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Civic ImaginationMain MenuThe Big Map: an Overview of the Civic ImaginationThe Big Map of Civic Imagination all over the worldNon FictionReal World Instances that inspire Civic ImaginationPopular Culture/FictionalCharacters, stories and fictional universes that resonate with communities and inspire actionMyth and FolkloreStories from cultures around the world that inspire Civic ImaginationReligiousStories based in faith and religionsMigrating the StoriesExplore the Big Map and then remix Imagination by migrating stories to new localesContributorsPeople who contributed stories to the projectGabriel Peters-Lazaro3bc3965831120bc593545fef6d0da73657e21ea0Emilia Yang0306ec8482b0946a4ad881acf758effb11741533
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12016-07-28T09:52:48-07:00Sangita Shresthova497a02d289c277275bc5ece441097deedf8135e791991After world war III, the world has one border and is divided by the East and the West. There is a wealthy family made up of Robertina from the East and Louis from the West. They live with their children in a mansion on the water in the East. They do not communicate with one another, they do not have dinner together, and are very disconnected. Each family member focuses on their materialistic lives and shops regularly. They mistreat and disrespect their "help" from the West regularly. One day, Robertina gets a disease called "Death's Fatigue".google_maps2016-07-28T09:52:48-07:00Sangita Shresthova497a02d289c277275bc5ece441097deedf8135e7After world war III, the world has one border and is divided by the East and the West. There is a wealthy family made up of Robertina from the East and Louis from the West. They live with their children in a mansion on the water in the East. They do not communicate with one another, they do not have dinner together, and are very disconnected. Each family member focuses on their materialistic lives and shops regularly. They mistreat and disrespect their "help" from the West regularly. One day, Robertina gets a disease called "Death's Fatigue". The doctors tell Robertina and family that the only cure for Death's Fatigue is to change the quality of connections that she has. For months on end she works on building stronger connections and repairing the relationships in her life. She accepts the people around her and truly connects with and understands the people in her life, but she still doesn't get better. She asks the doctor, "why am I not cured?" and the doctor replies, "there is one set of eyes that you haven't really seen". Robertina talks to everyone in her life to try to build the final relationship.
Robertina's disease gets the best of her one day and she starts to vomit and cannot move. She yells to her maid "LUCY, HELP ME!" and she looks around to try to find Lucy. She finds Lucy on the bathroom floor crying and looks into her employee's sad and tearful eyes. Then she realizes that her help is human too.
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12016-07-19T08:34:17-07:00Inae Joo52ffbcbf10706d2e9b6569ce2e40d5085b2408ecTuesdays with MorrieSangita Shresthova5Tuesdays with Morrie is set in a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts and is about a profound experience between a student and his dying past professor.google_maps2016-07-20T03:04:10-07:00Sangita Shresthova497a02d289c277275bc5ece441097deedf8135e7
12016-07-19T10:40:38-07:00Inae Joo52ffbcbf10706d2e9b6569ce2e40d5085b2408ecThe HelpSangita Shresthova2The story portrays the racism and discrimination aimed towards the domestic workers during that time and the abuse as well as the harassment they go through by their employers: “the perfect housewives”. In the age of the siege and the random arrests based on color, one woman was courageous enough to interview all the domestic workers of Jackson and write their stories into a book.google_maps2016-07-20T06:12:33-07:00Sangita Shresthova497a02d289c277275bc5ece441097deedf8135e7
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12016-04-06T12:43:15-07:00Gabriel Peters-Lazaro3bc3965831120bc593545fef6d0da73657e21ea0The Big Map: an Overview of the Civic Imagination15The Big Map of Civic Imagination all over the worldgoogle_maps2016-07-20T01:12:14-07:00Gabriel Peters-Lazaro3bc3965831120bc593545fef6d0da73657e21ea0
12016-04-06T12:55:59-07:00Gabriel Peters-Lazaro3bc3965831120bc593545fef6d0da73657e21ea0Migrating the Stories9Explore the Big Map and then remix Imagination by migrating stories to new localesgoogle_maps2016-07-21T08:36:29-07:00Gabriel Peters-Lazaro3bc3965831120bc593545fef6d0da73657e21ea0
12016-07-19T08:31:29-07:00Inae Joo52ffbcbf10706d2e9b6569ce2e40d5085b2408ecKaylee L3I am a college student from Boston, Mass attempting to figure out my path in life and what it all means. In experiencing loss, I have learned how to gain. In experiencing darkness, I have learned to find light.google_maps2016-07-20T03:02:44-07:00Sangita Shresthova497a02d289c277275bc5ece441097deedf8135e7
12016-07-19T10:38:39-07:00Inae Joo52ffbcbf10706d2e9b6569ce2e40d5085b2408ecNora S2I am pursuing an M.A. in Migration Studies. I recently worked on an EU funded research project called "Migrants in Countries in Crisis" which although took different focuses in the rest of the case studies, in Lebanon it focused on the migrant domestic workers.google_maps2016-07-20T06:10:24-07:00Sangita Shresthova497a02d289c277275bc5ece441097deedf8135e7
