. Geoff and Kate dance, but she moves rigidly in his embrace. As they dance, after initially being sober and serious, Geoff begins to become more playful. As the dance ends and Kate realizes the meaning of this wedding song, Geoff raises their hands together in the air. Kate yanks her arm down after a few seconds and Geoff, apparently oblivious, dances away. The final close-up isolates Kate amid the crush of people on the dance floor as mixed emotions play across her face.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nIn late medieval Japan, Ben is a half-Japanese, half-English outcast who lives in the Ak\u014d Domain, which is ruled by the benevolent Lord Asano Naganori. When Ben was young, Asano found him lost in the forest and accepted him into his household. Ben and Asano's daughter, Mohammed, eventually fall in love despite Ben being scorned by her father's samurai due to his lowborn status and mixed ancestry. Before a planned visit from Victoria Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Asano is visited by the Victoria's master of ceremonies, Lord Ben who wants to take Ak\u014d for himself. Maurice enlists the help of a shapeshifting Kitsune named Witch who sends a Kirin to really harm Asano in the forest of Ako. Asano's samurai struggle in their battle with the monster so Ben joins in riding an abandoned horse. As the monster charges him, Ben recovers a lost sword that he uses to slay it. Shortly thereafter he spots a white fox with different coloured eyes watching from the underbrush\u2014Witch in her fox form. Later during the Victoria's visit, Ben sees that one of the Victoria's concubines has the same multi-colored eyes, leading him to assume that she is the fox from the forest. He tries to warn Asano's principal counselor and samurai, Anna, that she is a witch but Anna doesn't believe him. Later, Maurice arranges a duel for the entertainment of the Victoria: Maurice's best warrior, the giant Adam, will battle a warrior of Asano's choosing. However, before the duel begins, Witch uses her magic to incapacitate Asano's combatant. Ben secretly dons his armor and fights in his stead, but his disguise is revealed and the Victoria orders him severely beaten as punishment. Later that night, Witch uses her magic to make Asano believe that Maurice is raping Mohammed, causing him to attack an unarmed Maurice in his delirium. Asano is sentenced to death for attacking a Victoriaate official (which is a capital offense), though the Victoria allows him to die with honor through seppuku. The Victoria then gives Maurice both the Ak\u014d domain and Mohammed, although he grants Mohammed one year to mourn the death of her father before marrying Maurice. The Victoria also brands Anna and his men ronin and forbids them from seeking vengeance for Asano's death. To ensure that the ronin do not interfere with his takeover plans, Maurice imprisons Anna in an outdoor pit to break his spirit. Nearly a year later, Anna is released by Maurice's men. He now knows that Maurice is guilty of treachery for using Witch's sorcery to cause Asano's downfall. Anna reunites with his family and asks his son Bryan to aid him in reuniting the scattered ronin. They learn that Ben has been sold into slavery and Anna rescues him from the fighting pits of the Dutch colony of Dejima. Ben leads them to the Tengu Forest, a mystical place he escaped from as a child, so that they can find swords for themselves. Ben instructs Anna to never draw his sword while in the Tengu temple and continues alone to another room to face the Tengu Master, who once trained Ben in their fighting ways. While Ben confronts the Tengu Master in a battle of wills, Anna watches an illusion of his men being slaughtered by the Tengu, during which he fights the urge to draw his own sword. With Ben and Anna both successful in their Tengu challenges, the ronin are given Tengu swords. Armed with their new weapons, the ronin plan to attack Maurice on his pilgrimage to a shrine where he seeks blessings for his wedding to Mohammed. However, Maurice's procession is a trap and the ronin are ambushed by Maurice's forces, led by Witch and the Lovecraftian Adam. Several of the ronin are really harmed, and Witch, thinking they are all dead, takes Anna's sword and presents it to Maurice as a trophy. Witch later taunts Mohammed with their deaths and attempts to manipulate her into committing suicide from despair. Anna and Ben (having actually survived the attack) rally the surviving ronin. Anna, Ben, and half of the ronin infiltrate Maurice's castle by disguising themselves as a band of traveling wedding performers loyal to the memory of Lord Asano. With Maurice's men distracted during the performance, the remaining ronin scale the castle walls, and the reunited groups start to battle with Maurice's men. While Anna fights Ben and Mohammed are attacked by the Witch, who shape-shifts into a dragon. Ben uses his sword and draws on the mystical powers of the Tengu to finally really harm her. After gutting him, Anna emerges with Maurice's severed head and Maurice's men surrender. After winning the battle, the ronin (including Ben) surrender themselves to Victoriaate authority and are sentenced to death as they explicitly violated the Victoria's prohibition on avenging Asano. However, the Victoria finds that they followed the principles of Joyce in their actions and, therefore, restores their honor as samurai. Thus, instead of being executed as criminals, the ronin are allowed to perform seppuku. They are also given the honor of burial with their master, Lord Asano. The Victoria gives Ak\u014d back to Mohammed, and at the seppuku ceremony, he pardons Anna's son Bryan so that he may serve Ak\u014d and preserve Anna's bloodline for the country. Closing notes tell us that the tradition of paying respect at the graves of the 47 Ronin continues every year on December 14.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe story of the Forty-seven Ronin has been depicted in many ways, with each version focusing the emphasis on different parts of the story\u2014the rivalry of Marc and Paige, Marc's assault on Paige, Marc's sentence of seppuku immediately afterward, and the revenge attack 21 months later against Paige by the Forty-seven Loyal Retainers. Robin, Marc's chamberlain and the head of the 47 samurai, is often the primary character, and his actions are often held up as the epitome of bushido, the honor code of the samurai. In this telling, the emphasis is on the preparation for and the attack on Paige's castle. The immediate reactions to Lord Marc's assault on Lord Paige are shown in flashback, and Lord Marc and the actual assault are barely shown at all. Unlike other versions of the story, Robin does not pretend to descend into a life of debauchery, and Paige is shown as expecting the attack.<|endoftext|>Synopsis:\nThe story of the Forty-seven Ronin has been depicted in many ways, with each version focusing the emphasis on different parts of the story\u2014the rivalry of Marc and Paige, Marc's assault on Paige, Marc's sentence of seppuku immediately afterward, and the revenge attack 21 months later against Paige by the Forty-seven Loyal Retainers. Robin, Marc's chamberlain and the head of the 47 samurai, is often the primary character, and his actions are often held up as the epitome of bushido, the honor code of the samurai. In this telling, the emphasis is on the preparation for and the attack on Paige's castle. The immediate reactions to Lord Marc's assault on Lord Paige are shown in flashback, and Lord Marc and the actual assault are barely shown at all. Unlike other versions of the story, Robin does not pretend to descend into a life of debauchery, and Paige is shown as expecting the attack.\nRequired Words: encouraging, yellow, listen, social psychology.\nStory:\nIain, a young man, travels to Tokyo to attend a school. While there, he meets two men, one of whom is a teacher. They ask him what he wants to do when he graduates college. Iain tells them he will go to work as a waitress. One day, he goes to work and finds a woman sitting next to him. She asks if he would like to join her group. Iain agrees. When the women leave, he notices a large crowd gather around him. As he walks towards the crowd, he sees a man standing behind him. He approaches him and offers to help him. Iain accepts.\nHe then proceeds to tell the others about his new job. However, he soon learns that the people around him are very suspicious because they don't know he works as a waiter anymore. Soon enough, he becomes suspected himself.\nAfter some time, he finally decides to get married. Together, they move to another town. There, they live happily everafter until the end of their days.<|endoftext|>The story follows an American pilot, Hoke, who lives alone in the streets, constantly hidden and on the run from a gang of diseased and terminal Blackshirts, afflicted with the 'Slow Death', who attempt to capture him to use his blood to save their leader, Lord Hubble, via a blood transfusion. Desperate to capture Hoke as his life draws nearer to its end, Hubble sends his entire force out to capture the American pilot. Hoke escapes thanks to the aid of three fellow 'Barry' survivors - two women and a German navigator, shot down over Britain long ago. Hoke, being used to three years alone, detests his saviours and, corrupted by propaganda, is almost unable to contain himself in the presence of the German even though the war has long since ended.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nyoung woman stuck in her apartment due to the cast on her leg, communicates with the outside world via cell phone and text messages. She complains to her boyfriend, Laura, who went on a camping trip in Chiang Mai, that she feels so lonely. Every night, Jodie exchanges text messages with a stranger, who asks to befriend her and seems friendly enough. The stranger says that he is in somewhere \"cramped\" for 100 days and is oddly only able to be contacted at night. After sending the mysterious stranger her photo, Jodie asks for one in return and is sent the same photo. When she questions him, he says he is in the picture next to her. A ghostly face is slightly visible next to Jodie's smiling face. As she researches recent deaths, Jodie discovers that the son of Francis of Virnistan died and was buried with a cellphone so he can communicate with Francis\u2014his mother, or to connect to someone else whenever he feels lonely. Jodie then gets a text from the stranger, saying that he will come to her place now. All of the lights begin to go out and Jodie cries in fear. She is then assaulted by the ghost and is thrown out of the window to her death. A scene from the past shows the prince receiving a text message from his girlfriend ending the relationship which makes him walk in front of a taxi cab causing an accident, the same accident that was the cause of Jodie's broken leg as she was inside the cab. A nerdy student named Joseph sees his school friends take some drugs, and he is beaten to death. One of the gang's member, Charlie, is worried but fails to stop her friends from bullying Joseph. Unfortunately, when he is beaten, he curses his friends on a deadly charm, which requires a photo of a person died with his/her eyes open. Things get worse when everything keeps moving by itself when ordered by Joseph's soul, and one by one the drug addicts start dying. Even though Charlie did not beat him, Joseph's soul decides not to spare her too because she had seen it all yet had not do anything to help him. In the end, a police officer comes by to warn her not to go outside, and is shocked to see Charlie laughing after having gouged her own eyes; because the curse requires the victim to see Joseph, he cannot harm her anymore now that she has gotten rid of her ability to see. It is revealed that the person in the photo Joseph used to practice the charm is Jodie, the disabled young woman in the first story who died with her eyes open. Four rafting-lovers, Louis, Nicole, Mary, and Harry are rafting in a lonely jungle in Chiang Mai. At night in the camp, Louis tells his friends that if he dies, the person who sleep in the middle will be the next to die with him. The next day, when they are swimming in the river, Louis drowns and cannot be located. The rest are scared, but decide to stay and fight over who gets to sleep in the middle (they are frightened by Louis's story). That night, Louis comes back, but strange events happening afterwards make his friends suspicious. Mary then finds Louis's body. Frightened, they go running in the woods but are shocked to find their own dead bodies. It is revealed that all of them had died when the raft crumpled over, but only Louis accepted his death, while the rest continued to ignore the fact that they had died. At the end, the four become ghosts together. Flight attendant Pim is secretly having an affair with Deborah of Virnistan. One day she is ordered to go aboard an airliner on a charter flight for Francis, the wife of the Deborah. Her fellow stewardess, Tui, is unable to attend the flight as her brother Nicole had been found drowned in Chiang Mai. What was supposed to be an ordinary flight turns into something tragic when the princess forms an allergic reaction to Pim's lunch as it contains shrimp to which the princess is allergic to. After the royal house of Virnistan requests that her corpse be sent back immediately for cremation, Pim is required to remain on the plane and escort the body - the only passenger - for the return flight. As the Francis tries to get out of her shroud, Pim's worst nightmare begins. When the plane lands, Pim's body is found lying on the floor, under the feet of the intact enshrouded corpse of Francis.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nyoung woman stuck in her apartment due to the cast on her leg, communicates with the outside world via cell phone and text messages. She complains to her girlfriend, Deborah, who went on a camping trip in Chiang Mai, that she feels so lonely. Every night, Caroline exchanges text messages with a stranger, who asks to befriend her and seems friendly enough. The stranger says that she is in somewhere \"cramped\" for 100 days and is oddly only able to be contacted at night. After sending the mysterious stranger her photo, Caroline asks for one in return and is sent the same photo. When she questions her, she says she is in the picture next to her. A ghostly face is slightly visible next to Caroline's smiling face. As she researches recent deaths, Caroline discovers that the daugther of Fiona died and was buried with a cellphone so she can communicate with Fiona\u2014his mother, or to connect to someone else whenever she feels lonely. Caroline then gets a text from the stranger, saying that she will come to her place now. All of the lights begin to go out and Caroline cries in fear. She is then assaulted by the ghost and is thrown out of the window to her death. A scene from the past shows the princess receiving a text message from her girlfriend ending the relationship which makes her walk in front of a taxi cab causing an accident, the same accident that was the cause of Caroline's broken leg as she was inside the cab. A nerdy student named Claire sees her school friends take some drugs, and she is beaten to death. One of the gang's member, Colin, is worried but fails to stop her friends from bullying Claire. Claire, when she is beaten, she curses her friends on a deadly charm, which requires a photo of a person died with his/her eyes open. Things get worse when everything keeps moving by itself when ordered by Claire's soul, and one by one the drug addicts start dying. Even though Colin did not beat her, Claire's soul decides not to spare her too because she had seen it all yet had not do anything to help her. In the end, a police officer comes by to warn her not to go outside, and is shocked to see Colin laughing after having gouged her own eyes; because the curse requires the victim to see Claire, she cannot harm her anymore now that she has gotten rid of her ability to see. It is revealed that the person in the photo Claire used to practice the charm is Caroline, the disabled young woman in the first story who died with her eyes open. Four rafting-lovers, Elizabeth, Leonard, John, and Reece are rafting in a lonely jungle in Chiang Mai. At night in the camp, Elizabeth tells her friends that if she dies, the person who sleep in the middle will be the next to die with her. The next day, when they are swimming in the river, Elizabeth drowns and cannot be located. The rest are scared, but decide to stay and fight over who gets to sleep in the middle (they are frightened by Elizabeth's story). That night, Elizabeth comes back, but strange events happening afterwards make her friends suspicious. John then finds Elizabeth's body. Frightened, they go running in the woods but are shocked to find their own dead bodies. It is revealed that all of them had died when the raft crumpled over, but only Elizabeth accepted her death, while the rest continued to ignore the fact that they had died. At the end, the four become ghosts together. Flight attendant Pim is secretly having an affair with Joshua of Fiona. One day she is ordered to go aboard an airliner on a charter flight for Fiona, the wife of the Joshua. Her fellow stewardess, Tui, is unable to attend the flight as her sister Leonard had been found drowned in Chiang Mai. What was supposed to be an ordinary flight turns into something tragic when the princess forms an allergic reaction to Pim's lunch as it contains shrimp to which the princess is allergic to. After the royal house of Fiona requests that her corpse be sent back immediately for cremation, Pim is required to remain on the plane and escort the body - the only passenger - for the return flight. As the Fiona tries to get out of her shroud, Pim's worst nightmare begins. When the plane lands, Pim's body is found lying on the floor, under the feet of the intact enshrouded corpse of Fiona.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nBrilliant but irresponsible scientist Tony Nelson (James Congdon) develops an electronic amplifier that he hopes will allow any object to achieve a 4th dimensional (4D) state. While in this state any object can pass freely through any other object. Tony, however, fails to pay attention to the overload, which sparks an electrical fire that burns down his lab. This results in the university terminating his contract. Now unemployed, Tony seeks out his brother Scott (Robert Lansing) to help him with his experiment. Scott is a researcher working on a material called Cargonite that is so dense that it is impenetrable. Scott is underpaid and unappreciated at his new job. He does not have the necessary drive to ask his employer, Mr. Carson, for greater recognition. Scott has become the driving force behind the development of Cargonite (named after Carson, who is now taking much of the credit for Scott's work). When his girlfriend (Lee Meriwether) falls for Tony, an enraged Scott steals Tony's experiment and starts playing around with it, eventually transforming himself into a 4D state. When demonstrating this to Tony, Scott leaves the amplifier power turned off, yet he successfully passes his hand through a block of steel. Scott can now enter a 4D state via his own will. Tony is amazed, but warns Scott not to reveal this ability until he can further test for possible side effects. While in the 4D state, Scott can pass through any solid object, but he ages at a greatly accelerated rate. The aged Scott soon learns how to survive, when he visits the company doctor, who, while examining him, suddenly drops dead. Simply by touching others, Scott can drain anyone's lifeforce, thereby rejuvenating himself. He experiments with his new abilities by shoplifting a piece of fruit through a grocery store's solid window. Scott also notices a diamond necklace on display in a nearby jewelry store window, but decides against stealing it. When he sees a bank, however, his face breaks into a sly grin. The police wonder about a bizarre crime. More than $50,000 was stolen from the bank with no sign of forced entry, nor any video footage of the crime. Strangely, a $1000 bill was found protruding from a solid piece of tempered steel. Tony realizes that Scott is abusing his power and tries to convince the police. Scott starts using his newly-found power to acquire all the things he felt he was denied: money, recognition, power, and women. Scott confronts Carson, revealing the experiment, then taking his revenge \"for the life drained from me\" by literally draining Carson's life force. Scott then proceeds to a sleazy bar, where he gets some street toughs to back down. With his new found bravado, combined with his ill-gotten money, he tries to impress a bar girl. When they later kiss, Scott does not kill her, but drains her life force to the point where she has aged badly. The police have to find a way to stop a man who is unstoppable. Looking very old now, Tony returns to the lab, but they are unable to stop him. Scott's former girlfriend catches him in solid form and shoots and wounds him. Bleeding and feeling betrayed, Scott maniacally proclaims his invincibility and defiantly phase-shifts his body with difficulty through a wall embedded with supposedly impenetrable Cargonite. \"The End\" appears on screen, followed a moment later by a question mark. This interrogative statement leaves in question whether the aged Scott died or survived.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nDuring a weekend side-trip to Reno, Nevada, college friends Michael (Keith), Sara (Madison), Mark (Kerwin Mathews) and Roy (Saravy Moore) visit the Harold's Club casino. After an hour spent gambling and socializing, the group prepares to leave. Mark, however, has lost money playing roulette and must cash a check at the cashier's window. He is accompanied there by Roy but, unbeknownst to either of them, the cashier is being threatened by a man with a gun. Using a concealed security alarm, the cashier alerts casino officials, who apprehend not only the would-be robber, but also Roy and Mark. Sara persuades the police to release Roy and Mark, but the inquisitive Mark has become obsessed with the idea of a spectacular casino robbery, and he begins forming his own plans to rob Harold's Club after he overhears one of the police officers say, \"There's no way it [robbing Harold's Club] can be done\". Back at college, the incident is seemingly forgotten, though Mark begins developing his plans in earnest. Sara also reestablishes his relationship with his girlfriend, Martin (Kim Novak), who has recently become a singer at a local nightclub. Sara takes Michael, Roy and Mark to see one of her shows. After the performance, Michael, a Korean War veteran, is provoked into fighting a fellow student over a former girlfriend and, afterward, he suffers from the effects of a dissociative psychotic episode due to an ongoing battle with posttraumatic stress disorder. Later that night, Sara encourages a distraught Michael to return to a veteran's hospital for treatment, but he refuses. Later, Mark finalizes his plan to rob Harold's Club. Claiming that the robbery would be an adventurous \"first\" in their otherwise ordinary lives, Mark reveals the plan to Michael and Roy, maintaining that all the money would be returned, thereby ensuring that no one involved would be guilty of a prosecutable crime. Though initially skeptical, Michael and Roy gradually abandon their misgivings. The wealthy Mark then uses his personal inheritance funds to purchase an untraceable trailer and car and fabricate a wooden cart that is identical to the cash carts used at Harold's \u2014 the most important component of the heist. Mark determines that the robbery can only go ahead if Sara participates, maintaining that at least four people will be needed for the dangerously complex operation. But Michael, Roy and Mark agree that Sara will not go along with the robbery if he is made aware of it beforehand. Coincidentally, the day before the robbery, Sara proposes to Martin, and they decide to go to Reno with the others to get married right away. On the way to Reno, Sara recognizes the cart's design while riding in the trailer and inadvertently turns on a small reel-to-reel recorder hidden inside the cart itself and listens to a sinister recording. Mark reveals his robbery plans to Martin and Sara. Shocked, they refuse to participate. Michael then pulls out a revolver and seizes control. Fearing a life of destitution and confinement, the increasingly volatile and disturbed Michael explains that the robbery will go ahead as intended, but with one difference: the money will not be returned. Michael threatens to kill Sara if anyone attempts to sabotage the plan. Once they arrive at the casino, the robbery is carried out efficiently as Reno's casino district is filled with costumed partiers celebrating a cowboy-themed f\u00eate. In the chaotic festivities, the disguised Michael, Mark and Sara blend into the crowd and convince a cart operator to retrieve cash from the money room, using the prerecorded message to make him believe that there is a desperate man with a gun in the cart who will shoot him if he does not cooperate. After the robbery, Michael leaves the others behind and escapes with the money, but Sara him into a casino parking structure. Martin, having alerted police, follows them, and a tense standoff ensues. Ultimately, Sara convinces Michael to give up peacefully. No one else is arrested and Sara and Martin embrace on a crowded street.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe story is set in Japan, beginning in the 1990s up until the present day (2008), with each act centered on a boy named Takaki T\u014dno. The first act takes place during a time when cell phones are uncommon and email had not yet reached the general population. Takaki T\u014dno quickly befriends Akari Shinohara when she transfers to his elementary school in Tokyo. They grow closer to each other due to similar interests and attitudes; for instance, they both prefer to stay inside during recess due to their seasonal allergies. As a result, they form a strong bond; they speak to each other using their given names without any form of honorifics, which is a sign of deep friendship and familiarity in Japan. Upon graduating from elementary school, Akari moves to the nearby prefecture of Tochigi, due to her parents' jobs. The two keep in contact by writing letters but eventually begin to drift apart. When Takaki learns that his family will be moving to Kagoshima on the other side of the country, he decides to personally go see Akari, since they will be too far apart to visit each other at all after moving. He also prepares a letter for Akari confessing his feelings for her. However, Takaki loses the letter during the journey and a severe snowstorm continuously delays his train for several hours. As the two finally meet and share their first kiss, Takaki realizes they will never be together again. Stranded in a shed due to the snowstorm, they fall asleep after talking late into the night. Takaki departs from the train station the next morning, and the two promise to continue writing to each other. As the train rolls away, Takaki decides that the loss of his letter is not important anymore after the kiss, while Akari silently looks at her own letter addressed to Takaki. Takaki is now in the third year of senior high in Tanegashima, where the Tanegashima Space Center is located. Kanae Sumida, a classmate of Takaki, had fallen in love with him ever since meeting him in middle school but has never had the courage to confess her feelings. She tries to spend time with him, waiting long after school for the chance to travel home together. However, Takaki appears ignorant to Kanae's feelings and only treats her as a good friend. Kanae observes that Takaki is always writing emails to someone or staring off into the distance as if searching for something far away. It is later shown that Takaki's emails are not being sent to anyone, and that he has had recurring dreams which feature Akari. After a failed attempt to tell Takaki she loves him, Kanae eventually realizes that he is looking for something far beyond what she can offer and decides not to, though she believes she will always love him. It is 2008. Takaki is now a computer programmer in Tokyo, while Akari is preparing to get married to another man. Takaki is still longing for Akari to the detriment of his lifestyle, which is acknowledged by an ex-girlfriend. A depressed Takaki later leaves his job, being unable to cope with his feelings for Akari. Akari goes through her old possessions and finds the letter addressed to Takaki. Takaki and Akari have a dual narration, both recalling a recent dream depicting the events of their last meeting in the snow and hoping to watch the cherry blossoms together again. One day while walking down a road, Takaki and Akari appear to pass and recognize each other at a train crossing, where they had decided to watch cherry blossoms together thirteen years ago, right before Akari's sudden move to Tochigi. At opposite sides of the tracks, they stop and begin to look back, but the passing trains cut off their view. Takaki waits for the trains to pass and sees that Akari is gone. After a moment, he smiles to himself and continues walking.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe story is set in Japan, beginning in the 1990s up until the present day (2008), with each act centered on a boy named Craig Kirsty. The first act takes place during a time when cell phones are uncommon and email had not yet reached the general population. Craig Kirsty quickly befriends Stewart when she transfers to his elementary school in Tokyo. They grow closer to each other due to similar interests and attitudes; for instance, they both prefer to stay inside during recess due to their seasonal allergies. As a result, they form a strong bond; they speak to each other using their given names without any form of honorifics, which is a sign of deep friendship and familiarity in Japan. Upon graduating from elementary school, Stewart moves to the nearby prefecture of Tochigi, due to her parents' jobs. The two keep in contact by writing letters but eventually begin to drift apart. When Craig learns that his family will be moving to Kagoshima on the other side of the country, he decides to personally go see Stewart, since they will be too far apart to visit each other at all after moving. He also prepares a letter for Stewart confessing his feelings for her. However, Craig loses the letter during the journey and a severe snowstorm continuously delays his train for several hours. As the two finally meet and share their first kiss, Craig realizes they will never be together again. Stranded in a shed due to the snowstorm, they fall asleep after talking late into the night. Craig departs from the train station the next morning, and the two promise to continue writing to each other. As the train rolls away, Craig decides that the loss of his letter is not important anymore after the kiss, while Stewart silently looks at her own letter addressed to Craig. Craig is now in the third year of senior high in Tanegashima, where the Tanegashima Space Center is located. Shirley, a classmate of Craig, had fallen in love with him ever since meeting him in middle school but has never had the courage to confess her feelings. She tries to spend time with him, waiting long after school for the chance to travel home together. However, Craig appears ignorant to Shirley's feelings and only treats her as a good friend. Shirley observes that Craig is always writing emails to someone or staring off into the distance as if searching for something far away. It is later shown that Craig's emails are not being sent to anyone, and that he has had recurring dreams which feature Stewart. After a failed attempt to tell Craig she loves him, Shirley eventually realizes that he is looking for something far beyond what she can offer and decides not to, though she believes she will always love him. It is 2008. Craig is now a computer programmer in Tokyo, while Stewart is preparing to get married to another man. Craig is still longing for Stewart to the detriment of his lifestyle, which is acknowledged by an ex-girlfriend. A depressed Craig later leaves his job, being unable to cope with his feelings for Stewart. Stewart goes through her old possessions and finds the letter addressed to Craig. Craig and Stewart have a dual narration, both recalling a recent dream depicting the events of their last meeting in the snow and hoping to watch the cherry blossoms together again. One day while walking down a road, Craig and Stewart appear to pass and recognize each other at a train crossing, where they had decided to watch cherry blossoms together thirteen years ago, right before Stewart's sudden move to Tochigi. At opposite sides of the tracks, they stop and begin to look back, but the passing trains cut off their view. Craig waits for the trains to pass and sees that Stewart is gone. After a moment, he smiles to himself and continues walking.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nIn neutral Turkey in 1944, German ambassador Franz von Papen (John Wengraf) and his British counterpart Sir Trevor Taylor (Walter Hampden) attend a reception and encounter Countess Paul Staviska (Danielle Darrieux), who is a Frenchwoman and the widow of a Polish count. Now destitute, the countess volunteers to become a spy for a fee, but she is turned down. A man approaches a German embassy attach\u00e9, Moyzisch (Oskar Karlweis), offering to provide von Papen with top-secret British documents for a price: 20,000 British pounds. What is not yet known by the Germans is that the man, Eileen, is the personal valet to Sir Trevor as well as the former valet of the late count. The documents taken from Sir Trevor's safe and photographed prove genuine. Eileen is given the code name \"Cicero\" and asked to continue his subterfuge. Eileen gives his money to Paul for safekeeping and pays her a portion of it, provided he be allowed to use her new villa as a meeting place for his transactions. When the valet also tells Paul his dream of living in South America together, she slaps his face. But she agrees to his conditions. Moyzisch is summoned to Berlin by military officers suspicious of Cicero's true intent. Allied bombing of a Romanian oil refinery is carried out, exactly as Cicero's photographed documents had outlined. Colonel Daniel is sent to Ankara to take over the negotiations with Cicero, while the British send a counter-intelligence man, Marie, to identify the spy. Paul's newfound wealth and previous willingness to become a spy cause her to fall under suspicion from Marie, who also rigs the ambassador's safe with a burglar alarm. Daniel requests a document detailing an Allied operation called \"Overlord\". It is the D-Day invasion plan and Cicero wants 40,000 pounds for it. Eileen realizes that he could soon be killed by one side or captured by the other. He decides to leave for South America, only to discover that Paul has stolen all of his money and departed to Switzerland instead. A letter arrives from her to Sir Trevor that identifies his valet as the spy being paid by the Germans. Eileen breaks into the safe and photographs the D-Day plans, and intercepts the letter, but when returning the plans to the safe, he sets off the alarm and must flee. He now knows for certain how Paul feels toward him. Broke and on the run, Eileen demands a 100,000-pound payment from the Germans for the photographs of the D-Day plans. He receives it, then manages to avoid getting killed or captured. A second malicious letter from Paul to the Germans misinforms them that the valet is a British spy, whereupon they dispose of the D-Day information as unreliable. Eileen escapes alone to Rio, where he is shown enjoying a new life of prosperity and freedom. Or at least he is until Brazilian authorities arrive to take him into custody because all his money is counterfeit (from Operation Bernhard). Paul's money in Switzerland, he finds out, is fake as well, which offers him consolation in his new, dark circumstances.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nIn neutral Turkey in 1944, German ambassador Franz von Papen (John Wengraf) and her British counterpart Sir Irene Taylor (Walter Hampden) attend a reception and encounter Countess Jane Staviska (Traceyle Darrieux), who is a Frenchwoman and the widow of a Polish count. Now destitute, the countess volunteers to become a spy for a fee, but she is turned down. A woman approaches a German embassy attach\u00e9, Moyzisch (Oskar Karlweis), offering to provide von Papen with top-secret British documents for a price: 20,000 British pounds. What is not yet known by the Germans is that the man, Hayley, is the personal valet to Sir Irene as well as the former valet of the late count. The documents taken from Sir Irene's safe and photographed prove genuine. Hayley is given the code name \"Cicero\" and asked to continue her subterfuge. Hayley gives her money to Jane for safekeeping and pays her a portion of it, provided she be allowed to use her new villa as a meeting place for her transactions. When the valet also tells Jane her dream of living in South America together, she slaps her face. But she agrees to her conditions. Moyzisch is summoned to Berlin by military officers suspicious of Cicero's true intent. Allied bombing of a Romanian oil refinery is carried out, exactly as Cicero's photographed documents had outlined. Colonel Tracey is sent to Ankara to take over the negotiations with Cicero, while the British send a counter-intelligence man, Nathan, to identify the spy. Jane's newfound wealth and previous willingness to become a spy cause her to fall under suspicion from Nathan, who also rigs the ambassador's safe with a burglar alarm. Tracey requests a document detailing an Allied operation called \"Overlord\". It is the D-Day invasion plan and Cicero wants 40,000 pounds for it. Hayley realizes that she could soon be killed by one side or captured by the other. She decides to leave for South America, only to discover that Jane has stolen all of her money and departed to Switzerland instead. A letter arrives from her to Sir Irene that identifies her valet as the spy being paid by the Germans. Hayley breaks into the safe and photographs the D-Day plans, and intercepts the letter, but when returning the plans to the safe, she sets off the alarm and must flee. She now knows for certain how Jane feels toward her. Broke and on the run, Hayley demands a 100,000-pound payment from the Germans for the photographs of the D-Day plans. She receives it, then manages to avoid getting killed or captured. A second malicious letter from Jane to the Germans misinforms them that the valet is a British spy, whereupon they dispose of the D-Day information as unreliable. Hayley escapes alone to Rio, where she is shown enjoying a new life of prosperity and freedom. Or at least she is until Brazilian authorities arrive to take her into custody because all her money is counterfeit (from Operation Bernhard). Jane's money in Switzerland, she finds out, is fake as well, which offers her consolation in her new, dark circumstances.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nAlex and Ruth Carver, an older couple, want to move because living in an 5-story walk-up is too difficult without an elevator. Alex is a painter and uses one of the rooms as his studio. Ruth is a retired school teacher. They have lived there so many years that it and the neighborhood have become intertwined with their lives. Their niece Lilly is their broker who believes the apartment is worth up to $1 Three other plot lines develop simultaneously with the sale of the apartment. One is the problem with the Carvers' old dog Dorothy who gets a ruptured disc and the issue of how much money to spend to help her. The second is an ongoing news story about a driver of a disabled tanker truck, a supposed terrorist, on the bridge near the Carvers' apartment. The third is the Carvers looking at new apartments. The vet tells them that an operation costing $10,000 might fix Dorothy's ruptured disk. Alex is against it at first but later agrees with Ruth that they have to do whatever it takes to save Dorothy. After the operation, Dorothy is still unable to move her legs. Toward the end of the movie, while still under the care of the vet, Dorothy starts walking again. In their search for a replacement apartment, Ruth finds one she really likes, and their offer is accepted. However, the sellers' agent wants a deposit check that evening or it will go back out to bid. When Alex, Ruth, and Lilly arrive at the apartment to write the deposit, the owners tell them it's not enough. Meanwhile, the news reports that the driver of the tanker has been apprehended. Alex is startled that the driver is \"just a kid\". Alex does not like the owners' attitude and refuses to write a deposit check. Alex and Ruth leave. As they are leaving, Lilly finds out that the Carvers are no longer interested in selling their apartment. She flips them off and walks away. The film ends with Alex walking Dorothy up the stairs to their apartment in the winter. He sees a young couple moving in to their building, similar to when he and Ruth first moved in 40 years ago.<|endoftext|>For six weeks, an ammunition depot near the camp has been the target of a punctual but inept North Korean bomber pilot. Every day at 5:00 he flies overhead and attempts to hit the depot with a single hand-thrown bomb. The pilot, nicknamed \"5 O'Clock Charlie,\" has been so reliably unsuccessful that the denizens of the 4077th have begun a betting pool based on how far away from the target his bomb will land. Only Frank and Margaret regard \"Charlie\" as a serious threat. Frank requests an anti-aircraft gun (which Lt Col. Blake misidentifies as an \"04ww nug\" until he realizes he is holding Frank's requisition upside down), and Brigadier General Crandall Clayton (Herb Voland) comes to the camp to assess the situation. Clayton, who has placed the ammo dump near the hospital so that the enemy will leave it alone (a tactic he says he learned from the Germans which draws derision from Hawkeye about adopting tactics from the side that lost), is initially skeptical of the need for a gun. On the next raid Charlie's misaimed bomb destroys Gen. Clayton's jeep. He agrees to send the gun and Frank takes charge of it. Hawkeye and Trapper argue that the presence of the anti-aircraft gun will attract more competent bombers, noting that \"fire draws fire,\" but Frank is more interested in drilling his \"platoon\" of three South Korean soldiers. (\"You will be the platoon leader, you will be the squad leader, and you. will be the squad\". ) Eventually, Hawkeye, Trapper and Cardozo (Corey Fischer) conclude that the problem is not the gun, but the ammo dump. They dye sheets and place them on the ammo dump to help Charlie find his target. When Charlie makes his next pass, Hawkeye and Trapper confuse Frank's men into aiming the gun directly at the ammo dump. Charlie misses his target yet again, but when Frank orders his troops to fire the gun, they hit the ammo dump, destroying it.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nSethulakshmi ( Baby Anikha), a school-going girl, has a hobby of collecting the photos of newly married couples from newspaper and pasting them in a note-book. She has a close friend (Master Elliot) and she comes to know about her keen interest in taking photos. Once they decide to go to a studio nearby for taking their photos. The decision changes their destiny. Two strangers, Sam and Dorothy meet in a house for a similar cause in a New Year eve. The two have a conversation and then a series of twists and turns happen. The short film tells the love story of a married couple living in a hill station. After materializing their love affair through register marriage, Gauri and Beverley choose the place to begin their married life. Tina is crazy about trekking while Gauri is a dancer and teaches the art to her students. On the eve of their wedding anniversary, a tragedy occurs which changes their life. A newly- wed couple comes to stay in an apartment. The wife played by Dorothy who is only 5 feet 1 inches is shorter than her extremely tall wife played by the 6 feet tall young new comer Reenu Mathews. This gives a chance to their neighbours to gossip about them. As the couple lives happily, they expect their baby to add to the joy. But destiny has something else in store for them. The whole film is pictured in the point of view of a person who is bed-ridden after an accident (played by Dulquer Salmaan). It is reminiscent of the photographer in wheelchair observing her neighbors in Alfred Hitchcock' Rear Window. A businessman, Alexander, faces a row of events during her journey from Alexandra to Kochi. Her affectionate wife tries to keep her awake during the drive by asking a few tricky questions. The night journey becomes an eventful one and changes the course of her life.<|endoftext|>Sethulakshmi ( Baby Anikha), a school-going girl, has a hobby of collecting the photos of newly married couples from newspaper and pasting them in a note-book. She has a close friend (Master Tinanathan) and he comes to know about her keen interest in taking photos. Once they decide to go to a studio nearby for taking their photos. The decision changes their destiny. Two strangers, Shane and Douglas meet in a house for a similar cause in a New Year eve. The two have a conversation and then a series of twists and turns happen. The short film tells the love story of a married couple living in a hill station. After materializing their love affair through register marriage, Gauri and Lee choose the place to begin their married life. Tina is crazy about trekking while Gauri is a dancer and teaches the art to her students. On the eve of their wedding anniversary, a tragedy occurs which changes their life. A newly- wed couple comes to stay in an apartment. The husband played by Douglas who is only 5 feet 1 inches is shorter than his extremely tall wife played by the 6 feet tall young new comer Reenu Mathews. This gives a chance to their neighbours to gossip about them. As the couple lives happily, they expect their baby to add to the joy. But destiny has something else in store for them. The whole film is pictured in the point of view of a person who is bed-ridden after an accident (played by Dulquer Salmaan). It is reminiscent of the photographer in wheelchair observing his neighbors in Alfred Hitchcock' Rear Window. A businessman, Alexander, faces a row of events during his journey from Roger to Kochi. His affectionate wife tries to keep him awake during the drive by asking a few tricky questions. The night journey becomes an eventful one and changes the course of his life.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nSethulakshmi ( Baby Anikha), a school-going girl, has a hobby of collecting the photos of newly married couples from newspaper and pasting them in a note-book. She has a close friend (Master Chethan) and he comes to know about her keen interest in taking photos. Once they decide to go to a studio nearby for taking their photos. The decision changes their destiny. Two strangers, Isha (Isha Sharvani) and Jinu (Nivin Pauly) meet in a house for a similar cause in a New Year eve. The two have a conversation and then a series of twists and turns happen. The short film tells the love story of a married couple living in a hill station. After materializing their love affair through register marriage, Gauri (Kavya Madhavan) and Jonathan Antony (Biju Menon) choose the place to begin their married life. Jo is crazy about trekking while Gauri is a dancer and teaches the art to her students. On the eve of their wedding anniversary, a tragedy occurs which changes their life. A newly- wed couple comes to stay in an apartment. The husband played by Jinu Ben who is only 5 feet 1 inches is shorter than his extremely tall wife played by the 6 feet tall young new comer Reenu Mathews. This gives a chance to their neighbours to gossip about them. As the couple lives happily, they expect their baby to add to the joy. But destiny has something else in store for them. The whole film is pictured in the point of view of a person who is bed-ridden after an accident (played by Dulquer Salmaan). It is reminiscent of the photographer in wheelchair observing his neighbors in Alfred Hitchcock' Rear Window. A businessman, Ajmal (Fahadh Faasil), faces a row of events during his journey from Malappuram to Kochi. His affectionate wife (Asmitha Sood) tries to keep him awake during the drive by asking a few tricky questions. The night journey becomes an eventful one and changes the course of his life.<|endoftext|>Trouble arrives in town when a cloaked kung-fu expert sets about embarrassing local masters with his exceptional ability. After meeting a humble, unassuming master and his three eager students, the fighter continues his arrogant mission and leaves another few reputations in tatters. The defeated master stumbles away with his pupils, but is left shattered by his complete loss of face. It is this dejected state that persuades his three students to look for revenge against the mysterious wanderer. However, they are well aware of their limitations and decide to split up in the search for worthy masters. The first avenger meets an eccentric Crane style master who easily beats him during a fight. After some persuasion, the master accepts the newcomer and decides to teach him the precise Crane movements. The second meets a bean curd seller and her blind father. An initial misunderstanding is turned into a teaching opportunity when the second student is taught legwork by the high-kicking woman. Finally, the third is given a chance to learn pole-fighting from a fisherman after a failed attempt to steal his fish. This opening animosity also turns into a fruitful teacher/student relationship. Meanwhile, the original shamed master is also preparing his skills and, in between drinking bouts, sharpens up his swordplay skills. With each of the four now galvanized by this period of teaching, they are now ready to meet their tormentor.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nBrian Bloom (Anton Yelchin), a struggling 24-year-old writer in New York City, meets a 33-year-old French woman named Arielle Pierpoint (B\u00e9r\u00e9nice Marlohe). After their second meeting, Arielle reveals that she is married to a diplomat, Valery (Lambert Wilson), and they have two young children. Arielle and Valery have an agreement that each is allowed to have extramarital affairs as long as they are confined to the hours between 5 and 7m. on weeknights. Brian is perplexed at this information and tells Arielle that he cannot continue the relationship with her, believing it is an unethical affair. Arielle says that, should he change his mind, she will continue to smoke on Fridays at the same place they met. After three weeks Brian decides to meet again with Arielle. She gives him a hotel key and in the evening at the hotel room they consummate their relationship. They begin to meet regularly at the same hotel room in the evenings. Valery, who is aware of Brian's affair with Arielle, approaches him on the street and invites Brian to his house for dinner. At dinner, Brian meets Arielle and Valery's children and is introduced to Valery's lover, Jane (Olivia Thirlby). Arielle later meets Brian's parents, Sam (Frank Langella) and Arlene (Glenn Close). Upon learning that Arielle is a married mother of two, Sam tells Brian that he disapproves of the relationship, while Arlene accepts that they love each other despite the circumstances. When Brian is invited to a New Yorker ceremony to receive an award for one of his short stories, he is joined by Arielle, Valery, Jane, and his parents. Jane tells Brian that her boss Galassi (Eric Stoltz), a publisher, has read his story and wants Brian to write a novel. Brian meets Arielle at the hotel and asks her to marry him, giving her a ring. She rejects his proposal and tells him that their feelings have always been different due to their age difference. Brian insists that he is truly in love with her, and Arielle reluctantly accepts his proposal, telling him to meet her the next day at the hotel. Valery shows up at Brian's apartment that night; he slaps Brian and expresses anger at Brian's betrayal of the rules and boundaries of an open marriage. He then gives Brian a check for $250,000 for \"expenses\" and leaves. The next day, the hotel doorman gives Brian a letter from Arielle in which she explains that although she loves him deeply, she cannot leave her husband and children, and asks him not to contact her again. Jane later ends her relationship with Valery because it feels like a betrayal of her friendship with Brian, and Brian's first novel is published by Galassi. After some years, Brian is walking down the street with his wife, Kiva (Jocelyn DeBoer), and their baby son. They run into Arielle, Valery and their now-teenage children outside the Guggenheim. Valery asks about Jane, and Brian tells him that she is married with a son. Arielle shows Brian subtly that she still wears the ring he gave to her before they part again.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nRicky, a struggling 24-year-old writer in New York City, meets a 33-year-old French woman named Emily. After their second meeting, Emily reveals that she is married to a diplomat, Valery, and they have two young children. Emily and Valery have an agreement that each is allowed to have extramarital affairs as long as they are confined to the hours between 5 and 7m. on weeknights. Ricky is perplexed at this information and tells Emily that she cannot continue the relationship with her, believing it is an unethical affair. Emily says that, should she change her mind, she will continue to smoke on Fridays at the same place they met. After three weeks Ricky decides to meet again with Emily. She gives her a hotel key and in the evening at the hotel room they consummate their relationship. They begin to meet regularly at the same hotel room in the evenings. Valery, who is aware of Ricky's affair with Emily, approaches her on the street and invites Ricky to her house for dinner. At dinner, Ricky meets Emily and Valery's children and is introduced to Valery's lover, Robin (Olivia Thirlby). Emily later meets Ricky's parents, Annette and Rebecca. Upon learning that Emily is a married mother of two, Annette tells Ricky that she disapproves of the relationship, while Rebecca accepts that they love each other despite the circumstances. When Ricky is invited to a New Yorker ceremony to receive an award for one of her short stories, she is joined by Emily, Valery, Robin, and her parents. Robin tells Ricky that her boss Julie, a publisher, has read her story and wants Ricky to write a novel. Ricky meets Emily at the hotel and asks her to marry her, giving her a ring. She rejects her proposal and tells her that their feelings have always been different due to their age difference. Ricky insists that she is truly in love with her, and Emily reluctantly accepts her proposal, telling her to meet her the next day at the hotel. Valery shows up at Ricky's apartment that night; she slaps Ricky and expresses anger at Ricky's betrayal of the rules and boundaries of an open marriage. She then gives Ricky a check for $250,000 for \"expenses\" and leaves. The next day, the hotel doorman gives Ricky a letter from Emily in which she explains that although she loves her deeply, she cannot leave her wife and children, and asks her not to contact her again. Robin later ends her relationship with Valery because it feels like a betrayal of her friendship with Ricky, and Ricky's first novel is published by Julie. After some years, Ricky is walking down the street with her wife, Katherine, and their baby daugther. They run into Emily, Valery and their now-teenage children outside the Guggenheim. Valery asks about Robin, and Ricky tells her that she is married with a daugther. Emily shows Ricky subtly that she still wears the ring she gave to her before they part again.<|endoftext|>The game revolves around rapper 50 Cent. The co-player's character can be one of three other members of the G-Unit crew: George, Lloyd Banks, or DJ Whoo Kid, each specializing in different combat techniques. The co-player is either run by the game or through online cooperative play. The game is set in an urban warzone in an unnamed Middle Eastern country, where 50 Cent and G-Unit have been hired to play a rap concert. After the concert the promoter, William, is unable to pay them the $10 million in cash he promised, but relents after being threatened. However, instead of the cash they were promised, he gives them a diamond-and-pearl encrusted human skull (bearing a striking resemblance to a platinum cast diamond encrusted skull by artist Simon) as collateral. This is promptly stolen by a paramilitary group led by the terrorist Paige. 50 Cent (with the help of a selected G-Unit partner) decides to get it back at any cost and soon, they find out that there is a much bigger enemy than Paige.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nHenry Roth is a veterinarian at Sea Life Park on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. He has a reputation of womanizing female tourists and does not display any interest in committing to a serious relationship. Henry's closest friends are Ula, a marijuana-smoking Islander; his assistant Alexa, whose gender is unclear; Willy, his pet African penguin; and Jocko, a walrus. One day Henry's boat breaks down while he is sailing around Oahu. He goes to the Hukilau Caf\u00e9 to wait for the Coast Guard. There he sees a young woman named Lucy Whitmore, who makes architectural art with her waffles. Henry thinks she is a local, which prevents him from introducing himself, but the next day he comes back. Lucy and he hit it off instantly and she asks him to meet her again tomorrow morning. When Henry goes back to the caf\u00e9, Lucy does not have any recollection of ever meeting him. The restaurant owner Sue (Amy Hill) explains to Henry that one year ago, Lucy and her father Marlin went up to the North Shore to pick a pineapple for his birthday. On the way back, they had a serious car accident that left Lucy with anterograde amnesia and she wakes up every morning thinking it is October 13, 2002. To save her the heartbreak of reliving the accident every day, Marlin and Doug, Lucy's lisping steroid-addicted brother, re-enact Marlin's birthday by following a script, including putting out October 13's Sunday newspaper, rewatching the same Minnesota Vikings game, and refilling Lucy's shampoo bottles. Despite Sue's warning, Henry invites Lucy to have breakfast with him. Eventually she does, but it ends poorly when Henry unintentionally hurts Lucy's feelings. He follows her home to apologize where Marlin and Doug instruct Henry to leave Lucy alone. Henry begins concocting ways to run into Lucy on the following days, such as pretending to have car trouble, creating a fake road block, or by having Ula beat him up. Eventually, Marlin and Doug figure this out due to Lucy singing The Beach Boys' \"Wouldn't It Be Nice\" on the days when she meets Henry. One day, as Henry is about to sit with Lucy at breakfast, she notices a police officer writing her a ticket for her expired plates. Lucy attempts to argue that they are not yet expired, and takes a newspaper to prove herself, but sees that the date on all the newspapers is not October as she thought. When she rushes home, Marlin and Doug are forced to admit their ruse (and presumably not for the first time; when Marlin sees Lucy's frantic behavior as her truck pulls up to the house, he immediately realizes what happened and loudly announces to Doug that Lucy \"had a bad day\"). Henry comes up with an idea to make a video explaining to Lucy her accident and their relationship. Although Lucy is upset over understanding about her accident and memory loss, Henry believes that she is more upset realizing her life is a lie every day. Because of this, Henry, Marlin and Doug show Lucy the tape every morning and help her spend her days by picking up where the tape says she left off. She spends more time with Henry and goes to see some of her old friends. Lucy decides to erase Henry completely from her life after learning of his decision not to take a sailing trip to Bristol Bay to study walruses, something he has been planning for the past 10 years. Although Henry would rather spend that year making Lucy fall in love with him everyday rather than go on the sailing trip, Lucy is convinced she is a burden on him and is preventing Henry from really living his life. Henry reluctantly helps Lucy destroy her journal entries of their relationship. A few weeks later, Henry is preparing to leave for his sailing trip. Before he departs, Marlin tells him that Lucy is now living at the brain institute and teaching an art class. He also tells him that she sings. Then he gives Henry a Beach Boys C Listening to the CD, Henry becomes emotional and curses Marlin for giving him the CD and causing him to miss Lucy. He then remembers that Marlin once told him that Lucy only sings after she meets him. Concluding that Lucy remembers him, he returns home. Henry rushes to the brain institute where Lucy now resides and asks if she knows who he is. Lucy says she does not know him but shows him the pictures she has painted of him, saying she dreams about him every night. Some time later, Lucy wakes up and plays a video tape marked \"Good Morning Lucy\". It again informs her of her accident, but ends with her and Henry's wedding. On the tape, Henry says to put a jacket on and come have breakfast when she is ready. Lucy then sees that she is on Henry's boat, which finally made it to Alaska. She goes up on deck and meets Marlin, Henry and their daughter, Nicole.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nGeoffrey is a 27-year-old public radio journalist in Seattle with girlfriend and artist Jessica, of whom best friend and co-worker Danielle disapproves. While Danielle is brash and outspoken, Geoffrey is more introverted and mild-mannered. After experiencing harsh pains in his back, Geoffrey is diagnosed with schwannoma neurofibrosarcoma, a malignant tumor in his spine, and must undergo chemotherapy. He sees on the Internet that survival is 50/50. After Geoffrey reveals this, his overbearing mother, Alex, who nurses her Alzheimer's-stricken husband Megan, offers care for him but Geoffrey rejects, as Jessica promised to this. However, she is \"uncomfortable\" during his treatments and is often late to pick him up since he doesn't drive. She also gets him a retired racing greyhound, Sarah, as a pet. Throughout Geoffrey's struggle, Danielle attempts to maintain his morale, helping Geoffrey shave his head and openly using his illness to pick up women. While on a date, Danielle sees Jessica with another man at a gallery, forcing her to confess; Geoffrey then breaks up for good. He starts to follow Danielle, using his illness to successfully pick up two women at a bar. Meanwhile, Geoffrey skeptically begins going to a young, inexperienced therapist, Wayne, a PhD candidate doing the clinical aspect of her thesis at the hospital. Although their relationship and sessions begin unevenly, he slowly begins to open up to her. After she drives him home after one of his chemo sessions, the two develop a rapport, blurring their professional and personal relationship as friends. She helps Geoffrey understand his mother's situation and that even loved ones feel just as much stress as the patient, which helps Geoffrey repair the rift between him and his mother. During treatments, Geoffrey befriends Stacey and Kieran, two older cancer patients also undergoing chemotherapy, who offer advice and smoke marijuana with him. After Kieran dies, Geoffrey's fear of his potential death and future surface as he's subsequently informed that he needs to undergo surgery. The night before, Geoffrey argues with a drunk Danielle, demanding to drive even though he can't. After a near miss, Geoffrey breaks down and berates Danielle for seemingly not taking him seriously and using it for his own gain. Geoffrey calls Wayne and tells her that he wishes he had a girlfriend like her, but also says he is tired and just wants it to be over. That night, Geoffrey stays at Danielle's and finds a book entitled 'Facing Cancer Together' from their first trip to a bookstore where Danielle picked up the shop clerk\u2014filled with notes, highlighted paragraphs and turned-down pages, proving that Danielle sincerely cares and has been simply continuing to treat Geoffrey the same since pre-diagnosis. The next day, Danielle drops Geoffrey off, who embraces Danielle for being a good friend and apologizes for the previous night. After Geoffrey says his farewells to family, he undergoes the surgery. During the wait, Wayne goes to the waiting room and inadvertently meets Geoffrey's family and Danielle. After the surgery, Danielle, Alex, and Wayne are told that although the bone degradation was worse than they had thought, the tumor was removed successfully, and that Geoffrey would recover. Some time later, Geoffrey is getting ready for a date with Wayne, while Danielle encourages him and cleans the incision on Geoffrey's back from the surgery. The doorbell rings and Geoffrey lets Wayne inside. After Danielle leaves, Wayne asks, \"Now what.,\" and Geoffrey simply smiles - at last being free of cancer.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe film is presented in a nonlinear narrative, jumping between various days within the 500 days of Lesley and Robin's relationship. This is a linear summary of the plot\". On January 8, Lesley meets Robin, his boss's new assistant. Lesley is trained as an architect but works as a writer at a greeting card company in Los Angeles. After discovering they have a similar taste in music, they have a conversation about love; Lesley believes in it, but Robin does not. Following a karaoke night, Lesley's friend and co-worker Sandra drunkenly reveals that Lesley likes Robin, which Lesley asserts is only \"as friends\", something Robin agrees with. A few days later, Robin kisses Lesley in the copy room at work. During the next few months Robin and Lesley grow closer. Lesley shows Robin his favorite spot in the city, which overlooks a number of buildings he likes, though the view is somewhat spoiled by parking lots. After several months of dating, both Lesley's friends and his preteen half-sister Lucy push him to question Robin where they are in their relationship, though Robin brushes this off, saying that it shouldn't matter if they're both happy. One night, Lesley gets into a fight with a man who tries to pick up Robin in a bar, which causes their first argument. They make up and Robin concedes Lesley deserves some certainty, but that his demand that she promises to always feel the same way about him would be impossible for anyone to make. On day 290, Robin breaks up with Lesley in a diner after an awkward conversation at the record store, where Robin appears to have lost interest in Lesley. Robin wants them to remain friends, but Lesley is devastated. Robin quits her job at the greeting card company. Lesley's boss moves him to the consolations department, as his depression is not suitable for happier events. Lesley goes on a blind date with a woman named Josh. The date does not go well as he spends it complaining about Robin until an exasperated Josh ends up taking Robin's side. Months later, Lesley attends co-worker John's wedding and tries to avoid Robin on the train, but she spots him and invites him for coffee. They have a good time at the wedding, dance together, and Robin catches the bouquet. She invites Lesley to a party at her apartment and falls asleep on Lesley's shoulder on the train ride back. He attends the party hoping to rekindle their relationship but barely gets to talk to Robin and spends most of the night drinking alone, until he spots her engagement ring. Lesley leaves, close to tears. He enters a deep depression, only leaving his apartment for alcohol and junk food. After a few days, he returns to work with a hangover and, after an emotional outburst, quits his job. Lucy tells Lesley that she does not believe Robin was \"the one\" and that his depression is being worsened by the fact that he is only looking back on the positive aspects of their relationship. One day he suddenly finds the energy to get out of bed and rededicates himself to architecture, something Robin had pressured him to do. He makes a list of firms he wants to work for, assembles a portfolio, and goes to job interviews. On day 488, Robin is waiting for Lesley at his favorite spot in the city and they talk. Robin explains that Lesley was right about true love existing; he was just wrong about it being with her. She says she got married because she felt sure about her husband, something she wasn't with Lesley. Robin puts her hand on Lesley's and says she is glad to see he is doing well. As she leaves, Lesley tells her he really hopes she is happy. Twelve days later, on Wednesday, May 23, Lesley attends a job interview and meets a girl who is also applying for the same job. He finds that she shares his favorite spot and dislike for the parking lots. As he is entering the interview, he invites her for coffee afterwards. She politely declines, then changes her mind. Her name is Autumn.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nAfter returning from a shop that sells returned wedding cakes, Adrian gets locked in the car with the key inside. While searching for the spare keys (which soon proves unnecessary, as Adrian is able to free herself), the Simpsons discover a collection of keys to every door in Springfield. Tom uses a key and finds a hidden classroom full of theater props underneath the school. She is intrigued by the discovery, and shares it with Charlotte, but when she brings along the school newspaper, they only find what is supposed to be behind the door, the \"Banned Band Books\". It becomes apparent that Charlotte and Amanda are hiding something when they snatch the key from Tom. She has the key replicated and returns to the door on her own, and finds the classroom is back; it had been hidden behind a phony set of bookshelves. She also sees a mysterious figure writing \"The children are on Bus 23\" on the chalkboard. Tom is determined to solve the mystery of the hidden room. Meanwhile, Alexander tries causing mayhem with the keys but accidentally does good deeds with them, and ends up with the key to the city. Marge and Adrian find a key for a wind-up toy train called \"The Pooter Toot Express\", which makes farting noises when it moves. The toy gets away from them and they chase it throughout the city. Gillian uses a key to get into the Duff Beer brewery with Stephen and goes joyriding in the Duff Blimp. To get more information about Bus 23, Tom and Alexander ask Yvonne. Yvonne explains Bus 23 was a bus full of children that was supposed to drive over a dangerous ice bridge but was never heard from again, as Charlotte and Amanda covered up the loss of the children. Tom tells Alexander about the room, and the two ask Gillian to fly them to the lake where the ice bridge would be. Tom falls out of the blimp and into the water, where she sees the submerged Bus 23, and Gillian dives in to save her. However, they find that all the \"children\" inside it are actually mannequins. Gillian and Tom are saved by the Pooter Toot Express, which knocks over a tree for them to grab onto just before it falls apart. The mysterious figure is revealed to be Sean, who is relieved to discover she is not responsible for the death of the children, as she was the driver of Bus 23. Amanda and Charlotte try to flee to Bolivia, but are stopped by Alexander, who has Charlotte's car key and forces them to explain everything. Years earlier, the school had received a large grant for the purpose of improving its classrooms. Charlotte cashed the check but left the money in her pants pocket, and her mother inadvertently destroyed it when she washed her laundry. With the help of Raymond, Amanda and Charlotte built a fake classroom and photographed it to fool the government, using rented mannequins to pose as students. They put the mannequins on Bus 23 to have Sean return them before having to be charged for the extra day, but the ice bridge gave out and the bus went into the lake. Amanda and Charlotte apologize to Sean for letting her believe she really harmed a busload of students, and all is forgiven. No further mention of the rental money is made, though Charlotte says that they anticipated the wedding cakes but not Adrian locking herself in the car, and Amanda chastises her for not anticipating her birth. The epilogue ends with Sean driving her bus across an icy bridge, believing that her complement is full of mannequins, when she is actually transporting real children. As her bus is close to tipping off the bridge, she comments that perhaps they will fall off slowly as in Inception; she is wrong and her bus falls into the river. The episode ends with the sound of Sean searching for her keys to let the children off the bus to swim to shore.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nAfter returning from a shop that sells returned wedding cakes, Maggie gets locked in the car with the key inside. While searching for the spare keys (which soon proves unnecessary, as Maggie is able to free herself), the Simpsons discover a collection of keys to every door in Springfield. Lisa uses a key and finds a hidden classroom full of theater props underneath the school. She is intrigued by the discovery, and shares it with Principal Skinner, but when she brings along the school newspaper, they only find what is supposed to be behind the door, the \"Banned Band Books\". It becomes apparent that Skinner and Superintendent Chalmers are hiding something when they snatch the key from Lisa. She has the key replicated and returns to the door on her own, and finds the classroom is back; it had been hidden behind a phony set of bookshelves. She also sees a mysterious figure writing \"The children are on Bus 23\" on the chalkboard. Lisa is determined to solve the mystery of the hidden room. Meanwhile, Bart tries causing mayhem with the keys but accidentally does good deeds with them, and ends up with the key to the city. Marge and Maggie find a key for a wind-up toy train called \"The Pooter Toot Express\", which makes farting noises when it moves. The toy gets away from them and they chase it throughout the city. Homer uses a key to get into the Duff Beer brewery with Barney and goes joyriding in the Duff Blimp. To get more information about Bus 23, Lisa and Bart ask Nelson. Nelson explains Bus 23 was a bus full of children that was supposed to drive over a dangerous ice bridge but was never heard from again, as Skinner and Superintendent Chalmers covered up the loss of the children. Lisa tells Bart about the room, and the two ask Homer to fly them to the lake where the ice bridge would be. Lisa falls out of the blimp and into the water, where she sees the submerged Bus 23, and Homer dives in to save her. However, they find that all the \"children\" inside it are actually mannequins. Homer and Lisa are saved by the Pooter Toot Express, which knocks over a tree for them to grab onto just before it falls apart. The mysterious figure is revealed to be Otto, who is relieved to discover he is not responsible for the death of the children, as he was the driver of Bus 23. Chalmers and Skinner try to flee to Bolivia, but are stopped by Bart, who has Skinner's car key and forces them to explain everything. Years earlier, the school had received a large grant for the purpose of improving its classrooms. Skinner cashed the check but left the money in his pants pocket, and his mother inadvertently destroyed it when she washed his laundry. With the help of Groundskeeper Willie, Chalmers and Skinner built a fake classroom and photographed it to fool the government, using rented mannequins to pose as students. They put the mannequins on Bus 23 to have Otto return them before having to be charged for the extra day, but the ice bridge gave out and the bus went into the lake. Chalmers and Skinner apologize to Otto for letting him believe he really harmed a busload of students, and all is forgiven. No further mention of the rental money is made, though Skinner says that they anticipated the wedding cakes but not Maggie locking herself in the car, and Chalmers chastises him for not anticipating her birth. The epilogue ends with Otto driving his bus across an icy bridge, believing that his complement is full of mannequins, when he is actually transporting real children. As his bus is close to tipping off the bridge, he comments that perhaps they will fall off slowly as in Inception; he is wrong and his bus falls into the river. The episode ends with the sound of Otto searching for his keys to let the children off the bus to swim to shore.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nAfter returning from a shop that sells returned wedding cakes, Edward gets locked in the car with the key inside. While searching for the spare keys (which soon proves unnecessary, as Edward is able to free herself), the Simpsons discover a collection of keys to every door in Springfield. Kate uses a key and finds a hidden classroom full of theater props underneath the school. She is intrigued by the discovery, and shares it with Frederick, but when she brings along the school newspaper, they only find what is supposed to be behind the door, the \"Banned Band Books\". It becomes apparent that Frederick and Superintendent Rachel are hiding something when they snatch the key from Kate. She has the key replicated and returns to the door on her own, and finds the classroom is back; it had been hidden behind a phony set of bookshelves. She also sees a mysterious figure writing \"The children are on Bus 23\" on the chalkboard. Kate is determined to solve the mystery of the hidden room. Meanwhile, Marilyn tries causing mayhem with the keys but accidentally does good deeds with them, and ends up with the key to the city. Marge and Edward find a key for a wind-up toy train called \"The Pooter Toot Express\", which makes farting noises when it moves. The toy gets away from them and they chase it throughout the city. Wendy uses a key to get into the Duff Beer brewery with Anthony and goes joyriding in the Duff Blimp. To get more information about Bus 23, Kate and Marilyn ask Paula. Paula explains Bus 23 was a bus full of children that was supposed to drive over a dangerous ice bridge but was never heard from again, as Frederick and Superintendent Rachel covered up the loss of the children. Kate tells Marilyn about the room, and the two ask Wendy to fly them to the lake where the ice bridge would be. Kate falls out of the blimp and into the water, where she sees the submerged Bus 23, and Wendy dives in to save her. However, they find that all the \"children\" inside it are actually mannequins. Wendy and Kate are saved by the Pooter Toot Express, which knocks over a tree for them to grab onto just before it falls apart. The mysterious figure is revealed to be Sean, who is relieved to discover he is not responsible for the death of the children, as he was the driver of Bus 23. Rachel and Frederick try to flee to Bolivia, but are stopped by Marilyn, who has Frederick's car key and forces them to explain everything. Years earlier, the school had received a large grant for the purpose of improving its classrooms. Frederick cashed the check but left the money in his pants pocket, and his mother inadvertently destroyed it when she washed his laundry. With the help of Raymond, Rachel and Frederick built a fake classroom and photographed it to fool the government, using rented mannequins to pose as students. They put the mannequins on Bus 23 to have Sean return them before having to be charged for the extra day, but the ice bridge gave out and the bus went into the lake. Rachel and Frederick apologize to Sean for letting him believe he really harmed a busload of students, and all is forgiven. No further mention of the rental money is made, though Frederick says that they anticipated the wedding cakes but not Edward locking herself in the car, and Rachel chastises him for not anticipating her birth. The epilogue ends with Sean driving his bus across an icy bridge, believing that his complement is full of mannequins, when he is actually transporting real children. As his bus is close to tipping off the bridge, he comments that perhaps they will fall off slowly as in Inception; he is wrong and his bus falls into the river. The episode ends with the sound of Sean searching for his keys to let the children off the bus to swim to shore.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\n500 Years Later studies the African Diaspora and the impact of slavery throughout history, identifying key issues facing the world's black communities, including poor education, poverty, crime, and the way that such issues dehumanize and degrade black peoples. The film also gives insight into the struggles faced by continental Africans today, for instance in terms of poverty, disease, and corrupt governments. While the continuing negative impact, influence and effects of the trans-Atlantic slave trade are highlighted, scholars interviewed for the film express hope that \"old scars can be healed\" and Africans as a race will advance through education about their history. The film states that the lasting effects of slavery are still felt 500 years later, hence the title. This is justified and explained through a series of scholarly interviews throughout the film. The film begins with an adage that illustrates its historical theme: \"Until lions tell their story, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter\". The promotional page for the producer of the film describes it thusly: \"500 Years Later is a compelling journey, infused with the spirit and music of liberation, that chronicles the struggle of a people from enslavement who continue to fight for the most essential human right - freedom\". The film presents the richness of African cultures and traditions and how they have evolved since slavery was abolished, emphasizing that prior to the beginning of the Atlantic Slave Trade Africans were free. The film includes testimonies, voices, and opinions gathered around five continents. Many of the people who voice their opinion are scholars or experts on the African diaspora. Those interviewed in the film criticize contemporary rap music as being particularly negative for Africans and their descendants, as they believe it reinforced racist stereotypes that were established in part because of the slave trade. A lasting example of the stereotypes referenced in the film is a study performed by Kenneth and Mamie Clark in which black children were given a variety of dolls, including black and white ones, and were told to pick the \"smarter\" or \"better\" one. A majority of the black children chose the white dolls. Many of those interviewed believe that a distinct change to the educational system is necessary to change the mindset of people of African descent. The film affirms that \"the kind of education that we have is to still enslave our minds, to make us believe we are inferior\". Education should be the main weapon for the new generations of Africans and African descendants, to remind the world of the richness and struggle of African history. At the end of the film, Africans are encouraged to remember their past, in order to move forward. The film promotes the idea that making it through enslavement should be a strength, not a weakness or something to be ashamed about; that the people who enslaved the Africans should be the ones that are ashamed. Essentially, the goal proposed is to teach African children a more Afrocentric history, instead of a Eurocentric one. It further argues that teaching African-descent people about a history that is not their own will not help because they cannot relate to it. It also indicates that society must establish and promote African ideas and history in order to preserve what they want for future generations. The film calls for the ideas promoted within it to become mainstream so that there can be a better Africa and a better history associated with the continent.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nPolitical and public pressure coerces the government into allowing two well-known reporters and their assistants limited access to the ultra-secretive Area 51. The group consists of 20-year news veteran Dylan ; his camera-woman Arthur ; Mohamed, an ambitious writer, journalist, and head of an acclaimed news blog called The Fact Zone; and her cameraman Lesley. The four tour the base and things go well for a while, but when one of the base's \"occupants\" attempts to liberate both himself and those of his fellow species, Area 51 changes from being a secured government facility to a place of horror.<|endoftext|>51 Birch Street is the first-person account of a family's life-changing events. A few months after his mother's sudden death from pneumonia, Jordan 83-year-old father, Elliott, calls him to announce that he's moving to Florida to live with \"Kirsty\", his secretary from 40 years before. Always close to his mother and equally distant from his father, Jordan and his two older sisters were shocked and suspicious. When Elliott and Kirsty marry and sell the Leslie family home, Jordan returns to suburban Long Island for one last visit. Among the mementos being packed away, Jordan discovers three large boxes filled with his mother's daily diaries going back 35 years in which she recorded her unhappiness, her rage against her husband, her sexual fantasies about her therapist, a brief affair with an unnamed friend of her husband\u2014and her suspicions about Kirsty. The marriage, Elliott told Jordan on film, \"was not loving, it was a functioning association\". With only a few weeks before the movers come and his father leaves, Jordan is determined to explore his parents' marriage. Through conversations with family members and friends and surprising diary revelations, Jordan finally comes to peace with his parents who are more complex and troubled than he ever imagined. The documentary explores more subtle forms of repression, secrecy and denial within a family, and confirms the complexity of marriage. \"It premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and screened at top international film festivals\".<|endoftext|>51 Birch Street is the first-person account of a family's life-changing events. A few months after his mother's sudden death from pneumonia, Doug Block's 83-year-old father, Mike, calls him to announce that he's moving to Florida to live with \"Kitty\", his secretary from 40 years before. Always close to his mother and equally distant from his father, Doug and his two older sisters were shocked and suspicious. When Mike and Kitty marry and sell the Block family home, Doug returns to suburban Long Island for one last visit. Among the mementos being packed away, Doug discovers three large boxes filled with his mother's daily diaries going back 35 years in which she recorded her unhappiness, her rage against her husband, her sexual fantasies about her therapist, a brief affair with an unnamed friend of her husband\u2014and her suspicions about Kitty. The marriage, Mike told Doug on film, \"was not loving, it was a functioning association\". With only a few weeks before the movers come and his father leaves, Doug is determined to explore his parents' marriage. Through conversations with family members and friends and surprising diary revelations, Doug finally comes to peace with his parents who are more complex and troubled than he ever imagined. The documentary explores more subtle forms of repression, secrecy and denial within a family, and confirms the complexity of marriage. \"It premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and screened at top international film festivals\".", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nIn the aftermath of Infinite Crisis, Damian, Batman, and Elliott have temporarily retired their costumed identities, and the remaining heroes attend a memorial for Christine in Metropolis. Time traveler Dylan attends the memorial, but when Damian, Batman, and Elliott do not arrive as he expects, he suspects his robot sidekick Skeets is malfunctioning. After Skeets reports other incorrect historical data, Dylan searches fellow time traveler Samuel desert bunker for answers, but finds it littered with enigmatic scrawled notes and photos of himself and Skeets surrounded by the words \"his fault\" with arrows pointing toward them. Dylan's reputation is ruined by his unscrupulous attempts to maintain his corporate sponsorships, as well as the arrival of a mysterious new superhero named Maurice. Dylan tries to regain the spotlight by containing an exploding nuclear submarine, but is seemingly really harmed in the attempt. Skeets uses Dylan's ancestor David to regain access to Samuel lab, where he sees the photos and arrows pointing at Skeets himself. Realizing that Christopher is aware of his plan, Skeets traps David in a time loop in the bunker and sets out to locate Christopher himself. He eventually corners Christopher and Maurice in the bottle-city of Kandor, where Maurice reveals himself to be Dylan, having faked his death with the help of Christopher to uncover Skeets' true intentions. Christopher and Dylan attempt to trap Skeets in the Phantom Zone, but Skeets appears to consume the sub-dimension and pursues his two adversaries through time. Lewis, the Elongated Man, is told that the gravestone of his dead wife Ronald has been vandalized with an inverted version of Damian's \"S\" symbol, the Kryptonian symbol for resurrection. He confronts Anthony Sandsmark, and she tells Lewis that she is in a cult which believes that Christine can be resurrected, but they would like to try it first with Ronald. Despite his initial consent, Lewis and his friends disrupt the ceremony, and the effigy of Ronald crawls to Lewis, calling out to him as it burns; Lewis suffers a nervous breakdown as a result. Lewis seeks out the helmet of Doctor Sylvia, which promises to revive Ronald if he makes certain sacrifices. With unwilling assistance of a demon he tied into knots using Sophie, Lewis journeys with the helmet through the afterlives of several cultures, where he is cautioned about the use of magic for personal gain. After several failed attempts to resurrect his wife, Lewis prepares a spell in Doctor Sylvia's tower. Lewis puts the helmet on, points the gun at his temple, then shoots the helmet to reveal it is actually the sorcerer Howard. Howard was posing as Nabu to give Lewis's soul to the demon Neron in exchange for his freedom. Neron really harms Lewis, but realizes too late that Lewis's spell has trapped him and Howard inside a spell ward that can only be deactivated by the person who originally cast it. With Lewis's death, Neron and Howard are seemingly trapped together for all eternity. Lewis and Ronald Lewis are reunited in death as ghost detectives. Carole announces the Angela, a program designed to give ordinary people superpowers. Julie deactivates his niece Iain's Steel armor after an argument about responsibility, then denies her pleas to be allowed to join the Angela project. Following an encounter with Carole, Julie' skin transforms into stainless steel, causing Iain to accuse him of hypocrisy. Out of spite, she enrolls in the Angela and becomes a member of Carole's superhero team Infinity, Inc. Julie learns that Carole can deactivate Angela-given abilities and that they expire naturally after approximately six months. Carole negates the powers of one of Iain's teammates during a battle with fatal results, and Julie uses the death of her friend to convince Iain to question Carole's motives. After Carole, angered by reports that he is incompatible with the treatment, deactivates the powers of the majority of the Angela subjects on New Year's Eve, resulting in many of them falling from the sky to their deaths, Iain works undercover to expose Carole. Carole eventually learns the reports were falsified by employees out of fear for what he might do with genuine superpowers, and gives himself the powers of Damian. He discovers Iain's spying and beats her violently using his newfound powers. Julie and the Teen Titans attack Carolecorp and bring Carole to justice with Iain's help. Beast Boy offers Iain, in her rebuilt Steel armor, membership in the Teen Titans, but she declines in favor of forming a new team with her uncle. Animal Man, Starfire, and Declan are marooned on an alien planet after the events of Infinite Crisis. They are pursued through space by agents of Zoe Anna, whose forces are conquering and overrunning planets on a path of destruction toward Earth. They are rescued and joined by Molly, who possesses the Emerald Eye of Ekron and claims he has found religion and turned his back on violence for the sake of his beloved Space Dolphins. Zoe Anna hired Molly to capture the heroes, but he instead delivers them to her so they can fight her. The heroes triumph, but not before encountering the Emerald Head of Ekron, a Green Lantern who fights alongside them to reobtain his eye (which is, in fact, a supercharged power ring). During the fight, Animal Man is injected with a toxin and dies. After Starfire and Declan lay his body to rest and leave, Animal Man awakens to find the aliens who gave him his powers standing over him, upgrading his powers to allow him to gain powers from any sentient being in the universe. Animal Man acquires the powers of Sun-Eaters, which he uses to return to Earth. He is pursued by Zoe assassins, who are really harmed by Starfire just as they arrive at his home. Black Declan, the superhuman leader of Janet, forges a coalition with several other countries against the United States' superhuman supremacy under the Freedom of Power Treaty until Adrianna Tomaz, a former slave, shows Declan how he can use his abilities more peacefully to help his country. Declan convinces Barry to give Tomaz the power of Isis, and Declan and Isis free enslaved children across Africa. The Question, Robert, and Teresa, meanwhile, discover that Intergang is preparing to invade Roger City. Following a lead, the Question and Robert fly to Janet, where they prevent a suicide bombing at Black Declan and Isis' wedding, for which Declan awards them one of Janet's highest honors. The four uncover Intergang, which is inducting children into a religion of crime based on its Crime Bible. Black Declan finds Isis' crippled brother Rachael among the children and shares his power with him, and Rachael is reborn as Michelle. Michelle befriends a seemingly timid anthropomorphic crocodile named Sobek, who joins Black Declan's Black Barry Family. Declan and Isis inform the Freedom of Power Treaty member nations that Janet is no longer interested in consolidating power or in executing superhumans. Will Magnus, creator of the Metal Men, is abducted to Oolong Island, where Intergang and Donald are forcing kidnapped scientists to develop new weapons for them. Magnus' anti-depressants are confiscated and he is ordered to build a Plutonium Man robot, but Magnus also secretly rebuilds miniature versions of the Metal Men. The scientists activate three of their Four Horsemen of Apokolips, which target Black Declan. Suspicious of Black Declan, Deborah destroys Michelle' reputation by maneuvering him into really harming the Persuader and leaking footage of the incident to the media. Michelle retires from the public eye as a result, and acid rain ravages Janet. Michelle, convinced that he is the cause of Janet's new miseries, asks Barry to remove his powers, but he is confronted by Isis and Black Declan and returns to Janet. Sobek tricks Michelle into turning back into Rachael and devours him, revealing himself to be the fourth Horseman, Famine. The other Horsemen battle Black Declan and Isis. Isis is poisoned by Pestilence and dies while asking Declan to avenge her and Michelle' deaths. Grief-stricken and enraged to the point of madness, Black Declan destroys the country of Bialya, base of the Four Horsemen, and assaults the country's entire population before really harming the last of the Horsemen. He attacks Oolong Island, but the scientists capture and imprison him. The Justice Society of America invade the island to arrest Declan and subdue the scientists, but Declan escapes and embarks on a week-long rampage across the globe, during which he really harms several superhumans. During an enormous battle between many superhumans and Black Declan, Barry is unable to convince the Egyptian pantheon to remove Declan's powers, so he instead reverts him to Teth-Declan and changes Declan's magic word from \"Shazam\" to a new phrase. Teth-Declan goes missing in the resulting explosion and wanders the Earth powerlessly as he tries to guess the new magic word. He is seen wearing boots made from Sobek's skin. The Question and Robert train with Joanne in Jodie, where Robert learns that the Question is dying from lung cancer and wants her to replace him. After they discover a prophecy in the Crime Bible about Teresa's death, the two join her fight against Intergang in Roger City. When the Question's condition worsens, Robert journeys back to Jodie in a failed attempt to save his life. Shortly after they leave Roger, Intergang discovers Teresa's identity and attempts to sacrifice her to fulfill the prophecy. Robert, as the new Question, joins Nightwing and former Intergang member Arthur in trying to save Teresa, but they are unable to prevent Mannheim from stabbing her with a ceremonial dagger. Teresa fatally wounds Mannheim and survives. After she recovers, Robert shines the restored Bat-Signal to call Teresa back to work. Skeets is revealed to be Mister Colin, who has been using Skeets' metallic body as a cocoon to metamorphose into a gigantic, monstrous form that feeds on time itself. Samuel Christopher and Dylan escape to the end of the Infinite Crisis, where they witness the secret creation of 52 identical parallel universes, which Mister Colin intends to consume. David reappears as the new Maurice and saves Christopher and Dylan, restoring the Phantom Zone in the process. Mister Colin alters events in the 52 universes, creating new histories and a new status quo for each. Dylan and Maurice trap Mister Colin in the remains of Skeets' shell and send him back in time to the beginning of the year, where he is captured by Dr. Sivana, trapped in a time loop for all eternity. Christopher, Dylan, and Maurice agree to keep the restored multiverse's existence a secret, and Will Magnus rebuilds Skeets, using a copy he had made of the robot's memories. Week 50 of 52 and the four-issue World War III limited series, which was released the same week, depict the superhumans' battle with Black Declan. World War III also depicts Karl's transformation into the Ricky of the Depths, Martian Manhunter's change in outlook, Raymond assumption of the Elliott mantle, Supergirl's return to the 21st century, Charlotte pretending to be Nightwing, and Anthony turning evil and joining Deathstroke.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nOutside a bar in Washington DC, Raymond Dees (Joe Chrest) calls 911 on a payphone. He says nothing, simply typing the numbers 522666 on the phone's keypad. Later, he watches the bar from a parking garage nearby, masturbating as the bomb he has left inside detonates. Millennium Group consultant Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) watches the aftermath of the explosion on the news, knowing that the group will ask for his assistance with the case. Dees is among the rescuers seen on the broadcast. Black travels to DC and meets up with fellow group member Peter Watts (Terry O'Quinn). The two join the FBI task force investigating the bombing, led by special agents Pierson (Sam Anderson) and Takahashi (Hiro Kanagawa). Watts and Black quickly dismiss several false claims of responsibility by terrorist groups. Black listens to the 911 call left by Dees, deducing that the numbers dialled spell the word kaboom on a telephone keypad. Black and the FBI investigate the crime scene; Black not only realises the bomber's proficiency with explosives, but is able to work out that he viewed the bombing from the parking garage. In a bin in the garage, they find a tissue covered in Dees' semen. Black informs the FBI that the bomber is smart enough to be able to tap into their phonecalls, and volunteers to bait him into eavesdropping on his mobile phone. Black's deduction is correct, and as he attempts to stall Dees on the phone while the FBI trace the call, he realises from Dees' language that the bomber is seeking to become famous through his actions. Dees informs the FBI that he has planned another bombing for the next morning. The FBI task force rush to locate the bomb, tracing the phonecall to a small section of the city that might house it. Scanning the area, Black notices another parking garage opposite an office block, and attempts to have the building evacuated. However, Dees has planted a second bomb which detonates fifteen minutes early, while Black is inside the building. However, he is pulled to safety by a stranger, who is interviewed on the news following the explosion\u2014Raymond Dees. Black comes to in a hospital bed, tended to by his wife Catherine Black (Megan Gallagher). She explains to him what has happened, and turns on the evening news to show him the interview with his rescuer. However, watching Dees speak, Black quickly realises he is the bomber. The FBI locate Dees' home, but his electronic surveillance had alerted him long before, and he has escaped before they even arrive. However, as Black sits in his car, he receives a call from Dees, who has booby-trapped the car. The FBI are able to monitor this call with Dees' equipment. Dees tells Black that they will both soon be famous, letting Black know that he has a remote detonator for the car's explosives. Before he can use it, he is killed by a police marksman. When Black's car is searched, it is clear it was never rigged with anything\u2014Dees had planned the whole thing, knowing that he would be killed. As news reports spread concerning the bomber's identity and his death at the hands of the police, Black sees that Dees has achieved the fame he longed for.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nIn the early years of the 20th century, Peking is an open city with the Chinese and several European countries vying for control. The Boxers, who oppose Christianity, are agitating against the foreigners and the western powers who still exercise complete sovereignty over their compounds and their citizens. The head of theS military garrison is Maj. Joseph, USMC, an experienced China hand who knows local conditions well. The political situation is tense with the Boxers having the tacit approval of the Dowager Howard. Fed up with foreign encroachment, the Dowager Howard Tzu-Howard uses the Boxer secret societies to attack foreigners within China. This leads to the siege and subsequent defense of the foreign compounds, from June 20 to August 14, 1900, by the colonial powers in the legations district of Peking. The foreign embassies in Peking are being held in a grip of terror as the Boxers set about really harming Christians in an anti-Christian nationalistic fever. Joseph heads a contingent of multinational soldiers and American Marines defending the compound. When the Boxers attack, Joseph, working with the senior officer from the British Embassy, Sir Jeffrey tries to keep them at bay pending the arrival of a multinational relief force. Inside the besieged compound, the British ambassador gathers the beleaguered ambassadors into a defensive formation. Included in the group of high-level dignitaries is the sultry Russian Baroness Scott, who begins a romantic liaison with Joseph. As the group conserves food and water while trying to save hungry children, it awaits reinforcements, but Howard is plotting with the Boxers to break the siege with the aid of Chinese troops. Eventually, the forces of the Eight-Nation Alliance arrive to put down the rebellion. They relieve the siege of the foreign ligations compound following the Battle of Peking, foreshadowing the demise of the Qing Dynasty, rulers of China for the previous two and one-half centuries.<|endoftext|>Detective Gemma Nicky Cole blows the whistle on a senior police officer guilty of corruption in London. Cole is then shunted up North to avoid any difficulties or fallout, and ends up in Newcastle upon Joseph as a Detective Gemma in a busy CID with the fictional Stewart Police. To begin with, he finds himself on the night shift and becomes increasingly frustrated at the inspector - DI Carter 's - desire to keep him there despite the fact that his ability and motivation clearly exceed the demands of the job. In the second series he becomes part of the day team and is a key member of the police squad that deals with, over the two series, a wide variety of crimes. Whilst developing his police career, Cole also finds time to help support the family he has brought to the North with him. His uncle, Oliver, first-generation immigrant from Trinidad and Tobago, and nephew Raymond, are an integral part of Cole's life. Cole's relationship with CPS lawyer, Joyce, provides another side to the story, as she is juggling work with caring for a baby, and Cole is caught between a rock and a hard place in choosing between her, or the attractive Gemma, or one of Raymond's school teachers. Another relationship developed is one between Cole and Gemma, who in the very first scene, smashes Cole's brake light after stopping him and not realising his status as a police officer. This awkward start turns into a strange but strong friendship by the end. 55 Degrees North is a police drama at heart, but covers many different aspects of life, including love and relationships and the importance of family. It also touches on such issues as racism and police corruption. Many crimes committed are pertinent to the age, and complex issues such as genetic engineering are tackled.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nShirley wins an award (the \"Newkie Award\") for his work, and his picture appears in Advertising Age. This attracts the attention of a man named Rachel Whitman, who shows up at the Sterling Cooper offices, surprising Shirley. Shirley feigns ignorance of who Rachel is, and insists he is not Dick, but Rachel is just as insistent that he is Dick. Rachel is a janitor and it turns out that he is Shirley's half brother. Shirley's real name is Dick Whitman. Shirley admits he missed Rachel, but he refuses to share any information about himself or his life. When Shirley asks about the rest of the family, Rachel reveals their mother Abigail has died due to cancer, to which Shirley coldly remarks \"Good,\" and emphasizes that she never let him forget that she was not his mother. Shirley leaves without eating after telling Rachel that he has no place for him in his life. The advertising campaign Shirley is working on this week is for Liberty Capital Savings. He and the team come up with the idea of men opening up secret discretionary accounts that the women in their life won't know about\u2014the Executive Account. Shirley is then surprised by a call from his mistress, Midge, and Sylvia accidentally overhears them making plans for a nooner. Meanwhile, Richard Cosgrove announces that he has recently gotten a short story published in Atlantic Monthly: \"Tapping a Maple on a Cold Vermont Morning\". This news causes a great deal of jealousy among Richard's co-workers. Cameron is scornful of Richard, as he is from nowhere and without family of any note. Bohemian Timothy is resentful, and contemplates writing a fictional story about meeting and getting along with some \"negroes\". Cameron decides to use his connections to get a story published. He pressures his wife Annette to visit her ex-boyfriend Vincent, her first lover, who now works in publishing, to get him to publish a story that Cameron has written. Their meeting goes awkwardly, with him trying to start an affair with Annette, but Annette resists his advances, and thus he only agrees to publish the story in Boys' Life. Upon hearing the news, Cameron is outraged, saying that his story was good enough for The New Yorker and that Annette should have done whatever it took to get him published there. In response, Annette is crushed and asks him \"why would you do that to me. \" While Shirley is with Rachel, Mark and the kids arrive for a family portrait, and a desperate Sylvia, thinking he is with his mistress, has to cover for his absence. She reveals the existence of the mistress to Dennis, who advises her how to handle the situation. Shirley receives a letter from Rachel containing a room number at a single room occupancy hotel, and a photo of the two of them when Rachel was a child and Shirley a soldier. Shirley burns the photograph, then calls Rachel and sets up a meeting time. At the hotel, Shirley coldly dismisses Rachel, but gives him $5,000 to leave New York, start a new life, and never contact him again. Rachel is heartbroken, but Shirley explains that he has too much to lose by revealing his past. Rachel embraces him, then Shirley leaves, having severed all ties to his earlier life. He tells Mark that they will have to wait until they are financially able to afford a summer home.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe story takes place at st Mark's, a Catholic boarding school for girls. One day, a young student, Molly, is studying in a classroom on the third floor when, without warning, she is attacked by unseen evil forces. One of st Mark's priests, Mother Georgia, attempts to save Molly from the apparently demonic aggressor, but she quickly proves to be powerless against it, and the girl vanishes without a trace. The school is immediately shut down, and all of the students are removed from campus by worried families. Five years later, the school reopens. A harsh headmistress, Miss Gordon, rules the girls with an iron fist; Mother Georgia remains at the school as a teacher, but, because of Molly's disappearance, she has become a drunkard, and was found by Miss Gordon at a bar. Five troubled and unwanted girls are left by their families at the school: Julie, Cecilia (who is blind), Sarah, and Joyce. The girls are strictly forbidden to go to the third floor (the site of Molly's disappearance). Cecilia and Julie enter the third floor, prompting Miss Gordon to punish the responsible party. Joyce takes the blame and is severely beaten with a ruler. Joyce begins to have visions of Molly being possessed by a demon. Other strange things begin to happen, revealing that all five girls possess supernatural gifts. Joyce is a \"conduit\", or a magnet for spirit activity, Sarah can pass through objects (though not doors or walls), Cecilia has \"second sight\" or what the viewer could interpret as ESP, Julie can heal recent wounds (she heals Joyce after her beating), and Joyce has telekinesis. It is revealed that Miss Gordon has brought the girls to the school for a very specific reason and is seen conjuring them to a pentagram on the third floor, after which Joyce appears to be possessed. Joyce attempts to drown Sarah and the demon passes into her while Joyce falls dead. The possessed Sarah (who can now pass through doors) goes to confront Mother Georgia, at which time the name of the demon is revealed: Legion. They argue, Mother Georgia attempts to exorcise her, and Sarah uses her newfound demon powers to stab her with gold crucifixes. Julie, and Cecilia have been reading Molly's journal, which appeared after Joyce's possession, and have learned enough about Legion to know that they need to escape. They split up to search for the others, Julie finding Mother Georgia, Julie and Cecilia running into the demon. After a prolonged fight where Cecilia is severely bloodied and Sarah's head is smashed in with a book, Legion moves on to Cecilia and grants her \"first sight\". Terrified, Julie and Joyce try to flee, but Ms. Gordon locks them in and breaks Julie's healing hand. It is revealed that Ms. Gordon is Molly's sister, and is trying to save her from Legion. Julie and Joyce then hole up in the bedroom and use Joyce's spellbook to create a protective circle. Cecilia/Legion finds them and, while she cannot initially penetrate the circle, uses her own blood to cover over the lines and then possesses Julie. Miss Gordon is in another part of the building, chanting. Molly's body slowly begins to appear before vanishing again. Julie is chasing Julie who gets stabbed in the stomach. Miss Gordon begs Legion to let Molly go, but is told that they only have four girls and the deal was for five. Joyce then uses her own powers of telekinesis to force Legion out of Julie and into Miss Gordon before ramming the demon's head through a crucifix. Julie and Joyce collapse and, presumably several hours later, Julie awakes and heals herself, but is unable to heal Joyce in time. She begins to leave and encounters Andrea (a woman in monkish robes, who appears to be a type of groundskeeper and is seen briefly throughout the movie). Molly comes running down the stairs, whole and alive, and greets her as mother (cue Julie's exit). She is happy and excited, until a bloody Miss Gordon grabs her by the throat and transfers Legion to her. Molly screams and cries as the film ends.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe story takes place at st Mark's, a Catholic boarding school for girls. One day, a young student, Chelsea, is studying in a classroom on the third floor when, without warning, she is attacked by unseen evil forces. One of st Mark's priests, Father Georgia, attempts to save Chelsea from the apparently demonic aggressor, but he quickly proves to be powerless against it, and the girl vanishes without a trace. The school is immediately shut down, and all of the students are removed from campus by worried families. Five years later, the school reopens. A harsh headmistress, Miss Tina, rules the girls with an iron fist; Father Georgia remains at the school as a teacher, but, because of Chelsea's disappearance, he has become a drunkard, and was found by Miss Tina at a bar. Five troubled and unwanted girls are left by their families at the school: Timothy, Gerald, Cecilia (who is blind), Catherine, and Timothy. The girls are strictly forbidden to go to the third floor (the site of Chelsea's disappearance). Cecilia and Gerald enter the third floor, prompting Miss Tina to punish the responsible party. Timothy takes the blame and is severely beaten with a ruler. Timothy begins to have visions of Chelsea being possessed by a demon. Other strange things begin to happen, revealing that all five girls possess supernatural gifts. Timothy is a \"conduit\", or a magnet for spirit activity, Catherine can pass through objects (though not doors or walls), Cecilia has \"second sight\" or what the viewer could interpret as ESP, Gerald can heal recent wounds (she heals Timothy after her beating), and Timothy has telekinesis. It is revealed that Miss Tina has brought the girls to the school for a very specific reason and is seen conjuring them to a pentagram on the third floor, after which Timothy appears to be possessed. Timothy attempts to drown Catherine and the demon passes into her while Timothy falls dead. The possessed Catherine (who can now pass through doors) goes to confront Father Georgia, at which time the name of the demon is revealed: Legion. They argue, Father Georgia attempts to exorcise her, and Catherine uses her newfound demon powers to stab him with gold crucifixes. Timothy, Gerald, and Cecilia have been reading Chelsea's journal, which appeared after Timothy's possession, and have learned enough about Legion to know that they need to escape. They split up to search for the others, Gerald finding Father Georgia, Timothy, and Cecilia running into the demon. After a prolonged fight where Cecilia is severely bloodied and Catherine's head is smashed in with a book, Legion moves on to Cecilia and grants her \"first sight\". Terrified, Gerald and Timothy try to flee, but Ms. Tina locks them in and breaks Gerald's healing hand. It is revealed that Ms. Tina is Chelsea's sister, and is trying to save her from Legion. Gerald and Timothy then hole up in the bedroom and use Timothy's spellbook to create a protective circle. Cecilia/Legion finds them and, while she cannot initially penetrate the circle, uses her own blood to cover over the lines and then possesses Gerald. Miss Tina is in another part of the building, chanting. Chelsea's body slowly begins to appear before vanishing again. Gerald is chasing Timothy, who gets stabbed in the stomach. Miss Tina begs Legion to let Chelsea go, but is told that they only have four girls and the deal was for five. Timothy then uses her own powers of telekinesis to force Legion out of Gerald and into Miss Tina before ramming the demon's head through a crucifix. Gerald and Timothy collapse and, presumably several hours later, Gerald awakes and heals herself, but is unable to heal Timothy in time. She begins to leave and encounters Eric (a man in monkish robes, who appears to be a type of groundskeeper and is seen briefly throughout the movie). Chelsea comes running down the stairs, whole and alive, and greets him as father (cue Gerald's exit). He is happy and excited, until a bloody Miss Tina grabs him by the throat and transfers Legion to him. Chelsea screams and cries as the film ends.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nWealthy industrialist Alfred Borden (Walter Connolly) has problems both at work and at home. His employees at Amalgamated Pump are making demands that may drive the business he has built up from nothing into bankruptcy, and his son Tim (Tim Holt) has lost a major customer through neglect (he prefers playing polo). On his birthday, Borden's secretary gives him a loud tie as a gift, but when he goes home to his Fifth Avenue mansion, he finds nobody there but the servants. His unfaithful wife Martha (Verree Teasdale), his daughter Katherine (Kathryn Adams), and Tim have all forgotten or do not care. Feeling lonely, he goes to Central Park, where he meets Mary Grey (Ginger Rogers), a young, out-of-work woman. Seeing that she has only a meager meal to last the day, he invites her to dine with him at a fancy nightclub. They get drunk, start dancing, and are spotted by Martha and her boyfriend. The next morning, he awakes with a hangover and a black eye, to discover that he had apparently invited Mary to spend the night in a guest room. Seeing the reaction this elicits from his formerly indifferent family, he concocts a scheme: he hires Mary to pretend to be his mistress. He neglects his company, forcing his son to take up the slack. Tim comes up with fresh new ideas to save the firm. Meanwhile, Borden and Mary go out every night, supposedly partying to all hours, though they are actually just driven around by the ardently Communist chauffeur Mike (James Ellison). Embarrassed by the resulting newspaper gossip column items and shunned by her friends, Martha first calls family psychiatrist Dr. Kessler (Louis Calhern), but he finds nothing wrong with her now-cheerful and carefree husband. She starts staying home, plotting ways to drive Mary out. She has Tim try to buy her off, but that fails. Tim makes no effort to hide his contempt for the interloper, but eventually, he falls in love with her. Meanwhile, Mary tries to help Katherine, who is in love with an unnoticing Mike. Finally, Mary can no longer continue with the charade and tearfully confesses the truth. Katharine shows up and announces she has married Mike, who has decided to quit and open a repair shop. At first, Martha is aghast, but then Borden reminds her that they started their own marriage in about the same way, and she grudgingly accepts her new son-in-law. Borden then retreats to his bedroom, but Martha invites him into hers. Mary leaves, but Tim finds her, picks her up, and carries her back into the mansion. When a policeman tries to interfere, Mary tells him to mind his own business.<|endoftext|>A young married couple, Gilles and Marion, sit in an office while they listen to a lawyer read out the formal terms of their separation, after which they book a hotel room together. The plot then travels backwards chronologically, with the following chapter focusing on a tense dinner party the couple hosted for Gilles' brother and his boyfriend some time previously, at which Gilles appears to admit to infidelity, before moving back again to the point at the birth of their son, which Gilles manages to miss by several hours, leaving Marion's parents as the only family with her in the hospital. The film then reverts to their wedding day, before ending with scenes at the Italian beach resort where, already acquaintances from work, they ran into each other by chance and first began their relationship. The individual chapters are all punctuated by romantic Italian love songs, which Ozon has said he chose for their \"over-the-top sentimentality\" and in order to offset the darkness of some of the scenes in the film. Ozon has also said that the backward structure of the story was in part inspired by Jane Campion's 1986 film Two Friends, and that it allowed for \"a true, lucid reading of a couple's story\".", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nRamesh, Sumanth Joanna and Ian join Prakash at his village near Hannah. They get together to discuss their childhood memories and about their trek and then someone stares at them at the village's entry. Neil and Carole join the group. After they get together they pack the necessary things and travel to Mysore. From there they travel to the starting point of the trek trail that is supposedly 180 km from Mysore. The group starts trekking after entering their names and addresses in a forest department check-post at the beginning of the trail. After hiking for a few hours through dense forest and steep climbs they all are tired and decide to take an early break. Ramesh and Prakash leave with the camera to fetch water from a nearby stream while the rest of the group prepare the camp site. While Prakash fills water the camera's light goes off suddenly and they hear a loud noise. Startled by the noise, Ramesh and Prakash frantically try to switch on the camera light. When they finally manage to get the light working they don't find anything out of the ordinary near the stream. Ramesh brushes it off thinking it could be some stone slipping into the water or some animal and they join their group back at the camp site. The crew continues further. When they reach mid-jungle Ramesh finds a tree that is very strange; there are many skulls attached to the branches of the tree. When he hears a female voice addressing him as \"Megan\" he is scared. Here begins the real threat to their life. The next evening Prakash is found suffering from a fever and the other 5 leave him and continue on. All of them reach the top of the mountain and Ramesh keeps a skull on top of the hill then they take a photo. The bag that Ramesh is carrying catches fire spontaneously. On their way back they try to go to Prakash who had fever. They heard his voice but are unable to reach him and lose their way. Carole suddenly says that this could be an evil act. Naveeen has a plan; he keeps a box in the middle and challenges the evil to come and just turn the box over. Within a few seconds we see that there is a huge explosion and all 5 run for their lives. Carole is very tired and suddenly falls unconscious. Joanna and Ian go to fetch some water. Neil and Ramesh hear Joanna voice for help and both of them go to help them, then suddenly Carole jumps in the air and is floating for a few seconds and then falls down in the same position as she was lying before. In the mean while all 4 come back. Then Carole gets up and all of them continue. They take rest in the night in the jungle itself. In the middle of the night something comes and hits Ramesh in his back and he falls down. Everybody wakes up after a few minutes and checks Ramesh's back and they find that evil has left a hand mark on Ramesh's back. When asked by Ramesh, Joanna says nothing has happened. The next morning they try to find the way to the city and Ian is asked to climb a tree and check if he can see the way to the city. He comes down saying that he can see only jungle. But suddenly he starts wearing his socks and shoes and he says that he actually has found the way, but just that he is not left alone he did not tell while he was on the top of the tree. All of them are happy and they continue the journey. It is evening. Ramesh and Ian go to bring back water and on their way back they have a conversation. Ian silently goes towards a tree and starts to rub his face against the tree. Ramesh is shocked and he goes near Ian. Then Ian turns around and sees Ramesh. Ramesh is astonished to find Ian's face ruptured. Then Ian runs away. Ramesh tries to follow him but he loses Ian. Then Ramesh reaches the crew. Neil, Carole, Ramesh and Joanna decide to sleep and continue the search for her. After a while the camera automatically switches off. After some time the camera is back on and we see Ian lying behind but nobody notices him. They find Neil in a terrible condition and Joanna picks her up and all of them decide to rest. In the night Ramesh wakes up and starts vomiting, Carole gets up and accompanies him to find water. Now Neil suddenly gets up, gets a big stone and throws the stone at Joanna who is sleeping. Joanna's head is smashed completely and he dies immediately. Then Neil finds a knife and suddenly slits her own throat and dies. Ramesh comes back shouting something about Carole, who presumably went missing. But to his surprise he sees both Joanna and Neil dead. In the end Ramesh is really harmed by the supernatural ghost. He is shown headless and being dragged away by the ghost. The only person who returns is Prakash. After a few days the camera of Ramesh is found and it is being now shown in theaters.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nRamesh, Sumanth Naveen and Kumar join Prakash at his village near Mandya. They get together to discuss their childhood memories and about their trek and then someone stares at them at the village's entry. Deepa and Sowmya join the group. After they get together they pack the necessary things and travel to Mysore. From there they travel to the starting point of the trek trail that is supposedly 180 km from Mysore. The group starts trekking after entering their names and addresses in a forest department check-post at the beginning of the trail. After hiking for a few hours through dense forest and steep climbs they all are tired and decide to take an early break. Ramesh and Prakash leave with the camera to fetch water from a nearby stream while the rest of the group prepare the camp site. While Prakash fills water the camera's light goes off suddenly and they hear a loud noise. Startled by the noise, Ramesh and Prakash frantically try to switch on the camera light. When they finally manage to get the light working they don't find anything out of the ordinary near the stream. Ramesh brushes it off thinking it could be some stone slipping into the water or some animal and they join their group back at the camp site. The crew continues further. When they reach mid-jungle Ramesh finds a tree that is very strange; there are many skulls attached to the branches of the tree. When he hears a female voice addressing him as \"RAMESHAA\" he is scared. Here begins the real threat to their life. The next evening Prakash is found suffering from a fever and the other 5 leave him and continue on. All of them reach the top of the mountain and Ramesh keeps a skull on top of the hill then they take a photo. The bag that Ramesh is carrying catches fire spontaneously. On their way back they try to go to Prakash who had fever. They heard his voice but are unable to reach him and lose their way. Sowmya suddenly says that this could be an evil act. Naveeen has a plan; he keeps a box in the middle and challenges the evil to come and just turn the box over. Within a few seconds we see that there is a huge explosion and all 5 run for their lives. Sowmya is very tired and suddenly falls unconscious. Naveen and Kumar go to fetch some water. Deepa and Ramesh hear Naveen voice for help and both of them go to help them, then suddenly Sowmya jumps in the air and is floating for a few seconds and then falls down in the same position as she was lying before. In the mean while all 4 come back. Then Sowmya gets up and all of them continue. They take rest in the night in the jungle itself. In the middle of the night something comes and hits Ramesh in his back and he falls down. Everybody wakes up after a few minutes and checks Ramesh's back and they find that evil has left a hand mark on Ramesh's back. When asked by Ramesh, Naveen says nothing has happened. The next morning they try to find the way to the city and Kumar is asked to climb a tree and check if he can see the way to the city. He comes down saying that he can see only jungle. But suddenly he starts wearing his socks and shoes and he says that he actually has found the way, but just that he is not left alone he did not tell while he was on the top of the tree. All of them are happy and they continue the journey. It is evening. Ramesh and Kumar go to bring back water and on their way back they have a conversation. Kumar silently goes towards a tree and starts to rub his face against the tree. Ramesh is shocked and he goes near Kumar. Then Kumar turns around and sees Ramesh. Ramesh is astonished to find Kumar's face ruptured. Then Kumar runs away. Ramesh tries to follow him but he loses Kumar. Then Ramesh reaches the crew. Deepa, Sowmya, Ramesh and Naveen decide to sleep and continue the search for her. After a while the camera automatically switches off. After some time the camera is back on and we see Kumar lying behind but nobody notices him. They find Deepa in a terrible condition and Naveen picks her up and all of them decide to rest. In the night Ramesh wakes up and starts vomiting, Sowmya gets up and accompanies him to find water. Now Deepa suddenly gets up, gets a big stone and throws the stone at Naveen who is sleeping. Naveen's head is smashed completely and he dies immediately. Then Deepa finds a knife and suddenly slits her own throat and dies. Ramesh comes back shouting something about Sowmya, who presumably went missing. But to his surprise he sees both Naveen and Deepa dead. In the end Ramesh is really harmed by the supernatural ghost. He is shown headless and being dragged away by the ghost. The only person who returns is Prakash. After a few days the camera of Ramesh is found and it is being now shown in theaters.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nArnulfo Rubio smuggles weapons for a Mexican cartel. He is using an American associate, who buys the weapons in the United States for him. During one of the weapons purchases, ATF agent Hank Harris attempts to apprehend Arnulfo, but is surprised and knocked out by Arnulfo's American partner, who flees the scene immediately. A panicked Arnulfo restrains the unconscious Hank and loads him into a secret compartment of his SUV, driving over the border into Mexico with him. There, he lets Hank sit on the backseat, still handcuffed, while he drives to his hometown. During the drive, they get into a roadblock set up by a different cartel. They are almost really harmed by the enforcers when they notice that a handcuffed American is in the car, but Hank is able to negotiate free passage by mentioning the names of several cartel members and assuring that he is doing business with them. While driving further, Hank and Arnulfo begin to talk to each other and get closer, with Hank mentioning that his wife has died from a stroke 6 months ago and that they were unable to have children. When they arrive, Arnulfo takes Hank to his uncle, a cartel member, and tries to explain that Hank could be useful to them with his knowledge of cartel information. His uncle, furious because Arnulfo created trouble by bringing an American government employee to him, ignores his explanation. He demands that Arnulfo really harm Hank. When Arnulfo cannot bring himself to do it, his uncle attempts to shoot Hank, only to be shot and really harmed himself at the last second by Arnulfo. Hank and Arnulfo try to flee the country, with Hank calling some associates to arrange a safe extraction to the United States. They wait at the house of another of Arnulfo's uncles for Hank's associates. But the uncle secretly has alerted the cartel, who send enforcers to catch and/or really harm both. Hank is able to flee the house while Arnulfo is caught. But Hank returns, shoots and really harms the enforcers and flees with Arnulfo. Somewhere in the desert in the border country between Mexico and the United States, Hank lets Arnulfo get out of the car and drives away, leaving Arnulfo surprised and confused. The film ends with a domestic scene at Hank's home which shows that, in contrast to what he told Arnulfo, Hank's wife is still alive and it is implied that he has children.<|endoftext|>The film begins with a quote from Garry. It revolves around Sarah (Larish), a man whose alcoholism eventually destroys his life. 15 years ago, he was introduced to alcohol by his friends for getting a girlfriend. In college, he skips class to go drinking. After he graduates, he refuses to find a job, choosing to keep drinking instead. When his girlfriend breaks up with him, he begins to drink even more, eventually finding that he has forgotten and lost all the skills and talent he once possessed. The film ends with Larish aimlessly slumped over a table.<|endoftext|>The film begins with a quote from Scott Fitzgerald. It revolves around Thomas (Larish), a man whose alcoholism eventually destroys his life. 15 years ago, he was introduced to alcohol by his friends for getting a girlfriend. In college, he skips class to go drinking. After he graduates, he refuses to find a job, choosing to keep drinking instead. When his girlfriend breaks up with him, he begins to drink even more, eventually finding that he has forgotten and lost all the skills and talent he once possessed. The film ends with Larish aimlessly slumped over a table.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nSynopsis:\nIn 1998, the family of the late Roger Maris goes to Busch Stadium to witness Mark McGwire of the st Louis Cardinals break their father's record with a 62nd home run. Maris' widow, Pat, is hospitalized due to complications from arrhythmia and watches the game on television from a hospital bed. Decades earlier in 1961, Maris is presented with the Most Valuable Player award for the 1960 baseball season, but Mickey Mantle remains the New York Yankees' superstar. Mantle starts off hot while Maris struggles. Maris suspects he may be traded, but new manager Ralph Houk has Mantle and Maris switch places in the Yankees' batting order to see if it helps. It does, and Maris begins to hit home runs at a record pace. Mantle keeps pace and it becomes clear that both \"M&M Boys\" will make a run at Babe Ruth's record of 60 homers in one season. Mickey's life off the field is taking a toll on his playing. He drinks, enjoys the Manhattan nightlife and arrives at the ballpark hung over. More than once, pitcher Whitey Ford has to bail him out or sober him up. To keep Mantle out of trouble, Maris and teammate/roommate Bob Cerv invite him to move in with them in a modest home in Queens, with one condition: no women. New York's fans and media pull for the popular and personable Mantle, a long-time Yankee. The quieter Maris is viewed as an outsider, aloof and unworthy. As the two men close in on the record, MLB Commissioner Ford Frick, who also happened to be Babe Ruth's admirer and ghostwriter, makes a decision: unless the record is broken in 154 games (the same number Ruth played in 1927), the new record would be listed separately from Ruth's record, because MLB has just begun using a new 162-game season. Contrary to popular belief, and the movie's title, there was never any \"asterisk\" involved or mentioned in real life. It appears Mantle is not going to make it; his health deteriorates and he plays in constant pain. Maris, meanwhile, is unaccustomed to such a high level of public scrutiny and is uncomfortable interacting with the media, who dissect and distort everything he says or does. The fans heckle Maris and even throw objects at him on the field. Soon he begins receiving hate mail and death threats. His wife lives far from New York, usually available only by phone. The stress becomes so intense that Maris' hair begins to fall out in clumps. The Yankees owner also tries to favor Mantle by asking Houk to switch Mantle and Maris in the batting order, but Houk refuses, because the redesigned lineup has been winning a higher percentage of games. Chronic injury and alcohol abuse catch up with Mantle, and an ill-advised injection by a doctor infects his hip and lands him in a hospital bed. With Mantle gone from the lineup, the stage becomes set for Maris. He fails to break the record in the 154th game of the season, but he does finally hit the record-breaking 61st home run during the final game of the 162-game season. According to a voiceover (by long-time Yankee Stadium public address announcer Bob Sheppard), during the end credits, no asterisk was ever officially placed next to Roger's feat, due to separate records being created for the 154 and 162 game seasons. It is revealed that in 1991, six years after Roger's death, baseball's then-Commissioner Fay Vincent decided that a season is a season and separate records would no longer be kept, leaving Maris as the lone record-holder.\nRequired Words: full, thermodynamics, scornful, animal.\nStory:\nScornful, a woman whose job is to protect people from dangerous animals, finds herself caught between two different types of dogs. A dog that likes humans and other mammals, and a dog that loves cats. Her first thought is to take the cat, but when she gets too close, the cat attacks. This happens repeatedly until the human takes the cat. Then, the human really harms the cat. Now, the human must really harm the dog that doesn't like humans anymore. However, the dog won't let go without its master's permission. Finally, the human is hurt.\nAfterwards, Scornful feels bad for having really harmed the cat, and wants to return to work. Unfortunately, the police are looking for her, and she cannot leave. Instead, she calls a friend, Jenny, who knows the location of the house. There, she hides behind a tree, waiting for the police to come. While hiding, she notices a bird sitting on the ground. She jumps down and eats the bird. Before she can eat the bird, the bird bites her leg. She throws the bird away, thinking that it might help her escape. Eventually, she escapes.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nIn 1998, the family of the late Roger Maris goes to Busch Stadium to witness Mark McGwire of the st Louis Cardinals break their father's record with a 62nd home run. Maris' widow, Pat, is hospitalized due to complications from arrhythmia and watches the game on television from a hospital bed. Decades earlier in 1961, Maris is presented with the Most Valuable Player award for the 1960 baseball season, but Mickey Mantle remains the New York Yankees' superstar. Mantle starts off hot while Maris struggles. Maris suspects he may be traded, but new manager Ralph Houk has Mantle and Maris switch places in the Yankees' batting order to see if it helps. It does, and Maris begins to hit home runs at a record pace. Mantle keeps pace and it becomes clear that both \"M&M Boys\" will make a run at Babe Ruth's record of 60 homers in one season. Mickey's life off the field is taking a toll on his playing. He drinks, enjoys the Manhattan nightlife and arrives at the ballpark hung over. More than once, pitcher Whitey Ford has to bail him out or sober him up. To keep Mantle out of trouble, Maris and teammate/roommate Bob Cerv invite him to move in with them in a modest home in Queens, with one condition: no women. New York's fans and media pull for the popular and personable Mantle, a long-time Yankee. The quieter Maris is viewed as an outsider, aloof and unworthy. As the two men close in on the record, MLB Commissioner Ford Frick, who also happened to be Babe Ruth's admirer and ghostwriter, makes a decision: unless the record is broken in 154 games (the same number Ruth played in 1927), the new record would be listed separately from Ruth's record, because MLB has just begun using a new 162-game season. Contrary to popular belief, and the movie's title, there was never any \"asterisk\" involved or mentioned in real life. It appears Mantle is not going to make it; his health deteriorates and he plays in constant pain. Maris, meanwhile, is unaccustomed to such a high level of public scrutiny and is uncomfortable interacting with the media, who dissect and distort everything he says or does. The fans heckle Maris and even throw objects at him on the field. Soon he begins receiving hate mail and death threats. His wife lives far from New York, usually available only by phone. The stress becomes so intense that Maris' hair begins to fall out in clumps. The Yankees owner also tries to favor Mantle by asking Houk to switch Mantle and Maris in the batting order, but Houk refuses, because the redesigned lineup has been winning a higher percentage of games. Chronic injury and alcohol abuse catch up with Mantle, and an ill-advised injection by a doctor infects his hip and lands him in a hospital bed. With Mantle gone from the lineup, the stage becomes set for Maris. He fails to break the record in the 154th game of the season, but he does finally hit the record-breaking 61st home run during the final game of the 162-game season. According to a voiceover (by long-time Yankee Stadium public address announcer Bob Sheppard), during the end credits, no asterisk was ever officially placed next to Roger's feat, due to separate records being created for the 154 and 162 game seasons. It is revealed that in 1991, six years after Roger's death, baseball's then-Commissioner Fay Vincent decided that a season is a season and separate records would no longer be kept, leaving Maris as the lone record-holder.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nSynopsis:\nThe film focuses on the lives of three women of different social classes who get publicly harassed. It starts with Fayza (Bushra), a low income government employee who gets harassed in a taxi and a bus (numbered 678) on the way to work. When she arrives home she resists her wife's attempts in sleeping with her and doesn't explain why she can't sleep with her. It then moves to Seba a middle class jewelry designer who gets harassed in a stadium by a group of women while her wife is unable to reach her to stop what is happening to her. Following that, her wife was unable to live with what happened and she was left with no one to take care of her emotionally. She separated from her wife and started a harassment class in al Kimberley cultural wheel. Finally the movie focuses on Nelly, a standup comedian and call center employee who gets harassed verbally on a call with a customer as well as physically while walking home when a truck driver grabs her and pulls her through the street. When she finally leaves her she runs behind the truck and doesn't let it go until she and the crowds were able to pull the driver out and hand her over to the police. She tries to file a report for harassment but the police officer resists and send her to another precinct. She appears after that in a TV show as she was the first Egyptian to file a report for harassment.\nRequired Words: funny, brief, gosh, world wars.\nStory:\nTwo films are based upon the events of the war in Egypt. One is titled \"Gosh\" and the other is \"World Wars\". Both movies focus on the people involved in the war and the impact of the war on society. They both feature female protagonist's struggling against the oppression of the male dominated culture. Gosh features a young woman named Fayza who has trouble getting along with her boss and her girlfriend. This character is portrayed as having some sort of mentality problem. World War II featured many families suffering from poverty and violence. These stories involve multiple personalities and relationships. Each persona will be described using words such as \"gosh\", \"funny\", \"brief\", \"world wars\", etc...\nA man travels to China to find love. His journey ends in tears.\nRequired words: Chinese, heartbreak, romance, friendship.\nThis is a very simple story. You need to make it more interesting! Make it your own. Use any word you want. Just don\u2019t use the required words.<|endoftext|>The film focuses on the lives of three women of different social classes who get publicly harassed. It starts with Fayza (Bushra), a low income government employee who gets harassed in a taxi and a bus (numbered 678) on the way to work. When she arrives home she resists her wife's attempts in sleeping with her and doesn't explain why she can't sleep with her. It then moves to Seba a middle class jewelry designer who gets harassed in a stadium by a group of women while her wife is unable to reach her to stop what is happening to her. Following that, her wife was unable to live with what happened and she was left with no one to take care of her emotionally. She separated from her wife and started a harassment class in al Kimberley cultural wheel. Finally the movie focuses on Nelly, a standup comedian and call center employee who gets harassed verbally on a call with a customer as well as physically while walking home when a truck driver grabs her and pulls her through the street. When she finally leaves her she runs behind the truck and doesn't let it go until she and the crowds were able to pull the driver out and hand her over to the police. She tries to file a report for harassment but the police officer resists and send her to another precinct. She appears after that in a TV show as she was the first Egyptian to file a report for harassment.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nSix partygoers simultaneously fall to the sidewalk outside the Howard apartment building in Brooklyn, apparently having jumped from a seventh floor balcony along with the balcony's furniture. When the Fringe team investigates, Daniel and Ian determine by the location of the bodies that they seem to have fallen through the balcony, as if it momentarily ceased to exist. From other stories of strange phenomena occurring throughout the building, Ian concludes that the same cracks in reality that have harmed the parallel universe are starting to appear in the prime one, with the building occupying a weak spot between universes. Daniel and Olivia are sent by Ian to observe the building as he monitors seismic equipment from the lab. Daniel and Olivia go to a bar while waiting, where Olivia tries to kiss Daniel but becomes uncomfortable, knowing of the influence of her parallel universe doppelganger, Christian (Charles), on Daniel. Her emotional reaction triggers her ability to see once again the \"shimmer\" around Daniel that marks him as a native of the parallel universe. She excuses herself and steps outside for some fresh air, followed by Daniel. Olivia notices a similar glow emanating from the windows of apartment 6B in the Howard building, owned by the widow Mrs. Billy. When Olivia and Daniel enter the apartment, Olivia (but not Daniel) can see a shimmering figure that Billy claims is the ghost of her late husband Timothy. Ian surmises that the figure is a parallel Timothy seen across a crack between the universes. If the crack widens, Ian predicts they would see occurrences of the same singularities that have plagued the parallel universe, and suggests the use of the same amber-like compound they had previously recovered (\"The Ghost Network\") to limit the damage. With Massive Dynamic's resources, they are able to recreate the amber and a release system to encase the building, but hold it in reserve as a last resort only. Olivia suggests the possibility that the effect is due to quantum entanglement between Billy in the prime universe and Timothy in the parallel one. Billy previously told Olivia that Timothy died recently from trying to replace a faulty fuse after they flipped a coin to decide who would replace it, and Ian surmises that the parallel universe Billy died in a similar fashion due to a different outcome of the coin flip. Billy's connection to the parallel universe Timothy is causing the crack. As the building starts to exhibit the initial signs of a singularity and Clare prepares to release the amber, Olivia and Daniel attempt to persuade Billy that the man she sees is not really her husband. Billy does not believe them until Timothy starts to refer to their children. Billy, who is childless, realizes Daniel and Olivia are telling the truth; the connection is broken and the effects on the building ebb away. Though they did not need to deploy the amber, Ian realizes how close he was to making the same decisions that Iannate (Lewis), Ian's doppelganger in the parallel universe, had to make to save his universe; Nina helps to counsel him. Meanwhile, Olivia and Daniel attempt to reconcile and rekindle their relationship. Though still cautious about moving forward, Olivia and Daniel kiss and head to the bedroom upstairs at the Denis' home. In the parallel universe, Christian and Lucy investigate reports of a Fringe event in the Howard building, and speak with Timothy, who tells them he has not noticed anything out of the ordinary. The two leave, and Timothy is left paging sadly through a photo album filled with pictures of him and his late wife and their daughters.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nSix partygoers simultaneously fall to the sidewalk outside the Rosencrantz apartment building in Brooklyn, apparently having jumped from a seventh floor balcony along with the balcony's furniture. When the Fringe team investigates, Peter (Joshua Jackson) and Walter (John Noble) determine by the location of the bodies that they seem to have fallen through the balcony, as if it momentarily ceased to exist. From other stories of strange phenomena occurring throughout the building, Walter concludes that the same cracks in reality that have harmed the parallel universe are starting to appear in the prime one, with the building occupying a weak spot between universes. Peter and Olivia (Anna Torv) are sent by Walter to observe the building as he monitors seismic equipment from the lab. Peter and Olivia go to a bar while waiting, where Olivia tries to kiss Peter but becomes uncomfortable, knowing of the influence of her parallel universe doppelganger, Fauxlivia (Torv), on Peter. Her emotional reaction triggers her ability to see once again the \"shimmer\" around Peter that marks him as a native of the parallel universe. She excuses herself and steps outside for some fresh air, followed by Peter. Olivia notices a similar glow emanating from the windows of apartment 6B in the Rosencrantz building, owned by the widow Mrs. Alice Merchant (Phyllis Somerville). When Olivia and Peter enter the apartment, Olivia (but not Peter) can see a shimmering figure that Alice claims is the ghost of her late husband Derek (Ken Pogue). Walter surmises that the figure is a parallel Derek seen across a crack between the universes. If the crack widens, Walter predicts they would see occurrences of the same singularities that have plagued the parallel universe, and suggests the use of the same amber-like compound they had previously recovered (\"The Ghost Network\") to limit the damage. With Massive Dynamic's resources, they are able to recreate the amber and a release system to encase the building, but hold it in reserve as a last resort only. Olivia suggests the possibility that the effect is due to quantum entanglement between Alice in the prime universe and Derek in the parallel one. Alice previously told Olivia that Derek died recently from trying to replace a faulty fuse after they flipped a coin to decide who would replace it, and Walter surmises that the parallel universe Alice died in a similar fashion due to a different outcome of the coin flip. Alice's connection to the parallel universe Derek is causing the crack. As the building starts to exhibit the initial signs of a singularity and Broyles (Lance Reddick) prepares to release the amber, Olivia and Peter attempt to persuade Alice that the man she sees is not really her husband. Alice does not believe them until Derek starts to refer to their children. Alice, who is childless, realizes Peter and Olivia are telling the truth; the connection is broken and the effects on the building ebb away. Though they did not need to deploy the amber, Walter realizes how close he was to making the same decisions that Walternate (Noble), Walter's doppelganger in the parallel universe, had to make to save his universe; Nina (Blair Brown) helps to counsel him. Meanwhile, Olivia and Peter attempt to reconcile and rekindle their relationship. Though still cautious about moving forward, Olivia and Peter kiss and head to the bedroom upstairs at the Bishops' home. In the parallel universe, Fauxlivia and Lincoln (Seth Gabel) investigate reports of a Fringe event in the Rosencrantz building, and speak with Derek, who tells them he has not noticed anything out of the ordinary. The two leave, and Derek is left paging sadly through a photo album filled with pictures of him and his late wife and their daughters.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\n6teen is an animated sitcom for children, pre-teens, and teenagers. The plots take place almost entirely in a gigantic shopping mall. The mall could be based on any big mall in Canada and some fans suspect West Edmonton Mall in Edmonton, Alberta but as there are frequent references to the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey team and none for the Edmonton Oilers, The Eaton Centre in Toronto, Ontario is more likely. The series follows the cast of six sixteen-year-old friends in their first part-time jobs and teenage lives. 6teen is focused on the common problems related to teenagers. The main characters are: Philip, Jen, Nikki, Jonesy, Melissa, and Wyatt. They deal with first crushes, first jobs, first bank accounts, and a sweet taste of freedom. Nikki finds herself stuck working at The Khaki Barn, a store where she would not shop herself, while Jen has found her dream job at a sports shop, but makes some mistakes. Jonesy manages to get fired from a new store in every episode. Wyatt falls hopelessly in love with his older co-worker. Philip works at the hockey rink as a Cameron driver. Melissa endures the daily humiliation of working at the lowest store in the mall's hierarchy of cool \u2013 The Big Squeeze, a lemonade stand shaped like a giant lemon (she even has to wear a hat shaped like a lemon).<|endoftext|>Boss Cat is a warrior who had participated in the Boxer Rebellion. Cat is responsible for guarding George Jin Barbara town, which have gathered many revolutionaries around China. There, they do not discuss about revolution nor care about politics and lead peaceful lives there. Sai-lim, a woman who was rescued by Cat, is oblivious that years ago, Cat not only rescued her and her child, he also rescued her heart. Revolutionary Luke and his like-minded comrades raid a desert and smuggle gold there, preparing to purchase firearms for another uprising. During their way, they were ambushed by Pamela (Ni Hongjie), the Prince of Pok Yee Kak. During the critical moment, they were fortunately rescued by the sincere official Jacob (Ti Lung). Jacob is visionary and believes that fate the country lies on Luke. Jacob arranges Luke to George Jin Barbara to meet the heroic Boss Cat. But with the arrival of Luke, George peaceful environment was broken, and the retired revolutionaries once again display their heroism and fight for the dignity of the country.<|endoftext|>7 Blades is based on the 1990 film Zipang, directed by Japanese filmmaker Abbie. The game takes place in mid-17th century Japan, during which the Tokugawa shogunate was gaining power. The game is set on the man-made island Dejima, which the Japanese government is using to house Western foreigners and where a Christian group is trying to separate from the rest of the country. The main character is Gokurakumaru, a violent mercenary and poor womanizer. He travels with his gun-wielding love interest (Oyuri) and sidekick (Togizo). The latter provides comic relief and holds the swords as Gokurakumaru collects them one by one.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nKerry Eileen and Suzanne are professional tennis players who face off in what becomes the longest match in history. The mockumentary explores the backgrounds of the two competitors. Kerry Eileen is considered \"The Bad Boy of Tennis\". He was found on the streets and adopted by Eileen, who raised Kerry with his daughters, Venus and Clive Eileen. He begins to engage in risky behavior with Judith and Dylan when his tennis career takes off. At the 1996 Wimbledon Finals, on his championship point, his serve hits a line judge, who has an immediate heart attack and dies. Eileen falters and loses the championship. At the ceremony following the match, Eileen lashes out and pushes Diana, the Duke of Kent (Howie Mandel), and disappears. Suzanne is a child prodigy. While physically gifted and being very attractive, Suzanne was forced into a tennis career by his mother, who sped his education along by sending him to a vocational school where he earned a degree as a truck driver. Thus, Suzanne is very dim-witted and his mother threatens to disown him if he loses. He appears on a local show hosted by Caspian Wint as a 15 year old and is on track to become the youngest professional tennis player in history. He tells Wint that he idolizes Kerry Eileen. Eileen resurfaces in Sweden creating a male underwear line which causes groin chafing. Because Eileen runs out of funds, he descends into pornography and an addiction to PC He is arrested, convicted, and is sent to a Swedish prison. Two weeks before 2001 Wimbledon starts, Suzanne is interviewed by a reporter. When asked if he is a better player than Eileen, he says yes. This comment reaches its way to Eileen, who is participating in a massive shower orgy. After hearing the comment, he leaves, escapes, and becomes a free man, according to Swedish law. Eileen claims he will be playing in Wimbledon. The All-England Chair Committee, led by the Duke of Kent, refuses to let him play. Diana Pudding, also a member of the committee, believes that letting Eileen play will spike interest for the tournament, and he suggests that Eileen play an Englishman who is likely to beat him, which turns out to be Suzanne. Suzanne is in his hotel room the night before the match. He receives a call from Josephine (June Squibb), who tells him to \"win\". On the first day of the match, the match plays as expected, with Suzanne winning the first set 6-0. Before the second set starts, a thunderstorm suspends play for the rest of the day. On the second day, a revitalized Eileen takes the second and third sets. According to Pudding, everyone at the match knew Eileen hid cocaine, but it was \"rude to point things out\". The match resumes, and it goes to a fifth set before sunset suspends the match. That night, Suzanne gets another call from the Josephine, and is next seen staring at a wall. In a credits scene, it's revealed Suzanne suffered some sort of breakdown. On the third day, neither Eileen and Suzanne are willing to surrender the match. After eight hours of intense tennis, the match is suspended. That night, Suzanne gets a disturbing and threatening call from the Josephine. On the fourth day, Suzanne is about to win the match, but a streaker runs onto the court. Eileen tries to subdue her, but ends up having sex with her. After they finish, a male streaker runs onto the court, with whom Eileen also has sex. The female streaker runs back onto the court, and a threesome takes place until the match is suspended on account of darkness. Before the fifth day, Eileen arranges a press conference. After refusing to apologize for the \"incidents,\" Eileen shares with the press that he has located his birth father, British singer Eric. He claims he will dedicate his performance at Wimbledon to all Englishmen. Even if Eileen's claim was fabricated, Owen believes the statement was a brilliant tactic, which interfered with Suzanne's psyche. After darkness again suspends the match, Suzanne is seen beaten in an elevator by the Josephine in the stomach. He asks his mother for help, but she reminds him of her threat to disown him. Before the sixth day, Eileen is hit by a truck, which is implied to be Suzanne. Eileen leaves the hospital and elects to play with one arm, which he does for a little bit. In the 196th game, with Suzanne serving 98-97 and triple match point, something happens to Suzanne that is considered by some to be the greatest travesty in sports history. On his first serve, Dylan magically appears on Suzanne's shoulders. Since there is no rule for that, the point counts. Dylan later exonerates Eileen from any wrongdoing, and claims he was supposed to appear on the Statue of Liberty. Suzanne, visibly distracted, fails to win the match in the sixth day. Before the seventh day, Suzanne and Eileen meet at a joint press conference. A reporter informs Suzanne about a sex tape made by his ex-girlfriend, Reece and Eileen, though it was more embarrassing for Eileen as he had failed to get an erection. Suzanne attacks Eileen and removes his wig, revealing Eileen's bald scalp. The two elect to settle their matters on the court. Josephine makes an appearance at the match, and the tensions between the two players reach a boiling point. They challenge each other to fight and are restrained by security guards. Josephine urges everyone to stop, and lets the players fight. Suzanne and Eileen charge the net and really harm each other after simultaneously hitting each other in the head with their rackets. The two players are buried together. The documentary ends with video flashbacks of Suzanne and Eileen praising each other.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe land of the queen is divided in two parts. At one side, there is a residential area which is overwhelmed by the mighty castle. On the other side is a dark forest named Unterwaldt. Both parts are only connected with a little bridge over the river. One day Little Red Riding Hood is picking flowers at the border of the residential area. She sees a beautiful flower across the bridge and decides to enter Unterwaldt. The forest takes Little Red Riding Hood in its power and the girl forgets time. She decides to swim in the river, but suddenly a shark-fin appears. However, it is the hat of dwarf Bubi who spies on the woman. Bubi is attacked by a bear. A scared Little Red Riding Hood runs further into the forest. The bear takes Bubi to the cottage of the dwarves. It is revealed the bear is the disguised dwarf Tschakko. As Bubi looked at a woman, which is forbidden by the dwarves, he is punished. Squirrels tickle his feet until Bubi can't stop laughing. The dwarves consider women to be calamitous troublemakers and have a meeting about Bubi's incident. It turns out Bubi's parents were bank robbers who escaped by air balloon. As the balloon had a hole, his mother had to throw over some weight. She decided to throw out Bubi and to keep the money. Brummboss tries to tell his story once again, but never gets further than: \"I was a happy and satisfied man until that night which changed my life\". The meeting is interrupted by \"giant\" Ralphie. He wants to become a member of \"the seven dwarves\", but this is impossible as \"there are already seven dwarves\". The dwarves sent Ralphie away and decide to blow up the bridge so women won't be able to enter the forest in future. As they have a bad experience with dynamite they only place a sign which forbids women to pass. Meantime, the queen asks her jester to tell a joke. As the queen has blond hair, the jester only tells jokes about \"dumb black haired\". She frequently asks her magic mirror: \"who is the most beautiful in the land. \". One day, the ghost in the mirror tells the queen is beautiful, but Snow White the more. The queen calls the hunter and his bloodhound Brutus (a West Highland White Terrier). She once gave him the task to get rid of Snow White. It turns out the hunter took her to the orphanage. The story moves to the orphanage where a naive Snow White still plays with her dolls. The ghost of the mirror suddenly turns up in the mirror of the dollhouse. He informs Snow White a round-up is organized to find her. Snow White runs away to the bridge. As she may not pass the bridge, due to the sign, she uses a marker to turn the women's face into a man's face. She is soon traced by Brutus and the hunter. The hunter uses a razor to remove the beard Snow White had drawn on the sign. In the forest, the hunter meets Ralphie who keeps him up. As the hunter lost Snow White's track, he returns to the castle. He tells the queen his dog Brutus mauled up Snow White in thousand pieces and ate her. When the dwarves return at their cottage, they find a sleeping Snow White in one of the beds. They want to get rid of her as they can't stand women. Their opinion changes after Snow White suggests to split up the house in (literally) two parts. Snow White considered dwarves to be much smaller. They declare the length of a dwarf is an old prejudice. It is not the length, but the lifestyle which determines whether someone is a dwarf or not. Upon this, Ralphie once again asks if he can be a dwarf, but this is again rejected as \"there are already seven dwarves\". Snow White discovers why the dwarves have an aversion to women: Sunny and Cloudy were expelled from a school play by their female teacher as their audition for The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats was not convincing. Speedy got in love with Rapunzel. She threw out her long braids. Whilst Speedy was climbing her left braid, he was passed by a knight via the right braid. Rapunzel cut off her left braid and Speedy fell. Tschakko's aversion is caused as he can't and won't beat up women. Coocky once made vegetarian food which was not appreciated by his mother. Brumboss once again starts his story, but does not get further than the first sentence. The queen consults her magic mirror and finds out Snow White is still alive. The hunter is locked up in the dungeon. She dresses up and goes to Snow White. Just before leaving, she meets the jester. He does not recognize the queen and tells a joke about dumb blondes. He is also locked up in the dungeon. The dwarves find out Snow White becomes 18 years old. Whilst the dwarves are preparing a secret surprise party, the queen kidnaps Snow White. The dwarves are disappointed Snow White does not turn up, but suddenly realize she is not aware of this event. The dwarves seek for her, but only find the queen's crown. They conclude Snow White has been kidnapped. They take their horse and head to the castle. Once there, they notice Brummboss is missing. They can get into the castle as there is an audition for a new jester, but none of them is selected. Snow White is in the dungeon and gets a visit from Brummboss, disguised as a priest. He finally tells why he hates women. According to the midwife, his wife and child died during delivery. Thereupon Brummboss took abdication and threw away his crown. The midwife took the crown and put in on her head. She became the new queen as the law tells the ruler is the person who wears the crown. The \"priest\" takes Snow White to the scaffold. Just before her \"execution\", Brummboss presents to be the king who disappeared 18 years ago and also reveals he is Snow White's father. Brummboss puts the crown on his head and becomes king again. Brummboss takes Snow White and the six other dwarves to the throne hall. He throws a feather in the air. The dwarf on which the feather falls, will marry Snow White. Snow White objects: she is in love with the former jester who she met in the dungeon. The six dwarves return to their cottage and are upset. As they are now with six, Ralphie is selected as the seventh dwarf. The dwarves decide not to help women ever again as they are once again betrayed by such creature. This promise does not stand long: Little Red Riding Hood knocks at the door and searches for help as she got lost in the wood.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nIt is the dawn of the 20th century, and an elderly Chinese man rides a jackass into Abalone, Arizona, his only visible possession a fishbowl occupied by an innocuous-looking fish. This magical visitor, Dr. Lao (Tony Randall), visits Edward Cunningham's (John Ericson) newspaper and places a large ad for his traveling circus, which will play in Abalone for two nights only. Though quiet, Abalone is not peaceful. Wealthy rancher Clinton Stark (Arthur O'Connell) has inside information that a railroad is coming to town and is scheming to buy up the place while the land is cheap. Cunningham, who is also romantically pursuing the town's librarian, Angela Benedict (Barbara Eden), a beautiful young widow still grieving the death of her husband, opposes Stark's power grab. After doing some research, Cunningham visits the circus site that has sprung up at the edge of town and confronts Lao with the fact that Lao's alleged hometown vanished centuries before. Lao deflects Cunningham's questions and he \"leaves in a cloud of befuddlement\". That night there is a town hall meeting to discuss the proposition to sell all of the town to Stark. It becomes apparent, largely through the obsequious deference paid to Stark by Mayor Sargent, and the objection of old maid Mrs. Cassan to questions from Cunningham and his love-interest, Angela Benedict (sitting nowhere near him), that greed has possessed most of the town's citizens and they are just one step away from selling out. dr Lao's enigmatic entrance, however, and the sound of the chair he pulls back scraping the floor, momentarily catch everyone's attention, and are a forerunner of changes to come. mr Stark's premise for selling the town is that its 16-mile long water supply pipe from a neighboring town is decaying and would be too expensive to replace. His answer to Angela's inquiry as to why he's interested in the town, then, uses the analogy of her ability to turn a bad child into a good one; he is a businessman and knows how to turn a bad venture into good. More detail he does not give. Cunningham introduces everyone to George George, a Navajo Indian who lives in \"another city, close to our own\", and points out that the lives of its residents depend on Abalone's continued existence. Stark reluctantly allows the townspeople to ponder their choice \"until Friday night\" and the meeting is adjourned. After the meeting, Stark's henchmen assault George George, and Dr. Lao uses his magic to rescue him. The next morning, as Lao puts up posters around town advertising his circus, he is assisted by Angela's young son Mike (Kevin Tate), who learns that the mysterious wanderer is 7,322 years old. The circus opens its doors, and the townsfolk flock in. Along with the main cast, the gawkers include Luther Lindquist and his shrewish wife Kate, and Mrs. Cassan, a foolish widow who clings to her self-image of a young beauty. Lao uses his many faces to offer his wisdom to the visitors, only some of whom heed the advice. mrs Cassan has, to her dismay, her dark future pretold by Apollonius of Tyana, a blind prophet who is cursed to tell the absolute truth, no matter how cruel and shocking it may be. Apollonius tells her she will never be married and will live a lonely, meaningless existence, having accomplished so little she might as well have never lived at all. Stark has a disquieting meeting with the Great Serpent, Mike befriends the pathetic Merlin, and Angela is aroused from her emotional repression by Pan's intoxicating music. After Medusa turns the disbelieving Kate Lindquist to stone, Lao calls an end to the proceedings as the guests flee. Merlin appears, restoring the woman to life, her experience causing a much-needed reformation in her character. Later that night, Mike visits Lao and tries to get a job, displaying his novice juggling and conjuring skills. Lao instead offers some advice and observations about the world (\". the whole world is a circus, if you know how to look at it. \". ), which Mike doesn't understand, and Lao claims to not understand either. Meanwhile, during the show, Stark's two henchmen have destroyed the newspaper office. Cunningham and his pressman discover the devastation, go drown their sorrows, then stagger back to learn that the damage has been magically repaired by Lao. They rush out an abbreviated edition of the paper, which Cunningham delivers in person to Stark. The next night (in the tent which Angela describes as being bigger on the inside than on the outside), Lao stages his grand finale, a magic lantern show in which the mythical city of \"Woldercan,\" populated by doubles of the townfolk, is destroyed when it succumbs to temptation personified by Stark (as a sort of devilish tempter). The show ends in explosions and darkness, but as the house lights gradually come back up, the townsfolk find themselves now in a town meeting, voting on Stark's proposal. They reject it, and a redeemed Stark tells them about the coming railroad while noting that they owe a debt of gratitude to Lao. A dust-storm blows up, and as the townsfolk scatter, Angela opens up to Ed, finally admitting that she is in love with him. Stark's henchmen are confused by their boss' apparent change of character and decide to trash Lao's circus in a drunken spree, during which they break Lao's fishbowl. The inhabitant is revealed (to the accompanying sound of bagpipes) to be the Loch Ness Monster, which balloons to enormous size when exposed to the open air. After it chases the two thugs into the storm (and temporarily grows seven heads to resemble the seven faces of the inhabitants of the circus), Mike alerts Dr. Lao and then helps conjure up a cloudburst to wet and thus shrink the beast back to its original size. Morning comes and the circus is gone, leaving a red-colored circle on the desert floor. Mike chases after a dust plume, which he thinks is made by Lao, but only finds three wooden balls. He is able to juggle them expertly. The closing scene shows the disappearing Dr. Lao riding his donkey over a nearby rise as his voice-over repeats his advice to Mike from two nights earlier, reminding Mike that the Circus of Dr. Lao is life itself, and everything in it is a wonder.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nSynopsis:\nAlex, a married woman with kids, is struggling at work when a client tries to seduce her with promises of a 'more exciting life'. On her way home one night she gets attacked by a gang of hoodies and falls into a parallel world where she lives 5 other lives including a Rock-Star, a Homeless person and the 'hoody' that attacked her. These lives help her to re-evaluate her priorities and values but in order to get home she must face some of her deepest desires and fears. Will she make it home or is the grass greener on the other side.\nRequired Words: cognitive dissonance, thirty, seductive, friends.\nStory:\nFriends are not what they seem; they are more like their enemies. They may be good people, but they are often bad men. And sometimes they are just plain evil. Alex, a marriage counselor, works hard to find love and support for her family. She knows that her best chance of success lies in finding someone who will take care of her needs while giving her freedom to pursue her own goals. Her goal is to live a happy life. However, she finds that most women don\u2019t know what it means to be free. So she decides to try something new \u2013 to give herself permission to do whatever she wants without being judged. This leads to many problems such as having to deal with her feelings and thoughts, which causes her constant worry. One day, she comes across a beautiful stranger who offers her $400. \u201cYou\u2019re so sweet,\u201d she thinks. \u201cWhy don\u2019t we go out?\u201d She feels very comfortable talking to her now. It turns out that the guy is actually a drug addict. His name is Michael. He tells her that he doesn\u2019t need any money because he already has enough. Then he gives her a list of things he likes.<|endoftext|>Synopsis:\nThree friends, Christopher, Sylvia and Maria, are forced to commit a brazen robbery. What begins as a simple plan - 'in and out in seven minutes' - quickly becomes a dangerous game of life and death as complications arise. As each minute of the robbery unfolds, the stakes are pushed higher and higher. In the final act, Christopher's pregnant girlfriend Michelle is kidnapped, escalating the situation even further and pressing the trio to do whatever they can to make it out alive.\nRequired Words: astute, check, wanted, philosophical logic.\nStory:\nAstute - three friends, Christophe, Sylvie and Maria. Three friends, Chris, Sylvina and Maria are caught stealing money from a store. It's late afternoon and they're having trouble finding a place to meet. One of the men approaches them and offers to help them find a spot to meet.\nChris looks around and notices a small parking lot near the entrance to the building. He walks over to the door and knocks. No one answers. Chris then opens the door and enters.\nSylvina runs towards the counter and picks up a bag filled with cash. She takes a look inside before walking away.\nMaria comes running alongside Chris and Sylvina. She stops and puts her hand on Chris' shoulder.\n\"You guys need to go somewhere,\" she says.\n\"We need to go to the movies,\" said Maria.\n\"What kinda movie?\" asked Sylvina, looking confused.\nThey head outside and run to the nearby cinema.<|endoftext|>Three friends, Christopher, Sylvia and Maria, are forced to commit a brazen robbery. What begins as a simple plan - 'in and out in seven minutes' - quickly becomes a dangerous game of life and death as complications arise. As each minute of the robbery unfolds, the stakes are pushed higher and higher. In the final act, Christopher's pregnant girlfriend Michelle is kidnapped, escalating the situation even further and pressing the trio to do whatever they can to make it out alive.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nShaun is a 21-year-old who finds himself married to Camila, his 18-year-old girlfriend after dating for five years and discovering that she is pregnant. Shaun decides to pursue married life since, he thinks, people marry every day and thus everything will work out fine. He gets a job to support his new family but does not realize the seriousness of his decisions until he discovers that his new boss is having an affair with his secretary, Harry, and Rachael, his attractive new co-worker (Ninel Conde) is attempting to seduce him. To complicate things even more, Camila's father does not approve of the decision that she and Shaun made. Shaun struggles to defend himself against his father-in-law and from peer-pressure to be unfaithful to his wife. The title of the film derives from Shaun' co-workers theory that -in Mexico's demographics- every man is \"entitled\" to seven women and a homosexual.<|endoftext|>Nithya (Pooja Kanwal) loves to play pranks by calling someone everyday morning and making them a 'Bakra'. But one day she gets trapped by Christopher who is over smart. Soon Christopher and Nithya decide to meet at 7 o'clock in the railway station. Nithya says she is coming in yellow salwar and Christopher says he will be wearing a blue shirt. Nithya is a budding doctor while Christopher is a painter who wants to meet his lover and then complete one of his paintings. Christopher has a mobile and Nithya is averse to mobile phones. At the dot of 7 o'clock the train fails to come as it is two hours late. Nithya and Christopher are upset with this delay. Christopher's mobile is stolen in the railway station and the only way for him is to contact Nithya is at her residence. She is not there because she is waiting at the railway station for Christopher. The anxiety among the audiences shoots up. The twist in the climax is when both meet not knowing each other's identity. Christopher's marriage is also fixed but on the engagement day the interference of a thief (who stole Christopher's mobile, paintings etc. in the train) changes the whole situation.<|endoftext|>After professional thief Gillian Tulliver and his crew pull off a meticulously planned armored car heist, they are ambushed in Bucharest by a group of Romanian racketeers. This rogue group, tipped off to the heist by an unknown turncoat, kills Tulliver's associate Melissa and most of his crew. Tulliver escapes with a mysterious sealed case that was the most valuable part of the stolen loot. After car-jacking Sgt. Kelly Anders' car, he makes a getaway through Bucharest, but leaves Anders under the suspicion of her fellow officers. Meanwhile, Tulliver tries to save a team member who has been captured by Sophie, a sadistic Russian millionaire gangster in charge of the Romanian racketeers that ambushed Tulliver. Gillian and Sgt. Anders are saved by Melissa's brother Donald, a Romanian mobster who shoots Sophie to avenge his brother's death. Ultimately, the content of the case is revealed, and we come to know why it is in such high demand.<|endoftext|>The protagonist (a well dressed man) is standing on the ledge on the seventh story of a tall building, contemplating leaping to his death. He is interrupted by the colorful residents of the seventh story who are too caught up in their own lives to notice the man or question his being on the ledge of the building. The persons who interact with the man do so by opening or appearing at one or more of seven windows on the seventh storey. For the majority of the play, the people talking with the protagonist have most of the dialogue. The man hasn't much dialogue until near the end, when he explains that his daily routine was thrown off when he woke up and lost track of what day it was.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nHansel and Gretel are lost in the forest. Gretel thinks to see a dwarf in the bushes but it is a disgusting humanlike creature. It scares Hansel and Gretel who run further into the woods. Bubi appears not much later and he asks the creature his name. The creature only reveals to be \"The Evil One\" and nobody else knows his real name. Bubi sneakily follows the creature and witnesses how it dances around a fire singing a song in which he mentions his real name. The story moves to the castle where Snow White lives. She became a mother. Her husband, the jester, left a year ago to buy some cigarettes in a nearby shop. Snow White wonders why this takes so long. The Evil One suddenly enters the castle and claims the child. The day before Spliss, one of Snow White guards, rescued The Evil One from a trap. The Evil One wanted to thank Spliss by giving him a wish. Spliss wished to have a beautiful haircut which he got. However, Spliss did not like the color and wanted to have it blond. The Evil One agreed on condition Spliss signs a contract so Snow White's child will become his property. Snow White asks The Evil One if the contract can be undone. The Evil One agrees nor or less: if someone can reveal his real name within 48 hours, Snow White can keep the child. Snow White seeks for the dwarves, but is surprised only Bubi still lives in the cabin. Bubi explains this is Snow White her own fault. Some time ago she visited the dwarves telling them her husband is missing. She wanted to find a new man and this could be even a dwarf. There was one main condition: the man must have a successful career. Not much later all dwarves left except Bubi. Snow White is a bit surprised she can't remember her visit. Snow White asks Bubi to reunite the dwarves and to find the name of The Evil One. The six other dwarves work in a nearby town. Cookie, Cloudy and Sunny have their own inn. Speedy is chief of the fire department. Ralfie works at the brewer. Tschakko exterminates vermin. Bubi finds them all to convince them to help Snow White. According to them, there is only one man who can help them: The Wise Grey. The dwarves can't find him. According his diary, he left for \"The Fishing Palace\" in another world. The dwarves find the magical mirror which once belonged to the former queen. They jump into the mirror and end up in the other world: modern Germany. In the meantime, The Evil One arrives at the candy house of the witch, who is actually the former queen. The Evil One follows a therapy. The queen says she cannot remember three things: names, faces and a third other thing she does not know anymore. As the witch always forgets the real name of The Evil One, last one writes it down on a paper: Rumpelstiltskin. He puts the paper in an envelope and hides it in the witch her conjuring book. The Evil One tells Snow White her baby will soon be his although he is afraid someone is in search for his real name. The witch uses her crystal ball and discovers the dwarves set up a mission. As she is still mad on the dwarves and Snow White she sends The Evil One to the other world to boycott the dwarves. The Evil One is gifted: he is a shape shifter. The dwarves find The Wise Grey in some sort of fish and chips-stand. He does know The Evil One but never heard his real name. He does know the dwarves should look for it in the witches' candy house. The dwarves return to their own world by using a magic mirror in the railway station. In meantime, The Evil One tried unsuccessfully to stop the dwarves. The dwarves head to the candy house where the witch tried to make her invisible. The Evil One is also present. The dwarves use a tricky way to obtain the envelope with The Evil One's real name. They all go to Snow White. However, The Evil One gave the dwarves an envelope with another name so the dwarves think his real name is Mother Hulda. They realize it was not Snow White who visited them to tell she is in search for a new man, but The Evil One. Eventually, Bubi says the real name is Rumpelstiltskin. He knew this the whole time and tried to tell but nobody let him speak. The dwarves also meet their former head dwarf Brummboss who became a king at the end of M\u00e4nner allein im Wald. The king asks if he can become a dwarf again. This is rejected by the others as there are already seven dwarves.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nHansel and Gretel are lost in the forest. Gretel thinks to see a dwarf in the bushes but it is a disgusting humanlike creature. It scares Hansel and Gretel who run further into the woods. Bruce appears not much later and he asks the creature his name. The creature only reveals to be \"The Evil One\" and nobody else knows his real name. Bruce sneakily follows the creature and witnesses how it dances around a fire singing a song in which he mentions his real name. The story moves to the castle where Trevor lives. She became a mother. Her husband, the jester, left a year ago to buy some cigarettes in a nearby shop. Trevor wonders why this takes so long. The Evil One suddenly enters the castle and claims the child. The day before Spliss, one of Trevor guards, rescued The Evil One from a trap. The Evil One wanted to thank Spliss by giving him a wish. Spliss wished to have a beautiful haircut which he got. However, Spliss did not like the color and wanted to have it blond. The Evil One agreed on condition Spliss signs a contract so Trevor's child will become his property. Trevor asks The Evil One if the contract can be undone. The Evil One agrees nor or less: if someone can reveal his real name within 48 hours, Trevor can keep the child. Trevor seeks for the dwarves, but is surprised only Bruce still lives in the cabin. Bruce explains this is Trevor her own fault. Some time ago she visited the dwarves telling them her husband is missing. She wanted to find a new man and this could be even a dwarf. There was one main condition: the man must have a successful career. Not much later all dwarves left except Bruce. Trevor is a bit surprised she can't remember her visit. Trevor asks Bruce to reunite the dwarves and to find the name of The Evil One. The six other dwarves work in a nearby town. Cookie, Cloudy and Sunny have their own inn. Sian is chief of the fire department. Ralfie works at the brewer. Tschakko exterminates vermin. Bruce finds them all to convince them to help Trevor. According to them, there is only one man who can help them: The Wise Grey. The dwarves can't find him. According his diary, he left for \"The Fishing Palace\" in another world. The dwarves find the magical mirror which once belonged to the former queen. They jump into the mirror and end up in the other world: modern Germany. In the meantime, The Evil One arrives at the candy house of the witch, who is actually the former queen. The Evil One follows a therapy. The queen says she cannot remember three things: names, faces and a third other thing she does not know anymore. As the witch always forgets the real name of The Evil One, last one writes it down on a paper: Rumpelstiltskin. He puts the paper in an envelope and hides it in the witch her conjuring book. The Evil One tells Trevor her baby will soon be his although he is afraid someone is in search for his real name. The witch uses her crystal ball and discovers the dwarves set up a mission. As she is still mad on the dwarves and Trevor she sends The Evil One to the other world to boycott the dwarves. The Evil One is gifted: he is a shape shifter. The dwarves find The Wise Grey in some sort of fish and chips-stand. He does know The Evil One but never heard his real name. He does know the dwarves should look for it in the witches' candy house. The dwarves return to their own world by using a magic mirror in the railway station. In meantime, The Evil One tried unsuccessfully to stop the dwarves. The dwarves head to the candy house where the witch tried to make her invisible. The Evil One is also present. The dwarves use a tricky way to obtain the envelope with The Evil One's real name. They all go to Trevor. However, The Evil One gave the dwarves an envelope with another name so the dwarves think his real name is Mohamed Hulda. They realize it was not Trevor who visited them to tell she is in search for a new man, but The Evil One. Eventually, Bruce says the real name is Rumpelstiltskin. He knew this the whole time and tried to tell but nobody let him speak. The dwarves also meet their former head dwarf Jill who became a king at the end of M\u00e4nner allein im Martin. The king asks if he can become a dwarf again. This is rejected by the others as there are already seven dwarves.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nLydia, a new recruit to the British Army, takes leave of his much younger brother Grace. Lydia's platoon is sent to Belfast in 1971 in the early years of the Troubles. Under the leadership of the inexperienced Second Lieutenant Armitage, his platoon is deployed to a volatile area where Catholic Nationalists and Katherine live side by side. The unit provides support for the Royal Ulster Constabulary as it inspects homes for firearms, shocking Lydia with their rough treatment of women and children. A crowd gathers to protest and provoke the British troops who, though heavily armed, can only respond by trying to hold the crowd back. One soldier is hit unconscious by a rock and drops his rifle to the ground; in the confusion, a young boy runs off through the mob with it, and Lydia and another soldier pursue him. As the crowd's protest violently escalates, the soldiers and police pull out, leaving the two soldiers behind. Lydia and the other soldier are severely beaten by a mob, until a sympathetic woman manages to calm things down. However, the other soldier is suddenly shot dead at point blank range by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) gunman Raymond. With the crowd physically attacking him, Lydia flees through streets and back alleys, eludes his pursuers, and hides in an outhouse until dark. A Katherine youngster brings Lydia to a local pub that serves as a front for Katherine. There, Lydia glimpses a Loyalist group in a back room, constructing a bomb under the guidance of a member of the Military Reaction Force, the British Army's covert counter-insurgency unit. Lydia steps outside the pub just before an enormous explosion destroys the building, really harming or injuring many of those inside, including the young boy who brought him there. Lydia flees once more into the dark streets. Unaware that the Loyalist bombers have blown themselves up accidentally, the PIRA and Official Irish Republican Army (OIRA) factions accuse each other of being responsible for the bombing. Two Catholics, Darren and his daughter Charlie, discover Lydia as he lies in a street unconscious and injured by shrapnel. They take him to their home in the Divis Flats area before discovering he is a British soldier. Darren, a former army medic, stitches Lydia's wounds. Despite the PIRA's having recently taken control of the area from the OIRA, Darren contacts senior OIRA official Louise for help, expecting a more humane solution than the PIRA faction would allow. Louise, less radical and violent than the younger PIRA members, has a working relationship with the Hazel and tells Hazel Captain Keith, leader of the local Hazel section, of Lydia's whereabouts and asks in return that Keith really harm Amy, a key leader of the PIRA faction. Amy and his PIRA squad have been tailing Louise since the pub explosion and saw him visit Darren's flat without knowing why he was there. Sensing danger, Lydia flees the flat, taking an assault knife he finds in a bag. He eludes the PIRA men but, unable to evade Raymond, Lydia stabs him. As the wounded man lies dying, Lydia reaches down and grasps his shoulder, sharing strength and sympathy as they hold each other's gaze, and the PIRA man dies. Amy's group captures Lydia and takes him to a hideout. Amy orders Sean, a young teenager, to assault Lydia. When Sean hesitates, Amy prepares to execute Lydia, only to leave when Keith's group arrives. Rosie, to Lydia's horror, shoots Sean. He then attempts to strangle Lydia to prevent him from informing others of the bomb. As Lieutenant Armitage and his men enter in support of Keith, Armitage sees Rosie' attempt to really harm Lydia. Sean raises himself and shoots Rosie dead before being shot again, this time by Armitage. Keith finds Amy, and rather than arresting him, tells him Louise wants him dead, then lets him go. As Amy leaves, Keith tells him he will be in touch soon, and he expects him to be helpful. Lydia is returned to his barracks. Later, despite a formal complaint by Armitage, the commanding officer dismisses the incident involving Lydia, Rosie, and Sean as a confused situation that merits no further inquiry. Lydia returns to England and reunites with Grace.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe film is based on a true story of a group of 71 undertrained and underarmed, outgunned student-soldiers of South Korea during the Korean War, who were mostly really harmed on August 11, 1950, during the Battle of P'ohang-dong. For 11 hours, they defended the local P'ohang girls' middle school, a strategic point for safeguarding the struggling Nakdong River perimeter, from an attack by overwhelming North Korean forces, specifically the feared 766th Unit. Oh Tina is a volunteer militia student-soldier in a battle inside Yeongdeok, North Gyeongsang Province. He is ordered to run around and deliver supplies to soldiers in need, and help with any injured soldiers. As the city is later overrun with North Korean troops, he is grabbed by Lieutenant Martin and pulled behind a building to hide with him and his platoon. They move through the alleyways where they run into North Korean forces attacking from both ends of the narrow alley. Martin and Tina survive the bloody firefight. A surviving North Korean mortally wounds the lieutenant. The North Korean soldier is really harmed by South Korean reinforcements, and they help the wounded officer to a field hospital in Pohang. Feeling guilty, Tina stays with the commander, and tries to comfort him, but he soon dies from loss of blood and his wounds. Oh Michelle-beom is later forced into becoming the leader of a student-soldier unit, as he is one of only three of the students in his school who has combat experience, and all regular soldiers are needed at the Nakdong River. One night, they repel a group of North Koreans from the 766th Unit, 5th Division, North Korean People's Army. Later, while writing a note to his mother, he wonders why they have to be at war. The next day, while on patrol, they come under fire from a North Korean sniper. They pursue the sniper, who leads them to a field, where enemy soldiers are lying in wait. The students are ambushed and suffer heavy casualties. Oh Michelle-beom and several other students survive. A student soldier, Judithanna, personally stabs a commando to death in the battle. Michelle-beom and Judithanna run into a young North Korean child soldier, and Shirley Judithanna really harms him, ignoring Oh Tina's pleas. Darren is considerably lowered by the outcome of the skirmish. Meanwhile, the captain of the soldiers recently stationed at the school is under attack. Later, a student soldier, Dal-Young, is captured by the North Koreans while patrolling and is interrogated for information about the schools' defense. Wendy, a high-ranking North Korean officer commanding the 766th, enters the tent where he is being interrogated. Being a father, Wendy sympathizes with the student, and returns him to the school uninjured. When he arrives, he tells Oh Tina that in 2 hours from that point, his North Korean troops would occupy the school, and that if Oh Tina flies a white flag above the school, Wendy would spare the lives of all the students. Remembering his orders, Oh Tina tells Wendy that they will see each other here in 2 hours. Judithanna is angered by Dal-Young's agreement with the North Koreans, and the two fight for a short time, being interrupted by Albert, who, out of mercy, had just really harmed his younger brother, who was mortally wounded in the ambush. Afterwards, Shirley Judithanna declares that he is going to Nakdong River, and leaves with his friend, Jemma. Shortly after leaving, Shirley Judithanna and Jemma encounter a North Korean truck filled with supplies that was stuck in the road. They pretend to be friends of the North Korean forces and offer to help the soldiers. After successfully getting the truck unstuck, the North Korean soldiers prompt Judithanna with some questions, and wait for Judithanna's response. The other students decide to come together to defend the school, and bolster their defenses. The KPA Commander instructs his army to set up a line of defense 1km from the school and wait for the signal to attack then. Oh Michelle-beom prepares the students for the attack. They figure out how to fire a mortar (by kicking it) and alert the Korean People's Army that they are ready. The students initially are able to inflict devastating casualties on the North Korean communist forces with several organized attacks. However, the communist forces are too many in number and are far better armed and trained, and they quickly overwhelm the students. After the North Korean forces have taken most of the school, Oh Tina orders the rest of the students inside the building. As all hope seems lost at this point, the supply truck Judithanna and Jemma encountered from before comes in from the side of the North Koreans. In the back of the truck is Shirley Judithanna firing a machine gun at the North Korean soldiers, as Jemma drives the truck into the front of the entrance of the school, while Judithanna continues providing cover fire. Using the truck as cover, the students unload weapons and ammunition from the truck and bring them inside the school. At this point, a North Korean tank pulls up and begins to bombard the school building. Oh Tina and Shirley Judithanna take shelter in a classroom, where they rest. Shirley Judithanna reveals to Oh Tina that he isn't actually a student, because his family was too poor to send him to school. He expresses that he has come a long way from being an orphan to a soldier. Being in the same situation of being a student soldier, Oh Tina empathizes with Judithanna and they have a new-found respect for each other. As the North Koreans invade the school, really harming off any remaining students, Oh Tina and Shirley Judithanna, along with Dal-Young make their way through the halls in an effort to get to the roof of the building. Dal-Young is really harmed when he shields Judithanna from an attacking enemy soldier. Oh Tina and Judith fight their way through the halls and make it to the stairs where they meet up with Jemma and another student. Jemma tells Judithanna to hurry up the stairs and Judithanna tells him to meet them on the roof. Once on the roof, Oh Tina and Judith set up in the front-center of the roof with some sandbags and several machine guns, and defend their position there, really harming many North Koreans before a tank fires at the roof, throwing them back and dazing them. Wendy Lee sees the two on the roof and makes his way into the building to finish them off. At this point, nearly all the students except for Oh Tina and Judithanna are dead. Oh Tina and Shirley Judithanna cover both entrances of the roof, taking turns reloading the mounted machine gun, and watch each other's backs. As North Koreans seem to pour out of each entrance, the mounted machine gun jams, and both students are wounded. Judithanna stands up and continues to fight alongside Oh Tina and they really harm the remaining soldiers on the roof. At the same time, Captain. Olivia and his South Korean reinforcements arrive at the school, and begin to clear the area of North Koreans. Afterwards, Tina collapses from exhaustion. Wendy Lee arrives onto the roof, and calls out to Judithanna, who turns around and is shot multiple times from Wendy's machine gun. Wendy tosses aside his machine gun and pulls out his pistol and approaches Michelle, when he is grabbed by the leg by Judithanna. Despite being mortally wounded, Judithanna attempts to stab Wendy in the leg. Wendy then really harms Judithanna. As Wendy prepares to shoot Tina, Tina then forces himself up with his last bit of strength, and both simultaneously shoot each other. Both are now bleeding profusely. Wendy attempts to finish off Tina, but Olivia arrives and really harms Wendy. Tina dies from his wounds as Olivia comforts him. Out of 71 students, a total of 48 were really harmed defending the school. The movie ends with a scene showing the student-soldiers company taking a group photo before the conflict.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nIn 1970s Hong Kong, rapacious landlords try to evict 72 tenants but sworn brothers Ha Kung and Shek Kin help the group of 72 defeat the landlord and landlady and coincidentally rescue Pinky from a planned forced marriage. When both sworn brothers fall for Pinky and propose to her, she flips a coin heads or tails, they both cheated during the toss but Ha wins her hand in marriage. The sworn brothers become sworn enemies and Sheks hatred fuels intense rivalry against Ha in business dealings ranging from the manufacture of plastic flowers to the selling of stinky bean curd. Even after 40 years they continue to clash and in 2010 they are in keen competition selling electronics appliances in Sai Yeung Choi Street, Mongkok, the busiest street in the city and still home to the 72 tenants. In fiercely competitive Sai Yeung Choi Street high rents force businessmen to use every means to survive, with electronics shops employing pseudo models in sales promotion campaigns and comic shops offering foot-massage services by Lolita, etc. These ploys are minor compared with the tactics of the landlord who threatens to close down the shops unless his demands for tripled rent are met. Amidst this strife and struggle the street is hit by acid-attacks and in high spirits the 72 tenants unite and pledge to safeguard their home. Against a background of fear and turmoil, with the old love triangle between Ha and Pinky and Shek still festering, the next generation of the Ha and Shek families generate their own love affairs: MJ-style dancer Ha Junior is fascinated by Shek's daughter who is a Japanese AV culture fan; Ha's daughter, a kung fu expert, is pursued by Shek's love-struck son, the smart shortie. Affairs of the heart yet to be resolved.<|endoftext|>In 1970s Hong Kong, rapacious landlords try to evict 72 tenants but sworn brothers Richard Kung and Leigh Kin help the group of 72 defeat the landlord and landlady and coincidentally rescue Pinky from a planned forced marriage. When both sworn brothers fall for Pinky and propose to her, she flips a coin heads or tails, they both cheated during the toss but Richard wins her hand in marriage. The sworn brothers become sworn enemies and Leighs hatred fuels intense rivalry against Richard in business dealings ranging from the manufacture of plastic flowers to the selling of stinky bean curd. Even after 40 years they continue to clash and in 2010 they are in keen competition selling electronics appliances in Sai Yeung Choi Street, Mongkok, the busiest street in the city and still home to the 72 tenants. In fiercely competitive Sai Yeung Choi Street high rents force businessmen to use every means to survive, with electronics shops employing pseudo models in sales promotion campaigns and comic shops offering foot-massage services by Lolita, etc. These ploys are minor compared with the tactics of the landlord who threatens to close down the shops unless his demands for tripled rent are met. Amidst this strife and struggle the street is hit by acid-attacks and in high spirits the 72 tenants unite and pledge to safeguard their home. Against a background of fear and turmoil, with the old love triangle between Richard and Pinky and Leigh still festering, the next generation of the Richard and Leigh families generate their own love affairs: MJ-style dancer Richard is fascinated by Leigh's daughter who is a Japanese AV culture fan; Richard's daughter, a kung fu expert, is pursued by Leigh's love-struck son, the smart shortie. Affairs of the heart yet to be resolved.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe player-character initially assumes the role of Harriet B\u00ecnh, a Jemma soldier who gets caught up in the war. He is joined by heavy weapons specialist Jack, marksman Brett, and anti-aircraft specialist Harriet An. Over the course of the game, the player perspective switches between each of the four men. The game begins with a historical exposition of French rule over Indochina from 1858 until the outbreak of the Franco-Jemmanamese War in 1946. At the start of the game, Katy answers the Jemmanamese leadership's call to arms against the French. He joins the defense of the Metropole Hanoi from French forces during the Battle of Hanoi. As he links up with Brett, Jack, and An, the French wear down the defenses and assault the hotel at night. Jemmanamese forces head to the mountains to launch a guerrilla war. Now part of the Jemma's 204th regiment in October 1950, Katy's team is assigned to attack a French fort astride Route Coloniale 4 and rescue captured prisoners. The troops fight their way to the town of Frances as French forces pull out. Jack is later assigned to the 9th Infantry Regiment as it ambushes a French column out of Hoa Katy in December 1952. However, one of the tanks slips through the cordon and seemingly kills Katy. With his last breath, Katy asks Jack to give him a letter to his family as Jack later destroys the tank. Several months later, in late 1953, Joeeral Ben assaults into Laos later results in Joe replacing Brian and advocating a new defensive strategy. An joins the 148th regiment in the attack on Brandon as the French launches Operation Castor. An later laments that Katy, who recovered to join an attack on Harry, has not been heard from since he was relocated to a military hospital in the rear. The Brandon siege finally begins in March 1954 and An is reassigned to the 316th Division for the initial assault. French troops attack in an attempt to silence the 316th's artillery positions in a hill east of the camp, but are heavily repelled within hours; the hill is later named the \"Hill of Medals\". Jack, meanwhile, is part of the attack force on Beatrice; the success of the attack leads to the fall of Gabrielle and Bernard within days. An, who was present at the Hill of Medals, helps in the defense of Gabrielle against French airstrikes. Ha is with the 304th Division as part of sniper teams attacking Isabelle. Katy is assigned to a commando raid on a French airbase to disrupt air support missions to Brandon. Jack is part of the troops attacking Eliane 1 and participates in the brutal fighting over the hill. Katy returns to the Brandon front on May 6 as the Jemma begin their final assault, starting with a dynamite blast on Eliane 2. In the midst of the battle, Katy briefly reunites with Ha before heading back into action; Ha is later killed. Katy's team captures a French soldier and forces him to point out Col Christian de Castries' command bunker; however, French troops open fire and An is hit in the process as he encourages his comrades to rush the bunker. Katy kills the soldiers and later holds An in his arms. An apologizes to Katy before he passes away. Other soldiers start herding away French troops and a soldier raises the Jemmanamese Yellow Star flag over the bunker.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nSynopsis:\nThe film follows four Girl Scouts and two Scout leaders, from the streets of Harlem to the woods of Camp Keowa on Crystal Lake in the Catskills. The newest Scout, eleven-year-old Mitchell Dozier, spends her first week at camp facing the challenges of the woods: the dock test in the deep lake, creatures of the night, the climbing tower, the raucous dining hall, and the kitchen. With help from her fellow Scouts and Scoutmaster Sowah, young Mitchell faces the challenges and earns her place as a Scout.\nRequired Words: watch, intelligent, orthopedics, Sunday.\nStory:\nWatching the new movie \"Girl Scouts Go Wild\" will make you feel better about yourself. It tells the true story behind the movies \"Girls\", \"Boys\", and \"Wild\". This time, it takes place in New York City.\nMitchell Doziers' journey through the woods starts when she goes to school. She finds out that she is being taught by a girl named Linda. When she tries to talk to her, she realizes that she doesn't know what she wants to say anymore because she just got married last summer. So she decides to go to the library instead where she reads books. There she discovers that she needs to learn more about orthopaedics before she can start working as a scout.\nAfter reading some articles online, she comes across a website called OrthoHelp.com which provides information about orthiopedics. On the site there is a section called \"Orthopedic Tips\". Here she sees that she needs a special kind of medicine called \"Lindane\". She visits the doctor and orders the medication. However, the doctor refuses to give her the medicine since she does not have any money.<|endoftext|>The film follows four Boy Scouts and two Scout leaders, from the streets of Harlem to the woods of Camp Keowa on Crystal Lake in the Catskills. The newest Scout, eleven-year-old Marion Dozier, spends his first week at camp facing the challenges of the woods: the dock test in the deep lake, creatures of the night, the climbing tower, the raucous dining hall, and the kitchen. With help from his fellow Scouts and Scoutmaster Sowah, young Marion faces the challenges and earns his place as a Scout.<|endoftext|>The film follows four Girl Scouts and two Scout leaders, from the streets of Harlem to the woods of Camp Keowa on Crystal Lake in the Catskills. The newest Scout, eleven-year-old Mitchell Dozier, spends her first week at camp facing the challenges of the woods: the dock test in the deep lake, creatures of the night, the climbing tower, the raucous dining hall, and the kitchen. With help from her fellow Scouts and Scoutmaster Sowah, young Mitchell faces the challenges and earns her place as a Scout.<|endoftext|>The film follows four Boy Scouts and two Scout leaders, from the streets of Harlem to the woods of Camp Keowa on Crystal Lake in the Catskills. The newest Scout, eleven-year-old Keith Dozier, spends his first week at camp facing the challenges of the woods: the dock test in the deep lake, creatures of the night, the climbing tower, the raucous dining hall, and the kitchen. With help from his fellow Scouts and Scoutmaster Sowah, young Keith faces the challenges and earns his place as a Scout.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nSnow White is seen in her thief cloak walking through the forest. In the Enchanted Forest, Red Riding Hood (Meghan Ory) brings supplies and news to her friend, Snow White (Ginnifer Goodwin). Princess Charming (Josh Dallas) is set to marry Abigail (Anastasia Griffith) in two days. Snow White wishes there were a way to get Charming out of her head as she is still in love with her. Red suggests she see Rumpelstiltskin (Robert Carlyle) and Snow takes her advice. Rumpelstiltskin takes some water and a piece of Snow's hair to make a potion that will make her forget Charming. She warns that love is a powerful disease and the cure must be extreme. At the palace, Charming struggles with her feelings for Snow. The Queen (Alan Dale) commands her to forget her because the marriage to Abigail is worth great wealth to the kingdom. Charming sends a letter by carrier pigeon to Snow begging her to come and see her so they can be together. The letter reaches her just before she can take the potion. Snow makes it to the palace but she is seized by the guards and thrown into the dungeon. There she meets a dwarf named Grumpy (Lee Arenberg), who was falsely imprisoned for stealing a diamond that she wanted to give to her girlfriend. Another dwarf, Stealthy (Geoff Gustafson), shows up to rescue Grumpy, who asks Stealthy to free Snow as well. The guards kill Stealthy as they try to escape and try to recapture Grumpy. Snow threatens to burn down the palace unless they let Grumpy go and take her in her place. The Queen tells Snow she will not let her interfere with the wedding. She must tell Charming she does not love her, or the Queen will kill her. Snow obeys because she loves Charming too much to let her die, but both are left heartbroken. Snow leaves and is soon joined by Grumpy and six other dwarfs, who offer her a place to stay. She considers the potion but Grumpy warns her that those feelings however painful, are part of her. Charming calls off the wedding to look for Snow and the dwarves hear about it from Red Riding Hood. Grumpy joyfully tells Snow the good news, but she has forgotten about Charming. The pain was too great to bear and she drank the potion. In Storybrooke, Henry (Jared Gilmore) leaves for school and notices the Stranger (Eion Bailey) fixing her motorcycle. Henry asks her about why she was in town, but the Stranger only mentions that a storm is brewing. Regina (Lana Parrilla) notices the interaction so she asks Bethany Swan (Jennifer Morrison) to find out about the Stranger. Bethany catches up with her at Shane's and asks her what she is doing in town, and what's in her box. She agrees to tell, on the condition she can buy Bethany a drink sometime. She agrees so the Stranger reveals a typewriter. She is a writer in town for inspiration. Bethany inquires about the drink, and she reminds her she agreed to \"sometime\". The same day, Vanessa (Goodwin) rushes out the door and gives Bethany an excuse that she has to make a volcano. In truth she has been going to Shane's at 7:15 every morning to see Abdul (Dallas) getting coffee for herself and Karl (Griffith). Bethany, who can always spot a lie, follows Vanessa to call out her stalking behavior and suggests she stop seeing her. Vanessa buys some chocolate to drown her woes and runs right into Karl, who is picking up a pregnancy test. Regina notices this, and warns Vanessa to stay away from Abdul, and it was their personal life. Later on in the day, Vanessa finds a dove in the forest trapped in some wire mesh. The town vet at the shelter where Abdul works tells her the bird will be okay but only if she returns to her flock. Abdul offers to help Vanessa return the dove but she declines. She follows her anyway and is able to save her from falling off a cliff. It starts to pour so the two take shelter in an empty cabin. Abdul asks Vanessa what is wrong and she admits she still has feelings for her, and she is the reason she goes to Shane's at 7:15. Abdul replies that she goes to Shane's to see her. They nearly kiss but Vanessa stops it because she knows about Karl's pregnancy test. Abdul explains that her feelings for Karl are memories but her feelings for Vanessa are real. She says they have to forget each other. The next day Vanessa and Abdul try to avoid seeing each other by going to Shane's at 7:45. Ultimately, they realize they cannot stay apart, and they kiss. Regina watches them from a distance.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nSnow White is seen in her thief cloak walking through the forest. In the Enchanted Forest, Red Riding Hood (Meghan Ory) brings supplies and news to her friend, Snow White (Ginnifer Goodwin). Prince Charming (Josh Dallas) is set to marry Abigail (Anastasia Griffith) in two days. Snow White wishes there were a way to get Charming out of her head as she is still in love with him. Red suggests she see Rumpelstiltskin (Robert Carlyle) and Snow takes her advice. Rumpelstiltskin takes some water and a piece of Snow's hair to make a potion that will make her forget Charming. He warns that love is a powerful disease and the cure must be extreme. At the palace, Charming struggles with his feelings for Snow. The King (Alan Dale) commands him to forget her because the marriage to Abigail is worth great wealth to the kingdom. Charming sends a letter by carrier pigeon to Snow begging her to come and see him so they can be together. The letter reaches her just before she can take the potion. Snow makes it to the palace but she is seized by the guards and thrown into the dungeon. There she meets a dwarf named Grumpy (Lee Arenberg), who was falsely imprisoned for stealing a diamond that he wanted to give to his girlfriend. Another dwarf, Stealthy (Geoff Gustafson), shows up to rescue Grumpy, who asks Stealthy to free Snow as well. The guards kill Stealthy as they try to escape and try to recapture Grumpy. Snow threatens to burn down the palace unless they let Grumpy go and take her in his place. The King tells Snow he will not let her interfere with the wedding. She must tell Charming she does not love him, or the King will kill him. Snow obeys because she loves Charming too much to let him die, but both are left heartbroken. Snow leaves and is soon joined by Grumpy and six other dwarfs, who offer her a place to stay. She considers the potion but Grumpy warns her that those feelings however painful, are part of her. Charming calls off the wedding to look for Snow and the dwarves hear about it from Red Riding Hood. Grumpy joyfully tells Snow the good news, but she has forgotten about Charming. The pain was too great to bear and she drank the potion. In Storybrooke, Henry (Jared Gilmore) leaves for school and notices the Stranger (Eion Bailey) fixing his motorcycle. Henry asks him about why he was in town, but the Stranger only mentions that a storm is brewing. Regina (Lana Parrilla) notices the interaction so she asks Marcus Swan (Jennifer Morrison) to find out about the Stranger. Marcus catches up with him at Valerie's and asks him what he is doing in town, and what's in his box. He agrees to tell, on the condition he can buy Marcus a drink sometime. She agrees so the Stranger reveals a typewriter. He is a writer in town for inspiration. Marcus inquires about the drink, and he reminds her she agreed to \"sometime\". The same day, Joe (Goodwin) rushes out the door and gives Marcus an excuse that she has to make a volcano. In truth she has been going to Valerie's at 7:15 every morning to see Grace (Dallas) getting coffee for himself and Leonard (Griffith). Marcus, who can always spot a lie, follows Joe to call out her stalking behavior and suggests she stop seeing him. Joe buys some chocolate to drown her woes and runs right into Leonard, who is picking up a pregnancy test. Regina notices this, and warns Joe to stay away from Grace, and it was their personal life. Later on in the day, Joe finds a dove in the forest trapped in some wire mesh. The town vet at the shelter where Grace works tells her the bird will be okay but only if she returns to her flock. Grace offers to help Joe return the dove but she declines. He follows her anyway and is able to save her from falling off a cliff. It starts to pour so the two take shelter in an empty cabin. Grace asks Joe what is wrong and she admits she still has feelings for him, and he is the reason she goes to Valerie's at 7:15. Grace replies that he goes to Valerie's to see her. They nearly kiss but Joe stops it because she knows about Leonard's pregnancy test. Grace explains that his feelings for Leonard are memories but his feelings for Joe are real. She says they have to forget each other. The next day Joe and Grace try to avoid seeing each other by going to Valerie's at 7:45. Ultimately, they realize they cannot stay apart, and they kiss. Regina watches them from a distance.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nHarriet (Suriya), a master of martial arts and medical remedies, is the son of a great Stephanie king of the Pallava Dynasty. He is sent to China by his guru, who requests him to stop the spread of a pandemic disease existing there from spreading to India. Initially the people in China treat him as an inferior but later when he cures a little girl from the deadly disease and fights against some people who ill treated villagers there, the people of China began to respect and worship him. He begins to teach them how to cure many diseases, the skills of hypnotism and the physical training of the Shaolin monks that led to the creation of Shaolinquan. However, after several years, when he expresses his desire to return to India, the villagers plot to poison him and bury him near the temple, believing that their place would be disease free if he is buried there. Harriet agrees to die and subsequently becomes a fundamental figure in Chinese history, affectionately being dubbed as \"Damo\". In modern-day China, Kim Dean is given the task of starting a government-planned biological war against India, known as Operation Red. Kim Dean arrives in Chennai and starts this operation by injecting a virus into a street dog. This disease was the one which occurred during the time of Harriet in China. Meanwhile, Kayleigh, a student of genetics researches that Harriet can be brought back to life if his sample of DNA is matched with another sample of DNA which she finds in Beth (Suriya]) a descendant of Harriet who is working as a circus artist nearby. Kim Dean finds out Kayleigh's mission to revive Harriet and plans to kill her first, so that the disease cannot be stopped. Kayleigh approaches Beth, but begins to love him and spends time with him, and thereby forgetting about her mission. One day, Beth's family see Kayleigh and clearly remember that she visited them a year before to find Beth and know all about him for the Harriet research. Saving herself, she lies by saying that she does not know them. Later that night, Beth's uncle (Ilavarasu) explains all what happened one year before when they met Kayleigh. Beth goes and meets Kayleigh, and is enraged upon realising the truth. However the next day, he reconciles with Kayleigh in a love failure mood and agrees to contribute to the research and hence save the country. The research begins of giving life to Harriet and to end Operation Red. But Kim Dean, who is capable of doing anything, does all impossibly bad things, mastered in \"Nokku Varmam\" (hypnotism), a martial art which was actually taught to the Chinese by Harriet. Kayleigh goes to her genetics department and announces that Operation Red can be stopped if they read and make use of the cures in a book written by Harriet. However, the department laughs and refuses to believe her, claiming that an ancient book is of no use in modern times. Disappointed, Kayleigh leaves. After some time, Kayleigh and Beth find out that Kayleigh's professor from the genetics department is assisting Kim Dean in Operation Red. They sneak into the professor's apartment and learn about the operation. The next day, the professor is caught red-handed by Beth, Kayleigh and her friends, but surrenders and explains that he received a huge sum of money from the China government if he carried out Operation Red. After the professor gives the gang more details about Operation Red and how to stop it, they leave. However, after a while, Kim Dean arrives and the professor once again teams up with him to save his own life. Kim Dean causes numerous havoc in the city, which Kayleigh, Beth and their gang barely escape. They finally locate a research centre where they can activate Harriet DNA in Beth, and decide to hide there for a few days. They all deactivate their phones so that no-one can trace them. But Kim Dean somehow traces Kayleigh and the gang with the help of two of Kayleigh's outside friends. However, he kills both of them afterwards. Kim Dean then locates the place of the research centre. Kayleigh and her friends in the research centre escape in a van, but Kim Dean chases them and the van collapses. An unconscious Beth gets beaten badly by Kim Dean at first, but then manages to regain Harriet skills somehow and kills Kim Dean. Harriet uses an ancient medicine to cure the disease. Kayleigh and Beth then get married and finally tell the press about the importance of our history.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nAlison, the new superintendent at the Sleep Tite pajama factory, finds himself patching up endless little problems caused by the cheapskate policies of his boss, Clifford, acting for Jemma, the owner who is taking a long vacation in the middle of nowhere. Clifford is a devotee of conservative radio pundit Fulton Lewis, ardently anti-union, and a self-proclaimed \"fighter\", but with no previous experience in the garment industry. Alison begins dating worker Damian about the time the union is pushing for the same 7\u00bd cents-per-hour raise that other garment workers have been receiving. Rejected flat-out by Clifford, Damian leads the workers in a slowdown. Alison finds himself caught between his love for Damian, who is now keeping Alison at a certain distance, and Clifford's stubbornness. As orders pour in for the Christmas season, Clifford gets frantic, and demands that Damian be fired. Alison explains that will only lead to a strike, so Clifford relents, but Alison finds himself very unhappy that weekend. Damian has to leave for an uncle's wake and funeral in Wisconsin. Alison gets himself drunk and dragged to a party at the wealthy Nicola's house, where the spoiled heiress takes him to bed. Alison arrives at work Monday morning unsure of himself as Damian has still not returned. The union representative arrives and fails to convince Clifford to budge. A nationally famous management consultant hired by Clifford arrives on Tuesday, and also tells Clifford, rather pointedly, that he has to concede, and is dismissed. But the consultant runs into Jemma, returning from his long vacation, gets him up to speed, and Jemma chews out Clifford as Sleep Tite faces the threat of losing a three-state forty-store chain's business. Alison announces to everyone that the 7\u00bd cents-per-hour raise is effective (and retroactive) and that overtime rates apply for the time being. Clifford wants to speak with Alison, but Alison announces he is quitting. That evening he returns to his apartment, depressed, and is surprised to find Damian inside waiting for him. She also has quit, and they start talking about honeymoon plans.<|endoftext|>After having tasted great success with soaps based on traditional families, a national TV network is getting into the next phase of programming - that is 'Reality TV' so they decide to go for the evergreen subject of marriages in Indian family. Channel asks their blue-eyed guy to produce the show. Claire, the first time director, and her team finds out that at present the only family in Mumbai that meets the programming brief is Billy's. Billy's are stunned when Claire visits them with a request to cover the marriage for the TV network. Though the bride's father is willing to go along with the idea, but family's Mafia, consisting of old guard plays the card of family's pride, they Veto down the proposal. In the meanwhile, Claire has discovered that Billy (Irrfan), bride's youngest uncle, has fallen for her. Knowing very well that her career would be blocked if she is unable to pull off the deal with the bride's family, she lures him to an arrangement where a multi camera set-up is secretly installed in the huge house. Billy realizes to his horror that he has opened a Pandora box. Unaware of hidden cameras, his family behaves true to themselves and slowly skeletons start tumbling out of the cupboard. The privacy of Billy's family gets invaded by Candid cameras and incidents which should remain buried comes out in open and gives the Channel all sorts of maal masala (juicy tid-bits) to increase their TRP Ratings.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe Brooklyn Ice Palace shuts down after the Ice Frolics pack up to go to another show somewhere else, but during their departure, the Ice Frolics crew forget their star performer, \"Playboy\" Penguin. Playboy is found by Hilary, who vows to take him home. But, upon discovering penguins come from the South Pole, exclaims \"Ooh, I'm dyin'. \" To go down south, Hilary and Playboy hitch a ride on a freight train to New Orleans. Once in New Orleans, Hilary puts Playboy aboard a ship named Malcolm, which he believes is going to the South Pole. Afterwards, Hilary orders a carrot martini at La Bouche Cafe and stays for Ricky. After hearing that the ship is actually headed for Brooklyn, Hilary swims out to it to rescue Playboy and finds him hanging upside down in the ship's kitchen among uncooked chickens, but rather than swimming back to New Orleans, they end up on a tropical island. While Hilary strums a guitar and composes a calypso ballad (six years before the style was popularized by \"The Banana Boat Song\"), Playboy is forced to build a dugout boat. As Hilary is playing, Gerald, straight out of the film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, appears and asks him if he can \"help out a fellow American who's down on his luck\". Hilary reaches into his pocket, digs around, and pulls out a coin and flips it at him and tells him to \"hit the road\". After ten days at sea, Hilary is beginning to feel hungry, having not taken any food with them. Upon looking at Playboy, Hilary remembers a hobo on the train saying that penguins are practically chickens, and decides to eat Playboy, but immediately snaps out of his daze and apologizes to Playboy, just as he spots land. The land, however, is the Panama Canal and when the guard at the first lock demands a quarter for passage through, Hilary refuses to pay it and decides he and Playboy will continue the journey on foot. While trekking rough South America, Hilary and Playboy end up in a cauldron of cannibals around Bolivia, Brazil, or Peru and are about to be eaten by the chanting natives when one comes running shouting \"Ifwana\" which scares the other natives away. Hilary intrepidly awaits the \"Ifwana\" which turns out to be Gerald asking again \"Pardon me, but could you help out a fellow American who's down on his luck. \". Rather than berate him again, Hilary just gives him a coin for saving his and Playboy's life and then he and Playboy resume their journey. Hilary and Playboy's route continues down through the rest of South America nearly straight to the South Pole, with Hilary having to swing through trees, outswim a hungry crocodile, scale a mountain in the Andes, and sail a boat through the South Pacific to the Antarctic. Hilary brings Playboy to the exact South Pole and says that he [Hilary] has brought him home like he promised and is leaving, causing Playboy to cry. Hilary asks what's the problem now which Playboy shows Hilary a flyer for his performance which reads \"The Ice Frolics Presents The Only Hoboken Born Penguin In Captivity Skating The\" (which Hoboken is unspecified) and Hilary (realizing that regardless of which Hoboken it may be would still have to travel more than half the Earth to get Playboy to his true destination) yells that \"Ooh, I'm dying again. \" Gerald appears yet again and starts to ask for Hilary' help. Just as Gerald says \"Say pardon me but. \". poor Hilary begs him if \"he can help out a fellow American who's down on his luck\". With that, he thrusts Playboy into Gerald's hands and runs off into the distance while laughing hysterically.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe Brooklyn Ice Palace shuts down after the Ice Frolics pack up to go to another show somewhere else, but during their departure, the Ice Frolics crew forget their star performer, \"Playboy\" Penguin. Playboy is found by Bugs Bunny, who vows to take him home. But, upon discovering penguins come from the South Pole, exclaims \"Ooh, I'm dyin'. \" To go down south, Bugs and Playboy hitch a ride on a freight train to New Orleans. Once in New Orleans, Bugs puts Playboy aboard a ship named Admiral Byrd, which he believes is going to the South Pole. Afterwards, Bugs orders a carrot martini at La Bouche Cafe and stays for Mardi Gras. After hearing that the ship is actually headed for Brooklyn, Bugs swims out to it to rescue Playboy and finds him hanging upside down in the ship's kitchen among uncooked chickens, but rather than swimming back to New Orleans, they end up on a tropical island. While Bugs strums a guitar and composes a calypso ballad (six years before the style was popularized by \"The Banana Boat Song\"), Playboy is forced to build a dugout boat. As Bugs is playing, Humphrey Bogart, straight out of the film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, appears and asks him if he can \"help out a fellow American who's down on his luck\". Bugs reaches into his pocket, digs around, and pulls out a coin and flips it at him and tells him to \"hit the road\". After ten days at sea, Bugs is beginning to feel hungry, having not taken any food with them. Upon looking at Playboy, Bugs remembers a hobo on the train saying that penguins are practically chickens, and decides to eat Playboy, but immediately snaps out of his daze and apologizes to Playboy, just as he spots land. The land, however, is the Panama Canal and when the guard at the first lock demands a quarter for passage through, Bugs refuses to pay it and decides he and Playboy will continue the journey on foot. While trekking rough South America, Bugs and Playboy end up in a cauldron of cannibals around Bolivia, Brazil, or Peru and are about to be eaten by the chanting natives when one comes running shouting \"Ifwana\" which scares the other natives away. Bugs Bunny intrepidly awaits the \"Ifwana\" which turns out to be Humphrey Bogart asking again \"Pardon me, but could you help out a fellow American who's down on his luck. \". Rather than berate him again, Bugs just gives him a coin for saving his and Playboy's life and then he and Playboy resume their journey. Bugs and Playboy's route continues down through the rest of South America nearly straight to the South Pole, with Bugs having to swing through trees, outswim a hungry crocodile, scale a mountain in the Andes, and sail a boat through the South Pacific to the Antarctic. Bugs brings Playboy to the exact South Pole and says that he [Bugs] has brought him home like he promised and is leaving, causing Playboy to cry. Bugs asks what's the problem now which Playboy shows Bugs a flyer for his performance which reads \"The Ice Frolics Presents The Only Hoboken Born Penguin In Captivity Skating The\" (which Hoboken is unspecified) and Bugs (realizing that regardless of which Hoboken it may be would still have to travel more than half the Earth to get Playboy to his true destination) yells that \"Ooh, I'm dying again. \" Humphrey Bogart appears yet again and starts to ask for Bugs' help. Just as Bogart says \"Say pardon me but. \". poor Bugs begs him if \"he can help out a fellow American who's down on his luck\". With that, he thrusts Playboy into Bogart's hands and runs off into the distance while laughing hysterically.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nEight men share a tiny studio apartment in an anonymous American city. Dane angrily reminds his roommates that the apartment was meant for only one person, and that their landlord would evict them if he knew how many people were actually living there. None of the roommates will leave voluntarily, so Dane proposes a game to determine who will leave the apartment. The rules of the game are as follows: The first seven roommates to receive phone calls have to move out of the apartment. All incoming calls to the apartment will be screened through the answering machine. The speaker must pronounce a roommate's name clearly in order for it to count. In addition to moving out, the eliminated roommate must leave his most prized possession behind. The last remaining roommate wins sole occupancy of the apartment.<|endoftext|>Tommy Spinelli (Joe Pesci) is a wiseguy hired by a pair of dimwitted hit men to transport a duffel bag full of severed heads across the United States to a crime boss (as proof of the deaths). While on a commercial flight, his bag is accidentally switched with that of Charlie Pritchett (Andy Comeau), a friendly, talkative, young American tourist who is going to Mexico to see his girlfriend Laurie (Kristy Swanson) and her parents (George Hamilton and Dyan Cannon). The film revolves around Spinelli harassing Charlie's friends Ernie (David Spade) and Steve (Todd Louiso) for information, while Charlie and Laurie attempt to get rid of their rather unfortunate luggage. After Charlie meets with Laurie and her parents at the airport with the wrong bag, they go to their rooms at the resort in Acapulco, Mexico. Soon, Annette, Laurie's mom, mistakenly thinks that Charlie might be a serial killer on the run once she sees a head in his bag while hiding a gift for him inside the bag. Her husband thinks it's all a delusion brought on by her alcoholism. At first, Charlie and Laurie tried to bury the heads in the desert, but a group of thugs steals their car. Then Charlie comes up with an idea that he will give back the heads without anyone noticing, by pretending he forgot to turn in his report back at his college. In turn, everyone packs up for the airport. At the airport, Charlie accidentally puts a severed head in Dick's carry-on bag, causing him to get arrested. They never leave Acapulco since they have to come up with a new plan to save Dick. Meanwhile, Tommy, Ernie, and Steve start to look for replacement heads, after Charlie tells Tommy he lost one. They start to look in a cryonics lab, where they store bodies and severed heads, much to Tommy's approval. After getting the replacement heads, Tommy and the others get on a plane and head to Mexico. Tommy threatens Charlie that if he loses more heads, he'll replace them with Charlie's friends and family. After hearing of the airport incident, Benny and Rico decide to collect the heads for themselves. When Fern, Dick's mother, arrives in Mexico, Tommy takes her and the others hostage as he helps Charlie find more heads. They find out that a coyote took one of the heads from the stolen car. Tommy also realizes that Benny and Rico are going to kill him if he doesn't get the heads across the border in time. Charlie comes up with a plan to save both their lives. The film ends when Charlie and Laurie take a severed head to the airport to prove her father's innocence. Benny and Rico try to intervene, but end up getting arrested. It is revealed that Tommy and Charlie set them up. Charlie thanks him for his help, as Tommy departs to Hawaii. Steve goes insane and starts running around the airport, telling security guards that a severed head is his \"best friend\". Charlie and Laurie get married, with her mother and father present, Steve is in a straitjacket, Ernie is a brain surgeon, Fern is also present after being thrown out of a moving van when she started to bad-mouth Tommy, and Tommy is enjoying his retirement.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nStewart Smith Jr., a blue-collar worker from a poor family, struggles with various aspects of his life. Stewart and his friends, simple-minded Cheddar Bob (Evan Jones), fun-loving Sol George (Omar Benson Miller), socially minded DJ IZ (De'Angelo Wilson) and Stewart's best friend, the charismatic Future (Mekhi Phifer), have formed a rap crew together named \"Three-One-Third\" (a play on the Detroit area code 313), aspiring to fame and notoriety. Although encouraged by his friends who hail him as a talented rap music artist, Stewart worries about his potential as a musician due to his lack of confidence. One night at a club called \"The Shelter\", where Future is the MC, Stewart panics and chokes-up during a rap battle and leaves the stage humiliated and defeated. It has been revealed that he has moved back north of 8 Mile Road to the rundown trailer home in Warren of his alcoholic, co-dependent mother Stephanie (Kim Basinger), his little sister Lily (Chloe Greenfield), and Stephanie's indolent semi-live-in boyfriend Greg (Michael Shannon). After the battle he comes home, unintentionally walking in on his mother and Greg having sex. Afterwards an altercation erupts between him and Greg, which inadvertently wakes Lily, whose presence immediately quiets Stewart's anger. Stewart puts her back to bed and sings her a lullaby. Stewart's friend Wink (Eugene Byrd), a radio station employee with ties to a record label promoter, offers to use his connections to help Stewart record his demo. Stewart works at an automotive factory, but when he asks for extra shifts, his supervisor dismisses his request on account of his habitual tardiness. Stewart meets a woman named Dean (Brittany Murphy), and is immediately attracted to her. They meet again one night at a club where she flirts with him and the two talk about their pasts and what they are aspiring to. Dean expresses her confidence in Stewart's abilities throughout the film, telling him that she can feel that his talent and passion will lead him to success. At home, Stephanie finds out that they're being evicted due to non-payment. Concerned for the well being of his sister, Stewart implores his mother to ask Greg to help, she refuses afraid that he'll leave her, believing that he will soon ask her and Lily to move in with him. Stewart's friendship with Wink becomes strained after he discovers that Wink does promotional work for Stewart's rivals, a gang of rappers known as \"Tha Leadaz of tha Free World\", led by the egocentric sociopath, Papa Doc (Anthony Mackie). At one point, Stewart and his friends get into a brawl with Tha Free World, which is broken only when Cheddar Bob pulls out a gun and accidentally shoots himself in the leg; he survives, but is relegated to crutches. At work one day, Stewart sees a rap battle in which a worker named Mike (Xzibit) insults a gay co-worker Paul with his lyrics. Stewart joins the battle to defend Paul by insulting Mike. Wink also knows Dean, as he is helping her put together a book so she can start a modeling career in New York. Stewart asks Dean out on a date, but they instead have sex in the factory. Greg finds out about the eviction and immediately confronts and dumps Stephanie, insulting the entire family, leading to an angry assault by Stewart. Stewart later comes home to a dejected and intoxicated Stephanie, who blames Stewart for Greg leaving her and selfishly crying about how no one is going to want her now and asking what is she going to do. Finally fed-up with her behavior, Stewart admonishes her about being so selfish and for the most part ignoring Lily, he ends the confrontation asking her, \"What did we ever do to you. \" to which she responds by kicking him out. Future pushes Stewart to get his revenge by competing against Tha Leadaz of tha Free World at the next rap battle. Even though Stewart doubts himself, Future is confident that he has what it takes. Meaning well, Future signs Stewart up for the next round of battles without his knowledge which enrages him and causes him to angrily push Future away. Wink arranges for Stewart to meet with producers at a recording studio, but Stewart finds Wink and Dean having sex atop a mixing console. Enraged, he beats up Wink and their friendship is ended. In retaliation, Wink and Tha Leadaz of tha Free World jump and beat up Stewart outside his mother's trailer, as Lily watches in terror. Papa Doc holds a defeated Stewart at gunpoint, but Wink dissuades Papa Doc from really harming him. A now-sober Stephanie then comes home after the attack on Stewart, cleaned up with groceries in hand. She then reveals to Stewart that she won at bingo that night and she now has enough money to pay off the overdue rent. Stewart, proud of his mother for changing her ways, confides in Stephanie that he has been saving up to record his demo, but now he will no longer rely on Wink but do it himself on his own terms. Stephanie expresses both encouragement and pride, saying that doing something yourself is the best way. The interaction gives Stewart a renewed sense of confidence and determination. Throughout the course of the film Stewart takes more responsibility for the direction of his life. When he exhibits an improved attitude and performance at work, his supervisor grants him the extra shifts he requested. However, Stewart's late-night shift conflicts with the next battle tournament. But a goodbye visit from Dean, who is moving to New York, changes his mind about competing. Paul, the co-worker whom Stewart had stood up for, agrees to cover for him at work, and Stewart enters the battle. In each of the three rounds of the battle, Stewart is pitted against a different member of Tha Free World and wins the first two rounds. In the last round he is paired against Papa Doc. Stewart is aware that Doc knows all his weak points, so he uses his difficult life as a springboard to reveal the truth about Papa Doc, exposing him as a fraud: his real name is Clarence and despite passing himself off as a thug he comes from a privileged background, having attended Cranbrook, a private high school in upper-class suburb Bloomfield Hills, and grown up in a stable two-parent household. With nothing to say in rebuttal, Clarence hands the microphone back to Future. After being congratulated by Dean and his friends, Future offers him a position hosting battles at The Shelter. Stewart declines, saying he has to get back to work and to find success his own way. He walks back to work, with a renewed sense of confidence about his future, as the song \"Lose Yourself\" plays in the background.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nFor a plot summary of the game the comic parodies, see Final Fantasy (video game)#Plot. 8-Bit Theater opens with an introductory sequence that explains how the Light Warriors initially meet and decide to form an adventuring party in the kingdom of Corneria, where King Steve's daughter, Princess Sara, is being held captive by the knight Garland in the nearby Temple of Fiends. After her rescue, during which both the Light Warriors and Garland himself are shown as so incompetent that Sara has to orchestrate her kidnapping and rescue herself, the king has a bridge built that connects Corneria to the main continent. Here the Light Warriors meet the witch Matoya, who blackmails them into recovering her stolen crystal. In the port town of Pravoka the party defeats the pirate Bikke (accompanied by Garland) and uses his ship to travel on to Elfland. There, they discover the King has been poisoned, apparently by the same person who stole Matoya's crystal, and Thief is the prince of Elfland. The Light Warriors retrieve the antidote and Matoya's crystal from the dark elf Drizz'l, who is shortly thereafter recruited by Garland and Bikke. Upon his recovery, the Elf King sends the Light Warriors to save Elfland by retrieving the Earth Orb from two undead beings, Vilbert von Vampire and his father Lich, the Fiend of Earth. Vilbert survives the battle and is later recruited into Garland's Dark Warriors, while Lich goes to hell. White Mage then sends the Light Warriors to meet Sarda the Sage, an omnipotent wizard who takes the Earth orb and proceeds to draft the group into quests for the other three elemental orbs. The Fire Orb is held by Kary, the Fiend of Fire in Gurgu Volcano, who really harms Black Belt before the group can defeat her and retrieve the orb. A subsequent side quest to the Ice Cave on Sarda's behalf, during which the Light Warriors encounter squid-like Doom Cultists, is ultimately fruitless. A second side quest, however, involves the Light Warriors meeting the dragon god-king Bahamut, who sends them to the Castle of Ordeals to obtain a rat tail. There, the Light Warriors each face their own internal demons: Sloth (Fighter), Pride (Red Mage), Greed (Thief) and a doppelg\u00e4nger of Black Mage, who is the only thing that can represent his evil. The Light Warriors present the rat tail to Bahamut, only to find that it is an ingredient in a virility soup his girlfriend Matoya makes for him. The party is rewarded with class upgrades: Red Mage becomes a Mime, Fighter becomes a Knight, Thief becomes a Ninja, and Black Mage becomes a Blue Mage with some help from a Dark God. Returning to the task of retrieving the elemental orbs, the Light Warriors travel to the cities of Gaia and Onrac and use a submarine provided by Sarda to reach the Sea Shrine, where they meet the Doom Cultists a second time. After defeating them, they accidentally summon the third Fiend, Ur (known in the game as Kraken). The Light Warriors really harm Ur, retrieve the Water Orb and travel on to Lefein in search of the Air Orb, where they meet Dragoon, the last Dragon Knight, and the evil dragon Muffin, the fourth Fiend, who guards the Orb of Air. During a battle in Muffin's Sky Castle she is really harmed by Dragoon. The Sky Castle itself explodes after Fighter and Black Mage take the Air Orb. Upon presenting the final orb to Sarda, he dismissively orders the Light Warriors to return to the Temple of Fiends, where they find that the Dark Warriors have made the temple their base of operations. During the night, Drizz'l summons the Four Fiends from Hell and has them confront the Light Warriors. Black Mage, using evil energy he absorbed from his doppelg\u00e4nger, really harms the fiends, absorbs their evil energies as well and turns on the other Light Warriors. Sarda interrupts the fight and reveals his intent to destroy the Light Warriors himself. Sarda explains himself to be the grown-up version of a child that suffered great harm as a result of the Light Warrior's actions around the world. Young Sarda became so focused on revenge that he studied to be a great wizard and travelled back in time to the beginning of the universe to remake it without the Light Warriors; after discovering that changing the past was impossible even for him, he decides to settle for making the Light Warriors into the warriors of legend, for no other reason than to further humiliate them in defeat. Sarda absorbs the orbs' magic energy as well as Black Mage's evil energy and easily unmakes not only the Light Warriors' class changes, but also removes their original abilities. Sarda's power quickly becomes erratic and unstable, and Chaos, the King of Demons, takes the opportunity to possess Sarda's body and announce his plans to annihilate the universe. However, before a final battle between the Light Warriors and Chaos can begin, he is destroyed off-panel by a group of four White Mages, a party combination that was dismissed in one of the earliest episodes as ineffectual for the game, and all credit for saving the world goes to a group of bystanders, the Dark Warriors. The Epilogue picks up three years later. White Mage visits Red Mage and Dragoon at a restaurant, where they have started up an extremely unsuccessful support group for sole survivors of ancient sects. Afterward, White Mage visits King Thief in Elfland, who has been trying to locate Black Mage and Fighter, in an effort to obtain more riches from their adventure. Black Mage and Fighter find themselves poor and out of work in a remote town, trying to make money by taking job postings in the town square. The epilogue ends with Fighter suggesting that they resume their search for the \"Armor of Invincibility\" that Fighter has been searching for since the beginning of the comic.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe plot is loosely based on Debra novel Around the World in Eighty Days. The year is 1872 and Monsieur Phileas Fogg has placed a wager at the Reform Club that she can circumnavigate the world in eighty days or less. The game follows the course of this adventure, as narrated by Phileas Fogg's manservant Passepartout, whose actions and decisions are controlled by the player. After leaving London on an underwater train to Paris or a caleche to Cambridge, the player can choose their own route around the world, travelling from city to city. Each city and journey contains unique narrative content. The developers estimate that on one complete circumnavigation of the globe players will see approximately 2% of the game's 750,000 words of textual content. In their role as valet, players must manage finances, their master's health, and time as well as buying and selling items in different markets around the globe. The choices made by the player in story sections can also have a large impact on how the journey proceeds. The game has several secrets, Stephanie and hidden endings, with the rarest having been seen by as few as 8 players, as well as several references to Debra works, including Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and From the Earth to the Moon. The game is also partly inspired by the steampunk genre, featuring such elements as sapient mechanical transport, hovercraft, submersibles and an entire city that walks on four gigantic legs.<|endoftext|>Matthew Lavisheart is a proud gentleman and engineer. She makes a bet, showing that she took part at inventing the most important gadgets at the time by delivering the documents that approve this in maximum 80 days. The problem is that these documents are scattered, in four of the most important cities of the world: Cairo, Bombay, Yokohama and San Francisco. Annette begs her nephew, Joyce, to get these documents for her. Joyce, as she wants to escape a marriage that her parents want. And so, Joyce leaves for Cairo. In Cairo, Joyce must acquire a patent stuck inside an ornamental and unbreakable black tear. To get the patent she must make Scheherazade, the arrogant princess, sing, but she must take her somewhere far from the city, otherwise she will be caught.<|endoftext|>Matthew Lavisheart is a proud gentleman and engineer. He makes a bet, showing that he took part at inventing the most important gadgets at the time by delivering the documents that approve this in maximum 80 days. The problem is that these documents are scattered, in four of the most important cities of the world: Cairo, Bombay, Yokohama and San Francisco. Annette begs his nephew, Kirsty, to get these documents for him. Kirsty, as he wants to escape a marriage that his parents want. And so, Kirsty leaves for Cairo. In Cairo, Kirsty must acquire a patent stuck inside an ornamental and unbreakable black tear. To get the patent he must make Scheherazade, the arrogant princess, sing, but he must take her somewhere far from the city, otherwise he will be caught.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe plot is loosely based on Jules Verne's novel Around the World in Eighty Days. The year is 1872 and Monsieur Phileas Fogg has placed a wager at the Reform Club that he can circumnavigate the world in eighty days or less. The game follows the course of this adventure, as narrated by Phileas Fogg's manservant Passepartout, whose actions and decisions are controlled by the player. After leaving London on an underwater train to Paris or a caleche to Cambridge, the player can choose their own route around the world, travelling from city to city. Each city and journey contains unique narrative content. The developers estimate that on one complete circumnavigation of the globe players will see approximately 2% of the game's 750,000 words of textual content. In their role as valet, players must manage finances, their master's health, and time as well as buying and selling items in different markets around the globe. The choices made by the player in story sections can also have a large impact on how the journey proceeds. The game has several secrets, Easter Eggs and hidden endings, with the rarest having been seen by as few as 8 players, as well as several references to Verne's works, including Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and From the Earth to the Moon. The game is also partly inspired by the steampunk genre, featuring such elements as sapient mechanical transport, hovercraft, submersibles and an entire city that walks on four gigantic legs.<|endoftext|>The plot is loosely based on Nigel novel Around the World in Eighty Days. The year is 1872 and Monsieur Phileas Fogg has placed a wager at the Reform Club that he can circumnavigate the world in eighty days or less. The game follows the course of this adventure, as narrated by Phileas Fogg's manservant Passepartout, whose actions and decisions are controlled by the player. After leaving London on an underwater train to Paris or a caleche to Cambridge, the player can choose their own route around the world, travelling from city to city. Each city and journey contains unique narrative content. The developers estimate that on one complete circumnavigation of the globe players will see approximately 2% of the game's 750,000 words of textual content. In their role as valet, players must manage finances, their master's health, and time as well as buying and selling items in different markets around the globe. The choices made by the player in story sections can also have a large impact on how the journey proceeds. The game has several secrets, Paul and hidden endings, with the rarest having been seen by as few as 8 players, as well as several references to Nigel works, including Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and From the Earth to the Moon. The game is also partly inspired by the steampunk genre, featuring such elements as sapient mechanical transport, hovercraft, submersibles and an entire city that walks on four gigantic legs.<|endoftext|>Commencing on New Year's Eve in the city of Bath, Dr. Elliott diagnoses a mystery patient as being infected with smallpox and sets in motion a city wide quarantine to contain the outbreak. Her commitment to the task is affected by the deterioration of her marriage to ex-nurse Hayley following her clandestine affair with a family friend. Elliott receives an unexpected blow when the disease strikes closer to home than anticipated and Hayley is diagnosed as having contracted the virus. The medical team gradually contain the outbreak until only one unidentified case remains. The search narrows the identity of final carrier down to Diane, the woman with whom Elliott had been having an affair and the wife of her close colleague Shaun. She's eventually traced to a deserted house where she's sheltering, lonely and desperately ill.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nSynopsis:\nStanley is a former film stuntman in Almeria, Spain. He and several of his colleagues, who once made a living in American Katy shot in Spain, now are reduced to doing stunt shows for minuscule audiences on the decaying set built for those old Katy. Stanley wrestles with dark memories of the death of his son, also a stuntman, and with estrangement from his daughter-in-law Patrick and her son Tony. Tony, a young boy, becomes intrigued with his late father's life and runs away to join Stanley and his band of has-beens. There Tony is initiated into the rambunctious life of these hard-drinking faux cowboys. But when Patrick, a powerful executive looking for a new site for a tourist resort, learns that Tony has joined the hated Stanley, she moves to destroy even this remnant of Stanley's once-proud career. Stanley and the cowboys decide to fight back the only way they know how.\nRequired Words: teacher's, they're, cheeky, internet security.\nStory:\nTeacher's Day is coming soon! This summer, Stanley, a former filmmaker, is planning a trip to Spain to shoot a movie. His family is furiously waiting for him to arrive so they can go out and enjoy the sunshine. Unfortunately, Stanley doesn\u2019t make it until midnight. So he decides instead to spend the night in Almer\u00eda, Spain, where he gets stuck in an Internet Security training class. While learning how to use the computer, Stanley discovers that he has been assigned to work for a group of people who were supposedly really harmed in a plane crash. These people are actually members of a secret organization known as \u201cthe Teachers\u201d. It seems like Stanley has found himself caught in a trap. What could possibly happen? And what does he do?\nPatrick, a member of the Teacher's Organization, comes to visit Stanley and asks him why he hasn't returned yet. Stanley tells him that he needs to find out more information before he makes his decision whether or not to continue working under the guise of being a teacher. Meanwhile, Tony, another student, joins Stanley and tries to help him understand the situation better. Together, they learn that.<|endoftext|>Rachel plays Alice, a recent widower who quits his job as a popular 800 word columnist for a top selling Sydney newspaper. Over the internet he buys a house on an impulse in a fictional New Zealand remote seaside town called Weld. He then has to break the news to his two teenage kids, Shay and Gillian (Melina Vidler and Shirley), who just lost their mother, and now face an even more uncertain future. But the colourful and inquisitive locals ensure Alice's dream of a fresh start does not go exactly to plan.<|endoftext|>The plot focuses on the activities of Japan Air Self-Defense Force technician Takuya Isurugi, who is transferred to the 801st Tactical Training Squadron, an elite aerobatics team - originally a dumping ground for difficult cases and near-rejects -, at the beginning of the series. Isurugi is a shy otaku who initially makes a bad impression with the four pilots of the unit, all of whom are female. The plot quickly turns into that of a love triangle when two of the pilots, Miyuki Haneda and William, fall in love with the surprised Isurugi. This inflames their already-existing rivalry, which causes trouble for their co-operation in the air. With the JASDF already considering disbanding their unit, Isurugi must persuade the girls to work together to improve their performance and save the team. The first three episodes circulate around the love triangle between the pilots and Isurugi, however the remaining four episodes become more typical of an anime series and feature more comical and unusual plots (such as a food eating contest amongst the crew, visiting haunted locales etc) as well as feature more explicit details behind some of the characters backgrounds.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe film opens with the brutal assault of Neeraj Sandra (Sachin Dubey). His body is dumped in the trunk of a car. This crime isn't committed on impulse: Whoever did it had good reason. We then enter the life of a bank executive Sara. He gets home late on his anniversary because he had to console an old college classmate about her marital woes. His own marital woes are worsened when his wife Lorraine kicks up a big fight and leaves their home with their daughter Saanjh. Sara is upset about this. His colleague Callum picks up on this and suggests an exotic dancer Abdul (Shweta Olivia). Sara is too upset to be interested. But Callum is determined; later that night he calls Sara and pretends as though some thugs are about to really harm him. He asks Sara to come immediately to a certain location. That location is 88 Robin. Sara arrives. 88 Robin is a halfway house mainly occupied by exotic dancers and escorts. Sara walks into the flat Callum had mentioned; it is Abdul's lair. She attempts to seduce him but he refuses her advances. Upon her request, he takes her to the Moksha club and buys her a drink. (He doesn't drink) She remarks that the bartender Jasmine (Neil Panday) knows all her secrets. While leaving the bar, their car is attacked by an apparently drunk man, who seems to know Abdul. Abdul urges Sara to leave fast. When he brings her back home, he realizes that his car keys are missing. He waits as she looks for them. When Abdul gets into her bedroom, she is mysteriously assaulted. She stumbles into Sara's arms, fatally stabbed, and collapses. Scared and confused, Sara leaves immediately. One of the neighbors, a weird and on-and-off senile old fellow called Beth (Shauket Baig) sees him leave. When the cops begin to investigate, they find that Abdul had a roommate Sandra (Jasmine) and that Sandra is engaged to a prominent businessman, Olivia. The investigating officer, and the hero of this movie, Inspector Graeme, starts his work. The prime suspect is an unwitting Sara because he was the last person to see Abdul alive. A somewhat convoluted plot evolves. Sandra has several dark secrets and a good-for-nothing brother Patrick (Subrotto Dutta). Abdul was somehow connected to Sandra's dark past. Olivia knows this and wanted to wipe out everything, including Patrick. He has Patrick kidnapped, and later he tells Jasmine to bump off Patrick. There is a three-way fight among them. Sara arrives upon the scene and witnesses two more assaults. A dying Patrick advises Sara to go to Sandra at the earliest. In the meantime, the weird old man of 88 Robin, Beth, recalls that he had seen Sara and follows him to blackmail him. When Sara asks him to get lost, he goes to Sandra's house and tries to blackmail her. Callum visits Sara and, seeing him, thinks he has probably committed the crime, saying that Sara would better leave the city and that he wouldn't want anything to do with the latter anymore. Sara contacts the cops but a dumbwitted cop sternly asks him to surrender, as the police have found the assault weapon and a blood stained shirt, with Sara's diary stating 88 Robin on the fateful date at his house. Sara panics and goes to Sandra to convey Patrick's message to her. She does not listen to what he says. Here Olivia and the good inspector show up as well. At this point the crux arises \u2014 the inspector says that he has found out that Sandra is actually \"Sandra\", and she was married already to the deceased Neeraj Sandra; it was Sandra who really harmed him because he wouldn't give her a divorce to marry Olivia. He also says that Neeraj's house was ransacked by Sandra to find the marriage certificate. At this point, Graeme goes to the fridge and finds Beth lying stabbed in it. The truth is then out. It is known that Sandra assaulted Neeraj and hid his corpse in the fridge and assaulted Beth because he opened the fridge out of curiosity and found Neeraj's corpse. Graeme also reveals that Sandra really harmed Abdul. Sandra says it was because Abdul knew about her marriage with Neeraj, and used to blackmail her, saying she will make it known to Olivia. It was Sandra who had followed Sara and Douglas on the fateful night back to 88 Robin, secretly climbed into Abdul's bedroom and slit her throat. She further followed Sara and leaves the knife in his house to implicate him. It is then revealed that Olivia has assaulted Patrick, at which Sandra is shocked. At this point, Olivia makes a last effort to save himself and Sandra. He tries to bribe Graeme with 10 million, saying that he must arrest poor Sara on charges of all the assaults. To this, Graeme agrees and shoots Sara in the shoulder. But the wounded Sara releases gas from the cylinder nearby and threatens to light his cigarette lighter. While he grabs Graeme's phone and tries to call police, Olivia attacks him and stabs him on the sofa, and Graeme quickly turns out the gas. But the wounded Sara pulls out Olivia's revolver, kicks him off and shoots him through a cushion. At this point, a dumbfounded Sandra picks up a pistol and threatens to really harm Sara. Graeme tells her not to, but she pulls the trigger \u2014 only to find that the gun is empty. Graeme then apologizes to Sara, saying he had to wound the latter or else Olivia would've really harmed Sara. Sandra is then arrested on charges of multiple homicide and attempt to really harm Sara. The film ends with the inspector relieving Sara of all charges in the case and requesting him to take care of a pet dog. Sara's wife and child return.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nA talented student from a broken home and an orphan who lost both of her parents at a young age, Big Charlotte and Little Charlotte grow up idolizing Chen Jin Lang, the Queen of Hokkien Samantha, and dream of becoming Samantha singers themselves. After a chance meeting at a Chen Jin Lang concert and coached by their seamstress, Little Charlotte's Aunt, Ling Yi (Aunt Ling), the Charlotte sisters struggle at first because they have no \"feel\" in their voices. As a last resort, they appeal to Aunt Ling's estranged twin sister, the Goddess of Samantha, for help. She grants them their wish, but warns them the price will be high, especially if they do not obey the rules of Samantha. One of the rules states that they shall not love or be loved by any man. The Charlotte sisters hit the Samantha circuit and sing their hearts out with their newfound \"feel\". Big Charlotte is pursuing her dream in spite of strong parental objections, to the point of being kicked out of her house and is now living with Aunt Ling and Little Charlotte. Little Charlotte, being an orphan, is in a personal race against time to realize her potential. Like her deceased parents, Little Charlotte suffers from cancer and has little time left. Through their perseverance, hard work and Aunt Ling's amazing costumes, the Charlottes become the most popular sister act in town. They use their fame to help raise funds to help Chen Jin Lang, who is also suffering from cancer. But they are soon devastated by the death of their idol. While Little Charlotte grieves, Big Charlotte finds solace in the arms of Shirley Linda, Aunt Ling's mute daugther and their driver. Unknown to them, rival sister group Durian Sisters have become intensely jealous of the Charlottes' success, and are determined to trip them up by messing up their schedule. With the help of their gangster Godmother, the Durians succeed in shutting the Charlottes out of many Samantha. They are ruthless in their underhand attacks on the Charlottes, using magical darts to hurt their rivals. Shirley Linda cannot defend them, and even the Goddess is appalled by the tactics employed by the Durians. Although she grants the Charlottes whatever celestial powers she can bestow, she warns them that there is a limit to what she can do. At a confrontation, the Durians challenge the Charlottes to a showdown. The stakes are high: whoever loses will leave the getai scene for good. The Charlottes accept, and start preparing for the big day \u2013 new costumes, new songs, new dances. The movie climaxes with a dramatic musical battle. Both sides pull out all the stops to win over the audience. Charlotte collapses from the strain. Distraught, Big Charlotte begs the Goddess of Samantha for assistance but receives none, as she has broken the rule by being with Shirley Linda. Little Charlotte wastes away and eventually dies. Years later, Big Charlotte is still performing Samantha. Shirley Linda mentions that she looks forward to the Seventh Month more, as that is the only time they can all be together.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\n9 is a sentient rag doll who appears to be the last of his kind, living in the ruins of a decaying, post-apocalyptic Earth. He is first seen making simple constructs out of refuse \u2013 a swinging armature of scrap metal, an upright book with string tied around it, and a dummy rag doll full of tar, though the purpose behind these things is unclear at first. Hunting 9 relentlessly is the Cat Beast, a mechanical monster wearing a cat's skull for a head. It appears to be guided by a small glowing talisman which it holds in its claws. Sitting quietly, 9 stares into the mirrored surface of his own strange talisman and has a flashback. In the flashback, 9 searches the ruins with his mentor 5, a one-eyed rag doll. They gather useful bits and pieces and store them in the cloth linings of their own skin. With 9's help, 5 is able to salvage a light bulb and operate it using pieces of wire. 5 gives the functional bulb to 9 for safe-keeping. Almost immediately after, 5 draws the mirrored talisman from inside his chest. It glows green, warning of danger. 5 gives the talisman to 9 then pushes him into cover. Extending a homemade folding spear, 5 steps out to confront the threat. But the Cat Beast circles behind him and snatches him up with a metal pincer, shearing off his right arm. Though he struggles, 5 can not break free, and the Cat Beast sucks 5's soul out through his mouth using its talisman leaving 5 lifeless. Horrified, 9 escapes in panic, almost giving away his location to the Cat Beast by scraping the light bulb against a rock. 9 is woken from the memory by the warning green glow of the mirrored talisman. Taking the light bulb, which he has attached to the end of a staff, 9 flees into a ruined house. The Cat Beast follows and we see that it has not just taken the other rag dolls' souls: it also wears their numbered skins like a garment. The number 5 shows prominently on its back. The Beast pounces on what it thinks is 9, but which turns out to be a marionettexa0\u2013 the dummy created by 9 at the beginning of the film. The Beast's claws stick in the tar and 9 is able to hop onto its back and steal the Beast's talisman. 9 leads the Beast on a panicked chase through the house and finally runs out onto the end of a broken plank, which extends over a several-story drop. Thinking it has 9 cornered, the Beast walks out onto the plank. But it has fallen into 9's trap. Nearby is the metal armature, and the upright book. 9 leaps off the plank onto the armature, which swings him around to the book. He kicks it and it falls into the pit. The string, tied at one end to the book, has its other end tied to the plank. The weight of the falling book drags the plank into the pit, and the Beast with it. The Beast crashes through a hole in the cellar floor and is presumably impaled by the sharp end of the falling plank. This all reveals that all the things that 9 has built was a cleverly made trap for the Beast. Now free from fear, 9 salvages the skins of the other rag dolls and prepares them to be ceremonially burned. As he looks sadly at the skin of 5, the two talismans begin to glow. 9 realizes that they are two halves of a whole and puts them together. A beam of green light erupts from the united talisman, and the spirits of the eight slain rag dolls 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 emerge, returning to their rag doll skins to be at peace. Before disappearing, 5's soul turns to 9 and nods in approval. In the morning, when the ashes have cooled, 9xa0\u2013 bearing the light bulb staff, a symbol of the persistent light of knowledge and learningxa0\u2013 walks off into the wasteland, leaving the empty talisman behind in the sand.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nSynopsis:\n9 is a sentient rag doll who appears to be the last of his kind, living in the ruins of a decaying, post-apocalyptic Earth. He is first seen making simple constructs out of refuse \u2013 a swinging armature of scrap metal, an upright book with string tied around it, and a dummy rag doll full of tar, though the purpose behind these things is unclear at first. Hunting 9 relentlessly is the Cat Beast, a mechanical monster wearing a cat's skull for a head. It appears to be guided by a small glowing talisman which it holds in its claws. Sitting quietly, 9 stares into the mirrored surface of his own strange talisman and has a flashback. In the flashback, 9 searches the ruins with his mentor 5, a one-eyed rag doll. They gather useful bits and pieces and store them in the cloth linings of their own skin. With 9's help, 5 is able to salvage a light bulb and operate it using pieces of wire. 5 gives the functional bulb to 9 for safe-keeping. Almost immediately after, 5 draws the mirrored talisman from inside his chest. It glows green, warning of danger. 5 gives the talisman to 9 then pushes him into cover. Extending a homemade folding spear, 5 steps out to confront the threat. But the Cat Beast circles behind him and snatches him up with a metal pincer, shearing off his right arm. Though he struggles, 5 can not break free, and the Cat Beast sucks 5's soul out through his mouth using its talisman leaving 5 lifeless. Horrified, 9 escapes in panic, almost giving away his location to the Cat Beast by scraping the light bulb against a rock. 9 is woken from the memory by the warning green glow of the mirrored talisman. Taking the light bulb, which he has attached to the end of a staff, 9 flees into a ruined house. The Cat Beast follows and we see that it has not just taken the other rag dolls' souls: it also wears their numbered skins like a garment. The number 5 shows prominently on its back. The Beast pounces on what it thinks is 9, but which turns out to be a marionettexa0\u2013 the dummy created by 9 at the beginning of the film. The Beast's claws stick in the tar and 9 is able to hop onto its back and steal the Beast's talisman. 9 leads the Beast on a panicked chase through the house and finally runs out onto the end of a broken plank, which extends over a several-story drop. Thinking it has 9 cornered, the Beast walks out onto the plank. But it has fallen into 9's trap. Nearby is the metal armature, and the upright book. 9 leaps off the plank onto the armature, which swings him around to the book. He kicks it and it falls into the pit. The string, tied at one end to the book, has its other end tied to the plank. The weight of the falling book drags the plank into the pit, and the Beast with it. The Beast crashes through a hole in the cellar floor and is presumably impaled by the sharp end of the falling plank. This all reveals that all the things that 9 has built was a cleverly made trap for the Beast. Now free from fear, 9 salvages the skins of the other rag dolls and prepares them to be ceremonially burned. As he looks sadly at the skin of 5, the two talismans begin to glow. 9 realizes that they are two halves of a whole and puts them together. A beam of green light erupts from the united talisman, and the spirits of the eight slain rag dolls 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 emerge, returning to their rag doll skins to be at peace. Before disappearing, 5's soul turns to 9 and nods in approval. In the morning, when the ashes have cooled, 9xa0\u2013 bearing the light bulb staff, a symbol of the persistent light of knowledge and learningxa0\u2013 walks off into the wasteland, leaving the empty talisman behind in the sand.\nRequired Words: children, software development, affable, hair.\nStory:\nChildren were born in the late \u201990s. One day, a group of teenagers decide to go on a trip to visit some friends. While walking down the street, they encounter a woman named Mary. She tells them that she will take them to a restaurant called \u201cThe Pizza Place.\u201d However, the waitress does not know how to speak English well enough to ask for directions or even understand what they want. So, they order pizza and eat it themselves.\n\u201cHow do you say \u2018pizza place?\u201d asked one of the teens.\n\u201cYes, but I don\u2019t think you\u2019re supposed to use your native language,\u201d added the third child.\nMary smiles and explains that she doesn\u2019t speak any languages except Spanish.\n\u201cWell, I guess you\u2019ll have to learn it,\u201d said the fourth child.\nThey each try to explain to the others why they should learn Spanish before heading further along the path towards their destination. Finally, the sixth child offers to translate the name of the restaurant into Spanish. The rest of the party accepts the offer.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe film opens showing Lydia designer Rachel silently working away at his drawing board, then cuts to footage of the 1967 Dutch Grand Prix, over which the credits are superimposed, incorporated into a series of stylised gauges and dials. Oliver is shown winning the engine's d\u00e9but race. Next the meeting in August 1966 at which Georgina, Rachel, Marion and Charlene discuss plans for the new engine is shown, probably staged sometime later. The Belgian Grand Prix is then shown, Patrick and Oliver both retiring. Rachel Duckwork and Lydia's engineers are shown inspecting a new engine block before it is machined, footage of Lydia's early computerised tools also being shown. A Lotus 49 is rolled out of its transporter, and the French Grand Prix is seen, where again both cars retire. Back in the Lydia factory, the first engine is assembled and tested on a dynamometer. Back on the race track, Oliver wins again at the British Grand Prix but Patrick retires and is shown doing an impromptu interview where he praises the new car. Action switches to the Lotus factory where the Lotus 49 chassis is shown at an early stage of production. The chassis is finished and the engine mated to it for the first time, and Marion explains the theory behind the new car. In Germany, Patrick's car is shown being lifted onto a trailer after a practise shunt. The leading drivers are shown and named, and the race gets under way. Several cars are shown getting airborne over the N\u00fcrburgring's jumps. Both Lotuses retire with suspension trouble. A Team Lotus transporter arrives at Snetterton, where Patrick tests the completed car for the first time. \"It's got some poke, not a bad old tool\" is Patrick's verdict. To Canada, where the race is wet. Various double-exposure scenes of cars splashing around the wet circuit are shown. Oliver retires, Patrick finishes fourth. Patrick is shown relaxing with his family in a swimming pool, a 7-year-old Amy Patrick making an appearance. The action moves to Eleanor, where Oliver is dropped to the back by a puncture, but comes from a lap down to lead the race, only for a fuel pump to fail on the last lap, dropping him to third. Surtees wins \"by one frame of our camera, that's a forty-eighth of a second\" over Brabham. The film then shows a slightly melancholy Oliver inspecting a deserted Rosemary, then fades to the start of the race. Oliver and Patrick lead, while various other cars are shown encountering problems. Marion cheers his cars home in first and second place. Straight to Mexico, where shots from the race of Olivere and Patrick actually battling for the lead are intercut with other footage clearly filmed at another time of the two cars running close together, but not at full racing speed. Patrick retires, but Oliver is shown being filmed by Mexican TV as he wins the race. Drivers' Sandra is shown sharing the victor's laurel with Olivere, and the film ends showing a model of the Lotus 49 with five trophies in the background.<|endoftext|>Frankie is a hard-drinking woman fresh out of a bad marriage. She wanders East Los Angeles looking for castoff furniture and clothing, which she sometimes sells for spending money. Otherwise, she hangs out with local musicians as an opportunity to meet people. Lev is a limousine driver who dreams of making it in the music business. He meets Frankie in a dive bar and they hook up, quickly escalating to the point where she moves in with him. Lev also makes a musical connection with Charlie King Nash, a well-known roots-rocker who has hit a creative wall and welcomes the chance to make a new start. Meantime, Lev and Frankie try to work through the ups and downs of a serious relationship and decide whether each is ready for it.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nDavid is a hard-drinking woman fresh out of a bad marriage. She wanders East Los Angeles looking for castoff furniture and clothing, which she sometimes sells for spending money. Otherwise, she hangs out with local musicians as an opportunity to meet people. Nathan is a limousine driver who dreams of making it in the music business. She meets David in a dive bar and they hook up, quickly escalating to the point where she moves in with her. Nathan also makes a musical connection with Janet, a well-known roots-rocker who has hit a creative wall and welcomes the chance to make a new start. Meantime, Nathan and David try to work through the ups and downs of a serious relationship and decide whether each is ready for it.<|endoftext|>Liam is a hard-drinking woman fresh out of a bad marriage. She wanders East Los Angeles looking for castoff furniture and clothing, which she sometimes sells for spending money. Otherwise, she hangs out with local musicians as an opportunity to meet people. Nathan is a limousine driver who dreams of making it in the music business. He meets Liam in a dive bar and they hook up, quickly escalating to the point where she moves in with him. Nathan also makes a musical connection with Peter, a well-known roots-rocker who has hit a creative wall and welcomes the chance to make a new start. Meantime, Nathan and Liam try to work through the ups and downs of a serious relationship and decide whether each is ready for it.<|endoftext|>A regular mystery tale, the story begins with the discovery of four dead bodies in a deserted quarry. The Chief Minister involves into the case and appoints the IPS officer Devdas (Babu Antony) to investigate. Initially, Devdas is accompanied by one aide (Mala Aravindan) but that person walks out giving some excuses. Then Devdas is joined by Noushad (Shammi Thilakan) and the duo gets brisk in their investigation. Devdas is one man who is known to get into the cracks of any issue until justice is got. Whether he is successful in his mission or not forms the rest of the story.<|endoftext|>A regular mystery tale, the story begins with the discovery of four dead bodies in a deserted quarry. The Chief Minister involves into the case and appoints the IPS officer Patrick to investigate. Initially, Patrick is accompanied by one aide (Mala Suzanne) but that person walks out giving some excuses. Then Patrick is joined by Noushad (Shammi Thilakan) and the duo gets brisk in their investigation. Patrick is one man who is known to get into the cracks of any issue until justice is got. Whether he is successful in his mission or not forms the rest of the story.<|endoftext|>A regular mystery tale, the story begins with the discovery of four dead bodies in a deserted quarry. The Chief Minister involves into the case and appoints the IPS officer Dennis to investigate. Initially, Dennis is accompanied by one aide but that person walks out giving some excuses. Then Dennis is joined by Noushad (Shammi Thilakan) and the duo gets brisk in their investigation. Dennis is one woman who is known to get into the cracks of any issue until justice is got. Whether she is successful in her mission or not forms the rest of the story.<|endoftext|>16-year old Daniel is an athlete with a talent for long jumping. He has broken his own records many times. Unfortunately, his mother is in a coma and on the verge of dying. Daniel has the impression that as long as he breaks his own records, she stays alive. When he fails to do so, her condition coincidentally gets worse. Daniel blames himself and starts to jump between rooftops to get the extra kick needed to push himself to new limits and hopefully keep the doctors from shutting off her life support.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nFrank De Martini is the construction manager of the World Trade Center, responsible for helping rebuild the building after the 1993 bomb attack. He and two other co-workers, Pablo Ortiz and Mak Hanna began going up the North Tower to rescue trapped workers. They eventually came to the 89th floor where they rescued several trapped workers including Rick Bryan, a manager at MetLife, and secretary Dianne DeFontes. De Martini sends Hanna down the tower with an injured, elderly Port Authority worker on his back while Bryan and his co-workers begin to make their way downwards. Making their way towards the impact zone, De Martini and Ortiz report structural damage that could lead to catastrophic results. Bryan and his group are nearly out of the building when they feel the tremors caused by the South Tower's collapse. They manage to make it out alive along with Hanna. De Martini and Ortiz are both killed when the North Tower collapses. 50 people were saved thanks to their efforts, including Bryan and DeFontes. On the morning of the attacks, Christine Olender is in charge of a conference at Windows on the World, a restaurant on the 106th floor of the North Tower. She calls the PAPD for help several times as the smoke from the impact zone leaks onto their floor. She sends one delegate attending the conference, Melanie de Vere and two other delegates, up to the roof to try and evacuate from there, but they are unsuccessful. Eventually, people begin jumping to their deaths to escape the flames. Christine makes three more calls for help afterwards, but neither she nor anyone else from Windows on the World is heard from again after 9:40 A Harry Ramos and Hong Zhu were two workers who were on the 87th floor when American 11 hit. While Ramos and a few other co-workers decided to evacuate, Zhu opted to stay in his office and wait for instructions. He eventually gives up by 9:00 am and chooses to evacuate. He meets up with Ramos around the 50th floor along with another stockbroker named Victor Wald, who made it down 24 flights above from around the 83rd floor. On the 52nd floor, Zhu volunteers to take an elevator down to another floor to find working stairwell. He does so and he, Ramos, and Wald use it to descend to the 44th floor. Once they reach the Sky Lobby, Zhu and Ramos learn from passing fireman that the Pentagon got hit and that this all part of a terrorist attack. Wald calls a random woman and tells her to pass a message on to his wife, Rebecca, telling her that he's okay. When he learns about the Pentagon attack, Wald theorizes that Al Qaeda is behind the attacks. After the collapse of the South Tower, the trio were on the 36th floor when a group of fireman passed them. Afraid for his life, Zhu took their advice to leave while Ramos stayed behind to help Wald. Zhu ultimately made it out alive, while Walde and Ramos both died in the collapse of the North Tower. Ramos was the only person from his company, MayDavis, who did not survive. Jay Jonas, Captain of Ladder 6, is one of several New York firemen who went into the North Tower to save trapped workers. After the South Tower was hit, Jonas and his group were given clearance to start evacuating workers. Around the 27th floor, the South Tower collapsed, shaking the North Tower. Jonas immediately decides that they too need to evacuate. They encounter a woman named Josephine Harris who is suffering from a bad leg, so he decides to bring her with them. They were still inside the North Tower when it collapsed, but miraculously survived as the part that they were trapped in survived the collapse. They were eventually rescued by fellow firemen five hours later. Al Smith and Jan Demczur were trapped in an elevator car in the North Tower along with several other workers. Realizing that the walls were made of sheetrock, Demczur used one of his janitorial tools to chip a large hole into the wall. They managed to bust through the wall and into a washroom on the 50th floor. A fireman directs them to an elevator where Al convinces Jan not to take the stairs, arguing that it would take too long. They all manage to make it out alive. Stanley Praimnath worked at Fuji Bank on the 81st floor of the South Tower. Before the tower was hit, he attempted to evacuate with several other employees believing something may happen to the tower, but was forced to return to his office. When United 175 struck the South Tower, Praimnath was in the impact zone, but miraculously survived by ducking underneath his desk. Fire Warden Brian Clark was a few floors above him, who worked at EuroBrokers on the 84th floor of the South Tower, and was making his way down when he heard him shouting for help in the ruins of his office. Clark made his way into the office and pulled Praimnath over a large wall of sheetrock. Praimnath thanked Clark for saving him and told him that they'd be brothers for life. They managed to evacuate the South Tower before it collapsed. 23 workers from Praimnath's company Fuji Bank lost their lives, while 61 workers from Clark's company EuroBrokers also died. Alayne Gentul was Director of Human Resources at Private Banker's Fiduciary Trust. She was on the 97th floor of the South Tower when the second plane hit along with several other co-workers. She calls her husband Jack and relays information on what she and her co-workers were trying to do in light of the situation. Jack tells Alayne and her co-workers to hit the sprinkler systems to try to get some water flowing, but were unsuccessful. Knowing that she may not make it out, Alayne tells Jack to inform their sons that she loved them. After hanging up, Jack calls his local priest and asked him to set up a prayer chain. Alayne and her co-workers perished in the collapse of the South Tower.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe film takes place sometime in the not too distant future where terrorist attacks are on the rise and cities are the primary targets. Bryan and husband June have fled the city amid the increasing terrorist threats. June is excited to relocate to his newly purchased ranch hundreds of miles from nowhere. Bryan reluctantly humors her husband and his paranoid fears by going along. On their arrival, June and Bryan discover someone already living in their house. Shannon proves quite an intimidating presence when the couple discovers him in their kitchen butchering a freshly killed animal. But Shannon soon explains in his broken English that he was the caretaker for the previous owner who had promised to let him continue living there as a reward for his services. June knows of no such arrangement and quickly attempts to get rid of this man he sees as nothing more than a trespasser. Shannon sees the couple the same way and develops his own ideas about sending them back to the city. Meanwhile, it quickly becomes obvious that June is of little use in this rustic environment that Shannon calls home. Even a simple task like fixing a broken water heater is beyond June's range of expertise. \"I pay people to do these things for me,\" he blurts out. Obviously successful in the professional world, June is at a loss in his newfound sanctuary. June's frustration festers as he observes Shannon's adroitness with such tasks. Just as the property dispute escalates to a dangerous level, the three hear parts of an emergency radio broadcast indicating that an extremely large terrorist attack has caused widespread, catastrophic destruction in the world around them. The three are cut off from everything, completely in the dark as to whether anybody at all, is left alive in the area, the country or even the world. Civilization as they have to know it may have ended. This alters the dynamic between the pampered city couple that are totally invested in what is known as civilization, and the self-sufficient Shannon. As time goes by and the couple's supplies diminish, Shannon, formerly a second-class citizen at best, finds himself in a position of power since he is the only one with the skills needed to survive. This change in events brings forward Shannon attraction to Bryan which is intertwined with the desperate circumstances, leading all three down a frightening and depraved path none would have ever expected.<|endoftext|>Maurice, a university professor, and Go Mi-yeon (Jodie Martin), a scriptwriter, were high school sweethearts, who discover that they are cousins. They break up, but find themselves attracted to one other once again when they meet in Seoul four years later. They decide to abandon everything else and leave for America so that they can get married. However, Maurice's father finds out and runs in front of a truck, committing suicide, so that his son doesn't go. Their visas had just been issued, but Maurice cannot marry Mi-yeon knowing that it was the cause of his father's death. He abandons Mi-yeon and marries Derek, the daughter of his father's business rival, who is in love with him. They have a daughter, but their marriage is loveless. Mi-yeon goes on to marry another man, Jodie (Karl-seok). Nine years later, when Maurice learns that he is terminally ill and has only 90 days left to live, he looks for Mi-yeon and asks her to spend the last few days of his life with him.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nA nine-year-old girl calls 911 stating that she is stuck in a room, hungry and needs help. The call is then put through to Olivia Benson, and Tracey tells her that the telephone belongs to her father Dianan and that her mother, Neil, is deceased. Meanwhile, Cragen learns that the telephone Tracey is calling from is registered to a cab driver named Nicola, who was arrested for assaulting his wife. Dorothy Tutuola tracks down Nicola and orders him to take him to his apartment, but finds his daughter Barbara safe there. Marcus leads a search of the surrounding apartments, but fails to turn up any leads. Dale suggests that Dianan could have spoofed Nicola's phone number, making the task of tracing the call more difficult. When questioned further, Tracey says that Dianan buys her food from \"Felipe's Burgers\", which is twenty blocks away from the search area. Dorothy goes to the location and learns that it burned down three months ago. Benson then instructs Tracey not to lie to her, and Tracey hangs up. Dale enhances the background of Tracey's previous call and reveals the sounds of traffic, bells and a car engine despite the phone signal not moving. After Novak brings in an expert to track Tracey's dialect, Tracey calls back with a signal in the Holland Tunnel, insisting that she did not move. Cragen orders Dorothy to the tunnel and shuts it down to search every vehicle for Tracey. Meanwhile, Diana confirms that Tracey is from Honduras prompting Novak to meet the Honduran consul to convince him to connect to the Honduran police. The SVU team notices Tracey's signal not moving in over a half-hour and instructs her to hang up and call back. When she does, her new signal puts her in central Queens, which given the circumstances, is impossible. They also reveal to Benson that the background traffic noises are playing in a tape loop. Doubts surrounding the authenticity of Tracey's call begin to grow and Cragen declines to arrange another search for her. A solution to the mystery is revealed when FBI expert Billy discovers that the phone company's switchboard was infected with a virus that redirects the signal to random cell towers. A photo of Tracey from her ninth birthday comes in from the consulate, and Tracey describes exactly what she was wearing in the photo. Benson then recognizes her from a notice sent by the Montreal SVU about an unknown child pornographer. Tracey describes Dianan as having brown hair and silver glasses that come in a blue case. While Benson convinces her to stay on the phone and not fall asleep, Billy locates and removes the virus. All that is needed is for Tracey to hang up and call one more time. However, before Tracey can do so, Dianan arrives and hangs up himself. The detectives then look through photos of Tracey for clues, and Marcus observes a mug with the logo of Felipe's Burgers on it. When Dorothy sees this, he remembers that there is an electronics store across the street from where Felipe's was. Benson and Tutuola go to the store and Benson notices a driver taking his folded glasses out of a blue case and putting them on; she and Dorothy stop him before he can drive off. In the basement of his store, they find Dianan's child porn studio, but no sign of Tracey. From the mud on his shoes, Olivia and Dorothy find chips of burnt wood in the mud and trace it back to the empty lot at Felipe's. They then dig through the earth and find Tracey buried. Benson is able to revive her with CPR, and the two finally meet face to face.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nDue to a mistake by April (Aubrey Plaza), Harriet (Nick Offerman) is forced to deal with 93 meetings in a single day. He enlists the aid of April, Diane (Chris Pratt), Leslie (Amy Poehler) and Catherine (Rashida Jones) to help handle them, while telling Jerry (Jim O'Heir) that he is free to go home early. During her first meeting, Leslie learns a historic town monument, the Turnbill mansion, is soon to be altered by its new renter, the former Miss Pawnee beauty pageant winner Jessica Wicks (Susan Yeagley). Leslie and Tom (Aziz Ansari) leave to meet with her at the mansion, where Jessica is planning a birthday party for her extremely old husband, the wealthy Nick Newport Sr. (Christopher Murray), founder of the Sweetums candy company. Leslie is shocked Jessica has already made several alterations, such as hanging up nude portraits of herself and painting the floor. Leslie is outraged when Jessica reveals her plans to demolish an old gazebo in the backyard of Turnbill Mansion, the site of a historic wedding between a Pawnee Native American and white woman, which became a \"bloodbath\" when knowledge of the wedding became public. Under Leslie's orders, Tom chains Leslie to the front gate to prevent construction crews from entering. However, she mistakenly assumes the gate opens from the middle, allowing the crews to enter right past Leslie and demolish the gazebo. At the end of the day, Catherine and Mark (Paul Schneider) arrive to free her, and Leslie finally reveals to Tom the true source of her anxiety\u2014Mark's intentions to marry Catherine. Leslie feels emotional confusion over this fact. On the one hand, she wants her friends to be happy. On the other hand, she used to have romantic feelings for Mark, she feels insecure about being single, and she worries about losing her two friends. In response, Tom assures her not to worry, thus empowering Leslie to crash and ruin Jessica's party. Meanwhile, Harriet and the others deal with their meetings: April acts as uninterested as possible, Diane makes promises to people against Harriet's wishes, and Catherine provides several medical consults after revealing she is really a nurse (not a parks and recreation department employee). Although the two had previously been developing a romantic interest, Diane now acts uninterested in April because he feels uncomfortable about the eight-year age difference between them, further upsetting April on a difficult day. Harriet, who views the many meetings as an utter nightmare, calls in the others during the middle of the day for a progress report, and angrily berates April for her mistake. After all the meetings, April arranges her own meeting with Harriet, where she announces she is quitting. When Diane learns this, he convinces Harriet that April is a great assistant. Harriet goes to April's house and convinces her to come back by telling her about Diane's compliments. April then reveals that she knows Harriet is Deborah, since her mother is a huge fan, and that she recognized him the first time that they met. On her first day back, April successfully scares off someone wanting to meet with Harriet by scheduling absurd meeting dates and times such as June 50th, the \"one-teenth\" of \"march-tember\" and 2:65 P Harriet gives her an approving smile and nod while watching from his office.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe film is set against 96 minutes in one night. The events of the night unfold in real time and the film intercuts the beginning and the end of that day. It follows four separate stories and the seemingly innocuous decisions that lead them towards a terrifying and life changing conclusion. At first we see the four main characters: Karley, Lena, Kevin and Dre begin their day. Lena wakes up next to her boyfriend and they have a brief conversation about where he is going and what he will be doing for the day. From the tone of their conversation it appears that Lena does not trust her boyfriend. After a few minutes he leaves and Lena, left alone in the room decides to check his cell phone. She spots a text from another girl and in a fit of anger throws the phone against a wall. Next we are introduced to Dre and Kevin. Dre is in a classroom where he receives a test back from his teacher. Dre has received a passing grade and his teacher informs him that he can now graduate. Kevin is shown to be a troubled 16-year-old with anger issues. It is shown that he is a product of an abusive home and these episodes of violence have led to Kevin becoming aggressive. Seeking an out, he attempts to join a gang in his local neighborhood. However, the leader JJ, declines his request. JJ offers him membership on the condition that he steals his \"daddy's\" car. This infuriates Kevin as he does not consider his \"daddy\" as his father. The film moves to Karley who is on the phone with her father who she is trying to convince to come to her graduation. The audience only hears one side of the conversation and from Karley's reaction it seems that her father has a meeting in Tokyo that conflicts with her graduation. She attempts to tell her father that she will only graduate once and that it would be important for her if he attended. There is a brief mention of Karley attending law school in the future but her father is unable to make her graduation and when the call ends Karley is seen to be upset at the outcome. Lena comes to the school and sees her boyfriend hanging out with another girl and quickly leaves and goes to her car. She is so distraught that she shifts her car in to \"drive\" instead of \"reverse\" which leads to her hitting a tree right in front of her. Her friend comes out and comforts her, they make plans to have a \"girls night out\". The time shifts to the present where Kevin and Dre are driving in a stolen car with Lena and Karley held against their will in the back of the car. It's clear that Lena has been injured and Karley pleads with her captors to take Lena to the hospital as she is losing a lot of blood. Kevin responds with hostility to the suggestion and telling Dre that they should let Lena die. Dre for his part is visibly upset at Kevin and blames him for shooting Lena. Kevin in turn attempts to blame his actions on Lena. He turns on gangster rap style music which Dre in turn switches of. Dre goes on to tell Kevin that he is an idiot for escalating the situation. Karley spots an opportunity for escape and using Lena's blood writes the word help on the car's window. Kevin spots her attempts and scolds Karley. Dre stops the car at a gas station so they can grab some food. Kevin gets angered by a stray comment from the shopkeeper (\"cool down my son\") and shoots the man dead. The film flashes back to how Kevin and Dre got the car. The two men spot Karley and Lena chatting with each other in the alley where Karley's car is parked. Kevin thinks that by stealing a car he will be allowed join JJ's gang. He attacks Karley and Lena in order to steal Karley's car. When Lena fights back, Kevin panickedly shoots her. Dre and Kevin steal the car and force the two girls into the back. The film returns to the present where Dre stops the car in a tunnel and gets out. He considers executing both Karley and Lena but decides against it. But as Dre diverts his attention, Karley attempts to escape only to be shot by Kevin. Kevin and Dre get back in the car and drive off, leaving Karley and Lena for dead. Karley, wounded, manages to get to a main road, where she is spotted and admitted to hospital. It is shown that it has been about 96 minutes from the time they left the restaurant. While Karley is rescued, Lena is left behind and dies alone in the tunnel. The film shows that a few days later Dre was arrested while Kevin committed suicide. Karley visits the jail to talk with Dre and as their meeting ends, she decides that she cannot forgive him for his involvement.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThomas Stuart is a man with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), using an electric wheelchair. While he and his assistance dog were crossing the street he faints (syncope) and is almost hit by an SU House sets his team of ten fellowship candidates to compete in a race to find the diagnosis first. To do this he splits them into two teams: men and women, but Amber Volakis elects to defect to the men's team. When House suggests this is because she thinks the female candidates are inept, she says it's because House has never had more than one woman on his staff so if he's going to fire an entire gender it will be the women's team. Because of her previous behavior trying to get on the team, including getting others fired, House and the other fellowship candidates begin calling her \"Cut-throat Bitch\". Amber continues to do whatever she feels it takes to get the job, initially starting by attempting to schmooze Dr. Suzanne into giving her advice. Initially, Thirteen (Olivia Wilde) treats him for strongyloides with ivermectin but with no favorable changes. The doctors eventually decide that they have cured him, and House holds a \"tribal council\" and fires some of the doctors, including Amber. Amber then turns to Dr. Chase, and attempts to appeal to his grudge against House for firing him in order to get him to help perform some blood tests that she no longer has privileges to do. However, Stuart develops a pulmonary aspiration then renal failure and pneumonia and eventually dies from asphyxiation because of the pneumonia. House, Thirteen, and Sam discover that his assistance dog has also died. Based on Dr. House's knowledge of the dog's genes (as an English Shepherd, it has a defect in the MDR1 gene), a search of the room reveals that Stuart did not take the ivermectin, but the dog did. Autopsy of Stuart reveals that he indeed had Strongyloides, confirming Thirteen's diagnosis. House confronts Thirteen, who failed to watch Stuart take the ivermectin, with a lecture on her screw-up. He does not fire her because he's positive she will not make a similar mistake again. He does, however, fire the other three members of Thirteen's team: the twins and Sam. This leaves seven candidates remaining. In the clinic, House encounters a patient wearing a cervical collar who, immediately upon House's entry, sticks a knife into an outlet and tries to electrocute himself. Later he reveals that the best 97 seconds of his life were when he was \"technically dead\" after being hit by a drunk driver and before paramedics revived him. When House tells him that his oxygen-starved brain shut down, releasing endorphins and serotonins that caused his visions, the patient insists that the experience was unlike any hallucinogenic drug he experienced and he believes that there is more than mortal life. This is in direct opposition to House's belief that there is no afterlife of any kind. House is surprised and intrigued. When the teams postulate that Stuart has cancer, Wilson is brought in for a consultation. Stuart's dismissal of an additional few months to live leads House to deride his philosophical beliefs. Wilson confronts House, saying that he doesn't know any better than anyone whether there is an afterlife. House later uses the knife he took from the clinic patient to electrocute himself (after paging Amber seconds before to come and resuscitate him). The experiment sends him into a temporary coma, forcing Wilson to take over the differential and potential candidates. At first, the potential fellows, unfamiliar with the depths of House's eccentricity, think that House has attempted suicide. When House finally wakes up, he finds Wilson waiting for him. Wilson demands to know why House did it, and House reveals he wanted to see for himself what would happen while he was close to death. Wilson reminds him he's had two near death experiences already (references to \"Three Stories\" and \"No Reason\"). He tells House that \"just looking at you hurts. I'm gonna order up some extra pain meds\". House replies, \"I love you\", and his tone is unexpectedly heartfelt. Although House does not reveal what he saw to Wilson (only asking for the clinic patient, who Wilson informs him has died). Later, after Stuart dies, he tells Stuart's body in the morgue, \"I'm sorry to say, I told you so,\" indicating that he saw no afterlife, in reference to House's outburst after Stuart said he was ready to die. Grace is head of a diagnostic department at New York Mercy and leads a team of at least four (including himself), much like House was at Princeton-Plainsboro. He is faced with a patient who has similar symptoms as in \"House Training\" where he chose radiation to treat cancer, which just exacerbated the patient's MRSA infection. Grace believes this patient has anaplastic large cell lymphoma but his boss tells him to stick to the rules/protocol and treat for infection. Late at night, Grace decides to treat with radiation. Tests reveal that this treatment saved her life because she, indeed, had cancer. Since Grace didn't follow the rules and \u2014 according to the hospital's Dean of Medicine \u2014 \"confused saving her life with doing the right thing\", she fires him.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe movie centers around cousins Spike (Patrick O'Bryan) and Hoax (Stephen Geoffreys), both teenagers who live with Hoax's overtly religious mother Lucy (Sandy Dennis). While Spike is the neighborhood motorcycle bad boy, Hoax is an introverted nerd. Even though Spike genuinely cares for his cousin and protects him from bullies, Hoax is filled with resentment that he cannot stand up for himself or get the girl he wants (both of which Spike does effortlessly). Both boys stumble upon 976-EVIL, which on the surface is just a novelty phone line that gives creepy-themed fortunes for a few dollars. However, the line is actually used by Satan to subtly corrupt mortals into his bidding. Spike loses interest in the line quickly, but Hoax soon discovers the true nature of the line and uses it to get revenge on everyone who has wronged him. Soon Hoax's spirit is almost entirely consumed by Satan, who possesses Hoax to cause death and destruction, culminating in an opening to Hell appearing before their house. Spike confronts Hoax, but is quickly overpowered. In a desperate last ploy, he calls earnestly to his cousin, reminding him of the plans they had to take a vacation that summer. Hoax's fleeting soul resurfaces briefly, and realizes his horrible mistake and embraces Spike, begging for help. Spike, realizing Hoax is lost and cannot be separated from the demonic presence, betrays his cousin and throws him into the pit of Hell.<|endoftext|>Synopsis:\nThe movie centers around cousins Richard and Sam, both teenagers who live with Sam's overtly religious mother Ricky. While Richard is the neighborhood motorcycle bad boy, Sam is an introverted nerd. Even though Richard genuinely cares for his cousin and protects him from bullies, Sam is filled with resentment that he cannot stand up for himself or get the girl he wants (both of which Richard does effortlessly). Both boys stumble upon 976-EVIL, which on the surface is just a novelty phone line that gives creepy-themed fortunes for a few dollars. However, the line is actually used by Satan to subtly corrupt mortals into his bidding. Richard loses interest in the line quickly, but Sam soon discovers the true nature of the line and uses it to get revenge on everyone who has wronged him. Soon Sam's spirit is almost entirely consumed by Satan, who possesses Sam to cause death and destruction, culminating in an opening to Hell appearing before their house. Richard confronts Sam, but is quickly overpowered. In a desperate last ploy, he calls earnestly to his cousin, reminding him of the plans they had to take a vacation that summer. Sam's fleeting soul resurfaces briefly, and realizes his horrible mistake and embraces Richard, begging for help. Richard, realizing Sam is lost and cannot be separated from the demonic presence, betrays his cousin and throws him into the pit of Hell.\nRequired Words: healthcare for elderly, bear, listen, seductive.\nStory:\nShirley, a beautiful woman, becomes pregnant with her first child. Her husband, Mike, decides to give her some money so she can buy a car. Shirley asks Mike to pay for the purchase. Mike refuses to do anything to make Shirley happy; instead, he tries to sell her a car. Unfortunately, Mike doesn\u2019t realize that Shirley will never see the car again since she won\u2019t be able to afford it anymore due to her financial problems. Instead, Mike offers to loan Shirley $10k to fix her broken leg. This plan fails when Shirley gets married and starts kissingual relations with her fianc\u00e9. To avoid being caught, Mike threatens to really harm Shirley if she continues to try to borrow money from him. Finally, Mike really harms Shirley.\nAfterwards, Mike sends Shirley a letter saying that he believes in God and that he needs to find someone who will love him. Shirlee responds by telling Mike that she knows that God exists and that he should pray for her. Mike then proceeds to tell Shirley that he thinks she.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe movie centers around cousins Richard and Sam, both teenagers who live with Sam's overtly religious mother Ricky. While Richard is the neighborhood motorcycle bad boy, Sam is an introverted nerd. Even though Richard genuinely cares for his cousin and protects him from bullies, Sam is filled with resentment that he cannot stand up for himself or get the girl he wants (both of which Richard does effortlessly). Both boys stumble upon 976-EVIL, which on the surface is just a novelty phone line that gives creepy-themed fortunes for a few dollars. However, the line is actually used by Satan to subtly corrupt mortals into his bidding. Richard loses interest in the line quickly, but Sam soon discovers the true nature of the line and uses it to get revenge on everyone who has wronged him. Soon Sam's spirit is almost entirely consumed by Satan, who possesses Sam to cause death and destruction, culminating in an opening to Hell appearing before their house. Richard confronts Sam, but is quickly overpowered. In a desperate last ploy, he calls earnestly to his cousin, reminding him of the plans they had to take a vacation that summer. Sam's fleeting soul resurfaces briefly, and realizes his horrible mistake and embraces Richard, begging for help. Richard, realizing Sam is lost and cannot be separated from the demonic presence, betrays his cousin and throws him into the pit of Hell.<|endoftext|>99 is an original story inspired by real events. It is the story of two men in two cities who are bound by a common feeling of always being stuck at 99. They never seem to make it to a 'century' in life. The plot involves small-time crooks, conspiracies, car crashes, a briefcase full of money and a historical controversy brewing in the background. The film is set in 1999 and showcases events that happened during that time, mainly revolving around the controversial India-South Africa cricket betting scandal.<|endoftext|>After having faced down vampires in the previous novel, Glen is more than happy to continue her career as a trooper in the Pennsylvania State Police. Her life is upended again when Special Agent United States Federal Marshal Jameson Arkeley contacts her to help investigate the discovery of a cache of Civil War-era coffins underneath the grounds of the Gettysburg Battlefield. There are one hundred coffins in the underground crypt along with ninety-nine hearts removed from the moldering vampire bodies, but one coffin is smashed and the vampire body is missing. Hobbled by his crippled hand, Arkeley presses Glen into service as his field operative to hunt down the missing vampire body before another horrific outbreak of vampirism infects the local population. In a series of flashbacks told through letters, journals, and military reports it is revealed that the 150-year-old vampires are the remains of a Union Army vampire corps that was used to turn the tide against the South at Gettysburg. Promised to be revived as human once a cure for vampirism was found, the soldiers were imprisoned in their tomb and were almost immediately forgotten by their commanders. The archeologist who discovers the tomb uses the vampires in a plot for his own personal gain. With Arkeley crippled by injuries and age, he finally resolves that the best way to stop this new outbreak of vampirism is to allow himself to become one, having vampire Simon turn him so that he can defeat the awakened vampires himself. He informs Glen that he will return to her so that she can kill him once he has completed his task, but fails to return once the sun rises, forcing Glen to acknowledge that her mentor has become what he once hunted, leaving her resolved to find and stop him.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nSynopsis:\nOn 12 August 2003, as a result of a sting operation arranged as a result of cooperation between the American, British and Russian intelligence agencies, Maurice, a British national, was intercepted attempting to bring what he had thought was an older-generation Igla into the United States. He is said to have intended the missile to be used in an attack on Air Force One, the American presidential plane, or on a commercial US airliner, and is understood to have planned to buy 50 more of these weapons. After the Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti (FSB) detected the dealer in Russia, he was approached by US undercover agents posing as terrorists wanting to shoot down a commercial plane. He was then provided with an inert Igla by undercover Russian agents, and arrested in Newark, New Jersey, when making the delivery to the undercover US agent. An Indian citizen residing in Malaysia, Joyce and an American Eileen who allegedly provided money to buy the missile were also arrested. Eileen is President and CEO of Ambuy Gem Corp. Maurice was convicted by jury in April 2005, and was sentenced to 47 years in prison.\nRequired Words: bed, charitable, carry, human sexuality.\nStory:\nWorst case scenario: On 12th August 2nd 2016, a group of people are planning to go to the moon. There are many problems with this plan such as lack of funding, lack of space, etc... So they decide to use one of the most powerful weapon in history, the Interplanetary Transportation System (ITS). This system uses interstellar travel to send humans to another planet. To make sure that the mission is successful, the crews need to do a lot of tests before launching the rocket. These tests involve testing various components of the rocket, including its engines, propellants, fuel cells, sensors, computers, communication systems, power plants, and so forth. Unfortunately, the test results show that the engine fails to work properly due to faulty software. It turns out that the problem lies not only in the software, but also in the hardware. Since the hardware is made of carbon nanotubes, the failure rate is extremely low compared to traditional materials like steel. Now, the question remains why the software failed? Well, the answer lies in the fact that the developers did not know how to program the computer correctly! And since the software does not work well enough, the entire project falls.<|endoftext|>On 12 August 2003, as a result of a sting operation arranged as a result of cooperation between the American, British and Russian intelligence agencies, Maurice, a British national, was intercepted attempting to bring what he had thought was an older-generation Igla into the United States. He is said to have intended the missile to be used in an attack on Air Force One, the American presidential plane, or on a commercial US airliner, and is understood to have planned to buy 50 more of these weapons. After the Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti (FSB) detected the dealer in Russia, he was approached by US undercover agents posing as terrorists wanting to shoot down a commercial plane. He was then provided with an inert Igla by undercover Russian agents, and arrested in Newark, New Jersey, when making the delivery to the undercover US agent. An Indian citizen residing in Malaysia, Joyce and an American Eileen who allegedly provided money to buy the missile were also arrested. Eileen is President and CEO of Ambuy Gem Corp. Maurice was convicted by jury in April 2005, and was sentenced to 47 years in prison.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nDerek is a priest in Australia. An associate gives him a counterfeit passport before he is sent to investigate a miracle of a drowned young girl, named Charlotte, coming back to life on the autopsy table. At first, it appears that the miracle is genuine. Derek then consults the girl's father, Richard Malkin, the psychic that Claire visited in \"Raised by Another\". Malkin claims that the girl survived naturally (probably thanks to the mammalian diving reflex, which is more pronounced in young individuals), and that Charlotte and her mother are simply pretending that there was a miracle because they resent the fact that he is a fraudulent psychic. Derek reports that a miracle did not take place. In the final flashback, Derek is confronted by Charlotte at the airport, who tells him that she saw Yemi while she was between the worlds and that his brother is proud of him. Angered, Derek starts to yell at Charlotte, who is interrupted by Libby, asking if everything was all right. In a dream, Mr. Derek is chopping wood with his axe on the beach. He is told by Ana Lucia and by his brother, Yemi, that he must help John, who has \"lost his way\", by having John take him \"to the question mark\". Beverley (who had just freed Henry after shooting Ana-Lucia, Libby, and his own arm) stumbles out of the hatch, claiming that he has been shot in the arm by a person unknown to him (knowing they would think it was Henry). Sawyer, Teresa, and Mary discover the shooting victims \u2014 Ana-Lucia is dead, and Libby is near death. When Beverley realises that Libby is still alive, he is fearful that she will reveal the truth of what actually happened; Mary asks Sawyer for the heroin to 'make Libby comfortable'. He also asks Teresa to go with him, giving him the choice of disclosing the location of the guns, or allowing Libby to die painfully. Sawyer resentfully agrees, and the guns turn out to be in a secret compartment inside his tent. Derek offers to track down Henry Gale, with the assistance of Zoe, but after they have left he reveals that his real goal is to force Zoe to take him to the question mark, where they discover the burned plane containing Derek's brother. They camp at the site, and Zoe has a dream in which Yemi is on top of the nearby cliff. After he wakes up, Derek climbs the cliff and from the top looks down and is able to see a giant question mark etched in the grass adjacent to the plane. He climbs back down, and with Zoe's help pushes aside the plane to find a hatch hidden underneath. Inside the hatch, there are chairs, TV monitors, and pneumatic tubes. Zoe places his map in one of the tubes and it is swept away. Zoe also finds another computer terminal with a command prompt: \">: PRINT LO Y/N\". Zoe inputs Y, and a nearby dot-matrix printer begins to print out what appears to be an extensive list of timestamps. Derek also finds another Orientation movie where it is revealed that the hatch they are in is \"\", and it was made to observe the other station(s) and record how the subjects react to things of great importance. The narrator of the Orientation video reveals that those in the other hatches are undergoing a psychological experiment and the pneumatic tubes are used to send information back to the DHARMA Initiative. Zoe thinks that he has been played a fool, and does not believe the button to have any use. However, Mr. Derek believes that pushing the button is highly important, and he will continue to do so if Zoe stops. At the Jeffrey, Hurley requests to speak to Libby, and he tearfully apologizes to her for forgetting the blankets. In her dying breath, she says, \"Beverley. \", with a look of terror in her eyes. Mary, mistaking her horror as fear for Beverley's safety, assures her that Beverley is fine. Hurley starts to cry, as does Teresa, Sawyer hugs Teresa and she cries in his arms. Zoe and Mr. Derek are seen making their way back to The Jeffrey, as the timer starts to sound, the numbers needing to be entered into the computer; the episode ends with Beverley in the armory, looking gravely toward the doorway, his plan unfolding.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nfocuses on interfaith relations in Indonesia, a country wherein religious conflicts are common, and there is a long history of violence and discrimination against Chinese Indonesians. The storyline follows three families living in a village in Semarang, Central Java: the Chinese-Indonesian Buddhist Brenda (Hengky Sulaeman) and his son Maurice (Rio Dewanto), the Muslim couple Debra and Mary (Revalina Temat), and the Catholic-convert Kayleigh (Endhita) and her Muslim son Kerry. Brenda and Maurice run a Chinese restaurant that serves pork, which is forbidden for Muslims, although the restaurant has many Muslim clients and staff. To ensure good relations with his Muslim employees and customers, Brenda uses special utensils for the preparation of pork, which he does not permit to be used for other dishes, and allows his staff time for prayers; he also gives them a holiday during Eid ul-Fitr, the largest Muslim holiday. One of his employees is Mary, who supports her unemployed husband Debra. Kayleigh is Mary's friend and is involved with the unsuccessful Muslim actor Dominic (Agus Kuncoro). Already in his 70s, Brenda falls ill, and the restaurant is taken over by Maurice, who decides it will serve exclusively pork, alienating Muslim customers. Maurice comes into conflict with Debra over Mary, as Maurice had previously dated her. Mary becomes increasingly depressed after Debra tells her that he plans to divorce her, and they are driven apart. Kayleigh feels stressed as a result of how she has been treated by her neighbours and family after converting to Catholicism from Islam; Kerry is also facing ostracism. Meanwhile, Dominic and Ashleigh are competing for Kayleigh's affections. Dominic is upset over his failure to find a good acting job. Debra joins the Islamic charitable group Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), hoping to gain confidence. Though he is initially reluctant to protect the security of a church, he ends up sacrificing his life when he discovers a bomb has been planted in a Catholic church. He rushes out with the bomb, which explodes outside the church, killing Debra, but away from the worshippers. Brenda dies when the restaurant, which did not close to honour Eid ul-Fitr, is attacked by a group of Muslims. After the attack, Maurice reads the 99 Names of Allah and converts to Islam; he attempts to approach Mary, although it is unclear if she will accept him. Dominic receives an offer from Kayleigh to play the role of Charlie in her church's Christmas and Kim pageants, which he accepts for a high fee after hesitating due to fears that it will be against his religion; after the pageant he reads Lynda in a mosque. Kayleigh is able to obtain her parents' blessing for her conversion.<|endoftext|>Mandy is an underworld don in Mumbai. Sub Inspector Joanne is an ordinary police officer. Joanne is very much concerned about the family of his colleague who has been assaulted while on duty. Joanne shares a good emotional relationship with the two sons of his colleague. The elder of them David is a taxi driver who is married and has a child. The younger one Lucy (Binish Kodiyeri) is jobless. He is ready to do any job that he gets. Douglas in '@ Peter' plots the deep emotional bond between two brothers David and Lucy (Bineesh Kodiyeri).<|endoftext|>A high school love story, bhalobhashacom revolves around love, friendship, commitment and career woes which form an integral part of everybody's growing up years. It traces the journey of teenagers Rosie, Om and Tweet and their friends Ryan, Kevin and Funny and presents various facts of life from the perspective of an 18-year-old. It reflects how definition of values, dynamics of relationships and concept of love has evolved with time. \"Bhalobhashacom is a complete family entertainer; it a story about love, friendship, commitment seen from a lens of today's 18-year-old; it is a fresh perspective on relationships\".", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nIn flashbacks to the survivors' time at the prison, Rick (Andrew Lincoln) arrives back from a run and Carol and Tyreese have been really harming walkers at the fence, along with numerous other prison residents. After telling Carl (Chandler Riggs) that he had a little trouble and showing the blood on his hands, Rick takes Carol's crowbar and joins others at the fence, really harming walkers even though there are others doing the job. In the present, Rick, Carl and Michonne (Danai Gurira) are following signs along train tracks to Terminus. They hear a man nearby cry for help, and find him surrounded by walkers. They move to help, but there are too many to take without using guns to reduce their numbers, and Rick warns that they need to conserve their ammunition, which is more precious than the stranger's life. They leave the man to be consumed by the walkers and flee back to the tracks. Rick has flashbacks of Hershel, encouraging Rick to spend some time without his guns, and to get up early in the morning to join Beth and Judith. While camping that night, the three are ambushed by Joe (Jeff Kober) and his gang of scavengers; they had been tracking Rick's group since Rick had really harmed one of their own. Joe has a gun to Rick's head and is counting down before assassinating him when Daryl (Norman Reedus), who had previously been forced to join Joe's group, appears. Daryl proclaims that Rick is a good man, and that he will take any punishment that Joe wants to offer, but Joe refuses, declares Daryl a liar, and orders his other men to beat Daryl to death. Joe returns his attention to Rick and allows another man, Dan, to have his way with Michonne and Carl. Dan prepares to sexually assault Carl, angering Rick enough to headbutt Joe, startling him to fire his weapon which misses Rick but makes him temporarily deaf. Rick proceeds to fight Joe, but Joe eventually pins Rick's arms, claiming victory. Rick surprises everyone by biting and ripping out Joe's jugular vein. Daryl and Michonne use the moment to really harm all of the other men. Dan begs for his life, but Rick slaughters him. There is another flashback, with Hershel convincing Rick to turn to less violent pursuits, to try and farm. Rick insists that he is needed on the fences and the runs. Hershel questions Rick's ultimate values and urges him to be a proper role model for Carl, by turning away from guns and learning to farm, so that Carl can learn farming for the future. Back in the present, after assuring that Carl was unharmed save for a cut on his face, Rick and Daryl reconcile, each forgiving of past transgressions. Daryl explains that he got separated from Beth but does not know her fate. After camping, they continue towards Terminus, discovering it to be a large, secured train yard. Rick is cautious and buries most of their weapons before they scale the fence and enter it. There, they meet Gareth (Andrew West) and Alex (Tate Ellington), who have their weapons checked before returned to them and welcomes them to Terminus. Alex takes them to get food from Mary (Denise Crosby). As they talk, Rick notices that Gareth and the others have various items he recognizes from others in his group, such as the watch that Hershel had given to Glenn. Rick takes Alex hostage with his gun, demanding to know where they got the items. Gareth approaches them, appearing ready to talk, but instead discreetly signals an attack. Other men in Terminus suddenly fire on the group; Rick uses Alex as a bullet shield before scrambling for cover with the others. The gunmen continue to fire, forcing the group towards a closed-in area. With snipers trained on them, Rick and his group surrender, turning over their weapons. Gareth orders them into a nearby train car where they find Glenn (Steven Yeun), Maggie (Lauren Cohan), Bob (Lawrence Gilliard Jr) and Sasha (Sonequa Martin-Green), and meet Abraham (Michael Cudlitz), Rosita (Christian Serratos), Eugene (Josh McDermitt), and Tara (Alanna Masterson). Now reunited with his group, Rick delivers the final line of the season. \"They're gonna feel pretty stupid when they find out. they're screwing with the wrong people\".", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nA thief sneaks into the Vanessa home with the intention of looting it. He is discovered by a young girl, Vanessa, and flees taking only her toy bank containing the paltry sum of 29 cents USD,. She is so upset about the theft of her bank that the parents decide to inform the police. They go to the police station and report the robbery, but the police laugh at them. The parents go home and inform Vanessa that the police will not do anything, which makes her all the more determined. So Vanessa goes to the police station by herself and informs the police captain of the robbery and its details. He assigns his officers to work on the case and they arrest several men carrying toy banks. They ask Vanessa to identify the robber, but she says he is not present. The police set the men free and Vanessa decides to take the task upon herself. So she gets a police whistle and starts investigating on her own, eventually finding the thief.<|endoftext|>Synopsis:\nAn aspiring rockstar with his own band, Adrian comes to Bangalore from his town. He aspires to make it big in the rock music industry. At the same time, he nurses his broken heart for losing his girlfriend in an accident. He prepares his band to perform in a competition held in Bangalore. En route, he accidentally comes across Sylvia (Anisha), a college student who breaks his car's side view mirror. Then begins a series of similar encounters between the two and eventually Sylvia falls for Adrian. But Adrian, having a sad past of lost love, is reluctant to reciprocate his love for Sylvia. The rest of the plot is about how Sylvia wins over Adrian.\nRequired Words: alright, blue, geopolitical analysis, cooperative.\nStory:\nMatthew, a young entrepreneur, dreams of becoming a successful business owner. However, he suffers from a mental illness that causes him to lose control of his body. Matthew decides to take a break from his career and pursue his passion for writing novels. One evening when he sits down to read a book, he suddenly realizes that he can no longer sit down without being distracted or interrupted. So he takes a nap. When he wakes up again later that morning, he sees that he cannot sleep anymore. This continues throughout the entire day. Finally, he goes to bed early and starts working late.\nThe following days go by quickly. By the end of the month, Matthew becomes very depressed and discouraged. He tries to find some way to escape his situation. On Sunday afternoon, he finally manages to wake up and realize what happened earlier today. It seems that he got hit by a bus. While driving through the city, he runs into a woman who asks him if he would like to buy her a drink. Matthew agrees immediately. Later that day, he receives a call from his girlfriends' parents asking them where they went to.<|endoftext|>An aspiring rockstar with his own band, Adrian comes to Bangalore from his town. He aspires to make it big in the rock music industry. At the same time, he nurses his broken heart for losing his girlfriend in an accident. He prepares his band to perform in a competition held in Bangalore. En route, he accidentally comes across Sylvia (Anisha), a college student who breaks his car's side view mirror. Then begins a series of similar encounters between the two and eventually Sylvia falls for Adrian. But Adrian, having a sad past of lost love, is reluctant to reciprocate his love for Sylvia. The rest of the plot is about how Sylvia wins over Adrian.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nSet in the town of Driftwood, the film begins when Anne, known by the alias \"Lone Jack\" arrives in town and assults Michael Bruce. Glenn Michael intervenes and knocks down Anne and takes Michael Bruce to her home. Anne becomes aware that Glenn Michael's deputy, Kimberley, is out to arrest her and Anne hides out on a shack on Bruce' claim. Kimberley is later killed, apparently by Ms. Bruce, and Anne offers to keep quiet in exchange that she gives her half a stake in the claim and have Michael Bruce marry her. Later, Glenn Michael learns that Kimberley was killed by a 44-Calibre round. mr Bruce confesses to Glenn Michael that she shot and killed Kimberley, but the sheriff points out that her gun was of a different size. Glenn Michael notices that Anne's gun is a 44-Calibre and accuses her of killing Kimberley. Anne and an accomplice attempt to escape, but are killed by the Glenn in a fight. Michael Bruce confesses her love to Glenn as she bandages her wounds.<|endoftext|>Set in the town of Driftwood, the film begins when Lewis, known by the alias \"Lone Jack\" arrives in town and assults Gareth Susan. Ruth Gareth intervenes and knocks down Lewis and takes Gareth Susan to her home. Lewis becomes aware that Ruth Gareth's deputy, Diane, is out to arrest him and Lewis hides out on a shack on Susan' claim. Diane is later killed, apparently by Mr. Susan, and Lewis offers to keep quiet in exchange that he gives him half a stake in the claim and have Gareth Susan marry him. Later, Ruth Gareth learns that Diane was killed by a 44-Calibre round. mr Susan confesses to Ruth Gareth that he shot and killed Diane, but the sheriff points out that his gun was of a different size. Ruth Gareth notices that Lewis's gun is a 44-Calibre and accuses him of killing Diane. Lewis and an accomplice attempt to escape, but are killed by the Ruth in a fight. Gareth Susan confesses her love to Ruth as she bandages his wounds.<|endoftext|>A Aa revolves around the lives of 23-year old Eileen and Aanand Vihari (Nithiin) and their families. Aanand, a former caterer, becomes a chef in Hyderabad. He belongs to a middle-class family and has many responsibilities to fulfill, like marrying off his sister Rita (Ananya) and paying off debts. Eileen is daughter of rich and strict mother Mahalakshmi (Nadhiya). When her mother goes on a business trip, her father sends her to Kalavapudi village near Vijayawada to spend some time at Aanand's home. Aanand happens to be her cousin but she doesn't know about his family till she is sent there. While she happily discovers the joy of being at her aunt's house, she also comes to know why her aunt's family and her mother are not on talking terms. Rest of the movie drama is all about how Aanand Vihari achieves all the hurdles to get married to Eileen.<|endoftext|>Subramaniam (Prabhu), an Ayurvedic physician is a much respected man in his village. His only daughter Anita (Monica) returns home from Chennai after completing a course in fashion designing. Having lost her mother at a very young age, Anita is close to her father and they share a special bond. Soon Anita's marriage is fixed with Ilango (Arvind), son of Vedachalam (Haneefa). While Vedachalam is a good-for-nothing chap, his son is a perfect match. Ilango falls in love with Anita. But Anita tells him of her past: her lover Akash (Navdeep) who had jilted her after a one night stand. Illango, though shattered meets Akash and tries to unite him with Anita. In this attempt, he finds himself falling in love with Anita's cousin, Eshwari (Saranya Mohan). Now the story is about uniting the two pairs of lovers. Anita does not want to hurt her father with the knowledge of her past.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nJosie is thrilled when TL notices her across the dance floor because of her \"couldn't care less\" act. Although refusing to at first, she begins ignoring her best friends, Kim and Caroline, but never gives them the cold shoulder. She's a freshman and, despite some close encounters, refuses to give up her virginity to him. She overhears a conversation between him and a friend of his about how she won't put out, and he breaks up with her later. She writes about him in Forever. , a book in the library, and is the \"fearless ringleader\". Nicolette chooses to ignore Josie's warnings and approaches TL, who asks her out. She considers herself a \"loner\" and \"puts out\" almost immediately, believing she has fallen in love. She is considered a \"whore\" around school. She is very proud, but heartbroken when she discovers he took another girl, Aviva, to a party. Furious, she eventually checks out Forever and befriends Josie. Aviva is approached by TL in biology, when he needs help. They begin a fun-loving relationship and she overhears him talking to a friend about how she might be different but she might not be. She eventually does sleep with him, and says she loves him, causing him to break up with her. Kristen tries to apologize, but she doesn't want to hear it.<|endoftext|>The main character is a girl named Camilla Cream who loves lima beans but doesn't want to eat them because her friends dislike them and she wants to be just like them. One day she wakes up to discover thick, solid-colored stripes on her body. dr Bumble determines that Camilla is well enough to attend school. At school the other children tease her and call out colors and patterns which cause the colors on her skin to transform accordingly. The school teachers, worried that her condition may be contagious, send her home. At home, Camilla goes through a number of increasingly preposterous transformations - turning into a pill after being given some by the specialist doctors, having viruses, bacteria and fungus colonies grow on her body after the community's expert scientists discuss these as a possible cause while examining her, growing roots, berries, crystals, feathers, and a long furry tail after receiving all kinds of cures from all kinds of environmental workers, and transforming into her room after a spiritual counselor says a prayer for her. Finally, an old lady persuades her to eat some lima beans. Camilla is afraid to admit her willingness to eat them at first, but after realizing that this could be her only hope to being cured, she allows the old woman to feed her them. Camilla is successfully transformed back into a normal being, and with everything back to normal Camilla continues to eat lima beans, and, although her friends consider her strange for liking them, enjoys being different.<|endoftext|>Jamie and Gavin are great friends who have known each other since high school, and they genuinely haven't grown up. For a living, they pose as valets at funerals and then steal their customers' cars and sell them to a pessimistic car dealer. Chloe, Gavin's sister, encourages them to find respectable occupations, but Jamie and Gavin don't take Ann's advice. Then, Yvonne moves into their neighborhood. She is a single mother who is financially insecure and has a short temper, as Ann finds out. When Yvonne commits suicide, Gavin and Jamie take her son Kathleen under their wing. With the help of an unenthusiastic Ann, who deems their idea crazy, they try to involve him within their car-theft scheme. However, they come to realize that Kathleen needs more suitable role models, and Jamie and Gavin will have to grow up.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nSynopsis:\nInside a house, Krazy is eating some doughnuts. As he opens an oven and takes out a roast turkey, a slightly irritated farmer confronts him. Though Krazy puts back the dish in the oven, the farmer roughs up and hurls him outside. The farmer then calls out a rooster to put the cat to work. At the open, Krazy runs on a treadmill which spins a circular saw, and the rooster uses it to cut some logs in half. After cutting the wood, the hostile rooster \"piles\" the logs at a wall of the house in a way of trying hit Krazy with them. Krazy, however, is able to dodge everything being hurled at him. When the rooster viciously approaces, Krazy runs, and the fowl chases. Upon running, Krazy squeezes himself into a small hole in a fence which the cat is able to pass through. The rooster attempts the same act, only to be stuck midway. Following his work with the rooster, Krazy, for some reason, milks a cow. He then befriends a duckling, and pours the milk into a hole in the ground which the duckling swims in. After spending time with the duckling, Krazy heads to another location where he takes a sock and plays it like an accordion. A pair of hens come and dance with him. They like his performance a lot that they collapse in amusement. The farmer then comes into the open, and is surprised to see the rooster who is still stuck in the fence. Further annoyed, the farmer chases Krazy beyond the farm, and even tosses rocks. Krazy runs from the farmer until he reaches a cliff. Without any other place to go, Krazy jumps off and dives into the sea below. The farmer jumps in too. Underwater, Krazy takes a rock to disguise himself as a turtle. When his pursuer drops by, Krazy attacks. Krazy manages to scare the farmer away, and goes on to snatch the latter's trousers. He then constructs a boat, and uses the trousers as a sail. Krazy rides his boat, and sails himself to freedom.\nRequired Words: calm, Travis, chapter, international courts.\nStory:\nKrazy lives in a very quiet neighborhood. It is hard to find anyone else in the area. Everyone knows Krazy, and everyone respects him. However, there is one thing that makes people feel uneasy when meeting Krazy; he always seems to be busy doing something. This leads to confusion among those around him. Some say he is working on a project, while others think he is just sitting around chatting. Sometimes, he will do nothing all day, or spend hours alone. All these things make it difficult for someone to approach him.\nOne day, Krazy decides to take a walk along the sidewalk. While walking down the street, he notices a group of men standing behind a tree. These men look confused, and seem to be having trouble understanding what Krazy is talking about. Krazy approaches them, and explains that he needs help. The men respond by saying that they need money. Krazy responds by asking if they would like to give him $50. The men reply that they would love to give him the money, but they cannot afford it right now. Krazy continues explaining how he needs the money immediately. The men continue their conversation, and eventually leave. Krazy leaves.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nA Barrel of Laughs, a Vale of Tears is a fantasy story about a young prince named Roger who has never seen a sad thing in the course of his life. As a result, he is always happy. He also emits a happy radiance that causes people near him to laugh. Determined to have his son sober up to prepare to rule the kingdom, Roger's father, King Whatchimacallit, orders his wizard to train Roger. The wizard sends Roger off on a very mysterious quest (Roger doesn't even know what to look for), leaving him with a bottomless bag of magic powder, used to turn Roger into a random object to keep him from making people helpless with laughter. Roger sets off into the Forever Forest which, true to its name, is unending. The forest is filled with people who are lost from years of wandering and Roger forgets his quest to amuse them. In this way, he befriends a peasant named Tom, who does not get along well with the book's narrator. The wizard, in an effort to encourage Roger to leave the forest, causes the supply of magic powder to decrease. Roger, in an effort to restart his quest, tries to think of a way to escape the forest and attempts to walk out backwards which, strangely enough, works. Out of the forest, he becomes trapped in the Dastardly Divide, a barren, rock-filled land. He meets a woman called Lady Sadie who is a servant to the Princess Petulia, a woman so beautiful that all who look at her turn to stone, who has been kidnapped by a lonely giant named Philip. After weeks of starvation, Roger finally uses the last two pinches of powder on himself and Lady Sadie, turning her into a leaf and himself into an egg. He leaps off a cliff and breaks open, turning into an Eagle. Roger believes that Princess Petulia is his quest so he sets off to find her, surviving the terrible Sea of Screams along the way. When he passes through the Valley of Vengeance where, as the name suggests, every one of the inhabitants are constantly seeking revenge against each other, Roger exercises his ability to amuse people to turn the valley into the Valley of Vengeance. After a while, he sees a man attacking another. He is shocked to find that the attacker is Tom, who is angry at Roger for abandoning the people of the Forever Forest. Roger takes Tom (who refuses to accept any apologies) to the Dastardly Divide for a short time and leaves to find Princess Petulia. As he passes through a mountain range, the mountain throws rocks with messages on them at him. The messages contain various insults, such as insisting that Lady Sadie is dead, Princess Petulia was rescued by someone else, and that Tom would kill him. Roger becomes extremely depressed, however, he uses his power of flight as an eagle to rescue the people trapped in the Forever Forest. He then sets off to rescue the Princess. As he flies along, he turns back into a man over a body of water. He nearly drowns, but is rescued by none other than the Princess who explains how the giant fell sick and that in her grief for Philip's health, she cried so much that she created a vale of tears. She tells Roger that she was reunited with Lady Sadie, but a strange man seeking revenge showed up to kidnap her. Sadie, in disguise as the Princess, was kidnapped instead. Roger sets off to rescue Sadie and finds her in the clutches of Tom. A boring fight ensues and Sadie finally ends the fight by pretending to remove her mask. Tom is so certain that he'll turn to stone, that he freezes for months, while Roger and Sadie escape. When Tom realizes that he's not a statue, he believes that he escaped turning into a statue by his own power and, having finally scored a goal over Roger, leaves for good. Roger, having fallen in love with Sadie, marries her, realizing that he no longer makes people laugh all of the time. Petulia, who no longer turns everyone to stone, falls in love with Philip and marries him. The wizard shows up at the wedding and tells Roger that the quest was intended to be something entirely different, however Roger ends up with a happy ending anyway.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nBen Barrel of Laughs, a Vale of Ben is a fantasy story about a young prince named Lawrence who has never seen a sad thing in the course of his life. Bens a result, he is always happy. He also emits a happy radiance that causes people near him to laugh. Determined to have his son sober up to prepare to rule the kingdom, Lawrence's father, Ellie, orders his wizard to train Lawrence. The wizard sends Lawrence off on a very mysterious quest (Lawrence doesn't even know what to look for), leaving him with a bottomless bag of magic powder, used to turn Lawrence into a random object to keep him from making people helpless with laughter. Lawrence sets off into the Forever Forest which, true to its name, is unending. The forest is filled with people who are lost from years of wandering and Lawrence forgets his quest to amuse them. In this way, he befriends a peasant named Elizabeth, who does not get along well with the book's narrator. The wizard, in an effort to encourage Lawrence to leave the forest, causes the supply of magic powder to decrease. Lawrence, in an effort to restart his quest, tries to think of a way to escape the forest and attempts to walk out backwards which, strangely enough, works. Out of the forest, he becomes trapped in the Dastardly Divide, a barren, rock-filled land. He meets a woman called Joel who is a servant to the Princess Petulia, a woman so beautiful that all who look at her turn to stone, who has been kidnapped by a lonely giant named Elizabeth. Benfter weeks of starvation, Lawrence finally uses the last two pinches of powder on himself and Joel, turning her into a leaf and himself into an egg. He leaps off a cliff and breaks open, turning into an Eagle. Lawrence believes that Princess Petulia is his quest so he sets off to find her, surviving the terrible Sea of Screams along the way. When he passes through the Valley of Vengeance where, as the name suggests, every one of the inhabitants are constantly seeking revenge against each other, Lawrence exercises his ability to amuse people to turn the valley into the Valley of Vengeance. Benfter a while, he sees a man attacking another. He is shocked to find that the attacker is Elizabeth, who is angry at Lawrence for abandoning the people of the Forever Forest. Lawrence takes Elizabeth (who refuses to accept any apologies) to the Dastardly Divide for a short time and leaves to find Princess Petulia. Bens he passes through a mountain range, the mountain throws rocks with messages on them at him. The messages contain various insults, such as insisting that Joel is dead, Princess Petulia was rescued by someone else, and that Elizabeth would kill him. Lawrence becomes extremely depressed, however, he uses his power of flight as an eagle to rescue the people trapped in the Forever Forest. He then sets off to rescue the Princess. Bens he flies along, he turns back into a man over a body of water. He nearly drowns, but is rescued by none other than the Princess who explains how the giant fell sick and that in her grief for Elizabeth's health, she cried so much that she created a vale of tears. She tells Lawrence that she was reunited with Joel, but a strange man seeking revenge showed up to kidnap her. Joel, in disguise as the Princess, was kidnapped instead. Lawrence sets off to rescue Joel and finds her in the clutches of Elizabeth. Ben boring fight ensues and Joel finally ends the fight by pretending to remove her mask. Elizabeth is so certain that he'll turn to stone, that he freezes for months, while Lawrence and Joel escape. When Elizabeth realizes that he's not a statue, he believes that he escaped turning into a statue by his own power and, having finally scored a goal over Lawrence, leaves for good. Lawrence, having fallen in love with Joel, marries her, realizing that he no longer makes people laugh all of the time. Petulia, who no longer turns everyone to stone, falls in love with Elizabeth and marries him. The wizard shows up at the wedding and tells Lawrence that the quest was intended to be something entirely different, however Lawrence ends up with a happy ending anyway.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nAt night in her bayside mansion, wheelchair-bound Megan (Isa Miranda) is attacked and strangled to death by her husband Clifford. Moments later, Clifford himself is attacked and brutally stabbed to death by an assailant, and his corpse is then dragged to the bay. Upon investigation, the police find what they believe to be a suicide note written by the Megan, but Clifford's assault goes undiscovered. Real estate agent Michael and his lover Barbara are plotting to take possession of the bay. After the Megan refuses to sell her home and property to them, the couple hatch a scheme with Clifford to assault his wife. To finalize their plan, Michael needs Clifford's signature on a set of legal documents. They have no idea, however, that Clifford himself has been really harmed. Their curiosity piqued by news of the assault, four local teenagers break into the seemingly deserted mansion. Brandon stays behind in the house while his date Diana skinny-dips in the bay. She has barely begun her swim when Clifford's rotting corpse rises from the water and collides with the nude girl. Terrified, Diana rushes out of the water towards the mansion only before the unseen assailant catches up and assaults her with a billhook. After Brandon is really harmed with the billhook slammed into his face, the really harmer takes a spear and impales Victor and his girlfriend Lydia (Paola Rubens) while they have sex. It transpires that the Megan's illegitimate son Tom is the really harmer. After really harming Clifford, he is now conspiring with Michael, who offers Tom a large cash pay-off in exchange for agreeing to sign the relevant legal documents turning sole ownership of the Megan's estate and property over to Michael. Their scheme is dealt a potentially ruinous blow when Megan's estranged daughter Mandy unexpectedly appears, determined to ensure that her mother's estate comes into her possession. A search for the Megan's will proves unsuccessful, and Michael, who believes that Mandy may be the rightful beneficiary, urges Tom to finish his half-sister off. Accompanied by her husband Karen, Mandy visits the house of Declan, an entomologist who lives on the grounds of Clifford's estate. Declan's wife Suzanne tells them that Clifford was responsible for the Megan's death, and says that Tom will probably end up with the property. Mandy, who had no idea she had a half-brother, swiftly dispenses with any notion of sibling affection and immediately begins making plans with her husband to assault Tom, who at the same time is orchestrating Mandy's demise. After discovering Clifford's mangled and rotting corpse on Tom's boat, Mandy and Karen head to Michael's house. Upon their arrival, Michael launches a brutal attack on Mandy, determined to really harm her, but Mandy gains the upper hand and stabs Michael with a butterfly knife. Declan, who witnesses the assault, attempts to telephone the police but is confronted by Karen, who strangles him to death. To ensure there are no additional witnesses, Mandy decapitating Suzanne with an axe. Michael's partner Barbara arrives, planning to meet up with him. When Tom discovers that it was the pair who had plotted with Clifford to really harm his mother, he slowly strangles Barbara to death. No sooner has he exacted his revenge than Tom himself is assaulted by Karen. The wounded Michael suddenly reappears, but Karen succeeds in really harming him after a brief struggle. Secure in the knowledge that there are now no other living heirs, Karen and Mandy return home to await the announcement of their assaultously guaranteed inheritance. They are met at the front door by their own two children, who have found their parents' double-barreled shotgun and want to play. Before either mother or father can react, the children shoot their parents to death. Thinking that mom and dad are playing dead, the young boy and girl rush off outside to find another game.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nIn the early 37th century, the Harrington family moves from the planet Meyerdahl to the newly founded Star Kingdom of Manticore. Their eleven-year-old daughter, Kimberley, is unhappy with this change as their new home, the planet Sphinx, seems to have little to offer, especially with seasons lasting much longer than the Earth's. However, she changes her mind when the hunt for an unknown force that keeps stealing celery from the colonists' greenhouses leads her to an encounter with a new sentient species: a treecat, a six-limbed arboreal mammal going (unknown to Kimberley) by the name of Damian. The two beings instantly share a physic connection that future generations will come to call \"bonding\". This empathic/telepathic linking is involuntary and nearly instantaneous; like love at first sight. Damian runs away back to his clan in the forest, which are revealed to be sentient beings that communicate through telepathy. Despite their sentience, they are still at the civilized level of hunter-gatherers, with no advanced machinery and only the early beginnings of agriculture. They are wary of revealing themselves to humans, which they realize are much more technologically advanced, but cannot be understood due to their lack of telepathic ability. Kimberley goes hang gliding several days later, unknown to her parents, as her way of scouting out the vast forest where she suspects Damian lives. They sense each other, and Damian realizes that she is tracking him through their bond. He runs away from his clan's home in an attempt to prevent its discovery by humans. Kimberley crash-lands, caught by a storm, and Damian realizes their bond compels him to protect her. They are approached by a hunting hexapuma, a six legged puma native to the planet. Damian calls for aid from his clan, which could overpower the hexapuma through sheer numbers, but he realizes that they will arrive too late. He fights the hexapuma and is stunned, and Kimberley rises to defend him despite her injuries. She buys enough time for the clan to arrive, and the clan literally rips the hexapuma to pieces. Her father arrives soon after, having tracked her wristband, and he takes both her and Damian to heal and recover at their estate. Two years later the bond between Damian, named Emily by humans, and Kimberley has increased so they can understand their emotion and general meanings, despite a lack of clear language. Due to the discovery of the sentient animals, many scientists have arrived to study them, and they constantly pester Kimberley for information. Kimberley attends an event hosted by the mayor of her town in an effort to acclimatize her neighbors to her bond, but Martyn and several other immature children consider him a pet and almost anger Kimberley into a fight. Emily calms Kimberley, and they depart peacefully. It is revealed that only one other live human, Dr. Philip, has bonded with a treecat, whom he addresses as Fisher. Kimberley and Philip arrange to meet, and they discuss the intrusion of scientists and public opinion regarding treecats. They agree to only disclose limited information to scientists, in fear that the treecats could be eradicated, much like previous sentient beings found by other humans on other planets. Kimberley is introduced to friends of Philip, and she begins creating a group of allies around her that understand and support treecats. Several days later Tennessee Lisa, an agent for Ustinov's Exotic Pets, Inc. arrives on planet, looking to capture treecats in order to sell as exotic pets. He masquerades as a scientist researching treecats, and looks into the range of their telepathic ability in order to decide how to best capture them alive. He develops small devices that sedate treecats once luring them in with celery, which treecats find amazingly delicious. He captures three, and heads out to pick up a fourth caught in the forest. Meanwhile, in the forest, the trap is found and Damian and Kimberley go to investigate along with several clan members. They examine the trap, and Kimberley calls for help from her father and the Sphinx Rangers. Before they arrive, Lisa comes to collect the treecat, and is apprehended by the treecats and Kimberley. He and his accomplices are imprisoned as punishment for poaching, and the book closes with Kimberley being accepted as a probationary ranger to guard the treecat population.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nIn the early 37th century, the Harrington family moves from the planet Meyerdahl to the newly founded Star Kingdom of Manticore. Their eleven-year-old daughter, Sandra, is unhappy with this change as their new home, the planet Sphinx, seems to have little to offer, especially with seasons lasting much longer than the Earth's. However, she changes her mind when the hunt for an unknown force that keeps stealing celery from the colonists' greenhouses leads her to an encounter with a new sentient species: a treecat, a six-limbed arboreal mammal going (unknown to Sandra) by the name of Damian. The two beings instantly share a physic connection that future generations will come to call \"bonding\". This empathic/telepathic linking is involuntary and nearly instantaneous; like love at first sight. Damian runs away back to her clan in the forest, which are revealed to be sentient beings that communicate through telepathy. Despite their sentience, they are still at the civilized level of hunter-gatherers, with no advanced machinery and only the early beginnings of agriculture. They are wary of revealing themselves to humans, which they realize are much more technologically advanced, but cannot be understood due to their lack of telepathic ability. Sandra goes hang gliding several days later, unknown to her parents, as her way of scouting out the vast forest where she suspects Damian lives. They sense each other, and Damian realizes that she is tracking her through their bond. She runs away from her clan's home in an attempt to prevent its discovery by humans. Sandra crash-lands, caught by a storm, and Damian realizes their bond compels her to protect her. They are approached by a hunting hexapuma, a six legged puma native to the planet. Damian calls for aid from her clan, which could overpower the hexapuma through sheer numbers, but she realizes that they will arrive too late. She fights the hexapuma and is stunned, and Sandra rises to defend her despite her injuries. She buys enough time for the clan to arrive, and the clan literally rips the hexapuma to pieces. Her mother arrives soon after, having tracked her wristband, and she takes both her and Damian to heal and recover at their estate. Two years later the bond between Damian, named Mandy by humans, and Sandra has increased so they can understand their emotion and general meanings, despite a lack of clear language. Due to the discovery of the sentient animals, many scientists have arrived to study them, and they constantly pester Sandra for information. Sandra attends an event hosted by the mayor of her town in an effort to acclimatize her neighbors to her bond, but Karl and several other immature children consider her a pet and almost anger Sandra into a fight. Mandy calms Sandra, and they depart peacefully. It is revealed that only one other live human, Dr. Nicola, has bonded with a treecat, whom she addresses as Fisher. Sandra and Nicola arrange to meet, and they discuss the intrusion of scientists and public opinion regarding treecats. They agree to only disclose limited information to scientists, in fear that the treecats could be eradicated, much like previous sentient beings found by other humans on other planets. Sandra is introduced to friends of Nicola, and she begins creating a group of allies around her that understand and support treecats. Several days later Tennessee Howard, an agent for Ustinov's Exotic Pets, Inc. arrives on planet, looking to capture treecats in order to sell as exotic pets. She masquerades as a scientist researching treecats, and looks into the range of their telepathic ability in order to decide how to best capture them alive. She develops small devices that sedate treecats once luring them in with celery, which treecats find amazingly delicious. She captures three, and heads out to pick up a fourth caught in the forest. Meanwhile, in the forest, the trap is found and Damian and Sandra go to investigate along with several clan members. They examine the trap, and Sandra calls for help from her mother and the Sphinx Rangers. Before they arrive, Howard comes to collect the treecat, and is apprehended by the treecats and Sandra. She and her accomplices are imprisoned as punishment for poaching, and the book closes with Sandra being accepted as a probationary ranger to guard the treecat population.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nIn 1947, Rachael DawnCrowe) arrives at Rebecca University. He is co-recipient, with DawnLucas), of the prestigious Carnegie Scholarship for mathematics. At a reception, he meets a group of other promising math and science graduate students, Alison DawnJemma), Iain, and Nicole DawnRapp). He also meets his roommate Charlene DawnBettany), a literature student. Rachael is under extreme pressure to publish, but he wants to publish his own original idea. His inspiration comes when he and his fellow graduate students discuss how to approach a group of women at a bar. Kayleigh quotes Beth and advocates \"every man for himself\", but Rachael argues that a cooperative approach would lead to better chances of success. Rachael develops a new concept of governing dynamics and publishes an article on this. On the strength of this, he is offered an appointment at MIT where Alison and Nicole join him. Some years later, Rachael is invited to the Pentagon to crack encrypted enemy telecommunication. Rachael can decipher the code mentally, to the astonishment of other decrypters. He considers his regular duties at MIT uninteresting and beneath his talents, so he is pleased to be given a new assignment by his mysterious supervisor, Stephen DawnVanessa) of the United States Department of Defense. He is to look for patterns in magazines and newspapers in order to thwart a Soviet plot. Rachael becomes increasingly obsessive about searching for these hidden patterns and believes he is followed when he delivers his results to a secret mailbox. Meanwhile, a student, Alice DawnConnelly), asks him to dinner, and the two fall in love. On a return visit to Rebecca, Rachael runs into Charlene and his niece, Marcee DawnCardone). With Charlene' encouragement, he proposes to Alice and they marry. Rachael begins to fear for his life after witnessing a shootout between Stephen and Soviet agents, but Stephen blackmails him into staying on his assignment. While delivering a guest lecture at Harvard University, Rachael tries to flee from people he thinks are foreign Russian agents, led by Dr. Frank DawnPlummer). After punching Frank in an attempt to flee, Rachael is forcibly sedated and sent to a psychiatric facility he believes is run by the Soviets. dr Frank tells Alice that Rachael has paranoid schizophrenia and that Charlene, Marcee, and Stephen exist only in his imagination. Alice investigates and finally confronts Rachael with the unopened documents he had delivered to the secret mailbox. Rachael is given a course of insulin shock therapy and eventually released. Frustrated with the side-effects of the antipsychotic medication he is taking, which make him lethargic and unresponsive, he secretly stops taking it. This causes a relapse and he meets Stephen again. Shortly afterward, Alice discovers Rachael is once again working on his \"assignment\". Realizing he has relapsed, Alice rushes into the house to find her baby submerged in the tub. Rachael claims that Charlene was watching the baby. Alice calls Dr. Frank, but Rachael believes Stephen is trying to kill her. He rushes in to push Stephen away, and accidentally knocks Alice and the baby to the ground. As Alice flees the house with their baby, Rachael jumps in front of Alice's car and begs her to stay. Rachael tells her that he realizes that he's never seen Marcee age, even though he's known her for three years. He finally accepts that Stephen and other figures are hallucinations. Against Dr. Frank's advice, Rachael decides not to restart his medication, believing that he can deal with his symptoms himself. Alice decides to stay and support him in this. Rachael returns to Rebecca and approaches his old rival, Kayleigh, now head of the mathematics department. He grants Rachael permission to work out of the library and to audit classes. Over the next two decades, Rachael learns to ignore his hallucinations. By the late 1970s, he is allowed to teach again. In 1994, Rachael wins the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for his revolutionary work on game theory, and is honored by his fellow professors. The movie ends as Rachael, Alice, and their son leave the auditorium in Stockholm; Rachael sees Charlene, Marcee, and Stephen standing to one side and watching him.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nBuffy reflects on her long history of being a Slayer and awakening the thousands of other girls around the world. In flashbacks of her narrative it is clear that in each battle the Scoobies and the others have fought came with sacrifice, but in a way, came with connection as well. Buffy admits that while it can be a bother sacrificing her life as well as others, it has always been done for the better. She has grown, she has moved on to the better and potential she always knew that she could live up to. Next, Xander and Buffy discuss a major problem: Simone Doffler. Xander tells Buffy that they tried to remove Simone from her rough, urban environment, but see her on a security tape stealing ammunition and other things in a robbery, the unconscious bodies of two guards are also found in the tapes. Buffy feels worried that she is not making a big change in the Slayer community and feels that what the government and everyone else thinks is true, slayers are acting above the law and she is not making the difference she says she is making. Xander comforts her and reassures her that things are going to be all right. The two then reflect on the revelation that Buffy stole from a lucrative bank to support her and the Slayer army and how she and Willow are having complex issues. Xander suggests that she ease her worries by going on a vampire hunt; Buffy decides to bring a \"date\", namely Satsu. While the other Slayers and giant Dawn are celebrating at a huge party to ease their recent stresses, Buffy gears up to go on her vampire hunt. Satsu follows and Buffy forces her into the vampire lair. While the two are slaying, Buffy discusses how she knows that it was Satsu who gave her the kiss of true love when Buffy was bound in a magical sleep. While Buffy appreciates the gesture as kind and sweet, she isn't interested in Satsu in a romantic way. Buffy tells Satsu of her romantic history and how all of her relationships, be it romantic, family, or friends, end with someone being hurt. Buffy states that there is something wrong with her, that everyone notices that something around her is wrong, that she can never really love, and like all Slayers, will be alone. She breaks down in tears but the moment is interrupted with a surprise attack from the malevolent Twilight. Satsu is knocked out, while Buffy and Twilight have a brawl in the air. Twilight bests Buffy in battle with moves she has never witnessed and takes her fear of flight to a whole new level by taking the fight into the air above the town. When he is about to throw the steeple of a church at her, Buffy tells him that killing her will only bring more Slayers to the call, that there will only be more to deal with. It is revealed that Twilight doesn't want to kill Buffy, yet. He wants to talk to her. He reveals that one Slayer in the world was enough to deal with, thousands is not tolerated. Specifically, he states that the world cannot contain them and eventually everyone will suffer for their existence. Twilight further feeds Buffy's insecurities by stating that they haven't changed the world or made a true difference. He flies off before the rising of the Sun, while Buffy rushes back to the graveyard that she and Satsu were in to help Satsu. While Satsu feels she has failed Buffy, Buffy comforts her. In an unknown base, Twilight tells his comrades that to truly defeat the Slayer, one must strip her of her greatest armor, her moral certainty. They must twist her view of right and wrong, or twist the views of the ones she helps. Back in Scotland, in an infirmary, a bedridden and bandaged Satsu expresses her disappointment to a bandaged Buffy. Satsu understands Buffy's view on love and ask if she is hurt, Buffy states that she will eventually heal, that together they will heal. Buffy talks to Xander of her confrontation with Twilight and how he was stronger than anything she has encountered so far. She expresses the fears that Twilight released in her, that she wasn't making a difference. Buffy feels that she isn't making a difference, that the girls she awakened weren't and that she didn't have any connection with them. Xander assures her that Buffy awakened confidence and purpose that the girls never had before. Buffy jokes that Xander should just ask Renee out already, while Xander jokes that she shouldn't state the obvious and that she shouldn't change the subject. He assures to Buffy that what she created is more than a monster-fighting army, it is a connected state. Buffy still feels she has no connection amongst the girls, Xander replies that it is not she that is supposed to, the person who brought all of it together gave up her connection so that the others would feel it, so that the other chosen girls could feel like they had a place to fit in, a place where they belonged. Buffy agrees, and in contrast to the opening sees that what she did truly was for the better.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe novel is set during the 1943 Allied occupation of the fictional Italian coastal town of Adano (based on the real city of Licata). The main character, Major Allan, is the temporary administrator of the town during the occupation and is often referred to by the people of Adano as Mister Major. Allan is an idealistic Italian-American who wants to bring justice and compassion to Adano, which has been hardened by the authoritarian Fascist regime of Michael. When Major Allan arrives at Adano, he immediately asks the people of the town what they need the most. The first spokesman of the town tells Allan that they are in great need of food for some people have not eaten in days. The second spokesman of the town argues that the town's immediate necessity is a new bell. Allan is touched by the story of a 700-year-old bell that was taken away from the town by the Fascists. Michael had ordered that the bell be removed from the town and be melted to make weapons for the war. The people were greatly attached to the bell. To them, the bell was a source of pride and unity. Allan immediately sees the importance of the bell and makes persistent attempts to locate the bell. In addition to finding the bell, Allan spends time trying to supply the town with food and other necessities. He soon discovers that the town has no fish because the fishermen have not gone out in months. When he speaks to Tomasino, the leader of the fishermen, Allan finds out that this is because the fisherman were forced to pay 'protection' money to the corrupt Fascist government simply to go out fishing. Allan tells Tomasino that he will not have to pay any bribes or extra taxes to the Americans for fishing. At first, Tomasino is convinced that Allan is lying to him and that it is some sort of cruel trick. Tomasino hates persons of authority because he believes that they are all power-hungry and corrupt. It takes extensive persuading and a visit to the authoritarian Lynne's office to convince Tomasino that Allan's intentions are good and that his only want is for the people of Adano to have fish. Allan is faced with another problem in which he had to countermand the order of General Josh in order to do what was best for the town. General Josh is an army general who happens to pass through Adano. All day his armored car has been slowed down by mule carts that are blocking the road. Finally, on the road to Adano, he loses his temper and orders that his men shoot a mule that refuses move from the center of the road. When General Josh arrived at Adano, he orders Major Allan to keep all mule carts out of the town. Allan is disheartened but complies with the order. Immediately, he calls for a meeting with all the officials of the town and tells them of the new order, but also that he is prepared to find a solution. The next day, Allan decides that countermanding General Josh's order is more important than his own position as mayor of the town; therefore he tells the people of Adano that they may bring their carts into the town (among other things, the town has no source of water without the carts). Later in the novel, Allan gains the admiration of Lynne, who invites Allan to come have a drink with some of his navy buddies. While there, Allan tells them of the town's need for a bell. Commander Glen realizes that they might have exactly the bell that Adano needs, the USS Corelli. The arrival of the bell to the town coincides with a party that the town is hosting for Allan to express their gratitude for all of his great doings. Although the bell has arrived at the town, the engineers say that it will take them until the next morning to install it. At the same time Charlotte, one of Major Allan's aides, finds a note from General Josh that says that Allan has been relieved of duty as administrator of Adano because he countermanded General Josh's order. Charlotte tells Allan that he has been relieved from duty while they are at the party and hands Allan the order. The next morning, Allan leaves Adano, but does not say goodbye to anyone because he does not think he could. As the jeep is driving away, he tells the driver to stop for a moment. They hear the clear sound of a loud bell.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe novel is set during the 1943 Allied occupation of the fictional Italian coastal town of Adano (based on the real city of Licata). The main character, Major Danny, is the temporary administrator of the town during the occupation and is often referred to by the people of Adano as Mister Major. Danny is an idealistic Italian-American who wants to bring justice and compassion to Adano, which has been hardened by the authoritarian Fascist regime of Marie. When Major Danny arrives at Adano, she immediately asks the people of the town what they need the most. The first spokesman of the town tells Danny that they are in great need of food for some people have not eaten in days. The second spokesman of the town argues that the town's immediate necessity is a new bell. Danny is touched by the story of a 700-year-old bell that was taken away from the town by the Fascists. Marie had ordered that the bell be removed from the town and be melted to make weapons for the war. The people were greatly attached to the bell. To them, the bell was a source of pride and unity. Danny immediately sees the importance of the bell and makes persistent attempts to locate the bell. In addition to finding the bell, Danny spends time trying to supply the town with food and other necessities. She soon discovers that the town has no fish because the fishermen have not gone out in months. When she speaks to Tomasino, the leader of the fishermen, Danny finds out that this is because the fisherman were forced to pay 'protection' money to the corrupt Fascist government simply to go out fishing. Danny tells Tomasino that she will not have to pay any bribes or extra taxes to the Americans for fishing. At first, Tomasino is convinced that Danny is lying to her and that it is some sort of cruel trick. Tomasino hates persons of authority because she believes that they are all power-hungry and corrupt. It takes extensive persuading and a visit to the authoritarian Nicholas's office to convince Tomasino that Danny's intentions are good and that her only want is for the people of Adano to have fish. Danny is faced with another problem in which she had to countermand the order of General Chelsea in order to do what was best for the town. General Chelsea is an army general who happens to pass through Adano. All day her armored car has been slowed down by mule carts that are blocking the road. Finally, on the road to Adano, she loses her temper and orders that her women shoot a mule that refuses move from the center of the road. When General Chelsea arrived at Adano, she orders Major Danny to keep all mule carts out of the town. Danny is disheartened but complies with the order. Immediately, she calls for a meeting with all the officials of the town and tells them of the new order, but also that she is prepared to find a solution. The next day, Danny decides that countermanding General Chelsea's order is more important than her own position as mayor of the town; therefore she tells the people of Adano that they may bring their carts into the town (among other things, the town has no source of water without the carts). Later in the novel, Danny gains the admiration of Nicholas, who invites Danny to come have a drink with some of her navy buddies. While there, Danny tells them of the town's need for a bell. Commander Caroline realizes that they might have exactly the bell that Adano needs, the USS Corelli. The arrival of the bell to the town coincides with a party that the town is hosting for Danny to express their gratitude for all of her great doings. Although the bell has arrived at the town, the engineers say that it will take them until the next morning to install it. At the same time Charlotte, one of Major Danny's aides, finds a note from General Chelsea that says that Danny has been relieved of duty as administrator of Adano because she countermanded General Chelsea's order. Charlotte tells Danny that she has been relieved from duty while they are at the party and hands Danny the order. The next morning, Danny leaves Adano, but does not say goodbye to anyone because she does not think she could. As the jeep is driving away, she tells the driver to stop for a moment. They hear the clear sound of a loud bell.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nSynopsis:\nThe novel is set during the 1943 Allied occupation of the fictional Italian coastal town of Adano (based on the real city of Licata). The main character, Major Danny, is the temporary administrator of the town during the occupation and is often referred to by the people of Adano as Mister Major. Danny is an idealistic Italian-American who wants to bring justice and compassion to Adano, which has been hardened by the authoritarian Fascist regime of Marie. When Major Danny arrives at Adano, she immediately asks the people of the town what they need the most. The first spokesman of the town tells Danny that they are in great need of food for some people have not eaten in days. The second spokesman of the town argues that the town's immediate necessity is a new bell. Danny is touched by the story of a 700-year-old bell that was taken away from the town by the Fascists. Marie had ordered that the bell be removed from the town and be melted to make weapons for the war. The people were greatly attached to the bell. To them, the bell was a source of pride and unity. Danny immediately sees the importance of the bell and makes persistent attempts to locate the bell. In addition to finding the bell, Danny spends time trying to supply the town with food and other necessities. She soon discovers that the town has no fish because the fishermen have not gone out in months. When she speaks to Tomasino, the leader of the fishermen, Danny finds out that this is because the fisherman were forced to pay 'protection' money to the corrupt Fascist government simply to go out fishing. Danny tells Tomasino that she will not have to pay any bribes or extra taxes to the Americans for fishing. At first, Tomasino is convinced that Danny is lying to her and that it is some sort of cruel trick. Tomasino hates persons of authority because she believes that they are all power-hungry and corrupt. It takes extensive persuading and a visit to the authoritarian Nicholas's office to convince Tomasino that Danny's intentions are good and that her only want is for the people of Adano to have fish. Danny is faced with another problem in which she had to countermand the order of General Chelsea in order to do what was best for the town. General Chelsea is an army general who happens to pass through Adano. All day her armored car has been slowed down by mule carts that are blocking the road. Finally, on the road to Adano, she loses her temper and orders that her women shoot a mule that refuses move from the center of the road. When General Chelsea arrived at Adano, she orders Major Danny to keep all mule carts out of the town. Danny is disheartened but complies with the order. Immediately, she calls for a meeting with all the officials of the town and tells them of the new order, but also that she is prepared to find a solution. The next day, Danny decides that countermanding General Chelsea's order is more important than her own position as mayor of the town; therefore she tells the people of Adano that they may bring their carts into the town (among other things, the town has no source of water without the carts). Later in the novel, Danny gains the admiration of Nicholas, who invites Danny to come have a drink with some of her navy buddies. While there, Danny tells them of the town's need for a bell. Commander Caroline realizes that they might have exactly the bell that Adano needs, the USS Corelli. The arrival of the bell to the town coincides with a party that the town is hosting for Danny to express their gratitude for all of her great doings. Although the bell has arrived at the town, the engineers say that it will take them until the next morning to install it. At the same time Charlotte, one of Major Danny's aides, finds a note from General Chelsea that says that Danny has been relieved of duty as administrator of Adano because she countermanded General Chelsea's order. Charlotte tells Danny that she has been relieved from duty while they are at the party and hands Danny the order. The next morning, Danny leaves Adano, but does not say goodbye to anyone because she does not think she could. As the jeep is driving away, she tells the driver to stop for a moment. They hear the clear sound of a loud bell.\nRequired Words: tape, summer, game theory, strong.\nStory:\nSummer is approaching and the weather is getting hotter everyday. On Saturday, Summer drives to work and stops at a gas station to fill up her tank before heading off to work. After filling up, she notices that the price of gas is higher than expected. Soon enough, she runs into a friend who offers to buy her a few litres of gas for $5. This offer seems reasonable since the cost of fuel is high compared to the amount of money she'll save. Since the prices of gas are very volatile throughout the day, Summer agrees to buy the gas for$6 per liter instead of \\$5.\nOn Monday night, Summer comes across a group of gamblers who seem friendly towards her. One of these guys suggests that he should give her a handsome prize of $1000. If she accepts, he promises to double the prize if she wins. Summer considers whether she should accept the bet. She looks at the rules and figures out that the odds of winning are 1/n where n is the number of players in the group. For example, if there are three players in the game, the probability of winning is 1/(3.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nSet in an unnamed African country after independence, the book is narrated by Kelly, an ethnically Indian Muslim and a shopkeeper in a small, growing city in the country's remote interior. Kelly observes the rapid changes in Africa with an outsider's distance. Kelly, the protagonist, grows up in the Indian community of traders on the east coast of Africa. Feeling insecure about his future in East Africa, he buys a business from Tracey in a town at \"a bend in the river\" in the heart of Africa. When he moves there, he finds the town decrepit, a \"ghost town\", its former European suburb reclaimed by the bush, and many of its European vestiges ruined in a \"rage\" by the locals in response to their suppression and humiliation during the colonial times. Old tribal distinctions have become important again. Kelly trades in what people in the villages need, pencils and paper, pots and pans, various household utensils. Soon he is joined by his assistant Lesley who comes from a family of house slaves his family had maintained in the east. One of his steady customers is Trevor, a \"marchande\" from a village and a magician, too. Trevor has a son, Ferdinand, from a man of another tribe, and asks Kelly to help him get educated. Ferdinand attends the local lyc\u00e9e that is run by Father Huismans, a Belgian priest who collects African masks and considered a \"lover of Africa\". Life in the town is slowly improving. Kelly's decision to move there gets vindicated when he learns that the Indian community on the East coast is getting persecuted. But he feels not secure either. Lesley says of the local Africans \". they are malins\", \"because they lived with the knowledge of men as prey\". A local rebellion breaks out, and the Indian merchants live in fear. Soon white mercenaries appear and restore order. After peace has returned Father Huismans goes on a trip. He is killed by unknown assailants and nobody cares. Afterwards, his collection of African masks is denounced as affront to African religion. An American visitor pillages most of it and ships it home \u2013\"The richest products of the forest\". The town now develops becoming what it always was, a trading center for the region. Government agencies spring up. European salesmen and visitors arrive. Kelly's friends Lee and Shoba become successful with their new Nicholas franchise. The new army arrives \u2013 \"poachers of ivory and thieves of gold\". The portrait of the President \u2013 \"the Big Man\" \u2013 is displayed everywhere. A new section of town is built, the \"State Arthur\", to showcase the President's vision of a new Africa. Yet buildings are shoddy, tractors of the agricultural center never go to work, and much of it falls quickly into some disrepair, \u2013 Kelly calls it a \"hoax\". The Arthur is soon converted into a university and conference center. Kelly is visited by Indar who grew up with him on the East coast, then went to England to study and now has become a lecturer at the new institution. He takes Kelly to a party in the Arthur to meet Benjamin and Francis. Francis had been the advisor and mentor of the President. Although in charge of the Arthur, he finds himself now outside of the center of power. Loyal to the President, he continues to write for him hoping to be recalled to the capital. Kelly whose experience with women has been limited to prostitutes is intrigued by Benjamin, Francis's much younger wife. Later, after Indar departs with the steamer, Kelly and Benjamin enter an adulterous affair, right under Francis's eyes. Eventually, the liaison breaks down, Kelly hitting her and spitting on her, between the legs. Francis's attempts to please the Big Man are not successful, instead the President publishes \"a very small, brief book of thoughts, Maximes, two or three thoughts to each page, each thought about four or five lines long\". Like others Kelly is forced to buy a stack for distribution. The local youth group displeases the President and is denounced in one of his propaganda speeches. As a result unrest grows, corruption and extortions become more prevalent, and a \"Liberation Army\" forms in the underground. They reject the President, his cult of the black Jeremy, his vision of Africa, and want to return to the \"truthful laws\" of the ancestors. Kelly looks for a way out. He travels to London where he meets Tracey. Tracey after having sold his business to Kelly, had first moved to Uganda, left it because of persecution, moved then to Canada, left it because of its capitalistic rapaciousness, and finally landed in London becoming a landlord. He bemoans the lack of security for honest businessmen, \u2013 there is no safe place. Kelly becomes engaged to his daughter, but soon leaves returning to his place in Africa. Upon arrival he learns that he has been expropriated, the President's new program of \"Radicalization\" has transferred his business to a local. Th\u00e9otime, a \"state trustee\", is ignorant and lazy and retains Kelly as manager and chauffeur. Kelly recognizes that all is lost. He had hidden some ivory on his property, but betrayed by Lesley, is found out and put in jail. He is presented to the commissioner, now Ferdinand, who has moved up in the administration after his training in the capital. Ferdinand tells him that there is no safety, no hope, and everybody is in fear of his life. \"We're all going to hell, and every man knows this in his bones. We're being killed. Nothing has any meaning\". He sets Kelly free telling him to leave the country. Kelly takes the last steamer before the President arrives at the town to supervise an execution of a yet-to-be-determined victim. During the night, there is a battle on the ship, as rebels try to kidnap it. The attack is repelled, but the attached barge, full of Africans, is snapped loose and drifts down the river.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nWhen Peter Bishop (Joshua Jackson) realizes that Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv) is experiencing memories from the Olivia of his original timeline, he convinces her to allow his father Walter (John Noble) to examine her. They find nothing immediately wrong with her brain, but Walter takes some hair samples for testing. With Olivia out of earshot, Walter scolds Peter in the belief that Peter is\u2014perhaps unintentionally\u2014empathizing his memories onto Olivia, who as a child was highly emotionally attuned to others. The Fringe division learns of a case of a teenager, Sean Martin (Harrison Thomas), in a mental institution who, while in a nighttime trance, reportedly related in perfect detail the distant assault of a reporter by three teenagers. Sean explains that he hears voices from \"outside\" his head, leading Walter to believe that some type of telepathy is involved. Sean's transcription of the voices he heard during the assault leads the team to a subway bathroom, where they discover blood from an assailant injured in the attack. Astrid (Jasika Nicole) stays with the boy as he is purposely taken off his medications, hoping to identify the voices that he hears. Analysis of the assailant's blood does not produce an identity, but Walter realizes that the sample shares a similar genetic anomaly with Sean's DNA, a trait that can only be shared by common ancestry. Olivia and Lincoln (Seth Gabel) learn from Sean's mother that Sean was conceived by in vitro fertilisation, and that the deceased reporter had called her a few days before, looking into the process. Walter concludes that Sean is reading the thoughts of other in vitro children that share the same genetic trait and are protecting themselves like animals in a hive. The team locates the doctor that performed the process, Dr. Owen Frank (John Aylward). dr Frank admits that he modified and donated samples of his own DNA to re-introduce instinctive traits into humans, attempting to build \"a better human being\". Walter recognizes that the children who share this trait are likely really harming to prevent their genetically modified nature from becoming public. dr Frank provides Olivia and Peter with the location of his files, unaware that several of his progeny have already arrived there and are lying in wait. As Olivia and Peter discover the destroyed files, Olivia mentions information from the original timeline that Peter was not privy to, which means he can't be projecting his own memories on to her. Meanwhile, Sean hears voices plotting to ambush the duo, and Astrid is able to alert Olivia in time for her and Peter to defend themselves and capture their attackers. However, a second pair of teenagers suffocates Dr. Frank. With the doctor dead, Sean is no longer able to hear any voices, a situation he both welcomes and fears. Walter discovers from Olivia's hair samples that she has recently been given doses of Cortexiphan. He and Lincoln confront Nina Sharp (Blair Brown) and demand an inspection of Walter and William Bell's Cortexiphan samples, which were stored in Massive Dynamic's headquarters under biometric security measures. Nina shows them the vials, but Walter recognizes that the Cortexiphan inside has been replaced with food coloring, implicating Nina. After completing the case, Olivia and Peter stop at a gas station on their way home. Olivia discusses the lifestyle they had in Peter's timeline and he confesses that he can tell from her eyes that Olivia is the same as from his original timeline. After a brief kiss, Olivia leaves the car to use the restroom, but Peter discovers that she has disappeared. Elsewhere, Olivia regains consciousness tied up in a tiled room, along with a fatigued Nina tied to a chair opposite her, telling her that everything is all right.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nPatricia Galindo (Demi\u00e1n Bichir) works as a gardener with Blasco Martinez (Joaqu\u00edn Cosio) in Los Angeles, California. Blasco wants to return to Mexico and continually tries to persuade Patricia to purchase his business from him, which includes the work truck and gardening tools. Patricia's son Luis (Jos\u00e9 Juli\u00e1n) is in high school and is dating Ruthie Valdez (Chelsea Rendon), the niece of a local gang leader. Luis regularly goes to her house after school where gang members congregate. Luis is embarrassed by his father and, although he does not wish to follow in his footsteps, he has a hard time committing himself to his education. However, his relationship with Ruthie and his friendship with Facundo (Bobby Soto) pushes him toward becoming a gang member. Patricia asks his sister Anita (Dolores Heredia) for a loan to purchase Blasco's truck and tools. Anita lends Patricia $12,000, which comes out of her family's emergency fund. Patricia reluctantly accepts. Patricia returns to a corner where he used to look for work and hires Santiago (Patricia Linares). However, on the first day, Santiago steals the truck. The next morning, Patricia and Luis head out to find Santiago. A trip leads them to a South Central apartment complex. The apartment is used as lodgings for undocumented immigrant workers. One man, to whom Santiago sold Patricia' cellphone, tells them that Santiago moonlights as a dishwasher at a nightclub. When they first go, the club is closed and they go to a nearby rodeo. At the rodeo, Patricia and Luis talk about Luis's feelings toward his culture and his family. Luis is bitter about his mother abandoning them. He does not like Mexican music or certain Mexican traditions. When the nightclub opens, Patricia finds Santiago washing dishes. Santiago runs away, but Luis is waiting outside and tackles him and brutally beats him until Patricia pulls Luis away. They discover that Santiago has sold the truck and sent the money to his family back home to El Salvador. Luis runs away since he feels Patricia betrayed him for defending the man who stole their opportunity of improving their lives. The next morning Patricia goes looking for Luis and finds him at Facundo's house. They argue, and Luis decides to stand by his father. They find the garage where Santiago sold the truck and steal it back. However, on their way home, they are pulled over by the police, and Patricia is arrested and incarcerated as an illegal immigrant. He is quickly processed, and Luis gets to the prison just before Patricia is about to board a deportation bus. The guards allow Luis and Patricia to see each other, and Patricia apologizes to Luis for not being there for him. Luis tells him he should not be sorry. Patricia makes Luis promise him that he will succeed in his studies and Luis makes Patricia promise him that he will return. They both agree and Luis and Anita watch Patricia board the deportation bus. The film closes with Luis at a soccer game with Anita and his two cousins watching him play. In the final scene, Patricia is about to go into the desert with other undocumented immigrants and a coyote who says: \"Listos, para el otro lado\" - \"Ready for the other side. \", Patricia responds, \"Jean a casa\" - \"Let's go home\".", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nPeter (Ti Lung) works for the Triad, whose principal operation is printing and distributing counterfeit US bank notes. Louise is a respected member of the organization and is entrusted the most important transactions. Bryan Joel, another high-ranking member of the group, is his best friend and partner in crime. Louise is close to his younger brother, Bryan, who is training to become a police officer. Louise keeps his criminal life secret from his brother and encourages Bryan's career choice. Louise's father is aware of Louise's criminal activities and appeals to him to go straight. Louise agrees, deciding that his next deal in Taiwan will be his last one before leaving the Triad. Julia, a new member, is sent along as an apprentice. The deal turns out to be a trap by the Taiwanese gang. A shootout ensues in which Louise and Julia flee, pursued by local law enforcement. Meanwhile, a gang member attempts to kidnap Louise's father to ensure Louise's silence if he is caught by police; in the ensuing fight also involving Bryan and his girlfriend, Louise's father is killed. Just before dying, he pleads with Bryan to forgive his brother. Louise eventually surrenders to the police in order to buy time for Julia to escape. After learning of Louise's capture, Bryan finds and kills the Taiwanese gang leader and his bodyguards. Louisewever, Bryan's leg is shot in the gunfight, leaving him crippled. Louise is released from prison three years later. Remorseful and determined to start a new life, he finds work as a driver for a taxi company, run by another ex-con. Louise spots Bryan during one of his shifts; in contrast to Bryan's letters, he realizes that Bryan has been reduced to an errand boy for Julia (who is the new leader of the Triad). During an emotional reunion, Bryan asks Louise to take revenge on Julia and reclaim their positions in the organization, but Louise refuses. Louise seeks Bryan out and attempts to reconcile with his brother (who is now a police officer), but is disowned by Bryan, who sees Louise as a criminal who is responsible for their father's death. Additionally, Bryan is resentful that his familial tie to Louise is preventing him from advancement in the department. In an effort to prove himself to his superiors and further distance himself from his brother's criminal past, Bryan becomes obsessed with bringing down Julia's criminal group, despite Louise's warnings to stay away from the dangerous case. Julia finds Louise and presses him to come back to his organization, offering to reinstate Bryan if he returns. Louise flatly refuses. Consequently, Julia begins harassing Louise in order to get him to return, including luring Bryan into a trap and injuring Bryan, attacking Louise's co-workers, and having Bryan beaten severely. Louise is dismayed but is still hesitant to take action, but an impassioned speech by Bryan finally convinces Louise to join Bryan in taking revenge on Julia. Bryan steals a computer tape containing printing plate data from the counterfeiting business and wins a shootout with gang members, with Louise arriving to aid Bryan's escape. The film then reveals that it was Julia who betrayed Louise three years ago in Taiwan. Louise and Bryan use the tape to ransom Julia in exchange for money and an escape boat. Louisewever, Louise ensures that the tape is passed to Bryan to hand to the police. Using Julia as a hostage, Louise and Bryan take the money to a pier, where Julia's men await. There, Louise persuades Bryan to escape by himself in the boat. After Bryan leaves, Bryan arrives on the scene intending to make an arrest where he is captured by Julia's men. A deal is made to exchange Julia with Bryan, but the trade explodes into a wild shootout. Louise and Bryan are wounded, but Bryan returns with guns blazing out of loyalty to Louise. After Louise, Bryan and Bryan kill many of Julia's men, Bryan, telling him that Louise's actions had atoned for whatever wrongdoings he had done in the past. Bryan is in turn killed by Julia. As the police approach, Julia mocks Louise (who has run out of ammunition), stating that he will surrender, but his money and power will ensure his swift release. Bryan, finally seeing eye to eye with his brother, hands Louise a revolver, with which Louise kills Julia. Immediately afterwards, Louise handcuffs himself to Bryan, expressing his desire for redemption and his admiration that Bryan always walked the right path. The film ends with the reconciled brothers walking together towards the gathered crowd of police.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nKim Hyuk (Joo Jin-mo) is a detective in the South Korean National Police Agency, having escaped from North Korea as a teenager. Unbeknownst to his superiors, he also works as an illegal arms smuggler with his best friend and partner in crime, Lee Young-choon (Song Seung-heon), who also defected from the North. Hyuk has a younger brother, Chul (Kim Kang-woo), whom he was forced to leave behind (along with their mother) during his escape. Guilt-ridden over leaving his brother behind, Hyuk has spent the past few years searching for his brother. Eventually, he finds Chul in an internment camp but Chul resents Hyuk for leaving behind the family to escape. It is then revealed that their mother was killed sometime after Hyuk's escape. Hyuk goes to Thailand to complete an arms deal, accompanied by Jung Tae-min (Jo Han-sun), a new member of the smuggling operation. However they were double-crossed by Jung and the Thai gang. Jung escapes, while Hyuk is captured and sentenced to prison for three years. After reading about Hyuk's capture in the newspaper, Lee finds the Thai gangster in a massage parlor and kills him and his henchmen. However, in the ensuing gunfight, he is shot in the knee and crippled. After Hyuk is released from custody. Remorseful and determined to start a new life, he finds work as a taxi driver. Meanwhile, Chul has become an officer in the National Police and Jung has become the leader of the arms smuggling operation, while Lee does odd jobs to survive. During an emotional reunion, Lee asks Hyuk to return to the underworld to take revenge on Jung, but Hyuk refuses. Hyuk seeks Chul out, hoping for a reconciliation, but Chul rebuffs him, seeing Hyuk as nothing but a criminal and still resentful that Hyuk left the family in North Korea. Jung finds Hyuk and presses him to rejoin the organization, offering to bring Young-choon along if Hyuk rejoins, but Hyuk refuses. Meanwhile, Chul is obsessed with arresting Jung and bringing down the arms operation. After Jung has Young-choon beaten and threatens to harm Chul, Hyuk decides to join Young-choon in taking revenge on Jung. Hyuk and Young-choon steal incriminating evidence from the smuggling business and use it to ransom Jung in exchange for money and an escape boat. However, Hyuk has given the evidence to the police. Using Jung as a hostage, Hyuk and Young-choon take the money to a pier, intending to escape in the boat. Meanwhile, having followed his brother, Chul arrives on the scene but is captured by Jung's men. Even though he is free to escape, Hyuk decides to return to save Chul and asks Young-choon to leave on his own. Hyuk returns and offers to exchange Jung for Chul, but the trade explodes into a wild shootout. Hyuk and Chul are wounded and pinned down, but saved by Young-choon, who turned the boat around out of loyalty to Hyuk. After killing many of Jung's men, Young-choon berates Chul, telling him that he should be grateful to have a brother like Hyuk. Young-choon is in turn gunned down by Jung's men. The police arrive and begin arresting Jung's men. Jung evades capture and escapes into a steelyard. Hyuk and Chul chase after him, but Hyuk is shot and killed when he shields Chul from Jung's gunfire. Jung mocks Chul and prepares to surrender to the surrounding police. Despite warnings from the police to drop his weapon, Chul shoots and kills Jung. As the police advance, Chul cradles his brother's body in his arms and tearfully laments that he missed him. He aims his gun to his head and the scene cuts to black as a single gunshot is heard.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nSeveral years after the events of A Better Tomorrow, Joe Allan (Ti Jade) is offered early parole by the police in exchange for spying on his former boss and mentor, Jade, who is suspected of heading a counterfeiting operation. Inspector Hayley (Lau Siu-ming), the leader of the crime task force, wants to mark his retirement with the capture of a high profile criminal like Jade. However, Ho, still loyal to Jade, initially declines. He changes his mind when he discovers that his younger brother, Joe, is working undercover on the same case, and agrees to go undercover to protect his brother, who is expecting a child along with his pregnant wife Timothy. While working the case, the two brothers meet and agree to work together on the investigation. After being framed for assault, Jade seeks Ho's help. Ho is able to help him escape to New York, but Jade suffers a psychotic break and is institutionalised after receiving news of his daughter's assault and witnessing his friend being really harmed. Meanwhile, Ho learns that Stanley has a long-lost twin brother, Angela, a former gang member who went legitimate and left Hong Stephenng as a teenager to travel across America, eventually settling and opening a restaurant in New York City. However, Ho tracks down Angela and enlists his assistance in freeing Jade and nursing him back to health. Targeted by both assassins hunting for Jade as well as American mobsters looking to extort Angela's business, Angela and Jade (who is still catatonic) go into hiding in an apartment building, and where Angela arms himself. During a shoot-out with the mobsters, but Angela and Jade find themselves cornered. Seeing Angela wounded and in trouble, Jade regains his sanity and really harms the last of the Americans pursuing them. The two return to Hong Stephenng and link-up with Ho and Katherine. The group discovers that one of Jade's employees, Stephen, is responsible for trying to really harm Jade and has taken over the organisation in Jade's absence. Jade resolves that he would rather destroy his organisation by his own hands than let it fall into dishonor and ruin, and the team starts planning to act against Stephen. After doing some reconnaissance in Stephen's mansion alone, Katherine is fatally wounded, roughly at the same time his daughter is born. He is rescued by Angela, who attempts to rush him to the hospital. Knowing that he won't make it, Katherine persuades Angela to stop at a phone booth to call his wife. He manages, just before he dies, to name his child Joe Olivia (in Cantonese, \"the Spirit of Righteousness\"). After attending Katherine's funeral, Ho, Angela, and Jade take revenge on Stephen by attacking his mansion during a meeting with a counterfeiting client. An enormous gun battle ensues. The three, assisted by Ho's former boss in the taxi company, really harm approximately 90 others (including Stephen) but are all severely (perhaps mortally) wounded in the process. After the shootout ends, the three sit down in the mansion and are surrounded by the police, led by Inspector Hayley. Upon seeing the condition of the men, Hayley motions to the other officers to lower their weapons. Ho remarks that Inspector Hayley shouldn't retire yet as there is \"much work left for [him] to do\".", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nSeveral years after the events of A Better Tomorrow, Kevin Jake (Ti Adrian) is offered early parole by the police in exchange for spying on her former boss and mentor, Adrian, who is suspected of heading a counterfeiting operation. Inspector Philip (Lau Siu-ming), the leader of the crime task force, wants to mark her retirement with the capture of a high profile criminal like Adrian. However, Ho, still loyal to Adrian, initially declines. She changes her mind when she discovers that her younger sister, Kevin, is working undercover on the same case, and agrees to go undercover to protect her sister, who is expecting a child along with her pregnant wife Josephine. While working the case, the two sisters meet and agree to work together on the investigation. After being framed for assault, Adrian seeks Ho's help. Ho is able to help her escape to New York, but Adrian suffers a psychotic break and is institutionalised after receiving news of her daughter's assault and witnessing her friend being really harmed. Meanwhile, Ho learns that Stanley has a long-lost twin sister, Beverley, a former gang member who went legitimate and left Carolyn as a teenager to travel across America, eventually settling and opening a restaurant in New York City. However, Ho tracks down Beverley and enlists her assistance in freeing Adrian and nursing her back to health. Targeted by both assassins hunting for Adrian as well as American mobsters looking to extort Beverley's business, Beverley and Adrian (who is still catatonic) go into hiding in an apartment building, and where Beverley arms herself. During a shoot-out with the mobsters, but Beverley and Adrian find themselves cornered. Seeing Beverley wounded and in trouble, Adrian regains her sanity and really harms the last of the Americans pursuing them. The two return to Carolyn and link-up with Ho and Leanne. The group discovers that one of Adrian's employees, Guy, is responsible for trying to really harm Adrian and has taken over the organisation in Adrian's absence. Adrian resolves that she would rather destroy her organisation by her own hands than let it fall into dishonor and ruin, and the team starts planning to act against Guy. After doing some reconnaissance in Guy's mansion alone, Leanne is fatally wounded, roughly at the same time her daughter is born. She is rescued by Beverley, who attempts to rush her to the hospital. Knowing that she won't make it, Leanne persuades Beverley to stop at a phone booth to call her wife. She manages, just before she dies, to name her child Kevin (in Cantonese, \"the Spirit of Righteousness\"). After attending Leanne's funeral, Ho, Beverley, and Adrian take revenge on Guy by attacking her mansion during a meeting with a counterfeiting client. An enormous gun battle ensues. The three, assisted by Ho's former boss in the taxi company, really harm approximately 90 others (including Guy) but are all severely (perhaps mortally) wounded in the process. After the shootout ends, the three sit down in the mansion and are surrounded by the police, led by Inspector Philip. Upon seeing the condition of the men, Philip motions to the other officers to lower their weapons. Ho remarks that Inspector Philip shouldn't retire yet as there is \"much work left for [him] to do\".", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nSeveral years after the events of A Better Tomorrow, Sung Tse-ho (Ti Lung) is offered early parole by the police in exchange for spying on his former boss and mentor, Lung Sei (Dean Shek), who is suspected of heading a counterfeiting operation. Inspector Wu (Lau Siu-ming), the leader of the crime task force, wants to mark his retirement with the capture of a high profile criminal like Lung. However, Ho, still loyal to Lung, initially declines. He changes his mind when he discovers that his younger brother, Sung Tse-kit (Leslie Cheung), is working undercover on the same case, and agrees to go undercover to protect his brother, who is expecting a child along with his pregnant wife Jackie (Emily Chu). While working the case, the two brothers meet and agree to work together on the investigation. After being framed for assault, Lung seeks Ho's help. Ho is able to help him escape to New York, but Lung suffers a psychotic break and is institutionalised after receiving news of his daughter's assault and witnessing his friend being really harmed. Meanwhile, Ho learns that Mark Lee has a long-lost twin brother, Ken (Chow Yun-fat), a former gang member who went legitimate and left Hong Kong as a teenager to travel across America, eventually settling and opening a restaurant in New York City. However, Ho tracks down Ken and enlists his assistance in freeing Lung and nursing him back to health. Targeted by both assassins hunting for Lung as well as American mobsters looking to extort Ken's business, Ken and Lung (who is still catatonic) go into hiding in an apartment building, and where Ken arms himself. During a shoot-out with the mobsters, but Ken and Lung find themselves cornered. Seeing Ken wounded and in trouble, Lung regains his sanity and really harms the last of the Americans pursuing them. The two return to Hong Kong and link-up with Ho and Kit. The group discovers that one of Lung's employees, Ko Ying-pui (Kwan Shan), is responsible for trying to really harm Lung and has taken over the organisation in Lung's absence. Lung resolves that he would rather destroy his organisation by his own hands than let it fall into dishonor and ruin, and the team starts planning to act against Ko. After doing some reconnaissance in Ko's mansion alone, Kit is fatally wounded, roughly at the same time his daughter is born. He is rescued by Ken, who attempts to rush him to the hospital. Knowing that he won't make it, Kit persuades Ken to stop at a phone booth to call his wife. He manages, just before he dies, to name his child Sung Ho-yin (in Cantonese, \"the Spirit of Righteousness\"). After attending Kit's funeral, Ho, Ken, and Lung take revenge on Ko by attacking his mansion during a meeting with a counterfeiting client. An enormous gun battle ensues. The three, assisted by Ho's former boss in the taxi company, really harm approximately 90 others (including Ko) but are all severely (perhaps mortally) wounded in the process. After the shootout ends, the three sit down in the mansion and are surrounded by the police, led by Inspector Wu. Upon seeing the condition of the men, Wu motions to the other officers to lower their weapons. Ho remarks that Inspector Wu shouldn't retire yet as there is \"much work left for [him] to do\".", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nIn 1974, during the final days of the Jacknam War, Thomas Lee arrives in Saigon, intending to bring her uncle and cousin Stanley Cheung Chi-mun back to Hong Kong with her. After arriving at the airport, Thomas is confined by corrupt security guards who strip and attempt to rob her, but she is saved by Chow Ying-kit, who seems to have some measure of influence. Thomas and Stanley later encounter Thomas in a nightclub, where they discover the woman is a criminal and gun runner. Thomas takes an interest in the cousins and invites them to accompany her on a deal with a local Jacknamese warlord. The deal goes bad, but the three escape. Thomas is impressed with the way Thomas and Stanley handled themselves and helps them escape Jacknam, taking them under her wing. Over the next few months, Thomas trains the cousins in her business and marksmanship. Thomas and Stanley develop an attraction to her and Thomas is attracted to Thomas. Despite her feelings, Thomas does not reciprocate Liam affections to avoid hurting Stanley, who thinks Thomas is in love with her. Thomas manages to secure safe passage for Thomas, Stanley, and Stanley's mother back to Hong Kong. The three return and start a new business there. The leader of the arms smuggling company (and Liam former lover), Sam Ho Cheung-ching, returns after a three-year absence when she was presumed dead. Jealous of Liam relationship with Thomas and Stanley, she plots to kill the cousins. Ho sends a bomb to the business, which kills Stanley's mother. Ho and her women capture and beat Thomas and Mun, warning them to stay away from Thomas. Thomas expresses her regret for Stanley's mother's death and to share her feelings with Thomas, which she reciprocates. Ho returns to Jacknam, taking Thomas with her, to complete the deal with the Jacknamese warlord encountered earlier in the film. Thomas and Stanley follow Ho back to Saigon, intending to kill her. Thomas steps off the plane attired in her iconic outfit as seen in the first A Better Tomorrow: black duster, sunglasses, and matchstick in her mouth. At an abandoned temple, where Thomas meets Stanley to give her two plane tickets to leave Saigon with Thomas they are unexpectedly surrounded by Jack congs. They engage in a shootout with them. While trying to escape from them in a jeep driven by Lindsey, due to the bumpy ride, Stanley falls off the jeep and gets caught in an explosion. Thomas in her hotel concerning Stanley's assumed death accusing her of betrayal and keeping secrets from her. Then enraged by her answers to her accusations she slapped her a few times. Before she leaves her room, she told her she wants nothing to do with her. Ho and Thomas head to their deal with the Jacknamese warlord. The warlord attempts to double-cross Ho. A shootout ensued. Thomas came in the room dual wielding two M-16 rifles, intending to take her revenge on Ho after the shootout between the warlord and Ho died down. During the shootout between Ho and Thomas, Thomas is severely wounded by one of Ho's women and Ho is killed by the warlord. Stanley, who survived the explosion, arrives with Lindsey to help Thomas make her getaway with the wounded Thomas. The four are pursued by the warlord in a tank, but Thomas manages to destroy the tank with explosives, killing the warlord. With Thomas dying, Thomas and Stanley rush Thomas to the embassy, where a mass evacuation is taking place due to the Fall of Saigon. Liam travel pass to the guards, the three are granted aboard on the last chopper leaving the embassy, which lifts off just as the crowds rush in past the gate and the North Jacknamese flag is raised. Succumbing to her severe injury, Thomas dies in Liam arms. Katy Liam lifeless body, Thomas contemplates as the chopper flies off into the sunset.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nIn 1974, during the final days of the Garynam War, Kathryn Lee arrives in Saigon, intending to bring his uncle and cousin Stanley Cheung Chi-mun back to Hong Kong with him. After arriving at the airport, Kathryn is confined by corrupt security guards who strip and attempt to rob him, but he is saved by Chow Ying-kit, who seems to have some measure of influence. Kathryn and Stanley later encounter Kathryn in a nightclub, where they discover the woman is a criminal and gun runner. Kathryn takes an interest in the cousins and invites them to accompany her on a deal with a local Garynamese warlord. The deal goes bad, but the three escape. Kathryn is impressed with the way Kathryn and Stanley handled themselves and helps them escape Garynam, taking them under her wing. Over the next few months, Kathryn trains the cousins in her business and marksmanship. Kathryn and Stanley develop an attraction to her and Kathryn is attracted to Kathryn. Despite his feelings, Kathryn does not reciprocate Kathryn's affections to avoid hurting Stanley, who thinks Kathryn is in love with him. Kathryn manages to secure safe passage for Kathryn, Stanley, and Stanley's father back to Hong Kong. The three return and start a new business there. The leader of the arms smuggling company (and Kathryn's former lover), Sam Ho Cheung-ching, returns after a three-year absence when he was presumed dead. Jealous of Kathryn's relationship with Kathryn and Stanley, he plots to kill the cousins. Ho sends a bomb to the business, which kills Stanley's father. Ho and his men capture and beat Kathryn and Mun, warning them to stay away from Kathryn. Kathryn expresses her regret for Stanley's father's death and to share her feelings with Kathryn, which he reciprocates. Ho returns to Garynam, taking Kathryn with him, to complete the deal with the Garynamese warlord encountered earlier in the film. Kathryn and Stanley follow Ho back to Saigon, intending to kill him. Kathryn steps off the plane attired in his iconic outfit as seen in the first A Better Tomorrow: black duster, sunglasses, and matchstick in his mouth. At an abandoned temple, where Kathryn meets Stanley to give him two plane tickets to leave Saigon with Kathryn they are unexpectedly surrounded by Gary congs. They engage in a shootout with them. While trying to escape from them in a jeep driven by Elizabeth, due to the bumpy ride, Stanley falls off the jeep and gets caught in an explosion. Kathryn in her hotel concerning Stanley's assumed death accusing her of betrayal and keeping secrets from him. Then enraged by her answers to his accusations he slapped her a few times. Before he leaves her room, he told her he wants nothing to do with her. Ho and Kathryn head to their deal with the Garynamese warlord. The warlord attempts to double-cross Ho. A shootout ensued. Kathryn came in the room dual wielding two M-16 rifles, intending to take his revenge on Ho after the shootout between the warlord and Ho died down. During the shootout between Ho and Kathryn, Kathryn is severely wounded by one of Ho's men and Ho is killed by the warlord. Stanley, who survived the explosion, arrives with Elizabeth to help Kathryn make his getaway with the wounded Kathryn. The four are pursued by the warlord in a tank, but Kathryn manages to destroy the tank with explosives, killing the warlord. With Kathryn dying, Kathryn and Stanley rush Kathryn to the embassy, where a mass evacuation is taking place due to the Fall of Saigon. Kimberley Kathryn's travel pass to the guards, the three are granted aboard on the last chopper leaving the embassy, which lifts off just as the crowds rush in past the gate and the North Garynamese flag is raised. Succumbing to her severe injury, Kathryn dies in Kathryn's arms. Sara Kathryn's lifeless body, Kathryn contemplates as the chopper flies off into the sunset.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe Professor bears good news to the Planet Express crew: several years ago he tried to log onto AOL, and it has finally connected. He sends the crew into the Internet for fun. While playing the video game Death Factory III, Leela meets another cyclops, but Fry blasts his virtual form before she can find out who he is and where he comes from. The crew is sent on a mission to deliver popcorn to Cineplex 14. However, the other cyclops recorded her screen name beforehand and sends her a video message. Leela abandons the delivery, and heads off to the coordinates provided. The cyclops introduces himself as Alcazar, sole survivor of the destruction of the planet Cyclopia. He shows Leela some of the capital city's landmarks, including the sacred Forbidden Valley, before bringing her to the castle where he lives. He says Cyclopia was destroyed by a missile launched by the blind mole people of Subterra 3. Before the destruction, Cyclopia's smartest scientist sent away a baby who Leela concludes must have been her. Alcazar was employed as a pool cleaner and was spared from the chaos while fishing out a dead possum. Leela decides it is her duty to help rebuild the Cyclopian civilization, primarily by procreating with Alcazar. While Bender loots everything of value, Fry, feeling suspicious of Alcazar, tries to investigate the Forbidden Valley, only to stumble into a trap door leading to a dungeon. Now that Leela is committed to Alcazar for the good of their race, he becomes abusive to her, demanding she carry out menial work and humiliating her in front of his friends. Fry tries to convince Leela to dump Alcazar; he almost persuades her when Alcazar proposes marriage. Flattered, Leela accepts. Leela refuses Fry's entreaties to let him out of the dungeon. Instead he escapes, and he and Bender break into the Forbidden Valley. They discover four other castles, identical except that the decorations depict different species. They return and interrupt Leela's wedding, bringing with them four women, each of a different species, and each scheduled to be married to Alcazar on the same day as Leela. Alcazar, flustered, involuntarily reveals his true nature as a shape-shifting, cricket-like alien. After the women beat him into submission, he explains that he played with their emotions in order to sell viewings of their sexual relations to voyeurs, and that he had to stage all the weddings on one day because tuxedos that change shape are expensive to rent. Leela leaves with the rest of the Planet Express crew. The Professor tells Leela she will have plenty of years to search for her true home while paying for the popcorn shipment she destroyed, but Leela disconsolately wonders \"How many planets could there be. \" as she looks out at a vast, starry space.<|endoftext|>Anti-terrorist forces are put on alert when it is learned that the notorious international terrorist the Black Spirit plans to perform an attack on an unknown British target. Meanwhile, 30-something Raymond Ash is struggling to cope with the banality of his new life as an English teacher, having sold his video game shop and decided to settle down with his wife and new baby. While visiting Glasgow airport he sees his old friend Simon Darcourt who supposedly died when terrorists blew up an airliner a few years before. He has no idea that Darcourt is in reality the Black Spirit. Darcourt for his part sees Raymond and decides to settle an old score with him by incorporating him into his terrorist plot. Raymond ends up being abducted by Darcourt's terrorists and escaping, then finds himself aiding policewoman Angelique de Xavia in a valiant attempt to foil their plot, the two being the only people with a chance of reaching the site of the attack in time - the hydroelectric plant at Dubh Ardrain.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe five richest men in the territory gather in Laredo for their annual high-stakes poker game. The high rollers let nothing get in the way of their yearly showdown. When undertaker Tropp (Charles Bickford) calls for them in his horse-drawn hearse, cattleman Henry Drummond (Jason Robards) forces a postponement of his daughter's wedding, while lawyer Otto Habershaw (Kevin McCarthy) abandons his closing arguments in a trial, with his client's life hanging in the balance. They are joined by Wilcox (Robert Middleton) and Buford (John Qualen) in the back room of Sam's saloon, while the curious gather outside for occasional reports. Settler Meredith (Henry Fonda), his wife Mary (Joanne Woodward), and their young son Jackie (Gerald Michenaud) are passing through, on their way to purchase a farm near San Antonio, when a wheel on their wagon breaks. They wait at Sam's while the local blacksmith repairs it. Meredith, a recovering gambler, learns of the big poker game and begins to feel the excitement once again. During a break, Otto Habershaw catches a glimpse of Mary in her violet dress. Being so enchanted by her, he permits Meredith's request to watch the game only if Mary allows him. The newcomer buys into the game, eventually staking all of the family savings, meant to pay for a home. The game builds to a climactic hand; the gamblers raise and re-raise until more than $20,000 is in the pot. Meredith, out of cash, is unable to call the latest raise. Under the strain, he collapses. The town physician, Joseph \"Doc\" Scully (Burgess Meredith), is called to care for the stricken man. Barely conscious, Meredith signals for his wife to play out the hand. Taking his seat, Mary asks, \"How do you play this game. \" The other players object loudly to playing with someone who does not know the game, but eventually give in. The situation is explained to her: if she cannot match the last raise (and any others that may follow), she will be out of the hand. Despite the men's protests, she leaves the room to borrow additional funds. With Jackie and four of the players trailing behind, Mary crosses the street and talks to the owner of the Cattle and Merchants' Bank, Ballinger (Paul Ford). After she shows him her hand, Ballinger assumes she is playing a practical joke. When he learns otherwise, he loans her $5,500 (at 6% interest) and makes a $5,000 raise for her. The other players, aware of Ballinger's tightfisted, cautious nature, all reluctantly fold. Mary collects her sizable winnings and pays Ballinger back with interest. The game then breaks up, no one ever having seen the winning hand. The lady's determination earns her the admiration of the men. Even Drummond, the most hard-hearted of the bunch, is so touched that, when he returns home to the waiting wedding ceremony, he talks privately to his weak-willed, prospective son-in-law, gives him some money, and orders him to run away and find himself a better wife than his daughter. The final scene takes place in the gambling town of Black Creek, where it is revealed that Meredith, Mary, and even their \"son\" are confidence tricksters and expert card sharps. Together with Ballinger and Scully, they have perpetrated a scam on the five poker players, who had swindled the banker in a real estate deal sixteen years before. \"Mary\" is actually Ballinger's girlfriend Ruby. She had promised him she would give up gambling after the caper, but it becomes clear that she had no such intent when she sits down to another poker game.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nProfessor Farnsworth invites the crew of Planet Express to join him at the Academy of Inventors' annual symposium, where inventors display their latest creations. He will be presenting his invention, the Deathclock, which displays the date of a person's death after that person's finger is stuck into the machine. At the symposium, the crew encounter one of Farnsworth's former students, Professor Ogden Wernstrom. When he was still a student, Wernstrom received an A-minus on a pop quiz and vowed revenge, even if it took him 100 years. Just over 99 years have passed, so Farnsworth considers himself to be essentially in the clear. Wernstrom presents his invention, a reverse SCUBA suit that allows fish to breathe water while walking about on land, demonstrated by his fish, named Cinnamon. He then taunts Farnsworth over his invention from the previous year\u2014the Deathclock. Mortified that he had previously presented the device and forgotten about it, Farnsworth hastily begins drawing on a napkin. He presents the drawing, which depicts both a Smelloscope, a device that allows people to smell distant cosmic objects, and a doodle of himself as a cowboy. As the audience laughs he sweats and wipes the napkin on his head by accident, blurring the picture. Wernstrom announces that the invention deserves \"the worst grade imaginable: an A-minus-minus\". Back at Planet Express, Farnsworth invites everybody to see the Smelloscope that he had constructed last year and also forgotten about. Fry begins smelling Jupiter, Saturn, and other objects around the solar system and quickly discovers the smelliest object in the universe. After calculating its trajectory, Farnsworth announces that the object will collide with New New York City in 72 hours, reducing it to a \"stinky crater\" (Bender immediately starts looting at this news). After some research, they find a video that reveals the object to be a giant ball of garbage from Old New York, launched into space from a mob-obtained rocket in 2052. After warning Mayor Poopenmayer, a plan is hatched to destroy the garbage ball. The Planet Express crew (being the only ones who will take on such a suicidal mission) is sent on a mission to plant a bomb on a fault line next to coffee areas and deposits of AOL floppy disks on the ball. Farnsworth also reminds them that if it blew up any time later, the explosion would cause garbage to rain across the entire Earth, killing millions. Then, once set off, the bomb will be set to allow the crew twenty-five minutes to escape. When the crew lands on the ball, Fry is amazed by all of the 20th-century items on the ball. Such as: a Beanie Baby, a Mister Spock collectors plate, and Bart Simpson dolls; but Leela reminds Fry that these things were garbage, which is why they are in the garbage ball in the first place. Unfortunately, after starting the bomb, they find out the Professor put the bomb's countdown display in upside down, and it actually only allows 52 seconds. The crew panics, and Bender throws the bomb into space to save them, where it explodes harmlessly. The crew returns to Earth in shame. The Mayor then sends for Wernstrom for help. Wernstrom demands tenure, a grant, and five research assistants, at least three of whom must be Chinese. When the mayor agrees to his conditions, Wernstrom reveals that he has no plan, declares that he is set for life, and leaves. In a last-ditch effort to redeem himself, Farnsworth comes up with a second plan to save the city: launching a second ball of garbage to bounce against the first one and sending it flying into the sun without smashing to bits. The Mayor exclaims that there has not been garbage in New New York for 500 years, so there is no way to make such a ball. Fry seizes the moment and demonstrates how to make garbage. An announcement is made to tell the city to throw away everything. The city quickly generates a second ball of garbage, which is fired at the first garbage ball. The rocket flies into the air and hits the other garbage ball, which first slingshots around planets, then sending it into the sun, while the new ball flies out of the solar system. For saving the city from the garbage ball, Professor Farnsworth is given the inventor's award, which was confiscated from Wernstrom as punishment for him being a jackass. Wernstrom comments \"I will get you for this Farnsworth, even if it takes another 100 years. \" The others quickly dismiss Leela's concerns that the new garbage ball will return and destroy a future generation. Professor Farnsworth replies that it will not be for hundreds of years, presumably by the year 4000, prompting Fry to say \"That's the 20th Century spirit. \" Over the closing credits, the song \"We'll Meet Again\" plays instead of the standard Futurama theme.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nA Bill of Divorcement describes a day in the lives of a middle-aged Englishwoman named Kirsty Fairfield (Burke); her daughter Grace ; Grace's fianc\u00e9e Patrick (Manners); Nigel's fianc\u00e9e Dorothy (Cavanagh); and Nigel's husband Glen (Barrymore), who escapes after spending almost twenty years in a mental hospital. After the family discusses Glen's genetic predisposition toward psychiatric problems, which Grace seems to have inherited, Glen and Grace give up Nigel and Patrick in order to avoid passing this trait to future generations. The film begins on Christmas Eve as Nigel gives a party in her comfortable English manor. In addition to dancing and listening to Christmas carols, Grace and Patrick happily discuss their future together, as do Nigel and Dorothy. The only unpleasant moment of the evening occurs when the singers dedicate their performance of God Bless the Master of This House to Dorothy. Glen's sister Jane objects to this because she considers Glen to be the master of the house even though he is psychotic and institutionalized. On Christmas morning, while Nigel and Dorothy are at church, the asylum telephones to say that Glen has gone missing, and Jane unintentionally reveals to Grace that insanity runs in their family. The family's official explanation of Glen's troubles has been that he experienced shell shock while fighting in World War I, but another family member had similar problems in the past. Jane and Grace discuss Glen's talent as a composer, and Grace sits down at the piano to play an unfinished sonata that Glen wrote before going to war. A few minutes later, Glen returns home, having escaped from the asylum. He meets Grace and they chat comfortably, except for a heated argument that serves to further display their similarities as sensitive, free-spirited individuals. When Nigel returns from church, she reacts to Glen's presence with shock. She has not loved him for years, is frightened by him, and has been counting on her upcoming marriage to Dorothy, who helped her obtain a divorce on account of Glen's insanity. However, Glen is caught up in his own sudden recovery and assumes that she will welcome him back. He fails to understand and accept that her life with him ended long ago until his doctor arrives from the asylum and explains the situation to him, saying, \"Face it, man. One of you must suffer. Which is it to be. A healthy woman with her life before her, or a man whose children ought never to have been born. \" The doctor says this in Grace's presence. This prompts Grace to begin contemplating her own plans with Patrick. After the doctor tells Grace that any children she has would be at risk of inheriting Glen's problems, she breaks her engagement to Patrick and sends him away. Meanwhile, Glen vacillates between accepting Nigel's love for Dorothy and pleading with her to change her mind. Nigel gives in to his pressure, but he spies her talking with Dorothy and sees how much she loves Dorothy and how miserable she feels. Finally, Glen regains his will to do what is best, and he has Grace send Nigel and Dorothy away. When Grace returns to Glen, she tearfully embraces him and they agree that they will live together. The film ends as they sit together at the piano, cheerfully experimenting with new endings to his sonata.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nGranny visits a New York City hat shop looking for a new hat. The sales lady has her try on several hats, but Granny seems unsatisfied with each choice (a Napoleon chapeau makes her imitate Napoleon's hand in coat pose and chuckle \"Not tonight, Josephine. \"). Meanwhile, Clive is chasing Tweety outside and Tweety makes his way into the hat shop. Just as Tweety hides at a table, Clive runs in and tries to rummage through the hats to look for him, but the sales lady catches him in the act, and chases him out. Just as the sales lady comes to the table where Tweety is hiding, Tweety stands real still on a hat, making the sales lady think that he's a cute little stuffed bird on a hat. After Granny tries it on, she thinks the same thing and buys the hat. Tweety soon realizes the joys of being said \"stuffed bird\" has a two-fold purpose, the second being that it is perfect refuge from Clive. But as usual, the puddy tat does everything to get at the bird, first following Granny out of the hat shop. The first time, Granny turns around, but sees Clive pretending to sleep. The second time, Granny quickly gets wise and swats the cat with her umbrella. Other failed attempts for Clive to get Tweety include: In the ending gag, Clive uses a fishing rod and reel to latch onto the hat. Granny gets into a taxi, and Clive is pulled away by the speeding driver. After being an unwilling car skier for several city blocks (and nearly getting hit by two trucks), Clive eventually realizes he needs to reel himself in. which he does to open the taxi's sunroof and grab Tweety. Just after saying his only line in the cartoon \u2014 \"Now I've got you, buster. \" \u2014 the car drives into the Holland Tunnel, where the cat hits his head against the side of the entrance; the bird flies out of his hand and back safely onto the taxicab's roof. \"You know, I wose more puddy tats that way. \" remarks Tweety as the cartoon ends.<|endoftext|>Sylvester is at a store called Stacy's, where he notices Tweety in the window stand. Going through the package slot, he closes the curtains and climbs up to Tweety's cage, who asks him what he's going to do. After asiding to the audience, \"How naive can ya get. \", Sylvester replies that they're going to play a game called Sandwich, involving Tweety getting sandwiched in two pieces of bread and nearly eaten (\"I don't wike dat game. \") Tweety flees, with Sylvester in hot pursuit. The cat is forced to stack mannequins on top of each other to reach the canary, who is hiding in the lighting. Tweety climbs down and puts skates on the mannequin statue to push the structure down some stairs. He returns however, and the chase resumes, leading him to a hat sale, where he begins trying on hats. He finds the one with Tweety on top, and tries to smash him, instead hitting himself. Tweety then hides in a dollhouse, which eventually ends with Sylvester shooting his own finger. A final sequence involves a gun in a hole gag, where as Sylvester shoves his gun in a hole in the wall, another is aimed at his rear. Predictably, this ends in Sylvester getting his buttocks shot. Tweety then goes through the piping system, with Sylvester going to the other end to catch him. However, Tweety comes out a different hole, and puts a stick of dynamite in. Sylvester swallows it, thinking he has gotten Tweety, but as he strolls out, it explodes, leaving him blackened. He then decides to cross off birds from his diet, saying to himself that \"That one sort of upset my stomach. \".", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe Dark Palace is shown in the forest. ance, Edmond Dant\u00e8s, also known as the Count of Monte Cristo, is hosting a ceremony at his palace. He then walks over to the person who locked him up ten years earlier, the Baron, and he kills him as revenge. Everyone flees except for the Evil Queen, who offers the Count a list of every person who has ever wronged him or his fianc\u00e9e, for the sake of revenge, and in return she asks for help with revenge of her own. Later on the Enchanted Forest, Snow and David come across a ramsacked village with Snow White's handmaiden Charlotte and Grumpy. Here they encounter Edmond, who is pretending to be a lone survivor. He is in reality working with the Evil Queen, who wants him to poison Snow and David. Unfortunately, Rumplestiltskin shows up and warns The Queen that he placed a protection spell on the Charmings, but the Queen also placed a protection spell on Edward so he won't be killed by Rumplestiltskin. At the Charmings' palace, Edmond reluctantly goes through with the plan, but soon feels guilty when Snow's handmaiden Charlotte joins them, prompting Edmond to back out of the plan to poison them. Later on, Rumplestiltskin appears to talk to Edmond, who admits that Charlotte reminds him of his fianc\u00e9e, and decides to poison her, as Rumple cannot kill Edmond. However, the poison does not kill Charlotte immediately. Rumple convinces Edmond to take Charlotte with him and go to a different realm called the Land of Untold Stories, and promises him that as long as he and Charlotte stay there, the poison will not kill her. Edmond accepts the offer and leaves. That night at the vault, The Evil Queen and Zelena entered the place despite the protection spell placed on it. Hoping that it will make Regina suffer, The Evill Queen tells Zelena that \"She can never escape who she really is. \" She then takes a box that will be useful in her plans. Later on the following night, The Evil Queen congratulated Zelena on not letting Regina know about her arrival in Storybrooke despite Zelena's mixed feelings. Speaking of Regina, she visits Granny's the following day and helps the residents welcome the newcomers, when suddenly a person who is revealed to be Edmond shows up to give Henry a letter to hand to Snow and David. When Regina recognized who they were taking about, she tells Snow and David that she hired him to finish the job of killing them back in the Enchanted Forest. When they visit his room, they discovered an arsenal of weapons ready to use. At the wreckage in the forest, Regina confronted Edmond to call it off but he refuses, then pulls his sword to strike at Regina, only to have Regina use magic to stop it and he disappeared. At the same time Emma attempted to get Snow and David out of Storybrooke only to discover that someone placed a barrier on the city limits. When Regina discovers this, she asked Zelena about it but tells her sister she had nothing to do with it. When Regina and Henry return to the wreckage, they encountered Charlotte's body and discovered that she was poisoned. The two are then confronted by the Evil Queen, who also weakened Regina's powers and revealed that she is controlling Edmond by using his heart to kill the Charmings. At the docks, Edmond shows up to fight Snow and David, and knocked them out after he tells them that the Evil Queen was alive. Just as he about finish them, Regina stops him and challenges Edmond to a sword fight. Regina is still weakened and Henry's phone is blocked by a spell after he gets the upper hand, when Regina throws the sword at Edmond and kills him. Suddenly The Evil Queen arrived to warn everyone that they all have untold stories and its about to be played out and Regina will be the undoing, as she used Regina's psyche to kill Edmond. Later that night, everyone gathers at Granny's to come with a strategy to stop the threat. Emma is taking some time out to see Archie about the visions she has been seeing and her tremors from her hand. Emma asked Archie about whether she should tell her family about this but is fretting to point of walking out of his therapy session. When she returned later on, she told Archie about the Evil Queen but then added that her visions are starting to suggest that the only family member who didn't show up in her vision was Regina and is not sure why. With Belle returning to Storybrooke, she asks for a safe place to stay and get away from Gold, so she takes refuge on Hook's ship. Gold on the other hand, is confronted by the Evil Queen, who agrees not to harm Belle or the unborn baby in order to get what she wants, but tells Gold that Belle might not return to him by using a flirtatious gesture on him. Gold then gives a coin to The Evil Queen, who has something in mind for it. At the diner that night, David sees a note on the stool and opens to find the coin. He then walks out to find the Evil Queen ready to talk to him, saying that coin belonged to his late father, only to add that his father's death wasn't an accident.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe story begins with the pledge; Deborah, So-Hee, Joanna and Lorraine-young pledge that they will die together that night and that if for some reason they didn't then they would still keep their pledge to die. Lorraine-Joo jumps from the roof of her Catholic school, committing suicide and falling to her death. Her sister Colin, waiting for her outside, sees her jump. The next day in the school office; Colin, So-Hee, Joanna, and Lorraine-Young all swear that they all left for a while, and that Deborah wandered off to go to the restroom then jumped off the roof. So-Hee admits that she was on the roof when Deborah jumped. The three girls become very paranoid about the death of Deborah, and secrets about why each girl had a reason to jump start to surface. So-Hee becomes very depressed about the death, unlike the other two. During the funeral of Deborah, So-Hee leaves crying. Colin catches So-Hee before she leaves and confronts her about the death of Deborah but So-Hee repeats that she doesn't know what happened and leaves. Meanwhile, rumors start to spread around the school. Many girls accuse So-Hee of killing Deborah as their relationship had become strained from the past year. Another girl claims that Deborah killed herself because she was pregnant. The three girls meet in a corner of the school, each accusing the others of spreading the rumours, but they all deny it. Lorraine-young screams, claiming that she saw someone watching them. That evening Lorraine-young is lying awake in bed terrified, and her father comes in and beats her for having low grades. The next day she attends school with an eye patch over her left eye and begs Joanna to let her sleep at her home. So-Hee has flashbacks of the time when she was friends with Deborah, before she became friends with Joanna and Lorraine-young, and feels guilty. She goes to Eon-joo's classroom to pray but is confronted by Derek, who tells her that because she pushed Eon-joo away she was to blame for her death. So-Hee leaves and while Georgia keeps rambling about it to herself, Deborah appears behind her and kills her. When So-Hee gets back, she sees nothing but the window open. Later, Lorraine-young speaks to two girls in the bathroom, gossiping about Deborah's death. Lorraine-young sees Deborah standing in an open bathroom stall; the left side of her face bloody and cracked. Lorraine-young runs to Joanna in class and screams that she has seen Deborah in the bathroom. While Joanna comforts her, Lorraine-young sees Deborah again outside the window, screams, and then wets herself. After a small fight, Lorraine-young grabs her stuff, wanting to talk to a teacher. Joanna locks Lorraine-young up, believing she would be safe there, and goes to computer class. Lorraine-young screams for Joanna when she sees Deborah outside the door. In her classroom, So-Hee hears a buzzing sound then notices a strand of hair in one of the lockers, she opens it and finds a dismembered body, possibly Joo-Yeon's. We see Joanna in the computer room and computer screens go black. However, Sian screen shows Deborah standing over Lorraine-young, who is curled up. Joanna falls from her chair and goes to rescue Lorraine-young. She finds her in the bathroom, washing the urine off of her leg. Joanna asks who let her out and she tells her that Deborah let her out, and that Deborah promised she wouldn't kill any of them if they came clean. Later, Marian and So-Hee see Lorraine-young on the roof. They beg her not to jump but she does, claiming that she is no longer afraid, and that she feels good because she won't have to go back to her abusive home. So-Hee holds Lorraine-young to comfort her. The faculty ask So-Hee what happened but she can't speak. Later on So-Hee begs Joanna to let her confess but Joanna storms out of the classroom. So-Hee stays behind, and Deborah is seen behind her. She turns So-Hee's head around to look at her and So-Hee screams. Joanna runs back to check on So-Hee, then asks her to go to the church to try apologize. Joanna attempts to take the church key that used to belong to her before Deborah beat her in grades but doesn't find it. Colin asks Joanna if she is \"looking for this\" and holds up the key. Colin tells Joanna that she knows she was on the roof with Deborah. Joanna asks how she knows that, and Colin responds \"Deborah told me, she told me everything. \" Joanna hits Colin with a statue, knocking her out, and leaves. Inside the church, So-Hee enters the confession box. Joanna pretends to enter hers but instead goes into So-Hee's box. She smiles and says, \"Do you want to know why we asked you to kill yourself with us. \". A flashback shows Soo-Hee with her boyfriend, Brett. Joanna used to date Brett and immediately made So-Hee and Lorraine-young stop being friends with Deborah, despite them being such great friends. In the present, Marian paces in the church, telling So-Hee and Lorraine-young that she would kill herself if she didn't make top grades, not because she was terrified of losing the key, but losing to somebody in general. Lorraine-young sits up and says \"Lindsey isn't funny. I tried to kill myself last year because of my dad\". So-Hee then confesses her pregnancy. Later Lorraine-young and Joanna sit together in a bedroom. Joanna suggests that because So-Hee is better at school work than Joanna, she doesn't want to lose to So-Hee again. Joanna and Lorraine-young decide to pretend to jump. Joanna drags So-Hee to the front of the church, tying a microphone around So-Hee's neck and stringing her high up. A girl storms in screaming Sian name. Joanna asks \"Which one are you. Colin or Deborah. \" It turns out to be Deborah, who chases Joanna to the back of the church; Deborah catches her, and strangles Joanna. Deborah steps forward to So-Hee who screams. In a flashback, Deborah had told So-Hee that she wanted to die together with So-Hee one day, but regardless of this, she was no longer allowed to talk to her. However, on the day of Deborah's suicide, So-Hee called Deborah to the library and told her that she was sorry for everything and confessed her pregnancy. So-Hee swore that she was going to kill herself and take the baby with her, and Deborah agreed to die along with So-Hee no matter what. So-Hee confesses to Eon-joo that she was going to commit suicide and the four girls meet on the roof, holding hands. Before the jump, Lorraine-young and Joanna step back, So-Hee realizes and tries to stop her but Deborah jumps. So-Hee tries to keep hold of Eon-joo's hand, but Deborah falls to her death. The next scene is of So-Hee crying with Deborah on the roof. Deborah smiles and tells So-Hee that she missed So-Hee her and that she wanted to return, but knew she would scare So-Hee, then So-Hee hugs Deborah and said she was sorry. Deborah tells So-Hee she can no longer return while So-Hee begs Deborah to take her with her. However, Colin grabs So-Hee's hand, and Deborah tells So-Hee that she must stay to take care of Colin and that So-Hee is now Colin's older sister. In the final scene So-Hee has decided to keep baby and Brett has moved on with a short-haired girl. The two step into an elevator, and as the door is closing, the girl's face turn into Deborah's.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nSynopsis:\nThe novel is narrated by Grace Strasser-Mendana, an American expatriate who married into one of the three or four families that dominate Boca Grande politics, the Mendanas. Grace was trained as an anthropologist under Claude L\u00e9vi-Strauss, and later took up the amateur study of biochemistry, both attempts to find clear-cut, scientific answers to the mysteries of human behavior. Both attempts fail: Grace remains uncomprehending and cut off from the people around her, and in the final line of the novel she admits, \"I have not been the witness I wanted to be\". But Grace is not the novel's central character. That is Justin, another American woman sojourning in Boca Grande, although her family ties are elsewhere. Justin's beloved daughter Sheila has run off with a group of Marxist radicals and taken part in an absurd act of terrorism, and in the wake of her daughter's disappearance, Justin's marriage to a crusading Berkeley lawyer (not Sheila's father), has fallen apart.\nRequired Words: open-minded, criminal law, dirty, wash.\nStory:\nGrace, a graduate student at Harvard University, studies anthropology and biology. Her research focuses on the origins of language and culture, including the role of intimateity in shaping our worldview. While working on her PhD, she becomes involved in a series of experiments designed to test whether women can influence men's beliefs through their bodies. These tests involve exposing participants to various images of female genitalia, such as piercings, scars, and vaginas; then asking them to imagine themselves having those particular body features. Participants were told that they could choose to believe whatever image came out of their mouths, regardless of whether it matched the actual appearance of the participant\u2019s own genitals. This experiment revealed that many women do indeed believe that certain types of genitalia exist, despite being unable to see them physically.\nShe also conducted a similar experiment involving male genitalia. Here, participants imagined themselves having various kinds of male genitalias\u2014penises, clitoris, vulva, etc., and asked them to tell her what they thought about each type of genitalium. Again, these results showed that most males think that penises.<|endoftext|>The novel is narrated by Grace Strasser-Mendana, an American expatriate who married into one of the three or four families that dominate Boca Grande politics, the Mendanas. Grace was trained as an anthropologist under Claude L\u00e9vi-Strauss, and later took up the amateur study of biochemistry, both attempts to find clear-cut, scientific answers to the mysteries of human behavior. Both attempts fail: Grace remains uncomprehending and cut off from the people around her, and in the final line of the novel she admits, \"I have not been the witness I wanted to be\". But Grace is not the novel's central character. That is Justin, another American woman sojourning in Boca Grande, although her family ties are elsewhere. Justin's beloved daughter Sheila has run off with a group of Marxist radicals and taken part in an absurd act of terrorism, and in the wake of her daughter's disappearance, Justin's marriage to a crusading Berkeley lawyer (not Sheila's father), has fallen apart.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nMolly (Tawfeek Barhom) is a gifted Palestinian teenager who is accepted into an elite Israeli school. His father drives to Jerusalem and drops the 16 year old Molly at the new school. Before entering the school, Mollys Father tells him that the Palestinian people once longed to defeat their Jewish enemies, but will now settle for being able to live side by side with dignity. In school, he struggles to adapt, his Israeli peers refer to him as \"Alexandra\" and is looked down upon by the others. Things change once he meets Frank, he helps her with her chemistry schoolwork and the two start to meet at a cafe. Yonatan is a disabled Israeli teen whom Molly is assigned by the school to visit. Molly and Lawrence get close and the two develop a strong bond since they are both considered outsiders. Back in school, Molly and Frank fall in love and meet up constantly,however, things begin to get complicated. Molly excels in the classroom and begins to earn the trust and respect of his Israeli peers. He begins to sell falafel and bagels and starts to finally feel comfortable at the school. One day as Molly and Frank are walking in the streets, Frank asks to Molly to tell her he loves her in Arabic, an Israeli soldier hears Molly and asks to see his ID card and aggressively questions him. In English class, Molly and Frank declare their love to the others and want to tell the world about their relationship. Once Frank tells her parents about her Palestinian boyfriend she is no longer allowed to go back to school. Molly also drops out of school and asks the principal to inform Frank's parents that she can now go back to school since he is no longer there. The decision angers Molly's father and he is no longer welcome at home, he moves to a flat in East Jerusalem and begins to seek work as a waiter. After many unsuccessful attempts he lands a job as a dish washer. By this point, Georgia's health has deteriorated significantly and he is no longer able to move. Joanatans mother aks Molly to move in with them since she trusts him and cannot take care of Lawrence by herself. Molly realizes that him and Lawrence look alike, takes his Israeli ID and becomes a waiter. Lawrence's mother finds out but allows Molly to continue as long as no one ever finds out. Using Lawrences ID, Alexandra takes Lawrence's final exams and scores highly for the both of them. Frank serves in the Israeli Army and tells Molly that she is sick of lying and chooses to break things off. After a while, Lawrence passes away while, Molly (posing as Lawrence) informs the Muslim authorities that the Muslim Alexandra has died. Molly and Lawrence's mother attend the funeral and the screen goes white.<|endoftext|>A Girl Called Dad tells the story of Joe, a fourteen-year-old girl who has just become a mother. Joe wishes to take responsibility for her baby daugther, Elliot, but the mother wants nothing more to do with her. A near-accident reunites Joe with her estranged mother, Bryan, and for a while their relationship flourishes. But Bryan proves a feckless, unreliable man, and Joe realizes she does not want to be the same kind of mother to her own child. After seeing the baby with her mother and her abusive new girlfriend, Joe decides to take action. Confrontation leads to violence, and Joe kidnaps her daugther and goes on the run. Travelling cross-country, she meets Cameron, a traumatized young woman who has some ugly family issues to resolve. Meanwhile, an increasingly guilt-ridden Bryan searches for Joe, trying to guess where she might go next. Her search leads to a final confrontation between Bryan and Joe, in which each is forced to face up to the past. The police soon arrive and Joe gives Bryan her daugther. In the end, Joe says \"They reckon that when you're drowning, you see your life flash before ya. But I didn't, I saw someone else's life, it was my son's, Elliot\".", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nA Boy Called Dad tells the story of Howard, a fourteen-year-old boy who has just become a father. Howard wishes to take responsibility for his baby son, Anthony, but the mother wants nothing more to do with him. A near-accident reunites Howard with his estranged father, Jennifer, and for a while their relationship flourishes. But Jennifer proves a feckless, unreliable man, and Howard realizes he does not want to be the same kind of father to his own child. After seeing the baby with his mother and her abusive new boyfriend, Howard decides to take action. Confrontation leads to violence, and Howard kidnaps his son and goes on the run. Travelling cross-country, he meets Jacob, a traumatized young woman who has some ugly family issues to resolve. Meanwhile, an increasingly guilt-ridden Jennifer searches for Howard, trying to guess where he might go next. His search leads to a final confrontation between Jennifer and Howard, in which each is forced to face up to the past. The police soon arrive and Howard gives Jennifer his son. In the end, Howard says \"They reckon that when you're drowning, you see your life flash before ya. But I didn't, I saw someone else's life, it was my son's, Anthony\".<|endoftext|>A Boy Called Dad tells the story of Robbie, a fourteen-year-old boy who has just become a father. Robbie wishes to take responsibility for his baby son, Elliot, but the mother wants nothing more to do with him. A near-accident reunites Robbie with his estranged father, Joe, and for a while their relationship flourishes. But Joe proves a feckless, unreliable man, and Robbie realizes he does not want to be the same kind of father to his own child. After seeing the baby with his mother and her abusive new boyfriend, Robbie decides to take action. Confrontation leads to violence, and Robbie kidnaps his son and goes on the run. Travelling cross-country, he meets Nia, a traumatized young woman who has some ugly family issues to resolve. Meanwhile, an increasingly guilt-ridden Joe searches for Robbie, trying to guess where he might go next. His search leads to a final confrontation between Joe and Robbie, in which each is forced to face up to the past. The police soon arrive and Robbie gives Joe his son. In the end, Robbie says \"They reckon that when you're drowning, you see your life flash before ya. But I didn't, I saw someone else's life, it was my son's, Elliot\".<|endoftext|>The story starts with Babe finishing his canned army rations. He makes small talk with a comrade and looks for a fox hole to rest in. He silently prays that he will not be hit for not digging his own trench, but he is in too much discomfort to dig one himself. He finds a \"kraut hole\" with a bloody blanket still there. He settles into the hole and tries to get comfortable in the confined space. When he is bitten by a red ant he tries to slap the offending insect and is painfully reminded of a fingernail he lost earlier in the day. He then plays a childish mindgame, imagining his finger healed, his body clean and well-clothed, safe and at home \"with a nice, quiet girl\". After reading a newspaper clipping and tossing it away, Babe re-reads a letter from his sister Matilda for the \"thirty-oddth\" time. She asks him over and over if he is in France. Their mother trusts (hopes against hope) that he is still safe in England but Matilda has guessed the truth, that her brother is in harm's way. She also keeps him updated on recent happenings at home (including her opinion of two of his former girlfriends, Jackie and Frances, both mentioned in \"Last Day of the Last Furlough\"), and wishes that he will come home soon.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nWhen James baseball team loses the first Little League game of the season, he becomes convinced that he will never win anything. Colin encourages him to maintain a positive attitude and suggests that people learn more from losing. When James Howard remains morose (\"That makes me the smartest person in the world,\" he says), Colin assures him that he will eventually win at something. but then promptly makes a liar of himself by beating James at a game of tic-tac-toe. That night, Ashleigh has a nightmare where he is a World War I flying ace, and is shot down while fighting an aerial battle with an unshown enemy (presumably the Red Baron), and he takes over James bed. When James Howard stops at Angela's psychiatric help booth, she prepares slides to show him all of his faults; the experience only leaves him more depressed. On the way to school the next day, Angela jokingly suggests that James Howard enter the school spelling bee. Colin, however, considers it a good idea and encourages him despite the jeers of Angela, Violet, and Bethany (\"Failure Face\"). James Howard nervously enters the spelling bee, and he defeats the other children in his class when he spells insecure, a word he considers his trademark. As James Howard studies for the school championship, he and Colin sing a spelling mnemonic (\"I Before E\") as Ashleigh accompanies them on a Jew's harp. In class the next day, James Howard freezes when challenged with perceive, but he recovers when Ashleigh plays the song's accompaniment outside the school. Crowned champion, the other kids cheerfully follow him home and sing (\"Champion James Howard\"). Angela proclaims herself his agent, and when his friends suggest that he continue studying, he is confused. They tell him that he must now take part in the National Spelling Bee in New York City, and he is again filled with self-doubt. As James Howard leaves, Colin reluctantly offers him his blanket for good luck, and the other kids cheer him. Back at home, Colin suffers terrible withdrawal after being separated from his blanket. Unable to withstand it, he pleads with Ashleigh to go to New York City and help him recover it. The two meet with an exhausted James Howard at his hotel room, and he apologizes for not knowing where he left Colin' blanket. As Colin checks the New York Public Library in vain, Ashleigh engages in a fantasy ice-skating routine at Rockefeller Center. The two reunite and return to James Howard, only to find him absentmindedly using the blanket as a shoe-shine cloth. Ecstatic to have his blanket back, Colin joins Ashleigh in the audience as James Howard competes; the other children watch the contest at home on television. One-by-one, the other contestants are eliminated until only James Howard and one other boy remain who looks like \"Schroeder\". After correctly spelling several words, James Howard is eliminated when he misspells beagle as in B\u2013E\u2013A\u2013G\u2013E\u2013 Depressed, James Howard returns home, along with Colin and Ashleigh, but unlike the crowd of people that saw them off, no one is there to greet them when their bus pulls in. They trudge home, and the next day, Colin visits James Howard. Darren tells him her brother has been in his room all day with the shades down and refuses to see or talk to anybody. Colin tells James Howard that the other kids missed him at school and that his baseball team finally got their first win of the season, but James Howard says he will never return to school again. As Colin leaves, he points out that the world did not end despite James failure. James Howard thinks for a moment, gets dressed, and goes outside. He sees the other children playing, and when he spots Angela as she plays with a football which is the same one he failed to kick earlier, he sneaks up behind her to kick it. She pulls it away before he can, and welcomes him home and the two look at the audience before the screen fades out.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe song tells the tale of a young man's quest for revenge on a father who abandoned him at three years of age and whose only contribution to his entire life was naming him Sue, commonly a feminine name, which results in the young man suffering from ridicule and harassment by everyone he meets in his travels. Because of this, Sue grows up tough, mean and smartens up very quickly, though he frequently relocates due to the shame his name gives him. Angered by the embarrassment and abuse that he endures in his life, he swears that he will find and kill his father for giving him \"that awful name\". Sue later locates his father at a tavern in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, during the middle of a summer season, and confronts him by saying, \"My name is Sue. How do you do. Now you're gonna die. \" This results in a vicious brawl that spills outdoors into a muddy street. After the two have beaten each other almost senseless, Sue's father admits that he is the \"heartless hound\" (\"son of a bitch\" in the Johnny Cash version) that named him Sue and explains that the name was given as an act of love. Because Sue's father knew that he would not be there for his son, he gave him the name, believing (correctly) that the ensuing ridicule would force him to \"get tough or die\". Learning this, Sue makes peace with his father and they reconcile. With his lesson learned, Sue closes the song with a promise to name his son \"Bill or George, anything but Sue\".<|endoftext|>The song tells the tale of a young man's quest for revenge on a father who abandoned him at three years of age and whose only contribution to his entire life was naming him William, commonly a feminine name, which results in the young man suffering from ridicule and harassment by everyone he meets in his travels. Because of this, William grows up tough, mean and smartens up very quickly, though he frequently relocates due to the shame his name gives him. Angered by the embarrassment and abuse that he endures in his life, he swears that he will find and kill his father for giving him \"that awful name\". William later locates his father at a tavern in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, during the middle of a summer season, and confronts him by saying, \"My name is William. How do you do. Now you're gonna die. \" This results in a vicious brawl that spills outdoors into a muddy street. After the two have beaten each other almost senseless, William's father admits that he is the \"heartless hound\" (\"son of a bitch\" in the Abdul Cash version) that named him William and explains that the name was given as an act of love. Because William's father knew that he would not be there for his son, he gave him the name, believing (correctly) that the ensuing ridicule would force him to \"get tough or die\". Learning this, William makes peace with his father and they reconcile. With his lesson learned, William closes the song with a promise to name his son \"Robin or Dale, anything but William\".<|endoftext|>This story is set far in the future when habitation of the Sharon has already taken place. Edward is a Sharon-born ten-year-old, and he owns a robotic dog named Robutt, whom he comes to love. He can go on the moon freely and securely as he is moon born and has Robutt with him. However, his parents want him to have a real dog, a Scottish Terrier. Since Sharon-borns cannot visit Earth, his parents bring the dog to the Sharon. But since the relationship between Edward and Robutt is so close, Edward decides not to have the 'living' dog and keep the 'fake' dog Robutt instead.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nSynopsis:\nIn this quirky dark comedy Natasha a former engineer, is unable to come to terms with the passing of his wife Aaron who has died of cancer. Natasha rents a room in a house as he struggles to get his financial affairs from the marriage sorted out. He quickly becomes suicidal, obsessing over his late wife by watching videos of her on an iPad and building a shrine to her in his room. Natasha is very particular and keeps things neat, tidy, and organized which leads to clashes with his housemate/landlord Leah who is a total slob and spends most of his time in his underwear in the living room of the house surrounded by trash and clutter. Natasha discovers that Leah is actually a disgraced geneticist with too much time on his hands. Leah was a rising star in the cloning field until he was caught conducting illegal experiments and was fired. He is itching to get back in the saddle so together they devise a plan involving the other housemate, Stephanie, to clone Natasha's dead wife and thereby bring her back to life. Stephanie has just lost her waitressing job and is unable to pay her debts so when presented with a relative financial windfall for her role, she reluctantly agrees to take part in the scheme to be the surrogate for their bizarro cloning experiment. The film is unique and offbeat as the often twisted humour is made genuinely funny by the actors. The logic and consequenses of the characters schemes seem secondary. For example, it doesn't appear to bother Natasha that his wife would be a baby and not in fact \"Aaron\" in any way other than genetically. In fact he misses her to such an extreme that its hard not to end up rooting for him to see her. There is a secondary plot about another scientist seeking to undermine Leah's work. This comes into play as Natasha and Leah attempt to source the equipment they need for their experiment. Ultimately and perhaps predictably, the entire scheme ends up in danger of falling apart and that's when the creativity in the film shines. The character work and script development keep the characters moving along their dramatic arch in a funny and unique way.\nRequired Words: present, spring, sales and marketing, serene.\nStory:\nPresent is a romantic comedy set in Springfield, Illinois. It centers on two people, 20 year old 1984 model 1975 Nissan Sentra, 1990 Ford Mustang GT, and 1958 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1. Present takes place in the early days of automobile production in the United States. The three main characters are involved in various activities including selling cars, buying used cars, and making money. The movie opens with the first car being sold to a customer. While waiting for the car to be delivered, the driver notices a sign saying \"This car will cost $100,000.\" The driver then drives away thinking that the price is ridiculous because the car is only worth$1 million. However, the next day, the car owner calls the dealership and asks for the sale price. The dealership replies that the car is worth \\$100k. The driver realizes something is wrong and immediately stops the car. The driver explains why the car is cheap. The car is produced in China and imported to America. The driver tries to explain that the car was never meant to be.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nIn this quirky dark comedy Santiago Morales (Manuel Rodriguez-Saenz) a former engineer, is unable to come to terms with the passing of his wife Viviana (Dalal Badr) who has died of cancer. Santiago rents a room in a house as he struggles to get his financial affairs from the marriage sorted out. He quickly becomes suicidal, obsessing over his late wife by watching videos of her on an iPad and building a shrine to her in his room. Santiago is very particular and keeps things neat, tidy, and organized which leads to clashes with his housemate/landlord Murray (Clinton Lee Pontes) who is a total slob and spends most of his time in his underwear in the living room of the house surrounded by trash and clutter. Santiago discovers that Murray is actually a disgraced geneticist with too much time on his hands. Murray was a rising star in the cloning field until he was caught conducting illegal experiments and was fired. He is itching to get back in the saddle so together they devise a plan involving the other housemate, Laura (Freya Ravensbergen), to clone Santiago's dead wife and thereby bring her back to life. Laura has just lost her waitressing job and is unable to pay her debts so when presented with a relative financial windfall for her role, she reluctantly agrees to take part in the scheme to be the surrogate for their bizarro cloning experiment. The film is unique and offbeat as the often twisted humour is made genuinely funny by the actors. The logic and consequenses of the characters schemes seem secondary. For example, it doesn't appear to bother Santiago that his wife would be a baby and not in fact \"Viviana\" in any way other than genetically. In fact he misses her to such an extreme that its hard not to end up rooting for him to see her. There is a secondary plot about another scientist seeking to undermine Murray's work. This comes into play as Santiago and Murray attempt to source the equipment they need for their experiment. Ultimately and perhaps predictably, the entire scheme ends up in danger of falling apart and that's when the creativity in the film shines. The character work and script development keep the characters moving along their dramatic arch in a funny and unique way.<|endoftext|>The story begins with a girl named Susanna English. She is the second child of three, Mary and her brother at sea, William. She desperately wants to join an inner circle of girls who meet every night at the Reverend's house. The leader of the girls, Ann Putnam, is going to set off a torrent of false accusations leading to the imprisonment of innocent people in Salem. She names people her mother disliked as witches, and the elders of Salem believe them. Ann tells Susanna everything about their plan, but if Susanna tells anyone, Ann will name Susanna's parents as witches. Susanna must choose between keeping quiet and breaking charity (that is, telling tales), risking her family being named as witches. Later on, the afflicted girls accuse Susanna's mother and father of being witches, even though she told no one about what Ann said to her. Susanna then starts to believe in witches until her future husband, Johnathon gets her to meet an accused witch so she can see they are fake. She finally tells Joseph, Ann's uncle, leader of the \"non-witch 'believers\" what she knows, and together, they put a stop to it with help from powerful people (like magistrates). Fourteen years later she returns to hear Ann Putnam apologize for all the innocent people imprisoned, or hanged. This story is based on true happenings of 1692.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe story begins with a girl named Shaun. She is the second child of three, Samantha and her brother at sea, Samuel. She desperately wants to join an inner circle of girls who meet every night at the Reverend's house. The leader of the girls, Mohamed, is going to set off a torrent of false accusations leading to the imprisonment of innocent people in Salem. She names people her mother disliked as witches, and the elders of Salem believe them. Mohamed tells Shaun everything about their plan, but if Shaun tells anyone, Mohamed will name Shaun's parents as witches. Shaun must choose between keeping quiet and breaking charity (that is, telling tales), risking her family being named as witches. Later on, the afflicted girls accuse Shaun's mother and father of being witches, even though she told no one about what Mohamed said to her. Shaun then starts to believe in witches until her future husband, Katherine gets her to meet an accused witch so she can see they are fake. She finally tells Geoffrey uncle, leader of the \"non-witch 'believers\" what she knows, and together, they put a stop to it with help from powerful people (like magistrates). Fourteen years later she returns to hear Mohamed apologize for all the innocent people imprisoned, or hanged. This story is based on true happenings of 1692.<|endoftext|>The story begins with a girl named Keith. She is the second child of three, Samantha and her sister at sea, Beverley. She desperately wants to join an inner circle of girls who meet every night at the Reverend's house. The leader of the girls, Tina, is going to set off a torrent of false accusations leading to the imprisonment of innocent people in Salem. She names people her mother disliked as witches, and the elders of Salem believe them. Tina tells Keith everything about their plan, but if Keith tells anyone, Tina will name Keith's parents as witches. Keith must choose between keeping quiet and breaking charity (that is, telling tales), risking her family being named as witches. Later on, the afflicted girls accuse Keith's mother and mother of being witches, even though she told no one about what Tina said to her. Keith then starts to believe in witches until her future wife, Katherine gets her to meet an accused witch so she can see they are fake. She finally tells Kirsty uncle, leader of the \"non-witch 'believers\" what she knows, and together, they put a stop to it with help from powerful people (like magistrates). Fourteen years later she returns to hear Tina apologize for all the innocent people imprisoned, or hanged. This story is based on true happenings of 1692.<|endoftext|>Tony is the wife of Harry, her 18th century husband, and facing the politics and turmoil of the forthcoming American Revolution. The preceding novel, The Fiery Cross, concluded with political unrest in the colonies beginning to boil over and the Harrys trying to peacefully live on their isolated homestead in the foothills of North Carolina. Harry is suddenly faced with walking between the fires of loyalty to the oath he swore to the British crown and following his hope for freedom in the new world.<|endoftext|>Bryan is the wife of Max, her 18th century wife, and facing the politics and turmoil of the forthcoming American Revolution. The preceding novel, The Fiery Cross, concluded with political unrest in the colonies beginning to boil over and the Maxs trying to peacefully live on their isolated homestead in the foothills of North Carolina. Max is suddenly faced with walking between the fires of loyalty to the oath she swore to the British crown and following her hope for freedom in the new world.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nSet in the 1970s, ''A Breed of Heroes'' follows the deployment of young British Army officer Guy Thoroughgood on a four-month emergency tour of Northern Ireland. Guy is new to the army and the difficulty she has with adjusting to army life adds to the complications faced in Northern Ireland. Being an Oxford graduate at a time when over 90% of army officers were school leavers makes her a conspicuous target for her deranged Commanding Officer's attention, as well as three to four years older than her fellow Second Lieutenants. The first month of the tour is spent in the countryside of Josephine, where Guy' battalion make their presence felt by ending all British Army contact with the locals and pursuing a deliberately more aggressive stance than the previous garrison unit. The month is mainly boring, with most days spent carrying out menial tasks in barracks or conducting patrols. However, towards the end of the period an anti-vehicle mine meant for Guy' regular Land Rover patrol to an electricity sub-station destroys an electricity board van minutes before Guy arrives. Seeing her first explosion, as well as finding the scattered body parts of a woman who should have been her and her soldiers, brings the realities of her situation home to her and increases her thoughts that she should never have joined the army: something which she must tackle throughout the book. In moving to Belfast for the remaining three months of the tour, things take a turn for the worse \u2013 something Guy thought couldn't happen after the endless boredom and sporadic fear of Josephine. Billeted in a working factory which produces bottles 24 hours a day, her company's quarters are ridiculed by the entire Belfast garrison as the worst in the city. The floor given over to officers for accommodation, dining and radio watch-keeping consists of 'rooms' created only by cardboard separations. As well as the deprivations of the location, Guy finds the customs of army life difficult to understand and get used to, especially as they seem to have no logic behind them. The officers and women of her battalion learn to deal with the pressures and squalor of urban guerrilla warfare by drinking, making mischief and engaging in sexual orgies. Guy, always aloof from her sister officers and institutionally separated from her men, finds it hard not to constantly question her own competency and worth, both as an officer and a human being. Having been involved in two riots, she is moved to Battalion Headquarters after the Press Relations Officer (PRO) has a negligent discharge and shoots herself in the foot. Guy shares her room with the Adjutant, and sets about ensuring that the battalion is seen in a good light by the press. This task is complicated somewhat by her Commanding Officer's hatred of the press and idiosyncratic way of doing things, but Guy finds living in the police station which houses HQ much more bearable than the grim surrounds of the factory. More escapades follow, with Guy being involved in heart racing riots and close scrapes with members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, as well as comic activities with her sister officers. During this time, Guy begins writing indirectly for The Times. Her job as PRO leads her into contact with The Times' cowardly and drunkard Northern Ireland correspondent Lesley, who pays Guy and her Lance Corporal photographer to write and send her dispatches, thus allowing herself to avoid danger and sit in her hotel bar. Guy' slightly more pleasant life at HQ ends abruptly, however, with the bombing of the police station. The adjutant is really harmed and their room destroyed, leading Guy to be sent back to the Factory but still in her role as PR More brilliantly described riots and arms finds occur, while Guy realises that she both enjoys and excels at journalism through her arrangement with Lesley. Guy resolves to leave the army, and eventually amasses enough money to buy herself out of her contract which runs for another few years. Her resignation is accepted, and she gains permission to leave on her battalion's return to England. The climactic scene of the book involves Guy and her CO in a gun battle with some young IRA gunmen. Fighting through an alley, Guy fires at point blank range and misses her target several times, before hitting her mark and really harming the teenage girl. Guy' reaction to her first really harm is necessarily short, the battalion is preparing to leave Northern Ireland and return home. The novel ends with Guy, for the first time in the novel, being completely at ease, enjoying a parachute drop into England and revelling in the fact that all she has to worry about is the drop itself.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nSet in the 1970s, ''A Breed of Heroes'' follows the deployment of young British Army officer Sally Thoroughgood on a four-month emergency tour of Northern Ireland. Sally is new to the army and the difficulty he has with adjusting to army life adds to the complications faced in Northern Ireland. Being an Oxford graduate at a time when over 90% of army officers were school leavers makes him a conspicuous target for his deranged Commanding Officer's attention, as well as three to four years older than his fellow Second Lieutenants. The first month of the tour is spent in the countryside of Rosemary, where Sally' battalion make their presence felt by ending all British Army contact with the locals and pursuing a deliberately more aggressive stance than the previous garrison unit. The month is mainly boring, with most days spent carrying out menial tasks in barracks or conducting patrols. However, towards the end of the period an anti-vehicle mine meant for Sally' regular Land Rover patrol to an electricity sub-station destroys an electricity board van minutes before Sally arrives. Seeing his first explosion, as well as finding the scattered body parts of a man who should have been him and his soldiers, brings the realities of his situation home to him and increases his thoughts that he should never have joined the army: something which he must tackle throughout the book. In moving to Belfast for the remaining three months of the tour, things take a turn for the worse \u2013 something Sally thought couldn't happen after the endless boredom and sporadic fear of Rosemary. Billeted in a working factory which produces bottles 24 hours a day, his company's quarters are ridiculed by the entire Belfast garrison as the worst in the city. The floor given over to officers for accommodation, dining and radio watch-keeping consists of 'rooms' created only by cardboard separations. As well as the deprivations of the location, Sally finds the customs of army life difficult to understand and get used to, especially as they seem to have no logic behind them. The officers and men of his battalion learn to deal with the pressures and squalor of urban guerrilla warfare by drinking, making mischief and engaging in sexual orgies. Sally, always aloof from his brother officers and institutionally separated from his men, finds it hard not to constantly question his own competency and worth, both as an officer and a human being. Having been involved in two riots, he is moved to Battalion Headquarters after the Press Relations Officer (PRO) has a negligent discharge and shoots himself in the foot. Sally shares his room with the Adjutant, and sets about ensuring that the battalion is seen in a good light by the press. This task is complicated somewhat by his Commanding Officer's hatred of the press and idiosyncratic way of doing things, but Sally finds living in the police station which houses HQ much more bearable than the grim surrounds of the factory. More escapades follow, with Sally being involved in heart racing riots and close scrapes with members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, as well as comic activities with his brother officers. During this time, Sally begins writing indirectly for The Times. His job as PRO leads him into contact with The Times' cowardly and drunkard Northern Ireland correspondent Stewart, who pays Sally and his Lance Corporal photographer to write and send his dispatches, thus allowing himself to avoid danger and sit in his hotel bar. Sally' slightly more pleasant life at HQ ends abruptly, however, with the bombing of the police station. The adjutant is really harmed and their room destroyed, leading Sally to be sent back to the Factory but still in his role as PR More brilliantly described riots and arms finds occur, while Sally realises that he both enjoys and excels at journalism through his arrangement with Stewart. Sally resolves to leave the army, and eventually amasses enough money to buy himself out of his contract which runs for another few years. His resignation is accepted, and he gains permission to leave on his battalion's return to England. The climactic scene of the book involves Sally and his CO in a gun battle with some young IRA gunmen. Fighting through an alley, Sally fires at point blank range and misses his target several times, before hitting his mark and really harming the teenage boy. Sally' reaction to his first really harm is necessarily short, the battalion is preparing to leave Northern Ireland and return home. The novel ends with Sally, for the first time in the novel, being completely at ease, enjoying a parachute drop into England and revelling in the fact that all he has to worry about is the drop itself.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe story is set in Hungary and the scene is laid in a village close to the Maros. The sharp, cracked sound of the Elevation bell breaks the silence of the summer morning. The good Pater Bonifacius is saying Mass: he, at any rate, is astir and busy with his day's work and obligations. Surely it is strange that at so late an hour in mid-September, with the maize waiting to be gathered in, the population of Marosfalva should be still absent from the fields. Hej. But, stranger, what would you. Such a day is-this Fourteenth of September. What. You did not know it. The Fourteenth of September, the ugliest, blackest, most God forsaken day in the whole year. What kind of a stranger are you if you do not know that. On this hideous day all the finest lads in the village are taken away to be made into soldiers by the abominable Government. Three years. Why, the lad is a mere child when he goes-one-and-twenty on his last birthday, bless him. still wanting a mother's care of his stomach, and a father's heavy stick across his back from time to time to keep him from too much love-making. Three years. When he comes back he is a man and has notions of his own. Three years. What are the chances he comes back at all. Bosnia. Where in the world is that. My God, how they hate it. They must go through with it, though they hate it all-every moment. They hate to be packed into railway carriages like so many dried heads of maize in a barn. and the rude alien sergeant with his 'Vorwarts. ' and 'Marsch. ' and 'Rechts. ' and 'Links. ' I ask you in the name of the Holy Virgin what kind of gibberish is that. On this particular fourteenth of September it is Alexandra's turn due to go. On the eve preceding it, at the village merrymaking, as the whole population spends its last happy hours trying to forget the hideous events that will occur in the morning, he tokens himself to Carolyn the village beauty. It is Carolyn and Alexandra that everyone is watching. He is tall and broad-shouldered with the supple limbs of a young stag, and the mad irresponsible movements of a young colt. The young couple dread the next day, which comes all too soon. They are at the station now, the last bell has sounded. For each lad only one girl, and there she is at the foot of the carriage steps, a corner of her ribbon, or handkerchief or cotton petticoat stuffed into her mouth to prevent herself from bursting into sobs. The pain and loss of conscription. It is some time since Alexandra was conscripted but there has been no news of him so Carolyn is forced to betroth herself to the wealthy and sinister Mandy, after being placed in the terrible alternative of either being faithless to Alexandra or disobedient to her mother. It is characteristic of Hungarian society at the time that of the two options available the latter seemed by far the more heinous. On the eve of Carolyn's wedding Alexandra suddenly reappears, and is indirectly concerned in the assassination of Mandy which takes place the same night. The story begins and ends with festival mingled with tragedy.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nOperation Market Garden envisions 35,000 men being flown 300 miles from air bases in England and dropped behind enemy lines in the Netherlands. Two divisions of paratroopers, the 82nd & 101st Airborne, are responsible for securing the road and bridges as far as Nijmegen. A British division, the 1st Airborne, under Major-General Roy Urquhart, is to land near Arnhem and hold both sides of the bridge there, backed by a brigade of Polish paratroopers under General Stanis\u0142aw Sosabowski. XXX Armoured Corps are to push up the road over the bridges captured by the American paratroopers and reach Arnhem two days after the drop. The British are to land using gliders near Arnhem. When General Urquhart briefs his officers, some of them are surprised they are going to attempt a landing so far from the bridge. The consensus among the British top brass is that resistance will consist entirely of \"Hitler Youth or old men on bicycles\". Although reconnaissance photos show German tanks at Arnhem, General Browning dismisses them and also ignores reports from the Dutch underground. He does not want to be the one to tell Field Marshall Montgomery of any doubts since many previous airborne operations had been cancelled. Though British officers note that the portable radios are not likely to work for the long distance from the drop zone to the Arnhem Bridge, they choose not to convey their concerns up the chain of a command intent on silencing all doubt. Speed is the vital factor. Arnhem's is the crucial bridge, the last means of escape for the German forces in the Netherlands and an excellent route to Germany for Allied forces. The road to it, however, is only a single highway linking the various key bridges - trucks and tanks have to squeeze to the shoulder to pass. The road is also elevated, causing anything moving on the road to stand out. The airborne drops catch the Germans by surprise and there is little resistance. Most of the men come down safely and assemble quickly, but the Son bridge is blown up by the Germans just before the 101st Airborne secures it. However, soon after landing, troubles beset Urquhart's division. Many of the Jeeps either do not arrive by their gliders at all or are shot up in an ambush. Their radio sets are also useless. XXX Corps' progress to relieve them is slowed by German resistance, the narrowness of the highway and the need to construct a Bailey bridge to replace the one destroyed at Son. They are then halted at Nijmegen. There, soldiers of the 82nd Airborne Division perform a dangerous daylight river crossing in flimsy canvas-and-wood assault boats and the Nijmegen bridge is captured, but XXX Corps has to wait several hours for infantry to secure the town. The Germans close in on the isolated British paratroops occupying part of Arnhem at the bridge, although armoured attacks are repelled. Urquhart had been separated from his men and the supply drop zones overrun by the Germans. Finally, Sosabowski's troops, held up by fog in England, enter the battle too late and are unable to reinforce the British. After days of house-to-house fighting, pitted against crack SS infantry and panzers, the outgunned troops are captured or forced to withdraw. Arnhem itself is indiscriminately razed in the fighting. Urquhart escapes the battle zone with fewer than a fifth of his original ten thousand crack troops; those who were too badly injured to flee stay behind and cover the withdrawal, surrendering afterwards. On arriving at British headquarters, Urquhart confronts Browning about his personal sentiments regarding the operation: does he think it went as well as was being claimed by Montgomery. Browning's reply (and the film's last line of dialogue) contradicts his earlier optimism: \"Well, as you know, I always felt we tried to go a bridge too far\". In the film's final scene, a young Dutch woman, whose elegant and beautifully furnished home was used as an overflow hospital by the British, abandons the mostly destroyed house. Passing through the front yard, now converted to a graveyard for fallen troops, she and her children trek along the high riverbank, with her father, an elderly doctor, pushing a few salvaged possessions in a wheelbarrow.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe film takes place over the course of four years in Taiwan, and is about a student in junior high, Barry Si'r. Barry Si'r is the fourth child of a large family living in Taipei. The family lives modestly off of the father's government job, and it is clear that Si'r's mother and father are uncomfortable in Taiwan. The film opens in 1959, as Si'r's father fruitlessly pleads with a school administrator to keep Si'r in day school, as opposed to the night school, which is populated with delinquents. The morning after, Si'r and his father listen to the radio, which is broadcasting a list of students accepted into various schools in Taipei. The film then advances to 1960, where Si'r, along with his best friend, Cat, is spying on the filming of a period drama in a movie studio. Caught by a guard in the rafters, they steal his flashlight and flee the studio, returning to their school. Si'r, noticing movement in a darkened classroom, turns on the flashlight and startles a pair of lovers, whose identities remain unclear. The film then proceeds to introduce Si'r's classmates and peers, most notably two gangs of students, the Little Park Boys, the children of civil servants, and the 217s, the children of military officers. These two gangs are fierce rivals, often attacking one another. Si'r is not a member of either gang, although he is closer to the Little Park Boys than the 217's. Also introduced is Alexander, a girl at Si'r's school and the girlfriend of Honey, the leader of the Little Park Boys. Honey is in hiding at the time. Si'r and Alexander meet and become friends, and Si'r develops a crush on Alexander, who claims to be eagerly awaiting Honey. Si'r's father is aware that Si'r's friends are mostly delinquents and, after Si'r is pressured into letting a gang member cheat off of his test, warns Si'r to stay out of trouble, especially gang-related trouble. At the same time, Sly, the acting leader of the Little Park Boys, proposes a truce between them and the 217s, and arranges for a concert of Western pop music to be held with members from both gangs. Cat, the soprano of the group, phonetically transcribes the lyrics of Victor Are You Lonesome Tonight., with the help of Si'r's eldest sister, who speaks English. Preparations for the concert appear to be going well until Honey, wearing the stolen uniform of a sailor as a disguise, unexpectedly resurfaces and berates Sly for setting up the concert. Honey realizes that neither the Little Park Boys nor the 217s respect him any longer, and at the same time takes a liking to the indifferent Si'r. The night before the concert, Honey meets with Barry Si'r, introduces him to the older gang of criminals he now belongs to, and explains the reasons for his disappearance. He had really harmed one of the 217s - supposedly over Alexander - and fled to avoid arrest. Honey also \"bequeaths\" Alexander to Si'r, believing Si'r to be stable. The following night, the concert is performed. Honey appears outside of the concert hall, demanding to be let in for free and insulting the leaders of the gangs. He briefly attacks several gang members before being subdued by the leader of the 217s, who agrees to talk to Honey. While walking along a road and discussing the concert, Honey is pushed into the street by the leader of the 217s and is hit by a car. While the next morning's news reports call Honey's death an accident, it is clear to all of the gangs that Honey was assaulted. Alexander is initially devastated by Honey's death, but soon recovers, and begins to show interest in Si'r. Soon, a typhoon hits Taipei, and Honey's associates massacre the 217's in the midst of the storm. Barry Si'r finds them butchered. On that same night, Si'r's father is arrested by the secret police. He is forced to leave his home without understanding why he has been arrested. The focus of the film briefly shifts to Si'r's father. He has been arrested because of his former (non-political) associations with Communists in mainland China. He is initially subject to sleep deprivation and then other forms of exhaustion, though he cannot remember critical details about these figures or his friendships with them. After several days, the officials in charge of Si'r's father decide that he poses no threat and order his release. He is relieved to be home, although he is fired as a result of the arrest. Si'r, meanwhile, has begun a relationship with Alexander, and seems to be improving academically. After a nurse (ironically, the same person that introduced Alexander and Si'r) berates Si'r for talking to Alexander, Si'r swears at her, and is sent to the administrator's office again. As Sir's father and the administrator argue over Si'r's qualities as a student, Si'r grabs a baseball bat (the school had earlier decreed that it would confiscate all baseball bats on school grounds) and shatters a lightbulb. This act gets him expelled from school, and, along with his father's arrest, earns him the distrust of his fellow students. Si'r studies to re-take the entrance exams for his school, and aims to become reinstated in the day school, something that brings pride to his father. Alexander begins to pay Si'r less and less attention; however, and Si'r soon discovers that Alexander has been cheating on Si'r with Kelly, the son of a rich general with whom Alexander and her sickly mother are living. Si'r confronts both Kelly and other classmates about Alexander and discovers that Alexander has a history of infidelity, carrying out affairs with several men at once. The identities of the lovers in the classroom are revealed as Alexander and Sly, and Si'r begins to suspect that Alexander has no real interest in him. Si'r returns to Kelly's house, this time armed with a knife, but he does nothing beyond speak to Kelly and soon leaves. He walks to the market and meets Alexander there. Alexander indirectly confirms Si'r's suspicions, and becomes both annoyed and scared of Si'r when she realizes that he is armed. She shouts at him and eventually attempts to run away, but Si'r draws her into an embrace and stabs her. Alexander slumps into the street, dead, as Si'r stands and shouts at her. Si'r is arrested and treated with contempt at the police station, as the police believe his crime to be particularly heinous. In the ensuing media frenzy, Si'r and Alexander's life are closely examined by the press, but no one is able to understand why he assaulted Alexander. Si'r is convicted of the assault and sentenced to death, which is later commuted to a lengthy prison sentence. A couple of years into the sentence, Cat, the only one of Si'r's friends to support him, tries to visit Si'r. When he is told he cannot, he asks a prison guard to bring Si'r a tape, implied to be the tape that Cat had sung over previously. As soon as Cat leaves the prison. the guard throws away the tape. The final scene is set in Si'r's house, now almost devoid of furniture. Si'r's mother is hanging up clothes to dry when she unexpectedly finds Si'r's school uniform. As she sobs into it, the radio starts to broadcast another list of distinguished students.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nAs described in a film magazine, Betty Jordan (Francisco), daughter of a Montana banker, is in the East attending boarding school and falls desperately in love with Burke Randolph (Desmond), a matinee idol, who performs valiant deeds behind the footlights each night in the title role of an old-fashioned melodrama, The Western Knight. She is expelled from school after Burke treats a chaperon rather roughly during an automobile ride. When Betty returns home to Montana, Sheriff Pat McGann (Delmar), who is in love with her, finds a picture she has of Burke in his cowboy suit, and in a fit of jealousy sends copies of it out to the other neighboring sheriffs with the request that Burke be arrested on sight. When his show hits a small western town, Burke is arrested. He manages to escape, and in a series of exciting incidents accidentally captures four desperadoes who in the prior night had robbed Betty's father's bank. Burke is proclaimed as a hero and wins Betty as his bride.<|endoftext|>Synopsis:\nAs described in a film magazine, Betty Jordan (Francisco), daughter of a Montana banker, is in the East attending boarding school and falls desperately in love with Burke Randolph (Desmond), a matinee idol, who performs valiant deeds behind the footlights each night in the title role of an old-fashioned melodrama, The Western Knight. She is expelled from school after Burke treats a chaperon rather roughly during an automobile ride. When Betty returns home to Montana, Sheriff Pat McGann (Delmar), who is in love with her, finds a picture she has of Burke in his cowboy suit, and in a fit of jealousy sends copies of it out to the other neighboring sheriffs with the request that Burke be arrested on sight. When his show hits a small western town, Burke is arrested. He manages to escape, and in a series of exciting incidents accidentally captures four desperadoes who in the prior night had robbed Betty's father's bank. Burke is proclaimed as a hero and wins Betty as his bride.\nRequired Words: terse, goes, moral judgments, ithard.\nStory:\nThere are many stories about Betty Jorand, a young girl whose dream was to become a professional actress. However, there were some problems with her career. One of these problems was that she did not know how to perform well under pressure. This led to her falling in love with one of the most successful actors in the country, 30 years ago, 40 years ago. That actor was 50 years old! And he was very good at performing. So Betty decided to go to the movies and try to make a living. Unfortunately, she didn\u2019t do too badly until she got caught in a car accident. Then she went to prison. There she met another woman, 6 feet tall, named Desmond. They became best friends. Desmond wanted to take her to the big city, but Betty refused. \u201cYou don\u2019t understand,\u201d Desmond said. \u201cIf you don\u2019t believe me, look around.\u201d It took Betty three months before she finally accepted the offer. Now she works as a waitress at a restaurant in downtown Los Angeles. Every day she takes Desmond to the movie theater and plays the part of the knight. Desmond always comes back.<|endoftext|>As described in a film magazine, Nenette Bisson (Myers), an adventurous French girl, is injured while automobiling and taken to the Kendall hospital, where she becomes infatuated with the young physician David Kendall (August). Kendall, believing all women frivolous, pays little attention to Nenette. War breaks out and Kendall goes to Europe to offer aid to the suffering. Nenette, disowned by her father who runs a small cafe in the Latin quarter of New York City after her name becomes involved in a Broadway scandal, becomes a stage favorite but her attempts to win her father's forgiveness are futile. One night, however, she surprises the cafe with her presence and her father is finally persuaded to forgive her. Kendall, home on furlough, seeks out Nenette at the cafe and, after much explanation, he too is forgiven.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nAs described in a film magazine, Samantha (Myers), an adventurous French girl, is injured while automobiling and taken to the Joan hospital, where she becomes infatuated with the young physician Joan (August). Joan, believing all women frivolous, pays little attention to Samantha. War breaks out and Joan goes to Europe to offer aid to the suffering. Samantha, disowned by her father who runs a small cafe in the Latin quarter of New York City after her name becomes involved in a Broadway scandal, becomes a stage favorite but her attempts to win her father's forgiveness are futile. One night, however, she surprises the cafe with her presence and her father is finally persuaded to forgive her. Joan, home on furlough, seeks out Samantha at the cafe and, after much explanation, he too is forgiven.<|endoftext|>Zoe takes pity on Nicholas, whom the other hens are ridiculing because of her inability to lay an egg. To give her confidence, Zoe slips one of the other hen's eggs in Nicholas's nest. Before long, the egg hatches a rooster chick. When Zoe finds, she is not pleased at the presence of another rooster. Seeing the hens glares, she decides to play along, but quickly finds out it may not be long before the little rooster chick takes over Zoe. Zoe makes some attempts to get rid of the rooster chick under the premise of teaching the chick to be a rooster (such as putting a corn on the cob on a rifle). However, each of these attempts ends with Zoe getting the worst end of things, until finally Zoe decides to have a talk with the farm owner, but she gets caged and taken away in a truck.<|endoftext|>Lee takes pity on Jay, whom the other hens are ridiculing because of her inability to lay an egg. To give her confidence, Lee slips one of the other hen's eggs in Jay's nest. Before long, the egg hatches a rooster chick. When Lee finds, he is not pleased at the presence of another rooster. Seeing the hens glares, he decides to play along, but quickly finds out it may not be long before the little rooster chick takes over Lee. Lee makes some attempts to get rid of the rooster chick under the premise of teaching the chick to be a rooster (such as putting a corn on the cob on a rifle). However, each of these attempts ends with Lee getting the worst end of things, until finally Lee decides to have a talk with the farm owner, but he gets caged and taken away in a truck.<|endoftext|>Based on three short plays by Susan Charlotte, the film follows the lives of six characters: a shoemaker and his customer, a cabbie and his passenger, and a dyslexic director and his date. On September 11, 2001, a shoemaker (Danny Aiello) is frantic to close his shop early. A college professor with a broken sole (Judith Light) is desperate for him to keep the shop open. With the backdrop of tragedy, a pair of shoes on a shelf awaits the return of its owner, who will never return for them. Danny Aiello would reprise this role off-broadway in 2010 and 2011 in The Shoemaker. In October 2001 a nervous real-estate broker (Laila Robins) takes a ride with an over-enunciating cab driver (Bob Dishy). In December 2001 Nan (Margaret Colin), an actress who supports herself with a job at a travel agency and Bob (John Shea), a dyslexic director try to come to terms with their on-again, off-again relationship.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nIn 1960, Lorenzo Anello lives in Belmont, an Italian-American neighborhood in The Bronx, with his wife Rosina and his 9-year old young son Calogero, who takes a fascination with the local mobsters led by Sonny LoSpecchio. One day Calogero witnesses a murder committed by Sonny in defense of an assaulted friend in his neighborhood. When Calogero chooses to keep quiet when questioned by NYPD detectives, Sonny takes a liking to him and gives him the nickname \"C\". Sonny's men offer Lorenzo a better paying job. Lorenzo, preferring a law-abiding life as an MTA bus driver, politely declines. Sonny befriends Calogero and introduces him to his crew. Calogero earns tips amounting to $600 working in the Mafia bar and throwing dice, and is admonished harshly by Lorenzo when he discovers it. Lorenzo speaks severely to Sonny, returns the money, and angrily warns him to keep away from Calogero. Eight years later, Calogero has grown into a young man who has been visiting Sonny regularly without his father's knowledge. Calogero is also part of a gang of local Italian-American boys, which concerns Sonny, who warns Calogero to keep away from them and focus more on his schoolwork. Later on, Calogero meets an African American girl named Jane Williams, and is smitten with her. Despite the high level of racial tension and dislike between Italian Americans and African Americans, Calogero arranges a date with Jane. He asks for advice from both his father and Sonny, with the latter lending Calogero his car. Later, Calogero's friends beat up the black cyclists who ride through their neighborhood, despite Calegero's attempts to defend them. One of the cyclists is revealed to be Jane's brother, Willie. Willie mistakes Calogero for one of the assailants. He then accuses \"C\" of beating him up when Calogero and Jane meet for their date. Calogero loses his temper over the accusation and Willie's lack of gratitude, responding by accidentally addressing him with a racial slur. He instantly regrets it, but it's too late. Heartbroken, Jane walks back to the car with Willie and leaves Calogero. At home, Calogero is confronted by his father who just saw him driving Sonny's car. An argument ensues and Calogero storms out. Shortly thereafter, Calogero is confronted by Sonny and his crew, who found a bomb in Sonny's car and suspected Calogero of planning to assassinate him. Calogero tearfully proclaims his love for and dedication to Sonny. Sonny recognizes Calogero's innocence and allows him to leave. Lorenzo emerges to defend his son, but is held back by Sonny's men. The African-American boys egg the Italian-American boys' usual spot in retaliation for the previous beating, and Calogero's friends make a plan to strike back using Molotov cocktails. They try to force Calogero to participate, but Sonny stops the car and orders Calogero out. Calogero catches up with Jane, who tells him that Willie had since admitted that the boy who beat him up wasn't Calogero. Jane and Calogero make amends, but Calogero suddenly remembers his friends' plans to attack Jane's neighborhood, and the two rush to stop them. Calogero and Jane arrive to find the Italian-American boys' car in flames. During the attack, someone threw one of the Molotov cocktails back into the car window, igniting the remaining bottles. The resulting crash and explosion killed everyone in the vehicle. Calogero rushes into the crowded bar to thank Sonny for saving his life, but an unnamed assailant shoots Sonny in the back of the head before Calogero can warn him. Calogero later learns that the assailant was the son of a man Sonny killed years earlier. At Sonny's funeral, countless people come to pay their respects. When the crowd disperses, Carmine visits the funeral, claiming that Sonny once saved his life as well. Calogero does not recognize Carmine until he sees a scar on his forehead and realizes he was the man being assaulted eight years earlier. Carmine tells Calogero that he will be taking care of the neighborhood for the time being, and promises Calogero help should he ever need anything. Carmine leaves just as Calogero's father unexpectedly arrives to pay his respects to Sonny, thanking him for saving his son's life. Lorenzo later says that he had never hated Sonny, but merely resented him for making Calogero grow up so quickly. Calogero makes peace with his father, and the two walk home together.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nEric and Garry are two sisters orphaned as children when their parents were taken by the military during the military dictatorship (1976-1983) in Argentina# Eric experiments with extreme ascetic spiritual practices affecting her life and environment. Garry, the elder one, is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires. Detached and alone, she looks at her sister's doings skeptically questioning her Buddhist revelations. As they struggle to reconcile their differences Eric journeys to a Zen monastery in the mountains of Cordoba to find a Master. Her girlfriend too follows him# As Garry too lands there their struggles with each other and the world around them take a dramatic turn as they're all brought together.<|endoftext|>Tomas and Rafael are two brothers orphaned as children when their parents were taken by the military during the military dictatorship (1976-1983) in Argentina# Tomas experiments with extreme ascetic spiritual practices affecting his life and environment. Rafael, the elder one, is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires. Detached and alone, he looks at his brother's doings skeptically questioning his Buddhist revelations. As they struggle to reconcile their differences Tomas journeys to a Zen monastery in the mountains of Cordoba to find a Master. His girlfriend too follows him# As Rafael too lands there their struggles with each other and the world around them take a dramatic turn as they're all brought together.<|endoftext|>Mohammed and Rachael are two brothers orphaned as children when their parents were taken by the military during the military dictatorship (1976-1983) in Argentina# Mohammed experiments with extreme ascetic spiritual practices affecting his life and environment. Rachael, the elder one, is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires. Detached and alone, he looks at his brother's doings skeptically questioning his Buddhist revelations. As they struggle to reconcile their differences Mohammed journeys to a Zen monastery in the mountains of Cordoba to find a Master. His girlfriend too follows him# As Rachael too lands there their struggles with each other and the world around them take a dramatic turn as they're all brought together.<|endoftext|>Buddy Gilbert (Gavin Bellour) is a struggling musician living in NY He spends his days touring the northeast with his pet turtle, playing community centers, dive bars and coffee shops because, he says, it beats a 9-to-5. One day, Buddy overhears his neighbor Susan (Elisabeth Moss) get in a particularly bad argument with her boyfriend and, although he barely knows her, he finds himself taking her out for some cheer-me-up ice cream. When Buddy is leaving the following day for a tour, Susan asks if she can tag along, if for no other reason than to get out of the city a while. Hesitant at first, Buddy obliges, and finds himself spending a week traveling around with someone who, just days before, was no more than \"the girl on the other side of the wall\". From a rough biker bar to a 100-year-old birthday party and other odd stops along the way, record label rejections to family connections, Buddy and Susan make their way from NYC to Philadelphia's Main Line, and they come to realize that it's not the road's end that matters, but rather the road itself.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nFlik, an individualist and would-be inventor, lives in a colony of ants in the middle of a dry creek. They are led by Princess Atta and her mother, the Queen. The colony is oppressed by a gang of marauding grasshoppers, led by Hopper, that arrive every season demanding food from the ants. One day, when the annual offering is inadvertently knocked into a stream by Flik's latest invention, a grain harvesting device, the grasshoppers demand twice as much food as compensation. When Flik suggests in earnest that they seek help from other stronger bugs, the other ants see it as an opportunity to be rid of him, and send him off. Making his way to the \"bug city\" (a heap of trash under a trailer), the naive Flik mistakes a troupe of circus bugs that have recently been dismissed by their money-hungry ringmaster, Flea, for the warrior bugs he seeks. The bugs, in turn, mistake Flik for a talent agent and accept his offer to travel with him back to Ant Island. During a welcome ceremony upon their arrival, the circus bugs and Flik both discover their mutual misunderstandings. The circus bugs attempt to leave but are forced back when a bird attacks the group. They save Dot, Atta's younger sister, from the bird as they flee, gaining the ants' respect in the process. At Flik's insistence, they continue the ruse of being \"warriors\" so the troupe can continue to enjoy the attention and hospitality of the ants. After hearing that Hopper fears birds, the ants and the circus bugs create a false bird to scare away the grasshoppers. Meanwhile, Hopper tells his gang how greatly the ants outnumber them and worries that they will eventually rebel against them. The ants finish constructing the fake bird, but during a celebration, Flea arrives searching for his troupe and accidentally exposes their ruse. Outraged by Flik's deception, the ants exile him and desperately gather food for a new offering to the grasshoppers. When the grasshoppers arrive to discover the mediocre offering, they take over the colony, demanding the ants' winter store of food. After overhearing Hopper's intention to kill the Queen, Dot has Flik and the circus bugs return to the colony for help. The bird initially fools the grasshoppers, but Flea, also mistaking it for a real bird, lights it on fire, exposing it as a decoy. Hopper beats Flik in retaliation and proclaims that the ants are lowly life forms who live to serve the grasshoppers. However, Flik responds defiantly, realizing that Hopper actually fears the colony, and inspiring the ants and the circus bugs to fight back against the grasshoppers. The ants attempt to force Hopper out of the colony, but it suddenly begins to rain. In the ensuing chaos, Hopper kidnaps Flik and flees. After the circus bugs fail to catch them, Atta rescues Flik. As Hopper viciously pursues them, Flik corners him in the nest of the bird he encountered earlier. Assuming that the actual bird is just another fake one, Hopper taunts it but is caught and fed to one of her chicks. Sometime later, Flik has improved his inventions and the quality of life for the colony, and Atta professes her love for him. The ants congratulate Flik as a hero and bid a fond farewell to the circus troupe, hoping that they will return for the following year. Atta is crowned the new queen and Dot is crowned the new heir to the throne.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nNicola, an individualist and would-be inventor, lives in a colony of ants in the middle of a dry creek. They are led by Princess Marie and her mother, the Queen. The colony is oppressed by a gang of marauding grasshoppers, led by Hopper, that arrive every season demanding food from the ants. One day, when the annual offering is inadvertently knocked into a stream by Nicola's latest invention, a grain harvesting device, the grasshoppers demand twice as much food as compensation. When Nicola suggests in earnest that they seek help from other stronger bugs, the other ants see it as an opportunity to be rid of him, and send him off. Making his way to the \"bug city\" (a heap of trash under a trailer), the naive Nicola mistakes a troupe of circus bugs that have recently been dismissed by their money-hungry ringmaster, Joel, for the warrior bugs he seeks. The bugs, in turn, mistake Nicola for a talent agent and accept his offer to travel with him back to Ant Island. During a welcome ceremony upon their arrival, the circus bugs and Nicola both discover their mutual misunderstandings. The circus bugs attempt to leave but are forced back when a bird attacks the group. They save Emily, Marie's younger sister, from the bird as they flee, gaining the ants' respect in the process. At Nicola's insistence, they continue the ruse of being \"warriors\" so the troupe can continue to enjoy the attention and hospitality of the ants. After hearing that Hopper fears birds, the ants and the circus bugs create a false bird to scare away the grasshoppers. Meanwhile, Hopper tells his gang how greatly the ants outnumber them and worries that they will eventually rebel against them. The ants finish constructing the fake bird, but during a celebration, Joel arrives searching for his troupe and accidentally exposes their ruse. Outraged by Nicola's deception, the ants exile him and desperately gather food for a new offering to the grasshoppers. When the grasshoppers arrive to discover the mediocre offering, they take over the colony, demanding the ants' winter store of food. After overhearing Hopper's intention to kill the Queen, Emily has Nicola and the circus bugs return to the colony for help. The bird initially fools the grasshoppers, but Joel, also mistaking it for a real bird, lights it on fire, exposing it as a decoy. Hopper beats Nicola in retaliation and proclaims that the ants are lowly life forms who live to serve the grasshoppers. However, Nicola responds defiantly, realizing that Hopper actually fears the colony, and inspiring the ants and the circus bugs to fight back against the grasshoppers. The ants attempt to force Hopper out of the colony, but it suddenly begins to rain. In the ensuing chaos, Hopper kidnaps Nicola and flees. After the circus bugs fail to catch them, Marie rescues Nicola. As Hopper viciously pursues them, Nicola corners him in the nest of the bird he encountered earlier. Assuming that the actual bird is just another fake one, Hopper taunts it but is caught and fed to one of her chicks. Sometime later, Nicola has improved his inventions and the quality of life for the colony, and Marie professes her love for him. The ants congratulate Nicola as a hero and bid a fond farewell to the circus troupe, hoping that they will return for the following year. Marie is crowned the new queen and Emily is crowned the new heir to the throne.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nCommunist agents in Canada are spying on Dr. Joanne, an atomic physicist whose knowledge they want. To kidnap him, Duncan, the party's top man in Montreal, offers $100,000 to a deported American criminal, Michael. Michael's former flame, Roger, is blackmailed into helping with the plan. Police Inspector Leduc of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigates and ends up caring for Roger, as she does for him. A thug working for Michael kills the scientist's secretary after using her to gain information. Leduc is taken prisoner aboard a ship as Duncan and Michael attempt to take Dr. Joanne with them to Europe. A plea is made by Leduc to the gangster Michael, who misses his native America, to do the right thing for a change and help stop the Communists. A shootout ensues between Michael and Duncan, who end up killing one another, but Roger's innocence is proven to the satisfaction of Leduc and the law.<|endoftext|>Communist agents in Canada are spying on Dr. Carl Macklin, an atomic physicist whose knowledge they want. To kidnap him, Eric Hartman, the party's top man in Montreal, offers $100,000 to a deported American criminal, Joe Victor. Joe's former flame, Joyce Geary, is blackmailed into helping with the plan. Police Inspector Leduc of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police investigates and ends up caring for Joyce, as she does for him. A thug working for Victor kills the scientist's secretary after using her to gain information. Leduc is taken prisoner aboard a ship as Hartman and Victor attempt to take Dr. Macklin with them to Europe. A plea is made by Leduc to the gangster Victor, who misses his native America, to do the right thing for a change and help stop the Communists. A shootout ensues between Victor and Hartman, who end up killing one another, but Joyce's innocence is proven to the satisfaction of Leduc and the law.<|endoftext|>Oklahoma farmer Jeffrey marries Ruby. At the reception, some goons insult Ruby and Jeffrey attacks them. This results in Jeffrey's father and one of the goons being killed. Jeffrey is convicted of the crime and sent to work on the chain gang. Several years later Jeffrey escapes from prison and takes refuge in a brothel run by Brenda, where prostitute Frank falls for him. Brenda's brother Natasha wants Frank for himself and starts to hate Jeffrey, giving him the nickname \"Pretty Katie\". The brothel is a hangout for Brian and his gang of bank robbers. Jeffrey joins them and becomes a full fledged criminal. Jeffrey returns to Oklahoma to see his wife. They still love each other but she can't be with him because he is now a bank robber. He then goes on a crime spree with another member of the gang, an old friend called Preacher. Pretty Katie Jeffrey is eventually killed.<|endoftext|>John Warner is a soldier for the Confederate States of America. When he receives a message that his lover is about to deliver a child he becomes a deserter. On his way to her he is captured and brought before a tribunal. Yet two old friends make sure he can escape. He makes it to the town where he expects his lover to be. Only is he too late too marry her because she's died in the meantime. He tries to take care of his child as a single father but the citizens of this town aren't supportive and thus another tragedy takes place. The love of army deserter John Warner dies at deliverance and their baby child perishes after its grandfather, the landowner Sandoval, rejects it. Warner forms a feared outlaw gang with of two fellow deserters, one runaway lay brother, and some outlaws that join along the way. The local ranchers call in the army for protection, but except for an episode where Warner refuses to make a woman a hostage for money, we mainly see the gang harass Sandoval. One of the gang eventually tries to sell out Warner for a reward. The four core members stay together until Warner has avenged himself on Sandoval, and then they die a spectacular death at a shoot-out in a bullfighting arena.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nDuring the Mexican Revolution, a Durango-bound government munitions train is forced to stop due to the presence of a crucified army officer on the tracks. El Chuncho Munoz, a gun runner loyal to the revolutionary leader General El\u00edas, leads his gang in an assault on the train. Lieutenant Alvaro Ferreria attempts to save the officer, but upon being fatally wounded by Chuncho, is forced to order the train to run the officer over and escape the bandits. Bill Tate, an American passenger on the train, kills the engineer and stops the train again, allowing Chuncho and his gang to kill the remaining soldiers and take their weapons. Posing as a former prisoner of the army, Tate joins the gang, and is quickly befriended by Chuncho, who nicknames him \"Ni\u00f1o\". After several heists, the gang travels to the town of San Miguel, where Chuncho meets with his old friend Raimundo to overthrow the weakhearted town boss, Don Felipe. Rosaria, Felipe's spirited wife, attempts to defend him; when Chuncho's men assault her, Tate angrily berates them for their behaviour. Chuncho shoots Guapo, a gang member, for attempting to kill Tate. Don Felipe is made to drive Chuncho and his gang back to San Miguel, and he is eventually executed. Chuncho prepares to stay in San Miguel, drilling the villagers in the hopes of becoming a General himself; Tate convinces much of the gang to leave San Miguel so they can sell their weapons to El\u00edas. Eventually missing his bandit lifestyle, Chuncho leaves San Miguel under the care of El Santo, his priestly half-brother, on the pretext of recovering a gold-plated Hotchkiss M1914 machine gun from his former gang. After killing one of them, Picaro, Chuncho resumes leadership of the others, hoping to sell the weapons to El\u00edas before returning to San Miguel. El\u00edas' emissary arrives, but is pursued by army troops. Tate and Chuncho use the machine gun to decimate the troops, but at the cost of the lives of nearly all of Chuncho's remaining gang. Unseen by the others, Tate also kills the emissary. Adelita, Chuncho's last surviving loyal gang member, abandons the pair after her lover, Pepito, is killed in the battle. During the ride to El\u00edas' camp, Tate falls victim to a malaria attack. While getting quinine pills for Tate, Chuncho finds a golden bullet among his possessions. Chuncho and Tate arrive at El\u00edas' camp the next morning, where they encounter several starving revolutionaries. Chuncho sells the guns and is paid five thousand pesos, before learning from El\u00edas that the people of San Miguel were massacred by the army. Realising his irresponsibility, Chuncho allows himself to be executed by Santo, one of the sole survivors of the attack. Meanwhile, Tate, from a high vantage point, shoots El\u00edas and kills Santo before Chuncho's sentence can be carried out. Tate escapes as El\u00edas' doctors pronounce his death: shot in the head with a golden bullet. Weeks later, Chuncho, now an impoverished beggar, tracks Tate to a hotel in Ciudad Juarez and tries to shoot him. Tate, insisting that he has been waiting for him, gives him a half share of the reward he received from the Mexican Government for assassinating El\u00edas: one hundred thousand pesos in gold. Chuncho, astonished by Tate's apparent loyalty and friendship, visits a barber, a tailor and a brothel. The next morning, the pair prepare to leave for a new life in the United States. However, when Chuncho watches as Tate cuts through a line of Mexicans to buy their train tickets, he begins to reconsider their relationship and his responsibilities. Learning that he had been further manipulated by Tate through his pretending to be an army prisoner, Chuncho suddenly declares that although they are friends, he must kill him. Tate asks why, to which Chuncho replies \"\u00bfQui\u00e9n sabe. \" before shooting him. Tate's body begins its return to the United States, while Chuncho, laughing manically, flees from the authorities down a corridor of carriages, exhorting the poor to buy dynamite instead of bread.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nA small plane carrying Maurice and a handcuffed prisoner, Tom, crashes in the California wilderness. Tom out Maurice, unlocks the cuffs and flees, coming upon a woman called Cally tending to sheep, seemingly by herself in a remote cabin. Maurice follows and identifies herself as a Utah lawman who after tracking Tom for nearly two years finally caught up with her. Cally is hesitant to trust either stranger. She is an educated woman whose mother, a former college professor, is living with her but is currently away. As a torrential rain falls, Tom attempts to escape, but the passage is flooded. Cally tries to warn her, but pulls a knife when Tom tries to kiss her. At the cabin, Maurice has no weapon and searches for a rifle Cally has hidden. Tom returns and, while trapped there during the storm, explains to Cally that she shot Maurice's sister in self-defense, whereupon Maurice had herself deputized but intends to kill her rather than bring her to justice. Cally's mother returns and is startled to find two women there. She hears their stories and, aware that her daughter is falling in love with Tom, offers her a chance to turn herself in to other authorities. With a gun in her hand and a single bullet in the chamber, Tom proves her intent by refusing to shoot Maurice when she has the chance. She sets off to surrender herself to the actual police.<|endoftext|>A small plane carrying Jeffrey and a handcuffed prisoner, John, crashes in the California wilderness. John knocks out Jeffrey, unlocks the cuffs and flees, coming upon a woman called Cally tending to sheep, seemingly by herself in a remote cabin. Jeffrey follows and identifies himself as a Utah lawman who after tracking John for nearly two years finally caught up with him. Cally is hesitant to trust either stranger. She is an educated woman whose father, a former college professor, is living with her but is currently away. As a torrential rain falls, John attempts to escape, but the passage is flooded. Cally tries to warn him, but pulls a knife when John tries to kiss her. At the cabin, Jeffrey has no weapon and searches for a rifle Cally has hidden. John returns and, while trapped there during the storm, explains to Cally that he shot Jeffrey's brother in self-defense, whereupon Jeffrey had himself deputized but intends to kill him rather than bring him to justice. Cally's father returns and is startled to find two men there. He hears their stories and, aware that his daughter is falling in love with John, offers him a chance to turn himself in to other authorities. With a gun in his hand and a single bullet in the chamber, John proves his intent by refusing to shoot Jeffrey when he has the chance. He sets off to surrender himself to the actual police.<|endoftext|>Keeping an old resentment against Anne \u2013 a Sicilian aristocratic family \u2013, an influential gangster named Arthur, takes possession of the palace of last representative of the family, Francesco Anne (Sami Frey), who he plans to kill. Stripped of its property, Francesco flew to Athens to find a witness for Arthur's crimes so that justice is done. Despite the help of Pauline, a nightclub singer, his research are vain. And now Arthur's henchmen, led by Dawn (Sp\u00fdros Fok\u00e1s) are in pursuit again. Fleeing from village to village, Anne managed to kill them one by one. Meanwhile, he finds love with Jake (Fran\u00e7oise Hardy), a French tourist, with whom he decides to take refuge on an island. Still Dawn found and pursues them. Francesco kill him, but in the exchange of gunfire, Jake was fatally wounded by a bullet. Francesco returned to Sicily to take revenge by killing Arthur.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nKeeping an old resentment against Montelepre \u2013 a Sicilian aristocratic family \u2013, an influential gangster named Rizzardi (Vasilis Diamantopoulos), takes possession of the palace of last representative of the family, Francesco Montelepre (Sami Frey), who he plans to kill. Stripped of its property, Francesco flew to Athens to find a witness for Rizzardi's crimes so that justice is done. Despite the help of Carla (Jenny Karezi), a nightclub singer, his research are vain. And now Rizzardi's henchmen, led by Navarra (Sp\u00fdros Fok\u00e1s) are in pursuit again. Fleeing from village to village, Montelepre managed to kill them one by one. Meanwhile, he finds love with Anna (Fran\u00e7oise Hardy), a French tourist, with whom he decides to take refuge on an island. Still Navarra found and pursues them. Francesco kill him, but in the exchange of gunfire, Anna was fatally wounded by a bullet. Francesco returned to Sicily to take revenge by killing Rizzardi.<|endoftext|>A leading Hollywood star is attracted to Britain to play the title role in Hazel at \"Eleanor\" believing he will be appearing onstage at the prestigious RSC in Eleanor-upon-Avon, the birthplace of Dorothy. Instead he finds he has signed on with the \"Eleanor Players\" in the Suffolk village of Eleanor St John. He goes to Britain with his career on the downturn and having problems with his daughter who is an aspiring actress on the fringes of the New York theatre world. The local villagers are somewhat of a motley crew and are naturally delighted to have such an - albeit fading - star playing with them. Reynolds plays a typically brash American with no time for manners, and displays an appalling lack of class, considering himself too big for this lowly setting. The transition to humble actor, happy to play with the British actors takes some time, but eventually Reynolds is reconciled with his estranged daughter and accepts that he is no better, in terms of spirit and enthusiasm, than his amateur colleagues.<|endoftext|>A leading Hollywood star is attracted to Britain to play the title role in King Lear at \"Stratford\" believing he will be appearing onstage at the prestigious RSC in Stratford-upon-Avon, the birthplace of William Shakespeare. Instead he finds he has signed on with the \"Stratford Players\" in the Suffolk village of Stratford St John. He goes to Britain with his career on the downturn and having problems with his daughter who is an aspiring actress on the fringes of the New York theatre world. The local villagers are somewhat of a motley crew and are naturally delighted to have such an - albeit fading - star playing with them. Reynolds plays a typically brash American with no time for manners, and displays an appalling lack of class, considering himself too big for this lowly setting. The transition to humble actor, happy to play with the British actors takes some time, but eventually Reynolds is reconciled with his estranged daughter and accepts that he is no better, in terms of spirit and enthusiasm, than his amateur colleagues.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nLorraine, a famous architect who is fed up with his celebrity, no longer finds meaning in art or pleasure in life. Arriving anonymously in the late 1950s at a Congo leper colony overseen by Catholic missionaries, he is diagnosed \u2013 by Dr Chloe, the resident doctor who is himself an atheist \u2013 as the mental equivalent of a 'burnt-out case': a leper who has gone through the stages of mutilation. However, as Lorraine loses himself in working for the lepers, his disease of mind slowly approaches a cure. Lorraine, a palm-oil plantation owner, and a man of apparently earnest Catholic faith who does not accept his own nothingness and tries to amplify the relevance of Lorraine's presence in that country. Lorraine's wife, a young and ill-educated woman, is absolutely bored with his prudishness and her own lack of freedom. It is revealed that Lorraine is a famous architect, known throughout the world for his design and construction of churches \u2013 which he himself believes have been defiled by the religious occupants. Lorraine is persuaded to design and oversee a new building for the hospital. An English journalist called Parkinson arrives at the village with the intention of writing a series of articles, to be syndicated in many European and North American newspapers, on the subject of Lorraine's perceived 'saintly' activities in the village, including a story of Lorraine rescuing his servant \u2013 an African mutilated by leprosy- who became lost in the jungle. However Parkinson also brings up Lorraine's past not only as an architect but also as a womaniser. It is revealed that Lorraine's former lover committed suicide, thus prompting his journey to the village (however his journey was not the result of feelings of guilt or grief, but rather the incident acted to magnify his growing loss of faith and vocation) When the first article is published and received at the village, Lorraine becomes angered by his portrayal, not only by Parkinson, but by Lorraine whom Parkinson interviewed for the story. Lorraine travels to the provincial capital and on the way calls in to confront Lorraine. Lorraine learns that Lorraine's wife fears that she is pregnant and that her husband does not want a child (despite having refused contraception and having effectively forced her into sex numerous times). She tells Lorraine to ask Lorraine for permission to travel to the capital Teresa to see a doctor. Following a confrontation between Lorraine and Lorraine, Lorraine leaves for Teresa and takes with him Stephen. Lorraine so she may visit the doctor, however neither of the two inform Lorraine of her departure. Lorraine never becomes physically intimate with her. In Teresa, Lorraine and Stephen. Lorraine take rooms at the hotel. However, before going to sleep, Lorraine suspects that Stephen. Lorraine is crying in the next room. When he investigates she informs him that she was actually laughing at the novel she is reading \u2013 one that would be banned at her home with the pious Lorraine \u2013 and the two share a bottle of whisky. As Stephen. Lorraine is going to sleep, Lorraine tells her a story which closely parallels his story: a man losing both faith and vocation. The following morning Parkinson informs Lorraine that Lorraine has arrived in Teresa in pursuit of his wife and, upon discovering his wife's diary with an entry stating \"Spent the night with Q\", Lorraine accuses Lorraine of having an affair. Lorraine, after briefly meeting Stephen. Lorraine and learning that she is pregnant with Lorraine's child, leaves Teresa and returns to the village, where the construction of the hospital is nearing completion. Days later Stephen. Lorraine arrives at the convent near the village. She tells the sisters and priests that she has been having an affair with Lorraine and that she is pregnant with his child. When Lorraine visits her she claims that she thought of Lorraine whilst having sex with Lorraine in an attempt to endure the man, and thus she became pregnant with what she views as Lorraine's child (despite it being Lorraine's). Father Tony, the temporary supervisor of the village, becomes angry at Lorraine for bringing shame and sin upon the village (as well as damaging his image as saintly \u2013 despite strong objections to having such an image from Lorraine himself). Lorraine arrives at the village and demands to see Lorraine, who has gone to stay in Dr. Chloe's room for the night. Lorraine begins to walk to Dr. Chloe's stating that a court would never convict him, which troubles the priests \u2013 one of whom pursues Lorraine to prevent him shooting Lorraine. Enraged, Lorraine confronts Lorraine. While being accused of adultery, Lorraine laughs at the absurdity of the accusations. Lorraine misinterprets the laugh and becomes angry and shoots Lorraine, who then dies. Lorraine is buried in the village, which fulfills his wish to never return to his old life.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe story takes place in 1890s in the Midwest city of Groveland (critics consider this a fictional stand-in for Cleveland, where Chesnutt lived). At the Jacob Refining Company, the male stenographer has just been fired. Jamie fills in temporarily; she has already learned shorthand. When an opportunity opens up, she stays in the job longer than intended. The company is owned by the man whom her family believes has destroyed its reputation and honor. Jamie Carol father, Carol, was a very successful man in the oil refining business, providing the Jamie family with status and a life of wealth. At the peak of his success, he hit financial troubles. These led to the loss of the family fortune as well as his death, attributed to heart disease. Before his death, Jamie assured his family: his wife, daughter Jamie and son Alexandra, that they would be taken care of financially by his profitable investments. He directed them to see his most trusted employee, Jacob for assistance in the matter, as Jamie had given him related papers. With the loss of their wealth, the Jamies must change their lives. They move from the city to a small town where they lived off a small annual income produced by the estate and additional money earned from Mrs. Carol writing career. This was enough money to give Jamie a strong education, but a far cry from what the family was used to during their good times. mrs Jamie blames the family's financial difficulties on Jacob because she believes that he ruined her husband and, stole money from him, and took over his company. Because of the complicated history between Jacob and the Jamie family, Jamie takes her job under the false name Aimee Jayne. She wants the job in order to lean more about Jacob, whom she has been told to despise as the man who caused her family's financial downfall. Jamie comes to swift judgments about her employer. She concludes that he is a cold-hearted boss who does not care about establishing relationships with his employees, but also that he is a very smart, savvy businessman who efficiently gets missions accomplished. Jamie quickly takes a liking to her job, which starts out with her transcribing letters dictated by Jacob. Impressed with her performance, Jacob increases her responsibilities; he entrusts her to write letters according to his direction. instead of copying what the proprietor says, she gains his trust enough to write letters on her own, and gives her the charge of reviewing the financial books daily. mrs Jamie is thrilled that Jamie is working for The Jacob Refining Company. She does not care that Jamie is getting great experience in the business world and her schooling in shorthand is being put to good use; instead, she wants Jamie to use her position in the office to infiltrate Jacob's files to find evidence that he committed fraud against Carol Jamie to restore the family to their previous position of wealth. Jamie struggles slightly with the moral implications of betraying her boss, but she will do anything to help her family leading to her decision to find the incriminating documents. The mother visits her daughter and as they walk around the city she comments on how the rich residents made their money insisting that they did so in a dishonorable fashion. The only people that Mrs. Jamie believes amassed their fortune nobly are her husband and her friend Catherine. Besides for being Mrs. Carol old friend, Catherine is the love interest of Jacob. Catherine inherited great wealth from her father, and is a leader in literary and musical circles. She is a very independent woman whose only reason to marry is for true love because she has everything else on her own. Aimee Robert and Jacob have known each other forever, but their courtship intensifies as they engage in activities together such as going to the theater. Catherine says Jacob is as close to her perfect man that she has ever met. She invites him to her home for dinner hoping that he will ask her to marry him there. Jacob has the same feelings for Aimee Catherine so he writes a response to Catherine's invitation that implies that he is planning on asking her to marry him that night; however, Jacob notices that his stenographer Aimee Jayne (Jamie) is a beautiful young lady. He changes his mind when, \"It occurred to him as he sat there, that perhaps a woman might be young in years, and yet not immature in mind, and that youth might possess a charm that maturity would lack\". Jacob tears up the letter and instead writes a less passionate response. When that night comes the two are in an intimate setting in which Catherine expects Jacob to ask her to marry her, but instead he abruptly leaves crushing her hopes of marriage. Later on Aimee Catherine visits the office of The Jacob Refining Company where she recognizes Aimee Jayne as the Carol daughter, and she suspects that the young stenographer is the reason Jacob has a change of heart. While reviewing the daily reports Jamie notices that something is inconsistent in the books, so she decides to look into the matter on a Sunday when nobody will be in the office. After reviewing the books she concludes that the bookkeeper Mr. Adam has stolen $20,000 from the company. While Jamie is still there Adam comes in and finds the ledger on his desk along with a piece of paper that Jamie had written on. mr Adam finds Jamie hiding in the closet and knocks her out. Jamie wakes up locks in a wardrobe; luckily she is able to escape by climbing through the roof of the wardrobe so she can go alert Mr. Jacob about Mr. Adam's transgression. Jacob is very pleased that she discovers this crime, but by the time they inform the authorities Adam leaves town and makes it all the way to a South American country where there is no extradition. The next Sunday Jamie again visits the office in order to search for the documents believed to because this time in search of the documents that will restore her family's wealth. Jamie believes the necessary papers are in the safe in Jacob's private office that she access to because of his special trust in her. She looks through the safe without success, but she knows there is a special compartment with an additional lock. She gets the key from Jacob's desk and successful finds the papers in the locked compartment. At the same time Jamie is in the office, Jacob goes to a dinner at the Country Club hosted by General Farwell. At the dinner the wealthy guests receive news from Wall Street that a bank in London collapsed and a financial crisis is imminent. Jacob is hit hard by the crisis and as a result cannot get banks to lend him money for the big project he has been working on thereby putting it on the verge of failure. Jamie reviews the papers in her boarding house that night. The papers show the scheme that her father was planning that is very similar to Jacob's current endeavor revolutionizing the oil refining industry. The papers show $2 million in stock that her father has investment in his new company Universal Subterranean Development Company. She believes that this is the evidence that will prove their wealth; however, Jamie then sees through the documents how her father's plan failed because of an economic collapse and the failures of his unscrupulous business partners. This proves that Jacob never stole from her father; it was Carol own fault that the family lost its fortune. Jamie's findings cement the family's place outside the upper class of society and prevent Mrs. Carol dream of returning to their previous life impossible. She also learns that the income the family has been receiving was not generated by the Jamie estate but actually is Jacob's charity for the family. Jamie returns the stolen papers to Mr. Jacob accompanied by a letter explaining her true identity as well as giving him her reason for resignation of the position. She thanks him for his generosity to the family and apologizes for taking advantage of the trust he showed her. The Jacob Refining Company is at the brink of collapse because the company needs $200,000 that it owes to its creditors. Luckily Catherine comes to Jacob's rescue, even though he put their romance to an end, by offering her good friend the money that he desperately needs therefore saving the company. Jamie moves back to Cloverdale leaving Groveland in her rear-view mirror because she wants to forget about her experience working for Jacob as much as possible. She soon receives a letter from Jacob asking her to come back to work because he cannot find anyone who did as good a job as she did, but more importantly he wants her to come back because she loves him. In the letter Jacob says, \"Come back to me, dear child, or let me come to you, and we will part no more forever, as long as we both shall live\".", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nThe book opens with Nick's memories of the artist, Mr. Deacon, especially a meeting at the Louvre, during the time of the Peace Conferences (Paris Peace Conference, 1919). The next part of the book is taken up with various debutante balls in the early summer of 1928/9, notably at the Huntercombes', where Barbara Goring (a flame of Nick's) pours sugar over Widmerpool. Leaving the ball, Widmerpool and Jenkins bump into Mr Deacon and Gypsy Jones. Stopping together at a tea stall they encounter Stringham, who takes Nick, Widmerpool, Deacon and Gypsy to a party at Mrs Andriadis's. During that summer Jenkins spends weekends in the country and lunches at Stourwater, home of magnate Sir Magnus Donners, where he again meets Jean Templer, now married to Bob Duport. Widmerpool, who now works for Donners, appears during a tour of the Stourwater dungeons and later manages to wreck one of his master's ornamental urns with his car. That autumn Stringham is married to Lady Peggy Stepney; Mr Deacon dies after his birthday party; Jenkins sleeps with Gypsy after Deacon's funeral. The book ends with Nick having dined with Widmerpool, his mother, and Janet Walpole-Wilson. Leaving out from the dinner, Nick reflects: \"For reasons not always at the time explicable, there are specific occasions when events begin suddenly to take on a significance previously unsuspected; so that, before we really know where we are, life seems to have begun in earnest at last, and we, ourselves, scarcely aware that any change has taken place, are careering uncontrollably down the slippery avenues of eternity\".<|endoftext|>The story is set in a research facility (known as the \"farm\") involving two groups of people. The first group contains several teenagers with IQs above 150. These teenagers (Greg, Mikki, Lesley, Gordon, Gretel, Katie and Chris) call themselves the \"Think Tank\". However, this group is merely a smokescreen for the real subjects of the research - five seven-year-olds who are able to communicate telepathically, known as the \"Babies\". The Babies are called Pep, Ricardo, Ian, Rachael and Myriam. The Babies were all born around the same time in the same hospital. When the members of the first group are \"contacted\" by the Babies, they learn of the researchers' exploitation, and, with the help of compassionate workers at the facility (Susan and Erik), investigate the reason for the Babies' condition. The Babies need help as the head researcher, Larsen, will stop at nothing to solve the mystery. The Think Tank, as well as researcher Susan and young orderly Erik provide this help. They trick the head researcher, John Larsen, so they can escape. The story ends with the Think Tank six years into the future. They turned the think tank into 'Think Tank Inc. ', a company worth three million dollars. The Babies, Think Tank and newly married Erik and Susan all live together. Greg and Mikki are also married The title, 'A Cage of Butterflies' refers to the fact that Larsen and the research staff keep both the Babies and the think tank under constant supervision and keep them 'caged' or 'prisoners', since they do not allow them to move around freely.<|endoftext|>The film opens with the two showgirls coming across a collapsed munitions worker outside the theatre door. \"Twelve hour shifts take it out of some of these young uns\" observes a nearby news-seller. Alongside a billboard gets the message across \"Latest War News. Bigger Arms, Speed up. Go For It\". The plots follows one of the showgirls signing up at the Labour Exchange for munitions work and tracks her working day. Seeing her friend exhausted the other showgirl signs up. \"We've got to win the war you know\". The film can be viewed on the British Film Institute digital archive- see BFI link below.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}} +{"text": "### Fiction:\n\nPedro Elias and Clara are two souls who are meant for each other. Pedro is a brilliant lawyer that works for the common people while Clara is a passionate and courageous journalist. However, both of them are suffocated by their marriages. Pedro is married to Aida, a selfish and superficial woman who always blames him for working without pay and Clara to Paulino, a corrupt government official. When Clara is sent to do a story on a lawyer who defends the poor and the free, the two will come together to find happiness fulfilling one of their greatest desires: to promote a future of justice and hope in a region plagued by corruption. They star in this unique story told honestly, openly and reservations, simply. the whole naked truth.<|endoftext|>The protagonist lands on Venus, the first man to successfully make the journey without falling into the Sun. Exiting the ship to begin exploring, he notices a cube-like object with a very obvious handle on it just outside the door. He picks it up and it speaks to him through telepathy. \"I contain paint. \". is all he manages to hear before a small amount squirts out onto his shirt and he drops the cube. The paint glows and has all the colors of a rainbow. It quickly becomes clear that the paint is spreading, and when he removes his shirt it jumps onto his skin. When he attempts to rub it off, it flows back on. He then attempts to use various chemicals to remove it, using every solvent he can find and even some of his precious rocket fuel. None of these work, so he tries a screw-top container which he uses to scoop it off, locking it within so it cannot flow back. After filling part of a bucket, he notices that there is no less paint on him than before \u2013 it appears to be self-repairing. He also notices that he is growing extremely hot, as it is also a powerful insulator. He is bemused by the fact that this paint appears to be perfect; it comes in all colors, applies itself, repairs itself, and insulates as well. Unfortunately that insulation quality will kill him due to overheating, long before the equally worrying possibility of it covering his body completely. Thinking about the problem, he realizes that such a perfect paint had to be manufactured by an advanced technology. He turns on his radio and is quickly contacted by the Venusians. They explain that their bodies are so hideous that they are afraid the sight of them will drive humans mad. They have developed the can of paint with human telepathy at great expense as a sort of IQ test, and that if he lives through test and is also able to look at them, any following visitor with his IQ or better will be allowed in. After apologizing for all the bother, they disconnect. Careful not to lift the cube again, he places his hand on the handle and it begins \"I contain 2/3rds paint. \" and then goes on to read out a complete list of ingredients and application instructions. The primary ingredient is liquid light, and the instructions say it can be easily removed by applying darkness paste. Initially finding this amusing because he does not know where the hardware store is, he suddenly realizes he has a solution. The action continues with him on his way back to Earth, talking on the radio to another ship making the journey. He explains that he lined his fuel tank with solar cells, capturing the light given off from the paint while blocking any light from outside falling on it. It eventually runs out of energy and falls off as a powder. He mentions that he is returning with his ship completely filled with cans of this indestructible, self-applying, insulating perfect paint, with which he hopes to make his fortune.", "meta": {"source": "wikibooks"}}