In the 1930's several educators called for programs of cultural diversity that encouraged ethnic and minority students to study their respective heritages. ... Most people from educators to philosopers agree that an important first step in successfully joining multiple cultures is to develope an understanding of each other 's background. ... Although the debate at Stanford University ran much deeper than I can hope to touch in this paper, the root of the problem was as follows: In 1980, Stanford University came up with a program-later known as the " Stanford-style multicultural curr...

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In the next century, that same philosophy carried over. ... By the end of the nineteenth century their philosophy was somewhat adapted. ... In the 1930's several educators called for programs of cultural diversity that encouraged ethnic and minority students to study their respective heritages. ... The program consisted of 15 required books by writers such as Plato, Aristotle, Homer, Aquinas, Marx, and Freud. ... s. ...

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." - Ralph Waldo Emerson A Condensation of Its Context Toward the end of his notebook, "Naturalist," Ralph Waldo Emerson entered sentence (dated 1853) that marks a symbolic vision of nature familiar to his readers and, in more recent years, of concern to his ecologically minded critics: "He is the richest who has most use for nature as raw material of tropes and symbols with which to describe his life." (2) One can see why the tradition of reading Emerson's nature writing and environmental aesthetics in sharp contrast with Henry David Thoreau's--Thoreau viewed as "Emerson's ea...

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God, Morality, and Meaning in Cormac McCarthy's The Road Erik J. Wielenberg Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road is, among other things, a meditation on morality, what makes human life meaningful, and the relationship between these things and God. While the novel is rife with religious imagery and ideas...

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