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Ancient Greece - History, mythology, art, war, culture, society, and architecture. - 2 views
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It is separated into sections based on what you want to learn. It is very organized.
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Information Resource on Ancient Greece, history, mythology, art and architecture, olympics, wars, culture and society, playwrights, philosophers, historians, geography and essays etc...
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Ancient Chinese Inventions - Top Discoveries and Inventions of the Ancient Chinese - 1 views
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cup of it. Legend says silk was discovered when a cocoon fell from a mulberry bush into a cup of imperial tea. This is similar to the legend of the discovery of tea where an emperor (Shen Nung (2737 B.C.)) drank a cup of water into which leaves from an overhanging Camellia bush had fallen. Tea, no matter what country it comes from, is from the Camellia sinensis plant. It seems to have been a new beverage in the third century A.D., a time when it was still regarded with suspicion, much as the tomato was when it was first brought to Europe. Today we refer to beverages as tea even though there is no real tea in them. (Purists call them tisanes.) In the early period, there was confusion, too, and the Chinese for tea was sometimes used to refer to other plants, according to Bodde.
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The principle behind gunpowder was discovered by the Chinese in perhaps the first century A.D., during the Han Dynasty. It wasn't used in guns at the time, but created explosions at festivals.
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Renaissance -- Out of the Middle Ages - 2 views
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more than enough money to meet their basic needs for food, clothing, and shelter.
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leisure time to spend on education and entertainment.
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As the fortunes of merchants, bankers, and tradespeople improved, they had more than enough money to meet their basic needs for food, clothing, and shelter. They began to desire larger, more luxurious homes, fine art for these residences, sumptuous clothing to show off their wealth in public, and exotic delicacies to eat. These desires of the middle class stimulated the economy.
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leisure time to spend on education and entertainment.
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Bankers and accountants needed to understand arithmetic
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knowledge of foreign currencies and languages
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Reading was essential for anyone who needed to understand a contract.
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reading for pleasure, learning to play musical instruments, and studying a variety of topics unrelated to their businesses.
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Bankers and accountants needed to understand arithmetic. Those trading with other countries needed a knowledge of foreign currencies and languages. Reading was essential for anyone who needed to understand a contract.
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Many Italian coastal cities became centers for trade and commerce, and for the wealth and education that ensued.
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the Medici family, made their wealth as business people
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Many Italian coastal cities became centers for trade and commerce, and for the wealth and education that ensued.
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Florence.
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made their wealth as business people
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Medicis had the appearance of nobility.
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The creation of the middle class stimulated society by having the new wealthier middle class buy expensive things. This impacted others because it made jobs for bankers (which led to learning math,) and made people around them want to buy more too. It is important to have a middle class today so we can have a balance.
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What do banks do today? How do banks help people today? They want do you think banks did to make peoples lives better in the 1450's?
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Banks help people today by holding peoples money for them so they don't lose it or so that it doesn't get stolen as easily. Also, banks help you balance out your budget so you don't over spend. -
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They lived in beautiful homes, employed great artists, and engaged in intellectual pursuits for both business and pleasure.
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One of the cities that exemplified these new trends was Florence.
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Medieval education in Europe: Schools & Universities - 0 views
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It is estimated that by 1330, only 5% of the total population of Europe received any sort of education
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Even then education, as we understand it, was not accessible or even desired by everyone. Schools were mostly only accessible to the sons of high lords of the land.
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In most kingdoms in Europe, education was overseen by the church.
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The very fact that the curriculum was structured by the church gave it the ability to mould the students to follow its doctrine
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Unofficially, education started from a very young age. This sort of early education depended on the feudal class of the child’s parents
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Even the children of serfs would be taught the skills needed to survive by their parents. The boys would be taken out into the fields to observe and to help their parents with easy tasks, while the girls would work with the animals at home, in the vegetable garden with their mothers, or watch them weave.
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Children of craftsmen and merchants were educated from a very young age in the trade of their fathers. Trade secrets rarely left a family and they had to be taught and understood by all male (and unusually, female) heirs, in order to continue the family legacy.
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Young boys of noble birth would learn how to hunt and swing a weapon, while the young ladies of nobility would learn how to cook
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The main subject of study in those schools was Latin (reading and writing). In addition to this, students were also taught rhetoric – the art of public speaking and persuasion – which was a very useful tool for both men of the cloth and nobles alike.
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Lessons frequently started at sunrise and finished at sunset
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University education, across the whole of the continent, was a luxury to which only the wealthiest and brightest could ever aspire
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Since the creation of the first university in 1088
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Students attended the Medieval University at different ages, ranging from 14 (if they were attending Oxford or Paris to study the Arts) to their 30s (if they were studying Law in Bologna)
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The dynamic between students and teachers in a medieval university was significantly different from today. In the University of Bologna students hired and fired teachers by consensus. The students also bargained as a collective regarding fees, and threatened teachers with strikes if their demands were not met
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A Master of Arts degree in the medieval education system would have taken six years; a Bachelor of Arts degree would be awarded after completing the third or fourth year. By “Arts” the degree was referring to the seven liberal arts – arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, music theory, grammar, logic, and rhetoric
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The sons of the peasants could only be educated if the lord of the manor had given his permission
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Any family caught having a son educated without permission was heavily fined
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Historians today believe that this policy was another way in which authority figures attempted to control the peasants, since an educated peasant/villein might prove to question the way things were done and upset the balance of power which kept the nobles strong.
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Students held the legal status of clerics which, according to the Canon Law, could not be held by women; women were therefore not admitted into universities.
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This explains the importance of education and how each group got an education.
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Roman Education - 0 views
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Boys were beaten for the slightest offence as a belief existed that a boy would learn correctly and accurately if he feared being caned if he got something wrong
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Medieval Knight's Tomb Found Beneath Parking Lot - Yahoo! News - 0 views
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Archaeologists who were on hand during the construction of a new building in Edinburgh uncovered a carved sandstone slab, decorated with markers of nobility — a Calvary cross and a sword
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Scientists plan to analyze the bones and teeth to learn more about this possible knight or nobleman
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archaeologists have already dated the gravestone to the thirteenth century
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Builders at the site expected they would find historic objects during construction. Before it became a parking lot (coincidentally, once used by the University of Edinburgh's archaeology department), the site housed the 17th-century Royal High School, the 16th-century Old High School, and the 13th-century Blackfriars Monastery, researchers said. Archaeologists also apparently uncovered some medieval remains of the monastery, which had been destroyed and somewhat lost since the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century.
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Medieval Health - 0 views
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Health was controlled by the stars, and affliction was a sign of impurity of the soul-a curse from God.
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Disease was a constant concern, as was infection from injuries
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Hygiene was not always a priority
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Barbers doubled as surgeons,
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treatments for the sick were quite often out of reach
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But little by little, doctors were learning information that led to better cures,
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Hospitals began to be constructed, and schools established for those wishing to practice medicine.
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Children of the Middle Ages - 0 views
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Children of peasants often had to begin helping their parents when they were as young as seven or eight years old
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Many of the boys had to become pages and were set away as young as age 7 to wait on the lords and ladies of another noble family
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boys who were born to lords learned to fight when they were very young, became squires at 14, and became knights at 21.
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It was not uncommon for a boy of 14, whether born to a peasant or born to a lord, to marry.
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Girls could marry when they were even younger during the Middle Ages, sometimes as young as 12
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the parents normally arranged the marriage for their offspring.
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conditions were often extremely unsanitary -- especially for the poor and the peasants during the Middle Ages.
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The Pope - Christianity for Kids! - 0 views
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ask the Pope, and he would tell them what God wanted.
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Pope means "father", as the Pope is the father of the Church family.
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Barbara Ehrenreich: Nickel and Dimed (2011 Version) - 2 views
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, “Make love not war,” and then -- down at the bottom -- “Screw it, just make money.”
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A Florida woman wrote to tell me that, before reading it, she’d always been annoyed at the poor for what she saw as their self-inflicted obesity.
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. I started with my own extended family, which includes plenty of people without jobs or health insurance, and moved on to trying to track down a couple of the people I had met while working on Nickel and Dimed
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widely read among low-wage workers. In the last few years, hundreds of people have written to tell me their stories: the mother of a newborn infant whose electricity had just been turned off, the woman who had just been given a diagnosis of cancer and has no health insurance, the newly homeless man who writes from a library computer.
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t things have gotten much worse, especially since the economic downturn that began in 2008.
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earned less than a barebones budget covering housing, child care, health care, food, transportation, and taxes -- though not, it should be noted, any entertainment, meals out, cable TV, Internet service, vacations, or holiday gifts. Twenty-nine percent is a minority, but not a reassuringly small one, and other studies in the early 2000s came up with similar figures.
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The economy was growing, and jobs, if poorly paid, were at least plentiful.
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many of these jobs had disappeared and there was stiff competition for those that remained
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a healthy diet wasn’t always an option. And if I had a quarter for every person who’s told me he or she now tipped more generously, I would be able to start my own foundation.
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and and was subsisting on occasional cleaning and catering jobs. Neither seemed unduly afflicted by the recessi
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suicide a “coping strategy,” but it is one way some people have responded to job los
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Media attention has focused, understandably enough, on the “nouveau poor” -- formerly middle and even upper-middle class people who lost their jobs, their homes, and/or their investments in the financial crisis of 2008 and the economic downturn that followed it, but the brunt of the recession has been borne by the blue-collar working class, which had already been sliding downwards since de-industrialization began in the 1980s.
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were especially hard hit for the simple reason that they had so few assets and savings to fall back on as jobs disappea
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cut back on health care.
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“food auctions,” which offer items that may be past their sell-by dates.
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urban hunting. In Racine, Wisconsin, a 51-year-old laid-off mechanic told me he was supplementing his diet by “shooting squirrels and rabbits and eating them stewed, baked, and grilled.” In Detroit, where the wildlife population has mounted as the human population ebbs, a retired truck driver was doing a brisk business in raccoon carcasses, which he recommends marinating with vinegar and spices.
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ncrease the number of paying people per square foot of dwelling space -- by doubling up or renting to couch-surfer
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“people who’ve lost their jobs, or at least their second jobs, cope by doubling or tripling up in overcrowded apartments, or by paying 50 or 60 or even 70 percent of their incomes in rent.”
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g members of my extended family, have given up their health insurance.
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- a government safety net that is meant to save the poor from spiraling down all the way to destitutio
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The food stamp program has responded to the crisis fairly well, to the point where it now reaches about 37 million people, up about 30% from pre-recession levels.
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? There is a right to food stamps. You go to the office and, if you meet the statutory definition of need, they h
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elp you. For welfare, the street-level bureaucrats can, pretty much at their own discretion, just say no.
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Delaware residents who had always imagined that people turned to the government for help only if “they didn’t want to work.
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ace a state-sponsored retraining course in computer repairs -- only to find that those skills are no longer in demand.
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44% of laid-off people at the time, she failed to meet the fiendishly complex and sometimes arbitrary eligibility requirements for unemployment benefits. Their car started falling apart.
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Temporary Assistance to Needy Families.
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TANF does not offer straightforward cash support like Aid to Families with Dependent Children, which it replaced in 1996. It’s an income supplementation program for working parents, and it was based on the sunny assumption that there would always be plenty of jobs for those enterprising enough to get them.
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When the Parentes finally got into “the system” and began receiving food stamps and some cash assistance, they discovered why some recipients have taken to calling TANF “Torture and Abuse of Needy Families.” From the start, the TANF experience was “humiliating,” Kristen says. The caseworkers “treat you like a bum. They act like every dollar you get is coming out of their own paychecks.”
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miles a day to attend “job readiness” classes offered by a private company called Arbor, wh
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were “frankly a joke.”
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, “applying for welfare is a lot like being booked by the police.” There may be a mug shot, fingerprinting, and lengthy interrogations as to one’s children’s true paternity. The ostensible goal is to prevent welf
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fraud, but the psychological impact is to turn poverty itself into a kind of crime.
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The most shocking thing I learned from my research on the fate of the working poor in the recession was the extent to which poverty has indeed been criminalized in America.
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Perhaps the constant suspicions of drug use and theft that I encountered in low-wage workplaces should have alerted me to the fact that, when you leave the relative safety of the middle class, you might as well have given up your citizenship and taken residence in a hostile nation.
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Most cities, for example, have ordinances designed to drive the destitute off the streets by outlawing such necessary activities of daily life as sitting, loitering, sleeping, or lying down. Urban officials boast that there is nothing discriminatory about such laws: “If you’re lying on a sidewalk, whether you’re homeless or a millionaire, you’re in violation of the ordinance,” a St. Petersburg, Florida, city attorney stated in June 2009, echoing Anatole France’s immortal observation that “the law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges...”
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the criminalization of poverty has actually intensified as the weakened economy generates ever more poverty.
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ordinances against the publicly poor has been rising since 2006, along with the harassment of the poor for more “neutral” infractions like jaywalking, littering, or carrying an open container.
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ban on begging
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grizzled 62-year-old, he inhabits a wheelchair and is often found on G Street in Washington, D.C. -- the city that is ultimately responsible for the bullet he took in the spine in Phu Bai, Vietnam, in 1972.
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“They arrested a homeless man in a shelter for being homeless?”
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, led by Las Vegas, passed ordinances forbidding the sharing of food with the indigent in public places, leadi
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way to be criminalized by poverty is to have the wrong color skin. Indignation runs high when a celebrity professor succumbs to racial profiling, but whole communities are effectively “profiled” for the suspicious combination of being both dark-skinned and poor. Flick a cigarette and you’re “littering”; wear the wrong color T-shirt and you’re displaying gang allegiance. Just strolling around in a dodgy neighborhood can mark you as a potential suspect. And don’t get grumpy about it or you could be “resisting arrest.”
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e government defunds services that might help the poor while ramping up law enforcement.
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Shut down public housing, then make it a crime to be homeless. Generate no public-sector jobs, then penalize people for falling into debt.
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The experience of the poor, and especially poor people of color, comes to resemble that of a rat in a cage scrambling to avoid erratically administered electric shocks. And if you should try to escape this nightmare reality into a brief, drug-induced high, it’s “gotcha” all over again, because that of course is illegal too.
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r staggering level of incarceration,
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g. And what public housing remains has become ever more prison-like, with random police sweeps and, in a growing number of cities, proposed drug tests for residents.
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The safety net, or what remains of it, has been transformed into a dragnet.
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official level of poverty increasing -- to over 14% in 2010 -- some states are beginning to ease up on the criminalization of poverty, using alternative sentencing methods, shortening probation, and reducing the number of people locked up for technical violations like missing court appointments. But others, diabolically enough, are tightening the screws: not only increasing the number of “crimes,” but charging prisoners for their room and board, guaranteeing they’ll be released with potentially criminalizing levels of debt.
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a higher minimum wage, universal health care, affordable housing, good schools, reliable public transportation, and all the other things we, uniquely among the developed nations, have neglected to do.
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: if we want to reduce poverty, we have to stop doing the things that make people poor and keep them that way. Stop underpaying people for the jobs they do. Stop treating working people as potential criminals and let them have the right to organize for better wages and working conditions.
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: if we want to reduce poverty, we have to stop doing the things that make people poor and keep them that way. Stop underpaying people for the jobs they do. Stop treating working people as potential criminals and let them have the right to organize for better wages and working conditions.
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: if we want to reduce poverty, we have to stop doing the things that make people poor and keep them that way. Stop underpaying people for the jobs they do. Stop treating working people as potential criminals and let them have the right to organize for better wages and working conditions.
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: if we want to reduce poverty, we have to stop doing the things that make people poor and keep them that way. Stop underpaying people for the jobs they do. Stop treating working people as potential criminals and let them have the right to organize for better wages and working conditions.
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Stop the institutional harassment of those who turn to the government for help or find themselves destitute in the streets
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But at least we should decide, as a bare minimum principle, to stop kicking people when they’re down.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Six Multimedia Timeline Creation Tools for Students - 0 views
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Meograph offers a nice way to create narrated map-based and timeline-based stories.
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Dipity is a great timeline creation tool that allows users to incorporate text, images, and videos into each entry on their timeline.
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myHistro is a timeline builder and map creation tool rolled into one nice package. On myHistro you can build a personal timeline or build a timeline about a theme or event in history. Each event that you place on your timeline can be geolocated using Google Maps. myHistro timelines can be created online or you can use the free iPad app to create events on your timeline.
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I like XTimeline because I find it to be a great service that is very accessible to high school students. Using XTimeline students can collaborate, just as they would when making a wiki, to build a multimedia timeline.
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TimeGlider offers some nicer layout features compared to XTimeline, but is not quite as intuitive to use as XTimeline.
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Time Toast is easy to learn to use. To add events to a timeline simply click on the inconspicuous "add an event" button and a simple event box pops up in which you can enter enter text, place a link, or add a picture. T
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Greek Culture - 1 views
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Nurtured by the fertile and secure island of Crete, and situated in the middle of the Mediterranean, the inhabitants of the island developed an advanced culture evident in the artifacts their labor produced. A joyous seafaring people, the Minoans did not create monuments to their gods, or kings. Instead, their art speaks of a humble religion, and their architecture serves the well being of the community, and reveals their relationship to nature and to themselves.
