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The Wind and the Wild
Emily McCosh
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Nettle
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Alphabet of Thorn
Patricia A. McKillip
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The writing was decent, and it seemed to have good information, but this whole thing reeks of Zionism. Now, I should be clear that I haven't looked into either of the author's political affiliations or the reliability of the text as I was more concerned with passing my class and I was scared of what I might find out (which is why I'm being lenient here and not giving this a one star review) but this still feels very icky to me. They kept praising Israel at random times with no mention of any of the atrocities Israel is committing right now. And they didn't just leave out that Israel is committing a genocide, but they made the claim that HAMAS is committing a genocide on ISRAEL, which is ridiculous to anyone who’s read even half a news article on the situation. Reading that has made it hard for me to trust the rest of what they had to say, even if there were no outright lies (again, I haven't fact-checked); the omission of key information is dishonest, and I really don't appreciate seeing it in an academic textbook I paid over $90 to rent a DIGITAL version of.
Post from the Our Social World: Introduction to Sociology forum
"Genocide is the systematic effort of one group, usually the dominant group, to destroy a subordinate group by killing them. Examples of race- and ethnicity-based genocide exist throughout history. In the 13th century, Mongols under Temüjin Genghis Khan destroyed entire nations in their path. Christopher Columbus wiped out almost all the native peoples he encountered during his trips to the West Indies. In the 1930s and 1940s, Germany’s Adolf Hitler sent Jews and other non-Aryan groups into concentration camps to be gassed. In Rwanda, in the mid-1990s, members of the Hutu tribe committed mass murders of people from the Tutsi tribe. In 2015, the terrorist group ISIS tried to wipe out the Yazidis, a religious subordinate group, in Iraq. The aim of the terrorist group Hamas is to “obliterate” the state of Israel. These examples illustrate the lethal consequences of racism—one group at the meso level systematically killing off another, often a subordinate group, to gain control and power."
I'm not trying to condone what Hamas did but the scale of that is absolutely NOTHING compared to what Israel is doing in Gaza right now. The fact that they wrote this in their definition of genocide and then completely left out the literal mass murders happening right now (which would be an actually good example) is just unbelievable.
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Our Social World: Introduction to Sociology
Jeanne H. Ballantine
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I'm excited to be done with Zoology 1020: Human Biology!! Maybe I should link to my notes here? I only did chapters 13 through 24 on the computer but it's still 116 pages😵💫 (tho a good chunk of that is quiz questions I wrote down for exam prep)
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Biology of Humans: Concepts, Applications, and Issues
Judith Goodenough
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Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
Lindsay C. Gibson
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The Secret World of Denisovans: The Epic Story of the Ancient Cousins to Sapiens and Neanderthals
Silvana Condemi
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❝Do you have unread books that you intend to read 'someday'? Believe me. 'Someday' never comes.❞
The word 'someday' itself contradicts my ever-growing tbr. Honestly, I have several books I bought a decade ago and I haven't read them yet because of the duties I have, but actually it was just an alibi I made because I've realized how consumptive I was💀
So, yes. Those words frustrate me, yet the other side of me thinks she's being true 🥸
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"There is also concern that the results of genetic tests will not remain private information but instead be used by employers as well as life and health insurers. If you were an employer who had genetic information about prospective employees, would you choose to invest time and money in training a person who carried an allele that increased the risk of cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer’s disease, or alcoholism? As an insurer, would you knowingly cover such a carrier?"
What the actual fuck. "Sorry you have an incurable disease, have fun paying for all the medical expenses without a job, you're not worth the effort of training. xoxo, * corporate America"
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❝Do you have unread books that you intend to read 'someday'? Believe me. 'Someday' never comes.❞
The word 'someday' itself contradicts my ever-growing tbr. Honestly, I have several books I bought a decade ago and I haven't read them yet because of the duties I have, but actually it was just an alibi I made because I've realized how consumptive I was💀
So, yes. Those words frustrate me, yet the other side of me thinks she's being true 🥸