Working knconditions. Welcome back, everybody. As you know, weve been in the guilded age for some time now. And weve already scene the Technological Innovations that made some of this economic expansion possible. We saw both the economic transformations and the effects of those changes in the economy as far as lifestyles, both of the very rich, these opulent robert barren lifestyles on the one hand on on the other hand, of the very poor. Whether it was the People Living in the shacks of the new england mill towns or whether it was when we explored the guild l age city, the increasing problems of housing and of sanitation that came with the cities going along with immigration. And then last time we saw in particular, there was some frustration with this guilded age regime as we talked about the farmers in this period. That really could have been called discontent in the guilded age part one, but today, we turn our attention mostly back toward industry and in some way, back toward the ci
Welcome back everybody, as you know weve been in the golden age for sometime now. We have already seen the Technological Innovations that have made some of this economic expansion possible. We saw about the economic transformations and the effects of those changes in the economy as far as lifestyles both of the very rich, these opulent robert baron lifestyles on the one hand and on the other hand on the very poor but it was the People Living shacks of the new england newtowns or whether it was when we explored the gilded age city, the increasing problems of housing that came with this rapid and in many ways, chaotic birth of the cities in the 19th century in all of it accompanied by problems going along with immigration. And then last time, we saw in particular there was some frustration with this new gilded age regime as we talk about the farmers in this period. That lecture really couldve been called the discontent in the gilded age part one. Today, we turn our attention mostly back
Pleased to have with us Toni Morrison for indepth conversation about her lifes work. Toni morrison, as he began, ive seen several citations that you told people that its easiest best most apt to describe you as a black woman novelist. Is that correct . Absolutely. What are we the public to take away from your choice of those three words . I think it was an attempt on my part to choose to be given the status of honorary white male writer. Generally speaking, womens work has been reduced to regional or merely or people complement ethnic writers by saying or implying that they are as good as mainstream writers and whereas i understand the complement, i thought it would be better for me to, at least in the late 60s early 70s to establish once and for all that all three of those things play, and black, i am a woman, and im a writer and they go together. Youve also always been a teacher. Yes. Why is that important to who you are and what you do . Edit quite know what else to do when i gradua
And the u. S. Keep talking trade, we dont know when this thing ends or how much further it goes. Sit back and enjoy the ride, today is august 25, the dow of 378, yesterday up another 150th opening bell today, the s p record high close up some more this morning. The nasdaq looks like its going to be down a few points. Were going to show you apple, premarket trading worth 2. 15 trillion and there is speculation that there is iphone production to mexico, more of that in a moment. At the convention the republicans attacked the biden harris ticket as a looming disaster. Dynamic speeches from tim scott and nikki haley and the president as surprise appearance and a vocal audience preview will see it. Day two, melania speaks tonight, rand paul, eric and tiffany trump, you will see that too. I gotta say this, our heart goes out to louisiana, mississippi, texas and neighboring states. Marco faded but here comes laura. Landfall probably tomorrow, could be a cat two or three storm the people of ga
Lingering as we are expected to reach recordbreaking temperatures. Conditions that triggered a spare the air alert through the weekend. We have Team Coverage starting in the weather center. The first thing i will do is show how hot we are now on saturday. And these numbers are pretty much right around the top. And you can see weve got plenty of locations on here that are well into the hundreds. Livermore at 102. Tomorrow, it will be four or 5 degrees hotter than today. Take a look at the forecast for sunday. Livermore, concord, san jose, oakland and San Francisco, you are my examples, we will hit 109 in livermore, 106 in concord. Now we need to Start Talking about records, and you see how many of them will fall. Livermore, concord, santa rosa and san jose will either break or tie records tomorrow but look at oakland and San Francisco. 91 in San Francisco. Just because you are not tying the record, youre not getting off easy, that is 1 degree shy of the record. There are a lot of colors