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the one that broke my heart
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consider my body
All I know about human bodies, I know from my own. I know hair can be coily, ears can be lobeless, chins can be multiple, stomachs can be full, waists can have stretch marks, thighs can have cellulite, feet can be cracked, and skin can be darker than walnut wood.
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separating needs from rights
Alkire (2002) proposes that human development is the growth in individuals’ and societies’ potential to pursue political, economic, social, public, and private freedoms. For this growth to happen, empowerment is central in each of the aforementioned sectors. Each of these areas needs to be considered when seeking methods that affect
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the shrimp girl
The Shrimp Girl is a 25 by 20-inch oil on canvas portrait created by William Hogarth (1697 - 1764) between 1740 and 1745. This painting is distinct from Hogarth’s oeuvre of mostly satirical and conversation pieces about modern moral subjects such as Marriage a-la-mode and The Strode Family, respectively.
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dirty pretty things (2002)
Stephen Frears’ film Dirty Pretty Things (2002) portrays the austerities in the lives of both legal and illegal UK immigrants. Frears’ foreign-born characters reveal how Britain’s rigid immigration system neglects the needs of most non-European immigrants, which in turn handicaps their pursuit of British citizenship. Among several reasons, the
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when worship misses the mark
On Saturday mornings in our house, things got chaotic. As soon as the sun rose, my brother began aggressively washing our car and my mother seized the opportunity to wrestle with the silverware in our kitchen. My sisters rushed to wake up too, but only to start squabbling over who
a writer's wonderland
I have a sobering relationship with writing. Every time I sit down to write, it’s like I’m re-entering another world - will I belong or won’t I belong? Each time I arrive at this world’s gates, I am handed the same survival kit that contains 26
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king Charles I on the hunt
In 1635, Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641) painted King Charles I (1600 - 1649) on a hunt in an archetypical baroque canvas oil painting. English portraiture was steadily adopting baroque from Catholic countries, like Italy and France, in the 1600s (Praz, 171). Van Dyck was a Flemish painter with