![]() ![]() But he personally knows the woman the white man wants to find-the notorious Black Betty, an ebony siren whose talent for all things rich and male took her from Houston's Fifth Ward to Beverly Hills. So when a white man approaches Easy with a wad of cash to find a missing person, Easy would is tempted to simply throw the money back in his sleazy face. ![]() Despite the ongoing civil rights movement, racism still rules the streets and police officers are no exception. ![]() Racial tensions are high-Black folks avoid even stepping foot in white neighborhoods. Easy Rawlins, Los Angeles's mean streets were never meaner-or more deadly. ⚠️ This book will unfortunately be removed from the service on the 14th of May.Įasy Rawlins is on the verge of losing everything-until he gets an offer from the FBI that he has no choice but to accept.įor most Black Americans, the 1960s were times of hope. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I’d suggest jigsawing the readings on The Unthinkable, since they are longer.There’s a version with guided questions, and a version without. Have students read the selections based on The Unthinkable. ![]() I’ve also done a brief reading on the 2011 Japanese Tsunami. I’ve adapted Pliny’s letters to Tacitus, with a brief introduction to explain who wrote the letters and jog the kids’ memories of Pompeii. ![]() One of those disasters is ancient: The eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. That’s why I decided to create a lesson that informs students about how humans typically behave during disasters, and then turn them loose on two historical disasters to see how those behaviors played out in real life. For example, cortisol can give us energy when we need it, but also temporarily destroys our ability to make complex decisions.Įven “complex decisions” as simple as how to operate a seatbelt.Īfter I read The Unthinkable, I started seeing human behavior during disasters through fresh eyes. Ripley lays out the science: That the human fear response is primitive, and not always especially well-adapted to the threats we now face. It’s an amazing book that I totally recommend, because it does an excellent job of explaining a lot of “irrational” human behavior during disasters. Months ago, when I was putting together the 9/11 reading collection, I also read Amanda Ripley’s The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes–And Why. I feel like there are a LOT of jokes I could make about that title, but I’ll spare you. ![]() ![]() I started with the Reboot Legion and specifically with Legion Lost. My journey with the various LOSH comics is a bit of a strange one. Great idea to have an official Legion thread! Please leave your recommended stories from any era here. So much more could be down with the property. Marvel has the Guardians of the Galaxy and the Starjammers. ![]() I didn't read any of the volumes when it was renamed Supergirl and the Legion of Superheroes. I missed all the Reboot Legion (the one I admittedly know the least about) and I only read the early and later volumes of Waid's Threeboot Legion. I wanted to read more Legion stories but I wasn't sure where to start. I read the New 52 Legion and wasn't feeling it either. I also read Levitz's second turn on Legion pre-Flashpoint volumes: Superboy and the LOSH, the Choice and Consequences. ![]() I'm a big fan of the Levitz Legion from the 80s and the LOSH animated series from the 00s. From the height of popularity, to demonstrative obscurity. I couldn't find an existing appreciation thread, so I figured I would make my own discussion thread. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I'll divide this from 1st half to 2nd half (Halves from before and after the mid book climax) Their personalities and voices sort of died down which was a huge disappointment since I was starting to love them and claim them as people I could relate to before the mid book climax happened and things went downhill. The characters didn't excite me at the end as they did in the start. The ending didn't do anything really for me or shocked me. There is a scene halfway through that seemed as if it was the climax and it was only about 250 pages in maybe? I thought that would've been a good place to end however we got the second part of the book that was just slow and boring and I had no interest in it at all not even really in the climax climax. ![]() In terms of storyline I found it was very interesting or at least to keep up my fascination. ![]() ![]() ![]() Still, urban fantasy fans will be happy to charge through to the end. This fast-paced urban fantasy builds momentum by toggling between the protagonist’s and antagonist’s points of view, but at times character development takes a back seat to the breakneck plot and descriptive clashes between Nephilim, angels, fallen angels, and humans. ![]() Now reluctant chosen one Childs must pull deep from within to accept his calling and protect the innocent. Uncovering his heritage leads Childs to realize his destiny as an apocalypse angel and puts him on the trail of a plot to kill all Nephilim to spur an angelic war. Jackson, 2021, Watkins Media Limited edition, in English Forging a Nightmare (2021 edition) Open Library It looks like youre offline. Childs comes to discover that the victims were all Nephilim, half-human and half-angel-and so is he. Even more unusual is the Enochian script carved in the victims’ faces and Childs’s run-in with presumed dead Marine sniper Anaba Raines. ![]() The killer mutilates his victims by cutting off the corpses’ eyelids and burning their tongues. FBI Agent Michael Childs is investigating the serial homicide of people born with extra fingers and toes. Jackson modernizes Christian lore in her action-packed debut. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Emerging markets often end up resorting instead to devaluation, default or inflation. In anticipation, borrowing costs spike. Put simply, the risk of government default in the face of an adverse economic shock is lower than for other would-be borrowers.Īdmittedly, there are limits, dictated largely by the political capacity of a government to raise revenues in difficult circumstances. A government can.Īrmed with this knowledge, creditors are understandably willing to accept mostly lower returns on government bonds than on other investments. A worker receiving a pay cut cannot force others to make up the difference. ![]() In the real world, however, taxes are crucial. The fundamental difference between government finances and those of companies and households is not access to a printing press but, instead, the coercive power to raise taxes. A company making a severe loss cannot reduce that loss by imposing taxes on everyone else. A government can. ![]() Taxes may serve other purposes - the redistribution of income and wealth, the discouragement of “sinful” behaviour - but, in the world of MMT, they serve no useful macroeconomic role. As such, all their spending could, in principle, be financed via the creation of cash. As Stephanie Kelton notes in her book The Deficit Myth, governments with access to a printing press are “currency issuers” (exceptions include, most obviously, members of the eurozone). ![]() ![]() ![]() Kobi Kambon is an internationally renowned scholar in African-centered psychology, Black personality, mental health and cultural oppression. ![]() This brief intellectual portrait uses the pioneering work of Kobi Kambon as a representative model of important ideas discussed in African-centered psychology. ![]() Intellectual histories allow us to uncover the intellectual antecedents and trace the theoretical steps of the great thinkers that set the foundation for the road contemporary scholars travel. Yet, there are pertinent issues addressed in the literature and the various discourses emanating from the literature produced by African-centered psychologists. Scholars engaged in the history of ideas have given very little attention, if any, to the intellectual history of African-centered psychological thought. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Farquhar sees this manipulation of time as a good way of escaping reality. Perhaps this is the reason why Farquhar attempts to manipulate time. The depiction of time as subjective by the author is intriguing. At this time, time depicts a transitional place that is between the present and the past. At this point it is clear that the present events are not favorable to Farquhar. ![]() For example, “Farquhar closes his eyes to fix his thoughts” (Chapter II, p.2). This time can either be exhibited in the symbol of sleeping or going into a dream. The author uses the metaphor of time to explain how one can drift into semi-consciousness. For example, the author calls Farquhar “a vast pendulum” (Chapter III, p.3) to show how he is unconscious of the current happenings. In this respect, the author tries to portray the feelings of the character in a metaphorical manner. In the story, Farquhar seems entangled in his own timeless realm. For example, Farquhar thinks that time goes slow on his side compare to others. ![]() The main character in the story perceives time not to favor him. Perhaps the author deems that time favors the fate of each character in the story. The author uses time to depict events that exemplify reality. It is interesting to observe how the author uses time to interrupt a continuous flow of events. To some extent, the author perception on time is not same to that of other characters. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() that you had this bifurcated feeding system where the enslaved got some set of foods and the big house got different cuisines. ![]() "So it was really only on the really large plantations. "A lot of time master and slave were eating out of the same pot," he says. Miller says the common perception is that soul food is slave food, but that's only partially true, he tells Michel Martin, host of NPR's Tell Me More. Getting past some stereotypes about soul food is one goal of his new book. "With the only qualifications of eating the food a lot, and cooking it some, I dove in," says Miller. After the president's second term, finding himself with extra time on his hands, he ended up spending the next decade or so researching soul food. How?Īdrian Miller is a lawyer and former special assistant to President Clinton. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Soul Food Subtitle The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time Author Adrian Miller ![]() ![]() They have had some solar panels break and aren’t able to produce enough olives to meet their quota. Central Allocations, a small group of people in charge of all the decisions, controls everything.Įrik’s family is having a tough time. However, over the years, the purpose of the game shifted and became the determining factor for what kind of job you had, where you were able to live, and what supplies you received. Epic (the MMORPG) was created for people to clip up, enter the world of Epic, and take out their agression on fictional characters rather than doing harm to a real person. Well, on New Earth that is exactly the way life is. What if the quality of your life depended on how well you played a MMORPG? What’s a MMORPG you ask? It is a Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game. ![]() |