Things changed when I was 14. My grandma gave me a book for Christmas, which was all about making candles. I loved it so much that I spent all my free time making candles of all shapes and sizes. I made hundreds of them. One day, my mother was ill so I had to go to the marke...
“Of course Obama is Black. And he’s not Black, too. He’s white, and he’s not white, too. ... He’s a lot of things, and neither of them necessarily exclude the other.” Race-Mixing Will End Racism Some people are positively thrilled that the number of mixed-race Americans ap...
Read 2 The Things They Carried by Tim O’ Brien Read 3 The Sorrow of War by Bao Ninh Read 4 Fields of Fire by James Webb Read 5 365 Days by Ronald J Glasser In 1968 Karl Marlantes was a 22-year old Rhodes scholar and did not have to go to Vietnam. He nonetheless joined...
I’m not stupid, I didn’t think she was right in doing those things, but I still put up with it. And we became great friends. About two weeks ago, I read a sentence by Abraham Lincoln: “Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them” Immediately, I smiled, ...
Just last week a group of interested Hawaiians begandrafting a new constitution. And it might happen. In 2016,the Interior Department passed a ruleallowing native Hawaiians to vote on establishing an indigenous government, similar to the way Native Americans on the mainland have established...
5-4 is a podcast about how much the Supreme Court sucks. It’s a progressive and occasionally profane take on the ideological battles at the heart of the Court’s most important landmark cases, and an irreverent tour of all the
“He truly was this larger-than-life character. He had 37 mistresses—that we know about. There are things in the book that are like, ‘Okay, they’ve got to make this into a movie.’ One of his mistresses defended him with a sword, while he jumped out a window, before he could ...
I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper where Mr. Fordham shows you.’ “I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with him. The singular incident made, as you may think, the ...
If you find you cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper where Mr. Fordham shows you.’ ...
Yu discovered that as many as 51.9 percent of primary school students hate being urged to do things by their mothers.“Not giving children enough time and hurrying them to do things seems to be a very tiny detail within family life,but it is potentially a huge problem which ca...