Whether one agrees with Rothstein’s argument or not, The Color of Law, is required reading for anyone who seeks to understand the history of segregation in the United States. 701 (2007), holding that use of race in assigning students to schools to achieve racial diversity is not a compelling government interest. He is not swayed by the continued distinction made between de jure segregation, that which is accomplished by legislation and governmental policy, and de facto segregation, racial imbalance due to personal decisions, in opinions such as Community Schools v. Popularized by Supreme Court majorities from the 1970s to the present, the de facto segregation myth has now been adopted by conventional, liberal and conservative alike,” Rothstein argues (pg. “Half a century ago, the truth of de jure segregation was well known, but since then we have suppressed our historical memory and soothed ourselves into believing that it all happened by accident or by misguided private prejudice. Longlisted for the 2017 National Book Award and one of Publishers Weekly’s 10 Best Books of 2017, Rothstein’s Color makes his case for the latter. Is racial segregation today the result of private choices or a lasting legacy of government-sponsored discriminatory policy? This is the question that Richard Rothstein sets out to answer in The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Liveright Publishing, 2017, 345p.).
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If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God! In witnessing this, and realizing their insignificance amidst the vast universe, the planet’s inhabitants went mad…Īsimov’s 'Nightfall' is a response to a quotation from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s ‘Nature' essay (1836): Once every 2,000 years, an eclipse brought darkness to the planet, which in turn revealed a sky filled with stars. 'Nightfall' is a 1941 science fiction novelette by American writer Isaac Asimov about the coming of darkness to the people of a planet ordinarily illuminated by sunlight at all times. In Ala Ebtekar’s 'Nightfall' series, the book pages from Asimov’s 'Nightfall' have been treated with Potassium ferricyanide and Ammonium ferric citrate (cyanotype), and exposed by the night sky - left from dusk to dawn. This book is follows Violet’s stepbrother as he pursues Alex’s sister, Sunny. I was head-over-heels for Pucked and never expected the next book to live up to the first but I was thrilled. Miller learns-eventually-that if he wants to make Sunshine “Sunny” Waters fall for him, he’s going to have to do a whole lot more than show her his stick skills in the bedroom. Beyond that minor detail, Miller doesn’t know the first thing about relationships or the time and effort they require. Except, unlike team captain and all-around nice guy Alex Waters-who happens to date his stepsister, Miller’s media reputation as a manwhore is well earned. Miller thinks he’s found that woman in his teammate’s sister. A real, non-bunny girlfriend to take on dates, and not jump into bed with after five seconds of conversation. After five years in the NHL, deflecting goals on the ice and scoring them with puck bunnies, Miller has decided he’s ready for a girlfriend. Miller “Buck” Butterson has been banging his way through life ever since a puck to the face fixed his messed up front teeth. But they can also be oppressive and limiting. Labels can be important to understanding who you are, finding a community of people with similar experiences and gaining access to resources you might need. With candor and humor, Jackson recalls the challenges he faced while trying to sort out his gender and sexuality and worrying about how to interact with the world. He had no transgender role models, and barely remembers meeting anyone who was openly gay before college. Sorted: Growing Up, Coming Out, and Finding My Place (A Transgender Memoir) by Jackson Bird Tiller Press, 2019 The audiobook published by Simon & Schuster A udio is narrated by the author himself, and is also excellent.Īssigned female at birth and raised as a girl growing up in conservative Texas in the 1990’s, Jackson often wondered if he should have been born a boy. I realised that in a very primal way, I felt left out.” she wrote, “ When a beloved parent dies, what is being parcelled out may look like goods and chattels, but it feels a lot like love.”ĭaisy wrote about her feelings in an article that was shared across the world. “ When it happened I was… sideswiped, I think, is the only word. In her will, Jocasta made it clear why she was doing this - not because she loved Daisy any less, but because the others had more need of an inheritance than Daisy.Īlthough Daisy could see the logic of her mother’s decision, she was very deeply hurt. When she died, Jocasta left Daisy a small legacy, but the overwhelming bulk of her estate was divided between Daisy’s brothers and sisters. “ When it comes to inheritance, maturity dissolves into a puddle of childish resentments,” wrote novelist Daisy Goodwin, about the emotional fallout of her mother’s will.ĭaisy’s mother, Jocasta Innes was a respected writer, cook and interior designer, who made cooking on a budget trendy in the 1970’s with The Pauper’s Cookbook, and went on to make paint effects like rag-rolling the key interior design fashion of the 1980’s. It's every parent's responsibility to talk to their children about the legacy they might leave
She was known for her love Born Françoise Quoirez, Sagan grew up in a French Catholic, bourgeois family. She chose "Sagan" as her pen name because she liked the sound of it and also liked the reference to the Prince and Princesse de Sagan, 19th century Parisians, who are said to be the basis of some of Marcel Proust's characters. Later that year, She won the Prix des Critiques for Bonjour Tristesse. She submitted it to Editions Juillard in January 1954 and it was published that March. She went to her family's home in the south of France and wrote her first novel, Bonjour Tristesse, at age 18. She was an independent thinker and avid reader as a young girl, and upon failing her examinations for continuing at the Sorbonne, she became a writer. Born Françoise Quoirez, Sagan grew up in a French Catholic, bourgeois family. This regime deprived many of faith and honesty while it completely ruined life and goals for others. Director Ināra Kolmane further elaborates: “We are filming scenes reflecting the harsh and emotional destinies of women, set against the background of 20th century historical events during the Soviet occupation. Beneath the surface lies the story of three generations of women, and the importance of a grandmother giving her granddaughter what her daughter is unable to provide - love, and the desire for life. The plot depicts a troubled mother-daughter relationship set in the Soviet-ruled Baltics. Looking at the film crew and keeping in mind our supporters, we have a real dream team that will realise the project in the best possible way!” said executive producer Ieva Majore. “After a few days of filming in February, when the winter scenes were shot, we are now happy to return to the set and ready to continue working on the highly anticipated film. Stefania Macioce, 183-84, notes 188-191, plus Appendix A, “Documenti dalla contabilità della Dataria Apostolica (1655-1667), 194-199). 184, “Alessandro VII Chigi e l’arte orafa tra politica e misticismo,” in Ori nell’arte: Per una storia del potere segreto delle gemme, ed. Pages 199-200: Bernini as Alexander VII’s artistic factotum and general contractor… and a note about the little known Bernini assistant, Arrigo GiardéĪmong the many little artistic services rendered by Bernini to Pope Alexander VII we may now add this one, discovered in a document published in 2007 by Jacopo Curzietti: in December 1655 Bernini was paid 12 scudi for having procured for Alexander 3 small putti made of ivory sculpted by “monsù Pietro francese scultore,” whom Curzietti identifies as the very accomplished Pierre Puget (1620-94) of Marseilles (Jacopo Curzietti, p. According the the legend, Caedmon had a mystical experience in his cattle shed in which he was given a calling to sing: first, about Creation. The generic scene described does sound like a mead-hall revel. Modern commentators presume that Caedmon actually "concealed his skill from his fellow workmen and from the monks because he was ashamed of knowing 'vain and idle' songs" (24). "Therefore, at feasts, when it was decided to have a good time by taking turns singing, whenever he would see the harp getting close to his place, he got up in the middle of the meal and went home" (25). The hymn itself was composed in the mid- or late-7th century and so is the earliest surviving Old English poem.īede records that Caedmon was an illiterate farmer working for a monastery who at first avoided singing. 673-735) embeds this Anglo-Saxon hymn and the legend of its creation within his Latin text, An Ecclesiastical History of the English People, a book that describes the spread of Christianity in England. Kenning compounds/poetic metaphors (banhus, hwalrad) Caedmon's Hymn background The so-called Venerable Bede (c. |