Word: humanizes
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...visit in the mid-1800s still resonate today. Alexis de Tocqueville, in Volume Two of Democracy in America, writes of the exact instinct which stirs our love of instant explanation. Americans, he wrote, have "an unrestrained passion for generalizations," which is rooted in our democratic instincts. Believing that all humans are fundamentally alike, the democrat has "an ardent and often blind passion of the human spirit to discover common rules for everything" and seeks "to explain a group of facts by one sole cause...
Think of this distinction in terms of the dividing line between academia and much of the the media. Top academics can labor for years to produce narrow, precise insights into literature, science or the human soul, while many in the media eagerly seek to identify supposed trends as quickly as possible. When the number of racial minorities admitted to the class of 2003 dipped only slightly, the Crimson was quick to proclaim "declining diversity." When a smattering of anti-sweatshop rallies took place on a few campuses this spring, the New York Times was eager to herald a vast revival...
...once much stronger southern accent, Rodney Jones offered instead a peek into a world of universal local color. His poetry collection Elegy for the Southern Drawl draws on traditional themes of family, nature and religion, but grows throughout the collection to explore more obscure angles of the human experience. While Jones' poems initially evoke responses of tranquility and ease, by the end of Elegy the reader grown where Jones (NOT READABLE) lament...
With poems of unparalleled clarity and insight, Mary Oliver captures the startlingly simple elegance of the natural world. In House of Light and other volumes of verse, she harnesses transient impressions of the outdoors and then questions our relationship with nature and with ourselves. Recognizing the tension between human morality and the amorality of nature itself, Oliver suggests that her readers reconsider their perceptions of the defining differences between humans and birds and blades of grass and even the inanimate objects that fill our world. But even as she has, in over 35 years of writing, explored questions of personal...
...Premise In search of companionship and empathy, a confused young man [Norton] wanders from support group to support group, seeking human connection. He ultimately finds it when he and his friend, Tyler Durden (Pitt), create a new club where rich, bored young men fight each other till one surrenders or dies. The trend soon spreads in to cult-like, society-warping proportions. Also, the nameless narrator [Norton] becomes involved in a love triangle with Tyler and a girl named Marla [Carter...