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These days i am obsessed with trees .Listen to me when I tell you with the proper understanding of recursion tree becomes easy really really easy . Tree is one of the most commonly used data structure for solving computer science problems .
We are going to solve all commonly asked interview problems based on tree this... | ['Binary Tree', 'Programming', 'Coding Interviews'] |
Firstly, Congratulations! If you’re reading this it means you have been invited for an interview with OAK’S LAB. So now you’re probably asking yourself, what’s next, what are we looking for and what have you got to look forward to?
Well, we’ve got you covered, here is everything you need to know to navigate your way t... | ['Hiring', 'Prague', 'Startup', 'Interview', 'Coding Interviews'] |
The next part of the method requires us to access the individual keys and values of each hash within the :birthday_count array. If we were able to pull out the initial information we wanted with birthdays[:birthday_count], how could we go about pulling the :month, :type and :factor keys? Try the following separately:
... | ['Ruby', 'Coding Challenge', 'Coding Interviews'] |
I got you!
Problem:
Given an integer array nums , return true if any value appears at least twice in the array, and return false if every element is distinct.
Example 1:
Input: nums = [1,2,3,1]
Output: true
Example 2:
Input: nums = [1,2,3,4]
Output: false
Example 3:
Input: nums = [1,1,1,3,3,4,3,2,4,2]
Output... | ['Python', 'Leetcode', 'Algorithms', 'Interview', 'Coding Interviews'] |
Legendre’s Formula
There is a theorem in number theory known as Legendre’s Formula. It states that if N is a positive integer and p is a prime number, then the highest power of p that divides N! is given by the following formula
Translating math to english this reads “The highest power of p that divides N! is the inf... | ['Computer Science', 'Number Theory', 'Mathematics', 'Leetcode', 'Coding Interviews'] |
I got you!
Problem:
Given an array nums containing n distinct numbers in the range [0, n] , return the only number in the range that is missing from the array.
Follow up: Could you implement a solution using only O(1) extra space complexity and O(n) runtime complexity?
Example 1:
Input: nums = [3,0,1]
Output: 2
... | ['Python', 'Leetcode', 'Algorithms', 'Interview', 'Coding Interviews'] |
Given n non-negative integers a1, a2, ..., an , where each represents a point at coordinate (i, ai) . n vertical lines are drawn such that the two endpoints of the line i is at (i, ai) and (i, 0) . Find two lines, which, together with the x-axis forms a container, such that the container contains the most water.
Examp... | ['Coding', 'JavaScript', 'Leetcode', 'Coding Interviews'] |
Given n non-negative integers a1, a2, ..., an , where each represents a point at coordinate (i, ai) . n vertical lines are drawn such that the two endpoints of the line i is at (i, ai) and (i, 0) . Find two lines, which, together with the x-axis forms a container, such that the container contains the most water.
Examp... | ['Leetcode', 'JavaScript', 'Coding', 'Coding Interviews'] |
The Hardest Coding Interview Questions Ever
I looked at over 1000 coding interview questions and found the hardest questions as follows by tech giants.
Question 01
There exists a staircase with N steps, and you can climb up either 1 or 2 steps at a time. Given N, write a function that returns the number of unique wa... | ['Quiz', 'Algorithms', 'Programming', 'Technology', 'Coding Interviews'] |
If you mention the tech interview process to a room of software engineers, many will speak out against common interviewing practices. A lot of the argument comes from the reasoning that solving algorithms on a whiteboard doesn’t actually represent, or translate to the day to day tasks of a software engineer. For the sa... | ['Software Development', 'Google', 'Leetcode', 'Interview', 'Coding Interviews'] |
First Round — Coding Round
Duration — 90 minutes
In this round, we were given three questions of medium level to solve on the platform Codility. The major twist is that only 1 or 2 test cases will be visible to you and the rest will be hidden. So, you really need to think and cover all the edge cases. There was no ne... | ['Internship Experience', 'Internships', 'American Express', 'Coding Interviews'] |
I know how it feels to be trapped at home with your abuser susie beever Feb 18·6 min read
Anyone can end up in a toxic relationship — and it’s terrifying
Picture: Canva
As a journalist, I’ve written countless stories about domestic violence, sexual abuse and men who abuse positions of power and trust. One of the gol... | ['Mental Health', 'Feminism', 'Domestic Violence', 'Domestic Abuse', 'Relationships'] |
I was a 30-year-old mother of three young children. I volunteered in their classrooms and with the local PTA. I appeared to be just a normal member of society, but things were much different behind closed doors. Ultimately, my husband was arrested for domestic violence and due to his isolating tactics and relentless co... | ['Rape', 'Sex Trafficking', 'Survivor', 'Domestic Abuse', 'Human Trafficking'] |
By Riya Soni January 11, 2021
Justice for Tanvi Dayal — Victim of domestic violence
This is the perilous incident of Domestic Violence in National Capital- Delhi, Domestic Violence is still a crucial issue in all over the world. Domestic Violence is one such reality, oppressing millions of women in India & around the... | ['Women', 'Feminism', 'India', 'Domestic Abuse', 'Blog'] |
Until a few years ago, I always thought that domestic violence was something that happened in rural, run-down trailer parks; conjuring vague images of men in wife beaters (no pun intended) with a bottle of gin in one hand and the other hand swinging punches. I suppose that’s how I found my pajama-clad self standing in ... | ['Domestic Violence', 'Divorce', 'Violence', 'Domestic Abuse', 'Autism'] |
Lockdown and Abuse: Not every house is a safe space
For many people, their house is a safe haven. Away from stress, the outside world and, most importantly at the moment, the risk of coronavirus. We see countless posts and articles encouraging us to make our house a home, that it should be where we are most comfortabl... | ['Intimate Partner Abuse', 'Domestic Violence', 'Domestic Abuse', 'Intimate Partner Violence', 'Wewomen'] |
I woke up with heavy eyes this morning. I had another nightmare about the green-colored house I was abused in. Thank God it wasn’t real.
In my dream, I was paralyzed from the waist down. I’m laying on the old wooden floor in the entryway into the house. I stare through the porch windows and could see the dark gray clo... | ['Domestic Violence', 'Domestic Abuse', 'Trauma', 'Child Abuse', 'Pain'] |
This question has been haunting me for the past few years. Off and on. When it pops up into my consciousness, I desperately seek out validation from those who knew my past and those who knows me deeply. This time, it was really that bad. I got extremely depressed. I wanted to stay in bed and pretty much did when I was ... | ['Domestic Violence', 'Domestic Abuse', 'Survival', 'God', 'Trigger Warning'] |
After an almost two year legal battle in an attempt to divorce my ex where he continues to remain self repped, I am worse off than when my journey began.
I mistakenly put my faith in the legal system because I believed that they would be my advocate. I desperately needed one because my ex is so good at wearing me down... | ['Divorce', 'Domestic Abuse', 'Family Law', 'Single Moms', 'Financial Abuse'] |
“When a psychologically vulnerable person views the spouse’s desertion as a total, devastating attack, they may develop paranoid ideas of betrayal, exploitation, and conspiracy.”(1)
(Unsplash.com)
It’s shattering to realize the partner of your dreams isn’t who you thought he was — or at least not all of the time. Whe... | ['Smear Campaigns', 'Domestic Violence', 'Domestic Abuse', 'Intimate Partner Violence', 'Narcissistic Abuse'] |
Photo by Kimberley Dowson
The Closet
I can hear you breathing.
And those callous giggles and whispers are at my expense.
It’s dark in here and I want out so why won’t you let me?
I can feel the weight of your body pressing up against the door.
I would kick and scream like hell, but I know it’s useless.
I’m no ma... | ['Poetry', 'Poetry On Medium', 'Domestic Abuse', 'Domestic Abuse Survivor', 'Thriller'] |
The thought of life in the Gloucestershire countryside is very much romanticised by many outsiders, who immediately think of quaint cottages, sprawling farmland, and fresh air.
And whilst one can find many of these things in our county, beneath this widely-accepted fantasy lies a dark truth that suffocates just over a... | ['Domestic Abuse', 'Gloucestershire', 'Coronavirus'] |
Photo by MK Hamilton on Unsplash
I’ve struggled to write lately, I’ve struggled to find the time. I have a new job with a lot of commuting involved, I volunteer and ‘tired’ is now my permanent state of being. It’s worth it because in all of these things I’ve undertaken, and all of the changes that I’ve made; I am able... | ['Survivor', 'Domestic Violence', 'Domestic Abuse', 'Time', 'Sexual Assault'] |
The Strong Black Woman is a myth, a trope with deep roots in slavery. Slave masters used it to justify splitting up families, raping, and beating women, and then forcing them to labor for this nation. Those women had no choice. Today the phrase is used as a way to dehumanize us and to comfort the person offering the ba... | ['Mental Health', 'Slavery', 'Strong Black Woman', 'Domestic Abuse', 'Racism'] |
What Do Domestic Abusers and Chinese Communists Have in Common?
(Surrender, Korean War)
The manipulative techniques of domestic abusers have been well documented not only by psychologists, advocates, and researchers, but by countless survivors. In articles, books, studies, videos and more, the same patterns keep popp... | ['Domestic Terrorism', 'Coercive Control', 'Domestic Violence', 'Domestic Abuse', 'Manipulation'] |
We say we want men to be honest & vulnerable… so why do we punish them when they are?
Photo by Amirr Zolfaqari on Unsplash
(TW: mentions of domestic abuse & rape)
Ask heterosexual women what qualities they most desire in a man, and the list will probably include traits such as kindness, honesty, emotional sensitivit... | ['Malignant Narcissism', 'Male Victims', 'Domestic Abuse', 'Malignant', 'Narcissism'] |
A World Made From Air Not Oil
The problem isn’t carbon itself, it’s that we’re using ancient carbon to power our modern world, which leads to a climate-warming imbalance of CO₂ in the atmosphere. Fossil fuels are the source of carbon for almost everything around you, from the foam in running shoes, to automobile dashb... | ['Carbon Emissions', 'Sustainable Business', 'Carbon Tech', 'Climate Change', 'Carbon Reduction'] |
Our successful Initial Discord Offering (IDO) was designed to distribute KLIMA tokens across our early Discord community, and we saw over 500 Klimates take part
We will now begin implementing Part 2 of the Fair Launch Strategy by deploying a Liquidity Bootstrapping Pool (LBP) to distribute aKLIMA tokens as widely as p... | ['Carbon Emissions', 'Defi', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Fair Launch'] |
Buying a Bitcoin emits 195x as much CO₂ as buying an iPhone Yann Eves May 2·3 min read
Today a discussion on Discord about NFTs and environmental impact respectfully erupted into a situation XKCD portrays well:
Well, it turns out I was the wrong someone on the internet.
My hypothesis was that CO₂ emissions of crypto... | ['Carbon Emissions', 'Environment', 'Research', 'Technology', 'Crypto'] |
Housekeeping
Exciting times fellow Klimates — we’re now days away from Part 2 of our Fair Launch: our Liquidity Bootstrapping Pool (LBP)
We’re excited to be launching in partnership with the amazing Alchemist community on copperlaunch.com. The exact timeframe is as follows:
Start: 14th September 2021 (3PM UTC)
End:... | ['Carbon Emissions', 'Climate Change', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Defi'] |
What’s a Petrodollar?
All life feeds on life, as Joseph Campbell said, and everything has to come from some energy, somewhere.
As I started to explore this, I realized I had a huge gap in my own understanding of how our financial and monetary system intertwines with the fossil fuel economy, through what is known as t... | ['Carbon Emissions', 'Climate Finance', 'Petrodollar', 'Climate Change', 'Carbon Accounting'] |
What is Klima DAO ‘Initial Discord Offering’?
Our Initial Discord Offering (IDO) is Part 1 of our Fair Launch Strategy, and aims to distribute supply of KLIMA as fairly as possible. By participating, alphaKlimates can secure a bag of KLIMA at a very fair price and in a non-competitive environment.
The funds raised wi... | ['Carbon Emissions', 'Climate Change', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Klimadao', 'Defi'] |
Whilst NGOs, journalists and climate activists often criticise offsetting projects and the companies that invest in them, they rarely offer alternatives or at least not practical ones. To my knowledge, none have yet demonstrated how we can limit global warming within the required timeframe by solely reducing our emissi... | ['Climate Action', 'Carbon Emissions', 'Sustainability', 'Climate Change'] |
Welcome to Earth Week on Nightingale, the journal of the Data Visualization Society. In honor of Earth Day on April 22, we are publishing earth-related data-visualization content all week. Data viz can enhance our appreciation of the planet, illuminate our relationship to it, and call us to action to preserve it. After... | ['Carbon Emissions', 'Programming', 'Earth Day', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization'] |
Part 3: Ownership and Individual Action
Written By: Kimberly Schlaepfer
20% of the world’s population is responsible for 80% of the world’s carbon emissions. Since the industrial revolution the Global North has extracted carbon resources from our planet and burned them to create the robust modernized societies we are... | ['Carbon Emissions', 'Sustainability', 'Energy', 'Clean Energy', 'Climate Change'] |
The Secret Origin of Carbon Wrangler
Sometimes is just hits you over the head. Sometimes, there’s an epiphany.
I came home from the 22nd Conference of the Parties in Marrakesh, where the Paris Accord was ratified. I kissed my wife and declared “I know what I do. I’m a Carbon Wrangler.”
She responded, “What?”
— — -
... | ['Carbon Emissions', 'Energy', 'Climate Change', 'Ccs', 'Co2 Emissions'] |
Eight new technologies that could lead to negative carbon emissions
Combating climate change effectively will take more than simply reducing greenhouse gas emissions. We are going to need to enable negative emissions. Here are eight cutting-edge technologies that are aiming to do that.
1 More forests
The world’s for... | ['Carbon Emissions', 'Carbon Capture', 'Sustainability', 'Climate Change', 'Zero Carbon'] |
A provocative paper, Energy and Policy Considerations for Deep Learning in NLP by Emma Strubell, Ananya Ganesh and Andrew McCallum has been making the rounds recently. While the paper itself is thoughtful and measured, headlines and tweets have been misleading, with titles like “Deep learning models have massive carbon... | ['Carbon Emissions', 'Gpu', 'Deep Learning', 'Carbon Footprint', 'Machine Learning'] |
A personal note — the next Altiorem update will be out soon!
On world environment day I joined more than 700 people for Climate Reality Leader training in Brisbane. Led by Chairman Al Gore, and CEO Ken Berlin, the Climate Reality Leaders program has trained almost 20,000 people who in the first six months of 2019 have... | ['Carbon Emissions', 'Climate Change', 'Leadership', 'Investment'] |
Growing green to clean the air
By Tiernach McDermott — horticulturist at Candide
Take a deep breath… and again… Now contemplate this: air pollution kills around 50,000 people in the UK every year. Urban levels of nitrogen dioxide are so high that the government has been referred to the European Court of Justice.
Whe... | ['Carbon Emissions', 'Pollution', 'Renewable Energy', 'Environment', 'Apps'] |
The greenhouse gas emissions of a plane trip changes depending who you ask
1. You can’t always trust emissions calculations
When you want to compensate for your airplane trip, you need to know how much greenhouse gas has actually been emitted by your trip. If you’re purchasing directly from an airline, they might cal... | ['Carbon Emissions', 'Climate Change', 'Flight', 'Carbon Offset', 'Climate Crisis'] |
With the effects of climate change coming more rapidly than predicted, and global emissions still rising, humankind has reached the point where simply cutting pollution levels won’t be enough to avoid catastrophic impacts. We’ll need to suck carbon directly from the sky. Fortunately, an entirely new arsenal is emerging... | ['Carbon Emissions', 'Climate Change'] |
The climate costs of President Trump’s state visit
Donald Trump’s State visit to the UK this week will see a staggering 2,619 tonnes of carbon dioxide pumped into the atmosphere — the equivalent to running an average home for 970 years.
Yes, that’s almost the equivalent of a millennium’s worth of CO2 emissions from a... | ['Carbon Emissions', 'Global Warming', 'Renewable Energy', 'Climate Change', 'Trump'] |
Carbon Free Commute 2019
Happy Clean Air Day!
Our mission: to get as many Pure Planet people as possible to get to work without burning any carbon.
This isn’t our first go at this, we did the same thing last year. We managed to cover 186 miles carbon free last time out, and are aiming for 250 this year.
We also cha... | ['Carbon Emissions', 'Cycling', 'Renewable Energy', 'Environment', 'Air Pollution'] |
Sponsored Post:
Climate change, which is causing sea levels to develop and making extreme weather more likely, represents a major threat. The best way to address climate change is to drastically reduce our greenhouse gas emissions — mainly methane and carbon dioxide. It is difficult to undo the damage that has already... | ['Carbon Emissions', 'Gas', 'Stock Market', 'Climate Change', 'Stocks'] |
There’s Greater Cost of Deploying AI and ML Models in Production — the AI Carbon Footprint
At the end of last year, we witnessed a story that rattled the tech scene and roused heated discussion around AI and AI ethics. Namely, Timnit Gebru, former Co-lead of Google’s ethical AI team, co-authored a paper that led to he... | ['Carbon Emissions', 'Ai Carbon Footprint', 'Ai Model', 'Energy Consumption', 'Green Ai'] |
One stop shop for data on carbon offsetting.
Carbon offsetting is a model with great potential — it’s one of the few (somewhat) successful systems out there that have been able to put a price on carbon emissions, and encourage polluters to pay. The lack of transparency and the number of projects with questionable trac... | ['Carbon Emissions', 'Innovation', 'Tech For Good', 'Climate Change', 'Carbon Footprint'] |
CarbonDefi, the ONLY cryptocoin that donates 1 Million $ to help reduce carbon footprint. Smart Trading Apr 25·2 min read
The developers of CarbonDefi announced today that they will donate 1 Million $ to different organizations that are fighting against carbon pollution. This is the first crypto in history that will m... | ['Carbon Emissions', 'Carbondefi', 'Investment', 'Carbon Footprint', 'Cryptocurrency'] |
Establishing Preliminary Understanding
There is a great sense of enthusiasm in making advertising as environmentally sustainable as possible. Many leading companies have already made notable commitments in this respect.
Such aspirations are oftentimes misguided by a lack of available relevant information — such as en... | ['Energy Efficiency', 'Sustainability', 'Advertising', 'Carbon Emissions'] |
There are many debates going on about introducing a CO2 tax to become carbon neutral, achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement, and limit global warming to 1.5 ℃.
The big question is obviously: How much should a ton of CO2 cost? And how can the price be updated in the future to reflect a new situation?
Here is a prop... | ['Policy', 'Carbon Emissions', 'Climate Change', 'Economy'] |
This post was written by Kyle Spencer and Ehina Srivastava, whose bios are at the end.
As per the 2021 IPCC report, it is clear that it is no longer sufficient to simply reduce carbon emissions. In order to tackle climate change, we need to rapidly remove carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. ... | ['Carbon Emissions', 'Carbon Capture', 'Carbon Markets', 'Environment', 'Carbon'] |
I have been talking about $CBC and CNES, and I also want to talk about carbon neutrality itself.
If you find it helpful, please forward it so that more people can understand carbon neutrality and make a little contribution to our planet.
More and more companies are participating in carbon neutrality and are beginning... | ['Carbon Neutral', 'Carbon Emissions', 'Carbon Neutrality', 'Carbon', 'Cnes'] |
Jan 6th, Copyright C. Schreck
“If you brought a weapon, it’s time to get your weapon!”
There is a man standing on the windowsill of the Capitol building, screaming, the glass shattered behind him. Squat, husky, bearded, wearing a cowboy hat. He brandishes a crowbar in one hand and a bullhorn in the other. Thousands o... | ['Capitol Riot', 'Trumpism', 'Capitol Building', 'Trump', 'Capitol'] |
Waiting for the American Khrushchev:
By Marina Gorbis, Institute for the Future Executive Director
My mother cried when she heard on the radio that Joseph Stalin passed away. A young, well-educated doctor who loved classical music and regularly recited Heinrich Heine’s poems in German, she was not alone. Millions of ... | ['Trump', 'Cult Of Personality', 'Trumpism'] |
Politics
Where sedition is rewarded
In spite of the now clear threat posed by continued disinformation about the legality of the 2020 election, a majority of House Republicans affirmed their overriding loyalty to President Trump and his political movement by objecting to the certification of electoral college votes f... | ['Capitol Riot', 'Trumpism', 'Republican Party', 'Voter Suppression', 'Demography'] |
Matthew 7:1-5
This is some world class mote-finding, Gregory.
I suppose that if you value corporations as people over people as people,
If you value the wealth of the wealthiest Americans over the lives and livelihoods over the 99% of Americans,
If you think militarism, racism, xenophobia, religious intolerance, di... | ['Americanism', 'Trumpism', 'Patriotism'] |
For the last 5 years, Independence Day has become increasingly problematic.
It’s not the holiday I remember with my family; we would go to the park, have hot dogs and burnt hamburgers (sorry, Dad), chips and way too much soda. Fireworks were rarely part of the evening — sometimes we’d go watch a community event at the... | ['4th Of July', 'Trumpism', 'Fireworks'] |
A recent Internet search of the phrase “Trump and Fascism” turned up 17,600,000 links that included mainstream sources like the New York Times and NBC News. One presented the views of Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright. On the one hand, the concern implied by these inquiries might be dismissed, as we are currently ... | ['Trumpism', 'Globalism', 'Racism', 'Politics', 'Fascism'] |
Author with his beer butt chicken
Y’all call me Bubba. Some years ago — never mind how long precisely — having little or no money, and nothing particular to interest me in Southeast Missouri, I thought I would move away, get an education, get a job, and join former Labor Secretary Robert Reich’s “knowledge workers” fe... | ['Redneck', 'Diversity', 'Trumpism', 'Rural', 'Racism'] |
The Consequences of Misidentifying Western Populism in the 21st Century
-William S. Segerstrom
Abstract
Being born in 1967, under the elementary tutelage of the 1970’s, whereupon we were required to know The Bill of Rights, our state capitals, a basic understanding of why the U.S. entered World War II and what preci... | ['Populism', 'Trumpism', 'Bolsonaro', 'Politics', 'Democracy In America'] |
Lessons Learned
Evangelical Christians anointed Donald Trump as “The Chosen One” signaling that he is on par, or nearly so, with Jesus of Nazareth and possibly even the risen Christ.
Many Evangelicals are also stridently opposed to the Covid-19 vaccine with one church leader commenting that it would just “kill a lot ... | ['Evangelicals', 'Trump', 'Evangelism', 'Trumpism'] |
IT’S THE FOURTH OF JULY WEEKEND IN MAINE. Thanks to vaccines, something like normal life is reemerging across the state. Small towns are holding their traditional parades. Families and friends are gathering again in small and large numbers. Lakes and beaches and parks are full of people. It’s almost the summer we remem... | ['Fourth Of July', 'Democracy', 'Trumpism', 'Reopening'] |
I was recently listening to The Howard Stern Radio Show and Robin Quivers, Stern’s in-booth sidekick for the past four decades, marveled at some of the answers people give on the Family Feud. Often to the most basic of questions, like what do you do before you go to bed, the most off the wall answers can be given:
To ... | ['Perspective', 'Society', 'Satire', 'Trumpism', 'Politics'] |
Trumpians (the party formerly known as Republican) hate it when every qualified voter actually votes Left Wisdom Apr 25·3 min read
Because when everybody that is entitled to vote actually does so, the power-mad dishonest and (yes, I am going there) RACIST party of the great orange monster has very little chance of win... | ['Conspiracy Theories', 'Dishonesty', 'Trumpism', 'Racism', 'Voter Suppression Laws'] |
Governor Gavin Newsom of California has not been recalled. 6 million Californians have told Republicans to go fuck themselves so far (9 million votes have been counted with 65% of precincts reporting.) He won in a landslide — 2–1. 30% voted yes — the same amount of MAGA crazies and unvaccinated conspiracy theorists Ame... | ['Gavin Newsom', 'Trumpism', 'California Recall', 'Larry Elder', 'Democracy'] |
Nothing lost in translation here. The German title fits perfectly with Trump’s repeated trumpeting of pride in his German blood. His bloodless hostile takeover of the the Republican Party is exactly what Germany did to Austria in 1938. Anschluss fits with Trump’s pride in his German “blood”, not heritage, in which he h... | ['Insurrection', 'Capitol Riot', 'Trumpism', 'German', 'Republican Party'] |
A Boy’s Wrestling Match Turns Sexual
Paul Gaudriault/Upsplash.com
My high school fraternity brothers Mike Kerlec and Don Caspary are leaning on Mike’s mom’s new car, a 1966 candy-apple-red Ford Fairlane 390 that’s scary fast even with the A/C on. I know because sometimes he takes us joyriding while we swill quarts of... | ['Coming Of Age', 'Family', 'LGBTQ', 'Memoir', 'Creative Non Fiction'] |
Being Gay is Still a Big Deal
An insight into how the world may be more prejudiced than it seems, and why is it still so hard to come out TillyC Follow Feb 19 · 7 min read
Photo by Isi Parente on Unsplash
I first came out when I was 16, the words “I like girls” were muffled through loud sobs as I sat opposite my ver... | ['Coming Of Age', 'Acceptance', 'Self', 'LGBTQ', 'Sexuality'] |
A Straight Gay Boy Goes to His First Gay Bar
Ana cruz/psplash.com
Heads turned whenever Will Higgins strode into the room; tall, well dressed and utterly lacking in humility. He’d transferred from LSU, and as our Teke fraternity brother, he was automatically welcomed into our chapter. He immediately made his presence... | ['Coming Of Age', 'Gay', 'LGBTQ', 'Memoir', 'Creative Non Fiction'] |
My high school fraternity brother Rossi lived in what we now call a mid-century modern home. Then it was just new and luxurious. We had senior-year gym class together and hung out sometimes in the spring of 1967.
His glamorous mother was usually home. I remember her gliding through high-ceilinged rooms in pastel Capri... | ['Coming Of Age', 'LGBTQ', 'Memoir', 'Creative Non Fiction', 'Sexuality'] |
Reshaping Lesbian Films
Ninety percent of what I thought to be true about the world I learned on a blue corduroy couch in my grandmother’s living room. Every winter we moved the couch closer to the fire and my mother, sister and I would huddle in the heated refuge and watch the only genre of movies I believed existed:... | ['Coming Of Age', 'Queer', 'Film', 'Lesbian', 'Queer Media'] |
A Gay Boy in Waiting Marries a Woman
Andrew Neel/Unsplash.com
It was all so inevitable, even at twenty.
It was what we did in those days. It was happening to everyone. Now we know the divorce rate exceeds fifty percent, so people are more cautious about marrying, but then we were fearless and eager to take the next ... | ['Coming Of Age', 'Gay', 'Marriage', 'LGBTQ', 'Creative Non Fiction'] |
Two Gay College Brothers Lose Each Other
Lemor Zellermayer/Upsplash.com
My high school frat brother Freddie Yoder asked me to join him for rush parties as soon as we registered for college. I probably would have skipped them if he hadn’t. He wanted free beer, but he had a specific fraternity in mind. His sister was t... | ['Coming Of Age', 'Family', 'Coming Out', 'LGBTQ', 'Creative Non Fiction'] |
Middle School Misery: Gay Boys Connect
In November of 1963, as I sat bored and after-lunch-sleepy in fourth period Latin class, our gray-haired, bow-tied, distinguished teacher Mr. Henry walked slowly into our classroom looking dazed and solemn. He softly announced that President Kennedy had been shot. He said newsmen... | ['Coming Of Age', 'Youth', 'Coming Out', 'LGBTQ', 'Creative Non Fiction'] |
I vividly recall a session with a beautiful stranger who described a future version of me so wild and far from my current reality that I made it my mission to find this David Bowie version of me. I fell in love with her.
She, a total stranger, saw in me the grandness and intensity that I could be. She personified the ... | ['Coming Of Age', 'Twenty Something', 'Friends', 'Spirituality'] |
(Pictured: Me at 21 and Me at 30)
It was early in the morning at a McDonalds getting breakfast when I got an email from my 21-year-old self. Present day, I’m 30, but on the last day of living in my university flat, I apparently sent myself an email to the future.
I had used a service called futureme.org. It’s a websi... | ['Coming Of Age', 'Time Travel', 'Comedy', 'Humor', 'Self Discovery'] |
By Hannah Gillihan
With Less than thirty seconds on the clock, we were tied 42–42 with Anglican International School, but it was their ball. Our team was exhausted, just barely pushing out a jog as we spread across the court. The clock was ticking down.
Fifteen…Fourteen…Thirteen.
Anglican International took a quick ... | ['Coming Of Age', 'Israel', 'Personal Narrative', 'Palestine', 'Basketball'] |
Photo by anne-marie robert on Unsplash
The first boy I ever kissed was a jerk. I knew he was a jerk, but I still kissed him. I liked it, he knew I liked it, wanted it even, and he knew I never expected it — that, I think, was the problem. And, still, I was smiling when I walked out of the cab of his truck, my red hai... | ['Coming Of Age', 'Fiction', 'Queer'] |
A Gay/Straight Boy Goes Streaking and Graduates Law School
Marty Melville/Getty Images
As graduation approached in the spring of 1974, a new college craze called “streaking” overtook the nation. Students across the country began running nude through their campuses. A streaker even ran across the stage during The Acad... | ['Coming Of Age', 'Gay', 'LGBTQ', 'Memoir', 'Creative Non Fiction'] |
When I was a teenager in the mid-late 1990s the way things worked in dating was boy is interested in girl, boy asked girl out and girl said a) yes, or b) no. If boy experienced b) he did one of two things: he either dusted himself off and moved on or he dug himself a hole to jump in and dig out of.
Then the 21st centu... | ['Dating Advice', 'Futility', 'Coming Of Age'] |
Christmas approaches before I know it, and Sue invites me to her family’s Christmas Eve party. I’m nervous. I won’t know anyone, so Sue generously suggests I bring another couple. I settle on my fraternity brother Anthony and his girlfriend Joanie whom I’ve known since junior high. She is also from a well-to-do Lakefro... | ['Coming Of Age', 'Equality', 'LGBTQ', 'Memoir', 'Creative Non Fiction'] |
A Black Woman called Tina Bell invented Grunge but I’m only now finding out about it
Why knowing Tina Bell and her forgotten legacy with grunge would have validated my teenaged self’s quest to find herself within a white dominated music scene Tennille Hannah 2 days ago·5 min read
Tina Bell, circa 1983. Photo Credit: ... | ['Coming Of Age', 'Music', 'Grunge', 'Black Women', 'Black Women In Rock'] |
As my husband and I embark on our nightly — middle-aged suburbanites — after-dinner stroll around our neighborhood, we outline a purpose if you will, for the conversation to be had. The conversations cover a wide range from work, to our scheduled events, to admiring the siding on houses to use for our own future re-do,... | ['Coming Of Age', 'Aging', '80s', 'Generation X', 'Pop Culture'] |
Does ‘Booksmart’ Define You?
Photo credit: Shutterstock, modified
By Jon Ochiai
First-time Director Olivia Wilde’s “Booksmart” is hysterical raunch, yet profoundly sweet. In the acutely aware screenplay by Susanna Fogel, Emily Halpen, Sarah Haskins, and Katie Silberman, Olivia wistfully helms the coming of age tale ... | ['Coming Of Age', 'Movie Review', 'Movies', 'Stereotypes', 'Humor'] |
and i’m dating a boy who uses apple music.
accepting the fact that i’m prone to embarrassment in almost every daily activity i indulge in, has been the greatest leap towards maturity i’ve taken in the past 20 years.
seriously.
up till high school, the cool girl persona was well kept. but it didn't work favorably at ... | ['Coming Of Age', 'Dating', 'Spotify Playlist', 'Spotify'] |
By Mira Assaf Kafantaris, Ambereen Dadabhoy, Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, Jessica Parr, and Kerry Sinanan
From the celebratory to the declamatory, there has been a range of responses to Netflix’s much-anticipated Bridgerton series, which was released on December 25, 2020. As academics who research the histories and cul... | ['Period Drama', 'Slavery', 'Race', 'Saidiya Hartman', 'Bridgerton'] |
The Only Place in the World Where Slavery Still Exists
Picture Fatimatou and her daughter Mbarka, former slaves in 2018 (Credits to Seif Kousmate/Hans Lucas)
Freedom has become to be the most important factor within modern society and there are millions of people that work towards sharing the importance of freedom an... | ['Slavery', 'Culture', 'BlackLivesMatter', 'History', 'Racism'] |
I became aware of the human trafficking for the sex exploitation issue in Italy for the first time in 2015 when I moved to Bologna.
I rented an apartment close to Porta San Vitale with a balcony that looked over an alley where three Nigerian women stayed to meet their clients every night. On the other side of the main... | ['Rape', 'Slavery', 'Racism', 'Human Trafficking', 'Sex'] |
The Word “Slave” Came From My People
“Living of East Slavs” by Sergey Ivanov | Public Domain
Slavs are proud people with a rich history spanning 13 centuries. In Slavic languages, slava means “glory.” Slovo means “word.”
And then there is the English word “slave.”
It goes back to the 9th century when Slavs were fre... | ['Slavery', 'Equality', 'History', 'Racism', 'Europe'] |
The Age of Discoveries is perhaps Portugal’s greatest point of pride. If on one hand we admire the journey through the unknown and the conquest of new lands, on the other we ignore or romanticize the dark side of colonialism. In the 15th century, Portugal initiated the transatlantic slave trade, and in a period of 400 ... | ['Portugal', 'Slavery', 'History', 'Racism', 'Politics'] |
Juneteenth: Connect the Dots Between Slavery, Segregation, and America Today With These Insightful Reads Copper Books Follow Jun 17 · 4 min read
Juneteenth marks the federal order to free slaves in Texas on June 19, 1865. Honoring the historic date (which is currently recognized by 45 states and the District of Columb... | ['Slavery', 'Juneteenth', 'Systemic Racism', 'Racism In America', 'Racism'] |
Racial slavery remains an under-theorized and misunderstood condition.
We live in the afterlife of slavery. Two hundred years ago, when the slaves in Haiti rose up, they, of necessity, burned everything:
A French officer asks a slave prisoner: “Why do you burn everything?” “We have a right to burn what we cultivate b... | ['Juneteenth', 'Slavery', 'Haitian Revolution'] |
Hollis Gentry is a genealogy specialist at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History & Culture Library. Following DeNeen Brown’s overview of family separation and slavery in our previous episode, Hollis shares her personal quest to reconnect her family through genealogical research.
Could you tell ... | ['Genealogy', 'Slavery', 'Family Seperation', 'Ancestry', 'Native American Culture'] |
I remember a recent conversation with a white friend where we used the example of a competition between runners; a race. I know that analogies fail at some point but please indulge me.
My white friend and I come from working class backgrounds in the UK, so both of us have an uphill start to our the race. Whereas our m... | ['Slavery', 'Anti Racism', 'Reparations', 'Racism', 'Justice'] |
The African Son of Peter the Great
This portrait was initially believed to be of Gannibal but later proved otherwise — Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Throughout history, many enslaved people became notable personalities one such personality was Abram Petrovich Gannibal. Abram was born in 1696 in modern-day Cameroon thoug... | ['Russia', 'Ottoman Empire', 'Slavery', 'BlackLivesMatter', 'History'] |
“But won’t we lose ownership of the customer if we do this?”
I have lost track of the number of times I’ve heard that comment. Usually from a bank executive who has something like customer or retail in their job title. If I am feeling particularly snarky I’ll respond
“Ownership of people was outlawed by the 13th Amen... | ['Payments', 'Slavery', 'Customer', 'Neobanks', 'Banking'] |
History
The Astonishing Story of the Slave Who Mailed Himself to Freedom
Henry “Box” Brown went on to become a noted abolitionist speaker, a showman, and a magician, but his first trick was undoubtedly his best Denise Shelton Follow Apr 22 · 7 min read
Image by Kent Barton (via https://www.neh.gov/)
The journey fro... | ['Black History', 'Innovation', 'Slavery', 'Problem Solving', 'Freedom'] |
Michele Bachmann has never been one to have a good understanding of history. When she was in Congress, and especially during her 2012 Presidential Campaign, she became known for her many gaffes regarding her understanding of the past of our nation. From telling New Hampshire “You’re the state where the shot was heard a... | ['White Supremacy', 'Whitewashing', 'Slavery', 'Civil War', 'History'] |
33) State of the world — Poverty is Everywhere Roddriver Follow Apr 13 · 10 min read
“Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings” (former South African President, Nelson Mandela)
The world’s population was about 7.8 billion p... | ['Political Economy', 'Neocolonialism', 'Slavery', 'Poverty', 'Gdp'] |
Haitian Revolutionaries Saved the United States From Napoleon.
To paraphrase Abbé Sieyes’ revolutionary pamphlet, “What is the Third Estate?” Americans might ask and answer the following:
What does the United States owe Haiti?
The Nation!
What does it believe is owed?
Nothing.
What should it do for Haiti now?
So... | ['United States', 'Slavery', 'History', 'Napoleon Bonaparte', 'Haiti'] |
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