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 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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ESSAY 2 The question “do you think that ease does not challenge us and that we need adversity to help us discover who we are” suggests that tough challenges reveal our strengths and weaknesses. In other words‚ hardships can often lead us to examine who we are and to question what is important in life. In my opinion‚ frequent adverse conditions‚ help us disclose our inner feelings and stamina to outer world. Throughout the society and in life‚ the evidence to support my viewpoint is
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PAUSE: TAKE TIME TO THINK By: jajanina Today’s generation is very modern. high-tech and fast paced. Everything that is happening is so quick. There may be a time you will not notice that your life has changed on a single snap. Everything what people want‚ everything people want to say and everything people do is immediate. Everything people need is just a click away. Without knowing‚ troubles and regrets are also a click away. Many suffer on their own instant decisions and actions without thinking
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“ Who do you think would come to our funerals?” I turn to my cousin‚ Rehmah‚ and ask her while cracking all of the knuckles in my right hand‚ and then my left. I can’t hear them crack because of the loud screaming and the mechanics in the background. I looked around and the walls were purple with Sonic characters on it. The ceiling was so high up gladly because then we would’ve disintegrated. “My family‚ your family‚ all of your grandparents‚ all of my grandparents‚ all of your second‚ first and
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PROMPT: Do you think Ender’s own view of himself‚ that he’s just like Peter‚ is true or not? Explain your answer‚ and use at least ONE piece of evidence from the text that supports your answer. PROMPT: Do you think Ender’s own view of himself‚ that he’s just like Peter‚ is true or not? Explain your answer‚ and use at least ONE piece of evidence from the text that supports your answer. PROMPT: Do you think Ender’s own view of himself‚ that he’s just like Peter‚ is true or not? Explain your answer
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At this point in the book Melinda starts to open up and accept what has happened in her past. By this part of the book if you’re not interested then something is wrong with you. Speak really captivates the moment. An example is when her old friend starts to date Andy Evans. Melinda was scared because Andy Evans raped her at the party. Naturally you would want to warn a friend about something like this. That’s precisely what Melinda does. She see’s Rachel in the library the next day and passes notes
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Why do you think people attend college and university? There are many different reasons for people who attend college and university throughout worldwide. I prefer to write about most common and minor reasons of it. Firstly‚ I want to mention about dreaming. Everyone has dream ; big‚ enormously or dreams they can dream. More commonly‚ people want to live in a suitable and comfortable house‚ drive an expensive car or work as a director etc. In order to get all those things‚ they need to get a high
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Do you think that smoking should be banned in public places? I believe that smoking should not be allowed in public places. First of all‚ smoking is bad for our health. Banding smoking from public places should be enforced throughout the whole United States. Here are three reasons why smoking should be banned. Cigarette smoke is very harmful to non-smokers. Smoking in front of young people is a bad influence on them. Office buildings and homes have caught on fire from someone smoking inside
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Do you ever think about being a slave? How brutal and harsh being a slave was? Well‚ poor Frederick Douglass knows exactly what it’s like‚ and here’s his story. Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey is also known as Frederick Douglass‚ he was born in February 1818. His real birth date is unknown‚ but later in his life‚ they celebrated it on February 14th. Frederick was born in Tuckahoe‚ Maryland. Frederick was born into slavery. When he was just 12 years old‚ he learned to read and write from a
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