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The civically engaged reader: a diverse collection of short provocative readings on civic activity
Publisher
Great Books Foundation
Publication Date
c2006
Language
English
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From the Book - 1st ed.
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.
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9780945159490
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