Sam Brown
English teacher.
The Slow Death of American Exceptionalism | by Dan Wilhelm | Medium. American exceptionalism is the belief that our country is somehow unique (or “blessed,” if you’re into that sort of thing) in the developed world. It goes beyond even garden-variety nationalism, and awards our country a sort of presumptive moral superiority. The idea seems to be that we will remain the greatest country on earth so long as we keep insisting it’s so. In other words, it’s a tired ideology that will cease to exist as soon as we develop a metric to objectively rank the democracies of the world. Oh, we already have such a thing? You have my attention. I’m sure many of us have imagined that we could rank the nations of the world by some standard or another. And for some of us, the results might be surprising.
I’ve been doing a lot of reading lately about the Nordic countries and the “Nordic model” (or “Nordic capitalism,” if you prefer), to better understand how and why the US has lost so much ground when it comes to freedom and basic human dignities. Why Rank Democracy? Wrong. Top 10 Songs That Criticize America. VOICE OVER: Adrian Sousa WRITTEN BY: George Pacheco Script by George Pacheco This music had a very specific message. Welcome to WatchMojo.com, and today we're counting down our picks for the Top 10 Songs That Criticize America. For this list, we'll be ranking the most popular or influential songs that carry a lyrical message criticizing America or pointing out negative aspects of its culture, style or politics. We're not taking sides with regards to the content behind these songs, but rather commenting about how successful each artist was with how they executed their ideas.
Like our videos? Head over to WatchMojo.comsuggest to submit your own video ideas today! Transcript ∧ Top 10 Songs That Criticize America This music had a very specific message. . #10: "This Is America" (2018) Childish Gambino "This Is America" may be the most recently released song on this list, but that doesn't make it any less powerful. . #9: "What's Going On" (1971) Marvin Gaye #5: "Fight the Power" (1989) Public Enemy. ‘Disturbing’: weedkiller ingredient tied to cancer found in 80% of US urine samples. More than 80% of urine samples drawn from children and adults in a US health study contained a weedkilling chemical linked to cancer, a finding scientists have called “disturbing” and “concerning”. The report by a unit of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that out of 2,310 urine samples, taken from a group of Americans intended to be representative of the US population, 1,885 were laced with detectable traces of glyphosate.
This is the active ingredient in herbicides sold around the world, including the widely used Roundup brand. Almost a third of the participants were children ranging from six to 18. Academics and private researchers have been noting high levels of the herbicide glyphosate in analyses of human urine samples for years. Sheppard co-authored a 2019 analysis that found glyphosate exposure increases the risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and also co-authored a 2019 scientific paper that reviewed 19 studies documenting glyphosate in human urine.
Jersey Devil. Legendary creature in North American folklore Origin of the legend[edit] Japhet Leeds House, Moss Mill Road, Leeds Point, Atlantic County, New Jersey (c. 1937) Mother Leeds' 13th child[edit] According to popular folklore, the Jersey Devil originated with a Pine Barrens resident named Jane Leeds, known as "Mother Leeds". The legend states that Mother Leeds had twelve children and, after finding she was pregnant for the thirteenth time, cursed the child in frustration, crying that the child would be the "devil". In 1735, Mother Leeds was in labor on a stormy night while her friends gathered around her. Born as a normal child, the thirteenth child changed to a creature with hooves, a goat's head, bat wings, and a forked tail.
The Leeds family[edit] Prior to the early 1900s, the Jersey Devil was referred to as the Leeds Devil or the Devil of Leeds, either in connection with the local Leeds family or the eponymous southern New Jersey town, Leeds Point.[4] The Leeds Devil[edit] Hoaxes[edit] America's gun culture - in seven charts. 100 films pour une cinémathèque idéale. Liste du BFI des 50 films à voir avant d'avoir 14 ans. La liste du BFI des 50 films à voir avant d'avoir 14 ans (BFI list of the 50 films you should see by the age of 14) est une liste établie en 2005 par le British Film Institute (BFI) dans le but d'inspirer les parents et les éducateurs qui voudraient donner à des enfants une culture cinématographique sérieuse et pensée, comme il peut exister dans le domaine de la littérature.
Elle a été créée par plus de 70 experts incluant des producteurs et des critiques de cinéma mais aussi des enseignants, à qui il avait été demandé de lister chacun 10 films indispensables pour un public jeune[1]. Le film ayant reçu le plus de citations est Le Voyage de Chihiro de Hayao Miyazaki. La liste[modifier | modifier le code] La liste est divisée en deux parties non classées, un premier top 10 puis le reste des 40 autres films. Top 10[modifier | modifier le code] Les 40 autres films[modifier | modifier le code] [modifier | modifier le code] Voir aussi[modifier | modifier le code] Street photography (photographie de rue) : qu'est-ce que la street photographie ? Quels conseils pour bien débuter ? Ressources (livres, comptes Instagram à suivre, galerie photographie de rue)...
Conseil n°3 – Si vous débutez, travaillez en « priorité vitesse » ou « priorité ouverture » Si vous débutez, choisissez, en fonction du contexte, soit priorité vitesse (Mode S) soit priorité ouverture (Mode A). Quand vous serez familiarisé avec ces modes vous pourrez, si vous le souhaitez, basculer en mode manuel complet. Évitez le mode tout automatique. Il n’y a rien d’obligatoire là-dedans bien entendu mais disons que les mode S ou A sont tellement simples, faciles et rapides à utiliser qu’il serait dommage de s’en priver, même quand on est débutant. Priorité vitesse (Mode S) Le fait de photographier en « priorité vitesse » (mode S… les Iso sont en automatique, l’ouverture est en automatique, vous n’avez qu’à régler la vitesse de prise de vue) va vous permettre d’avoir des sujets parfaitement nets ou, au contraire, de faire le choix d’avoir des sujets un peu flous (voire un sujet net et d’autres sujets flous).
Priorité ouverture (Mode A) En plein journée, je l’utilise notamment quand : Read: The Moth and the Mountain - Shifter.Media by Daniel Milnor. Loved, loved, loved it. A quick read. Just when you go thinking you have done something adventurous in your life you learn about someone who has taken what you have done and gone so far beyond you lost sight as he/she ventured past the horizon. Ever heard of Maurice Wilson? I never had. But he was a unique little badass. Wilson survived the first world war after putting on display a commendable level of bravery. He goes anyway. Le Cercle (roman, 2013) Quand Mae Holland est embauchée par le Cercle, elle n’en revient pas. Installé sur un campus californien, le Cercle, fournisseur d'accès à Internet relie les mails personnels, les réseaux sociaux, les achats des consommateurs et les transactions bancaires à un système d'exploitation universel, à l’origine d’une nouvelle ère hyper-numérique, prônant la civilité et la transparence.
Alors que la jeune femme parcourt le siège social en forme de cercle, les open-spaces, les immenses cafétérias en verre, les dortoirs confortables pour ceux qui restent travailler le soir (à La Colonie), la modernité des lieux et l’intense activité la ravissent. On fait la fête toute la nuit, des musiciens célèbres jouent sur la pelouse, des activités sportives, des clubs et des brunchs sont proposés, et il y a même un aquarium contenant des poissons rares rapportés par le P. -D.G. Le livre a été présélectionné pour le prix littéraire international IMPAC de Dublin en 2015, sans toutefois obtenir la récompense[5]. Read: The Devil's Highway, Luis Alberto Urrea - Shifter.Media by Daniel Milnor. I dare you to try and read this book without crying. I’m a total badass, so I could do it, but most people will burst into tears by about chapter two. As an experiment I explained the plot to my wife, as we were on vacation, so she was really happy and relaxed and totally unsuspecting of my awful plot.
She burst into tears, which was my goal, but it backfired on me because everyone else at the pool thought I had done something terrible to her. I deserved it. A stupid idea, but something I am prone to do. This book by Luis Alberto Urrea is short, fluid and builds like a storm coming, a storm you want to avoid but one that you will know will consume you in the end.
The book traces the history of a deadly stretch of land running through one of the harshest environments on Earth. In 2001 a group of men tried to cross into the US via this remote and unforgiving stretch. A good book makes your blood boil, and this book did just that to me. Culte du cargo. Le culte du cargo est un ensemble de rites qui apparaissent à la fin du XIXe siècle et dans la première moitié du XXe siècle chez les aborigènes, en réaction à la colonisation de la Mélanésie (Océanie). Il consiste à imiter les opérateurs radios américains et japonais commandant du ravitaillement (distribués par avion-cargo) et plus généralement la technique et la culture occidentales (moyens de transports, défilés militaire, habillement, etc.) en espérant déboucher sur les mêmes effets, selon ce qu'on a qualifié de croyances « millénaristes »[1],[2]. Naissance dans les îles d'Océanie[modifier | modifier le code] Débarquement de provisions et de matériel sur l'île de Guadalcanal, 7 août 1942.
Peter Lawrence a écrit, en 1974, dans son livre intitulé Les Cultes du cargo (p. 297-298, éditions Fayard) : Le mouvement, le mythe, religion ou terme « culte du cargo » s’est forgé à travers les théories anthropologiques et études sur les civilisations du Pacifique. Dans son livre Raga. (33) Cool guide of words you can use instead of very. : coolguides. The Victorians had the same concerns about technology as we do. We live, we are so often told, in an information age. It is an era obsessed with space, time and speed, in which social media inculcates virtual lives that run parallel to our “real” lives and in which communications technologies collapse distances around the globe. Many of us struggle with the bombardment of information we receive and experience anxiety as a result of new media, which we feel threaten our relationships and “usual” modes of human interaction. Though the technologies may change, these fears actually have a very long history: more than a century ago our forebears had the same concerns.
Literary, medical and cultural responses in the Victorian age to the perceived problems of stress and overwork anticipate many of the preoccupations of our own era to an extent that is perhaps surprising. This parallel is well illustrated by the following 1906 cartoon from Punch, a satirical British weekly magazine: Cacophony of voices Old complaints Writers, too, have shared Carr’s anxieties. Programme. Iuiuh.
Seconde - Le village, le quartier, la ville. TOOLS. Seconde - Les univers professionnels, le monde du travail. ST2S - Healthcare. LLCE - The Searchers. LLCE - Colonialism. Première - Territoire et mémoire. LLCE - The Handmaid's Tale.
Seconde - Vivre entre générations. Seconde - Sauver la planète, penser les futurs possibles. Première - Art & Pouvoir.