Why is Toni Morrison important?
Morrison was noted for her examination of the experiences of Black Americans, particularly Black women. In an unjust society, her characters struggle to find themselves and their cultural identity. Her use of fantasy, her sinuous poetic style, and her rich interweaving of the mythic gave her stories great strength and texture.
What awards did Toni Morrison win?
Morrison won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction for the critically acclaimed novel
Beloved (1987). She received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. In 2010 Morrison was made an officer of the French Legion of Honour. Two years later she was awarded the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Taiwan-US study shows pollution, rainfall link
By Lee Jung-ping and Kayleigh Madjar / Staff reporter, with staff writer
New research suggests that air pollution indirectly reduces the amount of rainfall in northern Taiwan during autumn, which might have exacerbated the water shortage at New Taipei City’s Shihmen Reservoir (石門水庫).
Researchers from National Central University (NCU) and the State University of New York at Albany analyzed 13 years of satellite and surface data for the study, which was published on March 23 in the journal
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.
Taiwan receives most of its annual rainfall from May to September during the plum rain and typhoon seasons, NCU Department of Atmospheric Sciences associate professor Wang Sheng-hsiang (王聖翔) said.
, the Supreme Court further affirmed the Federal government s right to deport immigrants with modest criminal records. The courts have sent a clear message: deportation is part of the American way to manage immigration.
Instead of affirming the legitimacy of deportation, the Courts should reject the practice. The rationale is clear. Deportation violates the Eighth Amendment which promises that punishments not be cruel and unusual. By any common standard, forcibly moving people to another country is a harsh punishment. Deportation separates the deportee from their friends and family in the United States. If we have learned anything from a year of social distancing, it is that isolation from loved ones is crippling. It is not hard to see how being sent to another country, removed from spouse and children, can be incredibly painful.
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