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 Stanford
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Can Life Really Be What YOU Make It? A lot of people say they would like to change their life or retract their steps‚ but me I wouldn’t trade any of it for the world. Brooke Smith‚ my first child‚ that I went through 34 hours of labor with is a reminder of all that I have went through‚ what I have done to get to where I am today and what I will do for her to have the best life I can possibly give her being her mother. Certain things in my life were trying and devastating to where I wanted things
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You Think GD Would Have Given you Hair Like That if He Loved You? by Deborah Stoll‚ Just reading the titled you can grasp the discrimination. It grabs your attention‚ like how can you tell that to a person‚ God loves everyone. It is appalling how some people treat each other for being different. The way this woman maltreats this nine-year-old as if she is the devil because Jewish or as Miss Sherry believes not leading a good Christian life‚ its outrageous. From all the text I read‚ this one grabs
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Practice what you preach Any person in the world is an individual and it goes without saying that all people differ. Consequently‚ all of them have different mentality‚ ideology‚ behavior‚ thoughts‚ attitude to the same things and phenomena. Usually since childhood we stand on one path and follow it during all our life. Here the influence of parents‚ grandparents‚ teachers can be seen‚ when we try to copy their adult habits. But it seems to be normal when a little child follows the ideas of
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What Type of Reader are you? What is your favorite type of book to read? Or do you even enjoy reading? No matter how much a person likes or dislikes reading‚ every person in today’s society has to read at least once a day. There is so much material to read‚ one cannot avoid reading something. Not only are there many different types of material to read‚ but there are also many different types of readers. Readers can be labeled either by what they read‚ or why they read. There are the people
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LIOZON Clément EIM4 Bachelor – UB2 ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR Assigment 1 : using the concepts that you have read in the book‚ describe what would be according to your personality the ideal job for you ? Today‚ it appears that our personality is the thing which characterizes each human being and which is very important in the business world. Indeed‚ the personality is the sum total of ways in an individual reacts and interacts with others‚ measurable traits a person exhibits. With many new
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Why Is Smoking Bad For You? Smoking is responsible for several diseases‚ such as cancer‚ long-term (chronic) respiratory diseases‚ and heart disease‚ as well as premature death. Over 440‚000 people in the USA and 100‚000 in the UK die because of smoking each year. According the US CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)‚ $92 billion are lost each year from lost productivity resulting from smoking-related deaths. Of the more than 2.4 million deaths in the USA annually‚ over 440‚000 are
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Valley Forge: Would you have quit? At Valley Forge‚ the colonies were going to fight the British. The British had a strong Navy and the other the colonies were not strong because they did not have supplies some of did not even have food. In the winter of 1777-1778. At Valley Forge‚ the colonies’ soldiers were fighting the British. There were not enough supplies and the living conditions were bad. There was a lot of sickness and disease. The war was getting hard. What would you do if you were at Valley
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You have been asked to choose at least 3 poems of Adrienne Rich’s for an anthology. What poems would you choose and why? I’ve studied Rich’s poetry for my Leaving Certificate and have really enjoyed learning them. In my opinion‚ Rich is fine poet and I strongly recommend ’Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers’‚ ’Living in Sin’ and ’Diving into the Wreck’ to be included for this anthology. I chose these poems since they are personally my favourites. However‚ I also
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measures to support a UN system fellowships evaluation framework Table of contents I. II. INTRODUCTION....................................................................................................................................... 1 WHAT IS EVALUATION?........................................................................................................................... 2 1. DEFINITION .............................................................................................
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