Many African-American blogs have written about what they’d like to see Michelle bring to the White House—mainly showing the world that a black woman can support her man and raise a strong black family. Michelle will have to work to please everyone—an impossible task. But for many African...
The novel tells the story of Tayo, a wounded returning World War II veteran of mixed Laguna-white ancestry following a short stint at a Los Angeles VA hospital. He is returning to the poverty-stricken Laguna reservation, continuing to suffer from "battle fatigue" (shell-shock), and is haunt...
and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to get, and a time to lose; A time to keep, and a time to cast away; A time to rend, and a time to sew; A time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; A time of war, and a time of ...
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851In the decades leading up to World War I, one of the most widely cited writers on the female was the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) – no doubt partly for his quite scurrilous screed, which I have included in the opening epigraphs of this chapter. ...
2. Meanwhile, in a two-dimensional world that enables the concept of “plane,” we can move diagonally across the plane of the square, thus reducing the distance to √2. A three-dimensional world operates under a similar rule. With a unit cube, the distance from one vertex to the ...
SQL needs very little introduction. Today, it’s one of the most widely used computer languages in the world. We will devoteChapter 4to the CockroachDB SQL implementation. However, it’s worth noting that the relative ease of use that SQL provided expanded the audience of database users drama...
as they will undoubtedly sometime be far more valuable than now, and I should also advise him not to stay there himself but to start up in a better place."24 In 1890 Speck sold his New Mexico interests for $2,000 and spent the money touring the Rocky Mountains in search of other opp...
but in this case the introduction is by the mostly unnoted (though self-annotated) Dean Blehert, because I don't have time at the moment to hunt up an appropriate introducer, nor am I sure one exists, and also because I love this book, think it my best and want to give it its im...
To fully answer the question “What is NATO?”, it’s important to understand the historical and political context behind NATO’s formation. The End of World War II and the Rise of the American Superpower World War IIwas perhaps the most defining moment of the 20th century. The Second Worl...
Jay Gatsby(originallyJames "Jimmy" Gatz) – a young, mysterious millionaire with shady business connections (later revealed to be a bootlegger), originally from North Dakota. During World War I, when he was a young military officer stationed at the United States Army's Camp Taylor in Louisvill...