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The paper discusses Nancy Sherman's article on friendship and refers to the theories of Nathaniel Brandon and Laurence Thomas on that topic.

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"Nancy Sherman argues with Aristotle that good living or happiness for any individual necessarily includes the happiness of others and that shared happiness entails the rational capacity for jointly promoting common ends, as well as the capacity to identify with and coordinate separate ends. Sherman does not feel that there is anything incompatible between Aristotle's notion of a friend as an other self and a conception of the separation of individuals. In other words, Sherman acknowledges that self-sufficiency is a criterion of the good life..."

Tags:friendship, Nancy Sherman, Aristotle

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This paper compares and contrasts the conception of teenage life presented in Keenan's "Nancy Drew" series and Pascal's "Sweet Valley High". More specifically, the paper considers the sibling relationship, as well as the relationship between parent and child.

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"Between the time that Carolyn Keene penned the "Nancy Drew" series and Francine Pascal wrote her "Sweet Valley High" books, our society underwent many changes, including a rethinking of the family unit and increasing pressure on adolescents. More importantly the young adult readers that both Keene and Pascal intended as their audience changed significantly. As a result of their different social contexts, the two series present distinct views of adolescent life. Yet, both Keene and Pascal aim to teach young adult readers about life and relationships within their respective worlds..."

Tags:pascal, keenen, drew, sweet valley, sibling, parent, lesson

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This paper explains that there is a conflict in our society between the economics of supply and demand and family values. The author points out that Folbre feels the problems of the welfare system are a direct result of the government?s lack of providing care for its citizens. The paper relates that, originally, school schedules were established in the days when farm families needed children to help with crops; but, today, this model is nothing more than an example of economic inefficiency.

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"The economic value of care giving has never been established and remains undervalued. So how do women who are the traditional caregivers move out of that role without feeling guilty because they are not living up to their familial obligations? There must be mutual responsibility when both parties maintain careers or work to enhance the quality of family life and maintain standards of living."

Tags:caregiving, standard, school, obligation, security

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This paper presents an examination of two stories and their main characters. The paper analyzes "The Death of Ivan Ilych" by Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, as well as "One Friday Morning" by Langston Hughes. The writer explores the main characters of the books and discusses their ability or inability to accept their fate in life.

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"In "The death of Ivan Illych", by Tolstoy, the main character is a dying man named Ivan Illych. Throughout the story the reader is taken on a journey with Illych in which he cannot accept the fact that he has a terminal illness. He initially hears that he is sick when he seeks medical attention for a pain he suffers. As the doctor tries to explain the disorder to him and the seriousness of that disease he refuses to grasp its reality. Instead he becomes fixated on maintaining a state of denial. He refuses to acknowledge that his illness is causing him pain or to feel unwell, he instead begins to blame everyone around him for making him feel poorly."

Tags:acceptance, terminal, scholarship

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"One aspect of the issues raised by Nancy Chodorow in her book The Reproduction of Mothering is a variation on the nature or nurture argument, whether women mother because that is their nature or because they have been acculturated to do so. Mothering in this context has a specific meaning aside from women having children:

Women mother. In our society, as in most societies, women not only bear children. They also take primary responsibility for infant care, spend more time with infants and children than do men, and sustain primary emotional ties with infants. When biological mothers do not parent, other women, rather than men, virtually always take their place. Though fathers and other men spend varying amounts of time with infants and ..."

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"A Passion for Excellence by Tom Peters and Nancy Austin seeks to advance the work begun in the book, In Search of Excellence, which Tom Peters co-wrote in 1982. The approach is similar. The authors present their observations, and punctuate these with anecdotes from business and industry, using real company names and real individuals' names. This research examines the thrust of A Passion for Excellence and evaluates its usefulness as a guide to management in the 1990s.
A Passion for Excellence is divided into five sections: common sense, customers, innovation, people and leadership. The fact that the book begins with a section on common sense is no accident, but rather careful planning on the part of the authors. In fact, they hold that the common sense advice they give apparently isn't so common, "or more would practice it" (4)."

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This paper explains that Charles Bukowski's poem, "My Old Man" portrays a conflict between a father and son. The complete opposite of this poem is Nancy Willard's poem, "Questions My Son Asked Me, Answers I Never Gave Him", which conveys affection between a parent and child. The author points out that the themes of these poems are different: Charles Bukowski gives the father and son a strong sense of disconnection and refusal of one another; whereas, in Willard's poem, the theme exposes involvement and acceptance between a parent and child. The paper relates that Charles Bukowski creates a sense of misery with the son having a feeling of unimportance; Nancy Willard's poem expresses a deeper meaning of time through life.

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"The imagery created through the questions and answers in Willard's poem, produces an outlook on life relating time. In the course of the parent and son's intimate relationship, it allows them to involve time on the view of life within the questions and answers. Through time the son will find out if butterflies make noise, if he can eat a star, and if the years ever run out. Even the answers given to him are through time. For example the last question asks, "Do the years ever run out?" This question inquires the time in living every day to a year to find his answer. Even though his parent answers, "God said, I will break time's heart", the son must live and learn so he can eventually interpret the answers to his questions."

Tags:conflict, affection, disconnection, relationship, imagery

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In this paper, the writer describes how Nancy Atwell focuses on the ways teachers can motivate students to read and feel comfortable in their writing. The writer describes Atwell's proposed classroom community that nurtures these effective writing behaviors and skills. The writer then turns to his experience as a teacher using Nancie Atwell's writing workshop model and relates that overall, it was very successful. The writer posits that in the future he would want to create a writing workshop that balances this type of personalized writing with a more formal discourse.

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"Atwell proposes activities that garner the teacher's participation with his or her students. She uses her own experiences to illustrate how a teacher can become an "evolutionist," one who shares their own work with students. Atwell proposes that when students come to realize that the writing process is an activity that adults struggle with too, they are more willing to work on their own challenges. Here, students and teacher learn together in the workshop experience. In this classroom setting, Atwell promotes the collective practice of daily writing, students writing at their own individual pace, and allowing students do choose their own topics for their own writing as well as for the texts they are reading."

Tags:styles, genres, vocabulary, grammar, motivation

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This paper examines how being the First Lady is to live in the spotlight and to be a role model for thousands of women, not just in the United States, but also worldwide. It shows how First Ladies prefer to let their husbands be the president, focusing on such issues and foreign and domestic policies, whereas they prefer to focus on issues closer to home that directly affect the American people. It describes the lives of Eleanor Roosevelt, Barbara Bush, and Nancy Reagan, three First Ladies who each had to deal with criticism, controversy and pressure in their time. It provides a brief biography of each of their lives and analyzes their contribution to society.

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"When Eleanor was 15 years old , she was sent to the Allenswood Academy in London, England. While there, Eleanor developed lifelong interests in politics, social causes, history, and literature. Upon her return to New York, she joined various social-reform organizations, including the National Consumers' League, which sought to improve working conditions for women, and volunteered as a teacher in settlement houses (charitable establishments that offered social services to the urban poor). "Very early," she says, "I became conscious of the fact that there were men and women and children around me who suffered in one way or another" (Roosevelt, p. 27). "

Tags:domestic, policies, women, organizations, america

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This paper discusses how sexism and racism both involve imposing a set of expectations on groups in society and how sexism has not been eliminated from American life any more than racism has. In "Women's Magazines 1940-1960" by Nancy A. Walker, it shows how women's magazines package a set of behaviors, roles, expectations, attitudes, and values related to domesticity and which, of followed, would enclose women in a relatively narrow range of choices. In writing about blacks and how they are treated in American society, Richard Wright in his book "Black Boy" also suggests ways in which blacks are given a packaged set of roles and attitudes to which they are expected to conform. This paper provides a short biography of Richard Wright and attempts to analyze how he would have viewed the expectations and attitudes imposed on women and how alike or how different would he have seen them from those imposed on blacks.

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"Richard Wright was born in 1908 on a plantation outside Natchez, Mississippi. His father was a sharecropper, while his mother taught in a country school. Richard's childhood was spent in one of the most poverty-stricken and rigidly segregated regions of the South. When he was six, his family moved to Memphis, Tennessee, so his father could get a better job, and the father then worked as a night porter in a hotel, while the mother worked as a cook for a white family. Richard's father left the family for another woman son after that, and in 1915 Richard's mother became ill to such a degree that she was an invalid for the rest of her life. Richard, his mother, and his brother then moved to Jackson, Mississippi. to live with Richard's grandmother for a time."

Tags:women, blacks, children, sex-role, gender, domesticity, discrimination