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Unlucky Jim
Conrad’s fiction often focuses on luck, particularly on moral luck—those happenings that exceed our control but affect our standing in the world nonetheless. Such luck has a key bearing on the moral intelligibility of plot and character in Lord Jim. This is a novel that supports two sides of a paradox: morality should and should not be influenced by the vagaries of luck. There is no obvious resolution to this double vision in Conrad and it leads him to question the coherence of morality as a general system. He also doubts—however paradoxically—its basic fairness. If luck is all-pervasive, then justice itself is unjust.
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The golden goose
Farmer Skint and his family on Woebegone Farm have fallen on hard times, but their luck changes with the arrival of a special golden goose.
Book
Making Asian American Film and Video
The words \"Asian American film\" might evoke a painfully earnest, low-budget documentary or family drama, destined to be seen only in small film festivals or on PBS (Public Broadcasting Service). In her groundbreaking study of the past fifty years of Asian American film and video, Jun Okada demonstrates that although this stereotype is not entirely unfounded, a remarkably diverse range of Asian American filmmaking has emerged. Yet Okada also reveals how the legacy of institutional funding and the \"PBS style\" unites these filmmakers, whether they are working within that system or setting themselves in opposition to its conventions.
Making Asian American Film and Videoexplores how the genre has served as a flashpoint for debates about what constitutes Asian American identity. Tracing a history of how Asian American film was initially conceived as a form of public-interest media, part of a broader effort to give voice to underrepresented American minorities, Okada shows why this seemingly well-intentioned project inspired deeply ambivalent responses. In addition, she considers a number of Asian American filmmakers who have opted out of producing state-funded films, from Wayne Wang to Gregg Araki to Justin Lin.
Okada gives us a unique behind-the-scenes look at the various institutions that have bankrolled and distributed Asian American films, revealing the dynamic interplay between commercial and state-run media. More than just a history of Asian Americans in film,Making Asian American Film and Videois an insightful meditation on both the achievements and the limitations of institutionalized multiculturalism.
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Did I ever tell you how lucky you are?
Compared to the problems of some of the creatures an old man describes, the boy in this story is really quite lucky.
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\Just Say No\: Eden Robinson and Gabor Maté on Moral Luck and Addiction
Dr. Gabor Maté's In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts and Eden Robinson's short story \"Contact Sports\" and subsequent novel Blood Sports can be read as critiques of the War on Drugs and its slogan, Just Say No. This essay examines how Maté's and Robinson's discussions of addiction and drug culture in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside reflect Bernard Williams's and Thomas Nagel's conception of moral luck.
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The Next Great Paulie Fink
Led by new student Caitlyn, seventh-graders at a tiny rural school in Vermont create a reality-show inspired competition to determine who will replace the school's legendary class clown, Paulie Fink.
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