![]() ![]() It is not his own livelihood that matters: he would have to struggle far less for that, since luxuries do not mean anything to him anyway it is the fact that he does it for others that makes him so tremendously proud. No matter what a particular man does or how he spends his day, he has one thing in common with all other men - he spends it in a degrading manner. Therefore, the more desirable women in their own class are always being snatched away from under their noses by men who happen to earn more. ![]() For, unlike women (who have an eye for money), men notice only woman's external appearance. By a trick of fate, it is always the latter, the poorest, who are exploited by the least attractive women. Still others leave when it is not yet light, wearing overalls and carrying lunch boxes, to catch buses, subways, or trains to factories or building sites. Others leave an hour earlier, traveling in a middle-class sedan. “There are men who carefully manoeuvre a large limousine out of the garage at eight o'clock every morning. ![]()
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7/4/2023 0 Comments James w loewen![]() Gregory Mantsios says, “Such eferences appear to be acceptable precisely because they mute class differences,” about how talking about the middle class nowhere near equivalent to talking about social stratification. ![]() Of the books two included the middle class saying that America is all middle class and everyone even people of other classes have middle class values, which in Loewen’s opinion is wrong. The history books that Loewen examined showed that no one wants to talk about the lower classes because nowhere in these books are other classes mentioned. James Loewen examined twelve history books to compare what was written and of those twelve six had no trace of social class or structure mentioned anywhere including the index. ![]() The authors of these American history books are bringing to light labor history, not showing that multinational companies are shipping their factories overseas limiting the work in the United States. ![]() ![]() Later in the essay Loewen begins to discuss how high school history textbooks leave out many important parts of history, which could change the way the class system is seen. Loewen describes how he asked college freshman “why people are poor” and “why their families are well off? shockingly most of the students answered that it is the peoples fault for not being successful, not taking into account that opportunity for people in the lower class are few and far between. ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments Your money or your life vicki![]() ![]() ![]() FIRE stands for Financially Independent & Retire Early and this whole movement was inspired by the book Your Money or Your Life so of course, I had to read the book. During this research, I came across the FIRE movement. I wanted to discover exactly what the definition for financial freedom and financial independence was, and at the same time work out the difference between the two. I felt as if some people were using the terms interchangeably when I didn’t believe they were so I decided to do some research. They are classed as the holy grail and the ultimate level of success. In the online marketing and entrepreneurship world, two phrases that are mentioned all the time are “financial freedom” and “financial independence”. ![]() This commission comes at no additional cost to you. This page includes affiliate links, which means that if you choose to make a purchase, I may earn a commission. ![]() Thinking about reading Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence by Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez? Want to find out a bit more about the book so you can make an informed decision about whether to buy a copy for yourself? If so, keep on reading as I will be sharing what you will find inside, as well as a few of my own thoughts about the book. ![]() 7/3/2023 0 Comments Tool of war paolo bacigalupi![]() ![]() "Suzanne Collins may have put dystopian literature on the YA map with 'The Hunger Games'.but Bacigalupi is one of the genre's masters, employing inventively terrifying details in equally imaginative story lines. From one of science fiction's undisputed masters comes a riveting page-turner that pulls no punches. ![]() The time is coming when Tool will embark on an all-out war against those who have enslaved him. But he is hunted relentlessly by someone determined to destroy him, who knows an alarming secret: Tool has found the way to resist his genetically ingrained impulses of submission and loyalty toward his masters. He has gone rogue from his pack of bioengineered "augments" and emerged a victorious leader of a pack of human soldier boys. Tool, a half-man/half-beast designed for combat, is capable of so much more than his creators had ever dreamed. This third book in a major series by a bestselling science fiction author, Printz Award winner, and National Book Award finalist is the gripping story of the most provocative character from his acclaimed novels Ship Breaker and The Drowned Cities. Tool, a half-man/half-beast designed for combathas found the way to resist his genetically. ![]() ![]() During that period, David Letterman showed on TV a Nancy panel with Plastino's signature and made a joke about Plastino as a superhero name. At its peak in the 1970s, Nancy ran in more than 880 newspapers.Īl Plastino worked on Sunday episodes of Nancy in 1982-83 after Bushmiller died. įritzi Ritz continued as a Sunday feature until 1968. Fritzi Ritz was a bit player where she had formerly been the star. Years later, when newspaper space became tighter and cartoonists were no longer allowed whole pages to themselves, Fritzi's half disappeared, and the transformation was complete. ![]() Formerly, half of it had been devoted to Fritzi and the other half to her boyfriend, Phil Fumble. At the same time, Bushmiller's Sunday page underwent a similar change. ![]() Sluggo Smith, Nancy's friend from the "wrong side of the tracks", was introduced in January and later that year, Aunt Fritzi's name was dropped from the title of the daily strip, which continued as Nancy. ![]() Two important developments occurred in 1938. Bushmiller's bold, clear art style, combined with his ability to construct a type of gag that appealed to a very broad audience, brought the strip to new heights of popularity-and his introduction of Fritzi's niece, Nancy, in 1933, carried it higher yet. ![]() ![]() ![]() The apostle Paul, who authored pretty much half of the New Testament, started his career as Saul of Tarsus ( Acts 21:39), and was known as Saul until Acts 13:9, where he begins to be called Paul. These two men have the same name, even though in English Bibles the name of the evangelist is commonly truncated to Paul, whereas the name Sergius Paulus is given in its un-truncated Latin form. ![]() There are two men named Paulos (that's Greek), Paulus (that's Latin) or Paul (that's English) in the New Testament, namely (1) Sergius Paulus, a Roman proconsul of Cyprus who hosted the Jewish pseudo-prophet Bar-Jesus ( Acts 13:7), and of course (2) the evangelist Paul of Tarsus. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was on this day in 1834 that the Emancipation Proclamation was read in King’s Square Spanish Town marking the abolition of the institution of slavery in the British Colony of Jamaica. ![]() The 1 st of August is an auspicious date in Jamaican history. ![]() The work contains all the signifiers of freedom and was meant to wordlessly communicate the ethos of that moment in colonial history. He stands on a whip (the symbol of the cruelty and oppression of enslavement), his children bury the shackles which once restrained him and his wife holds their youngest child who will never know slavery aloft. It depicts a recently emancipated family with the father triumphantly raising his hands to the sky in a gesture of freedom. The mezzotint The First of August was originally published in London to commemorate the abolition of slavery in the British colonies. ![]() David Lucas (1802 -1881) after Alexander Villiers Rippingille (c. ![]() 7/2/2023 0 Comments Little secrets jennifer![]() Kenzie is an enemy with a face, which means this is a problem Marin can fix. She’s lost her son she’s not about to lose her husband, too. She’s falling for him-and that was never part of the plan.ĭiscovery of the affair sparks Marin back to life. He isn’t her first rich boyfriend, but she finds herself hoping he’ll be the last. She also knows he’s rich, and dating him comes with perks: help with bills, trips away, expensive gifts. Kenzie Li is an artist and grad student-Instagram famous-and up to her eyeballs in debt. to pick up where the police left off, but instead of finding him, she discovers that Derek is having an affair with a younger woman. ![]() The only thing keeping her going is the unlikely chance that one day Sebastian reappears. Up until the day Sebastian is taken.Ī year later, Marin is a shadow of herself. They’re admired in their community and are a loving family. Married to her college sweetheart, she owns a chain of upscale hair salons, and Derek runs his own company. ![]() ![]() That’s how long it took for someone to steal Marin Machado’s four-year-old son. From the author of Jar of Hearts, a mother driven to the edge by the disappearance of her son learns her husband is having an affair with the woman who might have kidnapped him. ![]() ![]() ![]() I have an engineering degree and have worked as a manufacturing engineer for many years. With the help of friends both new and old Jorem will have to find a way to overcome not only the enemies secret army but the uncertainties and insecurities that come with a boy newly become a man.**About the AuthorBorn and raised in southeast Idaho I attended Ricks colledge and Brigham Young University. Betrayal and deceit are just a few of the challenges coming his way. When he finds himself faced with an enemy force out of his deepest nightmares Prince Jorem will have to rely on the help of some unlikely heroes. ![]() He must earn the trust of a people who have lost all at the order of his father, a people who still think of him as the spare. By ordered of the king Jorem must give up his secret identity of the soldier Rim and take up his true name to lead men on a mission aimed more to keep him out of the way than to accomplish anything. The coming war brings many changes to the kingdom, most of them bad. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() An FBI raid is their only hope for rescue. ![]() Kimberly's freedom has come at a devastating price: the other women are still slaves. Ruining the FBI's carefully laid plans, he buys her. She has a scarred body.and an unbroken spirit. To Raoul's shock, one of the slaves is the kidnapped friend of a Shadowlands sub. Once informed, the FBI orders him to reject the limited choices so the slavers will invite him to the big auction. ĭetermined to find the human traffickers preying on Shadowlands' submissives, Master Raoul gets himself invited to a small slave auction. Kimberly's freedom has come at a devastating price: the other. Determined to find the human traffickers preying on Shadowlands' submissives, Master Raoul gets himself invited to a small slave auction. ![]() |