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dw ask game 1-36 and 38-100 DON'T ANSWER NUMBER 37 I DON'T WANT TO HEAR ABOUT CRYING

DaThanks, anon who is probably @truestoriesaboutme!

CHILDHOOD

1. Did you like DW as a child?

Depends. What do you consider a child? I saw Doctor Who for the first time when I was 16 or 17. Does that count? Let’s say that it does. I did enjoy it.

2. Your age at the time of the revival?

16.

3. First DW episode you ever saw?

An Unearthly Child. I wanted to watch it all in order! Still do! My first New Who episode was “Blink,” as forced upon me by @raisegrate. I did enjoy it.

4. Did you have any of the toys?

I didn’t at the time, but I do now. I have a couple of screwdrivers, a Fourth Doctor, an Ice Warrior, and not-quite-Legos of Doctors 1-11. (-WD)

5. Which DW character did you play on the playground?

N/A.

6. Monster(s) that scared you most as a child?

N/A. Nothing scares me.

7. Joke/story you didn’t get as a kid?

N/A. I get all jokes/stories.

8. DW opinion that has changed since you were a kid?

That the only way to watch it was from the very beginning. I eventually gave in and watched New Who before finishing Classic Who.

9. Who introduced you to DW?

Pretty sure I heard about it initially on a forum I went to called The Douglas Adams Continuum. That’s when I started watching the First Doctor. Again, @raisegrate showed me my first New Who. Eventually, I started watching New Who in its entirety with @catastrofries and they started watching Classic Who with me for @rassilonwatchathon.

10. Did you like Sarah Jane Adventures as a child?

Didn’t even know it existed as a child. But I liked it as an adult.

Read more under the cut. There’s a lot!

DOCTOR

11. Who is your Doctor?

One. He’s the first I saw and I’ve went through some of his more than once, due to the podcast, so he has a special place in my heart.

12. Your favourite Doctor?

It varies depending on the day. I quite like Two, Eleven, and Twelve, though.

13. Least favourite Doctor?

Possibly 5 or 13? More because they don’t get a whole lot to do, than them being bad.

14. Best regeneration?

Technically speaking, there’s something about that first one that is still so good. Emotionally speaking, Two’s regeneration is terrifying and I quite like Twelve’s speech before regenerating.

15. Do you like “Doctor-Lite” episodes?

Yeah! They’re all pretty good! Even “Love and Monsters!” Yeah, I said it! (The end is bad, but the rest is good.)

16. Who is the most human Doctor?

One calls himself human a handful of times. Does that count? If not, definitely Five. He seems the most like a regular guy in a weird situation out of all of them.

17. Best multi-Doctor story?

The Day of the Doctor, for sure.

18. Best Doctor monologue?

Eleven’s speech to young Amy in “The Big Bang.” That episode is just solid all around.

19. What do you think TenToo/MetaCrisis Doctor is doing now?

He’s definitely fucked off somewhere and abandoned Rose. He runs a cat cafe that is definitely a front for something, but no one can quite figure out what.

20. Best Doctor/companion pairing?

One/Barbara, Two/Jamie, Three/Jo, Four/Leela, Five/Tegan, (haven’t seen enough of Six, any of Seven, and I honestly don’t remember the companion for Eight), Nine/Rose (that’s the only option!), Ten/Donna, Eleven/Amy-Rory, Twelve/Clara, Ruth/Thirteen.

COMPANIONS

21. Favourite companion?

Classic Who: This is hard. Jamie? Sarah Jane? Leela? New Who: Donna Noble.

22. Favourite secondary companion?

Not sure what this means exactly... My second favorite? If so, I gave three for favorite Classic Who, so one of them. New Who: Rory.

23. Least favourite companion?

Classic: Ben Jackson or Peri. New: Ryan.

24. Best TARDIS Team?

Classic: Two, Jamie, and Zoe. New: Eleven, Amy, and Rory.

25. Most underrated companion?

I love Steven Taylor. I feel like he doesn’t get mentioned enough.

26. Most overrated companion?

Probably gonna get some hate for this, but Romana II. She’s good and I like her, but I was expecting a lot more. I honestly prefer Romana I.

27. Favourite companion’s family?

I love Rory’s dad.

28. Who should have been a companion but wasn’t?

Kamelion. AM I RIGHT? But seriously, Amelia Rumford from “The Stones of Blood.”

29. Favourite (canon or non-canon) DW universe relationship?

Amy/Rory.

30. Who did you not used to like, but really like now?

I hated Tegan when she first came on, but now I love her.

EPISODES

31. Favourite episode ever?

“Heaven Sent.”

32. Least favourite episode?

“Time-Flight” gave me a literal headache.

33. Which episodes do you skip?

NONE. Of course, I’ve not done any rewatches. YET.

34. Best two-parter?

“The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances” are the first New Who episodes that fully sold me on the show.

35. Historical, present day or futuristic episodes?

Give me the future and make it weird!

36. Episode that will always make you smile?

“The Myth Makers.”

37 HAS BEEN REDACTED.

38. Best run of episodes?

“Vincent and the Doctor” through “Day of the Moon” is pretty solid.

39. Best cliffhanger?

“Vengeance on Varos.” Hands fucking down.

40. Favourite Christmas special?

The answer to question 37. “A Christmas Carol.”

SERIES

41. Classic Who or New Who?

Yes please! (Though New Who will take this a little just because the pace is generally a lot better.)

42. Favourite series?

I’m not sure about Classic (I have a harder time thinking of them as different series), but New is definitely 5.

43. Least favourite series?

11.

44. Which series do you skip?

See 33.

45. Favourite series opening?

“The Eleventh Hour.” It’s just a lot of fun.

46. Favourite series finale?

“The Big Bang.” IT’S A GOOD SERIES.

47. Best series arc?

So I don’t sound repetitive and say Series 5 again, Clara’s arc in her last season is great.

48. Thoughts on series 11/12?

I find it largely boring and not well-written. Though there are some things I like! I love Ruth a bunch.

49. How much of Classic Who have you seen?

I’ve seen from “An Unearthly Child” to “The Two Doctors.” And the movie.

50. Who should have had another series?

Doctor: Nine. Or Eight. Or Ruth. Companion: Kamelion, but done better.

MONSTERS

51. Favourite monster/villain?

I love them Fuzzy Chicken Nuggets. (The Yeti.)

52. Most creative monster?

The Silence are an interesting concept.

53. Monster(s) that scares you most?

OAK AND QUILL from “Fury From the Deep.” Fuck those guys.

54. Monster you think is too easy to defeat?

I hate power level questions. Next.

55. Least favourite monster/villain?

I get really tired of the Daleks sometimes, y’all.

56. Monster you want to return?

Chumblies or quarks.

57. In your opinion, what makes a monster good?

The writing. You can do great things with most of them. Even the ones you dislike. Like, I hate the farting aliens, but they are occasionally used well.

58. Daleks, Cybermen or Weeping Angels?

If I had to pick, I’d say... Cybermen. Daleks are very samey and loud. Weeping Angels get less interesting every time they are used. But there’s a human element to the Cybermen that, when utilized, can be very effective and unsettling.

59. Best Dalek story?

The one where Two rides around on ones he made nice.

60. Best one time villain/monster?

I don’t know what it is, but whatever it is in “Midnight.”

ADDITIONAL MATERIAL

61. Torchwood or Sarah Jane Adventures?

SJA is more consistent, but the highs of Torchwood are higher.

62. Favourite Torchwood Team member?

Owen. But like... not season one Owen.

63. Which Torchwood death made you saddest?

See 62.

64. Do you rewatch COE or MD?

I haven’t rewatched anything yet. But I would rewatch COE before MD.

65. Favourite SJA Team member?

Clyde.

66. Mr Smith or K-9?

Mr. Smith is way more interesting. He had a villain arc!

67. Maria or Rani?

Rani.

68. Do you read the comics/novels or listen to Big Finish?

Some. I’m doing them as Patreon bonus episodes for @rassilonwatchathon​. I haven’t done much though.

69. If you do, your favourite additional stories?

“The Chimes of Midnight.” I’ve listened to it twice.

70. Do you like DW analysis (video essays, fan theories, etc)?

I do DW analysis for @rassilonwatchathon AND The Dipp. So yes. My fave is TARDIS Eruditorum, though.

I’LL ANSWER THE REST AT A LATER TIME. I MUST BE WITH MY PEOPLE NOW.

[rakeshys]

Things you should be knowing as student

1) If you take control of your Sunday, you take control of your week.

2) When assigned a long-term project, finish some amount of work toward its completion that very same day.

3) Start small and start immediately.

4) If you cannot maintain an organized room you will never truly feel that your life is organized.

5) It is important to keep your room clean. And it will make your mother happy.

6) Apply to the scholarships.

7) You should never begin studying without a systemized plan for what you are going to review, in what format, and how many times.

8) Before you even crack your first book, take ten minutes to actually write down exactly how you plan to study.

9) The planning is as important as the process.

10) If you want to become a standout student, you must befriend a professor.

11) Reading a daily paper provides essential food for your ambitious brain. Make sure you don't go hungry.

12) if you are constantly worried about avoiding anything negative, you will never do anything out of the ordinary.

13) Don't let others dictate how you should feel about yourself; strengthen your identity���then go conquer your world.

14) do yourself a favor and give time-blocking a try. It's a much smarter way to manage your day.

15) Remember, giving up, when done strategically, is not a weakness. It's simply smart life management.

16) The happiest students are also the most involved students. When it comes to crafting your slate of collegiate pursuits, the sooner you get involved, the better.

17) always be working on a"grand project "

18) take art history and astronomy before you graduate.

19) Imagine the following scene: Your professor is handing back a major research paper to your class. The groans that begin to fill the room indicate that the professor was particularly demanding for this assignment. And rightly so, it's worth forty percent of your grade. As he gets to your name, he asks you to stay after class. Uh oh. Nervously you wait as your classmates file out, and when you are the only student remaining in the lecture hall, he walks up to you . . . and then shakes your hand. “Congratulations,” he exclaims, “your project was by far the best in the class!”

Sound good? Well, get used to it.

20) One or two good questions a class is enough to keep the professor happy, but not enough to solicit the annoyance of your classmates.

21) Getting involved with research early is like drinking an elixir of success.

22) If you pay your dues with grace and enthusiasm and are mindful of the opportunity you are receiving, you will maximize the many positive benefits of participating in original research work.

23) Take ten-minute breaks in between each fifty-minute chunk.

24) One, it makes you feel better about yourself. If you look good, you can imagine that cute guy or dimpled girl in the front row shooting some glances in your direction. This will make you happy. And when you are happy, you have more energy and pay attention better in class. Two, it makes the day official. When you look like you just rolled out of bed, it's all too easy to imagine rolling back in. If you dressnicely, you are sending yourself the message that you are ready to get started and attack the day.

25) Decorate your room.

26) experience the joy of dominating a test without any hard work,this is done by studying Two weeks in advance.

27) Force yourself to write as much as possible. It is an essential, irreplaceable skill for succeeding. Master it.

28) taking the time to eat a social meal with your friends is a great idea; just don't do it more than once a day.

29) Schedule an escape for yourself every single week. And do it alone. Treat it like taking medicine.

30) “Why waste your time and money in the minor leagues of college courses when you have the ability to be swinging in the majors.”

31) When it comes time to study, go where it counts.

32)The best way to learn difficult material is to go over it by yourself, with a lot of concentration, again and again and again until the concepts become second nature.

33) As long as you are paying so much money to attend college, you might as well maximize what you get out of your investment. If you can get into an honors program, do so. No excuses.

34) The key is consistency.

35) Getting fired up, once or twice a month about subjects that interest you, will go a long to way to helping you succeed. Go to guest lectures and keep your intellectual fires stoked.

36) Don't let the decision to exercise become a debatable question. Instead, make it a habit, like going to class or brushing your teeth.

37) You never realize how important your back-home friendships are until you begin to lose them. Stay in touch.

38) Sleep is just a tool to help you function. Treat your body like a machine—give it exactly what it needs to perform its best, not any more, not any less. Give the snooze button a rest. Try to sleep only the amount you need to make it through the day.

39) The best state for your mind to be in is confident and calm. Take the hour before an exam to relax.

40) Read a nonacademic book. Listen to music that makes you happy. Run a couple of errands. Have a conversation with a friend. Work on unrelated—nondemanding—schoolwork. The key is to keep your mind active and energized, but not exhausted. Then head over to the exam fifteen minutes early. On the way, start to lightly review some material that you feel particularly good about. Imagine yourself writing a strong essay on this topic, imagine the professor handing the class a copy of your essay as an example of a good answer. This technique is more than just shameless ego-stroking, it builds your confidence, and, more important, it warms up your mind in a good and controlled sort ofway. When you arrive at the test location, avoid the temptation to frantically catalog all the concepts you are a little shaky on. Try to keep your mind blank, or, alternatively, continue thinking confidence-boosting thoughts about doing really well. When the exam is finally handed out, take a deep breath and have at it. You should be mentally nimble, rested, and energized by the time your pen hits the paper.

41) If a friend invites you to do something and you are not too busy, find the energy to go. If a friend invites you to do something, and you are really busy, don't go, but make plans to get together later in the week. Most important, if a good friend needs help, drop everything and go.

Making friends your number one priority doesn't mean sacrificing your other obligations, but it does demand that you keep them in mind.

42) Be mature and make the right decisions to keep your mind and body in a condition to perform your best.

43) The point is that there are too many factors that can account for both good and mediocre academic performance on any given day, and none of these factors has anything to do with intelligence.

So save yourself a lot of unjustified grief (or pride), and simply ignore your classmates' grades. Worry about your performance and progress; let your classmates worry about their own.

44) A good listener at college is rare.

45) Don't decide to start working the day before.

46) Find something every single day that will make you laugh.

47) Using a high-quality notebook will not guarantee you success, but it will create the right environment for it to flourish.

48) if you don't actively seek out fun, it won't actively seek out you.

49) Take the most important projects or commitments with which you are involved, and pump up your criteria for success.

50) corporate recruitment sessions, and yes, even parties. In the chaos of classes, extracurricular activities, and a healthy social schedule, these optional events are easy to avoid. Don't avoid them.

51) If you want to be a successful student, forget about your G.P.A. Ignore it. Don't talk about it. Make no attempt to know the numbers. You should approach your collegiate career with confidence and energy.

52) Always go to class!

53) Set arbitrary deadlines.

54) eat healthy

55) don't just volunteer, volunteer quietly.

56) approach every paper as if you were trying to win a Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting.

57) Attend political rallies and keep the flame of progressive thinking alive.

58) Once you have decided on a destination, explore many routes to get you there.

59) Don't take breaks between classes!

60) Don't network. But keep your connections strong.

61) If you can maximize the use of your surroundings, you can maximize your performance as a student.

62) Organize the messages in your e-mail in-box like you would your paper files

63) To be a successful student, you must abandon the start-slow, end-fast mind-set, and instead approach all projects by aiming to start fast, end slow.

64) Spend a semester studying abroad.

65) you want to succeed because you love the excitement of pushing your potential and exploring your world and new experiences, if you want to succeed because life is short and why not fill it with as much activity as possible, then you will win. If you approach life with an attitude of never having regrets and always having a hopeful smile on your face, you can find a measure of success in all your endeavors. Don't have no regrets, but have plenty of fun along the way. In the end, that is what it is to really win.

66) “Don't have no regrets.”

The above points are all from the book I read...

Book: - HOW TO WIN AT COLLEGE: - surprising secrets from the country's top student's

Author: - CAL NEWPORT

Anime forever ✌

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Gender and Sexuality Portfolio Post One: Introduction to Special Interest Topic

In striving for political rights, governmental status, and overall representation, women often find themselves with limited, inadequate opportunities. Despite advances in women’s rights, political representation for women is poor compared to men. As we have seen with recent elections, heads of state still have the tendency to choose male representation over women, and while many countries are exploring measures to change this, the United States has put in generally no effort to increase the governmental status for women. As I will discuss in this essay, there is little research on why this (under-representation) is occurring.

The topic I selected for my special interest topic is women in politics in the United States. I selected this topic because it not only affects me, it also affects our local and national government. I want answers on why women aren’t being represented in office, despite the fact that women make up 50% of the population. Is it simply that women aren’t running for political positions, or is it something a little more complicated? In our recent presidential election, the nation saw Hillary Clinton lose the presidential election despite her winning the popular vote, and with Trump’s cabinet being almost all men, it leads me to believe that there is a serious issue not just with our society, but deep within our political system. I hypothesize that sexism and prejudice are to blame for women’s under-representation, and I believe that the reason for women’s lack of political participation also has to do with this atmosphere of inferiority.

As personally expected, there was not a lot of search results on women in politics, especially in regards to the United States. At first, I only researched women in politics, and although this is a very broad topic I was interested in seeing the types of articles that would appear. Interestingly enough, the journals were almost always about other countries. A large amount of attention was particularly paid to smaller countries and countries with poor (general) women’s rights - such as India and countries in the Middle East. Finally, when I decided to focus my topic on the United States, there was little to no adequate research articles. While this made finding lengthy, decent articles very difficult, I was determined to stick to my topic. I came to the conclusion that my topic was extremely important, not just to me but to everyone in general. The good articles deserved recognition and the lack of articles needed to be discovered. After rewording my topic over and over again - from women in politics, to women in politics in the United States, to United States politics, to women’s representation in government - the most articles I could find was 140 articles (which was about 5 pages of search results); however a big reason why this occurred was due to there being little recent research from 2016 - 2018 (if you did not put a restriction on the publication of the articles there were over a thousand search results). At first, I was very discouraged and disappointed with my findings, but after thinking about it I realized that this was something I really needed to see. It is important to recognize what we are failing to discuss, and the reasons behind this inadequacy. I found it a little ironic that there was both little women representation in government and on Ebsco search results. Yet, I was still able to find very interesting and helpful articles that aided in my search for answers.

With every article I choose they all aimed to understand the reasons behind the underrepresentation of women in elected offices in the United States. They all acknowledge that there is little data behind this reality. Due to this, almost all of the authors reference past elections and review the general public opinion on women in the government. Hanson and Dolan use data from a 2014 CCES (Cooperative Congressional Election Study) survey, Angevine uses a dataset of three Congresses (2005-2010), and two other articles reflect on the election between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama (West), and Clinton and Trump (Parikh). The other articles tended to focus on books and other types of data collection. All of their data ultimately leads to the ideas that the reasons behind underrepresentation for women are: voter percentages, media framework of women in office, individual factors, the environment in government, and deeply ingrained sociological ideas on women in politics (Funk, Coker). There are a lot of different ideas for future studies as we cannot generalize certain findings across past studies. A lot of the authors of the articles suggest watching the results of future political processes and environments surrounding women. Others suggest that we need to continue to find the differences and similarities in how men and women connect with voters and conduct themselves in office. The Parikh article discusses the election between Trump and Hillary Clinton, which is the most recent article I could find. For future studies, it will be important to write articles on their run for president. Finally, other articles suggest that instead of studying voters, that we should study Democrats and Republicans and how they view women in politics, which can have great influence on the general population when voting (Butler).

    In the modern era, women continue to have great influence within governmental systems; however, equal representation is still lacking. Women make up an equal portion of the population so why aren’t we equally represented? The articles that I looked over attempted to answer this question through studies, interviews, data collection, and comparative analysis. Altogether, most agree that the problem lies with the general population and the government as a whole (including political parties) (Butler). Over time women are continuing to overcome these challenges, but as most of the articles state, we need to continue to collect data and observe the issues lying with women in politics.

Reference

Parikh, C. (2017). On the Road Again with the American Girl. College Literature 44(4), 491-497. Johns Hopkins University Press. Retrieved September 6, 2018, from Project MUSE database.

Bucchianeri, P. (2018). Is Running Enough? Reconsidering the Conventional Wisdom about Women Candidates. Political Behavior, 40(2), 435-466. doi:10.1007/s11109-017-9407-7

Crowley, J. E. (2016). Women in Politics in the American City. Political Science Quarterly (Wiley-Blackwell), 131(1), 206-208. doi:10.1002/polq.12456

Carroll, S. .., & Walters, S. D. (2017). Ask a Feminist: A Conversation with Susan J. Carroll on Gender and Electoral Politics. Signs: Journal Of Women In Culture & Society, 42(3), 771-783.

FINNEMAN, T. (2018). "The Greatest of Its Kind Ever Witnessed in America": The Press and the 1913 Women's March on Washington. Journalism History, 44(2), 109-116.

West, E. A. (2017). Descriptive Representation and Political Efficacy: Evidence from Obama and Clinton. Journal Of Politics, 79(1), 351-355. doi:10.1086/688888

Butler, D. M., & Preece, J. R. (2016). Recruitment and Perceptions of Gender Bias in Party Leader Support. Political Research Quarterly, 69(4), 842-851. doi:10.1177/1065912916668412

When Women Win: EMILY’S LIST and the Rise of Women in American Politics. (2016). Pennsylvania Literary Journal (2151-3066), 8(2), 41-45.

Funk, M. E., & Coker, C. R. (2016). She's Hot, for a Politician: The Impact of Objectifying Commentary on Perceived Credibility of Female Candidates. Communication Studies, 67(4), 455-473. doi:10.1080/10510974.2016.1196380

Winslow, B. (2017). The Highest Glass Ceiling: Women's Quest for the American Presidency. Journal Of American History, 103(4), 1115. doi:10.1093/jahist/jaw619

Angevine, S. (2017). Representing All Women: An Analysis of Congress, Foreign Policy, and the Boundaries of Women's Surrogate Representation. Political Research Quarterly, 70(1), 98-110. doi:10.1177/1065912916675737

Burden, B. C., Yoshikuni, O., & Masahiro, Y. (2017). Reassessing Public Support for a Female President. Journal Of Politics, 79(3), 1073-1078. doi:10.1086/691799

Dolan, K., & Hansen, M. (2018). Blaming Women or Blaming the System? Public Perceptions of Women's Underrepresentation in Elected Office. Political Research Quarterly, 71(3), 668-680. doi:10.1177/1065912918755972

LEVITOV, D. (2017). Using the Women's March to Examine Freedom of Speech, Social Justice, and Social Action through Information Literacy. Teacher Librarian, 44(4), 12-15.

McCall, L., & Orloff, A. S. (2017). The multidimensional politics of inequality: taking stock of identity politics in the U.S. Presidential election of 2016. British Journal Of Sociology, 68S34-S56. doi:10.1111/1468-4446.12316.

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50 things about me:

i was tagged by my absolute favorite artist and just like person bc shes amazing if you dont follow her go follow her she is adorable and pure and everything good in the world lol @domo-tron to do this! so going off of hers, its random so lets see if i can do this: 

1. i have 3 tattoos right now and i want more 2. i never use capital letters when typing in a casual setting because it feels too formal 3. i have severely flat feet. they’re so flat that they make suction cup noises on hard surfaces like hardwood, tile, etc. 4. i’m very very very short. only 5′1.5″.  5. i’ve been going to the gym since college and it has been great. 6. i have 10 piercings currently and i’ve been debating about others. 7. i am obsessed with stationary, like pens and pencils and handwriting and binders and notebooks 8. what got me interested in video games was actually gaia online which i don’t play anymore. you can still see my account but i locked myself out of it and i can’t recover it.  bite me then is the account btw 9. my first car was a nissan xterra and her name was xena. she is my love (even though she’s broken) 10. i’m currently studying nursing with a minor in spanish at college 11. i used to play a lot of sports and i’m mad that i quit them. my favorites were gymnastics and soccer 12. i have a fairly bad southern accent. especially when talking to my grandparents or if i’m playing video games. 13. i’ve been told i can sing but i don’t believe anyone. 14. writing is my passion: stories, poems, essays, anything. 15. i hate my laugh because it changes a lot and if i laugh really hard i either start to cry or i can’t breathe....sometimes both. 16. eating is my second favorite thing to do. 17. my name is actually alexis but i’ve been called: alex, lex, lexi, alexa... lots of stuff 18. i’m actually mixed. i’m not hispanic! (woah) 19. the video games i play: league of legends, world of warcraft (but not lately), osu!, call of duty, tomb raider (only sometimes) 20. making world of warcraft characters and making stories for them has been keeping me semi-sane in my wow absence 21. i have very tiny hands. idk. if you have an iphone 6, or know how big one is, that’s the size of my hand 22. i can’t wait to travel the world. i really want to go to germany, spain, and colombia the most. 23. i like to play pranks on people. i also like jokes and pick up lines. i’ve mad a pact with myself that if someone used a pick up line on me, i’d go on a date with them. just cause. 24. i’m actually bi-curious but i have done nothing regarding it. i am vvvv intimidated but there are a few girls that i’ve found that are just. wow. love. <3 (will i ever talk to them and tell them that? probably never, no.)  25. i don’t understand twitter but i have one. who knows. 26. mexican food is my absolute favorite type of food ever. swoon.  27. peach rings are my favorite candy. ever. period. followed closely by twizzlers - i am struggling so bad with this omg how am i going to get to 50 -  28. i have a friend that i’ve been friends with for 19 years. her name is aly and i love her. 29. i had braces twice and i have a permanent retainer on my lower teeth 30. my first nephew is due in may and i can’t wait. 31. i’ve lived in georgia all my life but i kind of want to move away.... 32. i hate bad weather. a lot. 33. i probably wouldn’t still be here without my friend meredith, honestly. 34. people feel like they can confide in me. its cool up until they don’t listen to my advice. then i get mad. 35. i’m an aries and its reflected in my personality lol. whoops. 36. i can hold a grudge against someone forever. don’t try me. 37. i’ve been told that i’m scary by some people but i don’t see it. 38. i love roller coasters.  39. i think it’d be awesome to meet some of my mutuals, especially those that i’ve known for a while. - god this is impossible wtf!? -  40. i like vintage style shirt and leggings. thats my like new style.   41. i listen to all kinds of music but twenty one pilots is my absolute favorite band of all time. 42. depending on what kind of plans they are, i like to have everything ready ahead of time. but i also like spontaneous adventures and stuff so. who knows. - i am not that interesting i don’t know what else to say omg -  43. my niece has the same middle name as me because my older brother is obsessed with the name danielle but no one will let him make it the kid’s first name. lol. 44. i have 3 dogs (tiger, nacho, and spike) and then a bunny named pipsi. i love them. 45. i don’t really drink soda anymore but i am obsessed. (literally like addicted. not even kidding) to sweet tea.  46. i think kids look like lizards and most of the time i don’t actually like kids or enjoy being around them (except my niece and my future nephew) but i’m really good with them and a lot of the time they like me a lot. 47. i used to go roller skating every friday when i was in middle school and when i went recently i ended up buying my own skates (they’re very cute). skating is one of my hobbies and its a lot of fun i love it. 48. i can actually type very fast. i’ve hit 90wpm before but it was a struggle to get there and idk if i could get there again lol. 49. when i get really mad or heated or something, i get shaky. its kind of weird. and sometimes i cry when i get really mad. not cool.  - this took forever but i am proud to announce this next number -  50. in a lot of my pictures, especially those of me where i’m not the selfie taker, i chuck up a peace sign. its my thing. i couldn’t tell you why. 

for an extra tidbit about me - most just cause i just thought of it but also bc it literally took me hours to finish this - 51* since about december, i’ve decided to try to embrace my natural hair. no heat and hopefully itll start curling soon. <3  FINALLY OKAY SOOOOOO I TAG @beautifullywanderlust bc obvi duh girl struggle and alsoooo @layonhands!! and @ anyone reading this! go for it! tag me in it! so i can read about u and love u bc u are presh and adorable. all of you are. <333  xx

#me #all about me #wow #that was so fricking difficult #about me #50 things about me

[dist-the-rose]

Section 4: Circumstances that, Independently of the Proportional Division of Surplus value into Capital and Revenue, Determine the Amount of Accumulation. Degree of Exploitation of Labour-Power. Productivity of Labour. Growing Difference in Amount Between Capital Employed and Capital Consumed. Magnitude of Capital Advanced The proportion in which surplus value breaks up into capital and revenue being given, the magnitude of the capital accumulated clearly depends on the absolute magnitude of the surplus value. Suppose that 80 per cent. were capitalised and 20 per cent. eaten up, the accumulated capital will be £2,400 or £200, according as the total surplus value has amounted to £3,000 or £500. Hence all the circumstances that determine the mass of surplus value operate to determine the magnitude of the accumulation. We sum them up once again, but only in so far as they afford new points of view in regard to accumulation. It will be remembered that the rate of surplus value depends, in the first place, on the degree of exploitation of labour-power. Political Economy values this fact so highly, that it occasionally identifies the acceleration of accumulation due to increased productiveness of labour, with its acceleration due to increased exploitation of the labourer.35 In the chapters on the production of surplus value it was constantly presupposed that wages are at least equal to the value of labourpower. Forcible reduction of wages below this value plays, however, in practice too important a part, for us not to pause upon it for a moment. It, in fact, transforms, within certain limits, the labourer’s necessary consumption fund into a fund for the accumulation of capital. “Wages,” says John Stuart Mill, “have no productive power; they are the price of a productive power. Wages do not contribute, along with labour, to the production of commodities, no more than the price of tools contributes along with the tools themselves. If labour could be had without purchase, wages might be dispensed with.”36 But if the labourers could live on air they could not be bought at any price. The zero of their cost is therefore a limit in a mathematical sense, always beyond reach, although we can always approximate more and more nearly to it. The constant tendency of capital is to force the cost of labour back towards this zero. A writer of the 18th century, often quoted already, the author of the “Essay on Trade and Commerce,” only betrays the innermost secret soul of English capitalism, when he declares the historic mission of England to be the forcing down of English wages to the level of the French and the Dutch.37 With other things he says naively: “But if our poor” (technical term for labourers) “will live luxuriously ... then labour must, of course, be dear ... When it is considered what luxuries the 299 Chapter XXIV manufacturing populace consume, such as brandy, gin, tea, sugar, foreign fruit, strong beer, printed linens, snuff, tobacco, &c.”38 He quotes the work of a Northamptonshire manufacturer, who, with eyes squinting heavenward moans: “Labour is one-third cheaper in France than in England; for their poor work hard, and fare hard, as to their food and clothing. Their chief diet is bread, fruit, herbs, roots, and dried fish; for they very seldom eat flesh; and when wheat is dear, they eat very little bread.”39 “To which may be added,” our essayist goes on, “that their drink is either water or other small liquors, so that they spend very little money.... These things are very difficult to be brought about; but they are not impracticable, since they have been effected both in France and in Holland.”40 Twenty years later, an American humbug, the baronised Yankee, Benjamin Thompson (alias Count Rumford) followed the same line of philanthropy to the great satisfaction of God and man. His “Essays” are a cookery book with receipts of all kinds for replacing by some succedaneum the ordinary dear food of the labourer. The following is a particularly successful receipt of this wonderful philosopher: “5 lbs. of barleymeal, 7½d.; 5 lbs. of Indian corn, 6¼d.; 3d. worth of red herring, 1d. salt, 1d. vinegar, 2d. pepper and sweet herbs, in all 20¾.; make a soup for 64 men, and at the medium price of barley and of Indian corn ... this soup may be provided at ¼d., the portion of 20 ounces.”41 With the advance of capitalistic production, the adulteration of food rendered Thompson’s ideal superfluous.42 At the end of the 18th and during the first ten years of the 19th century, the English farmers and landlords enforced the absolute minimum of wage, by paying the agricultural labourers less than the minimum in the form of wages, and the remainder in the shape of parochial relief. An example of the waggish way in which the English Dogberries acted in their “legal” fixing of a wages tariff: “The squires of Norfolk had dined, says Mr. Burke, when they fixed the rate of wages; the squires of Berks evidently thought the labourers ought not to do so, when they fixed the rate of wages at Speenhamland, 1795.... There they decide that ‘income (weekly) should be 3s. for a man,’ when the gallon or half-peck loaf of 8 lbs. 11 oz. is at 1s., and increase regularly till bread is 1s. 5d.; when it is above that sum decrease regularly till it be at 2s., and then his food should be 1/5 th less.” 43 Before the Committee of Inquiry of the House of Lords, 1814, a certain A. Bennett, a large farmer, magistrate, poor-law guardian, and wage-regulator, was asked: “Has any proportion of the value of daily labour been made up to the labourers out of the poors’ rate?” Answer: “Yes, it has; the weekly income of every family is made up to the gallon loaf (8 lbs. 11 oz.), and 3d. per head!... The gallon loaf per week is what we suppose sufficient for the maintenance of every person in the family for the week; and the 3d. is for clothes, and if the parish think proper to find clothes; the 3d. is deducted. This practice goes through all the western part of Wiltshire, and, I believe, throughout the country.”44 “For years,” exclaims a bourgeois author of that time, “they (the farmers) have degraded a respectable class of their countrymen, by forcing them to have recourse to the workhouse ... the farmer, while increasing his own gains, has prevented any accumulation on the part of his labouring dependents.”45 The part played in our days by the direct robbery from the labourer’s necessary consumption fund in the formation of surplus value, and, therefore, of the accumulation fund of capital, the so-called 300 Chapter XXIV domestic industry has served to show. (Ch. xv., sect. 8, c.) Further facts on this subject will be given later. Although in all branches of industry that part of the constant capital consisting of instruments of labour must be sufficient for a certain number of labourers (determined by the magnitude of the undertaking), it by no means always necessarily increases in the same proportion as the quantity of labour employed. In a factory, suppose that 100 labourers working 8 hours a day yield 800 working-hours. If the capitalist wishes to raise this sum by one half, he can employ 50 more workers; but then he must also advance more capital, not merely for wages, but for instruments of labour. But he might also let the 100 labourers work 12 hours instead of 8, and then the instruments of labour already to hand would be enough. These would then simply be more rapidly consumed. Thus additional labour, begotten of the greater tension of labour-power, can augment surplus-product and surplus value (i.e., the subject-matter of accumulation), without corresponding augmentation in the constant part of capital. In the extractive industries, mines, &c., the raw materials form no part of the capital advanced. The subject of labour is in this case not a product of previous labour, but is furnished by Nature gratis, as in the case of metals, minerals, coal, stone, &c. In these cases the constant capital consists almost exclusively of instruments of labour, which can very well absorb an increased quantity of labour (day and night shifts of labourers, e.g.). All other things being equal, the mass and value of the product will rise in direct proportion to the labour expended. As on the first day of production,. the original produce-formers, now turned into the creators of the material elements of capital – man and Nature – still work together. Thanks to the elasticity of labourpower, the domain of accumulation has extended without any previous enlargement of constant capital. In agriculture the land under cultivation cannot be increased without the advance of more seed and manure. But this advance once made, the purely mechanical working of the soil itself produces a marvellous effect on the amount of the product. A greater quantity of labour, done by the same number of labourers as before, thus increases the fertility, without requiring any new advance in the instruments of labour. It is once again the direct action of man on Nature which becomes an immediate source of greater accumulation, without the intervention of any new capital. Finally, in what is called manufacturing industry, every additional expenditure of labour presupposes a corresponding additional expenditure of raw materials, but not necessarily of instruments of labour. And as extractive industry and agriculture supply manufacturing industry with its raw materials and those of its instruments of labour, the additional product the former have created without additional advance of capital, tells also in favour of the latter. General result: by incorporating with itself the two primary creators of wealth, labour-power and the land, capital acquires a power of expansion that permits it to augment the elements of its accumulation beyond the limits apparently fixed by its own magnitude, or by the value and the mass of the means of production, already produced, in which it has its being. Another important factor in the accumulation of capital is the degree of productivity of social labour. With the productive power of labour increases the mass of the products, in which a certain value, and, therefore, a surplus value of a given magnitude, is embodied. The rate of surplus value remaining the same or even falling, so long as it only falls more slowly, than the productive power of labour rises, the mass of the surplus-product increases. The division of this product into revenue and additional capital remaining the same, the consumption of the capitalist may, therefore, increase without any decrease in the fund of accumulation. The relative magnitude of the accumulation fund may even increase at the expense of the consumption fund, whilst the cheapening of commodities places at the disposal of the capitalist as many means of enjoyment as 301 Chapter XXIV formerly, or even more than formerly. But hand-in-hand with the increasing productivity of labour, goes, as we have seen, the cheapening of the labourer, therefore a higher rate of surplus value, even when the real wages are rising. The latter never rise proportionally to the productive power of labour. The same value in variable capital therefore sets in movement more labourpower, and, therefore, more labour. The same value in constant capital is embodied in more means of production, i.e., in more instruments of labour, materials of labour and auxiliary materials; it therefore also supplies more elements for the production both of use value and of value, and with these more absorbers of labour. The value of the additional capital, therefore, remaining the same or even diminishing, accelerated accumulation still takes place. Not only does the scale of reproduction materially extend, but the production of surplus value increases more rapidly than the value of the additional capital. The development of the productive power of labour reacts also on the original capital already engaged in the process of production. A part of the functioning constant capital consists of instruments of labour, such as machinery, &c., which are not consumed, and therefore not reproduced, or replaced by new ones of the same kind, until after long periods of time. But every year a part of these instruments of labour perishes or reaches the limit of its productive function. It reaches, therefore, in that year, the time for its periodical reproduction, for its replacement by new ones of the same kind. If the productiveness of labour has, during the using up of these instruments of labour, increased (and it develops continually with the uninterrupted advance of science and technology), more efficient and (considering their increased efficiency), cheaper machines, tools, apparatus, &c., replace the old. The old capital is reproduced in a more productive form, apart from the constant detail improvements in the instruments of labour already in use. The other part of the constant capital, raw material and auxiliary substances, is constantly reproduced in less than a year; those produced by agriculture, for the most part annually. Every introduction of improved methods, therefore, works almost simultaneously on the new capital and on that already in action. Every advance in Chemistry not only multiplies the number of useful materials and the useful applications of those already known, thus extending with the growth of capital its sphere of investment. It teaches at the same time how to throw the excrements of the processes of production and consumption back again into the circle of the process of reproduction, and thus, without any previous outlay of capital, creates new matter for capital. Like the increased exploitation of natural wealth by the mere increase in the tension of labourpower, science and technology give capital a power of expansion independent of the given magnitude of the capital actually functioning. They react at the same time on that part of the original capital which has entered upon its stage of renewal. This, in passing into its new shape, incorporates gratis the social advance made while its old shape was being used up. Of course, this development of productive power is accompanied by a partial depreciation of functioning capital. So far as this depreciation makes itself acutely felt in competition, the burden falls on the labourer, in the increased exploitation of whom the capitalist looks for his indemnification. Labour transmits to its product the value of the means of production consumed by it. On the other hand, the value and mass of the means of production set in motion by a given quantity of labour increase as the labour becomes more productive. Though the same quantity of labour adds always to its products only the same sum of new value, still the old capital value, transmitted by the labour to the products, increases with the growing productivity of labour. An English and a Chinese spinner, e.g., may work the same number of hours with the same intensity; then they will both in a week create equal values. But in spite of this equality, an immense difference will obtain between the value of the week’s product of the Englishman, who works with a mighty automaton, and that of the Chinaman, who has but a spinning-wheel. In the same time as the Chinaman spins one pound of cotton, the Englishman spins several hundreds of pounds. A sum, many hundred times as great, of old values swells the value of his product, in which those re-appear in a new, useful form, and can thus function anew as capital. 302 Chapter XXIV “In 1782,” as Frederick Engels teaches us, “all the wool crop in England of the three preceding years, lay untouched for want of labourers, and so it must have lain, if newly invented machinery had not come to its aid and spun it.”46 Labour embodied in the form of machinery of course did not directly force into life a single man, but it made it possible for a smaller number of labourers, with the addition of relatively less living labour, not only to consume the wool productively, and put into it new value, but to preserve in the form of yarn, &c., its old value. At the same time, it caused and stimulated increased reproduction of wool. It is the natural property of living labour, to transmit old value, whilst it creates new. Hence, with the increase in efficacy, extent and value of its means of production, consequently with the accumulation that accompanies the development of its productive power, labour keeps up and eternises an always increasing capital value in a form ever new.” 47 This natural power of labour takes the appearance of an intrinsic property of capital, in which it is incorporated, just as the productive forces of social labour take the appearance of inherent properties of capital, and as the constant appropriation of surplus labour by the capitalists, takes that of a constant self-expansion of capital. With the increase of capital, the difference between the capital employed and the capital consumed increases. In other words, there is increase in the value and the material mass of the instruments of labour, such as buildings, machinery, drain-pipes, working-cattle, apparatus of every kind that function for a longer or shorter time in processes of production constantly repeated, or that serve for the attainment of particular useful effects, whilst they themselves only gradually wear out, therefore only lose their value piecemeal, therefore transfer that value to the product only bit by bit. In the same proportion as these instruments of labour serve as productformers without adding value to the product, i.e., in the same proportion as they are wholly employed but only partly consumed, they perform, as we saw earlier, the same gratuitous service as the natural forces, water, steam, air, electricity, etc. This gratuitous service of past labour, when seized and filled with a soul by living labour, increases with the advancing stages of accumulation. Since past labour always disguises itself as capital, i.e., since the passive of the labour of A, B, C, etc., takes the form of the active of the non-labourer X, bourgeois and political economists are full of praises of the services of dead and gone labour, which, according to the Scotch genius MacCulloch, ought to receive a special remuneration in the shape of interest, profit, etc. 48 The powerful and ever-increasing assistance given by past labour to the living labour process under the form of means of production is, therefore, attributed to that form of past labour in which it is alienated, as unpaid labour, from the worker himself, i.e., to its capitalistic form. The practical agents of capitalistic production and their pettifogging ideologists are as unable to think of the means of production as separate from the antagonistic social mask they wear today, as a slaveowner to think of the worker himself as distinct from his character as a slave. With a given degree of exploitation of labour-power, the mass of the surplus value produced is determined by the number of workers simultaneously exploited; and this corresponds, although in varying proportions, with the magnitude of the capital. The more, therefore, capital increases by means of successive accumulations, the more does the sum of the value increase that is divided into consumption fund and accumulation fund. The capitalist can, therefore, live a more jolly life, and at the same time show more “abstinence.” And, finally, all the springs of production act with greater elasticity, the more its scale extends with the mass of the capital advanced.

[marcusssanderson]

88 Forgiveness Quotes on Life, Love, and Friendship

These forgiveness quotes will help you let go of the past and not allow anger to poison your heart.

Forgiveness is a difficult emotion for so many of us. Due to too much hate and anger inside us, we find it almost impossible in some situations to let go of the past, or move on from the wrongs that others have done to us.

However, it is through forgiving and letting go of those perceived injustices that truly allows us to be free.

Below is our collection of inspirational, wise, and powerful forgiveness quotes, forgiveness sayings, and forgiveness proverbs on how we can start that process.

Forgiveness Quotes About Life

1.) “Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.” ― Isaac Friedmann

2.) “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” ― Mahatma Gandhi, All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

3.) “It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on.” ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

4.) “When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.” ― Katherine Ponder

5.) “Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

6.) “Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.” ― Louis B. Smedes

7.) “Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.” ― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

Forgive Yourself Quotes

8.) “Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.” ― Harriet Nelson

9.) “Forgiveness has nothing to do with absolving a criminal of his crime. It has everything to do with relieving oneself of the burden of being a victim–letting go of the pain and transforming oneself from victim to survivor.” ― C.R. Strahan

10.) “I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.” ― C.S. Lewis

11.) “Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back.” ― Anne Lamott

12.) “Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.” ― Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

13.) “There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.” ― Bryant H. McGill

14.) “Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive.” ― Wm. Paul Young, The Shack

15.) “Life is an adventure in forgiveness.” ― Norman Cousins

16.) “Always forgive, but never forget, else you will be a prisoner of your own hatred, and doomed to repeat your mistakes forever.” ― Wil Zeus, Sun Beyond the Clouds

17.) “I have learned, that the person I have to ask for forgiveness from the most is: myself. You must love yourself. You have to forgive yourself, every day, whenever you remember a shortcoming, a flaw, you have to tell yourself “That’s just fine”. You have to forgive yourself so much, until you don’t even see those things anymore. Because that’s what love is like.” ― C. JoyBell C.

Forgiveness Quotes on Friendship

18.) “Without forgiveness life is governed by an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.” ― Roberto Assagioli

19.) “Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you are.” ― Cherie Carter-Scott

20.) “Can I be forgiven for all I’ve done to get here? I want to be. I can. I believe it.” ― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

21.) “A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.” ― Robert Quillen

22.) “Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.” ― Robert Jordan

23.) “I want to be the kind of person who can do that. Move on and forgive people and be healthy and happy. It seems like an easy thing to do in my head. But it’s not so easy when you try it in real life.” ― Susane Colasanti, Waiting for You

24.) “Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.” ― Hannah Arendt

25.) “Give the world the best you have and you’ll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you have anyway.” ― Kent M. Keith, The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council

Forgiveness Quotes on Love

26.) “He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.” ― George Herbert

27.) “Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.” ― Nelson Mandela

28.) “Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.” ― Emma Goldman

29.) “What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.”

30.) “Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.” ― Corrie ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook

31.) “Forgiveness is me giving up my right to hurt you for hurting me.” – Anonymous

32.) “I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.” ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

33.) “Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.” ― Indira Gandhi

34.) “As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.” ― Criss Jami, Killosophy

35.) “Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, because hate in your heart will consume you too.” ― Will Smith

More Forgiveness Quotes on Life

36.) “If you can’t forgive and forget, pick one.” ― Robert Brault

37.) “A life lived without forgiveness is a prison.” ― William Arthur Ward

38.) “People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs. Fight for a few underdogs anyway.”

39.) “Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.” ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

40.) “Sincere forgiveness isn’t colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don’t worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time-just like it does for you and me.” ― Sara Paddison

41.) “To err is human, to forgive, divine.” ― Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism

42.) “Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.” ― Alice Duer Miller

43.) “The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.” ― Marianne Williamson

44.) “We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that we cannot be trusted ever afterward.” ― Alison Croggon

Quotes on Forgiving Others

45.) “It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.” ― William Blake

46.) “I guess forgiveness, like happiness, isn’t a final destination. You don’t one day get there and get to stay.” ― Deb Caletti

47.) “The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds. Think big anyway.

48.) “To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.” ― G.K. Chesterton

49.) “Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.” ― Marlene Dietrich

50.) “One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.” ― Rita Mae Brown

51.) “As long as you don’t forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy a rent-free space in your mind.” ― Isabelle Holland

52.) “I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.” ― Abraham Lincoln

53.) “These are the few ways we can practice humility: To speak as little as possible of one’s self. To mind one’s own business. Not to want to manage other people’s affairs. To avoid curiosity. To accept contradictions and correction cheerfully. To pass over the mistakes of others. To accept insults and injuries. To accept being slighted, forgotten and disliked. To be kind and gentle even under provocation. Never to stand on one’s dignity. To choose always the hardest.” ― Mother Teresa, The Joy in Loving: A Guide to Daily Living

54.) “Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.” ― Paul Boese

Forgiveness Quotes for Lovers

55.) “I’m sorry about yesterday,” she said. He hung on to his straps and shrugged. “Yesterday happens.” ― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

56.) “Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.”

57.) “Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family.” ― Henri J.M. Nouwen

58.) “Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.” ― George MacDonald

59.) “Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.” ― Corrie ten Boom

60.) “Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.” ― Gautama Buddha, The Dhammapada: The Sayings of the Buddha

61.) “Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.” ― Cherie Carter-Scott

62.) “People have to forgive. We don’t have to like them, we don’t have to be friends with them, we don’t have to send them hearts in text messages, but we have to forgive them, to overlook, to forget. Because if we don’t we are tying rocks to our feet, too much for our wings to carry!” ― C. JoyBell C.

63.) “If he can’t handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person’s soul.” ― Shannon L. Alder, 300 Questions LDS Couples Should Ask Before Marriage

Quotes about Forgiveness in Life

64.) “Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.” ― William Arthur Ward

65.) “The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.”

66.) “The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.” ― Thomas Szasz

67.) “To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.” ― Louis B. Smedes

68.) “We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness. ” ― Ellen Goodman

69.) “Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.” ― Gerald G. Jampolsky, Love Is Letting Go of Fear

70.) “Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.” ― Mason Cooley

71.) “Forgiveness must be immediate, whether or not a person asks for it. Trust must be rebuilt over time. Trust requires a track record.” ― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

Quotes about Forgiveness in Friendship

72.) “If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway.”

73.) “Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.” ― Marvin J. Ashton

74.) “We are all on a life long journey and the core of its meaning, the terrible demand of its centrality is forgiving and being forgiven.” ― Martha Kilpatrick

75.) “This is one of my favorites: “True forgiveness is when you can say, “Thank you for that experience.” ― Oprah Winfrey

76.) “Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day’s chalking.” ― Frederick Buechner, The Alphabet of Grace

77.) “Only the brave know how to forgive. … A coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.” – Laurence Sterne

78.) “What I cannot love, I overlook.” ― Anaïs Nin

79.) “Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.” ― Oscar Wilde

Quotes about Forgiveness with Love

80.) “Sometimes you just have to regret things and move on.” ― Charlaine Harris

81.) “If you do well, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do well anyway.”

82.) “As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in prison.” ― Nelson Mandela

83.) “To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.” ― Robert Muller

84.) “Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever,- One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never.” ― William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing

85.) “A broken friendship that is mended through forgiveness can be even stronger than it once was.” ― Stephen Richards, Forgiveness and Love Conquers All: Healing the Emotional Self

86.) “People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway.”

87.) “Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.” ― Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

88.) “Last night I lost the world, and gained the universe.” ― C. JoyBell C.

Did you enjoy these forgiveness quotes

Now that you know how to go about feeling and showing true forgiveness, the weight can be lifted off of you, and the life you had imagined for yourself lies in front of you…grudge free.

Which quotes about forgiveness were your favorite? What other forgiveness quotes would you add to the list? Let us know in the comment section below.

The post 88 Forgiveness Quotes on Life, Love, and Friendship appeared first on Everyday Power.

[siddhilaad]

Module 10: Kertesz and Cartier-Bresson versus Smith and Salgado

Compare the work of Andre Kertesz and Henri Cartier-Bresson versus the work of Eugene Smith and Sebastião Salgado. They are four photojournalists with different approaches.

– What are the main differences and similarities?  

– What’s the better journalistic approach?

Similarities Differences Andre Kertesz

&

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Black and White photografies.

Humanistic photographer, photo essay

They did not accept changes in their photos.

They want to tell a story with their photos.

They both believed that the photographer needs to be invisible to the subject for capturing the decisive moment.

Kertesz influenced art along with journalism

Bresson pioneered street photography, specialises in candid photography

Eugene Smith

&

Sebastiao Salgado

Black and White photografies.

Their photos are focused on sad subjects and facts, evoking emotions.

They want to tell a story with their photos.

They do not like to make changes in their pictures using the dark room.

Smith developed photo essay into a sophisticated visual form

Salgado does not believe that he is a photojournalist, but a social photographer 

Andre Kertesz

Born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1894, Andre Kertesz worked as a clerk at the Budapest stock exchange in 1912 when he bought his first camera. Two years later, he was sent off to World War I, when he was 20 years old and picture that miserable and hard life and shared with the world.

It was in 1925 when he moved to Paris because of a lack of opportunities and started to work as a freelance photographer. (Albers, P. 2015)

In 1928 he participated in the First Independent Salon of Photography, where his pictures were notably for his blend of a romantic sensibility with modernist attitude. He was cited by critics and mentioned as a proof that photography could be considered a fine art.  

Kertesz published three books with his photographs. Immigrated to the USA in 1936 and settled in New York, where he started to work for House and Garden magazine as a professional photographer. At the age of 60, he retired and started to focus on more personal topics that he used to enjoy when an amateur photographer.

Kertesz is known for his the visual lyricism and humanism that characterized his practice. His camera angles are different, with height and depth. His photos are mostly in an urban scenario.

“I always had a small camera with me on the front line, where I made candid, informal photographs, unlike the official photographers for the War Department. They always came with a huge camera on a tripod after the battle was over to make a scenic photograph that would show the destruction” (Andre Kertesz) (Course Notes Module 9).

Henri Cartier- Bresson

Henri Cartier- Bresson was born on August 22nd in Chanteloup, Seine-et-Marne. He studied at the Lycée Condorcet, Paris. He studied painting under André Lhote. In 1926 he took his first photographs. In 1931 he saw a photograph by Martin Munkácsi in the arts magazine Arts et Métiers Graphiques and decides to focus on photography.

In 1932 he bought his first Leica and travelled across Europe with his friends Leonor Fini and Pieyre de Mandiargues. First publications in Voilà and Photographies.

He had his first exhibition at the Julien Levy Gallery, New York in 1933. His photographs are subsequently shown at the Ateneo Club in Madrid.

From 1935-39 he worked for cinemas before moving to war photography in 1940. He joined the “Film and Photography” unit of the Third Army in 1940. Taken prisoner by the Germans on June 23rd. After two failed attempts successfully escaped on his third attempt in February 1943. He worked for MNPGD, a secret organization created to help prisoners and escapees.

He took a series of photographic portraits of writers and artists in 1944 for Editions Braun (Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Pierre Bonnard, Paul Claudel, Georges Rouault).

In 1947 he held a photo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Creates the cooperative agency Magnum Photos with Robert Capa, David Seymour (Chim), William Vandivert, and George Rodger. From 1948 to 1950, he spent three years in the Far East: in India for the death of Gandhi, in China for the last six months of the Kuomintang and the first six months of the People’s Republic, and in Indonesia for its independence. His photographs are published all over the world.

1952: His first book, Images à la Sauvette, with its cover by Matisse, is published by Tériade. The first exhibition in England, Photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson at the Institute of Contemporary Arts.

In 1954 he is the first photographer allowed in the USSR since the beginning of the Cold War.

Later he travelled to China, Mexico, India, France, the USA and USSR from 1955 to 1973.

In 1974 he decided to focus again on drawing and resigned from Magnum Photos. (HCB foundation )

He believed that the photographer needs to be invisible to the subject for capturing the decisive moment. He said, “life is once forever” by which he meant that once the decisive moment has passed, it can never again be repeated. Every minute occurs once and after it is over you can do nothing about it.

He had said that staging your subjects to get a perfect picture is unethical. He thought that was the basic rule of candid photography. But many of his own photographs were posed. Henri Cartier- Bresson admitted that capturing one image to depict the event is very difficult. Therefore, he practised photo essay to capture the entire event from various perspectives.

Similarities with Andre Kertesz:

They both believed that clicking the decisive moment is important. They did not care about the technical aspects of photography. They both did not think of photography as a way of reporting things.

(Lessons W Eugene Smith taught me about photography, 2013)

The Decisive Moment: “To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organization of forms which give that event its proper expression” (Salgado, 1990, p.147).

In 2000 he set up the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation with his wife, Martine Franck, and daughter, Mélanie. The idea is to provide a permanent home for his collected works as well as an exhibition space open to other artists. And in 2002, The Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation is recognized as being of public interest by the French State.

Henri Cartier-Bresson passed away in Montjustin, Provence on August 3rd, 2004. (HCB foundation )

(Magnum Photos, 2014)

Eugene Smith

American photojournalist

Worked extensively and popularised photo essay

He was a humanitarian photographer

He always believed in having a purpose for clicking a photograph. This shows the focus that he had while photographing.

He wanted his photographs to convey an emotional resonance with his viewers.

He also wanted to change people’s view about war. He was ready to risk his life for clicking a photograph if people would realise the negative side of war and stop wars in the future.

He said that if a photographer does not know the answer to ‘why am I clicking this?’, then they should stop photographing.

Eugene Smith also tried to capture the reality behind the war. He photographed the lives of people who were a part of the war. This shows his humanitarian approach to photography.  

Eugene Smith was considered by many to be aggressive in person but he always cared deeply for his subjects. He was always respectful to them. And if he found injustice being done to anyone, then he would like to photograph it and bring that topic to light.

Unlike Henri Cartier-Bresson, Eugene Smith thought that it was alright to stage photographs. If staging added authenticity of place to an image, then it could be used.

He used to print his photographs a number of times till he thought that the photograph looked fine to him. He always wanted to control the final image in post-processing. While Henri Cartier-Bresson did not post-process his images. He would get a trusted printer to do his work. He was more interested in photography.

He was never concerned about his finances, fame and recognition. He just wanted to do his job as best as he could.

(Lessons W Eugene Smith taught me about photography, 2013)

He also worked as a photojournalist war correspondent for Flying Magazine from 1943-44 and one year after that for Life magazine. He followed the American offensive against Japan when he got severely injured. He had to undergo surgeries for the next two years.

After recovering, he focused on making a number of photo essays that went on to become very popular.

His largest photo essay is of 1975 Minamata village in Japan. The entire fishing villages faced huge troubles due to mercury dumping be a chemical company.

(Howard Greenberg Gallery, 2018)

JAPAN. Minamata. Iwazo FUNABA’s crippled hand, a victim of the disease. 1971.

JAPAN. Minamata. Iwazo FUNABA’s crippled hands. She is a victim of the Minamata disease. 1971.

JAPAN. Minamata. Takak ISAYAMA, a 12 year old fetal (congenital) victim of the Minamata Disease, with her mother. 1971.

(Magnum Photos, 2014)

Some think that Eugene Smith was very hard on himself and sacrificed his health to concentrate on his career. He said that photography is everything for him and rest of the things do not matter that much. This lead to him passing away at the early age of 59 due to a heart stroke. He left behind $18 in his bank account and tonnes of photographs which continue to inspire photographers to this day.

(W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund, 2004-2017)

4. Sebastiao Salgado

Sebastiao Salgado was born on February 8, 1944, in Aimorés, Brazil. A region with no access to a good education, which made him travel about 180 kilometres until Vitoria, for schooling. Salgado attended one of the best universities in Sao Paulo and got his MA in Economy. He also got married to Lelia Wanick and had two children with her. Today he is an award-winning photographer known by his arresting documentation of communities around the world.

Salgado has a monochromatic style, he believes that it forces his viewers to focus on the pictures’ topic, other than colours. His style combines complexity with a high sense of drama, and his work is dedicated to awareness of conditions of both wildlife and humans.  Salgado’s photography has often focused on the effects of hardship, poverty and oppression on people of various cultures, and with the effects of industrialization on the natural landscape. Inspired by the photojournalism of Lewis Hine, W. Eugene Smith and Walker Evans, Salgado has tackled subjects like famine, poverty and social inequality in black-and-white photos that are unsparing yet often beautiful.

Salgado has earned fame for his stark photos of people coping with the effects of poverty, famine, industrialization and political oppression. He has received numerous awards for his photojournalism and has twice been named Photographer of the Year by the International Center of Photography. He and his wife founded the photographic agency, Amazonas Images and co-founded the environmental education centre, Institutio Terra that works on the restoration of Brazilian rainforests.

“My pictures gave me 10 times more pleasure than the reports I was working on. To be a photographer was, for me, an incredible way to express myself, an incredible way to the see the world from another point.” (Sebastiao Salgado)

– What’s the better journalistic approach?

It is true that the path of these four artists was not easy and all of them are inspiring, creative and good examples of photojournalism photographers. They wanted to tell people a story and they did it very well. Despite all that, we came up to a conclusion that Andre Kertesz and Henri Cartier-Bresson’s way of working is better. They follow the code of ethics in journalism, and their pictures are exactly what the real moment was, no changes, the real life and the real fact.

References:

Albers, P. (2015, March 27). André Kertész. Retrieved April 1, 2018, from https://www.britannica.com/biography/Andre-Kertesz

BIOGRAPHY (2014, April 02). Sebastiao Salgado. Retrieved April 03, 2018, from https://www.biography.com/people/sebastião-salgado-40046\

Course Notes Module 10. “Presenting the moment: Eugene Smith and Sebastiao Salgado” (2018).

Course Notes Module 9. “Capturing the moment: Kertesz and Cartier-Bresson” (2018).

Getty Museum. (n.d.). André Kertész. Retrieved April 1, 2018, from http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/1847/andr-kertsz-american-born-hungary-1894-1985/

HCB foundation . (n.d.). Biography. Retrieved from henricartierbresson HCB foundation : http://www.henricartierbresson.org/en/hcb/biography/

Howard Greenberg Gallery. (2018). W Eugene Smith. Retrieved from Howard Greenberg Gallery: http://www.howardgreenberg.com/artists/w-eugene-smith

Kim. E. (2015, March 02). 5 Lessons Sebastião Salgado Has Taught Me About Street Photography Retrieved April 1, 2018, from http://erickimphotography.com/blog/2015/03/02/5-lessons-sebastiao-salgado-has-taught-me-about-street-photography/

Lessons W Eugene Smith taught me about photography. (2013, May 13). Retrieved from Eric Kim Photography: http://erickimphotography.com/blog/2013/05/13/7-lessons-w-eugene-smith-has-taught-me-about-street-photography/

Magnum Photos. (2014). Henri Cartier- Bresson: Portfolio. Retrieved from Magnum Photos: https://pro.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&ALID=2K7O3R14TE52#/SearchResult&ALID=2K7O3R14TE52&VBID=2K1HZS2RBPID4&POPUPIID=2S5RYD1EZGYV&POPUPPN=50

Magnum Photos. (2014). Portfolio- Japan.1971.Minamata vs. the Chisso Corporation W. Eugene Smith. Retrieved from Magnum Photos : https://pro.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&ALID=2TYRYDDWZXTR#/SearchResult&ALID=2TYRYDDWZXTR&VBID=2K1HZS2O2M5AO&POPUPIID=2S5RYDY592XK&POPUPPN=17

Salgado, S. (1990). In Galeano E. H., Ritchin F. and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. (Eds.), An uncertain grace. New York, N.Y.: Aperture Foundation.

The Art of Photography. (2015, May 14). Sebastião Salgado Photographer (Brazilian). Retrieved April 1, 2018, from http://theartofphotography.tv/photographers/salgado/

W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund. (2004-2017). W. Eugene Smith legacy. Retrieved from W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund: http://smithfund.org/smith-legacy

Kertesz and Cartier-Bresson versus Smith and Salgado Module 10: Kertesz and Cartier-Bresson versus Smith and Salgado Compare the work of Andre Kertesz and Henri Cartier-Bresson versus the work of Eugene Smith and Sebastião Salgado.

[paulsnichols]

Favorite EPs and Albums of 2017

I like music. I know it makes me a dinosaur, but still love buying CDs and paying money to download albums. Something about owning the music makes it sound different to me. It becomes part of me, like I invested money into it. This is why I don’t end up listening to everything because if I buy and album, I will make for damn sure that I will like it for the most part. Let’s get into it. The EPs are not ranked and the albums are ranked. Just because the albums are ranked, don’t read too much into it. I liked all of these albums, including the Honorable Mentions. If I didn’t like something it wouldn’t be mentioned at all.

EPs

Skepta Vicious EP - Skepta comes through with a handful of new, great rap songs. He’s really good at rap music.

Kamasi Washington Harmony of Difference - Kamasi Washington is not capable of making music that is less than grand. I really considered putting this in the albums rankings, but he calls an EP, so it’s an EP.

Yaeji EP & EP2 - She’s doing something really interesting with electronic music. She’s gearing up to have a big 2018.

Mr. Muthafuckin eXquire Brainiac - I’ve liked eXquire for a long time, but I feel like this is the first project he put out that has really resonated with me in its entirety. Probably because it’s just 5 songs. Hope he puts out a full length soon.

Aesop Rock & Homeboy Sandman Triple Fat Lice - Speaking of people who I hope put out a full length, Aes and BoySand have now dropped three great EPs in three years. If they put out a full length, I will be a very happy man.

Swet Shop Boys Sufi La -  Another great rap duo. Some really great rap songs on this one here.

Albums

Honorable Mentions:

Sampha Process

Danny Watts Black Boy Meets World

Gabriel Garzon-Montano Jardin

Preservation Hall Jazz Band So It Is

DJ Sports Modern Species

Equiknoxx Colon Man (Just got around to listening to this a few days ago. Also, I learned about it from a different year-end list. That’s against the rules)

20. St. Vincent Masseduction

19. Thundercat Drunk

18. T.Y.E 32

Shout out to Jeff Weiss and Passion of the Weiss for signing this guy and making me aware of him. He’s a really talented rapper who seems like he has a great career ahead of him.

17. Big Boi Boomiverse

16. HAIM Something To Tell You

15. Jay-Z 4:44

It’s gotta be weird for Jay to hear people say “Wow, this is actually pretty good!” in response to this album. But he goes to therapy now, so he’s probably fine.

14. Aimee Mann Mental Illness

Aimee Mann’s music has been a big part of my life this year, especially right after I graduated from college. Sometimes a hint of melancholy can be good.

13. Wiki No Mountains in Manhattan

12.  Kendrick Lamar DAMN.

Hey look, a Kendrick album made it onto my year end list! Now, if you know me at all, you know that, even though I like Kendrick, I’ve never been as big on his albums as everyone else. I always enjoyed Kendrick most when he was just rapping his ass off on dope rap beats and he actually does that for a good portion of this album. So congrats Kendrick for making it onto my coveted list.

11. Homeboy Sandman Veins

Homeboy Sandman is one of my favorite rappers of all time and as long as he is putting out projects of him just rapping extremely well over nice beats, I will listen.

10. Karriem Riggins Headnod Suite

I always feel like beat tapes don’t always get enough love on year end lists. I was bumping this very heavy throughout the spring semester of my last year of college. Long live the beat tape!

9. Vulfpeck Mr. Finish Line

8. Neil Cicierega Mouth Moods

These mash up albums are some of my favorite things in the world. Neil is such a skilled mash up artist and mixes that will very funny and clever concepts and jokes. This came out in January and it definitely got my through the inauguration. I could write an essay about how genius these mash up albums are.

7. Vince Staples Big Fish Theory 

6. Jonwayne Rap Album 2

I think Jonwayne said on Twitter once that he considered himself a writer who expresses himself through rap music. Usually I would hate a quote like that and consider it very pretentious. But, in his case, it actually makes sense. This is an incredibly personal and raw album that does remind me of some singer-songwriter types. But don’t get me wrong either, he got bars too.

5. milo Who Told You To Think??!!?!?!?!

There are so many great lines on this album. Here are two favorites: “Rap reminds me of the Apple Store / too many geeks selling trinkets in uniform”  “Fuck your notepad, write a poem with a tool kit”. He also says a lot of stuff I don’t understand, which is fine. I still enjoy it.

4. Kelela Take Me Apart

I don’t think I had listened to any music by Kelela prior to this year and it’s obvious that I’ve been fucking up because she amazing. Her music sounds like if Aaliyah was still alive and spent a lot of time listening to UK garage. Her voice is incredible and powerful and the surrounding music creates such a mood. Very glad I started listening to her this year.

3. Jlin Black Origami

Another person who I had heard of, but didn’t really start listening to until this year was Jlin, who hails from Indiana of all places. This is technically electronic music, but much of it sounds so organic, like it could be recreated with instruments and not lose that much. I also appreciate that very few of the songs are in 4/4 time but are still jams. Salute.

2. Tyler, The Creator Flower Boy

Prior to hearing the singles from this album, I honestly thought I might have lost all of my interest in Tyler. I wasn’t really feeling the singles from Cherry Bomb and never even ended up listening to that album. After that album came and went, he kind of disappeared. In 2016, he only put out two verses: a freestyle over Kanye’s “Freestlye 4″ and a guest verse on A$AP Mob’s “Telephone Calls”. Both were fire. That said, I still wasn’t expecting anything from this album. Then I heard “Who Dat Boy”. Then “911/Mr. Lonely”. Then “Boredom”. Then “I Ain’t Got Time!”. Then I bought the album and, well goddamn it, the man created an incredible piece of work. His production game is top level, he rapping has never been better, and he even figured out how to carry a tune. It’s nice to see dude mature and grow into himself. I hope to hear what he cooks up in the future.

1. Open Mike Eagle Brick Body Kids Still Daydream

Open Mike Eagle is my favorite rapper these days. He’s smart, cool, funny, and can rap extremely well. Not only does he rap extremely well, but he expands the definition of what “rapping very well” is. He manages to be melodic without losing any dexterity and doesn’t just have punchlines, but observations and turns of phrase that make my fucking head spin. Not to mention that he has some of the most original and thought through song concepts that I’ve ever heard. Though I’m usually not big on concept albums, BBKSD kind of is one. It revolves around the Robert Taylor homes, a housing project on the south side of Chicago, where his aunt, cousins, and grandmother stayed. It was demolished some years ago and there has yet to be anything that has been built in the space that it once occupied. He talks about how insane it is to just displace hundreds of families, just because you think the buildings are an eyesore or something. He says on “My Auntie’s Building”: 

“They blew up my auntie’s building Put out her great grandchildren Who else in America Deserves to have that feeling Where else in America Will they blow up yo village”

He makes a good point. Tearing down those buildings is like tearing up those families and the decision was made with such little regard for their lives. This is heavy stuff, but he also touches on good memories growing up in the hood and takes a humorous approach of looking at toxic masculinity. Have I made it clear how much I enjoy this album? I think so. Go pick it up or listen to it on your favorite neighborhood streaming service. Do the same for everything on this list, I have pretty good taste.

Special Recognition:

Run The Jewels Run The Jewels 3

Dropping an album on Christmas is in that awkward space where most people have already done their year end lists, so it didn’t get the love it deserved on the 2016 lists. Some places put it on their 2017 lists, but I don’t like that and I think they didn’t give it its proper due in terms of placement because it didn’t really come out this year, so it wasn’t in the conversation. I’m making room to acknowledge it here in its own special place because it’s an amazing album. I had the opportunity to see them live for the 3rd time this past year, and it was great, as expected. Peace to RTJ.

#2017 #2017 albums #best of 2017

[lovemesomesurveys]

(1) Can you solve quadratic equation I had to look up the formula for that again, but I think I probably could. It’s just plugging in the numbers.

(2) Does it annoy you when you have to keep sharpening a pencil because the lead keeps breaking? That is annoying. That’s why I used mechanical pencils. However, I come across that issue while I’m coloring because I use colored pencils.

(3) Do you like the smell of nail polish? Noooo. The smell of nail polish, sharpies, shoe cleaner, nail polish remover, and strong smells like that give me a headache. Too much air freshener or perfume does the same thing.

(4) Do you think that downloading music illegally is immoral? I don’t think it’s a moral issue. I see the issue with it, though. That being said, I am totally guilty of doing it back in the day. :X

(5) Have you ever had to have stitches? Yes. Several times.

(6) Have you ever broken a bone? Yes.

(7) When was the last time you had to study for a test? Not since like... fall semester 2014.

8) Are you a part of any societies? No.

(9) Do you like cardigans? Yes.

(10) Do you think there was anything wrong with Miley Cyrus’s Vanity Fair appearance? I don’t recall that event.

(11) What is your city/state known for (eg. Paris; Eiffel Tower, fashion etc.)? My city is known for its high crime, isn’t that great? When people think of my state; though, they think about Hollywood and celebrities and beaches. They think of that glamorous life. It’s not all like that, though. Trust me.

(12) What is your favourite 80’s film? Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.

(13) Have you ever been paid to take a survey? Nope.

(14) How often do you buy a new item of clothing? I don’t know, it varies.

(15) What do you do with your old clothes (chuck them out, donate them, sell them, give them to people you know)? I have an issue of hoarding them even if I don’t wear them anymore. It gets to a point where I have to just force myself to get rid of stuff because I don’t have any more room and oddly enough, I don’t like clutter. I call myself a closet hoarder because on the surface my room is clean. You don’t see all the stuff. Behind the closet doors; however, it’s a whole other story. And packed away in the garage, ha. Anyway, when I do get rid of things I donate them to Goodwill.

(16) Would you ever marry someone you didn’t truly love for a different motive (money etc.)? No.

(17) Do you want to get a(nother) tattoo? I have wanted to get a small tattoo for years, I’m just too scared to get it done.

(18) How many times a day do you brush your teeth? Once, sometimes twice.

(19) Do you ever question your faith? No.

(20) Would you change your beliefs because the person you loved told you to? Absolutely not.

(21) Do you think anyone has learnt a lesson from the Jewish Holocaust? I would hope so...

(22) Why do you think there are still Holocaust deniers? I honestly don’t know. I will never understand that.

(23) Do you know who wrote the first dictionary? Nope.

(24) How many days a week do you have to attend school/college/work? Zero.

(25) Are you under the age of 18? Ha, no. I am almost ten years beyond that. :O

(26) Do you floss your teeth? Sometimes. I admit that I’m not very good about doing that.

(27) How many cups of coffee do you drink on a daily basis? Three. I have two in the morning, and one after dinner.

(28) Have you ever sworn at a policeman/woman/cop? No.

(29) Would you ever consider prostitution? No.

(29b)What if it was in a state where prostitution is legal and you were in a safe and clean brothel? No.

(30) Do you see your future as more of a maternal/paternal or professional mother/father? I don’t even know if I want to have kids.

(31) How far do you agree that the mother is more important in a child’s life than the father? Both parents are important in a child’s life, and each play an important role.

(32) Would you ever let one of your children enter a beauty pageant? I would let them do so when they were old enough to decide that on their own. If they didn’t like it, they could stop. I would want it to be fun for them if it was something they wanted to do. I wouldn’t push them.

(33) What inspires you? Uh...

(34) When was the last time you attended a wedding? Last April.

(35) If they ask, do you keep the hanger when you buy new clothes? Nope.

(36) Do you get a headache from strobe lighting? I would if I were to be around it. I don’t like flashing lights like that at all. Like, even if someone is flicking a light switch off and on.

(37) Who was the last person to give you a handmade greetings card? My friend, Arynthya.

(38) What do you like most about winter? Christmastime, the weather, everything.

(39) How often do you go on holidays/vacations? Not very often. We have one planned for this summer; though, and I’m really looking forward to it. It’s very much needed.

(40) Who was the last person you laughed with? My mom and dad.

(41) Do you know who Stanley Milgram is? Do you know what he did? Yes. He did the experiment about obedience and authority. He had someone hooked up to a fake machine that would “shock” them for every wrong answer they gave to each question. Volunteers asking the questions were to administer the shocks to this person, completely believing they were actually giving this person these shocks. Milgram would have them up the voltage and see how far each person would go. What they found was that people typically did as they were told, sometimes going to the highest voltage, even if they felt it was wrong or were concerned about the person receiving the shocks. They did so because someone of authority was telling them to do it. They were afraid of the consequences if they didn’t do it. That was done in the 60s, but they’ve done similar studies more recently, and they found the same thing.

(42) How far do you agree with the psychoanalytic theories proposed by Sigmund Freud? He was onto something with some of his theories. However, I do not believe everything we do is because of some conscious or unconscious sexual desire, or that sexual repression is the root of all problems.

(43) Do you see yourself in a long term relationship in the next year? No. It’s hard to imagine myself ever finding that.

(44) What was your favourite pokemon as a child? Jigglypuff.

(45) Do you seek the unique or settle for the ordinary? I guess you could say I settle for the ordinary. I’m very ordinary and average.

(46) Do your parents/did you parents allow you to stay out late? I never tried to when I was younger, so that wasn’t an issue. I didn’t really have a social life until I was in college, in which case I stayed out late now and then, but it wasn’t really my thing. They would be worried about me when I did because of the city we live in, but at that point I was already an adult and they recognized that. I would just check in out of common courtesy. That’s just how we are in my family. I ask my mom to let me know if she’ll be late and have to stay a little later when she has the closing shift at work, or if she’s doing something after work or something. We just worry like that.

(47) When was the last time you had a crush? It started out as a crush in 2015, but it developed into more.

(48) Would you ever donate blood? I can’t due to being anemic.

(49) What was the topic of the last assignment/essay you wrote? I don’t remember.

(50) Does it annoy you when you can’t find the end on a reel of sticky tape? If it takes awhile, or if I do find it but I have trouble peeling it back.

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