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...believe that. But the movie isn't as simple as you make it out to be. It's also a tremendously pertinent essay on international politics. You have the illegal alien, Amelia, who can't protect herself or her charges though she has the best intentions in the world. Then there's Richard, the American in an Arab land, who can't be immediately helped by his government because the shooting is suspected to be a terrorist act. But the film is mainly, I think, about children. They are the most vulnerable of humans, the most likely...
...yesterday afternoon, the scholarship winners spoke of the racial discrimination, financial hardships, and other challenges they faced prior to college. The $40,000 Ron Brown Scholarships honor exceptionally motivated and academically accomplished African American high school seniors. Winners provided a snapshot of their individual journeys in an anthology of essays bound in the hard-cover book, “I Have Risen,” which went on sale in late March. The book comes 10 years after the establishment of the scholarship in memory of the late Ron Brown, the first African American to serve as secretary of commerce...
...lieu of a conventional Endpaper, FM presents you with the highlights of this e-mail chain, started by nocturnal FM Associate Editor Sam Teller ’08. More than any first-person essay could ever do, the follow gives a colorful account of Reading Period in real time...
...might be accepted. It is rarely “accepted;” we aren’t here to accept or reject—we’re here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course—and we all like to be called “assistants,” not “graders”—you may be able to ferret...
...discussion of the various methods whereby the crafty student attempts to show the grader that he knows a lot more than he actually does, the vague generality is the key device. A generality is a vague statement that means nothing by itself, but when placed in an essay on a specific subject very well might mean something to the grader. The true master of a generality is the man who can write a 10-page essay, which means nothing at all to him, and have it mean a great deal to anyone who reads it. The generality writer banks...