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The Ennui of Euphoria
The Ennui of Euphoria Euphoria is 2019 HBO show. I had heard of it, but didn’t know much about it. Finally, I clicked on it on HBO Max and found myself hooked. It is graphic and gritty, but strangely addictive. … Continue reading
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Tagged 13 Reasons, 1970s, 1980s, Adults, Angst, Anxiety, Ashtray, bingeable, Brown, Cable TV, call back, Children, Claws, collective trauma, Dark, darkness, Depression, documentary, Drama, Drinking, Drugs, E, Eric Dane, Euphoria, extreme, Fashion, Flashy, generation, Glitter, Glittery, Green Light, ground breaking, HBO, High, Homosexuality, Hunter, Jules, laptops, Lexi, LGBTQ, lighting, lower middle class, melodramatic, MIddle Class, Modern, morose, Narrator, no apology, party girls, Penis, Poor Choices, popular, Poverty, preteen, Push Boundaries, Real Housewives, Reality TV, Red Light, Rue, Sex, shock value, smart phones, stylized, Surreal, Teenagers, teens, titulating, Transgender, Wallflower, wood paneling, Yellow, Zendaya
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Chasing The Scream
Chasing The Scream by Johann Hari Chasing The Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs by Johann Hari came out in 2015. It was the inspiration for the Hulu movie Billie Holiday vs The United States. … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, 2021, Abuse, Addiction, Alcohol, Billie Holiday, Broken, caged, character flaw, Chasing The Scream, Chemicals, childhood abuse and neglect, Compassion, Create a Safe Space, Crime, DEA, Disease, Drugs, felony records, Gangs, Henry Anslinger, Heroin, hooked, Hulu, Illegal Substances, Individual, Isolation leads to Loneliness, Jail, Johann Hari, legalization, Loneliness, Mafia, Morphine, Narcotics, Neglect, Netherlands, physiological, Portugal, Poverty, Prison, Prohibition, psychological, Punishment, Questions, Recovery, society, Sweden, The Bureau of Narcotics, The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs, The United States, tools, unemployable
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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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$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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Gentrification
July 1, 2017 Gentrification Gentrification comes from the old French word genterise, which means “of gentle birth.” The term refers to the process of renovating poor urban neighborhoods. Gentrification can be seen as an attempt to beautify or civilize the … Continue reading
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Tagged Abandoned Homes, altruistic, beautification, better themselves, Boarded Up Businesses, Change, Cheap Land, Chicago, City Centers, deindustrialization, Denver, displacement, Economists, education, Evolve, Facelift, fad, Fashion, Flip, gentle, gentle birth, Gentrification, Ghetto, Health Care, homeless, inflation, Inner City, invest in people not places, investments, Jamba Juice, Laundromat, Mansfield, MIddle Class, Monett, New, new problems, Old, Poor, Poverty, profit, Property Taxes, Racism, replacing poor, Rich, rough birth, Shameless, Shelby, Starbucks, Subtext, Suburban, taxes, The Great White Flight, theme, trend, Urban Decay, wage gap, Yoga Studio
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Shameless
Shameless I read that Shameless is the most watched series on Netflix in America. Sherlock Holmes is the most watched Netflix show in England. This sparked my curiosity and so I binged watched Shameless this week—all 7 Seasons. The first … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV
Tagged Absence, Accident, Alcoholic, Assistantship, Baby, Beg, Bipolar, Bitchy, Borrow, Car, Carl, Chicago, Coke, College, Dad, Deb, Debs, Delinquent, Dorm, Drinking, Drug Addict, Drunk, Dylan McDurmontt, Emmy Rossum, EMT, entrepreneurial spirit, Evolved, Father, Fierce, Fire, Foster Care, Frank, Funny, Gallagher, GED, Genius, Graduate, High School, Humor, husband, Hymie, Ian, Intelligent, Jeffery Dean Morgan, Job, Job and Family Services, Jobs, Jody, Karen, Kev, Liam, Lip, Literary Criticism, Lovers, Mandy, Meth Lab, MIA, Mickey, Military School, Mom, Monica, Mother, Murder, Neil, Only Child, Phillip, physics, Poor, Poverty, Private School, Professor, Prostitute, Quantum Physics, relationship, Russian, Sad, Sales, Sammi, Scam, Shameless, Shelia, Shoplift, Six Children, Smart, Sociopath, South Side, Spunk, Steal, Survey Courses, Svetlana, Teaching, The Alibi, Thrupple, Thug, Tragedy, Undergraduate, V. Fiona, Weed, William H Macy
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The Fellowship of the Ring
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
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
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Notes From The Underbelly
Notes From The Underbelly Notes from the Underbelly was a new show on ABC that season. The show is centered on the experience of a couple of expectant Mom’s. The title was a play on Dostoyevsky’s Notes from the Underground, … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Event, Health
Tagged 1st Trimester, 2007, Age, Clot, Cooper, Doctor, Fever, Flu, Food, Headache, Jennifer Westfeldt, Maternity Clothes, Middle 30s, MIddle Class, Miscarriage, Morning Sickness, Mucus, Nausea, Notes From The Underbelly, Notes From The Undergroujnd, Poverty, Pre-Term Labor, Pregnancy, Progesterone Shots, Sebastian Vaughn, Stomach, Tiredness, Toothpaste, TV show, Vacation, Vomit, What To Expect When You're Expecting
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