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  1. Nov 2018
    1. That makes this earlier form of white flight even more striking; their new homes didn't necessarily have lower taxes or better school districts, factors that complicated the motivations of later generations of whites.

      OK... so this era of White flight is striking because they were leaving for purely racist motivations. Not because there were also better reasons to move out of the city (lower taxes, better schools).

  2. Oct 2018
    1. Notes

      The original, plundered by Napoleon in 1797 so it is no surprise the reproduction is seen as better than the original which is in the Louvre. When the reproduction was hung in its original setting — Palladio’s Refectory on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore — on 11 September 2007, the critic Dario Gamboni wrote: ‘It seems that many are still wedded to a fixed idea of originality… I would like you to consider that originality is rooted in the trajectory or career of the object — it is not a fixed state of being but a process which changes and deepens with time.’ For Gamboni, the reproduction in the Refectory was a more complete and authentic experience than the painting hanging in the Louvre. Taken from https://www.christies.com/features/Master-of-reproduction-Adam-Lowe-and-Factum-Arte-6776-1.aspx

  3. Feb 2018
    1. Singers

      The recordings in the archive are drawn from the TG4 programmes ‘Abair Amhrán’, ‘Amhrán is Ansa Liom’, and ‘Sean-Nós’, as well as their broadcasting of the singing competitions of the annual An tOireachtas festival. Virtually all singers of unaccompanied song in Irish, practicing at any point over the past 110 years, are included in the archive’s recordings. Representation of different regions of origin, age groups, and themes of song is highly diverse.

  4. Nov 2017
  5. Sep 2017
    1. This is hardly less arbitrarily unjust or patriarchal than the actualsystem of patrilineal inheritance consolidated in the eighteenth century, formingthe backbone of the British economy and its law, and providing the historicalbackground to Jane Austen’s novels

      The connection between the unfair genealogical model of literary and artistic inheritance and patrilineal inheritance laws is interesting here, as several of Jane Austen's novels, especially Sense and Sensibility, are shaped by the deleterious effects of this system upon their characters.

  6. Apr 2017
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  8. Jan 2017
    1. From the ferocity of pig driven to holiness, From the furred ear and the full jowl come The repose of the hung belly, from the purpose

      Levine was raised in a Jewish household, and his father died when he was only 5. The metaphor of the pig can play as an ode to his Jewish upbringing, as the animal's meat is not considered kosher and is abstained from. Furthermore, perhaps Levine is illustrating his father's early death, suggesting it a result of working conditions dangerous yet reserved to Detroit's working class. Are workers only but a means to an end? And under whose control are these workers only but pawns and swine?

    2. Out of creosote, gasoline, drive shafts, wooden dollies

      Consider here, Philip Levine's background). The writer grew up in Detroit, Michigan to a father who owned an auto parts business and a bookseller-mother. Detroit's most recognized moniker is likely that of the Motor City as most of the local economy revolved around the automotive industry in the city's heyday. Levine himself worked at Chevrolet and Cadillac, starting as early as 14. Needless to say, he did not find these jobs the least bit fulfilling.

      As the industry moved towards consolidating business and employing advancing technologies, many of Detroit's people were left in a state of poverty as the city, too, suffered damages as a result of the Riots of 1967.

  9. Nov 2016
  10. Mar 2016
    1. The concept of presearch is an important one for this chapter; Ed-ward’s reliance on Wikipedia and Susan’s reliance on Google are not research crutches, but useful presearch tools

      They should serve as background. Not the actual arguments and support. They have potential to be useful. Don't think of these websites as useless, rather as a way to help start up your brain (get your thoughts rolling)

    2. Wikipedia brings ideas together on a single page as well as provides an accompanying narrative or summary that writers are often looking for during their research, particularly in the early stages of it.

      Can be used as a background source

  11. Jan 2014
  12. Sep 2013
    1. It is useful, in framing laws, not only to study the past history of one's own country, in order to understand which constitution is desirable for it now, but also to have a knowledge of the constitutions of other nations, and so to learn for what kinds of nation the various kinds of constitution are suited.

      "Know [your] song well before [you] start singing" Regarding the breadth and depth of background knowledge needed, generalizing, for each subject.