![]() ![]() In that game lies the overarching point of Parks’ drama. Booth, meanwhile, gets by on shoplifting.īoth of the guys, who are black, are dealers of three-card monte - the street corner gamble where a mark tries to follow one red or black card as it’s rapidly moved around. He works as an Abraham Lincoln impersonator at an arcade, where people shoot at him with a fake pistol. Their dad named them as a history gag and Link has turned his moniker, in a truly messed-up way, into his profession. Corey Hawkins (left) and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II star in “Topdog/Underdog” on Broadway. Crammed into a tiny room, they spar and laugh and spar some more. “Topdog/Underdog” pops from the get-go when Lincoln (Corey Hawkins) moves into his younger brother Booth’s (Abdul-Mateen) shabby digs after getting kicked out by his wife. Still, fear always lurks in this small studio apartment.ĭirector Kenny Leon has helmed a sharp, focused revival of the 2002 drama, with a pair of cracking performances that never let up. All the while, she misdirects with warmth and distracts using humor. And we quickly gather that it won’t be very nice. ![]() ![]() The writer clues us in over and over again - sometimes subtly, sometimes like a foghorn - on how her play will end. Two hours and 20 minutes, with one intermission. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Podcast interview with “The Age of Jackson” here. In-the-united-states/ courtesy of Cambridge University Press and the African American Intellectual History Society. Read an excerpt from the introduction here: It explores the personal narratives of enslaved people and develops themes such as politics, economics, labor, literature, rebellion, and social conditions. In chapters organized chronologically, Unrequited Toil argues that American economic development relied upon African Americans’ social reproduction while simultaneously destroying their intergenerational cultural continuity. It charts changes in the family liv es of enslaved Americans, exploring the broader processes of nation-building in the United States, growth and intensification of national and international markets, the institutionalization of chattel slavery, and the growing relevance of race in the politics and society of the republic. Unrequited Toilexplains how an institution that seemed to be disappearing at the end of the American Revolution rose to become the most contested and valuable economic interest in the United States by 1850. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Politicians and ordinary people often have different agendas,” said Susanna Emirali, a young advertising producer. An agreement is in the works to fix that particular stand-off, but it shows the real world impact of diplomatic wrangling on ordinary people. travel visas and green cards now have to apply in Warsaw. embassy cutting 75 percent of staff in Moscow and no longer processing visas, meaning Russians wanting U.S. Tit-for-tat diplomatic spats have led to the U.S. In those intervening months, Moscow has accused Washington of “fueling tension” over Ukraine, gas pipelines, Navalny, and hacking. When Levada asked the same question in May, only 31 percent said the U.S. That message is increasingly falling on deaf ears.Ī study published this week by the Levada Analytical Center showed that for the first time in years more Russians think positively than negatively about the U.S.-by 45 percent to 42 percent. ![]() If you follow the local-state-owned-TV stations in Russia, you are constantly warned that a new war is on the horizon that Russia will bravely stand up to the West and that America is the real enemy. ![]() ![]() ![]() I'm saying all this because it would just be the cat's pajamas if anyone knows a website I should check out, article I should read, or even a specific review that you think of as a "must read."Īnd I raise the question: is it even a book review if the book is never mentioned, nor any issue about the book's subject matter raised? Because they are, and I love you the best. The project itself will be specifically about reviews on goodreads, but I'm going to do some comparisons to see why our reviews are better than theirs. if I want my project to say anything, I need to know the lay of the land, don't I?īut, more than just literary social cataloguing websites, I'm also looking at other parts of the internet: online-only reviewers, book reviews, and on and on. *dodges a lamp* But I'm not reviewing with them, goodreads! I'm just there for the. How many have I been seeing? Uh, like four. Including the brilliant one-sentence reviews. I'm analyzing the rhetorical differences between online book reviews and those published in print.įrom meta-reviews to highly negative reviews, to reviews that are discussing the process of reading the book instead of the actual book itself, I'm searching for every kind of trend that's developing. *dodges plate* Wait, wait, let me explain! The thing is, I'm doing a big project on book reviews. ![]() It wasn't because I really wanted to see anyone else. I've been seeing other literary social cataloguing websites. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A behavior occurs-whether an example of humans at our best, worst, or somewhere in between. Sapolsky’s storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful intrinsic logic: he starts by looking at the factors that bear on a person’s reaction in the precise moment a behavior occurs, and then hops back in time from there, in stages, ultimately ending up at the deep history of our species and its evolutionary legacy.Īnd so the first category of explanation is the neurobiological one. From the celebrated neurobiologist and primatologist, a landmark, genre-defining examination of human behavior, both good and bad, and an answer to the question: Why do we do the things we do? ![]() ![]() ![]() What happens after a verbal or physical assault? How does the industry culture address this silent epidemic of violence? Where can survivors find support after surviving healthcare workplace violence? An RN with over 30 years' experience and survivor of a violent attack by a patient, the author realistically discusses the challenges facing those employed in the trenches of healthcare today. According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), of the nearly 25,000 workplace assaults that occur annually, 75% happen in healthcare settings. According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), of the nearly 25,000 workplace. About the Book: Healthcare workers experience verbal and physical assaults in the workplace daily. Compra y venta de libros importados, novedades y bestsellers en tu librería Online Buscalibre Perú y Buscalibros. ![]() Comprar en Buscalibre - ver opiniones y comentarios. Healthcare workers experience verbal and physical assaults in the workplace daily. Join HEY I Could Use A Little Help Here author June Zanes Garen for a conversation with Kevin Pentz on the topic of violence in the workplace. Libro Hey I Could use a Little Help Here My Story of Healthcare Workplace Violence (libro en Inglés), June Zanes Garen, ISBN 9781949066722. ![]() ![]() ![]() Judicious placement of the spare text and enlarged, attention-getting onomatopoetic words like “whoosh,” “scritch scratch,” “boom” and “creak” add drama, while fanciful pen, ink and watercolor illustrations create a whimsical world of cartoonlike creatures. With order restored, all is well until the house makes disturbing noises, prompting resourceful Julia to create a final sign recruiting a handyman. Distraught, Julia orders everyone to “STOP!” and makes another sign dividing chores among her new housemates. The creatures soon take over, spilling things, neglecting to clean up and playing loud music. ![]() Julia and her house arrive by tortoiseback to the seashore, where she decides it’s too quiet and makes a sign advertising “Julia’s House for Lost Creatures.” She’s quickly inundated with “lost and homeless creatures” asking for towels and soap, tea and toast. When a little girl opens her house to “lost creatures,” chaos reigns until she sets rules for harmonious coexistence. ![]() ![]() ![]() His measured responses to Douglass' questions showed he had given the matter careful thought. Brown impressed Douglass with an early plan to free the enslavedĪs he recalled in 1881's Life and times of Frederick Douglass, Brown immediately impressed his guest with his "lean, strong and sinewy build" and the way "his children observed him with reverence."īut it was Brown's impassioned words that made the biggest mark, as he spoke of a plan to free the enslaved and squirrel them to freedom through the Alleghany Mountains. Yet it was Brown, a white man with a record of failed business interests and unyielding religious conviction, who seemingly came off as the one more determined to end the cruel institution of slavery that day. The inaugural meeting of two of the 19th century's most famous abolitionists, Frederick Douglass and John Brown, took place at Brown's home in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1847.ĭouglass was already widely known for his enslaved upbringing and escape from captivity in the late 1830s, his account captured in 1845's Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, and frequently rehashed in his public speeches. ![]() ![]() The story came to me as I was watching a TV show about extreme apocalyptic shelters. ![]() She has to decide what she believes in and what she’s willing to do to fight for her right to those beliefs. While her parents are hopelessly under the sway of the group’s leader, Pioneer, Lyla is drawn into a dangerous situation when she begins to question Pioneer’s prophecy about the impending apocalypse.Īt its heart, this story is about a girl who is beginning to realize that all she’s accepted as truth for most of her life may in fact be a lie. GATED follows a teenage girl named Lyla who has been living in a religious cult after the disappearance of her sister. ![]() ![]() I’m sitting down with Amy Christine Parker to find out all the juicy details about her new YA romantic suspense, GATED.Īmy, how exciting it must be to see your debut novel come out! Congratulations! Tell us what this story is all about and what drove you to write it. ![]() ![]() But ultimately, the process of learning to love David means that Catherine is better at appreciating people than most people are, and so she learns to give back. Austism within the family usually means ostracism from normal society, and just having to go to David's OT with him means that Catherine has less time for things like friends and basketball. Life with an autistic family member is a unique challenge, but a meaningful oneĪutism is a difficult aspect of life. That's not to say that living in community with the differently abled is necessarily easy-for instance, David has screaming fits that embarrass Catherine-but it's still an important part of learning to love people well. But that is prejudiced behavior, akin to racism. The natural assumption is that if you can be friends with a mentally handicapped person or a "cool," "normal" person, most people would prefer the second person. Treating people equally is seriously difficult ![]() Written by people who wish to remain anonymous ![]() We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() |