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Jonathan Kozol's Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation tells the story of one of the poorest neighborhoods in both New York City and indeed in the entire United States.

Talking about smoking with your teen: When parents DO understand

The history of the Baptist Church in the United States reached a profound turning point when it began to pay attention to the issue of overseas missionary work. Particularly, the pioneers in the field, Adoniram Judson…

What does Emile Durkheim mean when he says crime is "normal"? In Durkheim's book, Division of Labor, according to author Stephen P. Turner, Durkheim said crime is inevitable and it is normal.

Internment of Japanese-Americans in World War II

Education, as the Guinness Encyclopedia puts, is the process that allows each one to learn and sometimes challenge the knowledge, skills, values and behavior that have been developed by previous generations.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that more than 58,000 women in the United States had been diagnosed with AIDS by 1994 (Hackl, Somlai, Kelly & Kalichman, 1997).

Banking services are characterized by high information intensive operations and this is especially true due to the effects of information and communication technology on the banking industry.

Why are gender and difference issues so important in understanding the potential for skills training and work and learning in both Canada and the economic south?

Captain Michalis, the hero of Freedom or Death, was based on Kazantzakis' father Michalis, a traditional Cretan community leader and warrior in the independence struggles who fought in the 1888-89 rebellion. He also introduces the Captain's best friend Nuri Bey and his wife Emine, who he also loves, but in the end he rejects them both in the cause of Cretan independence. The Pasha and the Metropolitan also symbolize the ancient clash of religions, cultures and civilizations that is fought out in this novel—Greek versus Turk, Christian versus Muslim—which also resonates with the contemporary word and the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan. These ethnic, tribal and nationalistic hatreds are so great and so enduring that they crowd out all romance, friendship or personal feelings, as all the characters join in the bloodbath. Only Nuri Bey commits suicide rather than go to war against his former friend, but the Captain is totally committed to the Greek cause and quite willing to die for it, taking most of his friends and relatives with him.