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Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’t Afford America

Posted on August 4, 2018 by carilynn27

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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Posted in Culture, Politics/Economics | Tagged 1% Television, 24 Hour Day Care, 24 Hour Day Care Needed, Adjunct Professors, Alexa, America, American, backlash, Benefits, Billions, bills, Bosses, Captialism, Child Care, College, Colleges, Commune, Computers, Consumerism, Contract Work, Crime, Day Care, descrimination, Do What You Love, Downtown Abbey, Economy, education, Employment, English, Feminism, FMLA, Food Stamps, Goodwill, Hand To Mouth, Headstart, History, Huge Income Gap, Huge Wage Gap, Humanities, inflation, Irregular Hours, ITT, Keeping Up with the Jones's, Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Law, Lawyers, Lie, Long Term Careers, Low-Income, MA, Mad Men, Manipulate, Maternity Leave, Maternity Wall, Medicaid, MIddle Class, minimum wage, Mortage, Nanny's Strugle, No Love or No Money, Ozark, Paternity Leave, PhD, Politics, Poor, Pre-K, Precariat, Precarity, Pregnancy, Private Program, Private School, Proletariat, Public, Raising Brooklyn, Ray Bradbury, Real House Wives, Reality TV, Rent, Rich, Robots, Roommates, Roseanne, Science, Second Act Industry Myth, Shift Work, Short Term Jobs, Siri, Social Class, Squeezed, Student Loan Debt, take advantage, Technology, The Middle, The Outsourced Self, The Secret Life of Inequality, The Wire, There Will Come Soft Rains, Trade Schools, Trump University, Uber, Uber Dads, Union, Upstairs Downstairs, We Believe the Children, Wealthy, Why Our Families Can Afford America, Without Predictablity, Working Class, World, worry | Leave a comment

Joan Didion: Conversations and Essays

Posted on June 3, 2017 by carilynn27

Joan Didion: Essays and Conversations Edited by G. Friedman, 1984 Introduction: Play It As It Lays shows a preoccupation with existentialism. She examines the nothingness of the void as in Sartre and Camus—particularly The Myth of Sisyphus. Kierkegaard She does … Continue reading →

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Posted in Culture, History, Literary Criticism, Literature/Pop Culture | Tagged 1967, 60s, abortion, Anna Karenina, Boca Grande, California, Camus, Dark Side, Death, Depression, Despair, disconnect, Eden, Edenic, El Dorado, Ellen G Friedman, empty, Evert McClella, excess, Exiles, Existentialism, Fantasy, Griffin Wolff, Guilt, Heart of Darkness, Height-Asbury, Hemingway, Hester Prynne, High, historical loss, History, Hollywood, imprisoned, indulge, Jennifer Brady, Jim Morrison, Joan Didion: Essays and Conversations Edited by G. Friedman, John Cheever, John Gregory Dunne, Joseph Conrad, Joyce Carol Oates, Keirkgaard, Lacking, Landscape, Lily Knight, Literary Imagination, Loss, Lost Paradise, Madam Bovary, Meaningless, Michelle Kakutani, Mind, Misdirected Dream, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nihilism, no faith, No God, Party, Play It As It Lays, problems, Romantic Degradation, Run River Run, San Fransisco, Severance from the Past, Slouching Toward Bethlehem, society, Southern California, Stuck, Susan Stramburg, Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, the break up an order, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Scarlett Letter, The Self, The Summer of Love, The Wasteland, The White Album, time, Timeless, Tragic Obsolence, Trapped, TS Elliot, usually women, Victor Strandlberg, whose lines are tangled and troubled. In all her work, Willa Cather | Leave a comment

The Poetics of Postmodernism

Posted on January 31, 2017 by carilynn27

The Poetics of Postmodernism: A History, Theory and Fiction By Linda Hutchinson, 1988 The term Postmodernism is either under defined or over defined.. Word like discontinuity, disruption, dislocation, decentering, intermittentcy. These terms all seem negative though. Post-modernism installs and then … Continue reading →

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Posted in Culture, Feminism, Literary Criticism | Tagged Biography, Cassandra. Christa Wolfe, Coming Through The Slaughter, Communication, Concept, Consciousness, Decentering, Deconstruction, Derrida, Ethnicity, Feminism, Future, Gender, Histiography, History, Homer, Language, Linda Hutchinson, Marginalizing, Metafiction, Michael Ondaatje, Modernism, Modernists, Narrator, Novels, objective, past, Perspective, Point of View, Political, Postmodernism, Present, Questioning, Questions, Race, Reading, Retelling, Rewriting, Running in the Family, Self, Sexual Preference, Subtext, Subverts, Text, The Poetics of Postmodernism, time, Women, Writing | Leave a comment

The Fellowship of the Ring

Posted on January 20, 2015 by carilynn27

The Fellowship of The Ring I re- read The Fellowship of the Ring. I felt almost as if I had slipped back to Middle Earth, where magic was still alive and common place. Middle Earth, I realized, was Tolkien’s way … Continue reading →

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Posted in Literature/Pop Culture, Lost | Tagged Aragorn, Banding Together, Battle, Corruption, Dark Age, darkness, Dwarves, Elves, Englightened Beings, Fantasy, Fear, Fiction, Fight, Frued, Good Storytelling, Greed, History, Hobits, Humankind, Humans, Ignorance, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jung, mankind, Men, Middle Earth, Movies, Mythology, Nature, Poverty, Power, Strider, The Fellowship of the Ring, War, Western World | Leave a comment

Namaste

Posted on December 1, 2014 by carilynn27

March 21, 2009 Namaste is a greeting used in yoga classes. Alice Vaughn-Goldman used it in her class and I used it in mine at Madison Adult Ed. It means, “I honor the place within you in which the entire … Continue reading →

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Posted in Literature/Pop Culture, Lost, Movies/TV | Tagged 1974, 1977, Alice Vaughn-Goldman, Ben, Destiny, Dharma Iniative, Faraday, Fate, History, Hurley, I Honor The Place Within You, in Which The Entire Universe Resides, Island, Jack, Juliet, Karma, Kate, Locke, Lost, Love, Namaste, past, Predetermination, Sawyer, Sayid, Season 5, Time Travel, We Are One, Widmore, Yoga | Leave a comment

The Americans

Posted on April 18, 2014 by carilynn27

April 17, 2014 Spy Vs Spy Spy vs Spy is a comic strip in Mad Magazine, but it seemed appropriate this week. I’ve been watching The Americans. The Americans is an FX show that began May of 2013. It stars … Continue reading →

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Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 1853, 1856, 1991, 1999, 2000, 2010, 2014, Agression, Alias, America, Annex, Big Pharmicuticals, Brothers and Sisters, Capitalism, Car Insurance, CIA, Communism, Concessions International, Crimea, Crimean War, Demonstrations, Early 90s, Entitlement, Felicity, FX, Glasnost, Google, Greed, Greg, Health Care, Health Insurance, Heritage, History, J.J. Abrams, Joe Weisburg, Keri Russell, KGB, Mad Magazine, Mathew Ryes, Medicaid, Medical Industries, Memory, Obama, Perestroika, Putin, Religion, Russian, Salmon Bagel, Self-Defense, Socialism, Soviet Union, Spies, Spy Vs Spy, The Americans, USSR, Winter Olympics, Yetsin | Leave a comment

Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me)

Posted on May 31, 2013 by carilynn27

Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me) Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions and Harmful Acts by Carol Tarvis and Elliot Aronson came out in 2007. It explores the idea of … Continue reading →

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Posted in Psychology | Tagged Apology., Better Person, Bigger Person, Blame, booze talking, Carol Tarvis, cognitions, cognitive dissonance, confessions, divoce, DNA, Drunk, Elliot Aronson, Evolve, Fact, falsify evidence, George Bush, historian, History, I was Wrong, Iraq, Let Go, Lillian Hellman, Marriage, Memory, Mistakes Were Made But Not By Me, Naive Realism, Narrative, Opinion, Own Up To Mistakes, Prejudice, Realism, self-justification, source confusion, spiteful, Stressed, system of checks and balances, Tired, Unrealistic Beliefs, vindictive, Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs Bad Decisions and Harmful Acts, wittness memory, WMD, You were Right | Leave a comment

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Joan Didion: Conversations and Essays

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