Carole Scott writes in Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit that the reader cannot help but identify with rebellious little Peter and his plight as all the illustrations are presented from his low-to-the-ground view, most feature Peter in close-up and within touching distance, and Mr. McGregor is distanced from the reader by always being depicted on the far side of Peter.

" The plight of Israel has become hopeless.

Nevertheless, a nation that does not fight in this plight has lost its spirit and is doomed.

Dickens asks, in effect, for people to recognise the plight of those whom the Industrial Revolution has displaced and driven into poverty, and the obligation of society to provide for them humanely.

) It has been the setting for several other movies in recent years, most notably the 2012 film Beasts of the Southern Wild which was filmed in Montegut and inspired by the plight of bayou communities such as Isle de Jean Charles.

The plight of albatross and large seabirds, as well as other marine creatures, being taken as bycatch by long-line fisheries, has been addressed by a large number of non-governmental organizations ( including BirdLife International, the American Bird Conservancy, and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ).

Menchú has dedicated her life to publicizing the plight of Guatemala's indigenous peoples during and after the Guatemalan Civil War ( 1960 – 1996 ), and to promoting indigenous rights in the country.

Regardless, the story has come to symbolize the plight of all the children in all the wars and has been the inspiration for one of the most moving and successful Italian songs in the 1960s.

One biographer has written that " he was deeply and genuinely concerned about the plight of the poor and so had readily adopted the rhetoric of progressivism, but he was not a progressive ".

* Despite UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's reassurances in early March that the plight of the hundreds of thousands of internal refugees has not been forgotten by the international community, the UN withholds its aid to refugees stranded on the border with neighbouring Tajikistan later in the month.

Veneman has helped bring more awareness to the plight of women and girls.

has a fictional reality TV counterpart, Sherman Oaks: The Real Valley, which causes Seth to ask, " Why watch the plight of fictional characters when you can watch real people in contrived situations?

It is reported that upon hearing of the fleet's destruction, King Charles realized how serious was his plight and exclaimed " Lord God, since it has pleased You to ruin my fortune, let me only go down in small steps.

Sunderlal Bahuguna has been a passionate defender of the Himalaya people, working for temperance, the plight of the hill people ( especially working women ).

He is happy to discuss their plight with them and meanwhile one of them has a brilliant idea — the birds, he says, should stop flying about like idiots and instead should build themselves a great city in the sky, since this would not only allow them to lord it over men, it would also enable them to blockade the Olympian gods in the same way that the Athenians had recently starved the island of Melos into submission.

Jewish communal sites in Arab countries must be preserved and respected .” The WJC believes that the plight of the Jewish refugees from Arab lands has been neglected for decades by the international community, including governments and international organizations.

Hentoff has written multiple articles to draw attention to the plight of America's pioneering musicians of jazz and blues.

Looking for salvation from a yet unknown plight, he gets a knock at his door, figuratively speaking, and Ed Finnerty, an old friend whom Paul has always held in high regard, informs him he has quit his important engineer job in Washington D. C. Paul and Finnerty visit a bar in the " Homestead " section of town, where workers who have been displaced by machines live out their meaningless lives in mass-produced houses.

Leonella is married and distant, Raymond is ill and ignorant of her plight, and Lorenzo has gone to get an arrest order for the death of his sister.

President Johnson said “ the time has come to focus our efforts on the plight of the American Indian ,” and NCIO ’ s formation would “ launch an undivided, Government-wide effort in this area .” While knowing little of the American Indian issues, Johnson tried to connect the nation ’ s trust responsibility to the tribes and nations to civil rights, an area with which he was much more familiar.

Even the North Field of Toji has fallen to ash ... Lamenting the plight of the many fallen acolytes, Ii-o Hikorokusaemon-No-Jou read a passage:

The plight of the people of Darfur, Western Sudan, has also been a regular theme.

Throughout his parliamentary career he has been awarded a wide range of awards including: the Kaputiman Award from the Council of Edmonton Filipino Associations ; the Special Award from the Ukrainian Canadian Congress ( Alberta Provincial Council ); an Outstanding Service Award from the Edmonton Sikh community ; the Religious Liberty Award from the International Religious Liberty Association in Washington, D. C., Liberty Magazine and the Seventh-Day Adventist Church ; and as Chairman of the Parliamentary Group for Soviet Jewry, he was recognized by B ' nai Brith Canada for his effort and commitment to bringing the plight of the Soviet Jewry to the attention of Canadians.

The foreword of the book explains the book's approach by saying, " the authors of the present book, who come from a country ( Estonia ) which has shared the fate of nations in the Russian and Soviet empires, endeavour to publicize the plight of the small nations whose very existence is threatened as a result of recent history.

In February 1919, the orientation of Briggs and the Crusader began to shift, however, as parallels were drawn between the plight of black workers and impoverished working class whites who had immigrated to America from Europe.

On an NPR call-in show, Mamet drew comparisons between the Hawkins family's 40-year quest to win funding for a dam in their hometown and the plight of a young filmmaker trying to sell a script in the unforgiving studio system.

As spokesperson for the Panepirotic Federation of Australia, he has consistently raised awareness of the plight of the Northern Epirot Greek minority in Southern Albania, traveling to Albania on many occasions to research the plight of the Northern Epirots.

"), and it seems that he cares a great deal for the plight of his fellow man: he expresses outrage at Pozzo's treatment of his slave, Lucky, and acts as something of a parental figure to the sometimes childish Estragon.

Thomas Madiou, Madiou, one of Haïti's most famous historians, writing in the middle of the 19th century deduced that his altimate goal was to become Govenor General of the island, autonomous from France and Napoleon Bonaparte, this was thus the reason why General Toussaint exiled him back to France, Toussaint felt that Sonthonax was using their plight to further his own agenda ( power grab ). Sonthonax is considered a controversial figure in Haitian history because of his duplicitous nature, his intetions were never clear and he was not trusted by the black population.

A more controversial figure, he studied under Dr. Budin and brought attention to premature babies and their plight through his display of infants as sideshow attractions at Coney Island and the World ’ s Fair in New York and Chicago in 1933 and 1939, respectively.

One of his men, however, Wiglaf, who finds great distress in seeing Beowulf's plight, comes to Beowulf's aid.

The buddha Amitabha, upon seeing her plight, gave her eleven heads to help her hear the cries of those who are suffering.

In the fourth century AD, the Bishop Acacius of Amida, touched by the plight of Persian prisoners captured in a recent war with the Roman Empire — who were held in his town under appalling conditions and destined for a life of slavery, took the initiative of ransoming them, by selling his church's precious gold and silver vessels, and letting them return to their country.

Suleiman gave particular attention to the plight of the rayas, Christian subjects who worked the land of the Sipahis.

A few years later Cervantes, who later wrote the famous book Don Quixote, was captured by corsairs and enslaved in Algiers, attempted to escape and was eventually ransomed ; he wrote about the plight of Christian slaves in his fiction.

Broadly speaking, artists linked with New Objectivity include Käthe Kollwitz, Otto Dix, Max Beckmann, George Grosz, John Heartfield, Conrad Felixmüller, Christian Schad, and Rudolf Schlichter, who all " worked in different styles, but shared many themes: the horrors of war, social hypocrisy and moral decadence, the plight of the poor and the rise of Nazism ".

However, many place him somewhere in between, a man who used the plight of the poor to suit his personal interests and a politician of the time no more corrupt than any other.

" Alarmed, James called for national fasting and public prayers, kept watch on the Firth of Forth for Anne ’ s arrival, wrote several songs, one comparing the situation to the plight of Hero and Leander, and sent a search party out for Anne, carrying a letter he had written to her in French: " Only to one who knows me as well as his own reflection in a glass could I express, my dearest love, the fears which I have experienced because of the contrary winds and violent storms since you embarked ...".

Contingents that were led by conductors from the U. S. Army included those led by Edward Deas, who was claimed to be a sympathizer for the Cherokee plight.

In the brief respite, Holley shows his indifference to the plight of civilian victims, angering Jarvess, who was a newspaper columnist before the war.

Ben Barnes, a lobbyist who was reared in Comanche County and formerly the former Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives and lieutenant governor, recalled how the Rural Electrification Administration in particular eased the plight of county residents.

Huang had spoken with the foreign press and posted information on his website about the plight of parents who had lost children in collapsed schools.

The pro-royalist parties promised peace and prosperity under the victorious Field Marshal of the Balkan Wars, him who knew of the soldier's plight because he had fought next to him and shared his ration.

In the end, with the inexorability of genuine tragedy, she can only stand by, stunned and unbelieving, as Jessie quietly closes and locks her bedroom door and ends her profound unhappiness in one fatal, stunning and deeply disturbing moment — a moment never to be forgotten by those who have witnessed, and come to understand, her plight.

In the eyes of the people and the press he passed for a generous prince, sincerely preoccupied with the plight of the poor, and he became a sort of icon for the dynastic opposition of Odilon Barrot, who saw in him the only prince capable of reconciling modern France's democratic aspirations with the heritage of its monarchical past.

Studying the patterns led Sowell to theorize that the government employees who administered the minimum wage law cared more about their own jobs than the plight of the poor.

Many of these protesters were unemployed railroad workers who blamed railroad companies, President Cleveland's monetary policies, and excessive freight rates for their plight.

After Graham was brought to Serenia, he met Herbert ( who had come to the land looking for his fiance ) and the Willow and learned of their plight.

While the escapees attempted to publicize the plight of those still on the island, the déportés who remained had to deal with the repercussions of the escape.

He is one of the few aristocrats who care about the plight of the peasants.

In 2002, the Seattle Times reported that the company initially ignored the plight of a Quiznos employee who took over operations of one Quiznos store after the true owner abandoned it.

His plight and obvious distress caused such sympathy among the People, who blamed themselves for betraying their champion, that a large party gathered outside his home to ensure his protection.

In particular, the court objected to three letters to the editor, one of which described the plight of a woman who had been raped by her husband, tearing stitches from a recent operation after a difficult childbirth and causing severe hemorrhaging.

The German philanthropist Baron Maurice de Hirsch had become concerned about the plight of European Jews who were migrating in increasing numbers to large cities.

It concerns the plight of a group of people who have survived an accidentally released plague – referred to as " The Death " – that kills nearly the entire human population of the planet.