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Partial Counterbalancing 170

Filled with brazen wake-up calls ('You are not a special snowflake')

The Stand) and Owen King (Intro to Alien Invasion)

it can feel like a personal betrayal

(Maybe 'Ed'

Drawn to Berlin Religion & Politics Partial Counterbalancing 170Ali Fitzgerald is an artist trying to find herself in a rapidly changing city facing an influx of asylum seekers. In Berlin, she teaches an art class to displaced people who have traveled from war torn countries such as Syria and Afghanistan. Given Fitzgerald's encouragement, her students take pen in hand and express their painful memories of home and cautious optimism about their new life. Revealing the humanity behind the politics of immigration,