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Tag Archives: Poverty
$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
Posted in Culture, Movies/TV
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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Out of the Woods
Out of the Woods Out of the Woods: Tales of Resilient Teens was written by Hauser, Allen and Golden in 2008. Seventy deeply troubled teenagers spend weeks, months, even years on a locked psychiatric ward. They were not just failing … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Psychology
Tagged Abuse, agency, beauty, behavior, breakdown in coherence, coherence, Connection, dangerous, didn't shut off emotions, Divorce, Drugs, early parent loss, emptiness more dangerous than rage, Eva Golden, Faith, find your way out of the woods, Healthy, illness, in trouble with the law, Intelligence, isolation, Joseph P Allen, keep looking for love, learn from mistakes, make changes, Narrative, no one loved them unconditionally, Optimism, organized narrative, Out of the Woods: Tales of Resilient Teens, Poverty, Power, problems, psychiatric ward, Racism, Risk, risky, see in the dark, self-awarencess, Stuart Hauser, Sucidal, surf anger, survival skills, try new relationships, Unhealthy, unpredicable, Violenent, Wealth
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Bushido
August 23, 2008 Bushido There are 7 principles the Samurai lived by: Gi, Yu, Jin, Rei, Makoto, Melyo and Chugo. That means Courtesy, Honesty, Honor, Devotion, Courage and Love. That is called Bushido. Gi=The Right Decision, the Right Attitude … Continue reading
Posted in Event, Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV, Politics/Economics
Tagged 2008 Olympics, Beijing, Bill Moyer, Bushido, Capitialism, China, Chugo, Consumerism, Courage, David Lavery, Devotion, Economics, Gi, Heroes, Honesty, Honor, Jin, Jobs and Family Services, Love, Lynnette Porter, Makoto, Melyo, Midland, Poverty, Rei, Saving Charlie, Saving The World: A Guide to Heores, Texas, The Warrior Way, Wealth, Yu
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The Hunger Games and Shakespeare
January 20, 2013 This week as I finished up The Hunger Games with Mockingjay I felt like I could relate to Katniss and her struggles. The themes of physical hardships, poverty, power, versions of reality, identity and social … Continue reading
Posted in Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV, Mythology, Writing
Tagged Castor and Pollux, Identity, Julius Caesar, Katniss, Mockingjay, Peeta, Poverty, Power, Shakespeare, Social Class, Starvation, Stoicism, The Capitol, The Hunger Games, The Hunger Games and Philosophy, The Minotaur, The Roman Empire, Theseus, Titus, Troilda and Cressida
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