The first half of the book addresses what the author perceives to be obstacles to the formation of these multiracial coalitions. ... The author identifies two types of racism-biological racism and cultural racism. ... Of the American educational institution he writes: "To what extent are the contemporary social deprivation theories merely substitution notions of environmental immutability fatalism for earlier notions of biologically determined educational unmodifiability."(p 17) Although the author shares Mr. ... What the author appears to be saying is that surmountable obstacles to mu...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

Evelyn Waugh's 1930 novel Vile Bodies is filled to the brim with wit and satire; the author seemingly makes fun of all his characters and has no mercy even for the old and frail. ... In a way they can be compared to the "Lost Generation" in the contemporary novel "Fiesta- The Sun Also Rises" by Hemingway, a book with similar themes but an entirely different and more serious stance. ... The upper classes are particularly mocked by Waugh; he loves to deride both their uselessness in contemporary society and their broken, hedonistic form of morality. ...

• Word Count: 1494
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Graduate

Finally it will be highlighted how contemporary poststructuralist theories support and advocate the learner-centered approach recommended by 21st century pedagogy. ... They discard traditional approaches to teaching and studying literature and recommend approaches which are guided by the contemporary research. ... Methodology of these models and approaches serve to develop aesthetic and linguistic understanding of students and help them read history as discussed by the author and poets. ... A Marxist interpretation of the text takes the reader beyond the facade of neutrality and draws thei...

• Word Count: 1829
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

Furthermore, family diversity has become more acknowledged in contemporary society. ... However, Christine Odone's personal life reflects contradiction due to her current lifestyle as a publisher, author and mother. ... Although many of the above aspects reflect a clear improvement in the quality of childhood since industrialisation, many other contemporary factors such as the media have somewhat damaged the innocence of childhood. ...

• Word Count: 2016
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

Voltaire -was an author of enormous industry; seventy volumes of him adorn the present -writer's shelves, and another edition of Voltaire's works runs to ninety- four; he dealt largely with history and public affairs, and he corresponded with Catherine the Great of Russia, Frederick the Great of Prussia, Louis XV, and most of the prominent people of the time. ... But the contemporary mind did not see it in that light. ...

• Word Count: 2009
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• Grade Level: Graduate

The similarities between his work and the previously dominant medium for understanding the past can be assured through linguistic features, such as the use of rhetorical questions, quasi-Homeric discourse, similarities in phraseology [aklea vs. klea andron (¶1.1) or the use of grand terms such as 'the cities of mortals'], and the presence of tangential stories that the author considers worth telling, though they are not directly relevant to the plot. This demonstrates Herodotus standing in a murky, grey area between accurate history and the tradition of glorifying the past, fro...

• Word Count: 2143
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Graduate