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Pollock, Donald Ray
The American author Donald Ray Pollock was born and grew up in America’s backyard. In the little community called Knockemstiff in southern Ohio, there was – when Pollock was a child – a gravel road, some shops and about 400 inhabitants, most of them related to each other. When he was 17 years old, he dropped out of high school and got a job at a meat-packing factory in the neighbouring town of Chi...
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Upplysningen
By: Margareta Melén
”Upplysningen är en europeisk kulturrörelse som kulminerade under andra hälften av 1700-talet och som ofta förknippas med en grupp franska intellektuella, de s.k. upplysningsfilosoferna, vars demokratiska och individualistiska ideal skulle inspirera revolutionens män och kvinnor. --- ”