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Sontag has written fiction, two plays, four films and a variety of essays. Her essays include "Illness as Metaphor," published in 1978, and "AIDS and its Metaphors," published in 1989, both of which try to create a deeper view of the concept of illness...
Boyle also said that while she agreed that the concept of increasing activism and volunteerism among students is a good idea, paying them for their work "takes away what volunteerism...
...came across an article on lynching [in the spring of 1992]," Toomer says. "I had no concept of how brutal and horrific it could be. It was an image I couldn't leave behind. I thought the best way to work through my feelings was to write about it...I forced myself to think about it even though it was so horrifying...
...Democrats are more likely to press for equality of results," says Wilson. "I think a lot of Democrats are reluctant to admit that some people are not going to work as hard as other people--that's "a gender and sexual orientation blind statement. I just believe in the concept of a meritocracy...
Because Harvard glorifies the military by recognizing Powell, it seems appropriate to explore some of the consequences of and motivations behind this choice. Perhaps the most divisive question about the use of military force is the concept of the "moral war," where the use of the military is constructed as a force of compassion. The "moral war" has coaxed typically liberal and anti-interventionist people into advocating militarism, most recently in Somalia and Bosnia. However dire the situations may be in these two countries, even a cursory examination in each case reveals that the moral high ground the United States...