The private grief and public shame of begging

"The presentation of self in everyday life", Irving Goffman.  This little kid is desolate.  A few moments earlier he looked even more 'abandoned' and alone.  He still does not understand why his...

Hollywood Finds a New Set In Vast Desert of Namibia

"NAMIB DESERT, Namibia -- The blonde in the cowboy hat stepped forward with slow, swaggering menace, her boots crunching audibly on the sand below. As the camera zoomed tight on her green zombie eyes, the desert...

1676 Thanksgiving Proclamation

""The Holy God having by a long and Continual Series of his Afflictive dispensations in and by the present Warr with the Heathen Natives of this land, written and brought to pass bitter things against his own Covenant people in this wilderness, yet so that we evidently...

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