![]() The novel was a read revealing the academic research of the author about the environment and the lack of representation to include America's people of color. Looking toward the future, she also highlights the work of African Americans who are opening doors to greater participation in environmental and conservation concerns. ![]() Bridging the fields of environmental history, cultural studies, critical race studies, and geography, Finney argues that the legacies of slavery, Jim Crow, and racial violence have shaped cultural understandings of the "great outdoors" and determined who should and can have access to natural spaces.ĭrawing on a variety of sources from film, literature, and popular culture, and analyzing different historical moments, including the establishment of the Wilderness Act in 1964 and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Finney reveals the perceived and real ways in which nature and the environment are racialized in America. ![]() Why are African Americans so underrepresented when it comes to interest in nature, outdoor recreation, and environmentalism? In this thought-provoking study, Carolyn Finney looks beyond the discourse of the environmental justice movement to examine how the natural environment has been understood, commodified, and represented by both White and Black Americans. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I definitely think he made people believe it was true at the time! So this is a perfect blend of reality and fiction! Gaston Leroux was a journalist who had spent time at the Palais Garnier, so he writes it like the story is true. In addition to that, Carlotta and Christine’s rivalry mirrors Marie Miolan-Carvalho and Kristina Nilsson in 1869, which also was over the lead roles in Faust. There was a burying of a time capsule when they found bones, and the chandelier incident was real. The Palais Garnier actually sits on a body of water, though not quite as in the novel. What people might not know is that this story isn’t only inspired by fiction, but also by reality. ![]() The setting is Palais Garnier the Paris opera house, which was built from 1862 to 1875. It was published about 110 years ago, and bears obvious inspiration from other French stories The Beauty And The Beast and The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, but also Edgar Allan Poe and Sherlock Holmes. Most people have heard about The Phantom Of The Opera by Gaston Leroux, but the book is probably less known than the musical, movies or even the legend itself. ![]() ![]() In a statement, NHTSA indicated that both ARC and automakers are responsible for recalls and that it can seek a recall from a parts maker that supplies multiple automakers. The agency’s documents show that the inflators date from at least the 2002 model year to January 2018, when ARC installed equipment on its manufacturing lines that could detect potential safety problems. NHTSA tentatively concluded, after an investigation that has lasted for eight years, that the inflators are defective. The explosions, which first occurred in 2009, have continued as recently as this year. NHTSA argues that the recall is justified because two people have been killed in the United States and Canada and at least seven others have been injured by ARC’s inflators. ![]() But ARC is refusing to do so, setting up a possible court fight with the agency. ![]() ![]() The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is demanding that the manufacturer, ARC Automotive of Knoxville, Tennessee, recall 67 million inflators that could explode with such force as to blow apart a metal canister and expel shrapnel. ![]() And because of a dispute between federal safety regulators and an airbag parts manufacturer, they aren’t likely to find out anytime soon. ![]() ![]() ![]() Their families set out to clear his name, and as they face an uncertain future, the young lovers experience a kaleidoscope of emotions-affection, despair, and hope. Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and imprisoned. Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, Baldwin’s story mixes the sweet and the sad. ![]() "One of the best books Baldwin has ever written-perhaps the best of all." - The Philadelphia Inquirer From one of the most important writers of the twentieth century comes a stunning love story about a young Black woman whose life is torn apart when her lover is wrongly accused of a crime-"a moving, painful story, so vividly human and so obviously based on reality that it strikes us as timeless" ( The New York Times Book Review). ![]() |