You are Ruby, the child of deaf adults (CODA) and the only hearing member of your family. You live in a relatively poor rural community in Massachusetts, USA and your family runs a struggling fishing business, where you help with the day-to-day operations. You also happen to be a talented singer, and your high school music teacher thinks that you have what it takes to become a professional singer someday. One day, you are given the opportunity to pursue a degree at the Berkley College of Music, one of the most prestigious music colleges in the USA, on a full scholarship. You cannot defer your admission and the college will retract their scholarship offer if you choose to decline.

Info slide: The "Russian Interference" law is a new law being passed in Poland as a way to respond against the potential of Russian influence in the country. The law seeks to create a committee that is designed to investigate individuals or parties suspected of having ties with Russia, with the permission to breach privacy rights if needed.

The IMF may declare a creditor to be "intransigent". If it declares a country X to be intransigent, then any other country accepting an IMF bailout is required to suspend any debt repayments to country X until the bailout is repaid to the IMF. 

Necro-resistance refers to extreme acts of resistance against oppressive systems. It encompasses strategies and tactics where individuals place their bodies and lives at risk, with common examples including self-immolation, hunger strikes, glueing or chaining oneself to buildings or infrastructure, etc.