THE “VALUES” WASTELAND Charles Sykes Questions for Close Reading (p. 222) 1. Sykes’s thesis is that the American educational system is not providing students with firm guidelines to help them make moral choices. This thesis is stated directly in paragraph 3 (“A 1992 survey by the Josephson Institute for Ethics of nearly 7‚000 high school and college students‚ most of them from middle-and-upper middle-class backgrounds‚ found the equivalent of ‘a hole in the moral ozone’ among America’s youth”)
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The movie‚ Luther‚ explains the early years of Martin Luther’s life‚ from him being a monk to the Augsburgs Confession. Martin Luther is an intelligent young man who is studying law in the 16th century Germany when all of a sudden he was faced with death during a lightning storm. After this incident‚ he promised to God that he will follow a spiritual path and join a Catholic ministry to become a monk. With the help of his father‚ Hans Luther‚ Luther became a member of the monastery. Johann seemed
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church holds‚ people such as Galileo‚ Giordano Bruno‚ and King Henry VIII of England‚ just to name a few. But no other has challenged the authority of the church like Charles Darwin and his "dangerous Idea." (qtd. in Miller 12) The theory of evolution’s origins can be traced back to the time of the ancient Greeks‚ but it wasn’t until Charles Darwin arrived on the scene that any actual evidence suggesting such heresies’ ever gained the attention of the Church.
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Martin Luther Martin Luther was a German theologian and religious reformer‚ who started the Protestant Reformation‚ and whose vast influence during his time period made him one of the crucial figures in modern European history. Luther was born in Eisleben on November 10‚ 1483 and was descended from the peasantry‚ a fact that he often stressed. Hans Luther‚ his father‚ was a copper miner. Luther received a sound primary and secondary education at Mansfeld‚ Magdeburg‚ and Eisenach. In 1501
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UCLA – Sloan Research Program Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation What is a Business For?* Charles Handy Fellow of the London Business School This chapter is part of a collection posted on the SSRN website in the Economics Research Network section located at - http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=932676 Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=932676 2 What is a Business For? Charles Handy Could capitalists bring down capitalism‚ wondered the New York Times in the wake
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Martin Luther and the Reformation A German Augustinian friar‚ Martin Luther launched the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century. Luther grew up the son of a miner‚ but he did not maintain that lifestyle for himself. He lived in a period that had a widespread desire for reformation of the Christian church and a yearning for salvation. Martin Luther was born at Eisleben in Saxony. Since his father was a miner‚ it was a great distress on him to send Martin to school and then to the University
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“Why did I‚ Charles Smith have to be a Real Estate Agent?” “Why did the Australian Government lift the ‘White Australia Policy’?” “Why did Mr Papadopoulos want to sue me?” “Why didn’t I see it coming?” “How stupid am I?” “How was it possible for me to lose so much?”
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Charles Edward Spearman (1863-1945) studied psychology in Germany and received his PhD at Leipzig. Spearman is noted as a pioneer in psychology and believed in the two-factor theory of intelligence. He wrote his first paper outlining this theory in 1904 with Bernard Hart (Gregory‚ 1987). Spearman claimed that testing a persons abilites to complete tasks against expected outcomes could be measured and expressed in a mathemactical formula‚ that mathematical formula is now known as the Tetrad Equation
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Views on America: Charles Dickens America in the 1800s was often understood by many countries in Europe to be a land that had finally managed to free itself of the various wrongs of the old world and institute a new era in which men were born free and died free‚ where all disputes were settled equitably and fairly regardless of class or wealth and where the rights of man were staunchly upheld regardless of what that man had done. . For instance the French political thinker Alexis de Tocqueville
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In the past century buildings have got taller and taller‚ as the world becomes more populated and more people want to get on the same piece of land. Tall buildings are nothing new‚ towers and pyramids have existed in architecture for thousands of years‚ but in has only been in past 100 years. In the quaint Tuscan hillside is a small town called San Gimignano. Half way in between sienna and Florence‚ San Gimignano was a stop for pilgrims on route to Rome. Built in the 13th century‚ it steadily got
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