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Subtext: A Life In Between The Lines
Subtext: A Life Between The Lines Subtext is any content of a creative work which is not announced explicitly by the characters or author, but is implicit or becomes something understood by the observer of the work. Text is what … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Biology, Culture, Dreams, education, Environment, Event, Fashion, Feminism, Flashback, Genealogy, Health, History, Literary Criticism, Literature/Pop Culture, Lost, Movies/TV, Music, Mythology, News, Pedagogy, Poetry, Politics/Economics, Psychology, Religion, Science/Philosophy, Travel, Writing
Tagged 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, A Life Between The Lines, All The World's A Stage, Amazon, archeologist of text, author, Black Swan, Book, Cari Gilkison, Cari Lynn, Cari Lynn Vaughn, carilynn27, Colorado, Context, Createspace, Decentered, Desideratum, Diaries, Divorced, Dreams, English Degree, English Major, English Teacher, Enouement, Erasure, Feminism, Foreza Del Destino, Gnostic, Hunger, In Dreams, Insight, interpretation, Journal Entries, Kaizen, Kindle, Lacuna, Literature, Married, Missouri, Mono No Aware, Moxie, Nonfiction, Ohio, OSU, Prequel, Professor, Psychology, Published, Publisher, Purple Rose Ink Publications, Purple Rose Ink Publishing, Series, Sous Rature, Subtext, Telos, Text, The Long Hot Summer, The Long Road, The World Is A Stage, UNCG, Understanding, Volume, volumes, Wings of Desire, Wolf Gift, Work, works, Writer, Wu Wei
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White Fragility: Why It is So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism
White Fragility: Why It Is So Hard For For White People To Talk About Racism By Robin DiAngelo, 2018 Robin DiAngelo is a Diversity Trainer who specializes in Identity Politics. In her experience, it has been very difficult to really … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, education, Literature/Pop Culture, Politics/Economics, Psychology
Tagged Authority, Back By The Courts, Bad, Black People, Blaming The Victim, conversation, Defensive, Discrimination, Educated, Good, Great White Flight, Immoral, Moral, Neighborhoods, Opinions, Poverty, Prejudice, Racism, Racism As A System, Racist System, Robin Diangelo, Schools, Shut Down Conversations, Slavery, Social Construct, Socialization, Subhuman, Suburban, Uneducated, Urban, View Point, Violence, White Fragility, White People, White Savior in Movies, White Solidarity, White Supremacy, Why It Is So Hard To Talk To White People About Racism
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Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is the new Hunger Games book by Suzanne Collins. It is a prequel to the original trilogy and follows the rise of President Coriolanus Snow. It is no accident … Continue reading
Posted in Event, Literary Criticism, Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV, Poetry, Politics/Economics, Science/Philosophy
Tagged Army, Corilanus Snow, Dr. Gaul, Enlightenment Philosophy, Jabberjays, Jean Jacque Rousseau, John Locke, Leadership, Lucy Gray, Lucy Grey, Masks, Mentors, Military Service, Mockingjays, Names Important, Noble Savage, Pandemic, Panem, Peacekeepers, Politics, Public, Romanticism, Romantics, Rome, Sejanus Plinth, Shakespeare, Subtext, Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, The Hunger Games, Thomas Hobbes, William Wadworth
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Private Government
Private Government: How Employers Rule Over Our Lives (And Why We Don’t Talk About It) By Elizabeth Anderson, 2017 Elizabeth Anderson gave a series of Tanner Lectures at Princeton University in 2014 on Political Philosophy. During these lectures she discussed … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Politics/Economics
Tagged 1800s, 2014, 2017, Abraham Lincoln, Abuse, Adam Smith, Arbitrary Rules, Asylums, Back by Sanctions, Bill of Rights, Board of Directors, CEO, Chaos, Checks and Balances, Children, Churches, Communism, Corporations, Corruption, Democrats, Dictatorships, Difficulty Obtaining Child Care, Disrespect, Dress Code, Egalitarian, Elizabeth Anderson, Employees, Employers, Exclusive Rights, Exile, Facebook, Factories, Firing, Fraternizing, Fraud, Free Market, gulf between Employers and Employees, Harassment, Hospitals, How Employers Rule Over Our Lives (And Why We Don’t Talk About It), Immigration, Individual Liberties, industry, Karl Marx, Libertarian, Lords, Management, Master's, Men, Modern Work Place, Monarchy, Monopolies, Monopoly, Oligarchy, Orphanages, OSHA, Patriarchy, Political Science, Politics, Poor Houses, Power, Princeton University, Private Government, Quitting, Republicans, Respect, Self-Employed, Slavery, Social Insurance, Tanner Lectures, Thomas Paine, Unequal Power Structure, Unions, Unpaid Domestic Labor, Unpredictable Scheduling, Unregulated Commons, US Government, Wage Earners, Wage Labor, Women
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Dia De Los Muertos
November 1, 2017 Dia De Los Muertos Dia De Los Muertos or Day of the Dead is a Mexican Holiday celebrated around Halloween. In the 1960s the Mexican government had the Aztec festival declared a National Holiday. In the Aztec … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Event, Mythology, Politics/Economics
Tagged 1960s, 2017, All Inclusive, Anglo-Saxon, Aurora, Aztec, Belle, blantly racist, bones of the dead, born mortal, Calveras, children who have died, Cinderella, Coco, Colonialism, Cultural Appropriation, decorate graves, Dia De Meurots, Disney, Families, Fashion, festival, Festivals, Goddess of the Dead, Greeks, Hades, Halloween, Honoring, Indigenous Roots, Intent, Jasmine, La Calvera, Latin Culture, Latina, Latino, Maya, Mexico, Mictecacihautl, Moana, Multicultural, Native American, offerings, openly mock, Overacting, Persephone, Pocahontas, Princess Tiana, Racist, Respect, sacrificed. ancestors, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, special, Sports Teams, Sugar Skull, The Book of Life, Underworld, Unique, White
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Bad Feminist
Bad Feminist Roxane Gay published Bad Feminist in 2014, but it is even more relevant this week. She titled the book Bad Feminist because many women, including herself, often do things that are considered not considered consistent with the Feminist … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Event, Feminism, Literary Criticism, Movies/TV, Pedagogy, Politics/Economics
Tagged #MeToo, 19th Century Women Writers, 2010, 2011, 2012-2017, 2018, 400 Years of Class in America, ACLU, Available Means, Bad Feminist, Brett Kavanaugh, Bush, Caitlin Moran, Catholic Church, Cheryl Sandberg, Chris Brown, Christine Blasey Ford, Democrats, Django Unchained, Domestic Violence, Elevator, Emotional, FBI, Feminism, Feminist Rhetoric and Pedagogy, Gender Trouble, Gillian Flynn, Girls, Gone Girl, Green Girl, Hanna Rosin, Hearing, hope, How To Be A Woman, Hunger, Hysterical, infuriating, Investigation, Jeff Flake, Judith Butler, Kate Zambreno, Katherine Stockett, Lean In, Make-Up, Nancy Isenberg, News, Nominee, Outrage, political agenda, Professor, Racism, Rape, Republicans, Roxane Gay, Senate, Sexism, Sexual Assault, Sheryl Sandberg, Supreme Court, Sweet Valley High Series, The End of Men, The Help, Trump, UNCG, White Trash, Yale University
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Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’t Afford America
Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’t Afford America By Alissa Quart, 2018 In the introduction to her book Quart overviews the reasons why Families Can’t Afford America any longer. Student Loans and Medical Debt are a huge issue for Generation X … Continue reading
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$2.00 A Day: Living on Almost Nothing In America
$2.00 A Day: Living On Almost Nothing In America By Katheryn J Edin and Luke Schaefer, 2015 After the Civil War in the 1870s, Aid was created for the Windows of the War. That was about all that was available … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Health, History, Politics/Economics
Tagged $2.00 A Day, 1962, 1964, 1996, 2015, ADC, AFDC, Aid to Families of Dependent Children, Aid To War Widows, Benefits, Bill Clinton, Civil War, David Ellwood, Families, Food Stamps, Impoverished, Katheryn J Edin, Living On Almost Nothing in America, Luke Schaefer, Lyndon Johnson, Medicaid, Mothers, NWRO, Poor, Poor Support, Poverty, Racism, Reduced and Free Lunches, Richard Nixon, Ronald Regan, Segragation, Single Mothers, SNAP, Social Security, TANIF, The Great Depression, The Great Recession, The Other America, Villain, Welfare Queen, Welfare Support, Welfare to Work, Working Poor
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