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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‘In the 21st century‚ gender inequality is still prevalent in the world.’ Do you agree with this statement? Answer: 1. Gender inequality is still prevalent in the world in the 21st century. Employment inequality is present in the societies today. In terms of employment as well as promotion‚ most women are usually at a disadvantage as wage discrimination exists between the male and the female gender. Most women generally have fewer opportunities in getting a job as compared to men. A country
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was written by John Steinbeck in 1936. It is set in the society of the 1920’s. The author sets up our perception of the character ’Curley’s wife’ in a way that allows us to develop our understanding of her‚ and enables us to later decide how far we agree that she is an innocent and vulnerable victim‚ or a manipulator who deserves her fate. We are first introduced to the character ’Curley’s wife’ in chapter two by Candy. We immediately see her being blamed for causing her husband’s arrogance “Curley
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Abortion: Pro Life or Pro Choice? Donna L. Clark University of Maryland University College Abortion: Pro Choice or Pro Life? The issue of abortion is one of the most contentious‚ and emotive dilemmas faced by modern societies (Devanny‚ 2000). Women should have the right to choose whether or not they want to continue or terminate their pregnancy. Since the infamous Supreme Court case of Roe vs. Wade‚ women were given the right to choose what’s best for them
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Abortion During the past century‚ abortion has been one of the most passionately discussed subjects. Some people are pro-life some pro-choice. I‚ myself‚ am a pro-life supporter. Throughout my years as a student‚ I have heard the pros and cons of abortion. For me abortion is considered killing a human. Pro-choice supporters argue that women have many reasons for wanting to get an abortion; firstly‚ they are not able to raise the child properly‚ secondly‚ they have the right over their body
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Hitler rose to power because of the Wall Street crash in 1929. Do you agree? Hitler came to power in 1933. After a lot of political fighting‚ debating and campaigning he finally achieved the role of German Chancellor in 1933. Hitler had big ambitions and he was finally starting to fulfil them. Hitler‚ like many other political leaders thought that the Weimar Republic was weak. He promised to take back the Treaty of Versailles by reclaiming land and re-arming Germany. In 1918 Hitler created powerful
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significantly the only character to fully understand the bond between George and Lennie. I agree that Slim is not handicapped in some way. Lennie’s personality is like that of a child. He is innocent and mentally handicapped with no ability to understand abstract concepts like death. While he acts with great loyalty to George‚ he has no comprehension of the idea of "loyalty." For that reason‚ he often does not mean to do the things that get him into trouble‚ and once he does get into trouble‚ he has no
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(A) Do you think you are addicted to Facebook? What are the signs which show a person is addicted to Facebook? Give reasons to support your view. Yes I am addicted to Facebook. The signs that shows a person that is addicted to Facebook is when he/she is constantly thinking about Facebook‚ like always updating his/hers statuses‚ always talk about the topics that he/she saw from Facebook or constantly checking his/her phone for Facebook updates. Another sign of Facebook addiction is when he/she
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‘Excavated human remains should always be reburied’. How far do you agree? The topic of human remains has been argued over for many years and has resulted in multiple changes to the laws of reburial in the past sixty years‚ but now the laws are that archaeologists can have up to 3 years to research the remains until they should be reburied unless they need to extend their research. Archaeologists have always been fighting to stop reburial to have more time to research them or display them in museums
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Health is Wealth” is very much true. One must try hard to remain healthy ‚if we are healthy ‚we can easily fight with other problems of life. people do many different things to remain healthy .some go for healthy diet‚ other recommended exercise‚ and rest thinks health awareness is important ‚after all “Prevention is better than cure.” A healthy diet is very necessary to remain healthy. People must take care of their diet. Everybody should read the ingredients before buying
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