Social Issues in Literature

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This paper examines three different pieces of written works and gives a short summary and critique of each. The texts chosen are: "The Answer is No" by Naguib Mahfouz; "Civil Peace" by Chinua Achebe and "Popular Culture and the Economics of Alienation" by Julianne Malveaux. The first two are both fiction, short stories. The third text is an essay in a social studies work.

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"At the beginning of this short story by the Egyptian Nobel Prize winning writer we are introduced to a young teacher who hears of the news that her school is getting a new principle. She discovers that the man is someone whom she knew years ago when she was still almost a child. He used to be her math tutor and she respected his and loved him like a second father. She loved to learn and was grateful for his tutorage. She felt safe and comfortable with him. He took advantage of that and raped her. Although the story does not describe the event at..."

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