Écriture féminine, or ""feminine writing,"" is a literary theory that emerged in the 1970s and seeks to challenge traditional patriarchal modes of writing by using
language and form that reflect the experiences and perspectives of women.
Plath, Dickinson and many other women writers over the last few decades have used the concept of écriture to lend a unique voice to the feminine experience;
straying from traditional writings that have been perceived masculine through the usage of explicit form and structure. The expression comes with a type of
writing that has incomprehensible meanings and images, eccentric disruptions with punctuations, gaps, silences, and wordplay.

One potential problem, however, with écriture féminine is that it can
be seen as limiting, essentializing, or even exclusionary. By emphasizing a specifically feminine voice or experience, it can perpetuate gender-based binaries and overlook the diversity and complexity of women's experiences.
Another criticism of écriture féminine is that it can be difficult to define and apply consistently, because it is an overly academic
concept disconnected from real-world experiences of women.

You are a middleclass, young adult with a family and a stable job. You recently found out the world you live in is an augmented reality called the Matrix, controlled by AI which has revolted against humans. The world outside is
dominated by the hostile AI, but its power external to the Matrix is limited by the physical reality (e.g. it needs to physically find a person in order to locate them,
and needs to physically catch them to harm them). You are offered a red pill that will take you out of the Matrix into the real world, and a blue pill that will make
you forget the realization all together and return to your virtual life as though nothing happened. Either choice is irreversible, and you only get one pill which
can't be shared with others.

In 2002, several eminent Indian language writers, including Sunil
Gangopadhyay, Dilip Chitre and Bhalchandra Nemade, variously
described Indian writers in English as ‘creative travel writers’, ‘artificial
western flowers’, ‘necromancers creating something out of nothing’,
and dismissed their writing as an anglicized portrayal of the Indian
experience.
This portrayal also raises questions of not only can Indians write in English, but also should Indians write in English.

The Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) is an economic union currently consisting of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia. It involves the free movement of capital, labour, goods and services, provides for common regulations across a range of industries and there are plans for creating a common currency.

Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution states that Japan cannot hold a standing military beyond a small paramilitary force. This was signed since the conclusion of WWII. Post this, Japan has strictly abided by the same until recently, citing the threat from numerous geographically proximate nations in the area and has begun modernising it’s forces
At the same time, abiding by the same has been key in Japan’s economic growth, with many nations have faith in investments and industry produced.
In recent times, with the escalation of events in Taiwan, the US has said that barring widespread war crimes and human rights abuses, they would not militarily intervene in Japanese conflict. This comes in light of the recent assassination of Shinzo Abe, who was killed by a former military officer who was disenfranchised with the current government policy.

Benjamin Netanyahu, the former Prime Minister of Israel, was indicted and charged with corruption leading to a 11 year prison sentence in June 2021. Netanyahu has appealed the verdict and the case is ongoing.

After a 4-year period of political gridlock and mass protests (some of the largest in the country’s history) in Nov 2022, Netanyahu won the Israeli elections. While he has previously decried anti-democratic policies and was unwilling to partner with extremists, post elections, he swiftly set about pushing a series of new laws imposing tighter political control on the legal system. The proposals, unveiled earlier this year, would deliver Netanyahu’s coalition partners on the far right a long-desired leash to rein in the (relatively) liberal Supreme Court and potentially nullify the case against him.

Aimee Mullins is a fashion model, celebrity, champion runner, student, and double amputee. Mullins was also one of People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People of 1999. An icon of disability pride and equality, Mullins exposes- in fact calls attention to- the mark of her disability in order to pass for nondisabled. The public version of her career is that her disability has been a benefit: she has several sets of legs, both cosmetic and functional, and so she is able to choose how tall she wants to be. Photographed in her functional prosthetic legs, she embodies the sexualized jock look that demands women be both slender and fit. In her cosmetic legs, she captures the look of the high fashion beauty in the controversial shoot by Nick Knight called Accessible, showcasing outfits created by famous fashion designers such as Alexander McQueen and more. In the shots, her legs are brazenly displayed, and even in the voguishly costumed shot, the knee joints of her artificial legs are exposed. Mullins uses her conformity with beauty standards to assert her disability's violation of those very standards. As legless and beautiful, she is an embodied paradox, invoking an inherently disruptive potential. However, the adherence to beauty standards reinforces the larger notion of how beauty and acceptance is for the able bodied.

The Beat movement of the post-cold war era was a cultural movement, in the US, centered around “low-brow” forms of art, music and literature. Prominent writers of this group, such as poet Allen Ginsberg are often credited with having a lasting impact on the queer and anti-consumerist movement by challenging the American Dream, rejecting traditional notions of marrigage and family, and rebelling against homophobic narratives by normalizing sexual fluidity. The group is seen as being the predecessor to the hippie counterculture in the US.

However, while the Beatniks rejected expectations of men, their pieces continued to show conformity to 1950’s expectations of women to be ‘good housewives’ and ‘domesticated/should stay within the private sphere’. Ginsberg’s "Howl" had lines like ‘sweetened the snatches of a million girls trembling in the sunset’, deprecating women, and interchangeably used terms ‘million girls’ to ‘innumerable lays of girls’, signifying the irrelevancy of women. A central theme of Ginsberg’s work is the thought that for the emancipation of men from societal norms (i.e. not be the breadwinner, etc.), women would have to provide for their survival ‘needs’.

The lack of a feminine lens in the movement is also evident through the lack of women in the group. While some women like Diane di Prima, Anne Waldman and Joyce Johnson were part of it and wrote extensively, their work was overshadowed and ignored by those of men like Ginsberg- a man who when confronted with this problem simply said ‘Is it our fault that there weren’t any women of genius in the group?’

NegativeVote is a vote cast against a candidate, and it will be counted against the positive votes cast for that candidate. The candidate who receives the most net positive votes wins. Each voter still has only one vote. He/she has the option to cast that vote for a candidate or against a candidate but not both.

Gerrymandering is the political manipulation of electoral district boundaries with the intent to create undue advantage for a party, group, or socioeconomic class within the constituency. The manipulation may involve "cracking" (diluting the voting power of the opposing party's supporters across many districts) or "packing" (concentrating the opposing party's voting power in one district to reduce their voting power in other districts).

The sharing economy refers to peer-to- peer-based sharing of access to goods and services (coordinated through
community-based online services). Prominent examples include Uber and AirBnB.

Truth and Reconciliation Commissions (TRCs) aim to document the experiences of civilians during prolonged civil conflict. A survivor-centric TRC does not aim to identify and prosecute perpetrators and focuses predominantly on identifying and sharing survivors’ testimony. A perpetrator-centric TRC can subpoena perpetrators and offer amnesty conditional upon perpetrators’ offering of testimony; it is preoccupied with documenting the worst atrocities in the conflict.

Gag Order is a judicial ruling barring public disclosure or discussion (as by the press) of information related to a case

In 2010, Ecuador proposed a scheme to stop the extraction of oil resources from the Yasumi rainforest in the country (one of the most biodiverse regions in the world). The proposal asked developed countries to pay Ecuador the potentially foregone revenue from not mining the rainforest for oil (approx $7 bn) which will be used to reinvest into other non-oil sectors.

Climate nationalism refers to a policy priority of reducing emissions/improving sustainability domestically as opposed to proactively enganging in multilateral efforts to reduce emissions globally

You are the mayor for a coal-mining town where the primary source of jobs is a huge local coal plant. As part of its national emissions reduction strategy, there has been heavy pressure on you from your political party to shut down the coal plant and set up other non-extractive businesses in your town. However, this move is heavily unpopular among your constituents due to uncertainty around job loss.

Elizabeth Bennet is the second oldest of five sisters. Her father is a landlord and while they live comfortably, his estate will be passed onto a Mr. Collins. Mr. Collins has shown interest to marry Elizabeth and has proposed to her as well. Elizabeth, however, does not seem to be romantically interested in him at the moment and believes in finding a 'true love' eventually. There is a Mr. Darcy who seems to be a potential love interest but is hesistant to pursue her due to class difference, despite which she seems to be drawn to him. Her older sister, Jane, is set to marry Mr. Bingley, a wealthy man who is kind and likeable but will not be able to support her family (after her father's demise in the near future) since the rest of his family greatly dislikes the Bennets due to class differences.

Jack, a 15 year old, is the son of two famous superheroes who fell in love. There exists a Superhero Academy where children are sent when they turn 16 (only past alum know of this school). At Superhero Academy, students are divided into Superheroes and Sidekicks. Superheroes learn how to control and use their powers in positive ways. Sidekicks, on the other hand, don't have superpowers but are paired up with Superheroes and enter into a curriculum for 'Hero Support'. After a certain age, superheroes are allowed to retire into civilian life whereas sidekicks are expected to take up lifelong jobs at the Academy.
Jack has thus far lived an average life and has friends at his regular highschool. He has not developed any superpowers yet nor has he shown signs of the same. However, his parents believe he is a superhero (they have seen superpowers to be hereditary) and wish to send him to Superhero Academy.

Rumblr is an app for recreational fighters to find, meet, and fight other enthusiasts nearby. You don’t need to fight to use Rumblr. With Rumblr Explore, anyone can browse and attend fights close by that other Rumblr users have arranged. The app currently does not have any subsciption model and is free to all users.