The Chronicle Review October 3‚ 2010 What Are You Going to Do With That? Katherine Streeter for The Chronicle Review By William Deresiewicz The essay below is adapted from a talk delivered to a freshman class at Stanford University in May. The question my title poses‚ of course‚ is the one that is classically aimed at humanities majors. What practical value could there possibly be in studying literature or art or philosophy? So you must be wondering why I’m bothering to raise it here‚ at
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died because she drank a lot of “strong disinfectant” which burnt her “inside out”. Inspector Goole goes to the Birling’s house to confront each one of them and place responsibility on them. Though the inspector does not tell us it‚ it is quite obvious that he is there not to find the “main culprit” but instead he is there to make the Birling’s see through somebodies eyes of the Lower “class” and feel some “responsibility”. Each and every one of them‚ Mr Birling‚ Sheila‚ Gerald‚ Mrs Birling and Eric
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repetitions throughout most of his poems such as poem 31‚ the repetition of “in vain” stating that everyone in the world cares what others think of themselves no matter how hard a person tries not to. Whitman illustrates that no matter what a person has experienced‚ the person may change on the surface but everyone shares at least one quality which unites a society together which is why he shows compassion towards all races and human beings in his poems also‚ for example‚ poem 13‚ that the author realizes all
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1. One of your inmates is a murderer. When he was 18 years old‚ he killed his girlfriend. He received a sentence of life with the possibility of parole. He is now 58 years old and you have come to realize that he is a model prisoner. He has shown impeccable behavior‚ has a job within the prison‚ has been around the community during furloughs and has become a positive influence and a great role model for other prisoners. Also‚ he has formed a bond with the victim’s family‚ who has forgiven him for
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“ Who do you think would come to our funerals?” I turn to my cousin‚ Rehmah‚ and ask her while cracking all of the knuckles in my right hand‚ and then my left. I can’t hear them crack because of the loud screaming and the mechanics in the background. I looked around and the walls were purple with Sonic characters on it. The ceiling was so high up gladly because then we would’ve disintegrated. “My family‚ your family‚ all of your grandparents‚ all of my grandparents‚ all of your second‚ first and
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testing. Do you think it’s really worth it? We came up with three solutions to solve the problem with standardized testing. The first solution was to have a choice. The second solution was one big project for the whole year. The last solution was have a standardized test but not be timed and have it just be one big test‚ instead of having a whole bunch of small tests. Standardized testing causes many dilemmas throughout schools. One big reason why
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6. What do you think is the biggest problem facing the world today? I would say greed and ignorance is the biggest problem facing the world today. It is an aspect of human nature and seemingly intractable. I don’t expect the mass of humanity to undergo spiritual transformation to amend these aspects. However I do think that in order for problems to be solved such as objective conditions e.g. war and poverty‚ there has to be a change in social ethos- that of which is generally considered desirable
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WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU WERE JUST ONE INHC TALL Being just an inch tall …. Sounds really strange‚ but if I were really such‚ I would really be very unique and special. All the equipments I would use had to be very diminutive. It might sound strange but I would have lots of leverage. I can go anywhere I wish to without a travelling mode. Just a small crumb of bread would be enough for my lunch and I can also explore many new things and get new experiences. If I wanted to go surfing‚ I
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What is a window 8 and how successful do you think it will be? In this assignment I will be focusing on the major differences between the two OS; windows 7 and windows 8. I will also be identifying‚ based on my own views how successful windows 8 will be. Windows 8 is the latest version of Microsoft operating system. For some years now we’ve had windows 7 which was and still is a fantastic operating system. Many years have passed by and it’s only now Microsoft have finally decided to release their
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in the ocean which are useful in medicine‚ or the genetics of marine species. The chemical properties of the ocean are important to understand because the marine environment supports the greatest abundance of life on earth. (http://marinebio.org/oceans/ocean-chemistry.asp) As an occupation‚ I would love to study marine life. I will need to master biochemistry. Biochemistry is the study of life‚ water‚ and salts. One example is water- composed of two hydrogen atoms joined to one oxygen atom that
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