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From:Prairie Schooner (Vol. 86, Issue 4)At my grandpa Leo's funeral they handed out rosary beads in bright colors like blue and red and yellow and all the kids wore them He didn't know me didn't know my poetry so I read him a poem He was the one who was...
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From:The Kenyon Review (Vol. 32, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedWhen my glassy-eyed grandmother opens the front door of her red brick bungalow, her beautiful white face preternaturally still, I know that she has died alone sometime during the night or early morning, and that she is...
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From:New England Review (Vol. 32, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedOne spring, when they had been married two years, when they both had good jobs they could do from home, they left the big city as they had always planned to and bought a house. The house had a two-car garage so they...
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From:Nursing Older People (Vol. 20, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedThe increasing number of older people and decrease in the birth rate means that the future is going to be a very different place in terms of population profile than today. And our response to the future older citizen...
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From:Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (Vol. 11, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThrough a focus on the problems associated with bridewealth and wedding expenses in Dogondoutchi, a predominantly Muslim town of some 38,000 Hausa speakers in rural Niger, I discuss the predicament of young Mawri men...
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From:Canadian Journal of Sociology (Vol. 26, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: Analyses of social change and challenge in sociologies for women often start with some attention to generation. Yet, generation per se has been an underconceptualized sociological construct as a structural...
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From:International Journal of Comparative Sociology (Vol. 41, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedDepartment of Sociology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, U.S.A. International Journal of Comparative Sociology Vol.40 (1999) pp. 407424 Mannheim (1952:283) noted that "Different generations live at the...
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From:The Carolina Quarterly (Vol. 65, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedWe waited four days for the diagnosis. It was explained that the tissue specimen had to be stained, and that takes a while to set, and then it has to be reviewed under the microscope, and that takes a while to get...
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From:School Library Journal (Vol. 60, Issue 5)People of the same generation often speak the same cultural language, from slang to music. That's why it can feel easier at times to communicate with peers than even family. However, beautiful things can happen when we...
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From:French Politics, Culture and Society (Vol. 28, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT "Youth" was once defined as the 15 to 24 year old age group. Today in France one sees a "first youth" (dependent on family and school) and a "second youth" in their twenties sharply divided between a...
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From:Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire (Vol. 8, Issue 1)The early October morning she met Mr. Charles was chilly yet sunny, the fog having burned off-mere hours before. The conference hall ruffled pleasantly with the soft-footed doings-and-goings of a dozen middle-aged and...
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From:The Southern Review (Vol. 56, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it. --SIR ROBERT SWAN My Uncle Wil in his wicker rocking chair riding the waves. I'm watching him from an almost-submerged second story...
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From:The Southern Review (Vol. 56, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed"I think we should go, dad," I said, shielding my eyes from the wind. The sheriff had tweeted an evacuation order for Pulga twenty minutes before. It was quarter to eight in the morning and the sky didn't look right....
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From:Ploughshares (Vol. 45, Issue 4)Ignore that I am invisible to you, a man old enough to call a girl a girl when I see one. Ignore how I am held up by a half-Windsor slouched under teeth yellow as a work day is endless. Ignore the depth of my voice and...
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From:Ploughshares (Vol. 46, Issue 1)What were you listening to, Great-Gramma, down at the lake, that Saturday nite when you felt you couldn't breathe? Not those lo riders waxed and raring, the way souped-up carburetors suck oxygen to drag along the strip,...
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From:Radical Teacher (Issue 118) Peer-ReviewedIt would be an understatement to say that the internet has reshaped our social world. Indeed, it has become the conduit through which much of our social lives are made possible. The internet, by condensing and removing...
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From:Queen's Quarterly (Vol. 127, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedCAREFULLY opening the linen cover of the pocket-sized journal, I examine the tiny lined pages that threaten to escape their binding. Recorded in brief dates and phrases, outlining the action or inaction of each day, is...
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From:Social Analysis (Vol. 56, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: The aim of this study is to draw out the structural logic of high school graduation ceremonies in general--anal in Israel in particular--in order to understand their cultural meaning. The article analyzes 55...
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From:Prairie Schooner (Vol. 86, Issue 4)Aspect ratio. Fissures. Beginning: thousands of feet in the sky high above the frozen earth, quite possibly near Red Lake, the place of his birth and going-back-to. There is a distinct likelihood of my seeing him again....
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From:New England Review (Vol. 30, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBen Farber found the body. He had the key. He entered the apartment at seven thirty that evening and called out: Hello, Mrs. Klepper, it's me, Ben. The heat that greeted him at the door was more suspicious than...