The Stack

A skylight! It had to be, what else could be up there that would need to be covered like that. It was so faintly irradiated, the casual observer would have to wonder how he could be so sure this was a skylight, but the man had hope. Nothing else empowers the human will quite like hope does. So with this hope in his heart, the man set out to reach for the sky. He kept the fires going, but drew them in closer to maximize the lighting he needed. He then began to stack books. One by one, he took thick books off the shelf and set them up in a square. The man then proceeded to make another square on top, with a smaller perimeter so that he would have a step. He would take stacks of more and more, carrying loads at a time to the base of his temple.…

Harry Stack Sullivan has a theory about intimacy and his theory is that intimacy is interpersonal. He states that as one progresses in life, their needs of intimacy develops and changes. He states that in middle childhood, ones needs are hat they need peers and need to be accepted by peers (Steinberg, 2011). Jack supports this theory as his whole life, including middle-childhood; he wanted to be accepted by his peers. Sullivan’s theory also stated that in preadolescence, there is a need for…

“All Our Kin” is an ethnography written by Carol Stack discussing her experiences in The Flats, which allowed her to develop three theoretical perspectives to help her organize data based of that particular location. These perspectives are: how people are recruited to kin networks, the relationships between household composition and residence patterns, and the relation between reciprocity and poverty. Within these eight chapters, Stack compares and contrast cultural stereotypes amongst black…

In addition to the personal narratives, she includes an abundance of descriptions of the places she goes, the people she encounters, and the cultures she reports from. In the same story as the Palestine woman living in Jerusalem, Stack described her as, “pretty and slim from living on cigarettes and Nescafé, but her eyes were old and sad. Sometimes she drank iced vodka until she was drunk, leaning over with curses falling out of her mouth, stabbing the night with a cigarette, roaring in broken…

Stack Height One factor you may wish to consider when choosing a running shoe is the underfoot feel. Aside from the variation of different running shoe models or brands, this experience is largely determined by the amount of material between you and the ground, herein referred to as stack height. Our stack height classifications are determined by the forefoot measurement of a shoe. We measure at the forefoot for two reasons. First, regardless of other factors, runners will eventually contact…

experience in The Flats, an African-American poverty-stricken community. Stack observes the black urban poor and how they try to survive while living in poverty. Stack believes that when other researchers study black communities, their findings have a tendency to reinforce and perpetuates stereotypes such as they are deviant, matriarchal, and broken. Stack’s findings, however does reinforce and perpetuates the stereotypes among the black community. Stack provides numerous of evidences that show…

Carol Stacks argues that in the poor African-American communities, nuclear families is not very viable due to poverty, lack of increased social-economic status and due to the high proportion of single mothers living in this community. Carol Stacks also argues that relationships and survival are based on systems involving reciprocity and that these set of relationships are constructed through the…

and the attention from the media that followed it. These compounds have become popular among college students who use them when preparing for tests. Some nootropics are considered effective enough to warrant speculation on whether using them amounts to cheating. Below is a look at the different ways that you can combine and augment nootropics to achieve a variety of different benefits. A combination of nootropic supplements is called a stack. A Study Stack A study stack can consist of two…

improve memory, intelligence, cognition, motivation, attention, and other brain and psychological issues, and are used for people who want to complete everything from test cramming to bodybuilding. Many nootropics are legally available over the counter, or can be purchased with a prescription from a doctor, and for many of these cognitive enhancers, there are few side effects to using the drugs. Nootropics typically come in "stacks," too, or the combination of certain drugs and formulas to…

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