Essays 1921 - 1950
routinely refuse to raise the minimum wage, allowing business to get away with its perpetual whine that if they increase their wor...
the Escapist, to accomplish the mission. In a madcap adventure, the Escapist flies to Europe, gets captured, withstands interrogat...
some critics believe that "post-colonialism" implies, mistakenly, that "colonialism is over when in fact most of the nations invol...
"democracy pragmatism" in public policy suggests that it is a way to measure the success of public policy with regard to the democ...
them. Connor is despicable; if this were present day, Ona would have him up on charges of sexual harassment. But it is not present...
is fantasizing about sex. All Quiet on the Western Front is an older but expressive work that captures the problem of war through...
that it has grown from a small concern to a huge business that now makes over 400,000 tortillas a year (Millman). Fernando Sanchez...
was a POW in WWII and went through the firebombing of Dresden (an experience that plays out in his books repeatedly) (Priest). Wi...
that, in general, matters are what they appear to be" (Goffman 1959; 17). This essentially sets the stage for understanding some...
These background, including economic factors, have a proven impact on a childs ability and motivation to learn and affect that stu...
is when Gatsby holds out his arms toward a small green light in the distance, which the reader learns later is the green light on ...
history text. Intermixed with Old Testament recounting of events in the history of the Hebrew people are directions for "religious...
organizations run smoothly; the companies have to have a set of "core values" which they retain literally forever; they have a cor...
can argue that at times, people "use" each other in the best possible ways-by drawing on each others strengths to reach goals that...
broke the argument down in a much easier argument (Palmer, 2002). Descartes began with the premise that God is the only being who ...
to meet the "major goals of society" (Stillman, 2000, p. 1). For instance, he says, if a state agency proposes to build a new high...
lived varied but the author is specific in providing the details: "For just as those who beget children by carnal generation must ...
they talked expansively of busting and breaking the land. And that is exactly what they did" (Worster, 2004; 4). He also illust...
than the others. It may be that they are all true. However, FDR did change his will to leave half of his fortune to Missy, antici...
Yes. Putnams introductory pages clearly explain his reasons for using Italy as his "laboratory": two regional governments, one in ...
the prolific works of critic and scholar Ramon Menendez Pidal as the definitive studies on Diaz, but more recently, an English his...
But it raises a lot of questions for the future. How did events alter the perception of Americans as the U.S. started its journey ...
p. 12). It was not until William had to seek new employment because his employer died that he began to take an interest in religi...
and McCrimmon). Mauet and McCrimmon go on to explain two other challenges, "a challenge to the array and a challenge to the poll...
womens disadvantages so vigorously that any discussion of the phenomenon has taken on the aspect of a social taboo (McIntosh, 1988...
and too mysterious to be reduced to a slogan on a bumper sticker, and yet that is what has happened (Wells, 1994). The reason fo...
where to go to find information. The authors also consider what they call the "trial notebook," which is a means to organize "tr...
a religious leader to one ruled by a king, that is, a political leader. Sauls downfall as a ruler is considered to be tragic in th...
the word considered to be the particle indicate that although the particle is considered part of the PV, it need not be the next w...
this he becomes something of a hero, though never truly a hero who completely sacrifices himself for others or for some grand caus...