Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Study Guide: Evicted by Matthew Desmond

Study Guide: Evicted by Matthew Desmond

SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for Evicted by Matthew Desmond includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book’s multiple symbols, motifs, and themes such as the American Dream, home, and family. Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

In the Pulitzer Prize-winning Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, Princeton sociology professor Matthew Desmond studies the subject of eviction as a product of the relationship between the rich and the poor. Exploring the issue of housing stability from the perspective of those with and without power, Desmond follows two landlords who own rental property worth millions of dollars and their less affluent tenants. Personal stories, statistical analysis, and history combine to present a portrait of the tension that emerges between the accumulation of wealth and the right to a safe and stable home.

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Tuesday, March 3, 2020

Study Guide: Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande (SuperSummary)

Study Guide: Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande (SuperSummary)

SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality instructional study guides for challenging works of literature. This audio study guide for Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande includes detailed summary and analysis of each chapter and an in-depth exploration of the book's multiple symbols, motifs, and themes (such as "Mortality" and "Risk-Taking"). Featured content also includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay questions, and discussion topics.

In Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End, surgeon and author Atul Gawande is on a quest to determine what truly compassionate end-of-life care looks like and how to make it a reality in the modern medicine era. He acknowledges the breakthroughs that have made previously life-threatening illnesses manageable and childbirth safer. Yet human mortality remains an essential fact of life. Combating death has been the business of modern medicine, Gawande asserts, so what does that mean for patients when death is imminent? Drawing on both professional and personal experiences, the author maps a way to face death. His vision for end-of-life care runs counter to contemporary efforts to prolong life by any means, but Gawande makes a compelling case that his is the better way to live and to die.

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The Soul of Life The Piety of John Calvin by Joel R. Beeke

  The Soul of Life The Piety of John Calvin by Joel R. Beeke John Calvin is the most notable figure from the Reformed tradition. Unfortunate...