Bøger af Alicia Cafferty Lerner

The several essays compiled by editor Alicia Cafferty Lerner will help your readers develop a world view about marriage. This book provides analysis on the institution of marriage in different global locations, cultures, and social climates. One chapter covers human rights abuses, with a look into such cultures as Niger, Malawi, India, and Germany. Another chapter explains arranged, child, and polygamy marriages, with cultural coverage including Australia, Bangladesh, and Kenya. Same-sex marriages are explored across Canada, South Africa, Aruba, and America. Marriage in relation to money and sex is also explored, taking a look at such places as Ireland, Pakistan, Japan, and Uganda.

There may be a perceived American way of doing or seeing things, but today's digital world allows kids to live outside of our culture while living in it. This essential volume communicates what the world view of freedom of expression is. Editor Alicia Cafferty Lerner has painstakingly tracked down several articles and essays that explain what this concept is in such places as Slovakia, Turkey, Russia, Kenya, China, and England. Forms of expression examined includes blogging, journalism, singing, drama, internet searching, and mural painting. Essay sources include Freemuse, Kuwait Times, and The Economist.

The struggle to locate one's personhood and role within a rapidly-changing society can present even the most well-adjusted adults and adolescents with deep psychological and emotional trauma. Arthur Miller's award-winning play Death of a Salesman pushes the context of this universal struggle even further, confronting what it means to live in a world wherein mediocrity and failure seem not only inevitable but imminent. This informative edition presents essays that examine the treatment of suicide in Death of a Salesman, discussing topics such as alienation, the lack of meaning in contemporary industrial society, and the power of the American Dream. Contemporary perspectives regarding suicide as it pertains to family, work, and society allow readers to link the themes of the text with modern discourse.