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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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The Last Jedi
December 18, 2017 The Last Jedi The Last Jedi is poised precariously between the past and the future. The Last Jedi picks up right where The Force Awakens left off. It follows the template laid down by The Empire Strikes … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV, Mythology
Tagged $1, A New Hope, Alice in Wonderland, Bad, balance, BB8, Ben Skywalker, Blame, Books, Brother, C3PO, Caesar, Canta Bight, childhood, Connection, Crait, Culture, Current, Current Culture, Dark, Die, Divine Nature, DJ, Dogobah, Far Far Away, Father, Feminism, Fighting, Finn, First Order, Flawed, Flaws, Franchise, Future, Galaxy, General Leia, George Lucas, Good, Han Solo, Heroes, Hitler, Hoth, Jacen, Jaina, Jedi, JJ Abrams, Johnson, Kill, King of Hearts, Kylo Ren, Lando Calrissian, Las Vegas, Leia, Let Go, Light, Long Time Ago, Loyalties, Loyalty, Luke, Luke Skywalker, Marsh, May the Force Be With You, Mother, Nero, nobody, Originals, Parents, Parts, past, Perfectionism, plots, Poe, poor boy, Prequels, Present, Princess Leia, R2D2, Rebirth, recycled, Red, red room, Redeem, Return of the Jedi, Rey, Rich, Romanticize, Rome. Praetors, Rose, Save What You Love, Sequels, Sister, Sith, Skelling Michael, Sky City, Snoke, Subtext, Surrendering, Swamp, The Empire Strikes Back, The Force, The Force Awakens. Ben Solo, The Last Jedi, Training, Trump, Twins, Universe, Yoda
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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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Think On These Things
Think on These Things By Jiddu Krishnamurti, 1964 Self-Knowledge comes when you observe yourself in a relationship with your situation, you teachers are all those around you. It comes when you observe the manner of another, his gestures, the way … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Science/Philosophy
Tagged 1964, America, Anger, beauty, Capitalist, caste, Children, Class, Communist, creativity, Culture, don'ts, dos, education, Europe, Everything, Extraordinary, Family, Feel, Feelings, Freely, Hindu, India, Inquiry, Intellegence, Jiddu Krisnamurti, Learning, Life, Love, Meditate, mindful, Open, Open Mind, Ordinary, Peace, Ponder, Poor, Prisoner, Relationships, revolt, Rich, Self-Knowledge, Socialist, society, Spirit, survival, Teacher, Think, Think on These Things, Torn, Truth, War, watchful, World
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Red And Orange Narcissus
May 21, 2017 Red and Orange Narcissus Narcissism is named after the Greek Myth of Narcissus. Narcissus saw his own reflection in a pool and died because he refused to leave the pool. Poor Echo fell in love with him, … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, History, News, Politics/Economics, Psychology
Tagged 1861, 1998, 2017, Adolf Hitler, ambassadors, Andrew Johnson, Anxiety, applaud, Appointed, Big Bully, Breech, bs, bureau, bureaucratic, Business Man, Campaign, CEO, Checks and Balances, CIA, Citizens, classfied intellegence, classified files, classified info, Collusion, Comey, Committee, conservative, Cover-Up, Criticism, crucify, damaged self-ego axis, declassify, Defend, Democrat, Depression, dignitaries, Director, disdain, disregard, Disrespect, doing his own thing, Donad Trump, Echo, eduction, Emails, Emperor Nero, empty, erosions, excessive need for admiration, Facts, Fail, fake media, Fame, FBI, Fear, Fired, Firing, Flower, fragile ego, Freud, Government, Great Fire, Greek Myth, help, Hillary Clinton, Historical Figures, House of Represenatives, Impeachment, Innocent Until Proven Guilty, intolerance to criticism, Investigation, Journalism, Journalist, Jung, Lack of Empathy, left, left-leaning, liberal, lied, lose, Majority, manifestation, media, meeting, MIddle Class, Monica Lewinsky, Narcissism, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Narcissus, Nationwide Illness, New York Times, Nixon, No One Likes The USA, North Korea, NPD, Obama, Obstruction of Justice, Office, pass, perfect, plan, Poor, Power, precipice, Process, profit, profitable, Protocal, punished, Putin, Reality TV, Republican, Resigned, Rich, right, right-leaning, Rome, Rome Burned, Russia, School, self-absorbed, self-esteem, Selfish, Senate, Server, Sex, society, Sociopath, special, spoiled young adults, Star, support, The Washington Post, Theory, title 18, Tragedy, treason, Truth, Tyrany, Upper Class, US, USA, Watergate, Wealth, Whitehouse, WII, win, WWI
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Shaw and the Play of Ideas
Shaw And The Play of Ideas By Robert F Whitman, 1977 Shaw’s hostility to Capitalism as the source of most of civilized man’s economic, social and moral ills, is both well known and persuasive throughout his writing….And war in general … Continue reading
Posted in Literary Criticism, Literature/Pop Culture, Politics/Economics, Religion
Tagged 1977, Boredom, Burden on Society, Capitalist, Capitalists, Communication, community, Creative Evolution, Don Juan, Drama, Duty, Evil, Evolution, Fabian Soceity, GBS, George Bernard Shaw, God, Government, Heavne, Hell, hope, Hopeless, Humankind, Justice, Life-Force, Logic, Logical Process, Morality, Paradox, Politics, Poor, Public Forum, Reality, Reason, Religion, Rich, Robert F Whitman, Self-Delusion, Self-Indulgence, Shavian, Shaw, Shaw and The Play of Ideas, Sincere, Socialism, Thought, Unvierse
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Culture History of Shoplifting
The Steal: A Cultural History of Shoplifting The Steal: A Cultural History of Shoplifting by Rachel Shteir came out in 2011. She starts out with the fact that in 2009 there was a dramatic rise in shoplifting. Why? Economic downturn … Continue reading
Posted in History, Psychology
Tagged 1591, 1778, 1880s, 1962, 1980s, 1990s, 2009, A Cultural History of Shopfliting, Abbie Hoffman, Anorexia, Available, Batteries, Bibliomania, Bulimia, CDs and DVD, Clothes, Clothing, Concealable, Cosmetics, CRAVED, Department Stores, Disposable., DVD Players, DVDs, Electronic Tags, Electronics, Enjoyable, Gillette Razors and Cartridges, Instant Coffee, Jane Leigh Perrot, Jewelery, Kleptomania, Lingerie, Luxury Toothbrushes, Men, Moll Flanders, Poor, Rachel Shteir, Removable, Rich, Steak, Steal this Book, The Steal, Toiletries and Alcohol, TVs, Valuable, VCRs, Vitamins and Pregnancy Tests, Winona Ryder, Women
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