Word: jim
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...raised in Missouri in the 1830s and 1840s. Of course he was racist - at least for some of his life. And so is Huckleberry Finn, which is part of what makes the book so brilliant. The reader, through Huck, comes to see how absurd racism is as Jim is fully humanized on their trip down the river together. Twain's point is that racism is socially conditioned and is contrary to the natural inclinations of the human heart. Huck defies the laws and customs of his people and acts with his individual conscience, which is what makes him such...
...raised in Missouri in the 1830s and 1840s. Of course he was racist--at least for part of his life. And so is Huckleberry Finn, which is part of what makes the book so brilliant. The reader, through Huck, comes to see how absurd racism is, as Jim is fully humanized on their trip down the river together. Twain's point is that racism is socially conditioned and is contrary to the natural inclinations of the human heart. Huck defies the laws and customs of his people and acts with his individual conscience, which is what makes him such...
...Republicans when Bush took office in January 2001. The Democratic leader, Tom Daschle, knew that all he needed to take control of the chamber was the defection of one Republican. Daschle had three targets, all of whom were finding themselves increasingly alienated from and isolated within the G.O.P.: Jim Jeffords of Vermont, Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island and John McCain of Arizona...
...ambivalent to their own musical roots even now," he says, "it seems like it belongs to the past backwardness." His Ethiopiques project has been slowly building a following among western audiences. So far there have been 23 CDs as well as an award-winning Very Best of ... album while Jim Jarmusch used a couple of Mulatu Astatqé songs to great "What IS that?" effect on the soundtrack of his film Broken Flowers. Will this new series of concerts heralds a Buena Vista Social Club kind of renaissance for Ethiopian music? Perhaps. But just as important, says Falceto, is that...
...industry begun the implementation of this recommendation in March 1995," when the NTSB originally made the request, said NTSB chairman Jim Hall at the end of the following month, "most Boeing 737s would have been retrofitted with an acceptable, short-term, improved recording capability by this time. The lack of FAA action to date is unacceptable...