![]() ![]() Rapidly advancing technologies like artificial intelligence, robotics and automation software are making millions of Americans' livelihoods irrelevant. In a future marked by restlessness and chronic unemployment, what will happen to American society? In The War on Normal People, Andrew Yang paints a dire portrait of the American economy. One recent estimate predicts 45 million American workers will lose their jobs within the next twelve years-jobs that won't be replaced. ![]() The shift toward automation is about to create a tsunami of unemployment. The freedom dividend Universal Basic Income in the real world Time as the new money Human capitalism The strong state and the new citizenship Health care in a world without jobs Building people Part three: Solutions and human capitalism. Life in the bubble Mindsets of scarcity and abundance Geography is destiny Men, women, and children The permanent shadow class: what displacement looks like Video games and the (male) meaning of life The shape we're in/Disintegration My journey How we got here Who is normal in America What we do for a living Factory workers and truck drivers White-collar jobs will disappear, too On humanity and work The usual objections Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-275) and index. The war on normal people : the truth about America's disappearing jobs and why universal basic income is our future / Andrew Yang. Request This Author Yang, Andrew, 1975- author. ![]()
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![]() ![]() An active and effective suffragist, pacifist, and socialist (the latter association earned her a file of Federal Bureau of Investigation), she lectured on behalf of disabled people everywhere. ![]() Nevertheless, alongside many other impressive achievements, Keller authored 13 books, wrote countless articles, and devoted her life to social reform. In this age, few women then attended college, and people often relegated the disabled to the background and spoke of the disabled only in hushed tones, when she so remarkably accomplished. Scarlet fever rendered her deaf and blind at 19 months she in several languages and as a student wrote The Story of My Life. Blind and deaf since infancy, American memoirist and lecturer Helen Adams Keller learned to read, to write, and to speak from her teacher Anne Sullivan, graduated from Radcliffe in 1904, and lectured widely on behalf of sightless people her books include Out of the Dark (1913).Ĭonditions bound not Keller. ![]() 6/12/2023 0 Comments The Best of Pogo by Selby Kelly![]() Kelly once stated that his salary at Disney averaged about $100 a week. ![]() Kelly worked for Disney from January 6, 1936, to September 12, 1941, contributing to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Fantasia, Dumbo and The Reluctant Dragon. Kelly and Kimball were so close that Kimball named his daughter Kelly Kimball in tribute. ![]() Starting over as an animator, Kelly became an assistant to noted Walt Disney animator Fred Moore and became close friends with Moore and Ward Kimball, one of Disney's Nine Old Men. Relocating to Southern California, he found a job at Walt Disney Productions as a storyboard artist and gag man on Donald Duck cartoons and other shorts, requesting a switch to the animation department in 1939. Kelly was extremely proud of his journalism pedigree and considered himself a newspaper man as well as a cartoonist. He also took up cartooning and illustrated a biography of fellow Bridgeport native P. After graduating from Warren Harding High School in 1930, Kelly worked at odd jobs until he was hired as a crime reporter on the Bridgeport Post. ![]() When he was two years old, the family moved to Bridgeport, Connecticut. Kelly was born of Irish-American heritage in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Walter Crawford Kelly, Sr., and Genevieve Kelly (née MacAnnula). (Aug– October 18, 1973), or Walt Kelly, was an American animator and cartoonist, best known for the comic strip, Pogo. ![]() 6/12/2023 0 Comments Rosa by Nikki Giovanni![]() ![]() Still, this is a gorgeously illustrated introduction to a watershed event. These events can be used as openings for parents to discuss them in more detail with their kids, but the book on its own may be confusing. Various news events, such as the lynching of Emmet Till and freeing of his killers, are mentioned but not explained an author's note would have been welcome. And she virtually disappears from the book halfway through. What is the NAACP? What happened to Parks after the police came? There is a vivid picture of a cop confronting her, but her actual arrest is not mentioned. Though the book is aimed at 4- to 8-year-olds, some of the story will go over their heads, and many things are unexplained. Poet Nikki Giovanni's text is at times preachy, however, and Parks is portrayed as perhaps more than a mere mortal - at times Bryan Collier's art suggests a halo above her. The pictures radiate heat, light, and power. It begins when the writer reflects her past she tries to pen down her childhood memories. The poem draws a realistic comparison between the choices of African American and American people. In paintings that combine watercolor and collage, realistic images of people are set against slightly abstract backgrounds with skewed perspectives. Nikki-Rosa by Nikki Giovanni, a great American poet and writer is a descriptive poem. Bold yet detailed, they show Rosa Parks as she was - not an old lady too tired to get up, but a strong young woman tired of oppression. ![]() ![]() It's easy to see why ROSA won both the Coretta Scott King Award and a Caldecott Honor - the illustrations are spectacular. ![]() ![]() ![]() from the OLA fire website, the arsonist's name was never mentioned. THIS STORY IS NEVER OUT OF MY MIND, IT IS LIKE IT HAPPENED TODAY. I HOPE THERE ARE OTHERS WHO WOULD LIKE TO SHARE THERE STORY. I HOPE I DIDN'T UPSET ANYONE, BUT I HAD TO TELL THE WHOLE STORY, JUST THE WAY IT WAS. THE ONLY WAY MY MOM IDENIFIED HER WAS MY A CHAIN AND A SHOE. SO I HAD TO DO SOMETHING I NEVER DID LIE TO MY MOM ABOUT HOW SHE DIED. WHAT I FOUND OUT I COULDN'T TELL MY MOM, IT WOULD HAVE KILLED HER. AND THEY WOULDN'T TELL ME ANYTHING ABOUT HER TILL I HAD MY BABY. I REMEMBER MY HUSBASND COULDN'T TALK ABOUT IT FOR A LONG TIME, HE SAW ALL THE BODIES. WHEN THE PHONE RANG AND TOLD MY MOM HAD TO IDENTIFY SOME BODIES, WHEN THEY LEFT I KNEW SHE WAS DEAD. WE WERE UP FOR 47 HOURES THE FAMILY WAS LOOKING ALL OVER FOR HER. WHEN MY OLDEST DAUGHTER GREW UP SHE TOLD ME HOW I WAS CRYING, I REALLY DON'T REMEMBER WHAT I WAS DOING. SO I CALLED MY HUSBAND AND HE TOOK ME BY MY MOM. IT WAS SO HARD BEING ALONE WITH THE GIRLS, I DIDN'T WANT TO SCARE THEM. ![]() THEN MY MOM CALLED TO TELL ME THEY COULDN'T FIND HER. I LIVED ON THE SOUTH SIDE AT THE TIME, HAD NO WAY OF GOING TO HER. SO I CALLED TO SEE IF MY SISTER WAS HOME AND THE LINE WAS BUSY, SO I THOUGHT SHE WAS HOME. ![]() I WAS ORDERING CHRISTMAS GIFTS FOR MY SISTER, AND THE PHONE RANG IT WAS MY BEST FRIEND, AND SHE TOLD ME THE SCHOOL WAS ON FIRE. I WAS HOME WITH MY TWO DAUGHTERS AND I WAS PREGENT WITH MY SON. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Cheryl strayed pct![]() ![]() “I don’t want to owe anyone anything,” says Strayed. They jokingly refer to it as “the house that Wild built,” and it’s true. SHE AND her husband of 15 years, filmmaker Brian Lindstrom, live in Portland, Oregon, with their two children, Carver (named for the writer Raymond), 10, and Bobbi (named after Cheryl’s mom), nine, in a 1914 Prairie Craftsman home purchased in 2013. ![]() Twenty years after her initial expedition, the 46-year-old author, who is as warm and fiercely honest in person as she is on the page, assesses the landscape. With this month’s film adaptation of her literary blockbuster-written by Nick Hornby, directed by Jean-Marc Vallée, and co-produced by Reese Witherspoon (who stars as Strayed)-her epic journey continues. The resulting 2012 memoir, Wild, which traces her physical and emotional battles through the Pacific Northwest, landed her on The New York Times bestseller list, where she has been ever since. Despite being a novice backpacker, with no radio, no phone, no credit cards, and very little money, Strayed survived. ![]() At the age of 26, devastated by her mother’s untimely death from lung cancer and reeling from her divorce, Cheryl Strayed embarked on a solo, three-month, 1,100-mile hike along the Pacific Crest Trail. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments First shift legacy hugh howey![]()
6/11/2023 0 Comments The state of wonder ann patchett![]() ![]() Fox expresses his remorse for having sent Anders to the Amazon. Fox leave the Eckman home shaken by the encounter. She collapses on the floor in grief, and after contacting Karen’s family and a neighbor to collect her children, Marina and Mr. Initially in a state of shock and disbelief, she implores them to get Anders “out of there” and to bring him home. Karen, a mother of three, is overwhelmed, not only by the news of her husband’s death, but by the mysterious circumstances surrounding it. Fox to Anders’ suburban home, where they personally deliver the news of Anders’ death to his wife, Karen. ![]() Still troubled by the news of Anders’ death, Marina accompanies Mr. ![]() Swenson, a world class scientist, whose Amazonian research and development station is funded by the Vogel Corporation, has for some time, cut off all direct contact with the company, refusing to disclose the location of her rainforest station, and the development of a drug that would potentially extend the reproductive age of women well past the traditional limits imposed by age and menopause. Swenson’s research station, but to gather intelligence about the progress of her fertility drug, and to encourage Dr. Adding to the mystery and intrigue, Anders was originally sent to the Amazon not only to discover the secret location of Dr. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Alterworld d rus![]() ![]() God-moded main character: This is, funnily enough, an RPG term rather than a literary one. This shows in the book, and it’s refreshing to read. He even won an award for this book.Ī different voice: These books were originally written in Russian, and the first three have been translated into English. ![]() Rus is widely credited as having started an entire sub-genre with this series. From the minimal research I did after reading this, I discovered that Mr. It’s a book set in a game! How awesome is that? This book easily blends reality with the sci-fi idea of playing MMORPGs in full virtual reality, and the fantasy setting of Alter World itself. It’s also a very appealing idea in some ways, I know one person who’d love to go perma just because he could game forever. I don’t want to give away spoilers, but the limits seem to be as endless as your imagination. The phenomenon is still mysterious, but it appears to grant you immortality in the game. ![]() Fascinating concept: Spend too long playing in a virtual reality capsule and you might just find yourself a permanent resident in an online game. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Bleeding kansas by sara paretsky![]() ![]() Any girl can be pretty - but to take care of yourself you must have brains. I could hear her saying, "Yes, Vic, you are pretty-but pretty is no good. ![]() I inherited my Italian mother's olive coloring, and tan beautifully. Writing in an Age of Silence (2007 Verso, 2009) Women on the Case (Virago Press Ltd, 1997). ![]()
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