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A dark tale of hubris, lust, and self-destruction… as told by a man who famously fell prey to those same impulses in his own life. Oscar Wilde wrote his original interpretation of the Biblical story of Salomé in French, and the play was so controversial that no theatre in England would produce it for nearly four decades. Includes a conversation with director Michael Hackett and Wilde scholar David Rodes. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast production.

¡Si siempre ha querido superar la ansiedad y lograr la autodisciplina, pero lo ha intentado todo y nada le ha funcionado...siga leyendo! ¿Ha probado otras soluciones sin fin, pero nada parece funcionar durante más de unas pocas semanas? ¿Quiere finalmente decirle adiós a la toma de medicamentos y descubrir algo que realmente funcione para usted? Liberarse de la ansiedad y ser alguien disciplinado no tiene que ser difícil. Incluso si usted ya lo ha intentado antes sin éxito. De hecho, es más fácil de lo que piensa.

When her father and sister are killed, a distant relative invites Salome Alexandra and her mother to live with his family in Jerusalem. Quickly betrothed to a pagan prince half her age, Salome questions God's plan. But when she suddenly finds herself being crowned queen of Judea, she learns that a woman committed to God can change the world.

Wilde's tradegy that tells the Biblical story of Salomé in one act. Full-cast dramatization featuring Lester Fletcher, Jack Evans, Forrest Williams and Bettye Ackerman.

Camila Henríquez Ureña is about to retire from her longtime job teaching Spanish at Vassar College. Only now as she sorts through family papers does she begin to know the woman behind the legend of her mother, the revered Salomé Ureña, who died when Camila was three. In stark contrast to Salomé, who became the Dominican Republic's national poet at the age of seventeen, Camila has spent most of her life trying not to offend anybody. Her mother dedicated her life to educating young women to give them voice in their turbulent new nation.

Exploring Carl Jung’s magnum opus, The Red Book, chapter-by-chapter. In each episode, Salome Institute director, Satya Doyle Byock, and Astrologer Carol Ferris discuss C.G. Jung’s vast work while reflecting on Jungian psychology and history, the astrology of Jung's time and ours, and the political, social, feminist, and anti-racist relevance of this work today. C.G. Jung’s journey into the unconscious began in 1913, just months before the sudden beginning of WWI. It was this descent, laboriously documented in a large red leather book that has come to be known as "The Red Book" that ...

My future had always been set. Like a road paved by skilled builders, without bends or intersections, I walked the path my parents laid for me. My marriage to the future of The Outfit was all that mattered. I didn’t have a choice. Belonging to the world’s largest criminal organization wasn’t easy but belonging to him was. With Jacob, I’d got lucky and as a mafia princess, I couldn’t have asked for more. Jacob was beautiful and kind and the road to him was bright with sunlight and sweet with the fragrance of flowers. Until it wasn’t. Until it became dark with shadows.

Jade Peters has never had an easy life. She's felt like she's had to work in some capacity since she could string a sentence together. From her father constantly putting them in debt to loan sharks, to her mother having run off years ago with someone who promised her a rich life, she's had no one to count on but herself. Depending on people has always blown up in her face and she doesn't know if she'll ever be able to trust anyone.

Isabella "Bella" Moretti is known as a famous real estate heiress and millionaire brat. Most people don't know that her grandfather, a real estate mogul, is actually the head of the Italian mafia for their state. Those who do know, treat her like a princess. She's never wanted for anything. Even though her life sounds perfect, she finds herself stuck between the image she's created and the desire to not be that anymore. Enter Cormac "Cor" O'Connor, the new head for the Irish Mafia and rival to the Italian syndicate on the other side of the city.

Alla Nazimova has reached the pinnacle of success. She is the highest-paid actress in town, with a luxurious estate, the respect of her peers, adoration of her fans, and a series of lovers that has included the first wife of her protégé, Rudolph Valentino. But reaching the top is one thing. Staying there is an entirely different matter. Nazimova dreams of producing a motion picture of Oscar Wilde's infamous Salomé. It will be a new form of moviemaking: the world's first art film.

Average schools don't inspire greatness - and greatness is what our world needs if we are going to produce world-changing learners. In Culturize, author and education leader Jimmy Casas shares insights into what it takes to cultivate a community of learners who embody the innately human traits our world desperately needs, such as kindness, honesty, and compassion. His stories reveal how these "soft skills" can be honed while meeting and exceeding academic standards of 21st-century learning.

Every actress wants to play Salome, the star-making role in a big-budget movie about the legendary woman whose story has inspired artists since ancient times. So when the film’s mercurial director casts Vera Larios, an unknown Mexican ingenue, in the lead role, she quickly becomes the talk of the town. Vera also becomes an object of envy for Nancy Hartley, a bit player whose career has stalled, and who will do anything to win the fame she believes she richly deserves.

Los pensamientos ansiosos y la preocupación constante plagan las relaciones y amenazan con separar a dos personas antes de que puedan experimentar la maravilla del amor. Ya sea que hayas vivido con ansiedad toda tu vida o que los eventos recientes hayan despertado inseguridades subyacentes, no tienes que aceptar que el resto de tu vida será así. Puedes recuperar el control y sacar la ansiedad.

Oscar Wilde's Salome was originally published in French in 1891 and translated into English by Lord Alfred Douglas. This one-act play, a sinister tale of a woman scorned and her vengeance, has become a landmark of Decadent literature. The play tells the biblical story of Salome, stepdaughter of the tetrarch Herod Antipas, who, to her stepfather's dismay but to the delight of her mother Herodias, requests the head of John the Baptist on a silver platter as a reward for dancing the dance of the seven veils.

Have you thought much about the women in the Old Testament? How important they were in all the Bible stories? How many times have you read through the Old Testament in the Bible, and read about the women in the Bible who were important in Gods plans? Have you thought about how critical they were in making sure that Gods plans were carried out? Most of the don't get talked about much, or seem very significant, yet they were crucial in the plans of God. These women are all important in the overall plan of God. Eve Sarah Rebekah Hagar Rachel Rahab Deborah Jael Ruth Queen of Sheba Bathsheba ...

Bryton Haruk sets out on a suicide mission to stop the bloodthirsty Skullmen from terrorizing the war-weary Land of Eldwyn. Consumed by guilt over the death of his wife, Bryton seeks revenge and reunion in the afterlife with his lost love. His purpose is determined, his bravery unmatched, until the queen casts a spell to save Bryton from himself.

Amazing New Testament Women What is the significance of the women mentioned in the New Testament? Many of the stories we read in the Bible, we read about the women that God used to do the work he needed done. Most of the stories are small parts that if we skip over, we don't get the real meaning of why the stories are in the Bible. The fact that these women are mentioned in the Bible should make us wonder why, and we should know that they are not in the Bible accidentally. God wanted us to read about them, and to know that they were special people in history, and important to know who they ...

In today's modern world, we are largely isolated from the kind of savagery our ancestors faced on a daily basis. Although violence was as natural to our evolutionary development as sex and food, it has become foreign to most of us. At once demonized and glamorized, but almost always deeply misunderstood.

In "UNBROKEN II: From Hellenization in the Holy Land to Conception of the Palestinian People and their Division by History," the author takes the reader on a guided journey of the land between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River that has been fought over more than any other real estate on earth. It covers half a millennium of the history of this territory variously described as "The Holy Land," The Promised Land," Israel, and Palestine. This challenging expedition made-simple portrays the domination of four Near Eastern Empires of the Holy Land before Alexander the Great conquered it...

The Salome Ensemble probes the entangled lives, works, and passions of a political activist, a novelist, a screenwriter, and a movie actress who collaborated in 1920s New York City. Together they created the shape-shifting, genre-crossing Salome of the Tenements, first a popular novel and then a Hollywood movie. The title character was a combination Cinderella and Salome like the women who conceived her. Ginsberg considers the women individually and collectively.