YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Democracy by Robert Putnam
Essays 571 - 600
too many instances, "Children come into the hospital with malaria and leave with AIDS" (Desowitz 16). To date, neither traditiona...
other ties, such as technological or formal bonds (Dwyer and Tanner, 2001). The payoff from long-term relationships are obvious:...
others; and America is comprised of people of differing educational attainment. If these traits are in fact necessary for democrac...
and lonely offices?" (Hayden 13-14). All of this speaks of a childs ignorance and how children are simply children, ignora...
of Northern Virginia, and finally to the last years after the Civil War (Vinton, 1952). Young readers who want a brief, simply wri...
practical facet, which is how the individuals intelligence "adapts to their current environment," shapes that environment, or even...
As this suggests, this psychologically complex poem portrays a pivotal exchange between two people who are trying to cope with los...
likens the process of death to an innocuous fly buzzing. In other words, instead of being a mysterious occurrence, it is a proces...
about the circumstances of the household. An atmosphere of bitterness with bouts of anger is described. The recollection suggests ...
safe place: the dead are "untouched" beneath their rafters of satin and roofs of stone (Dickinson). They wait motionless for the r...
narrator is speaking of fences, a fence that divides his land from his neighbors. He wonders about why people have fences, especia...
is presumably himself, as an adult, looking back at the things his father did for him. These are things that the child clearly nev...
and racketeering. Whyte readily acknowledges that he had no training in either sociology or anthropology when he began the rese...
of four lines known as quatrains, and each stanza comprised of alternating iambs or an unstressed syllable immediately followed by...
Jackson states his aim quite clearly: he wants to "outline the normative criteria involved in the ethics of statecraft."3 He argue...
went outside to sit under a tree where there was a nightingale, only to write a poem about it (Ode to a Nightingale). In the poem ...
a book that offers up a fictional account of what could perhaps happen if the scenario presented were part of history. It reads, i...
He probably thinks back on the choice fairly often, but theres no anger in the poem, no sense that the choice was a poor one, just...
not aware of prior to the drug, and it could well be argued that it inspired him to write this story, a story that delves into the...
to his parents and an outsider to his peers, but somehow, to hear him describe it, his childhood was not unhappy."3 He clearly d...
They are simply animals doing what they do and creating a balance in the world, another aspect of duality for without opposites th...
in on various theatrical stages), Middlemass racked up an impressive list of stage credits. Some of his early Broadway appearance...
book, Benjamin Schreier claims that Gatsby, if not actually black-an unusual interpretation to be sure-is someone of color; he bas...
or how one human engages another. Frost is merely using nature as a setting, a natural setting, that emphasizes choices that human...
individuals and even commit murders. They become the Free Farmers Brotherhood for Protection and Control. At the same time Munn, w...
for an individual to have done something of importance in their life. It is not always important that they be recognized. It see...
what might be a darker meaning to the poem. The last two lines are repeated ("And miles to go before I sleep") so that the reader...
However, the ways in which his thoughts were organized are often ironic, and can generate more than one meaning. For example, is ...
these smaller groups "different." The Chinese will do almost anything to avoid being different from the whole of an organization o...
a boy. It seems important to understand that children, at the time this story takes place, were treated as adults in many...