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Material Type: | Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Adam Davis; Elizabeth Lynn |
ISBN: | 0945159498 9780945159490 |
OCLC Number: | 859037309 |
Description: | xix, 325 p. ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Associating. -- Selection from Politics / Aristotle -- Waiting for the barbarians / Constantine Cavafy -- I shall not beg for my rights / Henry MacNeal Turner -- The boy without a flag / Abraham Rodriguez Jr. -- They'll say, "She must be from another country" / Imtiaz Dharker -- Fellowship / Franz Kafka -- Earliest impressions / Jane Addams -- He sits down on the floor of a school for the retarded / Alden Nowlan -- Selection from The theory of moral sentiments / Adam Smith -- Selection from Democracy in America / Alexis de Tocqueville -- Selection from The souls of black folk / W.E.B. Du Bois -- Theme for English B / Langston Hughes -- Recitatif / Toni Morrison -- Mending wall / Robert Frost -- Serving. -- Luella Miller / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- Dry dock / Margaret Sutherland -- Saving the crippled boy / Jan Beatty -- The eleventh / Henri Barbusse -- The moral equivalent of war / Henry James -- The subjective necessity of social settlements / Jane Addams -- The drum major instinct / Martin Luther King Jr. -- The book of Ruth -- Selection from Specimen days / Walt Whitman -- The lovers of the poor / Gwendolyn Brooks -- What we don't talk about when we don't talk about service / Adam Davis -- Giving. -- Where were we / Dave Eggers -- Selection from The reveries of the solitary walker / Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- The sweetness of charity / Maya Angelou -- The lamb and the pinecone / Pablo Neruda -- The gospel of wealth, part 1 / Andrew Carnegie -- Selection from "Self-reliance" / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Compassion : the wish-fulfilling jewel / Sogyal Rinpoche -- A bed for the night / Bertolt Brecht -- Four traditions of philanthropy / Elizabeth Lynn and D. Susan Wisely -- Selection from the Mishneh Torah / Moses Maimonides -- If all who have begged help / Anna Akhmatova -- Leading. -- The wife of his youth / Charles Waddell Chesnutt -- II Samuel, chapters 11-12 -- The destructors / Graham Greene -- The helmsman / Franz Kafka -- The lesson / Toni Cade Bambara -- The use of force / William Carlos Williams -- Selection from The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin / Benjamin Franklin -- The ones who walk away from Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin -- The history teacher / Billy Collins -- Second inaugural address / Abraham Lincoln -- The minister's black veil / Nathaniel Hawthorne. |
Responsibility: | edited by Adam Davis and Elizabeth Lynn. |
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