![]() ![]() It was there that he studied under the poet Richard Hugo,who told him that "his poetry needed roots, so he should write what he knew about. Eventually, Welch began a master of fine arts degree program at the University of Montana. Post high school he worked as a firefighter for the U.S Forest Service, as a laborer and as an Upward Bound counselor. In 1958, James Welch graduated from Washburn High School in Minneapolis. Because Welch was raised in an American Indian setting, the traditions and religion, specifically from the Blackfoot history, were the sources of his writing. As a child, Welch attended schools on the Blackfeet and Fort Belknap reservations. Both also had Irish ancestry but had grown up within Native American cultures. (JMay 23, 2006), a welder and rancher, was a member of the Blackfeet tribe and his mother, Rosella Marie (née O'Bryan) Welch (DecemJuly 3, 2003), a stenographer for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, was a member of the Gros Ventre (A'aninin). James Welch was born in Browning, Montana on November 18, 1940. ![]()
0 Comments
![]() ![]() ![]() Secondly, I examine the emergence of Zumba Fitness as a contemporary Dionysian rite, mediated by digital culture, capitalism and globalisation, through my insights from the ZIN Academy and Believe party (London, July 2015) and work as a Zumba Fitness instructor. I firstly conceptualise Zorbitality, via Csikszentmihalyi’s theory of ‘flow’ and Deleuze and Guattari’s ‘rhizome’. In response, this article proposes an emergent concept for reconfiguring female (a)sexualities through collective ecstatic motion - Zorbitality - drawing on the global Latin dance fitness phenomenon, Zumba Fitness, as a central example. With the rise of a postfeminist culture, the lived experiences of asexual-identified women are in danger of being lost within static narratives of frigidity and singledom. This definition is problematic, as it assumes that everybody is sexual and that sexuality is immutable. In the 21st century, asexuality has become synonymous with sexual orientation, being described as a 'lack' of sexual attraction. ![]() ![]() Both parties are blind to how America has changed over the past half century - as the large, consolidated institutions that once dominated our economy, politics, and culture have fragmented and become smaller, more diverse, and personalized. In The Fractured Republic, Yuval Levin argues that this politics of nostalgia is failing twenty-first-century Americans. Each side thinks returning to its golden age could solve America’s problems. The Right looks back to the Reagan Era, when deregulation and lower taxes spurred the economy, cultural traditionalism seemed resurgent, and America was confident and optimistic. The Left looks back to the middle of the twentieth century, when unions were strong, large public programs promised to solve pressing social problems, and the movements for racial integration and sexual equality were advancing. No wonder, then, that Americans - and the politicians who represent them - are overwhelmingly nostalgic for a better time. And our politics has failed to rise to these challenges. Our governing institutions often seem paralyzed. ![]() Income inequality, cultural divisions, and political polarization increasingly pull us apart. Our economy is sluggish, and leaves workers insecure. ![]() Americans today are frustrated and anxious. ![]() ![]() When her father disappeared and she returned to the forest to look for him, she felt herself getting renewed. She is restless and doesn’t feel she belongs somehow. Now living in the city, she harbors a dissatisfaction with her life the origins of which she cannot herself articulate. Yeva was taught to hunt by her father when she was young, and had always felt drawn to the forest. He was forced to return to a life of hunting, but seemed to go mad, claiming a mythical beast was tracking him and driving away all the game. Her father, an excellent hunter, became a merchant to make a better living, and then lost his fortune. ![]() Yeva is the youngest of three daughters, and has always been called Beauty by her father. This is a retelling of the archetypical story of “girl meets bad boy with heart of gold,” i.e., “Beauty and the Beast.” ![]() Note: Some spoilers if you do not know the story of “Beauty and the Beast.” ![]() ![]() ![]() When she is fourteen, and Katie ten, Lynn becomes ill with lymphoma and ultimately dies. ![]() Katie believes that Lynn is a "genius" and listens as her sister encourages her to look beyond tomorrow. Takeshima work double shifts, Katie and her younger brother, Sammy, are left in the care of their older sister Lynn. The working conditions are almost intolerable at the hatchery, and the Takeshima children experience prejudices at school, but the small community of Japanese families band together and support one another in their daily lives. ![]() Uncle Kutsuhisa helps them move into a small apartment complex where other Japanese families live, and they begin a long struggle toward saving money to purchase a house of their own. Katie Takeshima is about to enter kindergarten in the 1950s, when her parents close their Oriental foods grocery store in Iowa and move to Chesterfield, Georgia to work in a chicken hatchery. ![]() ![]() The original texts of Licklider’s three most important writings are also included in this edition: “Man-computer symbiosis” (1960), which outlines the vision that sparked the 1970s personal computer revolution his “Intergalactic Network” memo” (1963), which outlines the vision that sparked the internet and “The Computer as a Communication Device” (1968), which expands on his vision for what the network might become. ![]() ![]() ![]() Waldrop tells the story of the guy who not only started the work that led to the internet but also changed our perception of what computers were and could be in a fascinating personal narrative and thorough historical exposition. Licklider, the man who put personal in personal computers, in this lively, memorable, and wickedly detailed biography from Waldrop (Creativity, not reviewed). Mitchell Waldrop, computing’s Johnny Appleseed is due to his ideas’ popularity and contagious fervor. Licklider was penning treatises on “human-computer symbiosis,” “computers as communication instruments,” and a now-familiar “Intergalactic Network” while computers were still only a few steps away from mechanical data processors. Instead, he was a tenacious visionary who understood the possibilities of how people could engage with computers and software. He wasn’t involved in the storied early enterprises that propelled personal computers to the forefront of our daily lives, nor did he create the software that ran on the first ones or design them. Licklider’s vision is what led to the personal computing revolution-possibly the biggest revolution of our time. “Every great revolution has a vision at its core, and J. ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet, startlingly little is known about this bureaucrat, patriot and visionary. ![]() These include Junagadh, Hyderabad and Kashmir - the big three with a history of dissent.Īs Sardar's right-hand man, VP Menon was unarguably the architect of the modern Indian state. ![]() Menon met his stringent deadline, presenting the Menon Plan, which would play midwife to India's birth as a free nation.Īs Reforms Commissioner to India's last three Viceroys - Linlithgow, Wavell and Mountbatten and then as Secretary, States Ministry, VP used his enormous intellect, diligence and powers of persuasion, to integrate 565 states into the Indian union. VP MENON THE UNSUNG ARCHITECT OF MODERN INDIAWith his initial plans for an independent India in tatters, a desperate Viceroy, Lord Mountbatten, turned to his senior-most Indian civil servant, Vappala Pangunni Menon - or VP - giving him a single night to devise an alternative, coherent and workable plan for independence. ![]() ![]() ![]() She left Iran right before she became a young woman, was educated in Vienna and Strasbourg, and now lives in Paris. Satrapi’s story comes from a somewhat privileged background itself. And the other reason she wrote Persepolis was to remember all the Iranians who fought against the theocratic government. In fact in Satrapi’s introduction, she writes that she does not want Iran judged based solely on the extremists who came to power. While I wasn’t alive when the Iranian Revolution happened, like most Westerns, my view is littered with media interpretations (which are far too anti-Islamic for my comfort) and peppered with American leftist views on oil and imperialism. ![]() But at times, Satrapi’s illustrations are masterful with showing the warmth and love that Majri and her family have for one another. ![]() It reflects the youth in the story, and the stark black inking works well with the dourness of Marji and her family’s story. Satrapi’s art fits perfectly with the story. Satrapi’s story isn’t just that of a young girl growing up in Iran, but also a historical viewpoint on the Iranian Revolution in 1979. I sat down and read the memoir in a couple days I couldn’t put it down. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi is very engaging. ![]() ![]() ![]() Eric will walk you through the process he’s used for 20+ years to help himself (and thousands of others) move forward with ease, even when circumstances are everchanging and feel out of control.īut wait – there’s more! The episode is not quite over!! We continue the conversation and you can access this exclusive content right in your podcast player feed. live Webinar: “Learn the #1 Spiritual Habit to Unlock Energy and Ease in your Life”. Join us on Sunday, February 27th for a FREE. In this episode, Eric and Brigid discuss the common struggles and strategies for dealing with being overwhelmed. Her recent book is called “ Overwhelmed: How to Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time“. She writes about work-life issues and poverty, seeking to understand what it takes to live a good life across race, class, and gender. Brigid is a regular contributor to the She The People blog and has written for Style, Outlook, and other outlets. She is also a fellow at the New America Foundation. ![]() She was part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize. Brigid Schulte is an award-winning journalist for the Washington Post and Washington Post magazine. ![]() ![]() ![]() There were 30,000 deaths due to the plague in 1603, 35,000 in 1625, 10,000 in 1636, and smaller numbers in other years. ![]() The disease periodically erupted into massive epidemics. The plague was endemic in 17th-century London, as it was in other European cities at the time. ![]() Map of London by Wenceslaus Hollar, c.1665 It became known afterwards as the "great" plague mainly because it was the last widespread outbreak of bubonic plague in England during the 400-year Second Pandemic. The 1665–66 epidemic was on a much smaller scale than the earlier Black Death pandemic. The plague was caused by the Yersinia pestis bacterium, which is usually transmitted through the bite to a human by a flea or louse. The Great Plague killed an estimated 100,000 people-almost a quarter of London's population-in 18 months. It happened within the centuries-long Second Pandemic, a period of intermittent bubonic plague epidemics that originated in Central Asia in 1331 (the first year of the Black Death), and included related diseases such as pneumonic plague and septicemic plague, which lasted until 1750. The Great Plague of London, lasting from 1665 to 1666, was the last major epidemic of the bubonic plague to occur in England. Collecting the dead for burial during the Great Plague ![]() |