As I see it, the question was both crucial and contradictory. Several audience members did describe volunteering in ways they found effective and comfortable: serving food in the Trenton Area Soup Kitchen, part
The tree’s Latin name celebrates the man who introduced the plant to Europeans as a medicine, the freed slave Graman Quassi (c.1690–1787), originally of the Akan people of West Africa from modern-day Ghana, hence his Kwa name Kwasimukámba which I will use in preference here. He arriv...
We must find all these great people who came before within ourselves, emulate their visions, believe in their dreams where people matter, society cares for each other and truth speaks its soft spoken verity and better times are cultivated! On all these shoulders stands one leader, whose voice,...
but whom had none of the wealth of this nation they were so vital a part of its building.“Give them all 40 acres and a mule.”First understand that very few freed Slaves actually received 40 acres and a mule… but let’s say they did. They had no money to buy seed. If they...
generally. I remember going around to other people in the unit with that issue in my hand saying,“See?! This is why they’re so pissed at us! It’s not anything that we did – we just succeeded at modern stuff, and they didn’t!”Yes, it all made sense to me then. Still does...
Greek slave(奴隶)traders traded salt for slaves. African traders crossed the Sahara Desert to trade for gold. Roman soldiers were even paid with salt. This is where the word salary(薪水)comes from. Today, people still use the expression "worth one's salt". It sho...
In the U.S., theShirley Plantationin Virginia is an ongoing reminder of the history of slavery. First founded in 1613, business actually began in 1638—and as many as 90 slaves were under indentured labor on the estate growing tobacco. ...
“polymorphic” serum proteins. These are proteins that show small genetic differences from person to person in the amino acid sequence, and may be recognized as foreign to the body of the recipient after a transfusion. Blumberg’s co-worker, Harvey Alter, did indeed discover a new antigen in...
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“No problem – say, did you get the ‘lock fixed?” “Not like I could just let that go!” Birungi laughed. “Maintenance was by this morning. Does this look better?” “That’s much better.” The sky was actually still at least half a nanometer to the cool, but I was fairly ...