Word: morale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons components to Iran and North Korea. If human rights as basic as the right to non-violent political expression without fear of imprisonment, torture and execution are not applicable across cultural boundaries, then it seems to me that it is impossible to act for moral reasons in any situation whatsoever...
Guha V. Bala '98, a chemistry concentrator who is also a student in Moral Reasoning 22: "Justice," said he has found that he is able to incorporate aspects of his religious philsophy in his Core Curriculum class...
...particular, Bala said that there were similarities between the moral theory of Immanuel Kant and philosophies in the Bhagavad Gita...
...film that is willing to tackle so many complex issues, one wishes it were willing to offer some kind of moral resolution for its characters. By the end, a child has died and one of the main characters is finally, in this world of restrained emotions, reduced to tears. For a while it seems as if the ice storm--which the camera dwells upon in the second half of the film--will transform the lives of the Hood family. Instead, it leaves them at the very bottom of the familial void to which they must belong...
...from appealing ("Dolemite: Because these women have empowered themselves economically and physically") to patronizing ("To The Devil--A Daughter: Because if you're scared, you can sit real close to me") to refreshing ("Hot Shots!: Because it parodies all those stupid movies guys watch all the time"). They tout moral values, literature, references to what movie critics have said, personal hygiene, and (usually non-sexual) forms of beauty--unlike the male appeal, which focuses on the childish, "Home Improvement" -esque theory that big men like big guns, big machines, big explosions, and big (and I don't mean tall) women...