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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timeless novel that can teach any generation a lesson‚ no matter what time in history‚ is hard to achieve. As time has gone by since the Civil Rights Movement‚ more and more people are asking the question‚ “Is racism still a concern?” The short answer is yes‚ as long as there is one racist human on Earth‚ this novel will still be relevant. The novel To Kill A Mockingbird is interesting because you see Tom Robinson (a black man accused of rape) face a battle that you know he will lose. He is facing
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In what way is Hamlet relevant in our world today? In that question‚ the word Hamlet is not underlined because the play itself is not nearly as relevant as a whole as Hamlet the person is. The play is full of allusions‚ jokes‚ and implications that is difficult for a modern audience to pick up on and understand their significance to the overall work. After all‚ Shakespeare wrote this as a performance piece that was to help pay the bills as much as it was to be a work of art. This is in no way
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Constitution be interpreted loosely? Should it be applicable to the problems and situations that we as Americans must deal with in today’s society? The Constitution should not be loosely interpreted. It should be "strictly" interpreted. When it is "loosely" interpreted individuals rights are impeded. The Constitution was written to protect Americans rights. It
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feminism is still relevant. Most people believe that feminism in no longer relevant because of the nineteenth amendment‚ which granted women the right as men. However‚ there are people that protest that feminism is still very relevant. It is very understandable that feminism was way more concerning in the nineteenth century than it is now. Today’s interpretation of feminism is different than what it was in the nineteenth century. People never assumed that it would come to be what it is today. Due to the
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learn in today’s day and age. Continuing to teach students the work of Shakespeare is essential because of the genius words he created that are still relevant in our society. Although Shakespeare may write with many words that are outdated or hard to understand‚ he did create countless words that we still use today. The way that we think with today is very limited because of the way our brain uses words. Shakespeare’s work may be hard to understand because of the lack of education he had and he was
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Period 5 November 2012 Racism Today Discrimination against other races is very common in society today. 2007 Yale University did a study showing a black man who murdered a white man is three times more likely to receive the death penalty than a white man who killed a black man (11 Facts). Some people might think racism has stopped since the Civil Rights Act‚ but discrimination against minority races is still prevalent in society today. The Civil Rights Act was established in 1964 out lawing
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Is the constitution still relevant today? Some would say that it is not and never has been. However‚ I happen to think otherwise. The constitution was written to establish our rights and freedoms as citizens. In my opinion the constitution is still relevant today. When you think of the different parts of the constitution it all makes sense. We have the amendments and our rights‚ the amendments clarify the duties of the government and branches. The bill of rights is focused on the people and their
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consumers’ needs. These include the company‚ suppliers‚ marketing intermediaries‚ customers‚ competitors and publics. Suppliers play an important role in customer satisfaction. The company needs these supplies to provide them will the materials necessary to produce the final product. Any problem in this transaction such as supply shortages‚ unreliable suppliers and labour strikes can severely harm the firm’s aim of consumer satisfaction‚ not to mention profitability. Marketing managers need to keep
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To what extent do male and female literary characters accurately reflect the role of men and women in society? Plan: Deconstruct the question Talk about both the novels Come to the point and compare both the novels. Don’t deviate from the topic Talk about characters. The male and female characters play a vital role in both the novels and it definitely reflects the role of men and women society. In Gabriel Garcia’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold and in Khaled Hosseini’s thousand splendid
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