![]() To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain't no disgrace to be poor, but might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. His opening line was this one:Īmerica is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. Campbell had been a fairly well-known playwright at one time. ![]() While the British colonel set Lazzaro's broken arm and mixed plaster for the cast, the German major translated out loud passages from Howard W. If what was written in it of America was true then, my impression on current evidence is that it is still true today. Slaughterhouse-Five was published in 1969, forty years ago. ![]() ![]() It's one of the passages that has most stayed with me. The tenor of the recent resistance to public health care in the States (people fiercely arguing against their own welfare) has reminded me of a passage from Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five. ![]()
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![]() foreign and domestic policy, Understanding Power offers a sweeping critique of the world around us and is definitive Chomsky. With an eye to political activism and the media's role in popular struggle, as well as U.S. And as he elucidates the connection between America's imperialistic foreign policy and the decline of domestic social services, Chomsky also discerns the necessary steps to take toward social change. In a series of enlightening and wide-ranging discussions, all published here for the first time, Chomsky radically reinterprets the events of the past three decades, covering topics from foreign policy during Vietnam to the decline of welfare under the Clinton administration. Now, in Understanding Power, Peter Mitchell and John Schoeffel have assembled the best of Chomsky's recent talks on the past, present, and future of the politics of power. Over the past thirty years, broadly diverse audiences have gathered to attend his sold-out lectures. ![]() ![]() Noam Chomsky is universally accepted as one of the preeminent public intellectuals of the modern era. A major new collection from "arguably the most important intellectual alive" ( The New York Times). ![]() ![]() ![]() Seventeen-year-old Jay Reguero searches for the truth about his cousin’s death amid President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs while on an epic trip back to his native Philippines. In addition to her sensitive portrayal of Gemm and Maebh’s lifelong relationship and Noah and Mara’s emerging romance, Cornwell successfully incorporates themes of same-sex relationships, eating disorders and ruthless scientific research into her novel.Ī haunting, atmospheric, intergenerational tale of the “inbetween,” suffused with selkie lore. When a young selkie vanishes, Noah suspects the Research Center’s director may be involved and risks his life trying to uncover the shocking truth. Attracted to each other, Noah and Mara tentatively become friends, which proves challenging after Mara reveals she and Maebh are selkies, living most of their lives as seals but with the ability to remove their skins and appear as humans. Meanwhile, Noah meets an intriguing young woman named Mara, who spends a lot of time in the ocean. Noah and Lo quickly realize Gemm and her friend Maebh are partners, while Gemm learns Lo is bulimic. In this debut, a contemporary teen arrives at New Hampshire’s Isles of Shoals for a coveted summer internship and discovers the liminal boundary between fantasy and reality.Įager to begin his dream internship at the Marine Science Research Center on Appledore Island, Noah and his sister, Lo, are staying with their grandmother, Gemm, who lives on nearby White Island. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But none pack anything close to the same proportions as us. Many other creatures have muscle and fat padding their backsides, and some even have butt cheeks. A booty is, in fact, a unique feat of evolution: Out of any species, humans have the most junk in their trunks. Unlike with a knee or an elbow, Radke argues, when it comes to the tuchus, we’re far more likely to think about form than function-even though it features the largest muscle in the human body.įor all the scrutiny we spare them (outside of when we’re trying on new jeans) our butts aren’t mere aesthetic flourishes. Radke goes on to explain that our feelings about our hindquarters often have more to do with race, gender, and sex than with the actual meat of them. “Butts are a bellwether,” writes journalist Heather Radke in her 2022 book Butts: A Backstory. Few muscles in the human body carry as much cultural clout as the gluteus maximus. ![]() ![]() Fee suggest that “the recognition of a degree of cultural relativity is a valid hermeneutical procedure and is an inevitable corollary of the occasional nature of epistles.” 1They offer guidelines 2for distinguishing between ideas that are relative to any given culture and ideas that are transcendent of culture and normative for Christians (and non-Christians). ![]() Reverend Provis adamantly remarked on several occasions in the interview that a sure-fire way to halt interfaith dialogue in its tracks-one of the most underhanded tactics evangelicals use to justify their position-is the use of what she called the “clobbering” verses of Scripture. Not long ago I was designing an ethics course for a small Christian college when I had the opportunity to interview Reverend Robyn Provis of All God’s Children Metropolitan Community Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on the topic of homosexuality and the Bible. ![]() Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites…will inherit the kingdom of God” (1Cor.6:9 NKJV). “Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: This article first appeared in the Practical Hermeneutics column of the Christian Research Journal, volume30, number06 (2007). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Therefore, it is important for hospitality organizations to give employees certain levels of control and autonomy over their jobs and one of the most popular approach was empowerment (Hales & Klidas, 1998 Klidas, van den Berg, & Wilderom, 2007 Meng & Han, 2014). Yet, the unique features of services, intangibility, inseparability, and heterogeneity (Parasuraman, 1987), make role uncertainty inherently entailed in service delivery process. The success of hospitality organizations relies greatly on frontline employees’ service performance. As a mean to reduce uncertainty, agency theory suggests that certain levels of control should be given to job performers when designing jobs (Cohen & Bailey, 1997 Cohen, Ledford, & Spreitzer, 1996 Eisenhardt, 1988), particularly when successful performance of job duties is critical as in the hospitality industry. Researchers have long recognized the role of uncertainty in the operation and performance of organizations (Wall, Cordery, & Clegg, 2002). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Their bond is not coterie, pack, or coven, but something else. ![]() That is how it has always been, and how it was always to be.īut Luc, Anders, and Curtis-vampire, demon, and wizard-have cheated tradition. The law of three is unbroken: three vampires form a coterie, three demons make a pack, and three wizards are a coven. Note: a copy of this book was provided by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. This has been a great opportunity for me to branch out and I’m enjoying reading new-to-me authors. It looks as if there are a few other prequel short stories from each of the main characters’ POV in print as well, if you want to grab the various anthologies that the publisher has released. ![]() I did realize after starting it and seeing it looked like an established relationship, that I might benefit from some insight by purchasing the 33 pg short titled ‘Three’ which originally was published in the anthology ‘Blood Sacraments’ where the characters initially meet. The cover was also a refreshing change from the sexy, bare male torso. Why MtSnow reviewed this story: It’s Different Publishers week at RGR, and I thought the blurb on this one looked good. MtSnow reviews ‘Triad Blood’ by ‘Nathan Burgoine, published by Bold Stroke Books on May 1st 2016. ![]() ![]() ![]() As Bond said, “She thought very highly of Paddington, as I did of her. Her realism (she studied bears at the London Zoo to get the anatomy just right) and warmth proved the perfect match to the story. In a letter suggesting that Collins accept this amusing story, Wilson presciently wrote, “If Paddington proved a great success, he could be made into a leading character, and have more books written about his adventures.” Collins signed up Bond in early 1958 and commissioned the illustrator Peggy Fortnum to visualize Paddington and draw the now-iconic pictures for the first edition. In 1958, an editor at Collins named Barbara Ker Wilson received a manuscript submission about a talking bear, which she opened with “initial suspicion”-as the publisher had received many other proposals featuring humanized animals that “are invariably either whimsy-whamsy, written down, or filled with adult innuendoes.” However, Wilson found herself “completely won over by the author’s simplicity of style” and his “simple and direct approach.” The manuscript, from a television cameraman named Michael Bond, was about a bear named Paddington. ![]() ![]() It is a brilliant piece of work that shows the power of ideas and the need for the freedom to express ideas that differ from and challenge those we hold. ![]() ![]() In interviews decades after the play and movie came out, Lawrence said that the play, written in 1955, was a response to McCarthyism. Yet, Inherit the Wind is not just about science and religion. This matter, sadly, is still debated today, which makes the play as timely as ever. That real historic event brought the attention of the nation to the small town of Dayton, Tennessee, as two titans - William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow - battled in a courtroom over the place of Darwin’s theory of evolution in the classroom. Lee, was inspired by the “Scopes Monkey Trial” of 1925. Inherit the Wind, the play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. ![]() ![]() There, Alyssa must pass a series of tests, including draining an ocean of Alice’s tears, waking the slumbering tea party, and subduing a vicious bandersnatch, to fix Alice’s mistakes and save her family. The real Wonderland is a place far darker and more twisted than Lewis Carroll ever let on. When her mother’s mental health takes a turn for the worse, Alyssa learns that what she thought was fiction is based in terrifying reality. Alyssa might be crazy, but she manages to keep it together. ![]() ![]() This family curse stretches back to her ancestor Alice Liddell, the real-life inspiration for Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. ![]() Alyssa Gardner hears the whispers of bugs and flowers-precisely the affliction that landed her mother in a mental hospital years before. ![]() |