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From:The Review of Metaphysics (Vol. 66, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedSLAVERY IN ANCIENT GREECE, absolutist monarchy in premodern Europe, and the European conquest of the New World strike us, from our contemporary perspective, as injustices on a massive scale. People were not merely...
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From:The Kenyon Review (Vol. 34, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAfter an elephant dies, the herd may carry its bones for miles. Did you know that? Hefting them over the flatland ebb and flow, as years ago we trekked the backwoods of late November, New England burned out like...
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From:Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire (Vol. 9, Issue 1)the world slowed with heat from the blaze of the sun as he loped towards the bird in the haze of the sun even though their caged music often made him cry in the sun he strove to catch songbirds who would fly towards the...
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From:Journal of the History of Ideas (Vol. 69, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis essay seems to make two central claims: the first, implied by the phrase "moral turn," invites us to accept that recently there has been a growing interest among historians in utilizing morality; the second is that...
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From:Journal of the History of Ideas (Vol. 69, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn Moliere's Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (1670), Monsieur Jourdain is stunned to learn that "For more than forty years," he has "been talking prose without any idea of it." (1) Perhaps, as some of the commentators suggest,...
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From:Philological Quarterly (Vol. 83, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn the final scene of the medieval morality play Mankind, the character Mercy employs a dramatic piece of stage violence in order to insure Mankind's repentance and salvation. Having promised the audience that he will...
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From:Social Research (Vol. 71, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedHEART OF DARKNESS IN HEART OF DARKNESS, CONRAD OBSERVED THAT IMPERIALISM, WHEN looked at closely, is not a pretty thing. "What redeems it is the idea only." The ferocious rapacity of Kurtz's search for ivory is...
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From:Technos: Quarterly for Education and Technology (Vol. 11, Issue 4)"Grand Theft Auto III takes place in Liberty City--a completely unique universe with its own laws, standards, ethics, and morals (or lack thereof). There are dozens of ways to take out the inhabitants: punches, kicks,...
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From:Diogenes (Vol. 51, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMasolo takes as his starting point a dinnertime discussion between two teenagers on the role of tradition, a discussion that led into a debate on the merits of the idea of autonomous reason. The author was struck by...
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From:Global Governance (Vol. 9, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe quality and depth of the broad public debate in the United States before Washington loosed its military might on Iraq suggests that the internalization of international norms in American political life is remarkably...
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From:Prairie Schooner (Vol. 87, Issue 4)One sighs heavily down the telephone Another pours the assassin's quicksand One leaves the garrison lonely as a bullet Another fills white tubs with kerosene One is surveyed from the border glass Another guards against...
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From:The Southern Review (Vol. 51, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedHoping to escape, I frequented the docks & went unseen, Ignoring the cold & a colder sea in which there was, at least, no change of regime. And later, in a tour bus requisitioned by the police, I gazed out at the...
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From:Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire (Vol. 15, Issue 2)(From the book When The Gods Leave ) Let the blood of time settle. Let the slime become compact, let time take its course, let us forget this fleeting and lethal episode, during which life was crucified and those of...
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From:World Literature Today (Vol. 89, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedTranslations from the Spanish By Margaret Randall Israel Domínguez (b. 1973, Placetas, Villa Clara) is a poet and translator. His books of poetry include Hojas de Cal (2001), Collage: Mientras avanza mi carro de...
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From:Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire (Vol. 16, Issue 1)there is a child's hand in the street it is small it should be attached to a three or four year old you cannot tell if it is the hand of a Palestinian child or Israeli child you cannot tell if it was blown here from a...
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From:Prairie Schooner (Vol. 87, Issue 4)He detonates at 5 a.m. The sound is unmistakable: first flesh, then second thoughts. The windows rattle as we two women do in aftershock. Bolt upright from the floor, you mutter, Bismillah . I shudder, Shit , and grab...
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From:Prairie Schooner (Vol. 90, Issue 2)I shuffle past the school's fortified metal. Guards frisk me as I approach, ask me to leave my name, phone number, time of day; why I'm here in a book. I think default procedure. Maybe, I'm heartened by their arm's...
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From:Ploughshares (Vol. 41, Issue 1)Author's Note: Medical quotes come from text provided by Ross B Mirkarimi (The Arms Control Research Centre, from his report "The Environmental and Human Health Impacts of the Gulf Region with Special Reference to...
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From:Prairie Schooner (Vol. 87, Issue 4)So long as there is an Alexander the Great next door who sees a weapon in the cup he drinks from I shall not be moved by the anti-gun cheerleaders with their innocent smiles I shall not invite white doves to hover over...
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From:The Southern Review (Vol. 52, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedJust as phantoms rise into the flesh, enough, say, to raise a point, a flag, a fist, to make peace with the necessities of survival; so, too, a body's needs rise into its dreams, to make an angel here, a Frankenstein...