Evil In The Swamp Evil in the Swamp takes place during the 1950s in Santurce, Puerto Rico. During this period, El Fangito, as it was called, was home to some of the poorest people on the island. It was rife with poverty, disease, crime and despair. Most of the people were indigent and had nowhere else to live. Some were so poor they could not afford even the lowest rents, some even built their own homes from scavenged items. To add to the misery of the people, the area was like a swamp. Water flooded the entire area, making getting around difficult. Nonetheless people lived there under these conditions. This story centers on a young couple, an uneducated teenage girl who has just borne a baby girl, and the father of her baby, an abusive drunk. During this time machismo defined the lives of these people. The men controlled the women and, the purse strings and did basically as they pleased. The women were at the mercy of these men. Such is the life of Awilda, who has no one to help her escape the brutality of her existence. Santeria and voodoo where practiced during this time, and because of lack of medical services people relied on healers and witches to cure them of illnesses and to avenge any perceived injustices. There were said to be many witches in the swamp community. One witch in particular was said to be the most powerful of all and was the most feared. Jose, the protagonist in the story, is a drunk and a bully. One night Jose incurs the wrath of the evil witch and the entire community is terrorized as they witness her power and rage. Terror in Brooklyn This takes place in the mid- sixties and involves a young, single woman with a small daughter who has the ability to see the dead. She has had this ability since she was her daughters age, and though it has caused scary moments, she is totally unprepared for what happens when she moves into a new apartment with a dark history. People say sometimes places harbor evil if something evil has happened there. They say evil lurks where it is allowed to fester. The young mother realizes from the start that there is something there in the apartment, something not quite right, but because of her situation, her desperation to have her own place, she ignores the feelings that have warned her in the past to be on guard, to be aware of something. She has vivid dreams of being stalked and suffers attacks at the hands of something evil, something she cannot see. She is horrified when she finally sees what is after her, when she sees the entity that resides in her new home. The attacks on her become more violent as the evil entity seeks to destroy her until finally her life hangs in the balance. Will she survive?
Inspiring, intriguing, and revelatory, this volume collects quotes from writers, poets, artists, actors, sports figures, and politicians. Among the voices included here are W.E.B. DuBois, Gwendolyn Brooks, Thurgood Marshall, Toni Morrison, and James Earl Jones. Illustrated.
Evil In The Swamp Evil in the Swamp takes place during the 1950s in Santurce, Puerto Rico. During this period, El Fangito, as it was called, was home to some of the poorest people on the island. It was rife with poverty, disease, crime and despair. Most of the people were indigent and had nowhere else to live. Some were so poor they could not afford even the lowest rents, some even built their own homes from scavenged items. To add to the misery of the people, the area was like a swamp. Water flooded the entire area, making getting around difficult. Nonetheless people lived there under these conditions. This story centers on a young couple, an uneducated teenage girl who has just borne a baby girl, and the father of her baby, an abusive drunk. During this time machismo defined the lives of these people. The men controlled the women and, the purse strings and did basically as they pleased. The women were at the mercy of these men. Such is the life of Awilda, who has no one to help her escape the brutality of her existence. Santeria and voodoo where practiced during this time, and because of lack of medical services people relied on healers and witches to cure them of illnesses and to avenge any perceived injustices. There were said to be many witches in the swamp community. One witch in particular was said to be the most powerful of all and was the most feared. Jose, the protagonist in the story, is a drunk and a bully. One night Jose incurs the wrath of the evil witch and the entire community is terrorized as they witness her power and rage. Terror in Brooklyn This takes place in the mid- sixties and involves a young, single woman with a small daughter who has the ability to see the dead. She has had this ability since she was her daughters age, and though it has caused scary moments, she is totally unprepared for what happens when she moves into a new apartment with a dark history. People say sometimes places harbor evil if something evil has happened there. They say evil lurks where it is allowed to fester. The young mother realizes from the start that there is something there in the apartment, something not quite right, but because of her situation, her desperation to have her own place, she ignores the feelings that have warned her in the past to be on guard, to be aware of something. She has vivid dreams of being stalked and suffers attacks at the hands of something evil, something she cannot see. She is horrified when she finally sees what is after her, when she sees the entity that resides in her new home. The attacks on her become more violent as the evil entity seeks to destroy her until finally her life hangs in the balance. Will she survive?
An illustrated history of African-American farmers, Homecoming is a requiem for a way of life that has almost disappeared. Based on the film Homecoming, produced for the Independent Television Service with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The videocassette of Homecoming is available from California Newsreel at www.newsreel.org.
Unpacks the problems and privileges of pursuing a career of passion by exploring work inside craft breweries. As workers attempt new modes of employment in the era of the Great Resignation, they face a labor landscape that is increasingly uncertain and stubbornly unequal. With Handcrafted Careers, sociologist Eli Revelle Yano Wilson dives headfirst into the everyday lives of workers in the craft beer industry to address key questions facing American workers today: about what makes a good career, who gets to have one, and how careers progress without established models. Wilson argues that what ends up contributing to divergent career paths in craft beer is a complex interplay of social connections, personal tastes, and cultural ideas, as well as exclusionary industry structures. The culture of work in craft beer is based around “bearded white guy” ideals that are gendered and racialized in ways that limit the advancement of women and people of color. A fresh perspective on niche industries, Handcrafted Careers offers sharp insights into how people navigate worlds of work that promote ideas of authenticity and passion-filled careers even amid instability.
Flammability has been recognized as an increasingly important social and scientific problem. Fire statistics in the United States (Report on the National Commission on Fire Prevention and Control, "America Burning," 1973) emphasized the vast devastation to life and property-12,000 lives lost annually due to fire and these deaths are usually caused by inhaling smoke or toxic gases; 300,000 fire injuries; 11. 4 billion dollars in fire cost of which 2. 7 billion dollars is related to property loss; a billion dollars to burn injury treatment; and 3. 3 billion dollars in productivity loss. It is obvious that much human and economic misery can be attributed to fire situations. In relation to this, polymer flammability has been recognized as an increasingly important social and scientific problem. The development of flame-retardant polymeric materials is a current example where the initiative for major scientific and technological developments is motivated by sociological pressure and legisla tion. This is part of the important trend toward a safer environment and sets a pattern for future example. Flame retardancy deals with our basic everyday life situations-housing, work areas, transportation, clothing and so forth the "macroenvironment" capsule within which "homosapiens" live. As a result, flame-retardant polymers are now emerging as a specific class of materials leading to new and diversified scientific and technological ventures.
Winner- 2022 Governor General’s Literary Award for English-Language Nonfiction Members of Eli Baxter’s generation are the last of the hunting and gathering societies living on Turtle Island. They are also among the last fluent speakers of the Anishinaabay language known as Anishinaabaymowin. Aki-wayn-zih is a story about the land and its spiritual relationship with the Anishinaabayg, from the beginning of their life on Miss-koh-tay-sih Minis (Turtle Island) to the present day. Baxter writes about Anishinaabay life before European contact, his childhood memories of trapping, hunting, and fishing with his family on traditional lands in Treaty 9 territory, and his personal experience surviving the residential school system. Examining how Anishinaabay Kih-kayn-daa-soh-win (knowledge) is an elemental concept embedded in the Anishinaabay language, Aki-wayn-zih explores history, science, math, education, philosophy, law, and spiritual teachings, outlining the cultural significance of language to Anishinaabay identity. Recounting traditional Ojibway legends in their original language, fables in which moral virtues double as survival techniques, and detailed guidelines for expertly trapping or ensnaring animals, Baxter reveals how the residential school system shaped him as an individual, transformed his family, and forever disrupted his reserve community and those like it. Through spiritual teachings, historical accounts, and autobiographical anecdotes, Aki-wayn-zih offers a new form of storytelling from the Anishinaabay point of view.
This is a must-have resource for educators committed to meeting the needs of their struggling students in Grades 3-6. Teachers get a whole toolbox filled with research-based, easy to implement RTI interventions that really work! Get strategies in five core areas — plus correlations to the Common Core State Standards and effective scaffolding tips for English language learners! Listening Strategies help students understand academic language. Reading Strategies help students comprehend text structures. Math Strategies help students understand algebra fundamentals. Speaking Strategies help students engage in structured group discussions. Writing Strategies help students compose informational and opinion-based pieces.
Profound transformations in residential practices are emerging in Europe as well as throughout the urban world. They can be observed in the unfolding diversity of residential architecture and spatially restructured cities. The complexity of urban and societal processes behind these changes requires new research approaches in order to fully grasp the significant changes in citizens lifestyles, their residential preferences, capacities and future opportunities for implementing resilient residential practices. The international case studies in this book examine why ways of residing have changed as well as the meaning and the significance of the social, economic, political, cultural and symbolic contexts. The volume brings together an interdisciplinary range of perspectives to reflect specifically upon the dynamic exchange between evolving ways of residing and professional practices in the fields of architecture and design, planning, policy-making, facilities management, property and market. In doing so, it provides a resourceful basis for further inquiries seeking an understanding of ways of residing in transformation as a reflection of diversifying residential cultures. This book will offer insights of interest to academics, policy-makers and professionals as well as students of urban studies, sociology, architecture, housing, planning, business and economics, engineering and facilities management.
The concentration of private power over media has been the subject of intense public debate around the world. Critics have long feared waves of mergers creating a handful of large media firms that would hold sway over public opinion and endanger democracy and innovation. But others believe with equal fervor that the Internet and deregulation have opened the media landscape significantly. How concentrated has the American information sector really become? What are the facts about American media ownership? In this contentious environment, Eli Noam provides a comprehensive and balanced survey of media concentration with a methodical, scientific approach. He assembles a wealth of data from the last 25 years about mass media such as radio, television, film, music, and print publishing, as well as the Internet, telecommunications, and media-related information technology. After examining 100 separate media and network industries in detail, Noam provides a powerful summary and analysis of concentration trends across industries and major media sectors. He also looks at local media power, vertical concentration, and the changing nature of media ownership through financial institutions and private equity. The results reveal a reality much more complex than the one painted by advocates on either side of the debate. They show a dynamic system that fluctuates around long-term concentration trends driven by changing economics and technology. Media Ownership and Concentration in America will be essential reading and a trove of information for scholars and students in media, telecommunications, IT, economics, and the history of business, as well as media industry professionals, business researchers, and policy makers around the world. Critics and defenders of media trends alike will find much that confirms and refutes their world view. But the next round of their debate will be shaped by the facts presented in this book.
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