Sentences with phrase «about peasant life»

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Much of the claimed gain comes about in the shift from self - sustaining peasant life to dependence on the market, and many are skeptical that the small gains in income mean that those involved are better fed, better clothed, or better housed than before.

Historical critics are not immune to this danger, as Luke T. Johnson observes about John Dominic Crossan's 1991 work, The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant: «Does not Crossan's picture of a peasant cynic preaching inclusiveness and equality fit perfectly the idealized ethos of the late 20th - century academic?»

A Christian historian tells a true story about a peasant in the 1600's living under the rule of the Catholic Church.

I am very passionate about the poetry of John Clare, who lived between 1793 - 1864 and who is our genuine peasant poet.

After all, she has no position to talk about politics since she still lives in a fucking mansion and have more money than the rest of us fucking peasants.

When budgetary constraints prevented Director Oshima Nigisa from making a live - action version of Band of Ninja, an epic 17 - volume manga by Sanpei Shirato about the son of a defeated warlord who joins a peasant rebellion to avenge his father's death, Oshima ingeniously used camera movements and voiceover dialogue to bring the original drawings to life.

The 300,000 Mexican peasants living within the preserve can barely afford to buy food and resent International tourists who care only about the butterflys.