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    Revealing the Re-transformation of 9 Summers 10 Autumns by Alberta Natasia Adji

    Published 2018-06-01
    Subjects: “…the motivational ‘rags-to-riches’ theme…”
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    Ah Fu : The Rickshaw Coolie / by Choong, Kwee Kim, author 410139

    Published 2007
    “…THIS 32-PAGE, fully illustrated book by Penang-based journalist Choong Kwee Kim (MPH Publishing, August 2007) tells the rags-to-riches tale of a poor, wily rickshaw puller by the name of Ah Fu, who sails from China to Malaya to seek his fortune in late 19th-century colonial Penang. …”
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    STORY OF CINDERELLA AND TAJIK-PERSIAN NARRATIVE OF YUSUF AND ZULAIKHA: RE-INTERPRETING THE “DEEP STRUCTURES” WITH REFERENCE TO CURRENT SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXT by Yu. S. Serenkov, Yu. M. Radzhabova

    Published 2017-03-01
    “…At that, “spiritual growth towards god” stories acquire certain features of the society-bound “rag to riches” progression and, vice versa, “rags to riches” narratives become increasingly suggestive of god’s favour as the highest value. …”
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    PUBLIC SECRETS / by Roberts, Nora, 1950- author 465662

    Published 2009
    “…For Emma, her childhood had been almost like a rags-to-riches fairy tale—until the tragic night that changed her family forever. …”
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    THE SOCIAL BACKGROUND OF NINEETEENTH-CENTURY INNOVATORS IN THE AMERICAN IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY by Robert Rogers

    Published 2004-06-01
    “…An examination of nineteenth century steel industry innovators, however, demonstrates that the rags-to-riches story is not totally irrelevant. A statistical analysis shows that the proportion of immigrants and men from working class and farming backgrounds among a sample of steel industry innovators is significantly greater than those in the samples of the other writers.…”
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    THE SOCIAL BACKGROUND OF NINEETEENTH-CENTURY INNOVATORS IN THE AMERICAN IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY by Robert Rogers

    Published 2004-06-01
    “…An examination of nineteenth century steel industry innovators, however, demonstrates that the rags-to-riches story is not totally irrelevant. A statistical analysis shows that the proportion of immigrants and men from working class and farming backgrounds among a sample of steel industry innovators is significantly greater than those in the samples of the other writers.…”
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    Risky is the New Safe by Louie Giray

    Published 2023-06-01
    “…Randy Gage is an American author, businessman, and motivational speaker, who is known for his inspiring rags-to-riches life story. Divided into seven chapters creatively named after parts of the opera, the main argument of the book is using the old, conventional, and safe paradigms is risky. …”
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    Myth-making and Uchronia: The Advent of a Fascist America in Nathanael West’s A Cool Million (1934) by Frank Conesa

    “…Nathanael West’s A Cool Million (1934) has been largely viewed as both a deadpan parody of the «Rags to Riches» success story popularized by Horatio Alger and a satire on nascent fascism in Depression-era America. …”
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    The Upholders of Anthropocentrism and Biocentrism in Annie Proulx’s Barkskins by Peyman Amonolahi Baharvand, Bakhtiar Sadjadi

    Published 2020-01-01
    “…In this scenario, French merchants went from rags to riches at the cost of losing myriads of beavers. …”
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    Tu m'as donné ta boue et j'en ai fait de l'or ou l'écriture poétique en classe de langues est-elle transgression ? by Marie André-Milesi

    Published 2015-05-01
    “…Le jeu sémantique en donnant l'impression aux apprenants de sortir du sillon scolaire permet-il de penser soi-même comme un autre, d'ouvrir des axes de réflexion et de créativité dans le respect du Cadre Européen de Référence pour les Langues ? From rags to riches or transforming mud into gold : how and why poetry writing in the language classroom is a form of transgression? …”
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    Tu m'as donné ta boue et j'en ai fait de l'or ou l'écriture poétique en classe de langues est-elle transgression ? by Marie André-Milesi

    Published 2015-05-01
    “…Le jeu sémantique en donnant l'impression aux apprenants de sortir du sillon scolaire permet-il de penser soi-même comme un autre, d'ouvrir des axes de réflexion et de créativité dans le respect du Cadre Européen de Référence pour les Langues ? From rags to riches or transforming mud into gold : how and why poetry writing in the language classroom is a form of transgression? …”
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    The Failure of the American Dream in August Wilson's Fences by Peyman Amanolahi Baharvand

    Published 2017-12-01
    “…They had been told that the United States was the promised land of equal chances wherein everyone regardless of race and gender was able to progress from rags to riches. They left the South, in which racism was still pervasive despite the abolition of slavery, and moved to the North for the fulfillment of the dreams they had been promised. …”
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