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Gas Station / C-store Help Wanted in Charlotte, NC (15 minutes from UNCC). Must speak English. Salary commensurate per experience. Please call 704-733-0553. Housekeeping Wanted for franchise hotel in Chattanooga, TN. Hotel completely renovated & newly furnished. Great pay! Accommodations provided. Contact 704907-0524 or a.harsh5290@gmail.com. Help Needed immediately for Motel in Atlanta area for Housekeeping (single of couple). Must have legal status. Accommodations provided. Call Neal 404642-1611.

Hotel Help Needed: Front Desk, Housekeeper, & Maintenance for hotel in Charlotte, NC. Accommodations provided. Contact Imoore9593@yahoo.com. Convenience Store Help Wanted in Charlotte, NC. Single or Couple. Salary w/ incentives. Open 6am to 11pm. Call Vipul 704-431-8310. Full-time Nanny needed in Raleigh, NC for 3 month-old starting in September. Loving family and competitive pay. Please text or call 860-961-3789. Front Desk & Housekeeping Needed for Motel in Richmond, VA (Airport area). Legal status required. Accommodations provided. Call 804-512-7810 / email airportbw@gmail.com. Marketing Salesperson needed. Full-time position in High Point area. Must be fluent in English and be a good team player. Good Salary with vacation. Call Raj 336-558-3410. Domestic Help Wanted to prepare and cook meals twice a week at private residence in South Charlotte (Ballantyne area). Should be able to arrange for their own transportation. Call 919-742-0090.

Housekeepers Wanted for Franchise Hotel 20 minutes from Charlotte, NC. Previous experience preferred. Call 571-358-5474 or 571-366-0017. Hotel Help Wanted: Front Desk/Manager, Night Auditor and Housekeeper (Single / Couple / Family) for franchise hotels 30 minutes from Raleigh NC. Experience preferred. Offering good pay! Accommodations provided if needed. Legal status & fluent English required for Front Desk/Manager position. Call 919-649-4780. Gas Station / C-Store Help wanted in Greensboro, NC. Must have prior experience. Great salary with benefits. Manager positions also available. Call 336509-4054. Household Help Needed in Ballantyne (South Charlotte) area. Cooking for 4 people (no kids), laundry, organizing, cleaning kitchen, etc. No bathroom cleaning, etc needed. 3-4 hours per day, 2-3 days a week. Call 704-577-6873. Nanny/Babysitter Needed for 1 year-old in Concord, NC. Full-time, Mon-Fri, 8-5. Must speak Gujarati or English. Starting ASAP. Looking for long-term commitment. Please text/call Roshni at 704-876-5435.

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Looking for Energetic employees (Fulltime/Part-time, single or couple) for Tropical Smoothie Cafe on Concord Pkwy, Concord, NC. Some English required. Call Ajay Patel 704-661-4708. Cashier Wanted for Convenience Store near Kannapolis, NC. Very attractive salary! Accommodations provided. Text or Call 704-701-9482.

World Relief Durham seeks Resettlement Coordinator. Client facing role serving incoming immigrants and refugees. Bachelors required. Full-time with benefits. Email revens@wr.org. Hotel Help Wanted: Front Desk / Manager, Night Auditor and Housekeeper (Single / Couple) for franchise hotels in Columbia, SC. Offering good pay! Accommodations provided. Call 704-460-0379 between 6 to 9pm.

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Convenience Store help needed immediately in Charlotte, NC. Full-time & part-time including weekends. Call or text Chintan at 704-340-1372. Hotel Help Wanted: Front Desk / Manager, Night Auditor, Shuttle Driver and Laundry/Housekeeper (Single / Couple / Family) for franchise hotels in Raleigh, NC. Accommodations provided if needed. Legal status & fluent English required for Front Desk/Manager position. Valid driver license required for Shuttle Driver. Experience preferred. Offering good pay! Call 919-720-0991. Manager / Front Desk needed for Franchise Hotel in Rock Hill, SC. Accommodations Provided. Contact 803-517-4662. Nanny requested for 9 month-old in Concord, NC. Full-time, Monday-Friday, 810 hours/day. Contact 704-899-4065 or 336860-0200. World Relief Durham seeks part-time Administrative Assistant. Support immigration legal services. Bilingual required. Durham, NC. Email aabraham@wr.org. Manager Couple needed for franchise hotel 1.5 hours from Charlotte. Must be Fluent in English. Accommodations provided. Text/call 704-701-9975. Looking for live-out Nanny to take care of 7 month-old & help with basic housework in Concord, NC. Text/call 804-501-9629. Housekeeping Wanted for 32-unit hotel in Richburg, SC. Accommodations provided. Call 864-694-6299. Gas Station/Convenience Store Help Needed in Rock Hill, SC. Full and part-time. Great pay and friendly atmosphere! Call Deep Patel 731-589-8085.

Looking for GMs to operate franchise motels in Richburg, SC. Legal status & fluent English required. Accommodations provided. Call 864-694-6299, leave message. Front Desk & Housekeeping needed for Motel in Durham, NC. Legal status required. Accommodations provided. Call Ken Patel 919-452-3131 or email kenco00@gmail.com.

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continued from page 22 or universe. These struggles and how our heroine reacts to them are what makes her more relatable and not just a stiff paper doll moving from scene to scene.

Of course, girls and women should have the same opportunities as their male counterparts, which includes the ideal of strength. Unfortunately, this one characteristic has become the end all and be all of our ideal female characters. It seems somewhat ironic, then, that when we praise it as being so incredibly groundbreaking, we are instead reinforcing the concept that women are still generalized as the weaker sex. Any display of strength whether it be emotional, physical, mental, or otherwise is by default clearly exceptional.

How often do you hear the phrase “Strong Male Character?” Probably never since it’s already accepted that all men are strong, so are instead called out when they are compassionate or shy; traits that are often associated with women. So, what needs to happen to make a woman strong, noble, and heroic? What challenges must these characters face in less brutal fictional worlds to make them believable?

Simple. Give her the flaws, faults, and a true hero’s journey where she learns and grows along the way.

A perfect example is Ellen Ripley in the Alien franchise. She starts out as warrant officer with minimal combat training who’s part of a commercial space crew. She has no special abilities or portrayed as morally better or worse than anyone else on the crew. Throughout the first three films, she displays a multitude of flaws. The xenomorphs constantly terrify her. She doesn’t always have the right answer and often makes mistakes. Yet, Ripley still wins the same way any hero would… with wits, compassion and utilizing her ever growing knowledge of the enemy to her advantage. And while she does ultimately prevail, she also suffers much loss along the way.

While I’m hardly the first person to discuss this trope. There’s other thing that’s often missing from such a topic: that the “Strong Female Character” must sacrifice their femininity and be just as ‘tough’ as a man to be appreciated.

That brings me right back to Ripley, as her protection for the young girl Newt in Aliens offered a much more maternal side of her not often shown in conjunction with an action heroine. She shows a special tenderness toward Newt throughout the film that doesn’t diminish her overall presence and adds an extra layer to her motivations.

Oh, and a woman can still be feminine without the additional role of love interest, plot device to move along a male character’s story, or one-dimensional sketch of what a woman is assumed to be. She should be a complicated character with a multitude of strengths and weaknesses; someone with complex motivations and real character development.

I think it’s finally time to abolish the archetype and demand what we really want. Audiences deserve fullyfleshed out, diverse, and relatable female characters who are so much more than “strong.” We should expect a truly human character whose kindness, drive, ambition, and courage inspire us to do the same. We should expect these characters to enjoy healthy relationships with other women, real-life flaws we can relate to, and intricate stories that don’t necessarily need to revolve around men. Let’s require equal representation, so that all kinds of women are showcased, and all kinds of narratives are explored… because we’re all so much more than that.

It’s about time we bury Strong Female Characters, once and for all, because women are so much more than that.

Jennifer Allen works at Saathee and is also a Podcaster, Blogger, Photographer, Graphic Artist, Gamer, and an all around Pop Culture Geek. Reach her at saathee@Saathee.com

The Quad

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The underlying principle of the Quad has parallels with Aukus, a security pact between Australia, the United Kingdom and the US. This was announced in September 2021 with the initial purpose of helping Australia develop nuclear-powered submarines.

There is also the “Five Eyes”, an intelligence-sharing arrangement among the US, the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The Quad’s fundamental difference is the presence of two Asian powers that are eager for support to balance against China on their doorstep.

It is important to highlight that the Quad’s prominence is increasing in the context of almost complete silence from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean). This is despite efforts to convince the ten Asean member states that the Quad provides opportunities beyond security, such as the already-mentioned investment pledge.

New world order

Looking from a more macro perspective, the Quad – together with Aukus, Five Eyes and the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF), a regional economic partnership – offers a big picture of the overall US strategy to contain China in the coming decades.

We are not yet in a new cold war, but we no longer live in a unipolar world dominated by a hegemonic US. This reshaping of the international order was already underway, driven by the increasing assertiveness of China. But Russia’s assault on Ukraine, accompanied by Beijing’s “no limits” cooperation with Moscow, has hastened and exacerbated the drawing of lines across the globe. US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, said in a recent speech: “Even as President Putin’s war continues, we will remain focused on the most serious long-term challenge to the international order – and that is the one posed by the People’s Republic of China.”

We should not expect imminent direct conflict but it is clear that global strategic competition between the US and China is intensifying. The Quad is just the most recent example of how the teams are lining up. Article courtesy of theconversation.com

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