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I Stand Here Ironing

By Tillie Olsen

A poor single mother reminisces about raising her first-born child.

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In North America Tags: child-rearing, poverty, empathy

The Convert

By Lerone Bennett Jr.

Aaron Lott is killed by the sherif when he challenges segregation in Mississippi. His friend Booker is called upon to tell the truth in court about what happened while risking to lose much that is dear to him.

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In North America Tags: race and ethnicity, discrimination, race, religion

Ysrael

By Junot Diaz

Two brothers set off on a mission to bully a disabled peer.  

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In Latin America, North America Tags: child-rearing, cruelty, discrimination

Advancing Luna – And Ida B. Wells

By Alice Walker

A black civil rights worker reflects on her white friend’s report that she was raped by a black man in the South.

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In North America Tags: rape, race, race and ethnicity, discrimination, feminism

Was it Heaven? Or Hell?

By Mark Twain

Two matron aunts hide from a mother who is ill with typhoid that her child has died from the disease.

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In North America Tags: truth, self-deception, health, child-rearing, religion

The Lottery

By Shirley Jackson

There is an old ritual set in rural small-town America in which a yearly lottery determines who is to be stoned.

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In North America Tags: rituals, tradition, cruelty, luck

The Fugitive

By T. Coraghessan Boyle

A young man of Mexican descent living north of the border has a recurrence of tuberculosis and resists being monitored by health care workers and law enforcement. 

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In North America Tags: medical ethics, public health, incarceration, respect for autonomy, race and ethnicity

Hills like White Elephants

By Ernest Hemingway

A light-hearted conversation between a couple in a bar turns to the question whether she will or will not have an abortion.

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In North America Tags: feminism, paternalism, abortion, relations, respect for autonomy

A Jury of Her Peers

By Susan Glaspell

Mrs. Wright is suspected of murdering her husband and is in detention. A team of men visit the crime scene to conduct an investigation, joined by their wives who find out what really happened.

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In North America Tags: domestic abuse, feminism, respect for autonomy, relations, cruelty

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  • abortion 1
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