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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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 what he has done. The victim’s family would like to see him get out on parole because they feel that he has changed his ways and feels that he is very remorseful for what he did
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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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My Loving Wife Do you have this special person in your life that you truly love and care about? Would you go all out your way and do anything for him/ her? First off let me start off saying that I have a very special person in my life that I adore so much. We meet through mutual friend and started from there. I took her out every week end to show her how special she was to me. She really enjoyed every moment of it and had a big smile on her face all the time. She told me she has never been so
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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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“The person I admire” I admire a lot of people but the person I admire the most is my friend Amie. She is very important person in my life. She works with young children and after whole day she is always calm and helpful. She can find the time to meet and help with any problem. I can always count on her. She is a teacher of the deaf. She changed her whole life and carrier after her youngest daughter was born deaf. She went to school at night and worked during the day. All while taking care of
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Who do I admire? We all have people we admire in our life. Rather it would be friend‚ superhero‚ Actor‚ family member‚ or even a solder at war. We all have someone to look up to. In my case‚ the person I admire the most is my mother‚ whose life teaching‚ and life story pushes me to be successful in life. My mother is not any ordinary mother. She doesn’t cook most of the time‚ she’s not the kind of parent that sits down to help you with her homework or even hugs you when your down and I don’t
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WHAT FIELD OF STUDY WILL YOU PURSUE AND WHY HAVE YOU CHOSEN THIS AREA AND CAREER PATH? The world today is faced with enormous energy challenges in all ramifications. The ability to proffer solutions to these problems makes us a veritable tool in the society and it depends solely on the amount of information we have per time. Since childhood‚ the studies of science and basic engineering have interested me profoundly. I had passion for repairing simple devices‚ knowing their content and how they
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the Gold What do you call the person you admire? What makes you see them as a role model? What is the reason you need someone to follow? This one person is your hero. This is the person who inspires you to follow through with your hopes and dreams. They are the ones that look at the greater good before themselves; they see the selfishness around them and choose to be different. Everyone has their own hero and based on what you believe in and aspire to be is how you choose the right person. Misty May-Treanor
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Virtually everyone has a person whom they admire. A majority of people seem to admire someone because of fame or fortune. I‚ on the other hand‚ do not place my admiration on material possessions or people who idolize them. My admiration is reserved for someone far more priceless than anything this world may offer. Therefore‚ my mother‚ is the person whom I admire most because she was supportive‚ she was tenacious‚ and she was a provider. First‚ I adore my mother because she was supportive
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