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Nick Harris has been drifting for years -- until the day he finds himself amid red dirt and razor wire, a refugee-prison guard in a detention centre. Nick is no crusader and no bleeding-heart. He's just a man in debt who needs a job. Time passes slowly behind the wire, no matter who you are. To distract themselves, the asylum seekers tell Nick about their lives and cultures, and the families they have left behind. They steal from him with good humour, and swear at him with bad. Nick breaks all the rules: slacking off when he guards the cordial machine, swimming with crocodiles, brawling with locals, romancing workmates. And then there is the cardinal sin -- becoming friends with the detainees. The novel is a realistic window into the hidden world of immigration detention centres, drawn from the experience of a former guard. It is one man's vision, looking through the wire at the people locked inside our desert prisons, and looking out at the people who put them there.
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Israeli security guard describes Hamas attack on kibbutz
Shai Asher, 50, a security guard and resident of Kibbutz Kissufim, described to The Washington Post how he and fellow residents fought off Hamas attackers in their village on October 7.
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Lured by the American Dream
Starting in 1952, the United States Navy and Coast Guard actively
recruited Filipino men to serve as stewards--domestic servants for
officers. Oral histories and detailed archival research inform P.
James Paligutan's story of the critical role played by Filipino
sailors in putting an end to race-based military policies.
Constrained by systemic exploitation, Filipino stewards responded
with direct complaints to flag officers and chaplains, rating
transfer requests that flooded the bureaucracy, and refusals to
work. Their actions had a decisive impact on seagoing military's
elimination of the antiquated steward position. Paligutan looks at
these Filipino sailors as agents of change while examining the
military system through the lens of white supremacy, racist
perceptions of Asian males, and the motives of Filipinos who joined
the armed forces of the power that had colonized their nation.
Insightful and dramatic, Lured by the American Dream is
the untold story of how Filipino servicepersons overcame tradition
and hierarchy in their quest for dignity.
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Tolkien's Invasion of Dragons
Throughout his life, Tolkien's works demonstrate a particular interest in the heroic legendary past and how the memory of such tales can enlighten and vivify society. In his own writings on dragons, adventures, and legendary tales (both historical and fictional), Tolkien participates in the restoration of our memories of the high and the perilous.
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Intermediary and Comics
This article deals with the relationship between comics and intermediality (the interaction or relation between two media) as well as transmediality (the migration from one medium to another). It defends the idea that inter-and transmediality are inextricably linked and that the interaction between them can shed new light on either dimension, in order to broaden the idea of intermediality (which cannot be reduced to a matter of taxonomy but entails important historical aspects) and that of transmediality (which should include discussions on power relationships between media). The article uses the examples of Jije and Watchmen. It also aims at emphasising the wide variety of parameters that play a role in inter- and transmediality. Keywords: drawn novel, grammatextuality, graphiation, intermediality, remediation, transmediality
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