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...want to be a maid or a babysitter," says an 8-year-old over a soggy school lunch in east London. Her school's neighborhood includes large Turkish, Asian and West Indian communities, where there is little tradition of higher education, especially for girls. Many parents speak English as a second language. Although the school's academic record has improved, most of its students have little chance of going on to university. The picture is similar in working-class white communities, where many children follow the family tradition of leaving school at 16 to take up an unskilled...
...year ago, a series of newspaper reports about children committing suicide after their parents had gone to work abroad shocked the country. One of them was 12-year-old Andrei Ciurea, who stayed behind with his brothers, aged 16 and 17, when his mother left to work as a maid in Italy. Newspapers printed a note reading "I am sorry that we have to part in dispute ... Sister keep going to school, Mom take care of the house for the world is bad ... Please take care of my puppy...
...exhibitions also reveal how much Hitler loathed the Rothschilds, the famous Jewish family of financiers and art collectors. An ex-Gestapo officer and biographer, Hansjürgen Koehler, has claimed that Hitler's grandmother once worked as a maid for the Vienna branch of the family, giving rise to rumors that she may have sired a bastard son, Hitler's father, with a Rothschild. Whatever the real reason for his enmity, Hitler, a failed art student, ordered the plunder of Rothschild collections in both Paris and Vienna to help stock his Führermuseum...
...mainstream film and her acute cultural consciousness.A love story with the soul of a documentary, “Expired” follows two parking enforcement officers through Miniucchi’s vision of a real-life relationship. The characters—Samantha Morton plays a meek meter maid and Jason Patric is her embittered leading man—both battle loneliness, alienation, and abuse that comes from ticketed drivers and from each other.“We tried to make an honest film,” Miniucchi said in a question and answer session following...
...runs away from his own birthday presents. 3. Peggy Parish, “Amelia Bedelia”: This series was the funny, smart predecessor to “Mary Poppins” and “The Nanny.” The books follow the woes of Amelia, maid for the wealthy Rogers family, who always interprets her employers’ instructions far too literally and risks her job in the ensuing chaos. Luckily, Amelia’s superb cooking skills somehow always save the day. Moral of the story: when your professional skills fail, ladies, get your apron-wearing...