- Sep 2023
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hypothes.is hypothes.is
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"Surrendering" by Ocean Vuong
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He moved into United State when he was age of five. He first came to United State when he started kindergarten. Seven of them live in the apartment one bedroom and bathroom to share the whole. He learned ABC song and alphabet. He knows the ABC that he forgot the letter is M comes before N.
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He went to the library since he was on the recess. He was in the library hiding from the bully. The bully just came in the library doing the slight frame and soft voice in front of the kid where he sit. He left the library, he walked to the middle of the schoolyard started calling him the pansy and fairy. He knows the American flag that he recognize on the microphone against the backdrop.
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- Weeks earlier, I’d been in the library. It was where I would hide during recess. Otherwise, because of my slight frame and soft voice, the boys would call me “pansy” and “fairy” and pull my shorts around my ankles in the middle of the schoolyard. I sat on the floor beside a tape player. From a box of cassettes, I chose one labelled “Great American Speeches.” I picked it because of the illustration, a microphone against a backdrop of the American flag. I picked it because the American flag was one of the few symbols I recognized.
- My family immigrated to the U.S. from Vietnam in 1990, when I was two. We lived, all seven of us, in a one-bedroom apartment in Hartford, Connecticut, and I spent my first five years in America surrounded, inundated, by the Vietnamese language. When I entered kindergarten, I was, in a sense, immigrating all over again, except this time into English. Like any American child, I quickly learned my ABCs, thanks to the age-old melody (one I still sing rapidly to myself when I forget whether “M” comes before “N”). Within a few years, I had become fluent—but only in speech, not in the written word.
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- May 2023
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www.politico.com www.politico.com
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From the Republican perspective, banning books would also seem to be a hypocritical means of restricting commerce and trade.
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- Mar 2023
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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Should we build an A.G.I. that loves the Proud Boys, the spam artists, the Russian troll farms, the QAnon fabulists?
What features would be design society towards? Stability? Freedom? Wealth? Tolerance?
How might long term evolution work for societies that maximized for tolerance given Popper's paradox of tolerance?
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- Oct 2019
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digitalpaxton.org digitalpaxton.org
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The art piece portrays Native Americans as cold killers since the man is smoking, something relaxing and mundane, while holding the scalping knife. The piece could display a favor of the Paxton Boys, since the Native American is depicted as dangerous. The backcountry farmers therefore appear as the victims of the murderers. Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, S.J. is the author and was a French Jesuit priest and historian who traveled often. He got to set the standard for how people thought of Native Americans since he got to determine how the Natives were depicted to people elsewhere through the stories of his travels. I read that he wrote one of the earliest descriptions of North America and was sent on a religious expedition to Canada. Since he was interested in spreading Catholicism, I'd imagine he would want to depict Native Americans as killers whose souls could perhaps be redeemed by conversion. Due to this, the uprising could be seen as necessary to keep other lives from being taken by the killers, those who could kill while still continuing to smoke their pipe.
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- Jan 2018
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legionmagazine.com legionmagazine.com
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M Test. The M Test–no one knows if the M stood for mental or McGill University
M-test used to test recruits
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- Jun 2016
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pitchfork.com pitchfork.com
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But even if being in PUP sounds like a living nightmare for Babcock, it’s all he’s got. Gig or no gig, he’s waking up most mornings on the floor with more apologies than dollars in the bank, coming to the same conclusion over and over again: that voice in my head telling me I’m a loser was right all along.
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- Jun 2015
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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Mike D., from Brooklyn
I really hope that this is who I think it is.
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