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...stories climax with a confrontation between two archetypal characters. One is often an entitled southern lady with a superior attitude, while the other figure is typically of a lower-class, seemingly ignorant or naïve. The tension gradually builds throughout the story until it is released when the working-class character suddenly attacks or humiliates his privileged counterpart. This kind of reversal, which occurs so often in O’Connor’s work, not only highlights the sinful arrogance of humanity but also overturns the social dynamics of Southern society. The condensed structure of the short story...
...refusal to accept commonly held beliefs that made his work so beautiful. Unlike many others, he refused to tolerate the notion that inner-city students were incapable of learning. Escalante, whose inspirational story was the basis for the 1988 film Stand and Deliver, died March 30 at 79 after a years-long battle with bladder cancer. Upon arriving in the U.S. from Bolivia, Escalante studied English at night to earn his California teaching credentials. At Garfield High School, he found that his primarily Mexican-American working-class students were oppressed by a culture of low expectations, and he began...
That down-to-earth attitude is the product of Kitano's working-class background. A childhood math whiz and boxer (embodying the combination of brains and brawn for which his films are famous), he dropped out of university, eventually becoming a comic and actor. He began directing films in 1989, attributing his ensuing success as a filmmaker to what he saw as a "lack of self-discipline" in the Japanese film industry. "That has led them to suffer from [a director] like myself," he says, "a complete outsider." He applies similar self-deprecation to his painting. When he took...
...even flatter. It is not merely the old, poor, and vulnerable who lack access to quality insurance and care today. Those who suffer from the high costs and limited scope of the system are seemingly some of the most “vital” groups in the country: working-class families and young, self-employed entrepreneurs. Those who are un-wealthy are at high risk to be unhealthy, but those who merely work hard outside government and corporate safety nets also need a powerful dose of reform. It’s difficult to say we’re doing...
...wanted to draw up a candidate for a party that needs to stop alienating young, Hispanic, Catholic and working-class voters and start inspiring its dispirited base of fiscal and social conservatives, Rubio would be it. He's the son of Cuban exiles, a bartender and a hotel maid who raised him to remember that faith matters, work pays and politics can stifle liberty in a big way. He's married to a former Miami Dolphins cheerleader, and he's got four young children. He's only 5 ft. 9 in. and 160 lb., with a sweet-faced earnestness that...