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Counterpart is an American science fiction thriller television series starring J. K. Simmons. It was created by Justin Marks and was first broadcast on the premium cable network Starz . The series ran for 20 episodes across two seasons.
A 'Counterpart' is a person or thing that has the same purpose as another one in a different place or organization [1] In paleontology, one half of a split compression fossil; Counterpart International, a U.S.-based development charity
Title page of the novel Ping Shan Leng Yan Title page of the novel Haoqiu zhuan. Caizi jiaren (Chinese: 才子佳人; pinyin: cáizǐ jiārén; Wade–Giles: Ts'ai-tzu chia-jen; lit. 'scholar–beauty' [1] [2] and "scholar and beauty") [a] is a genre of Chinese fiction typically involving a romance between a young scholar and a beautiful girl.
The Invisible Man and The Island of Doctor Moreau both involve scientific men whose failed experiments in tampering with nature result in the story's conflict. The cyberpunk genre is heavily influenced by transhumanism, generally criticizing the use of technology to improve human life by showing the consequences resulting in its misuse.
A beauty deity is a god or (usually) goddess associated with the concept of beauty. Classic examples in the Western culture are the Greek goddess Aphrodite and her Roman counterpart, Venus. The following is a list of beauty deities across different cultures. For some deities, beauty is only one of several aspects they represent, or a lesser one.
The terms "comparative literature" and "world literature" are often used to designate a similar course of study and scholarship. Comparative literature is the more widely used term in the United States, with many universities having comparative literature departments or comparative literature programs.
The power difference in the relationship between a man and a woman not only creates the social norm of machismo, but by consequence also creates its female counterpart, the social concept of marianismo. [22] A concept supported and promoted by women in which the idea is that women are meant to be pure and wholesome. [21]
"O Youth and Beauty!" is a short story by John Cheever first published in The New Yorker on August 22, 1953. [ 1 ] The work was included the collection of Cheever's short fiction The Housebreaker of Shady Hill and Other Stories (1958) by Harper and Brothers . [ 2 ]