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Excerpt from “The Complete Dramaturgical Guide to ‘Sweeps’: An Abridged Musical Inspired By the ‘Society for Superseding the Necessity of Climbing Boys’ Report on the 1832 New Poor Law and Its Swept-Under Impact on Society in Victorian England”

Posted on April 28, 2022May 1, 2022 by Abigail Lee

My research on the new Poor Law began when I challenged myself to write a musical adaptation instead of an original musical. I happened upon a report entitled ‘Society for Superseding the Necessity of Climbing Boys: by encouraging a new method of sweeping chimneys and for improving the condition of children and others, employed by chimney sweepers’ and found its contents intriguing.

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The End of Genre Writing: Crime and Literary Fiction as a Sole Entity

Posted on April 28, 2022May 1, 2022 by Abigail Lee

The notion that literary fiction is paradoxical to genre fiction is subjective. Genre fiction involves a writing style targeted to a specific audience focused on plot devices, and literary fiction concerns itself with style and characters over plot; their differences are not enough to disregard the possibility of genre-literary fiction.

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“Hawaii” as a Contact Zone in Relation to Tourism

Posted on April 27, 2022April 29, 2022 by Daniel Zapata

Before my tenth birthday, my mother offered me the opportunity to travel to Hawaiʻi to celebrate. One of her clients, living at a beachside mansion in Maui, requested she fly out to the island to conduct business and she convinced her company to send our entire family.

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Tao, the Great Mother who teaches us about nature and humanity

Posted on April 28, 2022April 29, 2022 by Abigail Lee

I have always been cautioned not to learn Taoism either from my parents and my friends or even a Buddhist monk I bumped into on the street, because the process of learning was a bummer for whoever wanted to conquer this unknown realm. Taoists themselves even think words cannot be used to understand the Taoist philosophy because they are limited in scope to explain something invisible, something we cannot neither touch nor see, hear nor smell.

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