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To Work or Not to Work

By Heinrich Böll

A fisherman encounters a zealous tourist who doesn’t think he’s working hard enough.

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In Europe Tags: Ambition, work, meaning of life, social class, social mobility

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 Lottery in Babylon

By Jorge Luis Borges

Borges describes a world in which all contingencies of life are being determined by a lottery.

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In Latin America Tags: social mobility, luck

tags

  • 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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