Word: parallelisms
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...Jewish. I am American. For the past year, my identities have lived parallel lives. Every night I read the Israeli newspapers hoping that the names of my friends and families would not be listed as victims of the latest murderous act of terrorism. As a Jew, I knew that every bullet was aimed at me as well, that from the perspective of the murderers we were all targets...
Curran says the 91101 Fund’s philosophy—that the workings of local, everyday life are “inextricably linked to the global village”—runs parallel to the ideals of the Harvard Progressive Student Labor Movement and prompted him to contact them as well...
...can’t help but remember a time when those of this country used our own religious texts to justify the slaughter of Native Americans and the enslavement of blacks, just as the terrorists attacked our country in the name of Islam. While these instances might not be parallel, throughout the years, whether we knew about it or not, innocent people of other lands have died as a result of our country’s actions...
...There is no Zheng He parallel in today's China. But perhaps that's a positive sign. Instead of one imperial hero, thousands of ordinary people are doing their part to open the nation to the world. Back in Shanghai, the 2,000 workers on Lansheng's assembly line overseen by manager Gong are molding, stitching and boxing the thousands of shoes, which will then be loaded into the 12-m containers that accumulate at Shanghai's Waigaoqiao port. There, the big shipping lines - American President, Mitsui OSK, Mediterranean Shipping - stack them up and move them out to the world...
Lesson One consisted of Jay familiarizing himself with exactly what I could and could not do, with an emphasis on the latter. He tried to teach me how to parallel park, but I had a great deal of trouble with the backing up part. Jay told me that I was too stiff, that I was taking this driving thing too seriously. “What are you—some kind of investment banker?” he asked...