Showing posts with label poverty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poverty. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 14

Many divides

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Imagination can separate or connect individuals, leading to resentment or harmony - as suggested by  the enticing theme of Cristina Henríque...
Thursday, August 3

Resilience

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A child can develop resilience despite domestic violence, neglect and abandonment, poverty and inequality. In Hang the Moon by Jeannette Wa...
Saturday, April 29

Protection

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Lying is inevitable in the context of war, poverty, inequality.  The lying continues even when the context changes, wars end and years pass ...
Thursday, November 10

Battling the grotesque

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Most readers quickly and rightly reject novels that detail abuse of animals, children or other vulnerable populations. Reading about systemi...
Monday, October 24

Abandoned

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  The Foundling, set in 1927 at a state institution in Central Pennsylvania, is modeled after the real Laurelton State Village for Feeble-Mi...
Saturday, January 15

Rescue

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A 7.0 magnitude earthquake strikes Port-au-Prince in January 2010, a place already so desperately poor, prompting survivors to scramble to r...
Monday, January 27

Corruption

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The future of Afghanistan is in jeopardy, because of poor governance and basic hunger.  UN data suggest that 55 percent of the country...
Saturday, October 13

Poverty

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Data from the CIA offer one strange look into the relativity of national poverty. The definitions of poverty vary wildly among nations...