Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (April 3rd)
Now, though, it s time to discuss our (long) weekend gaming plans.
Members of the Nintendo Life team have done just that below, so feel free to give our entries a read and then join in with your own via our comment section. Enjoy!
Liam Doolan, news reporter
This weekend I m looking forward to sinking my teeth into
Monster Hunter Rise. Since it arrived on the scene last week, it s become a nightly ritual for me to go out hunting, so I intend on continuing that over the next few days. I ve not been the
Discussed in this essay:
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song, by Henry Louis Gates Jr. Penguin Press. 304 pages. $30. / PBS. Four hours.
Henry Louis Gates Jr. belongs to the postwar generation that grew up during, and then helped to shape, a shift in black consciousness from a sense of alienation to one of affirmation. When Gates was a student in the late Sixties, HBCUs had long taught Negro history, but the writers of what is sometimes referred to as the first generation of Black Studies brought to campus a new recognition of Africa’s importance to black America, rooted in black nationalist politics. And while movement politics may have fallen off in the Seventies, it left in black people and historians an awareness of their power to control the interpretation of black history. Alex Haley’s popular novel
Here, Robin Longbottom examines how firms played their part in supporting British industry during its dependence for almost two centuries on leather “THERE’S nothing like leather” was once a popular saying used to dismiss ideas for change or innovation. However there was some truth in the statement, as for nearly 200 years British industry was dependent upon it. Leather belts and straps were once the only means by which power could be transmitted from waterwheels, steam engines and later electric motors, to machinery in both heavy and light industry. Surprisingly, they were still in use into the 1960s. Early in the Industrial Revolution, mills usually bought cured hides and made their own leather belts.
Here, Robin Longbottom examines how firms played their part in supporting British industry during its dependence for almost two centuries on leather “THERE’S nothing like leather” was once a popular saying used to dismiss ideas for change or innovation. However there was some truth in the statement, as for nearly 200 years British industry was dependent upon it. Leather belts and straps were once the only means by which power could be transmitted from waterwheels, steam engines and later electric motors, to machinery in both heavy and light industry. Surprisingly, they were still in use into the 1960s. Early in the Industrial Revolution, mills usually bought cured hides and made their own leather belts.