Chloe Hooper has hinged her captivating debut on this uncomfortable yet essential struggle between innocence and experience.
A large part of it is the ever more essential struggle to keep careerism and partisanship from blinding one to citizenship and principle.
Like many aid workers, I went to West Africa to respond to the Ebola outbreak because it was the most essential struggle about which I knew I could do something.
This PBS series begins on Sunday night with "Bomb and Ballot Box," which lays out the essential struggle that has dominated "the Troubles," most intensely since "Bloody Sunday" in 1972, when British soldiers killed 14 Irish Catholics during a demonstration in Londonderry.
On "Breathe In, Breathe Out," from his 2004 debut album, "The College Dropout," he distilled the essential struggle that has defined his career into one sharp joke: "Always said if I rapped, I'd say something significant/But now I'm rapping about money, ho's and rims again".
Advocates say the idea offers an answer to an essential struggle that has long troubled those who favor abortion rights: How to make abortions available in far-flung, rural places and communities where abortion providers are unable or unwilling to travel.
It is crucial to see that Heidegger does not first assume that the shoes in the painting belong to a farmer, and then, by alluding to the farmer's world, introduce the essential struggle between earth and world as the truth of the painting.
I feel proud to be part of this essential struggle to provide these vulnerable children with medical care, education and developmental/psychological enrichment.
The farms and mountain shacks of the Blue Ridge may have yielded to highways and housing tracts, but the essential human struggle of its people stays the same.
The point of the Cold War, at least as it was explained by the Cold Warriors, was that it wasn't a confrontation of great global powers but, rather, something more significant and essential: a struggle of values, waged on a global scale, between totalitarians and liberals.
It proved a formative experience for the crusty conservative, who in his 31 years on the court was never to forsake his commitment to civil rights nor his view that a strong national government was essential, positions struggling to hold their own on the current court.
