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The ten-year nap
What happens in one community when a group of educated women chooses not to work? Four friends are forced to confront the choices they've made in opting out of their careers, until a series of startling events shatters the peace and, for some of them, changes the landscape entirely.
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Relatio : Text Semantics Capture Political and Economic Narratives
Social scientists have become increasingly interested in how narratives —the stories in fiction, politics, and life—shape beliefs, behavior, and government policies. This paper provides an unsupervised method to quantify latent narrative structures in text documents. Our new software package relatio identifies coherent entity groups and maps explicit relations between them in the text. We provide an application to the U.S. Congressional Record to analyze political and economic narratives in recent decades. Our analysis highlights the dynamics, sentiment, polarization, and interconnectedness of narratives in political discourse.
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The heart goes last
\"Margaret Atwood puts the human heart to the ultimate test in an utterly brilliant new novel that is as visionary as The Handmaid's Tale and as richly imagined as The Blind Assassin. Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of an economic and social collapse. Job loss has forced them to live in their car, leaving them vulnerable to roving gangs. They desperately need to turn their situation around and fast. The Positron Project in the town of Consilience seems to be the answer to their prayers. No one is unemployed and everyone gets a comfortable, clean house to live in for six months out of the year. On alternating months, residents of Consilience must leave their homes and function as inmates in the Positron prison system. Once their month of service in the prison is completed, they can return to their \"civilian\" homes. At first, this doesn't seem like too much of a sacrifice to make in order to have a roof over one's head and food to eat. But when Charmaine becomes romantically involved with the man who lives in their house during the months when she and Stan are in the prison, a series of troubling events unfolds, putting Stan's life in danger. With each passing day, Positron looks less like a prayer answered and more like a chilling prophecy fulfilled\"-- Provided by publisher.
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“I Am Sure Glad I Was Not Born in the 30s”: Multigenerational Reactions to Booky’s Great Depression
Bernice Thurman Hunter’s Booky trilogy depicts the economic hardships of a white, working-class girl nicknamed Booky who lived in Toronto, Canada, in the Great Depression. This article analyzes hundreds of letters sent to Hunter from two cohorts of readers: adults who grew up in the 1930s and school-age children coming of age in the 1980s and 1990s. The adult letters brim with details of their own Depression-era childhoods, while young readers express shock at how difficult things were in 1930s and compare Booky’s experiences to their own challenges and privileges. The letters’ revelations demonstrate how readers used a piece of historical fiction to grapple with the past—be it their own childhoods or the history of childhood.
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Ruby Lu, star of the show
Ruby Lu's father loses his job on her first day of third grade, which causes many things in her life to change, and she is willing to do a lot to help out but giving up some things seems impossible.
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Parasite
Winner of 4 Academy Awards, Parasite is the story of a poor family who becomes employed by a wealthy family and infiltrates their household by posing as unrelated, highly qualified individuals.
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The bad weather friend
\"Benny Catspaw's perpetually sunny disposition is tested when he loses his job, his reputation, his fiancée, and his favorite chair. He's not paranoid. Someone is out to get him. He just doesn't know who or why. Then Benny receives an inheritance from an uncle he's never heard of: a giant crate and a video message. All will be well in time. How strange - though it's a blessing, his uncle promises. Stranger yet is what's inside the crate. He's a seven-foot-tall self-described \"bad weather friend\" named Spike whose mission is to help people who are just too good for this world. Spike will take care of it. He'll find Benny's enemies. He'll deal with them. This might be satisfying if Spike wasn't such a menacing presence with terrifying techniques of intimidation. In the company of Spike and a fascinated young waitress-cum-PI-in-training named Harper, Benny plunges into a perilous high-speed adventure, the likes of which never would have crossed the mind of a decent guy like him.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Land Reform, Henry Rider Haggard, and the Politics of Imperial Settlement, 1900–1920
This article considers the links between land reform and emigration through the figure of Henry Rider Haggard and argues that these two issues were deeply intertwined within British politics. Land reform in Britain is often considered as a domestic issue, but imperial campaigners often presented this in terms of the British empire. Haggard campaigned for twenty years for a greater living link to the land in Britain and the empire and believed that this link had profound effects upon English patriotism, character, and health. The imperial frontier had a spirit that improved English character, an idea that Haggard developed in the 1870s and is evident in much of his fiction. Imperial emigration was presented as a patriotic act that aided imperial defence in Australia from Chinese expansion and in South Africa from indigenous opposition. Population was the only way to bolster and defend the empire. Considering his books, speeches, newspaper reviews, and his work for the Royal Colonial Institute, this article argues that British politics and the land between 1900 and 1920 should be considered in an imperial frame. Existing work has neglected the imperial aspect of land reform, and how it was presented by emigration societies, which many imperialists considered an obvious way of dealing with unemployment and increasing urbanization whilst bolstering Greater Britain.
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Distortion of ‘Self-Image’: Effects of Mental Delirium in Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Mountain State Centers for Independent Living states the Self- image is how one perceives oneself. The existence of Self- image is twisted and devoid of human feelings in Bradbury’s future-narrated Post literature universe. It is several numbers of self-impressions that develop over time that creates positive and concurrently unfavourable impacts. In the realm of psychology, Self-image is a pivotal factor in leading a fortunate life. An individual’s impression of himself forms the collective depiction of his strength and weakness. It is quintessential to talk about and compare the Self-image that Bradbury’s era had lived because self-image comprises not only one’s perception but also the intervention of the culture in which they lived. He lived in a timeline with World wars, Nazi book-burning, Stalin’s Great Purge, Nuclear warfare, and the technological development of radio and television. Bradbury found that these elements be disrupting the Self of an individual. This same connection can also be seen developing in the novel, where the government brainwashes the characters and makes them live a pre-programmed life. The interactions between the individuals are artificial and rare; they do not share any sense of feelings or the need to communicate. This diminishing effect of life is the disintegration of Self-image in the novel.
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The Economy as Dynamic Setting and Site of Resilience in Beverly Cleary’s Ramona Series
Though Beverly Cleary was a prolific author of children’s literature over the second half of the twentieth century, her fiction has largely escaped critical attention. This article examines the author’s representation of economic insecurity across her Ramona series, arguing that the economy functions as a dynamic setting that mirrors changes in the US economy throughout the fifty years the series was written. Reading the novels through a social-historical lens illuminates the ways in which Cleary’s novels are simultaneously timeless and firmly rooted in their social contexts. Influenced by her own childhood experiences of economic insecurity, Cleary explores the emotional effect family financial struggles have on children within the context of otherwise \"light\" fiction. Attending to Cleary’s treatment of the economy in her novels reveals the ways in which the author used her fiction to take on the work of authorial alloparenting, normalizing the experience of economic insecurity within families, and modeling personal resilience in the face of difficult circumstances.
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