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Laundry day
\"Two bored badgers have run out of things to do until their mom suggests they help with the laundry\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Work it out wombats!. Episode 2, Snout wash day
Work It Out Wombats! follows a playful trio of marsupial siblings -- Malik, Zadie, and Zeke -- who live with their grandmother (named Super!) in a fantastical treehouse apartment complex. The Treeborhood is home to a diverse and quirky community of neighbors who just happen to be wombats, snakes, moose, kangaroos, iguanas, fish, tarsiers, and eagles! Each day drops a new challenge into the Wombats' laps, requiring them to find, debug, fix, order (then re-order) -- and create, test, and re-create when things don't go according to plan. But thanks to their creativity and collaborative spirit, their sense of family, and the role they play within the larger Treeborhood community -- as problem-solvers, friends, and neighbors -- the Wombats always win the day. Episode 2: Because Zeke won't let go of his beloved stuffy, and because Malik wrecks the instructions, Operation \"Wash Stinky Snout!\" doesn't go as planned. And the Wombats ask their friends for help in making a special Thank You treat for Super.
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Monday is wash day
\"In this timeless story from a time not so long ago, Annie and her sister help Mama with washing the clothes on Monday morning. From gathering and sorting the clothes, to washing and hanging them outside to dry, to folding and putting them away, the family works together to get the job done.\"--Amazon.com
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“A right kind of rogue”: Lisa McInerney’s \The Glorious Heresies\ (2015) and \The Blood Miracles\ (2017)
The following article analyzes two novels, published recently by a new, powerful voice in Irish fiction, Lisa McInerney: her critically acclaimed debut \"The Glorious Heresies\" (2015) and its continuation \"The Blood Miracles\" (2017). McInerney’s works can be distinguished by the crucial qualities of the Irish Noir genre. \"The Glorious Heresies\" and \"The Blood Miracles\" are presented from the perspective of a middle-aged “right-rogue” heroine, Maureen Phelan. Due to her violent and law-breaking revenge activities, such as burning down the institutions signifying Irishwomen’s oppression (i.e. the church and a former brothel) and committing an involuntary murder, Maureen remains a multi-dimensional rogue character, not easily definable or even identifiable. The focal character’s narrative operates around the abuse of unmarried, young Irish mothers of previous generations who were coerced to give up their “illegitimate” children for adoption and led a solitary existence away from them. The article examines other “options” available to “fallen women” (especially unmarried mothers) in Ireland in the mid-twenty century, such as the Magdalene Laundries based on female slave work, and sending children born “out of wedlock” abroad, or to Mother and Baby Homes with high death-rates. Maureen’s rage and her need for retaliation speak for Irish women who, due to the Church-governed moral code, were held in contempt both by their families and religious authorities. As a representative of the Irish noir genre, McInerney’s fiction depicts the narrative of “rogue” Irish motherhood in a non-apologetic, ironic, irreverent and vengeful manner.
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Don't wash Winston
When Liam's favorite teddy bear, Winston, gets muddy and needs to be washed, he plots to save his friend from the terrible fate of the big, loud, scary washing machine.
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Reading Privacy Journal's Mail - Stranger Than Fiction
Two. A delightful filler about a con man doing time at Fort Leavenworth, who worked in the military prison laundry.
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Gender Trouble in The Long Day
The American author is a turn-of-the-century prototype for Barbara Ehrenreich: The Long Day exposes the poor working conditions of so-called unskilled jobs and the near impossibility of surviving on their wages in much the same manner that Ehrenreich's New York Times bestseller Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America (2001) later would. Working-class fiction is difficult to define given the amorphous yet fundamentally binary construction of class, but it is a broad genre that has generated a wealth of scholarship.1 Yezierska's fiction, for instance, has received renewed attention from feminists, labor historians, and scholars of ethnic American literature since the 1970s (Hefner 188). More than a century after it chronicled a nameless woman's attempts to make a living as a housekeeper, a box maker, a manufacturer of artificial flowers, and a laundry worker, The Long Day lends insight and nuance into feminist analyses of early twentieth-century modernity and the New Woman in America, to include a clear picture of privileged women's perceptions of female workers.
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Books in a Sliver of Sunlight
Ellis have five kids, ages ten to eighteen. She had changed a lot of diapers, cooked pounds of macaroni and cheese, and sung They Might Be Giants songs hundreds of times. She hung out at playgrounds, dog paddled in pools, and pushed crowded strollers across town. She made mistake after mistake (hello, leaving the laundry room sink running for hours, locking herself and two toddlers in a bedroom, falling down her front steps and hoping someone would call the ambulance so she could rest in the hospital), but looking back, she can see one thing that she knows she did right. She blames her mother.
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Dystopias and Machines
Most people in the twentieth century are no enemies to technology and machines; the concept of progress has come to mean for them sudden improvements in our gadgets. Inevitably, they virtually idolize the latest battery-run screwdrivers and self-cleaning ovens, CD players and VCRs, computers and golf carts, security systems and automated tellers. In short, technology is not in the least unsavory, as were topics like cannibalism and excrement.
Yet, we are just a bit uncomfortable about our robots, motors, and utensils. Everyone of us has at times fantasized about (and paranoically dreaded) some incredible instrument panel of an awful contrivance
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