individuals. Having no other choice, thousands of job hunters would approach the stockyard everyday, praying that they would be selected out of the crowd to take a position within the factory. When Jurgis was out of work, he was one of the “hundreds who looked and felted just like him,...
of course, can see them much better on the approach given the lack of cover.Instead, they are targeting water buffalo.But this also isn’t the end of the story.Who knows what the lions’ changing strategy will mean f...
2016. The development ofGerman modern urban historyis discussed by Haumann & Schott,2020; Hoschek,2020. In the context ofGlobal Urban History, Harris,2021provides an argument for the special role of cities in the development of human societies. From a comparative perspective...
Symbolic and ideological connotations could thus be seen as founded, for example, on the binary oppositions between types of heroine, such as the vamp and housewife, or between domestic and urban locations, or between the lonely individual and a faceless bureaucracy. A further implication, ...
Thai cultural products will be analyzed in relation to the Thai value system and symbolic representations. How Thais organize their social life will be illuminated by looking at the role and impact of 'face' and 'leadership' in Thai society.\nThere appears to be an almost insulting ...
The most recent building addition—-all but destroyed—-is a symbolic 19th Century sugar mill, making this one of the most continually inhabited Mayan ruins in Central America. Why you should visit Lamanai Mayan Ruins deserve your attention because they uniquely reflect centuries of occupation by ...
Much of China’s subsequent history up through the Communist victory in 1949 can be understood in terms of the tensions between Legalism and Confucianism, a tension that revolved in part around the appropriate role of the family in politics There are obvious parallels between Legalism and the ...
Anyone can write and read it, and there are very few narrative constraints, both of which make the characters and the worlds open to almost infinite types of adaptation. Rather than being closed off within a printed text, the characters take on an elasticity which allows them to exist in ...
In southeastern Mexico's Yucatan jungle lies the remains of a pyramid that was once part of the former Maya city of Calakmul, where the civilization lived until about A.D. 1000. The jungle surrounding Hormiguero is the second largest across Mexico and the Americas; only the Amazon jungle in...
a particular role e.g. four girls to act as the four wheels of the car the Stranger was driving, and a young man as a snake. She assigns Lakunle the role of the Stranger, but Lakunle doesn't want anything to do with it, as he calls it a childish game. However, Sidi tells him...