{"id":5275,"date":"2010-04-09T06:00:25","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T10:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geneveith.com\/?p=5275"},"modified":"2010-04-09T06:00:25","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T10:00:25","slug":"men-at-work-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2010\/04\/men-at-work-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Men at Work stories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

One of my students is doing an internship with William Bennet and has asked for my help. I thought I\u2019d tap into you readers of this blog, who always manage to come up with some really good ideas on just about every subject. I\u2019ll let the student explain what he needs:<\/p>\n

I am working on a research project for Mr. William Bennett on Manliness and I was wondering if you could point me in the right direction.<\/p>\n

The book is divided into various sections of manliness, such as Men at War, Men at Play, etc.<\/p>\n

We are currently looking for excerpts from literature, history, biographical, and essays, from all of human history (I know, a rather modest goal) that deal with Men at Work. These excerpts should ideally depict good men with an exceptional work ethic. But they can also show the negative as an example of what NOT to do.<\/p>\n

Are there any quotes, essays, stories, or great men from history that have inspired you to work hard and that depict good, hard working men? I know your specialty is English Literature. Are there maybe one or two examples from your field that exemplify hard work?<\/p>\n

\nAny help at all would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time.\n

So we are looking for writings about men acting in vocation, specifically, the workplace. I thought of Hemingway\u2019s \u201cOld Man and the Sea.\u201d What else<\/p>\n

UPDATE:\u00a0 My student and Mr. Bennett won\u2019t be able to anthologize whole books, so are there episodes in specific novels that would be good to use?\u00a0 (For example, I cited the scene in Solzhenitsyn\u2019s \u201cOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich\u201d in which Ivan builds a brick wall and how that honest, satisfying, constructive labor gave him a sense of meaning even in the indignities of the Soviet prison camp.)\u00a0 He could also use examples from non-fiction (Studs Terkel\u2019s \u201cWorking,\u201d as has been mentioned), as well as quotations, etc.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/blockquote><\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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