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…Dick looking for a missing person. It tells what happens when men and women of power tangle with complex issues like honor, money and the heavy weight of public welfare. We see people wrestle with their consciences -- and we realize it's not just fiction…

…Raymond Hedin, Morrison divides the novel into small excerpts of the ?Dick and Jane? primer to contrast the happiness of upper class white family life, to the despair of poverty-stricken blacks. For instance, the chapter that introduces the Breedlove family…

…to be both psychotically cruel and also disturbingly supernatural. Donatti, during Dick Morrison's follow up prognosis, relays some privileged information about Morrison's mentally challenged "half" a son. A shocked Morrison "bark[s]" back in a "startled and angry…

…as the critical interpretive approach to research. Action research can be described as a group of research methodologies that pursue action (change) and research (understanding) (Dick, 1999). It is about trying to understand and explain why people have different…

…of public swimming pools. The device that surpasses the capacities of even Dick Tracey's wristwatch had been taken up enthusiastically, especially among the generation of adults who are too young to have grownup reading that particular comic strip…

…, but still close enough to give us a first person account. The world around Claudia, Fridea, and Pecola is filled with symbols of whiteness. The first thing that is brought to our attention is the elementary school readers, where the main characters are Dick…

…, but still close enough to give us a first person account. The world around Claudia, Fridea, and Pecola is filled with symbols of whiteness. The first thing that is brought to our attention is the elementary school readers, where the main characters are Dick…

…simmering discontent toward a dangerous boil. Thrown into the mix are Marge Morrissey and Dick Bennett, two long-time friends who delight in intellectual sparring while on regular visits to Marge’s holiday home at Sorrento. These seemingly peripheral…

…the dead animal and chanting. As this thirst for blood begins to spread the group is split into the "rational (the fire-watchers) pitted against the irrational (the hunters) (Dick 121)." The fear of a mythological "beast" is perpetuated by the younger members…

…team raised $517 million for their school in a five-year period of time (Wolff, "Broken" 25). Similarly, the Washington Huskies football program earns $1.4 million in television revenue yearly (Looney 43). Dick DeVenzio, in his book, Rip-Off U., supposes…