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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‘What You Pawn I Will Redeem’ written by Sherman Alexie‚ tells a story of a homeless man who is struggling with identity issues and reminisces about much of his culture. Jackson Jackson‚ the main character‚ is a round and flat character‚ showing characteristics of both. Jackson’s conflict is internal conflict because he wants to save money to purchase his grandmother’s regalia from the pawnbroker‚ but he also wants to spend money on his fellow Indians and friends. Through Sherman’s short story
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The art of writing can be a difficult task when it gets to the fact that you are the writer and you are aiming the paper to a specific reader. I can see myself as a good writer‚ I have no problem capturing my ideas down on paper‚ nor explaining them with detail. I like writing but it’s not something that I would do for a living or for a hobby‚ sometimes I do it as an occasional thing‚ very uncommon of me though. My writing abilities vary a lot‚ for me the genre‚ type of writing and assignment; tend
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OF FREEDOM WRITERS Freedom Writers is set in the 1990s and tells the story of a novice teacher’s interactions with a group of students in a Long Beach high school two years following the Los Angeles Riots. The film is based on the book The Freedom Writers Diaries: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them‚ a collection of essays compiled from the real experiences of Erin Gruwell (1999) and her students‚ known as the Freedom Writers. The teacher
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My Life As A Writer Through out our school career‚ we’ve been asked by many and all sorts of teachers to write stories‚ essays‚ research papers‚ book reports‚ and many many other writing assignments. I must say I have always hated writing in all sorts of ways. They took to long to do or they were given out in great lengths that I myself didn’t want to do. They were boring assignments‚ and I didn’t want to waste my time on doing them. Now obviously I did them‚ because I probably wouldn’t be here
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Interview Questions About You http://jobsearch.about.com/od/interviewquestionsanswers/a/interviewquest.htm 1. How would you describe yourself? - Best Answers 2. How do you handle stress and pressure? - Best Answers 3. What motivates you? – Best Answers 4. What are your salary expectations? – Best Answers 5. Tell me about yourself. – Best Answers 6. What are you passionate about? – Best Answers 7. What are your pet peeves? – Best Answers 8. What do people most often criticize about you? – Best Answers
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The Enlightenment Writers The central ideas of the Enlightenment writers were similar to‚ yet very different from‚ those of the writers of earlier periods. Four major Enlightenment writers were Benjamin Franklin‚ Thomas Paine‚ Thomas Jefferson‚ and Patrick Henry. Their main purpose was to write to educate and edify and not so much as to write for aesthetic purposes. Most of their work was designed to convey truth or give sound instruction on such issues of political‚ social‚ or economic interest
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“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” I agree to a great extent that when helping others one can find learning about themselves in the process. Gandhi’s quote advocates that in order to discover the essence of who we truly are as people you can’t be selfish. Helping others is humbling and allows people to see things from a different perspective. Additionally while helping other people‚ it can lead you to change aspects of yourself for the better. Others
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SUMMARY AND PERSONAL RESPONSE: “ON BECOMING A WRITER” In “On Becoming a Writer‚” the author‚ Russell Baker‚ expressed his interest in writing as a way of thinking about himself and forming an identity. “The only thing that truly interested me was writing‚ “he states. “It was the only thing for which I seemed to have the smallest talent…” Even though he used to dislike English classes in high school‚ in his third year‚ the chance of being a writer knocked on his door. When Mr. Fleagle‚ the English
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Kites On A Pond (Essay #1 to Jerome Stern’s What They Learn In School) Jerome Stern’s What They Learned In School challenges the phrase "the sky is the limit" in the case of today’s methods of school education. While we are taught that education further develops human characteristics and the understanding of life‚ Stern points out the ironies. Instead of the intention to expand‚ to explore‚ and to inspire‚ he feels today’s education is hypocritical of what it preaches. Stern’s essay follows a simple
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