Essay from Mahbuba Juraboyeva

Young Central Asian woman with long slightly curly hair, black eyes, and a white blouse with black dots. She's got a green background behind her.

What should be the speech of a lawyer?

        It is known that every professional talk a lot about the important aspects, problems and solutions of his field, people can attract attention. Effective speech and eloquence are also very important in the field of law. Speech is a person’s life; therefore, it is impressive and correct in written and oral speech must be able to speak beautifully. So, mastering speech culture and language standards, is his ability to use the means of expression in different situations. Public speaking, first of all, deep knowledge and experience of the same topic from us demand the moral right to speak in front of others is enough. That is why, we should not be afraid of public speaking. After all, the main thing is not that you speak beautifully, but that you have an idea worth saying is what you can deliver to your audience. Lawyers are always human has to communicate a lot with. It is different during the communication period there may be situations. In similar situations, the lawyer himself. He should be able to manage and convince people through his speech. For example, the court to the rights of another client while the lawyer defends his client not to use offensive words, to make people sitting in the courtroom to his speech.

He should be able to attract, most importantly, he should be able to prove that his client is right should be able to find evidence. If he cannot find such evidence, the lawyer is in court he may not be able to protect his client, he may end up in a disadvantageous situation. Or rather, if a strong opinion is expressed, but it is not delivered correctly, it is the citizen’s fault to prove his innocence or, if he is guilty, to impose a just punishment against him also causes difficulties. If the law is the main tool of the lawyer, the effective expression of it is the word. That’s why the lawyer’s voice he must have an impressive power, only then he can convince everyone to his opinion convinces. In my opinion, every lawyer has his own way of speaking it is required to show that he is a cultured person. Employees in the legal field the symbol of the state. Accordingly, when citizens turn to them, they are obliged to answer, realizing their responsibilities. Lawyers during his career in different audiences, in front of people of various levels it is necessary for them to master the skill of making a successful speech. Of this and for him, first of all, knowing what to deliver to the audience is his main thing able to express ideas clearly and succinctly, having a confident tone, sincere being able to attract the audience to his speech is one of the most important aspects.

             The great American writer Mark Twain says the following in one of his works cited the idea: “To prepare a bright urgent speech, usually it will take me more than three weeks.” So, public speaking at first glance, it seems easy to be able to speak, but the unique knowledge is huge as responsibility demands. Even great orators avoid public speaking they form their speech first. In conclusion, lawyers in speech, first of all, having the ability to convince others is important. Because this is one of the sensitive issues in their work.

                                              Juraboyeva Mahbuba Asqarbek                               Student of Tashkent State Law University   

Story from Peter Cherches

Stoops to Conquer

            I live in a relatively affluent, highly literate neighborhood. I like to think I’m highly literate, but I’m certainly not affluent. I bought my apartment before Brooklyn became hip.

            One advantage to living in a relatively affluent, highly literate neighborhood, especially one full of brownstones, is that people are always leaving interesting books on their stoops. I like the randomness and serendipity it adds to my reading life. Stoop finds have introduced me to such wonderful contemporary novelists as Julie Otsuka, Ottessa Moshfegh, and the Finnish comic crime writer Antti Tuomainen. I’ve also caught up on classics like Erskine Caldwell’s Tobacco Road, Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, and Zola’s Thérèse Raquin, as well as several sixties suspense thrillers by Charlotte Armstrong, a new name to me.

            A few months ago I was walking on Montgomery Place, a block I briefly lived on before buying my current apartment. On a brownstone stoop I saw several paperbacks. There was a Cormac McCarthy novel—no thanks, not my bag; All The King’s Men, a great book I’ve already read twice; and a few Harlequin-style romances. I figured this stoop was a bust, but then I noticed a copy of my 2016 collection Autobiography Without Words.

            The title of my book is a metaphor, of course, but when I opened the copy on the stoop it was literally without words. The cover was the same, with a photo of me as an adolescent clowning around with my friends, but the pages inside were blank. Well, not all of them.

            After about 20 pages there was handwriting in cursive. It took me a while to get used to the handwriting, but when I was finally able to read the text I saw that it was a bunch of short stories. I read a few and thought they were quite good. Nothing like my writing, mind you, but excellent nonetheless. Truth be told, I thought these stories were better than my own. They were funnier when they were supposed to be funny, and more heartbreaking when they were meant to be heartbreaking. I gleaned that the writer was a man, more or less of my generation. Many of the stories were about childhood, just like mine, but if I thought I had a miserable childhood, it was nothing compared to this guy’s. He made Gorky’s childhood seem like a walk in the park.

            I was baffled. What could have happened?

            I figured there must have been a misprint; somehow blank pages were bound in the cover for my book and apparently sold to an unsuspecting reader. Since few bookstores will deign to carry my books these days, most sales are online, so the potential reader couldn’t have discovered the problem until the book arrived in the mail.

            But why didn’t this person return the book for a refund? Did he actually take the title literally?

            And what then inspired him to start writing stories on the pages? Don’t get me wrong, I think of writing as a form of collaboration with the reader, and I was glad to see this reader actively engaging in that collaboration. I just needed to make my peace with the unexpected situation.

            Who was this reader, this writer? Did he live in this brownstone? Should I ring the buzzers and try to find him?

            But even if I did find him, what would I say? It might be awkward, no?

            I decided to move on. I took the book home and read the rest in one sitting.

            I remained baffled, but I decided to put it out of my mind.

            Shortly thereafter, I started getting emails from literary magazines. It seemed that whoever had written these stories had sent them out for publication under my name. There were a few rejections, but most were acceptances, and from more high-profile journals than usually publish my work. Should I inform them that there was a misunderstanding? But why look a gift horse in the mouth? So I let them go to publication. After decades of trying, my name finally appeared in Granta, but the biggest coup was surely The New Yorker. Friends and acquaintances congratulated me on the new turn my work had taken. But my newfound modicum of fame didn’t last very long. After five or six publications, the counterfeit Peter Cherches stories dried up.

            Still, maybe I could use this turn of events to my advantage. Maybe some of those journals that had never previously given me the time of day would start publishing my real stories. So I started sending my own work to these top-tier publications.

            I got personalized rejections from all of them. Most took the same tack. They thanked me for my continued interest in their publication, but wondered why I had changed my style so drastically from the work they enjoyed so much.

            Well, at least I had my fifteen minutes of minor literary fame, I consoled myself.

            Then I bought a blank, unlined notebook, wrapped it in the cover of my subsequent book, Whistler’s Mother’s Son, and left it on that stoop on Montgomery Place.

Poem from Jacques Fleury (one of several)

Branded: Black as Means of Commodity

by Jacques Fleury

[Excerpt from  Chain Letter To America: The One Thing You Can Do To End Racism, A Collection of Essays, Fiction and Poetry Celebrating Multiculturalism]

Light skinned face on the left staring out at the public with a finger pointing at it on a blue background. Text says Chain Letter to America: The One Thing You Can Do to End Racism by Jacques Fleury

Modern day black commodity, a derivative market of slavery…
Black body;
Black culture;
Black branding;
Fetish objects of capitalism?!
Devalued laborers as fraught consumers,
Filling the coffers of their oppressors.
In history’s vault…as Cedric Robinson wrote in Black Marxism:
“To be black was to have
No civilization
No culture
No religion
No place
No humanity
Worthy of consideration.”
In the cacophony of this capitalist country, black men were detained in their disparate
But imbricated roles, Like a run of toppled dominoes…casted as commodified bodies,
Disparaged workers and thronging consumers looking to escape their shame,
By wearing labels bearing someone else’s name…today that is their game;
Yet still they use their style and swagger
In protest and in search of a new maneuver, as they watch the usurpation of their culture
Scattered along the margins of the society which excludes them;
Their humanity and masculinity secondary to their race in a capitalist society
Whose primary ideology is the working male body; but black men’s souls become darkest at the
Crossroads of patriarchal privilege and racial repudiation;
That is to say…a real man must work no matter what!
But that work is hard to come by, especially when that man is black!
But as commodity they can “be like Mike” like professional athletes like Michael Jordan;
That is if they’re willing to see their remarkable ability commercialized…
Successful blacks used as trope to sedate and tantalize, elevate and emphasize,
The promise of success for those blacks who are marginalized…
But history manifested in our memory has taught us that tropes are in fact
Like the black characters in a horror movie…they are usually the first to get the axe!
Simply put black liberation is our collective investment,
But as capitalist commodity it compels our collective divestment!
Blacks need not succumb to being branded as “worthy”
By capitalist elites who place no “worth” on their humanity.

Young Black man looking out and smiling towards the audience. He's in a suit with a black coat and a purple tie.
Jacques Fleury

Jacques Fleury is a Boston Globe featured Haitian-American Poet, Educator, Author of four books and literary arts student at Harvard University online. His latest publication “You Are Enough: The Journey to Accepting Your Authentic Self”  & other titles are available at all Boston Public Libraries, the University of Massachusetts Healey Library, University of  Wyoming, Askews and Holts Library Services in the United Kingdom, The Harvard Book Store, The Grolier Poetry Bookshop, Amazon etc… 

He has been published in prestigious  publications such as Muddy River Poetry Review, the Cornell University Press anthology Class Lives: Stories from Our Economic Divide, Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene among others…Visit him at:  http://www.authorsden.com/jacquesfleury.

Poetry from Azemina Krehic

Young light skinned woman with long ragged dark hair, brown eyes, and a low cut top.
Azemina Krehic

THEN WHEN DEATH LAUGHED AT US

Under the cold, our fingers shrink like lips before the astringency

while we are biting into fresh quinces.

We push our palms into the deep openings of the coats

 – everyone in their warm pocket fireplaces,

earlobes and nose tips are witnessing the sharpness of the wind,

saying; Hurry home,

so we don’t stand here,

 it’s always cooler by the water!

 Don’t come back to hug me,

I’ll see you another day.

Now, hurry and get up there,

it’s cold by the water!

Azemina Krehić was born on October 14, 1992 in Metković, Republic of Croatia. Winner of several international awards for poetry, including: Award of university professors in Trieste, 2019.,„Mak Dizdar“ award, 2020. Award of the Publishing Foundation of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2021. „Fra Martin Nedić“ Award, 2022. She is represented in several international anthologies of poetry.

Essay from Ali Akramov

Effect of floods on geological processes in mountains

 National University of Uzbekistan

 Faculty of Hydrometeorology

 1st year student Akramova Shiringul

 Furqatjon’s daughter.

 e-mail: akramovali32@gmail.com

 Phone: +998995524473

 Abstract: Floods have a great influence on the geological processes in the mountains. As a result of the movement of the floods, complex processes such as decay, washing, erosion occur in the mountains. This causes the geological composition of the mountains to change.

Key words: floods, geological processes, terrain, meteorological phenomena, hydrological conditions, ponds, physiography.

Key words: floods, geological processes, terrain, meteorological phenomena, hydrological conditions, ponds, physiography.

Key words: flooding, geological processes, relief, meteorological phenomena,
Hydrological conditions, water, physiography.


 Floods are caused by various geophysical mechanisms in a wide range and of great power. Objectives are considered on geological time and space scales, but the main criteria of climatic, topographical and geological factors of the channel predictably influence and limit the size and extent of local floods in floodplains. Many of these effects are specific and not topographical or climatic, with damage, for example, local correlation of specific types of floods. But some are less specific measures, including geological control over the time, location, connection and magnitude of natural dam failures. In this paper, we describe the main factors that affect the magnitude or insignificance of floods and how these factors vary temporally and spatially over geologic time and spatial scales. 

Or risks are addressed. Even experienced hydrologists and geologists each consider floods to be of scientific interest beyond modern experience, such as the Pleistocene Missoula floods. Such large floods are unique. 1. Due to its uniqueness and role in shaping the landscape, it played an interesting and dramatic role in phrasing 2. Flashes for inquiry and debate, but they are not and usually considered. Normal geophysical component 3. Certificate behavior. 

But really, floods of any size and source can be considered a geological process on the same level as any other Earth system, so tectonics and the atmosphere have attributes, causes, effects, and even correlations. Causes processes such as circulation. Practitioners of paleoflood hydrology, who study floods of various scales and in different geologic periods and environments [Kochel et al. Baker, 1982], well-placed rates and the evaluation, description, and even quantification of these correlations. Indeed, many of the articles in this volume present examples of floods that occur under certain conditions as a result of these geological, physiographic, and climatic interactions. The purpose of this paper is to provide a general context for individual paleoflood studies on landscapes. 

Systematic characterization of the spatial and temporal distribution of large floods and flood-causing mechanisms can thus provide a framework for the ecological status of floods and floods in Earth’s history. These results are consistent with the vapor and physical limits for surface flooding determined from total snow. A closer look at flood-generating processes From an empirical perspective, the magnitude, duration, and extent of river floods vary greatly depending on the source mechanism, global location, geology, and physiography, but despite this variation, how large a flood is.

There are real physical limits to what can be. Meteorological floods are caused by various types of storms that deliver a volume of water up to 1011 m3 for several days or weeks, as well as from seasonally stable climatic conditions that deliver more than 1012 m3 for several weeks or months, and the highest leads to flow. As much as 105 m³/s in large, continental-scale basins. The main limits for meteorological flooding depend, first of all, on the level and volume of precipitation, as well as on the efficiency of distribution of precipitation concentrates to channel networks. 

Global and US flood records show that primarily for basins affected by individual storms, the largest flows occur in areas where atmospheric moisture or storm tracks are intercepted by local topographic relief.For larger basins, the largest fluxes result from seasonally stable climate patterns and, on a global basis, tend to be in tropical regions with more moisture. The contribution of high-relief topography to meteorological flooding is particularly noteworthy because of its dual effects of (1) raising atmospheric moisture, thereby increasing local precipitation, and (2) facilitating more rapid concentration of runoff into channels. 

Floods from dam failures and terrestrial fresh water sources such as lakes and glaciers have similar total volumes to meteorological floods, up to 1013 m3, but larger 2-107 m³/s with waste. During the Pleistocene Ice Age, glaciers and changing hydrologic conditions disrupted drainage systems, causing the largest well-documented dam floods to breach ice dams and basin divides of the Great Lakes. From the Global perspective, the magnitude, duration, and extent of river floods vary greatly depending on the source mechanism, global location, geology, and physiography, but despite this variation, there are real physical limits to how large a flood can be. 

Meteorological floods are caused by various types of storms that deliver a volume of water up to 1011 m3 for several days or weeks, as well as from seasonally stable climatic conditions that deliver more than 1012 m3 for several weeks or months, and the highest leads to flow. As much as 105 m³/s in large, continental-scale basins. The main limits for meteorological flooding depend, first of all, on the level and volume of precipitation, as well as on the efficiency of distribution of precipitation concentrates to channel networks.

Global and US Water Regulations indicate that the largest runoff for a basin affected by individual storms in the first instance is when atmospheric moisture or storm tracks are intercepted by topography. For the larger basins, the largest fluxes result from seasonal climate conditions and occur in the tropics, where there is more moisture on a global basis. The contribution of relief topography to meteorological flooding is particularly high because of its two-fold effect of (1) raising atmospheric moisture, thereby increasing precipitation, and (2) concentrating flow movement into channels.  

Floods from external dams and terrestrial freshwater sources such as lakes and glaciers have total volumes similar to meteorological floods, up to 1013 m3, but less than 2-107 m³/s. L is greater. With. The Pleistocene glacial reglaciations disrupted fluctuating hydrologic resource systems, leading to the failure of ice dams and basin divides of the Great Lakes, the largest well-documented dam floods. From the Global perspective, the magnitude of river floods, a very global place, varies with water volume and power source mechanism, geology, and physiography, but depending on the difference, there are real physical limits to how large flood transport can be. Meteor floods are caused by seasonal climatic conditions of several days or weeks up to 1011 3, while the control of the water volume is different, leads to big. As much as 105 m³/s in large, continental-scale basins.

The main limits for meteorological flooding depend, first of all, on the level and volume of precipitation, as well as on the efficiency of distribution of precipitation concentrates to channel networks. Global and US flood records show that primarily for basins affected by individual storms, the largest flows occur in areas where atmospheric moisture or storm tracks are intercepted by local topographic relief. 

For larger basins, the largest fluxes result from seasonally stable climate patterns and, on a global basis, tend to be in tropical regions with more moisture. The contribution of high-relief topography to meteorological flooding is particularly noteworthy because of its dual effects of (1) raising atmospheric moisture, thereby increasing local precipitation, and (2) facilitating more rapid concentration of runoff into channels. 

Floods from dam failures and terrestrial fresh water sources such as lakes and glaciers have similar total volumes to meteorological floods, up to 1013 m3, but larger 2-107 m³/s with waste. During the Pleistocene Ice Age, glaciers and changing hydrologic conditions disrupted drainage systems, causing the largest well-documented dam floods to breach ice dams and basin divides of the Great Lakes. 

From the Global perspective, the magnitude, duration, and extent of river floods vary greatly depending on the source mechanism, global location, geology, and physiography, but despite this variation, there are real physical limits to how large a flood can be. Meteorological floods are caused by various types of storms that deliver a volume of water up to 1011 m3 for several days or weeks, as well as from seasonally stable climatic conditions that deliver more than 1012 m3 for several weeks or months, and the highest leads to flow. As much as 105 m³/s in large, continental-scale basins. The main limits for meteorological flooding depend, first of all, on the level and volume of precipitation, as well as on the efficiency of distribution of precipitation concentrates to channel networks. 

Global and US flood records show that primarily for basins affected by individual storms, the largest flows occur in areas where atmospheric moisture or storm tracks are intercepted by local topographic relief. For larger basins, the largest fluxes result from seasonally stable climate patterns and, on a global basis, tend to be in tropical regions with more moisture. The contribution of high-relief topography to meteorological flooding is particularly noteworthy because of its dual effects of (1) raising atmospheric moisture, thereby increasing local precipitation, and (2) facilitating more rapid concentration of runoff into channels. 

Floods from dam failures and terrestrial fresh water sources such as lakes and glaciers have similar total volumes to meteorological floods, up to 1013 m3, but larger 2-107 m³/s with waste. During the Pleistocene Ice Age, glaciers and changing hydrologic conditions disrupted drainage systems, causing the largest well-documented dam floods to breach ice dams and basin divides of the Great Lakes.

From the Global perspective, the magnitude, duration, and extent of river floods vary greatly depending on the source mechanism, global location, geology, and physiography, but despite this variation, there are real physical limits to how large a flood can be. Meteorological floods are caused by various types of storms that deliver a volume of water up to 1011 m3 for several days or weeks, as well as from seasonally stable climatic conditions that deliver more than 1012 m3 for several weeks or months, and the highest leads to flow. As much as 105 m³/s in large, continental-scale basins. The main limits for meteorological flooding depend, first of all, on the level and volume of precipitation, as well as on the efficiency of distribution of precipitation concentrates to channel networks.


REFERENCES

 1.E. Costa, U.S. Geological Survey, 10615 Sf Cherry Blossom

Dr., Portland OR, 97216.

G. E. Grant, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research

Station, 3200 Jefferson Way, Corvallis. OR 97331

lE. O’Connor, U.S. Geological Survey, 10615 SE Cherry

1990 Blossom Dr., Portland OR, 97216. (oconnor(usgsgov)

Poetry from J.J. Campbell

Middle aged white man with a beard standing in a bedroom with posters on the walls
J.J. Campbell

———————————————————————————

seeking ghosts

i sometimes think

of my life as trying

to play jazz in a

world of strip clubs

and heavy metal

i’m a neon light

weaving through

broken glass and

burnt spoons

an old man on a

porch seeking ghosts

that may or may not

have ever existed

the lonesome howl

of a saxophone in

the rain

frank always had a

way of making me

stop and ponder just

how deep did i want

the pool to be

it’s a birthday

spent in a cemetery

but it’s not the

tombstone i was

hoping for

———————————————————–

another excuse to get depressed

i come from a long

line of radicals

irreverent assholes

hell bent on drinking

away the pain

let’s go fuck like

the fish in the indian

ocean

let’s go dance naked

on the north pole

let’s go march through

the streets of los angeles

chanting for a better

tomorrow that doesn’t

exist

another birthday

another excuse to get

depressed

another night spent

alone

———————————————————————

the never-ending chaos of the world

it’s every night

alone in bed trying

to sleep through the

pain of life, death,

old bones and the

never-ending chaos

of the world

there’s a part of

you that longs for

death more than

the other part is

willing to take

three steps into

the great wide

open and live

a little

there’s no room

for broken souls

any longer

they are being

replaced by robots

and dogs that need

batteries

there’s no gold

at the end of any

rainbow

not even a little

fucker dressed

in green

—————————————————————–

ever dreamed about dunking

i remember being the

only white kid on my

basketball team and

we were at a summer

camp as a team

and one of my black

teammates noticed i

was the only white

kid that wasn’t in

the free throw finals

he asked why was that

i said you guys never

allow me to get in the

paint

i have to stand out here

and shoot threes all game

let’s have a three-point

contest and see who the

fuck wins that

i then asked why there

weren’t any black guys

in the free throw finals

he didn’t answer

instead he asked me

if i ever dreamed

about dunking

i said no

have you ever dreamed

about being automatic

from thirty-four feet

he laughed and asked

have you

i chuckled and said

i don’t have to dream

that

i’m good from wherever

i am in the gym

he dared me to shoot

from where i was

forty feet from the

basket

i took two dribbles

and let it fly

i banked it in because

i could

——————————————————————–

take secrets to the grave

the spanish princess

and i trade war stories

of childhoods torn apart

way too soon

and i know each confession

is a test of my loyalty

but she knows i take secrets

to the grave if asked to

but she also knows i am

capable of burning bridges

and completely erasing a

soul from my memory

with a snap of the fingers

her eyes are smoldering

and she wishes to smother

me with her breasts

i laugh and curse all

the miles between us

one day, before the

tumors take us all

we will meet

lock lips

and come back up

for air a few days

later

J.J. Campbell (1976 – ?) is trapped in suburbia, plotting his escape. He’s been widely published over the years, most recently at Horror Sleaze Trash, The Beatnik Cowboy, The Asylum Floor, Misfit Magazine and Disturb the Universe Magazine. You can find him most days on his mildly entertaining blog, evil delights. (https://evildelights.blogspot.com)

Poetry from Stephen Jarrell Williams

The Space Maker


1
"Moon Walker"


Never dreamed
I would find myself
here


after so many years of life
on tender Mother Earth


rubberized boots
walking
and breathing through a mini globe


marvelling at the skin of the moon
a pitted and quiet
barren buffer against a cast
of stones and new discoveries 


almost soundless
but eerie


as the distant horizon
takes on a reddest hue
bringing me to a stop


red smoke creeping toward me
settling over the mouths of craters


what could be burning
and where is it coming from?


I quicken my slow plodding
and come to the edge of a gaping crater


slow smoke reddish into a dull pink
coming out of a cave on the far wall


I consider climbing down
but something whooshes out of the cave
and flies over me


I duck
looking up as it passes


a Nazi insignia on the bottom
of an old flying saucer


war seems to be everywhere 


I turn and face the sphere of earth
out there in dark space
so near I feel
I could touch it


seemingly nothing ever changes


so I wake up and wonder why
there's someone's blood in my bed.



2
Spinning


Sweet earth of blue
what have we done to you


I stand on your sister moon


squinting through space
over to your sphere


my slow spinning
mother earth
turning into a lonely


immense skull


but the great change is coming
earth reborn
with God's people.



3
Soon


All the land of all the people
all the years settled and dying


so many believing
sky, sea, and sacred places


and prayers and rapture
of saints to heavenly clouds


the Word
directing
footfall and stars


The Space Maker.