Predators need large mouths and teeth to capture whatever crosses their path.

Similar to the twilight zone, many organisms in this region have evolved to emit light through bioluminescent organs (like lanternfish and lightfish). Some also have very large eyes and/or stalked eyes (a protrusion that extends the eye away from the body, giving the eye a better field of view). Others have evolved the absence of eyes where complete darkness provides no selective advantage for sight.

Some species have enormous eyes to see in the darkness and large teeth to capture prey, like the viperfish

To survive in the well-lit, exposed habitat of the open ocean, many types of animals have evolved

per session.

There is no room for both

chool and black pride just don’t mesh

Men are active and masculine (they run patriarchal ancient society, their bodies are, in some respects, physically stronger, etc.), so they must be made from superior material.

I feel something tighten in my chest, something dark and hot. “And it’s not a domain,” I add.I pause, and then I say it. “It’s a cage.”

t’s a good feeling, making Ruby laugh, so I draw another picture,

At times like that, I wish humans could understand me the way I can understand them.It’s not so bad, I wanted to tell the little boy. With enough time, you can get used to almost anything

Mostly I think about what is, not what could be.I’ve learned not to get my hopes up

I’m not drawing for them. I’m drawing for me.

The glass says you are this and we are that and that is how it will always be

f you stayed invisible here, did everything you were supposed to andnever made waves, you would disappear from the eyes and minds of all the good people outthere who could help you get your life bac

. All my life, I kept waiting forthings to get better. For the bright promise of mañana. But a funny thing happened while I waswaiting for the world to change, Chabela: It didn’t. Because I didn’t change it. I’m not going tomake the same mistake twice. Take care of your mother and baby brother for me

led her and their mother down theramp into Boulogne.

The St. Louis is a ship on which everyone travels securely, and lives in comfort,’

Why wouldn’t the United Statesjust let them in? There was so much land that didn’t have buildings on it

“I’m sorry.”“I’m sorry too,” Señor Castillo said. “I should be helping

In the meantime, they had to survive the night

“O God, forgive this man, and have mercy on him and give him strength and pardon him.

No matter what, I’m glad you came with us,” Iván said. “Now we can live next door to eachother forever.”Isabel blushed and looked at her fee

She found Señor Castillo’s body in the dark, wrapped her armsaround him, and kicked as hard as she could for the surface

We’ve passed our medicals and we have all the right papers,” a woman passenger said to thepolice. “When will we be allowed into Havana?”“Mañana,” the policeman said in Spanish. “Mañana.”

But all that would change when they got off this ship and into Cuba. Then everything wouldgo back to normal. They would find a way to fix his father

Josef closed his eyes and fought back tears of his own

osef saw what he had to do. He slapped his father across the face. Hard.

The captain swore an oath that none of the passengerswas insane, a criminal, or had a contagious disease

thepathetic, toddler-like frustration. Part of him was embarrassed—he was older than that, moremature.

just like thattwo years ago, and without another thought, Isabel dove in after Señor Castillo.

The tanker was still hundreds of meters away, but it was so huge it felt likeit was on top of them. They were never getting out of its way.

illegal meant dangerous

why did it matter whichone got there first? Hadn’t everyone on board already applied and paid for visas? Cuba couldn’tturn them away

day Josef would leave his childhood behind and become aman, and he could hardly contain his excitement

saw on the TV they’re accepting refugees.We can stay there until all this is over. Until we can come back home.

Now it was even harder to escape. For decades, the United States had rescued any Cubanrefugees they found at sea and taken them to Florida. But the food shortages had driven more andmore Cubans to el norte. Too many. The Americans had a new policy everyone called “WetFoot, Dry Foot.” If Cuban refugees were caught at sea with “wet feet,” they were sent to the USnaval base at Guantanamo Bay, at the southern end of Cuba. From there, they could choose toreturn to Cuba—and Castro—or languish in a refugee camp while the United States decidedwhat to do with them. But if they managed to survive the trip across the Straits of Florida andevade the US Coast Guard and actually set foot on United States soil—be caught with “dryfeet”—they were granted special refugee status and allowed to remain and become US citizens.

umiliation of being talked about like he was an animal. A specimen. Something subhuman.

No, no,” her mother said. “You must leave your coat on and never go anywhere without it,do you understand? Not until we reach Cuba.

If thebullies didn’t notice you, they didn’t hit you.

Soviets had been buying Cuba’s sugar for eleven times theprice and sending the little island food and gasoline and medicine for free.

weren’t going anywhere. Notyet. Not without Josef’s father

Every time you decide what question to ask or not ask others, which counting style you use, which statistics you use, how you frame things, where you publish them, who you work with, where you get funding from … all of that is political,”

“She engaged with other’s viewpoints totally empathetically, but would then forcefully challenge their assumptions in a way that wasn’t personal. It was completely intoxicating and invigorating, like a voice from the future.

We can’t do better if we aren’t taking the facts and the information that we have and then using that to assess how we can do better by one another, treat each other better.

pushes out specific people from being able to participate in generating scientific knowledge that can get us closer to asking better questions, asking different questions than we already have. Decolonial scientists are then asking different questions and it’s informed by a general idea that no group of people, nobody’s humanity is negotiable.

scientific scholars, psychologists, physicians. They have always been part of creating or legitimating what is real and what is not real. Then the state uses that in order to regulate and produce law and policy. They then instruct institutions on how they’re supposed to treat particular people

I had to know the history of race and racialization and biological criteria to reveal that these aren’t useful tools. Because not only were they created to be a particular kind of hegemonic work, they also are extremely inaccurate.

]. Analyzing the above two studies showed that contrary to initial research, not only severely ill patients experience neurological symptoms but also patients with less severe manifestations

COVID-19 offers us a moment in time to pay attention to these inequities. Pockets of COVID-19 transmission in any community keep the risk of an enduring epidemic alive for every community.

Disinvestment in these communities has created spaces and places where everyone’s life does not count equally, where it is allowable for some people to not have access to the resources to live healthy lives.

t is evidence of centuries of segregation and discrimination that have disproportionately placed people of color in communities without access to health care, with degraded and crowded living conditions and a lack of basic opportunities for health and wellness.

Of course, ever since white people showed up and brought along their Christianity andtheir fears of eccentricity, Indians have gradually lost all of their tolerance.Indians can be just as judgmental and hateful as any white person.

was mad.If these dang Indians had been this organized when I went to school here, maybe I would have hadmore reasons to stay

But I'd learned there are NO FOULS CALLED IN FULL-COURT ONE-ON-ONE,

community

I'd been thinking about her breasts and she'd been thinking about my whole life. I was theshallow one

f you don't treat each word that seriously then you're not treatingthe novel seriously."

couldn't ask Gordy because then he'dknow I was an illiterate Indian idiot

We were supposed to kill the Indian to save the child.

f the government wants to hide somebody, there's probably no place more isolated thanmy reservation, which is located approximately one million miles north of Important and two billion

went after that van. Just beat the crap out of it.Smash! Boom! Bam

I was born all broken and twisted, and he was born mad

I wanted no part of it

He was crying. He lookedweak.I wanted to hate him for his weakness.I wanted to hate Dad and Mom for our poverty

hen Dad came home from wherever and had one of those long talks with Mom, andthey decided something without me

We Indians really should be better liars,considering how often we've been lied to

Oscar was a better person than any human I had ever known.

my cartoons will never take the place of food or money

only a certain percentage of human beings will get your meaning.But when you draw a picture, everybody can understand i

I draw because I want to talk to the world. And I want the world to pay attention to me.I feel important with a pen in my hand. I feel like I might grow up to be somebodyimportant

Doesn't that just roll off the tongue like poetry?

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my mother and father and big sister and grandma and cousins and aunts and uncles

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will spend hundreds of millions of dollars in the coming years to further fiddle with and refine the standard organism, doubling down on a bet that goes back at least six decades

Many promising treatments could be failing for the same reason, Mattson argues, and other trials should be re-examined—but that's unlikely to happen anytime soon

from an organism that's as divorced from its natural state as feedlot cattle or oven-stuffer chickens.

were

were not touching, especially those which fathers sent home

Let's each buy what we want, and have a little fun. I'm sure we work hard enough to earn it," cried Jo,

We can't do much, but we can make our little sacrifices, and ought to do it gladly

Father far away, where the fighting wa

psychedelia.

captures the arbitrary and confusing nature surrounding adult expectations of children by making Alice’s body change rapidly in ways that disempower her.

can be seen as creative outlets for simultaneously expressing and concealing anxiety about adult masculinity

uch devices have a long history in childhood cultur

during the teenage years, people are far more alike than they were as children

clout.

one's own self as a child was important, but children, in general, are not.

he privilege of looking back and being sentimental about childhood

thereby insuring lasting self-satisfaction for "the parent."

The child is a construction put together by adults,

in second grade, saw me corner Dwight among the bicycle racks and kiss him

‘Golden Age’ of children’s literature (beginning in the 1860s with Charles Kingsley’s The Water-Babies, 1863, and Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 1865)

19th century saw the development of what is sometimes called the Cult of Childhood,

Writers generally attempt to show their young readers what adults think children should be like

ways of thinking about and representing childhood could change so thoroughly over time shows that images and ideas about childhood are different from the actual lived experience of real children

Romantic poets such as William Blake and William Wordsworth, childhood came to be seen as especially close to God and a force for good

Émile is allowed to develop naturally: in nature and following his own, naturally healthy instincts. This method, the philosopher concludes, preserves the special attributes of childhood, resulting in well-adjusted adults who will also be good citizens

only becoming corrupted through experience of the world

ean-Jacques Rousseau, whose Émile, or On Education (1762)

As a result, much of the earliest children’s literature is concerned with saving children’s souls through instruction and by providing role models for their behaviour

childhood began to be viewed in a positive light, as a state of freedom and innocence.

Little Red Riding-Hood, hearing the big voice of the [25]Wolf, was at first afraid; but believing her grand-mother had got a cold, and was hoarse, answered:

he poor child, who did not know that it was dangerous to stay and hear a Wolf talk, said to hi

Her tender feet felt as if cut with sharp knives, but she cared not for the pain; a sharper pang had pierced her heart.

Then he kissed her rosy mouth, played with her long, waving hair, and laid his head on her heart, while she dreamed of human happiness and an immortal soul.

The youngest of them found[159] me on the shore and saved my life. I saw her but twice, and she is the only one in the world whom I could love. But you are like her, and you have almost driven her image from my mind. She belongs to the holy temple, and good fortune has sent you to me in her stead. We will never part.

to please him

But she had no clothes, so she wrapped herself in her long, thick hair.

she pricked herself in the breast

ut all who see you will say that you are the prettiest little human being they ever saw. You will still have the same floating gracefulness of movement, and no dancer will ever tread so lightly. Every step you take, however, will be as if you were treading upon sharp knives and as if the blood must flow. If you will bear all this, I will help you."

he fastened her long, flowing hair round her head, so that the polypi should not lay hold of it. She crossed her hands on her bosom, and then darted forward as a fish sho

nless a man should love you so much that you were more to him than his father or his mother, and if all his thoughts and all his love were fixed upon you, and the priest placed his right hand in yours, and he promised to be true to you here and hereafter—then his soul would glide into your body, and you would obtain a share in the future happiness of mankind. He would give to you a soul and retain his own as well; but this can never happen. Your fish's tail, which among us is considered so beautiful, on earth is thought to be quite ugly. They do not know any better, and they think it necessary, in order to be handsome, to have two stout props, which they call legs.

Human beings, on the contrary, have souls which live forever, even after the body has been turned to dust

She remembered how his head had rested on her bosom and how heartily she had kissed him, but he knew nothing of all this and could not even dream of her.

large building, whether a church or a convent she could not tell.

But they hurt me so," said the little mermaid. "Yes, I know; pride must suffer pain," replied the old lady.

high rank.

Come, and let me adorn you like your sisters.

when they feared that a ship might be lost, they swam before the vessel, singing enchanting songs of the delights to be found in the depths of the sea and begging the voyagers not to fear if they sank to the bottom. But the sailors could not understand the song and thought it was the sighing of the storm. These things

She was a strange child, quiet and thoughtful.

Each of the young princesses had a little plot of ground in the garden,

so deep, indeed, that no cable could sound it, and many church steeples,

showed us a thousand civilities

King's son, who was told that a great princess, whom nobody knew, was come, ran out to receive her.

Her godmother scooped out all the inside of it,

They broke above a dozen laces in trying to lace themselves tight, that they might have a fine, slender shape, and they were continually at their looking-glass.

French

gowns, petticoats, and head-dresses

nd invited to it all persons of fashion

his wife governed him entirely

girl bore all patiently, and dared not complain

young daughter,

gentleman

gentleman who married, for his second wife

CINDERELLA, OR THE LITTLE GLASS SLIPPER.

considerably altered the tales … to fortify the youthful heart against the impressions of vice’.

added didacticism.

he Little Red Riding Hood’, for instance, ended with a warning for ‘growing ladies fair’ against wolves ‘With luring tongues, and language wondrous sweet’ who ‘Follow young ladies as they walk the street’