The Penalty For Success: My Father Was Lynched In Lowndes County Alabama tells the story of the murder of a black man in 1940s Lowndes County, Alabama. It is a story that changes the traditional definition of "lynching" in America. Until recent years, a lynching was associated with murder by hanging, usually in the presence of a mob of people. Sometimes it also included severe mutilation and burning of the body. Josephine Bolling McCall's story of her father's murder presents convincing evidence that he was lynched, although he was not hanged, mutilated, or burned before a crowd of people. Elmore Bolling was shot six times in the front of his body with a pistol and once in the back with a shotgun. The presumption is that two shooters were involved. In exploring the events in her father's life, Jo McCall demonstrates that, not only was he lynched, but he was murdered simply because he was too prosperous to be a black man in rural Lowndes County, Alabama.In recounting her father's story, Mrs. McCall explores her ancestral roots, dating back to the pre-civil war era, and the evolution of her family to a status of entrepreneurs during the 1940s in the heart of the Alabama Black Belt. She places her narrative in the historical context of the Lowndes County she knew as a child and had to, in her words, "escape from" with her mother and siblings in order to save their lives. Through years of research, including interviews with relatives and elderly Lowndes County residents, Mrs. Bolling sought and found answers to many troubling questions that she had about her family, especially about events in her father's life. Her journey of discovery presents a revealing narrative of a time, a place, and a people that challenges us to rethink the reality of life for both blacks and whites in a rural, southern community.

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For at least two decades now modern man has been on the brink of a crisis. Persuaded by both the post-feminist political landscape and his representation in the popular media to remodel himself as an endearingly hopeless halfwit, he now exists only as an object of pity. James and his happy band of brothers (plus a few women, but we try to edit them out) are engaged on a quest to lead maledom to a broad sunlit upland strewn with slim books of English verse and neatly stacked with correctly sharpened tools arranged in descending size order. From here they confront the mysteries of romance and fashion, the cult of men's cooking and the daunting underworld of hardcore DIY. Read it and remember that, as a chap, your first duty is to be dependable. And then you can have a pint.

Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject Economics - Statistics and Methods, grade: 1,7, University of Duisburg-Essen, language: English, abstract: Despite it’s name, the field of game theory has had for a long time a somewhat weaker relationship with sports and games in general – although it has always been more advanced than other fields in economics with regards to its closeness to sports and games. In its early days, game theory was mostly occupied with big and more serious topics than sports and games, such as industrial organization in economics, wars and other military issues in political sciences. The reason behind this development in the early days of game theory might be due the fact that this field kind of been developed through turbulent times of World War II and Cold War – for example (e.g.) „prisoner’s dilemma“ within the nuclear arms race between USA and Russia (back then USSR). Lately though there has been some development in the game theory within other fields, like sports and games, especially football, books like "The economics of football" (2001) and "Soccernomics" (2012) are good starting points into the subject. While these books generally inquire help from economics to explain football’s issues, Apesteguia and Palacios-Huerta (2010) (and Palacios-Huerta (2014)) gives priority to illustrate how football can help economics (the other way around).

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