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Book F Bomb Gangsta

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  • Author : Dartan Creations
  • Publisher : Independently Published
  • Release : 2018-12-23
  • ISBN : 9781792173431
  • Pages : 112 pages

Download or read book F Bomb Gangsta written by Dartan Creations and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-12-23 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique and funny journal notebook is sure to put a smile on someone's face. With a full-color soft cover this 6x9 108 lined pages paperback notebook is as practical as it is cute! The ideal size for lined journals for meetings, to do lists or even a diary. Makes an excellent gift for birthdays, Christmas, coworkers or any special occasion.

Book Bang  You re Alive

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  • Author : PhD PhD. Anonymous
  • Publisher : eBookIt.com
  • Release : 2011-02-14
  • ISBN : 0615436951
  • Pages : 167 pages

Download or read book Bang You re Alive written by PhD PhD. Anonymous and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2011-02-14 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading this book is a wild ride though the nature of sex, the history of god and religion, stellar physics, hypnotism, genetics, Roman history, theology, biology, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, heaven, hell, gambling, galaxies and Santa delivering toys. It will take you back to the Big Bang and forward into your best possible future. Here is the sudden understanding of how things really are all around you and inside you. Here is the way to save the world and how to have the best life. It's ten books in one small one, and maybe the best thing you will ever read.

Book There s a Word for It

Download or read book There s a Word for It written by Sol Steinmetz and published by Crown. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Word geeks (1984), rejoice! Crack open these covers and immerse yourself in a mind-expanding (1963) compendium of the new words (or new meanings of words) that have sprung from American life to ignite the most vital, inventive, fruitful, and A-OK (1961) lexicographical Big Bang (1950) since the first no-brow (1922) Neanderthal grunted meaningfully. From the turn of the twentieth century to today, our language has grown from around 90,000 new words to some 500,000—at least, that’s today’s best guesstimate (1936). What accounts for this quantum leap (1924)? In There’s a Word for It, language expert Sol Steinmetz takes us on a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (1949) joyride (1908) through our nation’s cultural history, as seen through the neato (1951) words and terms we’ve invented to describe it all. From the quaintly genteel days of the 1900s (when we first heard words such as nickelodeon, escalator, and, believe it or not, Ms.) through the Roaring Twenties (the time of flappers, jalopies, and bootleg booze) to the postwar ’50s (the years of rock ’n’ roll, beatniks, and blast-offs) and into the new millennium (with its blogs, Google, and Obamamania), this feast for word lovers is a boffo (1934) celebration of linguistic esoterica (1929). In chapters organized by decade, each with a lively and informative narrative of the life and language of the time, along with year-by-year lists of words that were making their first appearance, There’s a Word for It reveals how the American culture contributed to the evolution and expansion of the English language and vice versa. Clearly, it’s must-reading (1940). And not to disparage any of the umpteen (1918) other language books on the shelf—though they have their share of hokum (1917) and gobbledygook (1944)—but this one truly is the bee’s knees and the cat’s pajamas (1920s).

Book Understanding the F Word

Download or read book Understanding the F Word written by David McGowan and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-06-21 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By offering a radical review of the last one hundred years of US history, this work is intended as a counterpoint to the rampant revisionism of the flurry of books glorifying the "American Century". Beginning with the rather bold and decidedly controversial assertion that the current political system in place in the United States at the dawn of the twenty-first century is fascism, the first part of this book attempts to justify that claim by first defining exactly what fascism iscorrecting various widely-held misconceptionsand then analyzing how closely we as a nation conform to that definition. Also included is a review of some of the hidden history and key events of World War II. Part II offers a retrospective of the twentieth century American presidential administrations, to demonstrate that the steady and inexorable march towards overt fascism was a defining characteristic that remained unchanged. The final section looks at the still very much alive eugenics movement, and analyzes the role played by the psychiatric establishment in validating the fascist state. This book will surely find no shortage of detractors, but if read with an open mind, it just may change the way you view the world.

Book Government Gangsters

Download or read book Government Gangsters written by Kash Pramod Patel and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A brilliant roadmap highlighting every corrupt actor, to ultimately return our agencies and departments to work for the American People…we will use this blueprint to help us take back the White House and remove these Gangsters from all of Government!” —Donald J. Trump The highest levels of government have been infiltrated by an anti-democratic Deep State that can be defeated by refocusing our national security mission and relentlessly defending the truth. A sinister cabal of corrupt law enforcement personnel, intelligence agents, and military officials at the highest levels of government plotted to overthrow a president. Even after they failed, they continue to secretly pull the levers of power without any accountability to the American people. This isn’t the synopsis of a fictional spy thriller. This is what is actually happening in the United States government. In Government Gangsters, Kash Patel—a former top official in the White House, the Department of Defense, the Intelligence Community, and the Department of Justice—pulls back the curtain on the Deep State, revealing the major players and tactics within the permanent government bureaucracy, which has spent decades stripping power away from the American people and their elected leaders. Based on his firsthand knowledge, Patel reveals how we can defeat the Deep State, reassert self-government, and restore our democracy.

Book Gangsters and Goodfellas

Download or read book Gangsters and Goodfellas written by Henry Hill and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-03-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "At the age of twelve, my ambition was to become a gangster. To be a wiseguy was better than being President of the United States. To be a wiseguy was to own the world." —Henry Hill When Henry Hill entered the Witness Protection Program, he was certain that his criminal days had finally come to an end. He was wrong. For over twenty years, Henry Hill lived the high life as a powerful member of the Lucchese crime family, a life immortalized in Martin Scorsese's classic film GoodFellas. After his arrest in 1980, Hill disappeared into the Witness Protection Program. With this book, Henry comes clean about his last twenty years, filling in the gaps about his recent past as well as setting the record straight on his days as a wiseguy. At once hilarious, unpredictable, scandalous, and arresting, Henry Hill's tale will destroy everything you thought you knew about the Witness Protection Program.

Book The F Word

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  • Author : Jesse Sheidlower
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2024-11-04
  • ISBN : 0197763332
  • Pages : 505 pages

Download or read book The F Word written by Jesse Sheidlower and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-11-04 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterfully updated edition of The F-Word which renders a comprehensive portrait of English's most notorious and colorful word. No word has generated more uses, more creative euphemisms, and more strong opinions than fuck. Jesse Sheidlower's historical dictionary, now in print for over 25 years, charts the uses of fuck and its many permutations, from absofuckinglutely to zipless fuck. It illustrates every sense of every entry with quotations, from the earliest that can be found to a recent example, showing exactly how the word has been used throughout history. This new edition is not just a minor update but a comprehensive revision of Sheidlower's groundbreaking text for the internet age. Major new discoveries push back the known history of fuck by almost two hundred years. Sheidlower also considers rapidly changing attitudes towards the use of fuck in public discourse. The volume includes over 1,000 new quotations; over 100 antedatings (earlier examples of existing entries, improving our understanding of the word's development); and many dozens of new entries, including high-profile recent uses such as AF 'as fuck', fuckboi, and the group of expressions of the sort to give no fucks or zero fucks given.

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  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 1257976168
  • Pages : 270 pages

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Book Reclaiming the F Word

Download or read book Reclaiming the F Word written by Doctor Kristin Aune and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feminism is so last century. Surely in today's world the idea is irrelevant and unfashionable? Wrong. Since the turn of the millennium a revitalised feminist movement has emerged to challenge these assumptions. Based on a survey of over a thousand feminists, Reclaiming the F Word reveals the what, why and how of today's feminism, from cosmetic surgery to celebrity culture, from sex to singleness and now, in this new edition, the gendered effects of possibly the worst economic crisis ever. This is a generation-defining book demanding nothing less than freedom and equality, for all.

Book Certifiably Insane

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  • Author : Tom Reidy
  • Publisher : TOM REIDY
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 180 pages

Download or read book Certifiably Insane written by Tom Reidy and published by TOM REIDY. This book was released on with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book identifies and analyzes twenty cultural "choke points" that have each contributed to cultural decline in America. The book defines how these choke points have contributed to the destruction of our foundational institutions. We will study these foundational institutions and why they are essential to a healthy national culture. When they collapse, so does the culture. Based upon this analysis we can assign the exact year cultural disintegration began in America. What American decline in particular, and Western decline in general, shows us is that democracy is a temporary occurrence in world history and that we are coming to the end of the current historical epoch that began emerging approximately five hundred years ago. This book will propose an educated speculation at what will replace the current epoch. Certifiably Insane is a chronicle of the process of democracy’s inevitable self-demolition.

Book Gangsters and Roses Special Edition Boxset

Download or read book Gangsters and Roses Special Edition Boxset written by Sienne Vega and published by Sienne Vega. This book was released on 2023-06-17 with total page 1353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read the forbidden dark mafia romance between Salvatore and Delphine from the very beginning in this special edition boxset. It's true what they say: you never forget your first love. When Salvatore Mancino returns, I'm left reeling. I'm swimming in memories of his passionate kiss. And memories of him breaking my heart. Over a decade later, the violent mafia boss intends on making me his. But dark and wicked forces seek to hurt me. And, in the process, destroy him. The Gangsters & Roses special edition boxset includes: 0 - Forbidden Roses 1 - Wicked Roses 2 - Twisted Roses 3 - Savage Roses ....and BRAND NEW bonus scenes and special short story never before shared! The Gangsters & Roses dark mafia romance series is not suitable for readers under the age of 18. This series includes content that may upset some readers. PLEASE ensure you read the content warning at the beginning of the series before proceeding, or check siennevega.com for more info.

Book Media Warfare

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  • Author : Melvin J. Lasky
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-09-04
  • ISBN : 135150634X
  • Pages : 388 pages

Download or read book Media Warfare written by Melvin J. Lasky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-04 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Media Warfare is the concluding volume of Melvin Lasky's monumental The Language of Journalism, a series that has been praised as a ""brilliant"" and ""original"" study in communications and contemporary language. Firmly rooted in the critical tradition of H. L. Mencken, George Orwell, and Karl Kraus, Lasky's incisive analysis of journalistic usage and misusage gauges both the cultural and political health of contemporary society as well the declining standards of contemporary journalism.As in the first two volumes, Lasky's scope is cross-cultural with special emphasis on the sometimes conflicting, sometimes mutually influential styles of American and British journalistic practice. His approach to changes in media content and style is closely keyed to changes in society at large. Media Warfare pays particular attention to the gradual easing and near disappearance of censorship rules in the 1960s and after and the attendant effects on electronic and print media. In lively and irreverent prose, Lasky anatomizes the dilemmas posed by the entrance of formerly ""unmentionable"" subjects into daily journalistic discourse, whether for reasons of profit or accurate reporting. He details the pervasive and often indirect influence of the worlds of fashion and advertising on journalism with their imperatives of sensationalism and novelty and, by contrast, how the freeing of language and subject matter in literature--the novels of Joyce and Lawrence, the poetry of Philip Larkin--have affected permissible expression for good or ill. Lasky also relates this interaction of high and low style to the spread of American urban slang, often with Yiddish roots and sometimes the occasion of anti-Semitic reaction, into the common parlance of British no less than American journalists.Media Warfare concludes with prescriptive thoughts on how journalism might still be revitalized in a ""post-profane"" culture. Witty, timely, and deeply learned, the three volumes of The Language of Journalism are a c

Book Chicago Hustle and Flow

Download or read book Chicago Hustle and Flow written by Geoff Harkness and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On September 4, 2012, Joseph Coleman, an eighteen-year-old aspiring gangsta rapper, was gunned down in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago. Police immediately began investigating the connections between Coleman’s murder and an online war of words and music he was having with another Chicago rapper in a rival gang. In Chicago Hustle and Flow, Geoff Harkness points out how common this type of incident can be when rap groups form as extensions of gangs. Gangs and rap music, he argues, can be a deadly combination. Set in one of the largest underground music scenes in the nation, this book takes readers into the heart of gangsta rap culture in Chicago. From the electric buzz of nightclubs to the sights and sounds of bedroom recording studios, Harkness presents gripping accounts of the lives, beliefs, and ambitions of the gang members and rappers with whom he spent six years. A music genre obsessed with authenticity, gangsta rap promised those from crime-infested neighborhoods a ticket out of poverty. But while firsthand experiences with gangs and crime gave rappers a leg up, it also meant carrying weapons and traveling collectively for protection. Street gangs serve as a fan base and provide protection to rappers who bring in income and help to recruit for the gang. In examining this symbiotic relationship, Chicago Hustle and Flow ultimately illustrates how class stratification creates and maintains inequalities, even at the level of a local rap-music scene.

Book Expletive Deleted

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  • Author : Ruth Wajnryb
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2005-07-13
  • ISBN : 0743287576
  • Pages : 305 pages

Download or read book Expletive Deleted written by Ruth Wajnryb and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-07-13 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have we always "sworn like sailors"? Has creative cursing developed because we can't just slug people when they make us angry? And if such verbal aggression is universal, why is it that some languages (Japanese, for instance) supposedly do not contain any nasty words? Throughout the twentieth century there seems to have been a dramatic escalation in the use and acceptance of offensive language in English, both verbally and in print. Today it seems almost commonplace to hear the "f" word in casual conversation, and even on television. Just how have we become such a bunch of cursers and what does it tell us about our language and ourselves? In Expletive Deleted, linguist Ruth Wajnryb offers an entertaining yet thoroughly researched, lighthearted look at this development, seeking to reveal the etymologies of various terms and discover how what was once considered unfit-for-company argot has become standard fare. Wajnryb steps outside the confines of English in her search for answers, exploring whether offensive words in English are mirrored in other languages and examining cultural differences in the usage of dirty words. For instance, why is it that in some languages you can get away with intimating that a person and his camel are more than just good friends, while pouring scorn on a mother's morals guarantees you a seat on the next flight out? An amusing and idiosyncratic look at the power of words to shock, offend, insult, amuse, exaggerate, let off steam, establish relationships, and communicate deep-felt emotions, Expletive Deleted is a must-read for anyone who loves language -- or has ever stubbed a toe.

Book Playing Along

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  • Author : Kiri Miller
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2012-02-16
  • ISBN : 0199753458
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book Playing Along written by Kiri Miller and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Playing Along shows how video games and social media are bridging virtual and visceral experience, transforming our understanding of musicality, creativity, play, and participation.

Book Unshaken

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  • Author : D.A. Bourne
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2012-11-12
  • ISBN : 1479717495
  • Pages : 441 pages

Download or read book Unshaken written by D.A. Bourne and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 1989. Lamar L.A. Davis the 3rd has a vision that can impact a generation. His religious father Bishop L.A. Davis, Jr., considers the vision a threat to his church so he does whatever it takes to destroy it. And Eugene, a young millionaire and proud supporter of Bishop, is on a mission to damage L.As image. Despite the plans of Bishop and Eugene, L.A. goes forth with the vision, assisted by his best friends V and Chazz, and supported by his love interest Deanna and his aunt Lucy. Success and favor come quickly, but then hell breaks loose. L.As past comes back to haunt him, family secrets are revealed, and the integrity of L.A.s crew is questioned. Will he allow his goals to abort, or will his faith remain unshaken?

Book Rupturing Rhetoric

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  • Author : Byron B Craig
  • Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • Release : 2024-06-20
  • ISBN : 1496852311
  • Pages : 179 pages

Download or read book Rupturing Rhetoric written by Byron B Craig and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2024-06-20 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributions by Maksim Bugrov, Byron B Craig, Patricia G. Davis, Peter Ehrenhaus, Whitney Gent, Christopher Gilbert, Oscar Giner, J. Scott Jordan, Euni Kim, Melanie Loehwing, Jaclyn S. Olson, A. Susan Owen, Stephen E. Rahko, Nick J. Sciullo, Arthur D. Soto-Vásquez, and Erika M. Thomas The events surrounding the 2014 killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, marked a watershed moment in US history. Though this instance of police brutality represented only the latest amid decades of similar unjust patterns, it came to symbolize state complicity in the deployment of violence to maintain racial order. Rupturing Rhetoric: The Politics of Race and Popular Culture since Ferguson responds to the racial rhetoric of American popular culture in the years since Brown's death. Through close readings of popular media produced during the late Obama and Trump eras, this volume details the influence of historical and contemporary representations of race on public discourse in America. Using Brown’s death and the ensuing protests as a focal point, contributors argue that Ferguson marks the rupture of America’s postracial fantasy. An ideology premised on colorblindness, the notion of the “postracial” suggests that the United States has largely achieved racial equality and that race is no longer a central organizing category in American society. Postracialism is partly responsible for ahistorical, romanticized narratives of slavery, Jim Crow segregation, and American exceptionalism. The legitimacy of this fantasy, the editors contend, was the first casualty of the tanks, tear gas, and rubber bullets wielded against protesters during the summer of 2014. From these protests emerged a new political narrative organized around #BlackLivesMatter, which directly challenged the fantasy of a postracial American society. Essays in Rupturing Rhetoric cover such texts as Fresh Off the Boat; Hamilton; Green Book; NPR’s American Anthem; Lovecraft Country; Disney remakes of Dumbo, The Lion King, and Lady and the Tramp; BlacKkKlansman; Crazy Rich Asians; The Hateful Eight; and Fences. As a unified body of work, the collection interrogates the ways contemporary media in American popular culture respond to and subvert the postracial fantasy underlying the politics of our time.