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Dickens (Charles). Hard times. Bibliographie. --- Dickens (Charles). Hard timles. Bibliografie.

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Thomas Gradgrind is an eminently practical man who believes in facts and statistics and has brought up his two children, Louisa and Tom, accordingly, thoroughly suppressing the imaginative sides of their nature. They are raised in ignorance of love and affection, and the consequences are devastating. No other work of Dickens presents so harsh an indictment against the attitude of life he associated with Utilitarianism. With savage bitterness Dickens exposes the devilish industries and institutions that exploited the bodies and minds of the vulnerable labour class. Roman social, il est situé dans la ville fictive de Coketown (image de Manchester, le grand centre textile, et de Preston où Dickens a séjourné durant la grève de janvier 1854) et montre les difficultés d'adaptation des deux classes sociales (la bourgeoisie d'affaire et les ouvriers) à la nouvelle économie issue de la révolution industrielle. L'auteur y dépeint avec un réalisme dénonciateur une classe ouvrière asservie, misérable et moutonnière, abrutie par le travail répétitif, livrée aux démagogues professionnels, que domine une bourgeoisie pragmatique et utilitariste, avide de profits et de pouvoir, persuadée de la nature quasi divine de ses droits et forte de la bonne conscience qu'elle puise dans les lois de l'économie de marché, mais dont il analyse les alibis et présente les travers avec une ironie mordante.

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Asylum Denied is the gripping story of political refugee David Ngaruri Kenney's harrowing odyssey through the world of immigration processing in the United States. Kenney, while living in his native Kenya, led a boycott to protest his government's treatment of his fellow farmers. He was subsequently arrested and taken into the forest to be executed. This book, told by Kenney and his lawyer Philip G. Schrag from Kenney's own perspective, tells of his near-murder, imprisonment, and torture in Kenya; his remarkable escape to the United States; and the obstacle course of ordeals and proceedings he faced as U.S. government agencies sought to deport him to Kenya. A story of courage, love, perseverance, and legal strategy, Asylum Denied brings to life the human costs associated with our immigration laws and suggests reforms that are desperately needed to help other victims of human rights violations.

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Dickens, Charles, --- Dickens, Charles --- Boz --- Dickens, Charles John Huffam --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Criticism and interpretation --- Dikensi, Čʻarlz, --- Dickens, Karol, --- Dikens, Charlz, --- Ti-keng-ssu, --- Digengsi, --- Dikkens, Charlz, --- Dikensas, Čarlzas, --- Ṭikkan̲s, Cārls, --- Ṭikkan̲cu, Cārlacu, --- Ṭikkan̲s, Cārlas, --- Диккенс, Чарлз, --- דיקינס, צ׳רלס, --- דיקנס, ַ צ׳רלז --- דיקנס, טשרלס --- דיקנס, צ׳רלז, --- דיקנס, צ׳רלס --- דיקנס, צ׳רלס, --- דיקענס, טש --- דיקענס, טשארלז --- דיקענס, טשארלז, --- דיקענס, טש., --- דיקקענס, טשארלז --- טשרלס, דיקנס --- チャールズ.ディケンズ, --- 狄更斯查尔斯, --- Boz, --- Sparks, Timothy, --- Dickens, Charles, - 1812-1870 - Criticism and interpretation --- Dickens, Charles, - 1812-1870 - Hard times --- Dickens, Charles, - 1812-1870 - Great expectations --- Dickens, Charles, - 1812-1870 - Our mutual friend --- Dickens, Charles, - 1812-1870

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At the turn of the twentieth century, many observers considered suicide to be a worldwide social problem that had reached epidemic proportions. In Mexico City, violent deaths in public spaces were commonplace in a city undergoing rapid modernization. Crime rates mounted, corpses piled up in the morgue, and the media reported on sensational cases of murder and suicide. More troublesome still, a compelling death wish appeared to grip women and youth. Drawing on a range of sources from judicial records to the popular press, Death in the City investigates the cultural meanings of self-destruction in modern Mexico. The author examines responses to suicide and death and disproves the long-held belief that Mexicans possess a cavalier attitude toward suffering.

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