Word: essay
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...best: As midterm season puts us at the mercy of our TFs on a daily basis, it’s starting to become apparent that we may already have enough arbitrary judgment in our lives. Being humiliated for “creative” choices in our short-essay answers is bad enough. Being humiliated for our “creative” Freshman Week grooming decisions somehow feels worse...
GLOBAL HOT SPOTS A26 PHOTO ESSAY: By the end of the year, some 30,000 wireless networks will be in place from Bali to the Baltics...
...Hindu feast of Nyepi, a single day of sequestration and introspection. Although observance of Nyepi is enforced by temple authorities, Indonesia, unlike Malaysia, does not have religious police. Yet none of these peccadilloes detracts from the novel's momentum, which continuously hurtles the reader forward. Eliot himself, in an essay defending Wilkie Collins, the Victorian master of melodrama (and author of a great thriller with an Asian setting, The Moonstone), laid down the dictum that the first requirement of any literature is that it be interesting. In this regard, Carey succeeds decisively...
...train their children in spear throwing, swimming and horseback riding in order to prepare for jihad. Bayram denies that he was urging violence, saying he only meant to encourage parents to ensure that their children are physically fit. The Panorama documentary contained some distortions. The program quotes an essay from an Islamic student praising the destruction of the World Trade Center, but the essay is not from a student at the King Fahd Academy. Nevertheless, under pressure from municipal officials, the academy suspended Bayram. Police are concerned about more than just potentially radical sermons. "We have 10 to 15 people...
...reasons for constructing this essay about sports is that it brings together issues much larger than athletics, highlighting in particular racial insults in America and the way people react to them,” Early said...