Resultados para "The Cabin" en Ficción contemporánea

The complete finale of the hit BBC Radio 4 sitcom- 2 episodes. Cabin Pressure is set in the wing and prayer world of a tiny, one-plane airline, staffed by two pilots, one on his way down, and one who was never up to start with. In this, the finale of the whole series, we discover that for MJN Air, whether it's choosing an ice-cream flavour, putting a princess in a van or remembering your grandmother's name, no job is too small, but, many, many jobs are too difficult.

Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S. and is said to have "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War". Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary and an active abolitionist, featured the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave around whom the stories of other characters revolve.

En La alegoría de la caverna, de Platón, se describe a un grupo de prisioneros desde su nacimiento con cadenas que los sujetan del cuello y de las piernas de forma que solo puedan mirar hacia la pared. Detrás de ellos se encuentra una hoguera y la entrada a la cueva desde el exterior. Los encadenados consideran como verdades a las sombras que ven, porque no pueden girarse y ver la realidad.