Word: exploitationism
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It is easy to see foreshadowings of Major Barbara and Pygmalion in this play. It deals with the exploitation of the poor and the mind-set of a middle class which believes that it is "powerless to alter the state of society," and so will not even try.
The clock cannot be turned back, despite the current political exploitation of old-fashioned family values. "The isolated nuclear family of the 1950s was a small blip on the radar," says Wolfe. "We've been looking at it as normal, but in fact it was a fascinating anomaly." While a...
Most Americans got their first glimpse of the "new" Al Gore during the Democratic National Convention last July, when the vice-presidential candidate recounted his six-year-old son's brush with death and his family's journey of emotional healing. Some sneered at Gore's revelations about family counseling...
Speakers said they wanted to raise awareness of what they called European colonists' exploitation of non-whites which began with Colombus' "discovery" of the Americas.
The decimation come to a such a point that in 1511, de las Casas approached the king to request that he allow Africans to be brought into America for the sole purpose of work. This act set the precedent for the enslavement of African peoples throughout America. So Columbus' "discovery...