The semi-structured interviews with all respondents prompted discussions on the same topics: division of labor, patterns of decision-making, intra-household tensions and cooperation, generational contributions to local knowledge, and caregiving strategies for the sick and surviving household members, especially orphans.
Since Einstein's proposition there have been many researches and debates on this topic, many division lines have been proposed, but there is no specially designed experimental research to verify the physical existence of division lines, and these division lines have not been tested against the experimental data.
But I have only succeeded as a writer of fiction if this is a story that engages people who know nothing about Israel and Palestine, but are curious about a more universal topic: the division between the haves and the have-nots, and the invisibility of the latter in the eyes of the former.
It remains a divisive topic, albeit with the division between core gamers who argue passionately online against free-to-play, and the more mainstream gamers who don't even know there's a passionate argument going on: they're just playing the games on their smartphones and tablets, and on Facebook.
But perhaps he wanted to avoid a topic that breeds division.
Each one covers a single topic, like long division or the debt crisis, usually in a bite-size 10-minute segment.
This topic caused a division among the residents during the discussion because when one mentioned a situation as an example, wherein she felt that the family did not really care whether the child gets well or not, another pediatrician begged to disagree and thought that the parents just did not express themselves properly.
We don't talk about addiction, or depression, or economic justice, or inclusion of LGBT people, or any other topic that might cause division, even though there are many for whom talking about any one of those things would be a lifeline.
When the decisions of a network news division are Topic A on the campaign trail, drawing the fire not only of leading candidate Barack Obama but of more than 15,000 critical messages online, they should qualify as the major focus of the networks' nightly newscasts next night.
The plots were deft essays that touched on heavyweight topics such as the division between church and state, or the balance between faith and destiny, without ever forgetting to be anything less than totally entertaining.
