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The Lottery Ticket

By Graham Greene

An English vacationer travels to an Island State off the coast of Mexico where he wins the lottery and decides to donate the money.

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In Europe Tags: irony, war

This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen

By Tadeusz Borowski

A Polish prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp unloads unsuspecting Jews from train cars entering the camp before they are lead to the Gas Chambers.

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In Europe Tags: war, holocaust, cruelty, race and ethnicity

My Parents’ Bedroom

By Uwem Akpan

The nine-year old Monique tells the story of the fate of her mixed Hutu-Tutsi family during the Rwandan genocide. 

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In Africa Tags: genocide, mixed marriage, war, reli, cruelty, child-rearing

The Prisoner

By S. Yizhar

Soldiers round up an innocent Arab shepherd in Palestine and subject him to abuse during interrogations. The protagonist is torn between orders from superiors and his conscience, telling him to set the prisoner free.

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In N. Africa & Middle East Tags: war, authority, cruelty, responsibility, conscience

Just Lather, That’s All

By Hernando Telléz

Torres, a ruthless commander, walks into the barbershop of a member of the resistance for a shave. The barber has the opportunity to kill Torres, but will he?

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In Latin America Tags: courage, regret, murder of tyrants, war

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  • Ambition 1
  • Irony 1
  • Love 1
  • Manic-Depression 1
  • abortion 1
  • arranged marriage 1
  • authority 1
  • bullying 1
  • child marriage 1
  • child-rearing 8
  • compassion 1
  • conscience 1
  • corruption 1
  • courage 1
  • cruelty 11
  • culture 4
  • dignity 4
  • discrimination 6
  • domestic abuse 1
  • empathy 4
  • exploitation 2
  • false consciousness 1
  • family 1
  • feminism 7
  • forced marriage 1
  • gender 2
  • genocide 1
  • happiness 1
  • health 1
  • holocaust 1
  • incarceration 1
  • insanity 1
  • irony 2
  • love 1
  • luck 3
  • manipulation 1
  • meaning of life 2
  • medical ethics 1
  • migration 1
  • mixed marriage 1
  • morality 1
  • murder of tyrants 1
  • neurochemistry 1
  • paternalism 1
  • perspective 1
  • photojournalism 1
  • poverty 4
  • prostitution 3
  • public health 3
  • race 3

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