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Benny Wins Powerball

By Erin Gough

Benny wins the Powerball and faces pressure from his siblling to share his winnings.

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In Australasia Tags: family, child-rearing, Irony, luck, cruelty

The Doll’s House

By Katherine Mansfield

The Burnell children are eager to show off their new doll house to the children in their class. All are allowed to come and see it, except for the Kelvey children, who are shunned because they come from a poor family.

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In Australasia Tags: social class, bullying, social mobility

The Accident

By Murong Xuecun

A lawyer is drunk behind the wheel and collides with a poor farmer on a motorbike. He is able to shift the blame for the incident onto the farmer by calling on his connections in the police.

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In Australasia Tags: corruption, false consciousness, social class, truth

In a Grove

By Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

A corpse has been found in a grove. The story relates seven different accounts of what allegedly happened. Why do these witness accounts diverge? What is the truth of the matter?

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In Australasia Tags: morality, self-interest, self-deception, perspective, truth, rape

The Postmaster

By Rabindranath Tagore

A Calcutta native takes up the position of postmaster in a small village and strikes up a friendship with his servant girl. When he decides to return to Calcutta the girl asks him to take her with him and is heart-broken when he refuses.

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In Australasia Tags: love, social class, neurochemistry, relations, relationships

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  • Ambition 1
  • Irony 1
  • Love 1
  • Manic-Depression 1
  • abortion 1
  • arranged marriage 1
  • authority 1
  • bullying 1
  • child marriage 1
  • child-rearing 8
  • compassion 1
  • conscience 1
  • corruption 1
  • courage 1
  • cruelty 11
  • culture 4
  • dignity 4
  • discrimination 6
  • domestic abuse 1
  • empathy 4
  • exploitation 2
  • false consciousness 1
  • family 1
  • feminism 7
  • forced marriage 1
  • gender 2
  • genocide 1
  • happiness 1
  • health 1
  • holocaust 1
  • incarceration 1
  • insanity 1
  • irony 2
  • love 1
  • luck 3
  • manipulation 1
  • meaning of life 2
  • medical ethics 1
  • migration 1
  • mixed marriage 1
  • morality 1
  • murder of tyrants 1
  • neurochemistry 1
  • paternalism 1
  • perspective 1
  • photojournalism 1
  • poverty 4
  • prostitution 3
  • public health 3
  • race 3

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