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Woman Culture and Society - HOME Woman Culture and Society Selling Suffrage: Consumer Culture and Votes for Women by Margaret Finnegan, Margaret Finnegan's pathbreaking study of woman suffrage from the 1850s to the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 reveals how activists came to identify with consumer culture and employ its methods of publicity to win popular support through carefully crafted images of enfranchised women as "personable, likable, and modern." Drawing on organization records, suffragists' papers and memoirs, and newspapers and magazines, Finnegan shows how women found it in their political interest to ally themselves with the rise of ...
Woman Culture and Society - HOME Woman Culture and Society Selling Suffrage: Consumer Culture and Votes for Women by Margaret Finnegan, Margaret Finnegan's pathbreaking study of woman suffrage from the 1850s to the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 reveals how activists came to identify with consumer culture and employ its methods of publicity to win popular support through carefully crafted images of enfranchised women as "personable, likable, and modern." Drawing on organization records, suffragists' papers and memoirs, and newspapers and magazines, Finnegan shows how women found it in their political interest to ally themselves with the rise of ...
Living History Society - HOME Living History Society Age and Structural Lag: Society's Failure to Provide Meaningful Opportunities in Work, Family, and Leisure by Matilda W. Riley, In twentieth-century industrial societies most of us live longer and healthier lives than ever before in history. Yet the social structures and institutions that provide opportunities for our lives are still marked by age constraints that were appropriate a century ago. Education is still primarily reserved for the young; work and family responsibilities are crowded into the middle years; while leisure and free time are allocated to the ...
Womens Medieval Renaissance Costume - HOME Womens Medieval Renaissance Costume Sex and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Texts: The Latin Tradition by Barbara K. Gold, Examines interrelated topics in Medieval and Renaissance Latin literature: the status of women as writers, the status of women as rhetorical figures, and the status of women in society from the fifth to the early seventeenth century. This collection reclaims a vast body of long-neglected Latin texts from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and examines how they represent the feminine and the female body. The authors explore the ideological values explicitly ...
Medieval and Renaissance Study - ... literary collections of the medieval and Renaissance periods, as well as papers on Surrey, Donne, Marvell, Hobbes, and Francis Beaumont. Sex and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Texts: The Latin Tradition by Barbara K. Gold, Examines interrelated topics in Medieval and Renaissance Latin literature: the status of women as writers, the status of women as rhetorical figures, and the status of women in society from the fifth to the early seventeenth century. This collection reclaims a vast body of long-neglected Latin texts from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and examines how they represent the feminine and the ...
Medieval and Renaissance - HOME Medieval and Renaissance Sex and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Texts: The Latin Tradition by Barbara K. Gold, Examines interrelated topics in Medieval and Renaissance Latin literature: the status of women as writers, the status of women as rhetorical figures, and the status of women in society from the fifth to the early seventeenth century. This collection reclaims a vast body of long-neglected Latin texts from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and examines how they represent the feminine and the female body. The authors explore the ideological values explicitly encoded ...
Medieval Renaissance - HOME Medieval Renaissance Sex and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Texts: The Latin Tradition by Barbara K. Gold, Examines interrelated topics in Medieval and Renaissance Latin literature: the status of women as writers, the status of women as rhetorical figures, and the status of women in society from the fifth to the early seventeenth century. This collection reclaims a vast body of long-neglected Latin texts from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and examines how they represent the feminine and the female body. The authors explore the ideological values explicitly encoded by ...
Liberator Shape - HOME Liberator Shape Liberalism Beyond Justice: Citizens, Society, and the Boundaries of Political Theory by John Tomasi, Liberal regimes shape the ethical outlooks of their citizens, relentlessly influencing their most personal commitments over time. On such issues as abortion, homosexuality, and women's rights, many religious Americans feel pulled between their personal beliefs and their need, as good citizens, to support individual rights. These circumstances, argues John Tomasi, raise new and pressing questions: Is liberalism as successful as it hopes in avoiding the imposition of a single ethical doctrine on all of society? ...
Liberal - HOME Liberal Liberalism Beyond Justice: Citizens, Society, and the Boundaries of Political Theory by John Tomasi, Liberal regimes shape the ethical outlooks of their citizens, relentlessly influencing their most personal commitments over time. On such issues as abortion, homosexuality, and women's rights, many religious Americans feel pulled between their personal beliefs and their need, as good citizens, to support individual rights. These circumstances, argues John Tomasi, raise new and pressing questions: Is liberalism as successful as it hopes in avoiding the imposition of a single ethical doctrine on all of society? If ...
Liberator Shape - HOME Liberator Shape Liberalism Beyond Justice: Citizens, Society, and the Boundaries of Political Theory by John Tomasi, Liberal regimes shape the ethical outlooks of their citizens, relentlessly influencing their most personal commitments over time. On such issues as abortion, homosexuality, and women's rights, many religious Americans feel pulled between their personal beliefs and their need, as good citizens, to support individual rights. These circumstances, argues John Tomasi, raise new and pressing questions: Is liberalism as successful as it hopes in avoiding the imposition of a single ethical doctrine on all of society? ...
Black Justice Social - HOME Black Justice Social Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice by Patricia Hill Collins, When Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins was published in 1990, reviewers called it "remarkable", "rich and valuable", and proclaimed, "with the publication of this book, Black feminism has moved to a new level". Now, in Fighting Words, Collins expands and extends the discussion of the "outsider within" presented in her earlier work, investigating how effectively Black feminist thought confronts the injustices African American women currently face. Collins takes on a broad range of issues -- ...
Medieval Renaissance Tradition - HOME Medieval Renaissance Tradition Sex and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Texts: The Latin Tradition by Barbara K. Gold, Examines interrelated topics in Medieval and Renaissance Latin literature: the status of women as writers, the status of women as rhetorical figures, and the status of women in society from the fifth to the early seventeenth century. This collection reclaims a vast body of long-neglected Latin texts from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and examines how they represent the feminine and the female body. The authors explore the ideological values explicitly encoded ...
Liberals - HOME Liberals Liberalism Beyond Justice: Citizens, Society, and the Boundaries of Political Theory by John Tomasi, Liberal regimes shape the ethical outlooks of their citizens, relentlessly influencing their most personal commitments over time. On such issues as abortion, homosexuality, and women's rights, many religious Americans feel pulled between their personal beliefs and their need, as good citizens, to support individual rights. These circumstances, argues John Tomasi, raise new and pressing questions: Is liberalism as successful as it hopes in avoiding the imposition of a single ethical doctrine on all of society? If ...
Atlanta Womens Health Group - HOME Atlanta Womens Health Group The Politics of Women's Health: Exploring Agency and Autonomy by Susan Sherwin, A collaborative exploration of the practical issues of women's empowerment in the health care system and the deep assumptions and values that underlie that system For four years an interdisciplinary group of scholars and practitioners, including physicians, lawyers, philosophers, and social scientists, collaborated closely on the development of these essays. They also experienced many of the issues of women's health in their personal lives: three gave birth, three entered menopause, and two underwent ...
Lds Church Genealogy - HOME Lds Church Genealogy Pedestals and Podiums: Utah Women, Religious Authority, and Equal Rights The LDS Woman's Exponent of the 1800s promoted, in its masthead, "The Rights of the Women of All Nations." Editor Emmeline B. Wells was close friends with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Church President Joseph F. Smith supported women's liberation, criticizing women who "seem to glory in their enthralled condition and who caress and fondle the very chains and manacles which fetter and enslave them!" Not surprisingly, Utah women were the first in the U. ...
Liberal Politics - HOME Liberal Politics Reasonably Radical: Deliberative Liberalism and the Politics of Identity by Anthony Simon Laden, Liberalism and the politics of identity seem incompatible. Liberalism starts from the capacity of reasonable individuals to order their lives. The politics of feminism and multiculturalism, however, argue that liberal individualism glosses over structural inequalities and relies on unjust normalizing pressures. Modern political philosophy must reconcile these two viewpoints if it is to move forward. Reasonably Radical synthesizes both approaches in a new form of liberal theory: deliberative liberalism. Anthony Simon Laden demonstrates that liberal theory can accommodate ... These include a reciprocal distribution of power and respect for deep diversity. Reasonable principles thus require radical politics, and both find a home in this clear theoretical articulation of identity politics which is at the same time a strong new vision of liberalism. Liberalism Beyond Justice: Citizens, Society, and the Boundaries of Political Theory by John Tomasi, Liberal regimes shape the ethical outlooks of their citizens, relentlessly influencing their most personal commitments over time. On such issues as abortion, homosexuality, and women's rights, many religious Americans feel pulled between their personal beliefs ...
Health Article Eating Disorder - HOME Health Article Eating Disorder Eating Disorders: A Reference Sourcebook by Raymond Lemberg, Offers a collection of articles which discuss the causes, symptoms, health and psychological effects, and treatments of eating disorders, and provides a directory of facilities and programs designed to help people with these disorders. Routledge International Encyclopedia of Womens Studies: Global Women's Issues and Knowledge by Cheris Kramarae, This ground-breaking reference work is the first to provide truly comprehensive, in-depth global coverage of the theory and practice of Women's Studies. In over 900 alphabetically organized entries, contributed by some of ...
Social Justice Theory - ... Social justice has been the animating ideal of democratic governments throughout the twentieth century. Even those who oppose it recognize its potency. Yet the meaning of social justice remains obscure, and existing theories put forward by political philosophers to explain it have failed to capture the way people in general think about issues of social justice. This book develops a new theory. David Miller argues that principles of justice must be understood contextually, with each principle finding its natural home in a different form of human association. Because modern societies are complex, the theory of justice must be complex, too. The three primary components in Miller's scheme are the principles of desert, need, and equality. Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice by Patricia Hill Collins, When Black Feminist Thought by Patricia ...
Definition Magazine Mass Media - HOME Definition Magazine Mass Media History of the Mass Media in the United States: An Encyclopedia by Margaret A. Blanchard, History of the Mass Media in the United States: An Encyclopedia examines the ways in which the mass media affect American society and also the ways in which the mass media are in turn affected by societal developments in the United States. Mass media, for the purposes of this work, are defined as: newspapers, advertising, books and magazines, public relations, motion pictures, radio, television, cable television, and photography or photojournalism. The time period covered ... media in American life, past and present. The Girl on the Magazine Cover: The Origins of Visual Stereotypes in American Mass Media by Carolyn L. Kitch, From the Gibson Girl to the flapper, from the vamp to the New Woman, Carolyn Kitch traces mass media images of women to their historical roots on magazine covers, unveiling the origins of gender stereotypes in early-twentieth-century American culture. Kitch examines the years from 1895 to 1930 as a time when the first wave of feminism intersected with the rise of new technologies and media ...
Natural Woman - HOME Natural Woman Woman the Hunter by Mary Zeiss Stange, Woman the Hunter juxtaposes unsettlingly beautiful accounts of the author's own experiences hunting deer, antelope, and elk with an argument that builds on the work of thinkers from Aldo Leopold to Clarissa Pinkola Estes. Exploring how women and men relate to nature and violence, Mary Zeiss Stange demonstrates how false assumptions about women and about hunting permeate contemporary thinking. Traditionalists and feminists alike view hunting as a symbol for men's activity in the world - ignoring the reality of women hunters now and in the past. In fields from anthropology to religion and in movements from environmentalism to ...
Pacific Northwest Furniture - ... astonishing geographical diversity in this bioregion, and yet the entire Northwest shares a similarity of climate, flora, and fauna. For Nicholas O'Connell, the effects of nature on everyday Northwest life carry over to Northwest literature. Although Northwest writers address a number of subjects, the relationship between people and place proves the dominant one, and that has been true since the first tribes settled the region and began telling stories about it, thousands of years ago. Now, O'Connell asks, if there is a Northwest style in literature, then what is the common thread linking Chief Seattle to Theodore Roethke, Narcissa Whitman to Ursula K. Le Guin, Joaquin Miller to Ivan Doig, Marilynne Robinson to Jack London, Betty MacDonald to Gary Snyder? And if Northwest writers' primary subject is the relationship between people and place, then how does the Pacific Northwest's literature reflect this particular region? Tracing the history of Pacific Northwest literary works from Native American myths to the accounts of explorers and settlers, the effusions of the Romantics, the sharply etched stories of the Realists, ...
Liberal Oasis - HOME Liberal Oasis Liberalism Beyond Justice: Citizens, Society, and the Boundaries of Political Theory by John Tomasi, Liberal regimes shape the ethical outlooks of their citizens, relentlessly influencing their most personal commitments over time. On such issues as abortion, homosexuality, and women's rights, many religious Americans feel pulled between their personal beliefs and their need, as good citizens, to support individual rights. These circumstances, argues John Tomasi, raise new and pressing questions: Is liberalism as successful as it hopes in avoiding the imposition of a single ethical doctrine on all of society? ...
Hippie Goddess - HOME Hippie Goddess For Goddess' Sake: Get the Girls Together and Have Some Fun There are many goddesses in every woman, "For Goddess' Sake is an irreverent, funny, yet profound interactive guide that helps women live joyfully by embracing all the goddesses within. The book encourages women to join with other girls in discovering and experiencing all of their goddess archetypes--the sexy girl, the damsel, the bruiser, the smarty pants, the solo gal, the mystery woman, and more. Accessorized throughout with recipes that feed body and spirit, rituals to create with others ...
Medieval Renaissance Dress - HOME Medieval Renaissance Dress Sex and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Texts: The Latin Tradition by Barbara K. Gold, Examines interrelated topics in Medieval and Renaissance Latin literature: the status of women as writers, the status of women as rhetorical figures, and the status of women in society from the fifth to the early seventeenth century. This collection reclaims a vast body of long-neglected Latin texts from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and examines how they represent the feminine and the female body. The authors explore the ideological values explicitly encoded ...
Catholicism Get I It Now - ... world -- and 57 million in the United States alone -- Catholicism is the world's most familiar religion. Yet many facets of this varied and dynamic tradition remain unknown or poorly understood. Now "The HarperCollins Encyclopedia of Catholicism offers a one-volume comprehensive and authoritative guide to the people, doctrines, history, worship, art, spirituality, literature, theological developments, and changes that have shaped the Church over nearly two millennia.Led by general editor Richard P. McBrien, bestselling author of "Catholicism, an editorial team drawn almost entirely from the University of Notre Dame has collected more than ... such as "vigil light and "maniple, The HarperCollins Encyclopedia of Catholicism also offers superb feature-length entries on subjects ranging from the seven sacraments, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, the Blessed Virgin Mary, Peter, Paul, Augustine, and Aquinas to prayer and Christian spirituality, Catholicism in the United States, women in the Church, and Vatican II.Treating Catholicism as a unique tradition, community, and way of life, the encyclopedia defines and describes topics such as Eastern Catholicism, canon law, devotions, religious orders and lay organizations, and saints,angels, and archangels. Also included are tables of ...
Braid Goddess - HOME Braid Goddess For Goddess' Sake: Get the Girls Together and Have Some Fun There are many goddesses in every woman, "For Goddess' Sake is an irreverent, funny, yet profound interactive guide that helps women live joyfully by embracing all the goddesses within. The book encourages women to join with other girls in discovering and experiencing all of their goddess archetypes--the sexy girl, the damsel, the bruiser, the smarty pants, the solo gal, the mystery woman, and more. Accessorized throughout with recipes that feed body and spirit, rituals to create with others ...
Hartman Value Profile - HOME Hartman Value Profile Courage is Contagious: Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things to Change the Face of America by John Kasich, A modern-day Profiles in Courage about twenty people who are doing heroic things to improve the lives of their fellow Americans. Now available in trade paperback, Courage Is Contagious is a remarkable document about everyday people helping to reshape America. Written by Congressman John Kasich, the book profiles twenty men and women from across the country who have, through their own courage, determination, and generous hearts, attempted to improve the lot ...
Birth Control Patch Side Effects - ... her a world of troubles--arrest, indictment, and exile among them--but ultimately she triumphed, opening the first American birth control clinic in 1916 and serving as the first president of the International Planned Parenthood Federation in 1953. A fascinating firsthand account of an early crusade for women's healthcare, this autobiography is a classic of women's studies and social reform. Unabridged republication of the classic 1938 edition. The Moral Property of Women: A History of Birth Control Politics in America by Linda Gordon, The only book to cover the entire history of birth control and the intense controversies about reproduction ...
Cleveland Kit Magazine Media - ... from those who know the technology best. The Girl on the Magazine Cover: The Origins of Visual Stereotypes in American Mass Media by Carolyn L. Kitch, From the Gibson Girl to the flapper, from the vamp to the New Woman, Carolyn Kitch traces mass media images of women to their historical roots on magazine covers, unveiling the origins of gender stereotypes in early-twentieth-century American culture. Kitch examines the years from 1895 to 1930 as a time when the first wave of feminism intersected with the rise of new technologies and media for the reproduction and dissemination of visual images. Access to suffrage, higher education, the professions, and contraception broadened women's opportunities, but the images found on magazine covers emphasized the role of women as consumers: suffrage ...
College - ... two eras, the nineteenth-century college has been among the most controversial subjects in the history of American higher education. While earlier historians portrayed the "oldtime" college as an impediment to modernization, later scholars affirmed the broad role of the colleges in the education of the American people. The American College in the Nineteenth Century combines the best recent scholarship with an interpretive introduction to provide a fresh view of the development of American colleges. The contributors consider these institutions within four new contexts: first, the dramatic transformation in the college students' experience from ... will save you time, money, and headaches; Advice on the admissions interview and essay writing; Suggestions on choosing your college. let's face if, getting into college doesn't happen overnight - it takes hard work and planning. Make the process less stressful with College Countdown. College Historical Society (Trinity College, Dublin) - The College Historical Society (commonly known as The Hist.) was founded in Trinity College in 1770 and traces its creation to the historical society founded by the philosopher Edmund Burke in Dublin in 1747. St John's College, Auckland - The College of ...
Consumer Home - HOME Consumer Home Selling Mrs. Consumer: Christine Frederick and the Rise of Household Efficiency by Christine Williams Rutherford, This first book-length treatment of the life and work of Christine Frederick (1883-1970) reveals an important dilemma that faced educated women of the early twentieth century. Contrary to her professional role as home efficiency expert, advertising consultant, and consumer advocate, Christine Frederick espoused the nineteenth-century ideal of preserving the virtuous home -- and a woman's place in it. In an effort to reconcile her desire to succeed in the public sphere of modernization and consumerism with the knowledge that most middle-class Americans still held traditional beliefs about gender roles, Frederick fashioned a career for herself that encouraged other women to remain at home. With the rise of home economics and scientific management, Frederick -- college-educated but confined to the drudgery of housework -- devised a plan for bringing the public sphere into the domestic. Her home would become her factory. She learned how to standardize ...
Natural Woman - HOME Natural Woman Woman the Hunter by Mary Zeiss Stange, Woman the Hunter juxtaposes unsettlingly beautiful accounts of the author's own experiences hunting deer, antelope, and elk with an argument that builds on the work of thinkers from Aldo Leopold to Clarissa Pinkola Estes. Exploring how women and men relate to nature and violence, Mary Zeiss Stange demonstrates how false assumptions about women and about hunting permeate contemporary thinking. Traditionalists and feminists alike view hunting as a symbol for men's activity in the world - ignoring the reality of women hunters now and in the past. In fields from anthropology to religion and in movements from environmentalism to ...
The Subversion of Politics - HOME The Subversion of Politics Recovering Subversion: Feminist Politics Beyond the Law Is the language of rights enough to foster real social and political change? Nivedita Menon explores the relationship between law and feminist politics by examining the contemporary Indian women's movement with comparisons to France and the United States. She argues that the intersection of feminist politics, law, and the state often paradoxically and severely distorts important ethical and emancipatory impulses of feminism. Menon reviews historical challenges to the liberal notion of rights from Marxist, feminist, postcolonial, and critical legal scholars, and analyzes current Indian debates on topics including abortion, sexual violence, and Parliamentary quotas for women. Far from being a call to withdraw from the arena of ...
Social Learning Theory - ... the theoretical diversity and richness that is the mark of contemporary social work practice. It enables social work students at all levels - bachelor, masters and doctoral - to learn and integrate ongoing theoretical developments in the field, which ultimately ensures a client's optimum service. Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice by Patricia Hill Collins, When Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins was published in 1990, reviewers called it "remarkable", "rich and valuable", and proclaimed, "with the publication of this book, Black feminism has moved to a new level". Now, in Fighting Words, Collins expands and extends the discussion of the "outsider within" presented in her earlier work, investigating how effectively Black feminist thought confronts the injustices African American women currently face. Collins takes on a broad range ...
18th Century History - ... fought major wars that carved up the map of Europe and the Americas, and began the great colonial expansion that dominated the next century. But the 18th century also ushered in the Enlightenment, which fired the imagination of Europeans, and the Industrial and Agricultural Revolutions, which changed society and work forever. To help students better understand the major developments of the 18th century and their impact on 19th- and 20th-century history, this unique resource offers detailed description and expert analysis of the 18th century's most important events: Peter the Great's Reform ... that occurred during a single historical period, laying a useful foundation for the chapters to follow. This volume attempts to reflect the unprecedented impact of globalization on this century by featuring extensive coverage of popular culture, the relationship between Islam and the West, and the contribution of women in the history of Western Civilization. This volume contains a Special Introduction Chapter and Chs. 9-31 of the Combined Volume: " The Late Middle Ages: Social and Political Breakdown; Renaissance and Discovery; The Age of Reformation; The Age of Religious Wars; Paths to Constitutionalism and ...
Collins Hill and Overwhelms Southwest - ... and Overwhelms Southwest The Death of Bernadette Lefthand by Ron Querry, Winner of two regional book awards and overwhelming praise, this haunting first novel about the mysterious death of a young Indian dancer is a stunning portrayal of the spirit and struggles of the Southwest's native peoples. Even today, amid the sere hills of Arizona and New Mexico, the Navajo believe witchcraft is at work. Some suspect it is the unseen force behind the brutal murder of Bernadette Lefthand, a young woman renowned on the Jicarilla Apache reservation for her beauty and graceful ... member of the Choctaw Nation--paints a vivid portrait of the lives of contemporary Native Americans. A riveting tale of passion, obsession, and destruction, "The Death of Bernadette Lefthand is a compelling novel about heritage, family, and the dark magic of the twisted soul. Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice by Patricia Hill Collins, When Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins was published in 1990, reviewers called it "remarkable", "rich and valuable", and proclaimed, "with the publication of this book, Black feminism has moved to a new level". Now, ...
Flappers Fashion - ... of "anti-fashion". In reality, anti-fashion was only one of many trends in fashion in the 1990s; however the fashion of the 1990s was characterized by a rejection of the fashion of the 1980s. Fashion police - "Fashion police" is an imaginary police force, making sure that people dress according to fashion. The term is jokingly used for self-appointed individuals who criticise or critique the clothing others wear, and thereby those others' fashion sense. Fashion TV - Fashion TV is a French television channel, owned by fashion house MichelAdam, that broadcasts worldwide via cable ... beach outings come with their own charming ensembles, too. Child`s Play: Featuring Ann Estelle is ... Magazine Cover - Magazine Cover The Girl on the Magazine Cover From the Gibson Girl to the flapper, from the vamp to the New Woman, Carolyn Kitch traces mass media images of women to their historical roots on magazine covers, unveiling the origins of gender stereotypes in early-twentieth-century American culture. Kitch examines the years from 1895 to 1930 as a time when the first wave of feminism intersected with the rise of new technologies magazine cover ...
Liberator Pillow - HOME Liberator Pillow Liberalism Beyond Justice: Citizens, Society, and the Boundaries of Political Theory by John Tomasi, Liberal regimes shape the ethical outlooks of their citizens, relentlessly influencing their most personal commitments over time. On such issues as abortion, homosexuality, and women's rights, many religious Americans feel pulled between their personal beliefs and their need, as good citizens, to support individual rights. These circumstances, argues John Tomasi, raise new and pressing questions: Is liberalism as successful as it hopes in avoiding the imposition of a single ethical doctrine on all of society? ...
Huckleberry Finn Literary Criticism - ... the long-ranging debate over Huckleberry Finn. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) "Huckleberry Finn, rebel against school and church, casual inheritor of gold treasure, rafter of the Mississippi, and savior of Jim the runaway slave, is the archetypal American maverick. Fleeing the respectable society that wants to "sivilize" him, Huck Finn shoves off with Jim on a rhapsodic raft journey down the Mississippi River. As Huck learns about love, responsibility, and how to make moral choices, the trip becomes a metaphoric voyage through his own soul, culminating in the glorious moment when he decides to "go to hell" rather than return Jim to slavery. Mark Twain defined "classic" as "a book which people praise and don't read"; Huckleberry Finn is a happy exception to this rule. Twain's mastery of dialect, coupled with his famous wit, makes "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn one of the most enjoyable and distinctly American classics ever written. Semiotic literary criticism - Semiotic ...
Cause of Breast Cancer - ... and spread to her lungs. The outlook was grim. Then she took part in Genentech's clinical trials for a new drug. Five years later she remains cancer-free. Her-2 is the biography of Herceptin, the drug that provoked dramatic responses in Barbara Bradfield and other women in the trials and that offers promise for hundreds of thousands of breast cancer patients. Unlike chemotherapy or radiation, Herceptin has no disabling side effects. It works by inactivating Her-2/neu--a protein that makes cancer cells grow especially quickly-- produced by a gene found in 25 to 30 percent of all breast tumors. Herceptin caused some patients' cancers to disappear completely; in others, it slowed the progression of the disease and gave the women months or years they wouldn't otherwise have had. Herceptin is the first treatment targeted at a gene defect that gives rise to cancer. It marks the beginning of a new era of treatment for all kinds of cancers. Robert Bazell presents a riveting account ...