Word: humanization
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...income tenants and support local nonprofit groups. But its total funding is only $750 million next year. The 1987 McKinney Act allotted $596 million this year to states and cities for homeless programs. But even that amount pales next to what the cities are spending. New York City's human-resources administration will spend $146.4 million on the homeless next year; its portion of McKinney funds will total only $5.95 million...
...quickly tracing the development of life from the first crude cells (which cry "Free! *&#! We're free!" as they "colonize the open ocean") to the first primates, Gonick moves on to early pre-history in volume two, "Sticks and Stones. Homo Erectus, Neanderthal and the more advanced Cro-Magnon human of the Stone Age give way to the Homo Sapiens of the first post-ice age settlements of 12,000 years ago. Volume two ends with the founding of cities in Sumer, between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Iraq. Four billion years in 100 pages...
Although cartoons necessarily stylize human beings, there's nothing like having a visual image interwoven with bare facts to give a feeling of what a historical period actually meant to those who lived it. Whether it's the primitive swamplands of the Devonian period or the orgies of the Greek cult of Dionysos, god of wine (which started with the tearing apart of a goat, a bull or a baby), Gonick succeeds in fixing facts more in your mind than even the most exhilirating textbook. And Gonick is able to maintain the historical accuracy of his work, making...
...Color Purple I could never understand why it would not be included in the numerous required reading lists that I have been given over the years. The Color Purple, like Morrison's Beloved, expertly displays not only the beauty and resiliency of the Black spirit but of the human spirit as well. The main character Celie suffers throughout her life, everything from incest to rape to separation from her sister, but she is able to find the strength to live and give love to others who need...
Kawut says he thinks campus visits are important, because they allow applicants to see the kind of students different schools attract. Kawut, for one, says he hopes to avoid "geeky pre-medish student bodies" and is looking for "diverse, human and interesting" ones...