jimpack123 Loc: wisconsin

COME ON THERE ARE HUNGRY KIDS IN THE USA ,Yes there are more people starving in parts of the world , but to take away free or reduced lunch for children who are innocent is wrong just plain wrong

Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

Right...

I'll agree to it if the parents of said kids agree to wearing a sticker that states they are unable to provide lunch for their kids...

Everytime they smoke a cigarette or take a drink or go to a movie they can endure the stares...

American Vet

Appreciate that......

American Vet

We've been fighting the "War on Poverty" for 50 years and still haven't won. Perhaps it's time to consider a different plan (instead of feeding the bureaucracy)?

As a side note, ditto for the War on Drugs......

okie don

You are exactly right. He even mentioned that by feeding them they would v**e Democratic forever!
Really nice guy!
{He had a hand in Kennedy's assassination too}

American Vet

American Vet

If more people forced their kids to work, we would be a better place.

In fact, I would take a guess that you, Mr. LoneWolf, were forced to work as a child. Am I wrong?

Singularity

Right. And the bullying from the other kids and condescension from the staff can only contribute to building character and resolve.

The second story, the one I did not tell earlier?

Elaine, my same age second cousin, attending the same community public school. Freshman Year Field Trip to the State Capitol. Lunch from MacDonalds in the city park, $1.25, or byob.

I byobed.

I saw our teacher and Principal console my crying cousin before we left the school to get on the bus. She wasn't supposed to tell anybody. But we sat together on the 45-minute trip into town and she told me. The principal, knowing her father had lost his job recently, had offered to buy her and her brothers' lunches that day. It seems their parents instructions were to have the kids stay at school rather than go on the trip and display their poverty by being forced to bring a brown bag lunch! Then the little ninny looked at me with wide innocent eyes and exclaimed, "What a shame your family is too poor for YOU to have McDonald's like me!"

I loved her like a sister. She loved me back. We both claimed her black eye was a total accident.

Perhaps the PARENTS should be forced to wear the sticker, at work, until the child's lunch account is solvent, as the resposibilty is their's to manage.

Gosh, the State could rectify recalcitrant deadbeats accounts by fines or taxation...

Wait.

okie don

I came down with COPD and quit 'cold turkey' after 60 yrs... either breath or die!!!
( Cigs are around $6.00 a pack here). Too damn expensive!!!

Singularity

I do buy a pack of American Spirit about every month or so for more public social occasions, and they are over 7 bucks a box here!

Radiance3

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The Little Red Riding Hood bedtime story with mom.

"The better to eat you with my dear..."

Radiance3

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Please try. I hope you get rid of that darn cigarette. It chokes you up.
I saw that with my young husband before. I pulled it out from his mouth. And he never did it again.

Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

I wore clothes bought at thrift shops and the Sally Ann for my entire elementary and junior high school life...

Ate lunch from a bag and missed school trips...

Was bullied a bit...

I got over it...

Kids bully...

Maybe we should take away all the designer clothes and iphones and jewelry and expensive vacations some kids have... So that no one feels left out?

Sorry Sing...

I'm not belittling your experiences...

We just have a different perspective on this...

Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

You're so Asian

Singularity

https://exlibris.blog/2018/10/27/red-riding-hood-and-marxist-literary-theory/

"Red Riding Hood and Marxist Literary Theory
Imaan Irfan
1 year ago
Once upon a time, there was a c*******t. And her name wasn’t Little Red Riding Hood for nothing.

Reinterpreting fairytales is an easy way to get to grips with different schools of literary criticism. Last term, every person is my English class had to analyse Little Red Riding Hood through a different literary theory, including post-colonialism, psychoanalysis, The Great Tradition, feminism and Russian formalism. Yours truly was randomly assigned Marxism – and it was the best part of my week. For anyone interested in repeating the exercise, I used this version of the fairytale:

http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/LittRed.shtml

Without further ado, here’s why Red Riding Hood is perfect Soviet propaganda…

From the title alone, the colour red symbolises c*******m. That’s just a given. Little Red Riding Hood therefore symbolises the proletariat on life’s journey. In the beginning of the tale, Red Riding Hood is given a basket of food to take (or redistribute) to her grandmother. The image of food is associated with sharing and prosperity, which are two key features of c*******m. Her sick grandmother represents the weaker, less fortunate people in society; she is oppressed by a system that allows her to suffer.

The Wolf, of course, is the embodiment of modern capitalism. He has a desire to consume the most vulnerable in society, but decides he can profit more out of consuming Red Riding Hood as she walks through the forest.

Here we come to Marxist idea of ‘false consciousness’ i.e – when those with power mislead the proletariat away from recognising their own oppression. As the Wolf speaks to Red Riding Hood, he attempts to distract her by pointing to ‘the flowers’ and ‘the sunbeams’. These are all examples of t***sitory beauty, symbolising the temporary happiness provided by the capitalist dream.

However ‘whenever she had picked one, she fancied that she saw a prettier one far ahead’. The reader is presented with the idea of always wanting more; Red Riding Hood, buying into this capitalist farce, delves deeper into the into cycle of exploitation and lack of fulfilment that the Wolf brings.



close up of snowflakes on snow against sky
‘All the better to see you with, my dear!’ grinned the wolf, with a bougie glint in his eye


As soon as poor old Granny and her proletariat granddaughter are eaten, this becomes a society where capitalism reigns. Despite this unfortunate turn of events, hope still remains! It arrives in the form of the Huntsman; as he passes Granny’s house, his instinct is altruistic as he automatically thinks ‘I must see if she wants anything.’ The Huntsman, therefore, represents…the revolution!

However, he uses no more violence than what is absolutely necessary in order to achieve the liberation of the oppressed. He doesn’t go all crazy axe-murderer on us and it’s not gratuitous, he only corrects past wrongs through a few ‘snips’. Revolution is followed by prosperity; the grandmother is strengthened by the wine and the food, which is brought about by sharing. Red Riding Hood’s altruistic mission, which was to provide a weaker person in the community with nourishment and support, is finally achieved.

Hence, the ending of Little Red Riding Hood represents the realisation of a c*******t ideal. And they lived happily ever after…that is, before the Cold War happened.

The End."

All the better to see you with, my dear!’ grinned the wolf, with a bougie glint in his eye.