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What Love REALLY Is: Anna Karenina by Tolstoy

  If you like fiery romance but do not care for pornographic scenes, there couldn't be a more perfect classic than Anna Karenina.  This Tolstoy's masterpiece, unlike most romance novels, does more than try to get a rise out of you or make you yearn for chiseled muscles/soft, rounded arms; it teaches you an important aspect about the meaning of love, and I'll tell you exactly what. Anna is the young vivacious jewel of St Petersburg's, Russia, high-class society. She married Alexei Karenin, a politician who is in love with her but has a personality that is often described as mechanical; in a way, Karenin is presented as a perfect product of systems, he doesn't really understand the humanity of the world much less of his own self. He struggles with understanding his emotions or even feeling them.  Although Karenin is 20years older than Anna, they have a nice and stable marriage that's crowned with their son Sekoyva. Early in the book, Anna describes him as a good m

Ike Agbọghọ Ojii: Mgbamọsọ Agha ma ọ bụghị Mmeri?

Ọ dịghị ihe na-akpasi ụmụ nwaanyị  ubgua iwe ka ihe ọ bụla mmadụ kuru ghasara 'Patriarki/Ndị Nna'. Mkparịta ụka ọ bụla na-adabere na ihu a nwere ike ịkwụsị na abụ olu egwu nke 'onye nwee ụwa? Agbọghọ! '. Ike ụmụ nwanyị bu ihe ọma. O meela ọtụtụ ihe ọma zuru ụwa ọnụ, mana enwe mgbe ụfọdụ mgbe uche zuru oke ga-ajụ maobu n'ụmụ nwanyị anaghị aputa ndị ha na-achọ ịkwatu. Karịsịa mgbe a na-elekwasị anya bụ ụmụ nwanyị ndi Afirịka N'oge na-adịbeghị anya, Renee Donaldson, nwa ojii Youtuber, na onye na-emetụta mmekọrịta mmadụ na mgbaghara rịọrọ ndi na-eso ya maka ịkwalite ụdị akpọrọ Clinichub. Clinichub bụ azụmahịa nke na-eme dị ka onye etiti  n'ụlọ ọgwụ ịwa ahụ plastik na Istanbul, Turkey, yana ndị achọ 'ịwa ahu plastik'. Ihe na-adọrọ uche banyere azụmaahịa a bụ etu o si agbado ụmụnwaanyị isi ojii anya ma jiri ndị mmetụta dị ka Renee rata ha n'okpuru mma. Renee rịọrọ ndị 'fans' ya mgbaghara mgbe 'ịwa ahụ' nweta ike Brazil 'gara ọjọọ, h