They areworth a lot. They are worth nothing.
I wonder what Hall means by this...
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a Yellow Easy Chair. That her fortune-seeking Petruchio, now placated with status and money, would take care of her.That wit, willfulness, and choice were a small price to pay for safety and aversion of love.
Kinda how there are women being called "gold-diggers" today, housewives, and "trad-wives" whom people judge because some of the women in these group labels are there for safety and not for true love
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To honor them and the survival of black people, needed but notwanted in the eighteenth century, on the week a huge portion of our country hasmade it clear that we people of color are only here as we are needed.
Well yes, they were forced to be here so might as well honor them with the recognition that they deserve. The idea that people of color are only here as needed hasn't gone away, because we are still seen as replaceable-- as objects or below human.
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Maybe this is why agood number of fairly well-off white women voted into office a serial groperwho routinely treats assertive women as scolds
interesting that this still occurs: remember the "Women 4 Trump" campaign
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Would she tell me, ‘I didn’t have a President, only anowner and rapist?’ Would she chastise my self-indulgence? Would she remind meof real loss?
This gives me the sense almost like discouraging yourself because others had it much harder than you, or shaming yourself for having something that your parents or ancestors didn't have. I feel the same way sometimes about having free education-- which is not something my parents had and had to fight for to give me.
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NewYork Conspiracy of 1741
Events that happened in NY that caused rumors about how the enslaved population was revolting and burning the city: Some historians argue this was true, and others argue it was just mass hysteria
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synecdoche
n. Figure of Speech: A part of a whole Ex: Mexico beat Uruguay last season
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When I give this book back, alibrarian will carefully replace it in a climate-controlled room specially designedto make sure that it doesn’t crumble or fade.
Something about this gives me some sense of peace or hope that, yes, there are many people that will look at this book and think that it's worthless there are also people that will take the best care of it. Much like how there's people in this world that understand the diversity in our country and embrace it rather than fighting it.
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