Disney's Chicken Little Crack Google Drive: The Best Way to Experience the Movie in a Game
- cotemaverrave
- Aug 15, 2023
- 6 min read
In 1990 I joined the sociology faculty at Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michigan. It was my second teaching position and my third "real" job. At that time, my collection of racist artifacts numbered more than 1,000. I kept the collection in my home, bringing out pieces when I gave public addresses, mainly to high school students. I discovered that many young people, blacks and whites, were not only ignorant about historical expressions of racism, but they believed that I was exaggerating when I described the awfulness of Jim Crow. Their ignorance disappointed me. I showed them segregation signs, Ku Klux Klan robes, and everyday objects that portrayed blacks with ragged clothes, unkempt hair, bulging eyes, and clown-like lips -- running toward fried chicken and watermelons and running away from alligators. I talked to the students about the connection between Jim Crow laws and racist material objects. I was too heavy-handed, too driven to make them understand; I was, that is, learning to use the objects as teaching tools -- while, simultaneously, dealing with my anger.
In 2003, David Chang created a national uproar with his game, Ghettopoly. Unlike Monopoly, the popular family game, Ghettopoly debases and belittles racial minorities, especially blacks. Ghettopoly has seven game pieces: Pimp, Hoe, 40 oz, Machine Gun, Marijuana Leaf, Basketball, and Crack. One of the game's cards reads, "You got yo whole neighborhood addicted to crack. Collect $50 from each playa." Monopoly has houses and hotels; Ghettopoly has crack houses and projects. The distributors advertise Ghettopoly this way: "Buying stolen properties, pimpin hoes, building crack houses and projects, paying protection fees and getting car jacked are some of the elements of the game. Not dope enough? If you don't have the money that you owe to the loan shark you might just land yourself in da Emergency Room." The game's cards depict blacks in physically caricatured ways. Hasbro, the owner of the copyright for Monopoly, has sued David Chang to make him stop distributing Ghettopoly.
Disney's Chicken Little Crack Google Drive
Explanations of the song based upon "jimmy" or "jimmie" being slaves' slang for crows or mules (here being allowed into the old master's corn fields instead of being chased away) or deriving "jimmy" from "gimme" are unsupported by the existing records. Pete Seeger, for instance, is said to have maintained that the original lyrics were "gimme cracked corn" and referred to a punishment in which a slave's bacon rations were curtailed, leaving him chickenfeed;[50][53] the same lines could also just be asking for the whiskey jug to be passed around. The idea that Jim or Jimmy is "cracking open" a jug of whiskey is similarly unsupported: that phrasal verb is attested at least as early as 1803[54] but initially applied to literal ruptures; its application to opening the cap or cork of a bottle of alcohol was a later development.
My story is similar to many of the other women except that I am younger than many of the women diagnosed and that my ca125 was very high. I was and still am a very active person. I work out all the time and the cancer has not stopped me from doing that or any thing else for that matter. I had almost no symptoms except for some occassional bloating and gas starting around September 2004. The first week of february 2005 I started to get bloated and each day got a little worse. I went to the emergency room and after an ultrasound I was told to see my gyno. Within four days I was in the hospital for the grand old surgery. I was diagnosed with stage 3c ovarian cancer and I have had almost everthing removed that I don't need to continue living with. The biggest thing is and the one thing that I can't find anyone coming close to is the fact that my ca125 was 50,196 before my operation. I seem to have broken all the records. The highest ca125 anybody has seen is around 35,000. I asked what does that really mean and they say it just means there was a lot of activity. Of couse I don't think you can believe anything they have to say and I know they sure don't tell you a lot. (They refering to doctors). I started chemo one week after surgery, Feb. 2005 and I had to have 8 sessions of carbo\taxol which I finally finished in Aug. 2005. It took me 5 rounds of chemo to reach remission and since the chemo has stopped I have remained stable. My last ca125 was 20 in Jan. 2006. I don't want to bore you with all kinds of dread and statistics. I think you just have to keep going and hope for the best. The doctors certainly won't help you beyond chemo. At least not in Canada anyway. I can't say that chemo was fun but I went back to my gym the same week I finished my last treatment and I am as active as I was before the cancer. I probably don't have a lot of life left. How much I have will depend on how soon the cancer returns but I don't plan on slowing down until the choice is not mine anymore. I am not the most positive person in the world but I am an adventurer, I love a challenge and I am very driven. Finally, I offer a challenge to anyone out there, can they beat my numbers, or at least come close?And if so, how has it turned out? For my first cousin, she didn't live more than 3 years. She also died of ovarian cancer. This is a tough one, this is my biggest adventure yet!
Once arriving at the hospital, I had an ultrasound performed. The doctor said the spotting was due to a little clot underneath my uterus and that I shouldn't worry as it would soon dissolve. He then sat down, and told me that there was another problem. As he cleared his throat, he asked me if I was aware that I had a large cyst in my left ovary. The shock was devastating. I wasn't sure what he was telling me exactly. All I know is that I had the longest drive home.
This is my mom Josie's story. She was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in October of 03. In this case, the fluid that had been accumulating in her abdomen was a blessing, because we could finally say to her doctor "what is going on here she is 82 and looks like she is about to have twins?". She had been in the hospital for two weeks several months prior. When we went to the office for her appointment the doctor that she had been seeing for 14 years stood at the other side of the room. He listened to her lungs, because I had said she is having a little shortness of breath. He said "she has sounded worse" but he wasn't touching her except with his stethoscope. I said to him "can't you see her legs are swollen?" At first he said that they looked normal, but I insisted and said that normally she has legs like a stork. Then he actually touched them and said they had fluid. After two ultrasounds, she was tapped because she was having trouble breathing. The ensuing pathology report indicated there was a positive CA125 marker report and she was sent for a CT. At that point, after loosing all confidence with his abilities as her primary, I like a protective mother I kicked into overdrive. I called Memorial Sloan Kettering to get some input I could trust. My anger at his lack of help once the shoe dropped still leaves me speechless at times. He told me over the phone that I shouldn't try to rush things since it won't make any difference. He told me not to say anything to her at all. Josie is not someone that you hide things from. Last January she verbally ordered him out of her hospital room and ordered that he not come within 100 feet of her ever again. Mom is a fighter. She started Chemo, Cisplatin only in October then after two chemos they added Carbo. Since she is 82 and this winter was brutal, the trip into NYC was more debilitating than the Chimo. She transferred the administration of the Chemo closer to home. The chemicals used to date are Cisplatin, Carbo, Taxol and Doxal. Currently mom wants to exhaust all the chemical options before Surgery. It is her body and I must respect her feelings and her choice.
A little while later she was able to go home. I will neverforget the tone in her voice when she went home, she was like a little girlin a candy store, so excited to be there. Then the chemo started. It wassix months of once a month treatments. The chemo treatments were two and ahalf hours south of where they lived. So, once a month my father would driveher down there. My father. Now there is a man of every woman's dream.He is the type of man who would bend over backwards for you and not askquestions. My mother was so lucky to have him.
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