Word: essays
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Lifestyles of the Rich We were pleased to see our book, Searching for Mary Poppins: Women Write About the Intense Relationships Between Mothers and Nannies, mentioned in Po Bronson's Essay "Barbie to Baby Einstein: Get Over It" [Oct. 9]. Bronson says our book, however, has a small place because "only 1 in 20 kids in the U.S. will ever be cared for by a nanny." If this book ends up being important to almost 4 million boys and girls, what's wrong with that? Plus you would have to add their parents to that number, as well as their...
...More Than a Democratic Label Re Andrew Marshall's essay "Dictators' Delight" [Oct. 9], on the Thai military coup: Democracy must not be a meaningless label. When Western leaders recommend that other nations implement democracy, they are endorsing a system of government that has checks and balances among the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches. They surely do not envision the installation of a President who decides judicial matters without the presentation of evidence in a trial or a Prime Minister like Thaksin Shinawatra, who, as you noted, described the detention of Aung San Suu Kyi as "reasonable enough...
...essay disparaging the U.N., Charles Krauthammer argued that violence and greed are "the natural way of nations" [Oct. 23]. That is the lazy man's excuse for resisting change and progress. As a means to create security and stability, war has failed over the millenniums. Our experiment in international collaboration, nonviolent conflict resolution and mutually beneficial partnerships--still in its infancy--will continue to suffer missteps and setbacks, not the least of which include the present U.S. Administration's uninformed and shortsighted policies. My hope for the future of civilization lies in the goals, purposes and accomplishments...
...recall one of the most intriguing parts of my Advanced Placement United States politics course involved the interpretation of political cartoons. Our teacher, in an effort to diversify the usual assignment of essay questions assigned us the task of drawing our own cartoons. The assignment, due a week after President Bush’s infamous “axis of evil” State of the Union address, resulted in almost the entire class drawing various depictions of a triangle surrounded by the leaders of Iran, North Korea, and Iraq, with hazardous waste symbols, and the words...
Rather, actor Ben Ellison, portraying Hughes in the 1988 film essay “Looking for Langston,” is laying nude in the film’s poster with Matthew Baidoo, who plays Hughes’ lover, James Baldwin. They are intertwined in a seemingly post-coital embrace, an image emblematic of the rest of the art on exhibition at the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research...