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Modifying his tone from each story to the next, Bissell captures both the abstractness of human emptiness and the realities of Central Asia. The places in which these Americans find themselves immersed are integral to, and often symbolic of, their plight. From the desolate terrain of Afghanistan to the red-light districts of Russia, Bissell nails the intricacy, even complication, of Central Asia, hitherto mostly ignored by the world of literature...
Although many students commiserate with the janitors’ plight, many do not believe striking is a good plan...
Gumboots performed an energetic Gumboot dance, which dramatizes the working lives of miners in South Africa’s oppressive apartheid government. Dressed in overalls and boots, the dancers were incredibly moving as they portrayed the plight of Black South Africa...
...also urges the federal government to be prepared to carry out a mass evacuation if state and local officials can?t do so. That means making sure states and locals have (and rehearse) good plans - which must include strategies for dealing with the sick and elderly, whose particular plight after Katrina was one of the most troubling aspects of the relief operations. The report suggests that locals should not get federal disaster money if they have not completed such plans in advance...
...hero to a generation of educated, middle-class women and helped launch the modern feminist movement in the '60s. A co-founder of the National Organization for Women and the group later known as the National Abortion Rights Action League, Friedan eventually switched her attention to the plight of older people and wrote 1993's The Fountain of Age, which explored how the aged were patronized in the same way women had been...