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Shira’s 2020 Year in Books
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Shira Destinie Jones
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Thanks, Brendan: What Is…the School-to-Prison Pipeline? — Blind Injustice
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What appears to be a photo of someone in a prison. In a post I made a couple of months ago about policing and schools with majority-minority populations, one of the replies to my post reminded me of how there was a connection between what I talked about and something called the “school-to-prison pipeline.” And, […]
What Is…the School-to-Prison Pipeline? — Blind Injustice
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A Long Letter from the Future: Reviews of Babylon 5, from a Minbari Point of View
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updated Mar 21, 2021 05:08PM
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A Long Letter from the Future
Reviews of Babylon 5, from a Minbari Point of View
These reviews are from the PoV of a Minbari persona I have created, so I'm not sure into what category they fall.
by Shira Destinie Jones
ShiraDest is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
#WhoByFireIWill
(Science Fiction & Fantasy)
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updated Aug 19, 2020 09:08PM
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To save his son, a desperate escaped slave must make a choice, but the price is eternally high.
Four Freedoms Movement 60 year mission
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updated May 25, 2020 03:49PM
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Some ideas I've been pondering on how we could get to a kinder world (I cannot get my pdf to display, so jpg soon to come...)
Who are you?
(Poetry)
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updated May 17, 2020 01:51PM
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The question contains the answer, but four more lines may explain it a bit better. Four short lines...
We are going to see the King: the hard way!
(Religion & Spirituality)
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A short short (or just short?) take on those left behind in Noah's Flood...
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This commentary is well-balanced, shows the research, gives clear explainations, and has a set of wonderful pre-face pages. Fascinating to read, and obviously essential to Torah study. Shira
William-James-MEOW Date: 1 September, 12,014 H.E. (Holocene/ ...more "
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“A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. With righteous indignation, it will look at thousands of working people displaced from their jobs with reduced incomes as a result of automation while the profits of the employers remain intact, and say: “This is not just.” It will look across the oceans and see individual capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries, and say: “This is not just.” It will look at our alliance with the landed gentry of Latin America and say: “This is not just.” The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just. A true revolution of values will lay hands on the world order and say of war: “This way of settling differences is not just.” This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation’s homes
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is 27% done with A Court of Silver Flames: Sarah J Maas - your brilliance is like none other. I never want to jump up and scream with any other author the way I do your books. I see where you're going with this *I think* and I am ABOUT IT ma'am.
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“It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they would try for it. He has shown them that.”
― The Persian Boy
― The Persian Boy
“People, Reacher was certain about. Dogs were different. People had freedom of choice. If a man or a woman ran snarling toward him, they did so because they chose to. They were asking for whatever they got. His response was their problem. But dogs were different. No free will. Easily misled. It raised an ethical problem. Shooting a dog because it had been induced to do something unwise was not the sort of thing Reacher wanted to do.”
― Die Trying
― Die Trying
“If you can control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his action. When you determine what a man shall think you do not have to concern yourself about what he will do. If you make a man feel that he is inferior, you do not have to compel him to accept an inferior status, for he will seek it himself. If you make a man think that he is justly an outcast, you do not have to order him to the back door. He will go without being told; and if there is no back door, his very nature will demand one.”
― The Mis-Education of the Negro
― The Mis-Education of the Negro
“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
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“There's more to clothing than just adornment. It does more than merely change how the world perceives us. It changes how we perceive ourselves.”
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Luís wrote: "Je suis très heureux pour être votre ami. Je vous souhaite un bon week-end!"Merci ! Moi aussi, je suis heureuse d'être ton amie (on peut ce-tutoyer, n'est pas ?) !
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“Eux c'est nous” Écrit par Daniel Pennac, illustré par Serge Bloch: c'est déjà publié ?
