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Racism and race are the prime points set up in New York Times bestseller, Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Throughout the book’s pages he talks about his own upbringing and the acts of racism he witnessed which fortified his view on life and the way that he looks at everyone around him; the book is also told through first person narration as a message to his son. Out of the themes and ideas presented in the book, racism, disembodiment, and the idea of blinding oneself to the atrocities one may impose are the forefront of the topics as the author discusses things that he observed and experienced over the span of his life, his constant position on the black person’s body in regards to how fragile it truly is in the world and how it governs the life of African Americans, as well as his interpretation and explanation of the white people’s “Dream,” which he mentions several times throughout the book as the driving force for many white people’s actions which are forgotten in or...

The final book of Ernest Hemingway’s writing career was the short novel The Old Man and The Sea . In it he tells the painfully simple story of an elderly man, Santiago, who is pulled out to sea while fighting to catch a huge marlin. It proved to his critics that he was still capable of writing a fully successful story after the critical letdown of his previous novels; however, this novel proved different from those that came before it. The realistic presentation of facts typical of Hemingway’s other works is nearly thrown out the window in this novel as things happen that should not be physically or humanly possible. The central character himself is a stark contrast to many of Hemingway’s other heroes of earlier novels, right down to the ending that Santiago eventually settles into by the conclusion of the novel. Hemingway wrote a number of well-known novels throughout his career, but he abandons many of his characteristic writing conventions in The Old Man and the Sea , and it prov...

In a recent inquiry to Diamond Select Toys about wave 4 of their Pacific Rim line, I was told they they would be waiting to see how wave 3 did at retail first, then added that preorders are more important now than ever with Toysrus going under. With this response, it seems to me that the fate of the Pacific Rim line rests solely in the performance sales of wave 3, and the amount of preorders it recieves. I believe this also holds true for their first Kaiju releasing in September, Hakuja, and the fate of the Kaiju figures. So I am here to give you some reasons why you should want this line to continue, what could come next if it does, and why you should preorder wave 3 of Diamond Select's Pacific Rim wave 3 and Hakuja. 3. Wave 3 is awesome To state the obvious, wave 3 is plainly a great line up of figures. November Ajax did not get much time in the movie, but while he was there it was a sleek Jaeger that reintroduced us to Pacific Rim's giant mechs. Valor Omega arg...

After a promising start, Jakks Pacific's 4 inch World of Nintendo line has quickly fallen into something that is more of an agitation than a full on toy line. Initially, it appeared that games of all kinds would be represented, though with Mario being a constant center, and by now the line has become almost entirely Mario based with no change in sight. Despite all this, I am still a fan of the line and the figures that it produces, and as always I have a few on my wishlist that I hope are fulfilled at some point. 1. Kiddie Kong/Dixie Kong To this day, Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble remains the only Donkey Kong video game that I have truly and fully played aside from Donkey Konga 2. I love Donkey Kong, especially thanks to Mario Party 7, but Dixie and Kiddie Kong are the two that I am most connected with from the Kong family. I remembered swirling Dixie's hair to fly and flinging Kiddie into objects to break them, and while I knew that Donkey Kong a...

Out of all of the videogames franchises out there, Halo is among my absolute favorites. While it can be seen as just another first person shooter game, I admire it for its deep lore, characters, and storylines that have played out through seven main series games. The adventures of Master Chief and the side stories involving Six and Rookie have been a delight to play, and so when I found out that Mattel had started a new six inch line of Halo figures I was beyond excited. I never quite got into the Mcfarlane figures, though everyone seems to say they are better than Mattel, but it's mostly because I had already missed so many characters and figures. I find some appeal in a new line that is devoted to starting over from scratch and doing all the figures from the game series. With two waves already released, and the third leaked and on the way, let's dive into the figures I want to see going forward! (Spoiler warning for the games) 10. Wetwork armor Halo 5 multiplayer arm...

Truth is, I've never played Pokemon Sun and Moon. I love Pokemon, but I just haven't gotten to play any of the more recent Pokemon games and so me ranking which Pokemon from that region that I want most in buildable form may be a bit strange. Alola was the second region though that Mega Construx delved into and they're going full steam ahead with their builds, so I thought it was still appropriate to think about which ones from the region I would like to see next, based upon my limited exposure to them and what knowledge I have about them. With that out of the way, that's look at the top 10 Alolan Pokemon I'd like to build. 10. Alolan Dugtrio Yes, Alolan Dugtrio does look very weird, but it also looks really funny and it was one that caught my eye immediately. Does it look a bit dumb? Maybe, probably, but it is based on a real world concept, a Hawaiian Pele rock that it itself appears to have hair. So the hair is not just a wild idea from the Pokemon intelle...