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In the first paper, most of you focused well on a passage. For the second paper, you will interpret another passage, this time from Great Expectations (note: titles of novels are italicized; those of short stories are set off by double quotation marks: “Joy”). Choose a passage that appeals to you, puzzles you, suggests themes that interest you, or presents characters that annoy you—anything tha...

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Political scientists are fond of observing that "power is to us what money is to the economist: the medium via which transactions are observed and measured."' The analogy sometimes implies, as it does in this quotation, that money and power perform similar social functions. At other times it seems to mean that political scientists ought to spend as much time thinking about power as economists d...