Hard Times
Political competition in hard times
... in hard times? Do they tend to announce more extreme or more moderate platforms? To answer these questions, I develop a one-period spatial model of political competition in hard times in a ...
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Perceptions of Gender and Perceptions of Quality: Comparing the Receptions of Dickens's Hard Times and Gaskell's Mary Barton
... In] Hard Times we discover, not the author’s full and many-toned conception of human life, its motives and its practices – not the sweet and graceful fancy rejoicing in her own customs […] but the petulant ...
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Resistance in Literature: A Close Reading of Charles Dickens’ Hard Times and Little Dorrit
... Literature is the reflection of life or society. Whatever is going on in the society it reflects all. It may be any aspect of the society such as, political, historical, economical, religious, educational or ...
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A Social Study of Poverty in Charles Dickens’s Hard Times, Bleak House and Oliver Twist
... Hard Times (1992), Bleak House (2003) and Oliver Twist ...in Hard Times, and working class, who were the industrial poor workers, of them many lived under squalid condition with poor ...
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Industrialisation and Human Social Development: Charles Dickens’ Hard Times as a Conscience to Sciences
... novel Hard Times, Dickens claimed“The One Thing Needful”, so this statement is his first meaningful phrase of the very first ...of Hard Times pinpoints out the right or good ...
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Reflections of Industrial Revolution on Work Life in England and Its Projections in Literature: An Analysis on Charles Dickens’s Hard Times*
... In Hard Times, he examines the upbringing of individuals whose dreams are bordered and feelings suppressed through utilitarian education system and who ignore moral values and humanistic feelings for their ...
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Public budgeting and electoral dynamics after the golden age: essays on political budget cycles, electoral behaviour and welfare retrenchment in hard times
... In the wake of the financial crisis and the Great Recession, governments across the industrialized world have accumulated unprecedented peace-time debt levels. The size of their debt liabilities as well as the fact that ...
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The “Honorable” Gentlemen in Hard Times
... Mr. Gradgrind’s second model child, Tom, ruins not only his own life because of his addiction to gambling, but he also destroys Stephan Blackpool’s life by laying on him the blame of his theft. In his plan, Tom makes Mr. ...
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The Politics of Cultural Carnivalism in Charles Dickens's Hard Times
... Furthermore, culture reflects ideology and ideology embodies those particular relations that are "fixed," "yoked together" as natural. 12 Ideology is the naturalization of a particular historical cultural ...
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Hard Times for Farm Women
... Hard Times for Farm Women by Ella Haley Mary trembled as she thought of what had just happened Her young son sobbed in her arms She mustn't let anyone know how bad things were getting, the neigh bours[.] ...
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The Politics of Cultural Carnivalism in Charles Dickens's Hard Times
... in Hard Times, how Dickens overturns the workers' routines and hierarchies through their circus passive resistance and rejection of the Bounderby's and Gradgrind's laws of facts, which nearly dominated the ...
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Balancing the Budget through Social Exploitation: Why Hard Times Are Even Harder for Some
... According to Hare-Mustin (1988), a “two-tiered production system has evolved in which the husband as breadwinner and provider works for money outside the home while a familial production system continues within” (p. 37). ...
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Beating a Random Walk: “Hard Times” for Forecasting Inflation in Post Oil Boom Years?
... Though countries in the world may have significantly different economic structures, it is possible that the similar tendencies may take place in different parts of the world and in different times, and in our ...
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Organising Soft Governance in Hard Times – The Unlikely Survival of the Open Method of Coordination in EU Education Policy
... change and survival does not entirely account for the persistence of this governance site – especially the role of the Commission’s DG EAC supports an institutional argu- ment. The organisational change as fashion and ...
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Hard times in the city – attractive nest sites but insufficient food supply lead to low reproduction rates in a bird of prey
... 4–6 times during each breeding season to determine (1) the laying date, (2) the clutch size, (3) the number of hatched offspring and (4) the number of fledged ...
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Policy Making in Hard Times: The Case of Southern European Labour Reforms
... A similar argument can be made regarding the government’s apparent reluctance to eliminate the labor market’s dual structure. Spanish unions have often been accused of defending insiders, i.e., workers with permanent ...
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Think tanks in ‘hard times’ – the Global Financial Crisis and economic advice
... Given that the contributions to this thematic issue are connected by their focus on the role of think tanks in the making of policy responses to Global Financial Crisis and Great Recessi[r] ...
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Great expectations and hard times: The paradoxical experience of the engineer as project manager
... Drawing on a series of structured group discussions with project managers from a range of industrial sectors with an engineering background, the paper illustrates the tensions implicit i[r] ...
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Saving energy during hard times: energetic adaptations of Shetland pony mares
... reduced proportion of body fat. In our study, the limited food availability in the food-restricted group led to considerable reductions in BCS compared with control animals, which can be attributed to a reduced body fat ...
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Hard times: exploring the complex structures and activities of Brazilian prison gangs
... The sensitive sample included interviews with heavy narrative, with reports of extreme situations and conditions, and often of psychological and physical despair. Many of them cried during the interviews, sometimes more ...
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