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Just like always
A girl finds that most things in her life remain the same after her parents' divorce. Includes suggested learning activities.
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Standing on my own two feet : a child's affirmation of love in the midst of divorce
Addison's parents are divorced and he lives in one house with his mom and another with his dad, but one thing he knows above all is that both his parents love him and they always will.
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The Reliability of Sensational Interpretation
In this essay, I observe that scholarly attention towards sensation fiction has heavily relied on historicist readings while overlooking sensation fiction's status as a properly aesthetic phenomenon that immanently theorizes the act of novel reading. I argue that the absorbed reading that is commonly assumed to attend a sensation novel like Lady Audley's Secret (1862) is, paradoxically, sustained by the novel's self-consciously mediative qualities that hold the reader at bay from identification and immersion, instead of plunging her into sensational immediacy. What makes sensation fiction so gratifyingly readable is not the thrills of narrative suspense, but the reliability of the conventions by which it has been read over and again.
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Emily's blue period
After her parents get divorced, Emily finds comfort in making and learning about art.
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oaNarrating Single Lives
Singledom is on the rise in Western countries, including the Netherlands. As representation in popular media is paramount for the way audiences imagine the world and people around them, this article addresses the question: how are single women represented in recent Dutch fiction films and TV series? Existing studies on English-language popular culture from the US and the UK indicate that representation of singledom, and particularly single women in popular media often revolves around a small set of persisting patterns. Singledom usually remains an obstacle to be overcome, following the neoliberal, postfeminist ideals of self-improvement and choice (Taylor, 2012).This article gives an insight into the representation of 36 women, all introduced as singles and aged 16 to 60+, in Dutch fiction films and TV series from 2019-2023. Using an intersectional approach, we analysed the representation of these 36 female characters, regarding their relationship status, age, social class, colour and roots, profession, sexual orientation, and parental status. The results show that there is a lack in diversity, complexity, and potential of these single female characters, who are mainly young, middle class, white, and heterosexual and work in traditional female sectors like Arts and Culture and Health Care. While overall in line with findings in previous research, the results suggest that motherhood is a less prevalent theme than in these previous studies.
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Homesick
Benny's parents are getting divorced, his mom left and his father has become a hoarder, to make matters worse his hometown has been entered into a contest, and now the pressure is on to get the house cleaned up.
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