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I loved, loved, loved this book! A real page turner! Great insight of how “The Help” were treated back in the 60’s.
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Daily Warm Ups for Turns downtime into learning time. Builds vocabulary skills and confidence. Offers word-attack strategies for fearless test-taking. Helps students for standardized tests. …
TheFURminator works great on our Siberian Husky. My wife wishes we had heard of it seven years ago when we rescued her. The service (delivery/condition/promptness) was great!
Litigator s Tax Guide
When I was done brushing my German Shepherd/Chow-Chow the pile of fur was bigger than she was. It makes it really easy to keep up with spring shedding. There is almost no fur in our house anymore, we just give her a quick brush every-other-day and it makes a huge difference.
Guide to Wireless Sensor
A Caucasian friend asked me to write a review for Kathryn Stockett’s best seller, THE HELP. I had read favorable reviews on national best seller lists, yet despite the popularity of Stockett’s first novel, my initial reaction was … disinterest. However, I agreed to write a synopsis and summary opinion because Stockett’s novel was selected for my friend’s book club and she was persistant. Her reasoning was that, because I now live in Mississippi, she wanted me to ‘ask around’ and find out whether the conditions for black domestic help was … “really as bad as ‘all that’” – when asking the opinions of black maids of that era. That is, whether the experiences of black maids as depicted in Stockett’s novel was accurate. The problem was that I didn’t know anyone who was a domestic worker in Mississippi during the sixties. And, frankly I felt ambivalent about the topic. Yet, I went ahead and purchased, THE HELP. Remarkably, while waiting for the book to arrive in the mail, I met an extraordinary 94 year old woman born in Oxford, who used to work for William Faulkner. I asked if I could interview her, and she agreed. I knew she would be a credible source for information about the plight of domestic workers in Mississippi during a volatile period of civil rights activism. Soon after, I received the novel and began reading.
From the very beginning, Stockett’s novel degenerates into an affront to black domestic workers of the sixties era in Mississippi, and an insult to [unskilled] poor black women in general. There were many reasons; some subtle, some obvious. Yet, most appalling and unforgivable was Stockett’s ineptness to capture the southern black vernacular accurately. The way she presents it, the black vernacular becomes both abhorrent and mocking, particularly in that throughout most of the novel, Stockett avoided the use of the southern white vernacular when telling the story in the voice of the two main white characters, ‘Miss’ Skeeter, and ‘Miss’ H
Short Wave Listeners Guide
I simply love my new IPod touch 8 GB. I wish I had ordered the 32 GB because of all the movies, podcasts and other media available for download.
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Had to buy a new scale. My old one had its batteries die and there was no discernible way to open the battery compartment to change it without breaking the darn thing and/or using a jackhammer. Tossed it, looked online for a new one, liked the reviews for this, and bought it.
As mentioned in other reviews, it’s a tad tricky to tap it hard enough and in the “sweet spot” to get it to come on, but once it does, it appears to be very accurate (catching fluctuations before and after meals, drinking water, etc). I can even put my 14 and 35 lb dogs on the scale and it catches slight changes in their weight too. Impressive!
My scale was also missing the batteries–box said they were included, but mine were nowhere to be found. Not a dealbreaker, though. A solid 4 stars!
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