YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The End of the Victory Culture by Tom Engelhardt
Essays 601 - 630
economy is developing as well; it is virtually unheard of in an economy the size of that of the US. Mr. Bernanke reports that bot...
reinforcement, the response is learned. This principle is frequently consciously used in dog training. For example, the dog is giv...
or weddings. They live on the compound or they may just visit. Howards End becomes a centerpiece for the story and is symbolic of ...
rely on "surrogate" decision-makers, family members capable of making treatment decisions on their behalf. As a result, this stud...
become a prominent question in the care of patients. Society and medical practitioners continually face many dilemmas at the end ...
years. Why? "In 1961 the first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev, made a speech predicting...
people from other cultures. Although we want to consider end-of-life issues for Native Americans, that is not one of the cultures...
of the participants brings something nasty back from the "other side" (James, 1990). It appears that at least one of the things th...
is why it is sometimes difficult to understand the humane element of living wills and DNRs. Until one has been in the place of an...
follows: "Open-ended questions power academic and social learning. Such questions encourage Childrens natural curiosity, challengi...
revolution is over because it failed, although people continue to follow along the same course of sexual activity, and then some. ...
friends with the three other musicians in Stalag VIIIA: cellist, Etienne Pasquier; clarinettist, Henry Akoka and a violinist, Jean...
industrial revolution and the transition to a coal-fired economy" (Pan). Roberts points out that the shift from an agrarian econom...
"the aspirations of the people themselves. The controlling idea of the French Canadian is to retain...
into the Constitution, thus making it impossible to legislate against virtually anything-"doctor-assisted suicide? Or drug use? Or...
an organization designed to move "hardworking inner-city employees into richer jobs markets by providing the job information and p...
by the caring physical presence of this nurse in her last remaining hours. However, the way in which this case turned out saw the ...
him--and pay for the privilege. Tom realizes that "Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and that Play consists of wha...
served as a form of currency in these regions because it was used as wage compensation. A crucial point Standage made is that bee...
is on his own journey for he too is aware of the murderer Injun Joe. As such their journeys, while different, essentially stem fro...
ball games" (Lychack, 1998). What they are doing is extremely dangerous, in many senses. Not only is fraternization with the e...
as an imitation of reality, "it holds a mirror up to nature" (Durant, 1961, p. 59). Aristotle notes that human beings find pleasur...
beliefs maintained by the slaves when they still resided in Africa. There is also the perspective which argues that the childre...
agree that the most significant debate Jones had with himself concerning virtue and vice was when he decided to marry Sophia, one ...
of an irresponsible alcoholic father and the absence of his mother, he is actually quite fortunate in comparison to some of the ot...
because of its controversial position, and content, that children should not be required to read it, or have it read in class. In ...
of the film as we witness his actions and we become powerful voyeurs in the process, immersing ourselves in his world, and his sym...
just that mapping of reality that corresponds to the way things are" (25). Of course, many great philosophers, such as Descartes, ...
he learns his true parentage and realizes his potentialities; he discovers what he really is, himself for himself alone. . . his e...
with the plot of the Golden Ass. The story of The Golden Ass finds Lucius and Corinth interested in both magic and sex and eventua...