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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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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Prince” that “One should like to be both one and the other; but since it is difficult to join them together‚ it is much safer to be feared than to be loved” (14). Determining which of these two qualities a leader should possess has been a topic of discussion for centuries. So what makes Machiavelli’s work any different? First off‚ Machiavelli was an Italian diplomat and a political philosopher‚ who wrote about politics and power. The biggest element that separates Machiavelli’s work from other philosophers
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What do you want to be when you grow up? What are your plans for your future? Have you thought about college? Have you thought about a career choice? These are questions we are bombarded with on a daily basis by our parents. We shrug them off‚ telling them that we have another three years to think about college‚ careers‚ or our future. We don’t know what we want to be when we grow up‚ because we don’t even know who we are yet. Yet in a blink of an eye‚ we’re seniors and now the decisions we tried
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QUESTION: Do you think Lincoln is an idealist? Why or why not? ANSWER: I consider Lincoln to be more a far-sighted wise man than an idealist his significant contribution to the racial equality throughout the United States as well as other parts in the worldwide. At the beginning of the movie‚ we could see some black corporal requiring higher army status directly from President Lincoln who is also confused by the issue. Apparently‚ he knows the urgency of abolishing negro slavery which would
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People can be racist because they were brought up to hate a certain ethnicity‚ or they came to dislike them on their own. Either way racism is unjust and should not exist in today’s world. Unfortunately it used to be accepted in society by many people‚ but the world has come so far that petty things like racism should not occur. Racism might not seem like anything to some‚ but it is like the butterfly effect. One racist thing a person says or does affects not only one person but also ten people. In
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It ain’t what you do‚ it’s what it does to you Simon Armitage writes an adventurous comparison poem to show how powerful imagination is by comparing life long dreams to one’s mundane memories in the poem‚“ It ain’t what you do‚ it’s what it does to you”. The poem displays three imaginative pinnacle-like events and with those events‚ there are three events juxtaposing them. The poem is presented in a manner where the story is based on the experiences of a first-person speaker. The poem follows
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plentiful water and grass for cattle‚ the Mormons were confronted with a ragged sagebrush wasteland. Undeterred‚ the Mormons went on to construct the first community irrigation projects in America. Within a few years‚ 186 permanent communities sprang up‚ complete with over 1000 miles of canals to bring water to the formerly barren terrain. 8.) The Seneca Chief Sagoyewatha spoke against white attempts to convert Native Americans to Christianity. Why do you think someone might not want to change their religion
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What Would You Do? Chapter 4 American Express Headquarters‚ New York‚ NY Headquarters‚ New York‚ New York.1 With medical costs rising 10 to 15 percent per year‚ one of the members of your Board of Directors mentioned that some companies are now refusing to hire smokers and that the board should discuss this option at the next month’s meeting. Nationwide‚ about 6‚000 companies refuse to hire smokers. Weyco‚ an employee benefits company in Okemos‚ Michigan‚ requires all applicants to take
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WRI 101: Academic Writing Spring 2014 Instructor: C. Horger Meeting Times: Mon/Wed 8:00‚ 9:30‚ 11:00‚ 12:30 E-mail: chorger@aus.edu Meeting Location: Lang 102 and 109 Telephone: 515-2717 Office: Lang. 220 Office Hours: 10:00-12:00 S/T Course Description Academic Writing challenges students to recognize‚ understand‚ and produce academic writing. It requires students to practice strategies
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