To many observers, the practice of medicine and the writing of books seem disparate, despite exemplars like the playwright-physician Anton Chekhov and the poet-pediatrician William Carlos Williams.
They may, with a few decades' in-dwelling, habit and custom, someday feel like real urban places, but for many years to come they will almost certainly remain as harrowingly sterile as any new master-planned development, western exemplars like Canary Wharf or Mission Bay not excluded.
France's "retour à l'ordre" (return to order), Italy's "ritorno al mestiere" (return to craft) and Germany's "Neue Sachlichkeit" (New Objectivity) have heretofore been considered in terms of a few famous formerly avant-garde exemplars like Picasso, Braque, Léger, de Chirico and Otto Dix.
Second, King is right at the center of an American literary taproot that goes all the way down: to the Puritans and their belief in witches, to Hawthorne, to Poe, to Melville, to the Henry James of "The Turn of the Screw," and then to later exemplars like Ray Bradbury.
Third we must remember courageous exemplars like Martin Luther King Jr, who provide moral and spiritual inspiration as we build multiracial alliances to combat poverty and xenophobia, Wall Street crimes and war crimes, global warming and police abuse – and to protect precious rights and liberties.
Along the way, he's earned the CPAE's Hall of Fame speaker award, written the bestselling books The Cult of the Customer and The Amazement Revolution, and been endorsed by customer service exemplars like Zappo's and Ritz-Carlton Hotels.
But the new guidelines are increasingly worrying English-lovers and English teachers, who feel they must replace literary greats like The Great Gatsby and Catcher in the Rye with Common Core-suggested "exemplars," like the Environmental Protection Agency's Recommended Levels of Insulation and the California Invasive Plant Council's Invasive Plant Inventory.
Just look at the ten-year share price of exemplar firms like Apple [APPL], Amazon [AMZN] and Salesforce.com [CRM], with increases of around ten times to fifteen times.
You know: community-building, local organizing, people power, self-sufficiency, civil disobedience, nonviolent praxis, opting out, do-it-yourself ethics, mutual aid, positive thinking, holding a vision, creative interruption, highlighting exemplars, and the like.
Others ponder theological questions like "Exemplar Humanae Vitae," dated 1687 and published in Gouda in the Netherlands.
