The AFE Foundation is the only patient advocacy organization of its kind, serving those affected by or interested in the maternal complication known as an amniotic fluid embolism (AFE). Established in 2008, by AFE survivor, Miranda Klassen, the foundation has grown to support families and clinicians worldwide.
Revolutionary Road is a 2008 British-American drama film, based on the 1961 novel of the same name by Richard Yates, directed by Sam Mendes.This is the second collaboration between Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet and Kathy Bates, who previously co-starred in Titanic.n 1955, Frank Wheeler (Leonardo DiCaprio) meets April (Kate Winslet) at a party. He is a longshoreman, hoping to be a cashier; she wants to be an actress. Frank later secures a sales position with Knox Machines, for which his father worked for twenty years, and he and April marry.
Historical Context. Great Expectations, a Victorian novel, was written and published in 1860-1. The story, however, takes us back to the beginning of the 19th century. Many of the nostalgic references in the novel distinguish the period in which the story occurs from the period of the novel's composition. 1812-1840: A Brief Historical Overview.