Poles Apart!

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Gender equality remains an important cause for me and you’ll see this lurking in the undergrowth of most of my novels, though it’s front and centre in Poles Apart . In January 2014, CBC aired a six-part television miniseries based on The Best Laid Plans earning very positive reviews. There's some humor, though, surrounding the penguins' terrible sense of direction and their commentary along the way.

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As our identities increasingly align under political labels of convenience, now this is the perfect time for a reflective book that shines light on the world around us and how we can correct course from excessive political polarisation. I read this book expecting it to be as good as the earlier Fallis novels I have enjoyed and chuckled over. It never dawned on me that they lived on separate continents (even though the text says Peter the polar was visiting from the North Pole)! Here's to a great book that had me off my nut a bit and took me through the full range of emotions that were, indeed, Poles Apart. And with everything going on in the world right now, perhaps a snuggle and a giggle with your child is just what you need.He finds a small apartment and flies from Toronto to Orlando for the duration but finds he has a lot of time on his hands so he starts a blog. Almost like watching a really well done rom-com - you know how it's going to end up but you still enjoy the ride. Everette Kane, a freelance journalist in his 30s and avid feminist has to be the dutiful son and assist his father who is recovering from a stroke in Florida. Above all, they show what practical and effective steps we can all take to narrow divisions, build respect for others, and create a greater degree of common understanding.

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During the latter stages of my term as President of the students union, I found myself embroiled in a campus controversy, courtesy of my feminist views. A former Deputy Chair of the Liberal Democrats, she led the team that built the fastest growing campaigning organisation in the UK. I decided that night that gender inequality is the most pervasive social inequity on the planet, given that it affects half the world’s population or more than 3.Read the rest for yourself - it's a fun story, with great illustrations - I don't want to spoil it for you. That the principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes—the legal subordination of one sex to the other—is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement; and that it ought to be replaced by a principle of perfect equality, admitting no power or privilege on the one side, nor disability on the other.