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Title: The Grinnell Prize Awards Ceremony, 2013, 2013 Awards Ceremony
Description: Poster advertising the 2013 Grinnell Prize Ceremony on November 5, 2013.
Date Created: 2013
PID: grinnell:5093

Title: The Hero's Journey
Description: This will be a course in comparative heroic poetry. Through exercises in writing, spoken presentation, and discussion we shall study and analyze various aspects of five epic poems, in particular the portrayals of the hero(in)es and conceptions of the heroic in four (very) different cultures. Among topics to be addressed are the narrative patterns of quest and journey (spatial and spiritual), the role of religion and the divine, the role of women, and the diverse cultural value systems reflected in the poems. Particular attention will be paid to the organization of papers and the effective expression of ideas in writing.
Date Created: 2003
PID: grinnell:3444

Title: The Liberal Arts College in a World of Change, Academic Convocation
Description: The program for the closing event of a three-day long convocation, "The Liberal Arts College in a World of Change."
Date Created: 1967
PID: grinnell:20022

Title: The Message of Jesus to Men of Wealth
Description: Published address given by George D. Herron before the Minnesota Congregational Club. It was this address that first brought Herron to national attention. Also available at https://archive.org/details/messageofjesusto00herr.
Date Created: 1891
PID: grinnell:18362

Title: The Political Economy of Collective Action and Radical Reform: A Proposed Conceptual Framework
Description: This paper presents a broad framework for analyzing radical reform in terms of a large set of collective-action problems faced by potential reformers. It merges concepts that often appear separately in the literature, including social preferences, power relationships, policy subsystems, institutional stability, types of institutional change, and types of agents.
Date Created: 2017
PID: grinnell:27809

Title: The Refusal of Russian Motherhood, Annotated Bibliography
Description: An annotated bibliography developed for an analysis of Bolshevik Feminism looking at whether the legalization of abortion in 1920 had any real impact on the lives of Russian women.
Date Created: 2016
PID: grinnell:19507

Title: The Social Appropriation of Legacy : A Symptom of Elite Control in American Society
Description: This paper examines how the legacies of assassinated individuals are preserved in the collective consciousness of America.
Date Created: 2013
PID: grinnell:3202

Title: The Social Politics of Having Children, Tutorial, Fall 2003; Social politics of having children
Description: This Tutorial will take an interdisciplinary approach to understanding some of the issues and controversies that surround childbearing and childrearing. At the same time, the Tutorial will help students to develop the skills and capacities needed for a successful college career.
Date Created: 2003
PID: grinnell:54