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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport, and as India starts to prosper, Annawadians are electric with hope. Abdul, a reflective and enterprising Muslim teenager, sees “a fortune beyond counting” in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Asha, a woman of formidable wit and deep scars from a childhood in rural poverty, has identified an alternate route to the middle class: political...
Author
Publisher
Oregon State University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
162 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
On the Ragged Edge of Medicine offers a glimpse into a medical practice for the homeless and urban poor. Told through fifteen patient vignettes, and drawn from the author's decades of experience in Portland, Oregon, this revealing memoir illuminates the impact of poverty on the delivery of health services and the ways in which people adapt and survive (or don't survive) in conditions of abuse and deprivation. Kullberg's stories show the direct and...
3) City of God
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Portuguese
Description
Follows three boys from one of the most brutal, violent, and corrupt slums in Rio de Janeiro from the 1970s to the 1990s, a period when the only spark of hope comes from the story of a boy who wants to be a photographer.
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