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Li Lun, lad of courage
Because of his fear of the sea, a young Chinese boy is sent to a distant mountain where he proves his bravery.
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Divergent - Literature Kit Gr. 9-12
In this State Standards-aligned Literature Kit™, we divide VERONICA ROTH's classic DIVERGENT by chapters, and feature reading comprehension and vocabulary questions.
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I'm brave! I'm strong! I'm five!
A five-year-old girl who is brave and strong faces night noises, too much light, and spooky shadows, all without calling her parents, before finally feeling sleepy.
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New Essays on The Red Badge of Courage
First published in 1895, The Red Badge of Courage found immediate success and brought its author immediate fame. In his introduction to this volume, Lee Clark Mitchell discusses how Crane broke with the conventions of both fiction and journalism to create a uniquely 'disruptive' prose style. The five essays that follow each explore different aspects of the novel. One studies the problem of establishing the authentic text; another examines it as a war novel; a third considers it as a critique of the rising mood of militant imperialism in the 1890s; a fourth focuses on the double perspective of the novel - its shift between the hero's perspective and a larger, 'cosmic' one; and the final essay examines the novel's deconstruction of courage/cowardice. Written in a highly accessible style, these essays represent the best of recent scholarship and provide students with a useful introduction to this major novel.
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Jenny's moonlight adventure
On Halloween night when Madame Butterfly slips down the drainpipe, hurts her paw, and loses her nose flute, Jenny bravely volunteers to return her friend's beloved flute, even at the risk of being captured by dogs.
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Highlighting Moral Courage in the Business Ethics Course
At the end of their article in the September 2014 issue of the Journal of Business Ethics, Douglas R. May, Matthew T. Luth, and Catherine E. Schwoerer state that they are \"hopeful in outlook\" about the \"evidence that business ethics instructors are...able to encourage students... to develop the courage to come forward even when pressures in organizations dictate otherwise\" (p. 78). We agree with May et al. (2014) that it is essential to augment students' moral courage. However, it seems overly optimistic to believe that this improvement will result from any course in business ethics. Indeed, we question the appropriateness of their measure of moral courage and assert that business ethics educators must purposely design their courses to develop students' moral courage. In particular, we advocate introducing business ethics students to works of literature featuring protagonists who exercise moral courage in organizations. Fiction provides rich accessible narratives that show students worlds beyond their experience, awaken their imaginations, and evoke their emotions. Further, we highlight morally courageous exemplars because they inspire the cultivation of character. Joining those who underscore the role of virtue in business ethics education, we argue that exposure to moral exemplars in fiction will help students to build the moral courage they need to carry out ethical decisions in the workplace. Results from 46 students at the end of an MBA ethics course featuring moral courage provide preliminary evidence of the effectiveness of our approach.
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The very last castle
Ibb, curious about the lone castle in her town, forms a long-distant friendship with the guard and, despite warnings there is something fearful inside, accepts his invitation to enter.
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David, Rey para Dios
En la serie Heroes de la Fe, Pablo Owen hace cobrar vida algunas figuras historicas de las Escrituras. Estos personajes nos cuentan sus propias historias y nos permiten verles en su contexto cultural e historico. En este volumen, el joven rey David nos cuenta de sus altas y bajas y ayuda al lector a hallar en él un admirable heroe de la vida real. In the Champions of the Faith series, Paul Owen brings to life historical figures from Scriptures. These characters tell us their own stories and helps us see them in their historical and cultural context. In this volume, young king David tells us of his highs and lows and helps the reader find in him a real life hero he can look to.
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The boy who painted dragons
Ping, a painter of dragons--of which he is secretly afraid--is challenged to seek the truth, find the truth, and dare to be true.
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Hwæt!: adaptive benefits of public displays of generosity and bravery in Beowulf
Costly signalling - along with other adaptive mechanisms, including reciprocity and kin selection - supports altruism in human societies. Because literary works can reflect the lives, motivations and ideals of real cultures, the same adaptive forces governing the actions of actual persons may drive the interactions depicted in these stories. Based on this reasoning, we analysed the interactions in the Old-English poem Beowulf, asking whether the beneficent behaviour exhibited by the characters functions as costly signalling or as exchange-based interactions. We found that both mechanisms play a role but costly signalling provides benefits beyond those from relationships based on exchange. Specifically, gift exchange promoted comrade allegiance but costly signalling additionally provided status increase to the signaller. Furthermore, boasting about oneself forged alliances whereas telling tales about the exploits of others increased speaker status. We show that hypotheses derived from evolutionary theory can be explored through quantitative text analyses of period-specific literature.
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