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late Sen. J. William Fulbright advocated neither morality nor realism. Instead, he advocated "humanism" as a primary American for...

plague wreaks death and despair onto the Theban people, Oedipus pride motivates him to make a deal whereby he reveals the identity...

formal education or technical training, women would be hired. The obvious vocational choices were extensions of their housekeepin...

crowd," which means that a teacher should not spend all of his or her time in front of the class but should put the students "to w...

battlefield, Arjuna could see many of his kin on the opposing side. Overcome with emotion, he resists engaging in the conflict un...

be a universal perception of morality, that is, on the existence of natural moral law, that is an innate sense that is common to a...

in which the Supreme Court justices typically align themselves - usually in either liberal or conservative extremes, which Antonin...

and racketeering. Whyte readily acknowledges that he had no training in either sociology or anthropology when he began the rese...

such as the idea that young children do not notice or understand bias. Chapter three discusses racism, addressing key questions an...

friend or family member in order to make this identification. It has been noted frequently in empirical literature that there ha...

alike despite their willingness to risk their lives in combat. But as the text illustrates, racial discrimination was unfortunate...

the rulers. The differences between the Sunni and Shiite branches of Islam developed over a number of centuries, for many y...

the reader is the consumer. A writerly text is at the other end of this spectrum, as in these texts the reader is also a co-produc...

mostly prostitutes - were savagely murdered and mutilated by an unknown assailant, but after November 1888, the slayings stopped a...

text is a virtual diary of her experiences and observations. The text is effective in that the author is never condescending to t...

a woman gives her child is "incorporated into the framework of the natural," rather than thought of as a matter of choice, which w...

(2003) charges that its contents consist of what amounts to "stigmatized knowledge," in which supposed truths are verified to be f...

it in the modern culture. What must be recognized is that gay and lesbians seek out the same kind of long-term, lasting, and st...

quite proud of his physical abilities and thus the accident left with virtually nothing as he could move almost nothing in his bod...

disorder," which does suggest that a social goal is that everyone should get along. But Hobbes knew early on that people do not ge...

back by the love of temporal pleasure" (Augustine 167). In accepting Christianity, Augustine records that he "no longer desired a ...

a kind of moral idealism to the productive realism reflected in authors ranging from Mark Twain to Stowe herself (The Rise of Real...

political, economic and social changes that have impacted the world culture. This endeavor, then, is very different from that of ...

2005). Her life is so awful that she retreats into her weight, into madness, and eventually into an attempt at suicide (Miserandi...

his introduction to The Annotated Alice, Martin Gardner relates some of the complex meanings that have been attributed to Alice. F...

Some of the most obvious similarities between A Lesson Before Dying and The Sky is Gray reflect the core thematic elements of both...

the goal" involves all the children in a discussion of the project and how to approach it. It describes why such projects are wor...

view at that time which saw nature as indestructible. However, as Kurlansky also shows, no species or aspect of nature has this qu...

incorporating drama in the classroom but it also provides us the ammunition to move the impact of that drama from the classroom an...

women were also shaped by the class system in place. While women in the upper classes were afforded greater mobility and social d...