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The Beautiful Noise in My Head is a journey through Caribbean waves
and the spirits that occupy the coconut trees. This book of poetry
travels the world and generations. It unearths the voices of
ghosts, which had been lost for a while. With each poem, a vast
amount of emotions will be incited in the reader, leaving a
casualty of feelings to be reconciled. The book revisits the
doorsteps of slaves and fallen victims of the streets. It exposes
the candy stealer of the wealthy and gives independence to poor
people's fingers. These voices that were circumcised at birth will
finally be able to sit at the table and enjoy the same meal as a
result of the words that perfume each page of this book. From the
revealing "Conversation with a Whiteman" to the provoking
"Hollywood Crack House," The Beautiful Noise in My Head travels at
a high-rate speed never letting the reader take a breath. They are
the sounds the author heard while the quiet became loud with each
step taken in a foreign land.
The Beautiful Noise in My Head is a journey through Caribbean waves
and the spirits that occupy the coconut trees. This book of poetry
travels the world and generations. It unearths the voices of
ghosts, which had been lost for a while. With each poem, a vast
amount of emotions will be incited in the reader, leaving a
casualty of feelings to be reconciled. The book revisits the
doorsteps of slaves and fallen victims of the streets. It exposes
the candy stealer of the wealthy and gives independence to poor
people's fingers. These voices that were circumcised at birth will
finally be able to sit at the table and enjoy the same meal as a
result of the words that perfume each page of this book. From the
revealing "Conversation with a Whiteman" to the provoking
"Hollywood Crack House," The Beautiful Noise in My Head travels at
a high-rate speed never letting the reader take a breath. They are
the sounds the author heard while the quiet became loud with each
step taken in a foreign land.
Sixteen-year-old Marcus is a young man living within a confused
world. His mother has developed an insatiable taste for alcohol,
his father is mostly absent, and his brother has been deployed to
Afghanistan. As unrest lurks inside and outside of his Brooklyn
home, Marcus begins a quest for answers to life's most difficult
questions.
Marcus has not heard from his father in months, but he still
agrees to meet him one evening-just so he can get away from his
mother and her obnoxious new boyfriend. Marcus's father looks like
he has a lot of class but really has none whatsoever; when he takes
Marcus to a greasy chicken joint to reveal that he is remarrying,
Marcus realizes nothing has changed. But for Marcus, life is about
to become more than he ever expected. After the police search his
home for drugs, secrets shatter his normalcy, and the only world
Marcus has ever known begins spinning out of control.
"When the Gods Speak through Rain" tells the poignant story of a
young man who is just trying to survive-even when it seems
impossible-and eventually finds hope in the realization that the
imperfections of others are really what makes them perfect.
Sixteen-year-old Marcus is a young man living within a confused
world. His mother has developed an insatiable taste for alcohol,
his father is mostly absent, and his brother has been deployed to
Afghanistan. As unrest lurks inside and outside of his Brooklyn
home, Marcus begins a quest for answers to life's most difficult
questions.
Marcus has not heard from his father in months, but he still
agrees to meet him one evening-just so he can get away from his
mother and her obnoxious new boyfriend. Marcus's father looks like
he has a lot of class but really has none whatsoever; when he takes
Marcus to a greasy chicken joint to reveal that he is remarrying,
Marcus realizes nothing has changed. But for Marcus, life is about
to become more than he ever expected. After the police search his
home for drugs, secrets shatter his normalcy, and the only world
Marcus has ever known begins spinning out of control.
"When the Gods Speak through Rain" tells the poignant story of a
young man who is just trying to survive-even when it seems
impossible-and eventually finds hope in the realization that the
imperfections of others are really what makes them perfect.
How technologies can get it wrong in sports, and what the
consequences are-referees undermined, fans heartbroken, and the
illusion of perfect accuracy maintained. Good call or bad call,
referees and umpires have always had the final say in sports. Bad
calls are more visible: plays are televised backward and forward
and in slow motion. New technologies-the Hawk-Eye system used in
tennis and cricket, for example, and the goal-line technology used
in English football-introduced to correct bad calls sometimes get
it right and sometimes get it wrong, but always undermine the
authority of referees and umpires. Bad Call looks at the
technologies used to make refereeing decisions in sports, analyzes
them in action, and explains the consequences. Used well,
technologies can help referees reach the right decision and deliver
justice for fans: a fair match in which the best team wins. Used
poorly, however, decision-making technologies pass off statements
of probability as perfect accuracy and perpetuate a mythology of
infallibility. The authors re-analyze three seasons of play in
English Premier League football, and discover that goal line
technology was irrelevant; so many crucial wrong decisions were
made that different teams should have won the Premiership, advanced
to the Champions League, and been relegated. Simple video replay
could have prevented most of these bad calls. (Major League
baseball learned this lesson, introducing expanded replay after a
bad call cost Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga a perfect
game.) What matters in sports is not computer-generated projections
of ball position but what is seen by the human eye-reconciling what
the sports fan sees and what the game official sees.
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