Content: capitalism
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 | The Whole Stunned World | J. R. Yasi | Novel | Literary Fiction | 8 | n/a | Mar 19, 2008 |
Summary:In The Whole Stunned World, Gurney escapes Burma alive. Having lost entrepreneurial American parents and a student-activist lover to Burma's pro-democracy uprisings, she can't blame her past for the ways she's losing her son and husband and even herself now to Boston.
And her husband, Robert, had played it safe all his life until Gurney. And then it wasn't enough to have a beautiful Asian wife, but he'd had to flaunt her. And so now he hadn't intended to land this Burma/Myanmar job, this incredibly lucrative job, no one in his right mind would take it. And Gurney is over the moon with it, he hasn't seen her this happy ever. She's got some crazy ideas that it will change the whole world if he takes it.
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| E Pluribus Unum | George | Short Story | Other | 2 | 0.00 | Jan 6, 2008 |
Summary:This is as allegory about the future of Western Civilization. Free Market economics and Democratic governments work for a reason and that reason is that they are fueled by individual rights. With individual rights come tremendous responsibilities, however, and without selflessness and sacrifice, everything falls apart. Chapters: |
