Word: helplessness
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...American consumer--is drastically cutting back. Consumer spending in the U.S. dropped at a rate of 4.3% in the fourth quarter of 2008, the steepest quarterly decline since 1980. Because roughly 25% of Asia's exports ultimately end up in the U.S., the region's manufacturing powerhouses are helpless to counteract this crash. Trade among Asian countries is also plummeting, since much of this intraregional commerce is indirectly dependent on the West. A high percentage of Taiwan's trade with China, for example, is made up of electronic components shipped to Chinese factories for assembly into finished products that eventually...
...civil war and democratic revolution. The prejudices and sufferings depicted in these films serve to underscore and pay homage to the women’s resilience. They depict sexual violence, poverty, political instability, and community strife, but do not seek to perpetuate the idea of women as helpless victims. About her documentary, Bassford says, “Really it’s a film about the courage to stand up to injustice, about having courage to act on your conscience and to initiate change, and [Patsy Mink is] kind of a way to exemplify that.” Similarly, despite...
...especially of sexual assault, where underreporting is rampant—should feel safe to seek the help of authorities. They should not have to fear that, in seeking help they might suffer further violation in having their trauma turned into headlines. Likewise, friends of victims should not feel helpless to provide assistance and comfort, nor should they be badgered to reveal sensitive personal information. The greater Harvard community should not have to fear that a newspaper intended to inform will do so in a fashion as intrusive and inappropriate as in the dual articles on this “alleged...
...triumph in the U.S.: on records, on The Ed Sullivan Show, with their film A Hard Day's Night and on an American concert tour. When I caught them, in Philadelphia's Town Hall (honest, I was an infant back then), they could have been a mime troupe, so helpless was their music against the sonic shield of the audience's screams...
...need to get beyond service, not reject it. We need to embrace our commonality in a way that affirms our shared duties as participants in a democratic society, not in a society shorn between the helpful and the helpless. Ralph Waldo Emerson, speaking of the Young American, admitted that every society would have its group of talented and ambitious young people. He insisted, however, that their role was “not to drink wine and ride in a fine coach,” but rather to “adorn life for the multitude by forethought...