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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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13 Reasons In Reality
13 Reasons In Reality I just finished watching Season 3 of 13 Reasons. It reminded me of people I knew in High School once upon a time. I will not name names, but I do think it is an important … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, education, Event, Feminism, Flashback, Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV
Tagged #MeToo, 12 year old, 13 Reasons, 16 year old, 17 year old, accuse, accutation, America, Anger, Assault, bestiality, bombshell, Boyfriends, Bryce, choice, Clay, College, consensual, counseling, Date, denial, Depression, Drinking, Drugs, flowers, forced himself on her, Friends, Girlfriends, Hannah, High School, Hospitalization, Jealousy, Jessica, Justin, lies, lucky, Mad, Marriage, Midwestern Town, no choice, not prosecuted, not reported, outburst, police report, Pregnancy, preventable, Private, Prom, prosecuted, Public, punishable, Rage, Rape Culture, Reality, red flags, Rejection, report, reports, Repression, reputation, rumblings, rumors, Secrets, Sex, Signs, suicidal, suppression, Temper, Trauma, Truth, Violence, Virginity
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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
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
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Silent Spring
Silent Spring Rachel Carson, 1962 Silent Spring begins with a “fable for tomorrow” – a true story using a composite of examples drawn from many real communities where the use of DDT had caused damage to wildlife, birds, bees, agricultural … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Culture, Environment, Event
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