2,611 Matching Annotations
  1. Oct 2015
  2. Sep 2015
    1. The era of Reconstruction that followed the Civil War was a time ofintense political and social conflict, in which the definition of freedomand the question of who was entitled to enjoy it played a central role.
  3. May 2015
    1. They provided a safe haven in which educators in critical process could confirm that they were not alone, and through which they could make sense of the changes they were experiencing.

  4. Apr 2015
    1. He worked for Gunner A. Olsen Corp. out of New York City building radio towers for the government and built nuclear power plants.

      This is my uncle's business. Am marking this for my mother.

  5. Mar 2015
    1. lowRISC is producing fully open hardware systems. From the processor core to the development board, our goal is to create a completely open computing eco-system. Our open-source SoC (System-on-a-Chip) designs will be based on the 64-bit RISC-V instruction set architecture. Volume silicon manufacture is planned as is a low-cost development board. There are more details on our plans in these slides from a recent talk lowRISC is a not-for-profit organisation working closely with the University of Cambridge and the open-source community.
    1. Othello depends on his identity as a soldier to glorify himself in the public’s memory,
  6. Jan 2015
    1. Ahhoz azonban, hogy egy valóban ütőképes tényfeltáró központot hozzunk létre, szükségünk van minél több ember támogatására. Ha bővíteni tudjuk az egyelőre szűkös költségvetésünket, akkor több újságíróval tudunk dolgozni, és több, illetve mélyebb nyomozó munkát tudunk végezni.
    2. A Direkt36 egy új oknyomozó újságírói központ, amelynek célja, hogy kitartó kérdéseken és szilárd tényeken alapuló cikkekkel ellenőrizze a hatalom birtokosait, és rámutasson a mindannyiunkat megkárosító visszaélésekre.
  7. Dec 2014
    1. you’d sound like a pompous jackass.

      Holy, leaping jehosaphats of hyperbole, Batman. He's so hyperbolic he's asymptotic. Yeah. I said it.

  8. Aug 2014
    1. INTERVIEWER On the subject of being a woman writer in a man’s world, you’ve mentioned A Room of One’s Own as a touchstone. LE GUIN My mother gave it to me. It is an important book for a mother to give a daughter. She gave me A Room of One’s Own and Three Guineas when I was a teenager. So she corrupted me thoroughly, bless her heart. Though you know, in the 1950s, A Room of One’s Own was kind of tough going. Writing was something that men set the rules for, and I had never questioned that. The women who questioned those rules were too revolutionary for me even to know about them. So I fit myself into the man’s world of writing and wrote like a man, presenting only the male point of view. My early books are all set in a man’s world.
  9. Sep 2013