Word: strife
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...divergent ends of the political, economic and social spectrum during Nepal’s civil war and democratic revolution. The prejudices and sufferings depicted in these films serve to underscore and pay homage to the women’s resilience. They depict sexual violence, poverty, political instability, and community strife, but do not seek to perpetuate the idea of women as helpless victims. About her documentary, Bassford says, “Really it’s a film about the courage to stand up to injustice, about having courage to act on your conscience and to initiate change, and [Patsy...
...about six American dollars—for “full-service.” Despite the seemingly unique living situation, the normalcy of the characters’ condition is apparent, highlighted by the wonderfully realistic Filipino home and the convincingly resigned attitude the characters take toward their strife. The noise of motorbikes and jeepneys permeate many scenes, capturing the desperate chaos of the city. The sex is graphic—blow jobs are not faked, full nudity is not uncommon—but it does not possess the showiness or glamour of its Hollywood equivalent, and every sexual scene...
...Indeed, the strife caused by the credit crunch only heightens the importance of economic unity. A shared currency, cross-national lending, and numerous Western investments in the East intrinsically link the welfares of European countries. Should one country go under, the detrimental effects felt across the whole of Europe would be monumental. To an even greater extent, the well-being of the European Union as a whole depends on the respectable performance of each constituent member. Failure to remain united may breed disillusionment with Western capitalism and leave Eastern Europe dangerously susceptible to Russian influences. Thus, for the sake...
This Faustian bargain bears frightening parallels to the superfluous addition of Maine to the Union as a free state prompted by the addition of Missouri as a slave state in the Missouri Compromise of 1820. Although it is unlikely that our current factional strife will plunge us into the bloody maelstrom that put to rest the question of free states versus slave states, it speaks ill of our democracy that we are now seeing our two parties resorting to the peacekeeping shenanigans employed by their Democratic and Whig forebearers...
...have time to sit with their children and research crops, assuming they’re even literate. But the XO is not a gimmick cure-all. OLPC is not even a laptop program. It’s an education and communication program: the key to smashing cycles of strife. In the long run, this is the right way to go. And, in the long run, they’re not all dead: The global south is not quite the dark abyss of despair the North Atlantic media hypes it up to be: Most people in developing countries find ways...