Jack Dawson… Penniless artist who wins a ticket onto Titanic in 1912, attends a first class dinner, develops a taste for the finer things in life, pockets the Heart of the Ocean, survives the sinking, pawns the diamond, spends the following ten years building his wealth and in 1922 moves to West Egg as Jay Gatsby… Millionaire with a shady past and fear of swimming pools.
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Smoothest move ever
hit this in the club and got all the bitches
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— Susane Colasanti (via sharmaine-xo)
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Trill
That’s always been the most dangerous thing, right? That’s why it was illegal for us to learn to read and write. States particularly tightened the education noose on Blacks after Nat Turner’s Rebellion, out of fear. Even states like Mississippi, which had already had law forbidding slave education, passed a law that required all free Blacks to leave the state, in fear that the free Blacks would teach/incite the slaves.
Whites feared that if their slaves learned to read and write, that they would no longer listen to what they say. They also didn’t want the Black slaves to ever get the right to vote.
However, as we all know, Blacks did gain literacy from a variety of ways, many in secret. It was impossible to keep Blacks from literacy. First, with the comings and goings of slaves on plantations, there was bound to be a few literate slaves on each plantations, particularly big ones. Those literate slaves would often teach the other slaves how to read and write. Also, many teachers began secret schools that taught slaves how to read and write. All of this was, of course, extremely dangerous.
And, if you know your history, you’ll know that the status quo to keep Black people uneducated never changed (and if you don’t know. ask yourself this.. when would that status quo have changed?)
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“The most gangster shit in the world is to know what’s going on”
-IMMORTAL TECHNIQUE
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For those of you who don’t understand archaeology, I have made a diagram.
CASE CLOSED.
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This man, James Verone, robbed a bank for one dollar. Why only one dollar? Because he knew that in prison he could get the medical care he could not afford with his part time salary as a convenience store clerk. He was approved for food stamps, but they did little to help his finances. Between his back problems, carpel tunnel, and arthritis, he simply couldn’t handle the pain any longer.
On June 9th, he sent a letter to his local paper, the Gaston Gazette, that stated: “When you receive this a bank robbery will have been committed by me. this robbery is being committed by me for one dollar. I am of sound mind but not so much sound body.”
He then took a cab to the RBC Bank, and handed the teller a note asking for one dollar and medical attention. He quietly took a seat in the lobby and waited for police to arrive.
Since Verone only stole one dollar, he was only charged with larceny. His bail, which he doesn’t plan to pay is set at $2,000, reduced from the normal $100,000. He’s scheduled to see a doctor this Friday, and hopes to get foot surgery, back surgery and to have a protrusion on his check treated.
To me, this is the perfect example of how disturbingly corrupt and unjust our health care system has become under HMO’s. For this man, or any person for that matter, feels that he needs to be imprisoned just to see a doctor, is ridiculous.
This is exactly what I hate about America. Why is it that you can buy an entire house with money you don’t have, but still can’t apply for health care if you don’t meet the requirements? That’s messed up.
Healthcare is ridiculously expensive. I sit around all day and bill people for it. It’s such a business it’s unbelievable.
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Go with the flow.
