OPINION: Dickens’ ‘Christmas Carol’ could help Americans revitalize our spirit
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Dickens’ story is set in Victorian London, where Ebenezer Scrooge, a misanthropic, money-grubbing miser,"Bah-humbugs" anyone who dares wish him a merry Christmas. In Victorian England, many enjoyed unprecedented prosperity, but a good many more suffered widespread poverty and hardship. Alcoholism and illness abounded in the urban slums. Families fell apart, children and widows were abandoned to workhouses, or fell to prostitution. There were no safety nets for them, either public or private. Society had turned its back on the destitute, blaming them for their plight.
Choir students at a California high school were reportedly asked to perform at a school board member's adult holiday party, where they were allegedly offered alcohol.
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