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How White Politicians Drag Black People to Win Elections

Southern white voters from the South, furious that Democrats were making them go to school, eat and work jobs with Black people, bolted the party and – presto! – the modern Republican Party was born. While white Republicans were the primary beneficiaries of this transformation, other politicians also took note of the power that could be gained in tarring Black people.

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“Nothing is more natural than an expanding mind. If the Universe is always expanding, we, as an integral part of the Whole, are also in growing evolution. Release the ties of prejudice, open your mind and your heart to all the wisdom and beauty that the “new” presents you. Allow yourself to believe in the future, living the present with all the clarity and dedication possible.”

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The Different Types of Bags Used in Packaging

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Packaging is an essential part of the distribution and shipping process for many products. It helps protect and preserve items during transportation and can enhance their appearance. Bags are commonly used as a form of packaging.

You can, for instance, obtain cellophane bags in wholesale quantities to satisfy your product and customers’ demands. It makes no sense to have your product designs and choices sorted to then neglect the packaging part.

The correct choice of packaging not only protects a product sufficiently but will also help with marketing too. It is important that the packaging is what the customer might expect in terms of its protective qualities and also pleasing to the eye in many cases. The packaging we select should be a combination of expectation, protection, and appeal.

To return to the matter of bags being used to satisfy packaging needs, we should consider the different types in making…

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US Tax Policy Creates Poverty: Let’s Listen to Mr. Desmond

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

   “Once we were slaves…”
-The Passover Haggadah
      With Passover approaching, and thoughts turning to the traditional words of the Pesach Seder, we recall how Judeo-Christian tradition commands kindness to the stranger, in memory of having been strangers, and slaves in a strange land.  Yet, these words seem to have been forgotten by US tax code and other policy makers with regard to those who seem strange to the upper income and wealthy members of American society.  Even the upper and middle classes are not immune to seeing the poor as strangers, unworthy of help.
      I never, when I was a homeowner taking that mortgage deduction, thought of it as a government tax break, government offered help, in fact, for me, a middle-class American, but Desmond points out that many of the usual tax deductions we take as home owners, or deducting business expenses…

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Marii Freire

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Escrever para mim, é como o ato de respirar: necessário.

Aos amigos que conhecem e compartilham das minhas ideias, eu fico muito feliz. E digo mais, ” ao longo dos anos, vamos formando uma grande família, e com ideias bastantes diversificadas, ricas e necessárias para disseminar informação e conhecimento pelo mundo. Tudo começa pequeno, mas somando ao trabalho de outro, e outro e muitos outros… crescemos numa forma gigantesca. Obrigada, aos que aqui passam e deixam um pouco do seu carinho. Aos que ainda não conhecem, o blog: Pensamentos.me, por gentileza, venham. Vocês são importantes!

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Marii Freire

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Às vezes a vida escaneia qualquer sensação, dando-nos o leve preenchimento de nossas necessidades básicas- amor, segurança e satisfação. Cuidado, nem sempre é isso, mas por estamos vulneráveis, nos sentimos confortáveis em qualquer repouso que libere essas sensações. Na verdade, o que precisamos é ter boa saúde à medida em que nos sentimos fortes e realizados. É esse detalhe que preenche as nossas necessidades humanas.

Marii Freire

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Cecília Meireles

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” (O tempo é indelével,

mas não há mais nada.

Em cinza adormece

a festa de néctar,

o assomo celeste

do país da Arcádia,

no partido leque…)

Cecília Meireles. Romance XX ou Do país da Arcádia

MEIRELES, Cecília. Romanceiro da Inconfidência. Organização: André Seffrin. 13. ed. Global. São Paulo, 2015

Marii Freire

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