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...life, a habit that's hard to break. One of my best friends has become a sort running joke because she just can't help herself--you name it, she's applied. My roommate sent her, as a joke, an "application" to one of our parties this year. Essay question number two: "We relish the exclusion of less worthy individuals. Please explain why we should forfeit the small portion of joy we would obtain in excluding you from our festivities...

Author: By Alixandra E. Smith, | Title: Applications are in Season | 3/13/2000 | See Source »

...remember thinking the extensiveness of the questions was unnecessary," he says. "They had clearly read my essay very well and interrogated me about...

Author: By Eric S. Barr, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Interviews Strain Summer Proctors | 3/3/2000 | See Source »

...Ricky's fetish lies in the tradition and history of the English culture. While you and I were pounding hamburgers at the House of Beef, Ricky was writing his college entrance essay in support of keeping the House of Lords. Ricky's fanaticism started in the fourth grade when an English transfer student offered him a copy of Pride and Prejudice in the playground. Since then it has been a downward spiral into the bowels of English culture. Yet the freshman declined to study in England in lieu of the lesser Cambridge School, Harvard...

Author: By A. Cooley, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: When Victoria Was Queen | 3/2/2000 | See Source »

...thesis--and catchy name for it--is almost irresistible as a way of describing the effect marketing is having on culture. It would have made a great essay. As a book it includes a lot of interesting but extraneous material: the dance the interns do at MTV, for instance, or what Bill Clinton said to David Geffen. Seabrook has stitched together a bunch of his articles from the New Yorker to make this garment, and sometimes the seams show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Hierarchy Of Hotness | 2/28/2000 | See Source »

...this essay my main idea is that though turner's examination and explication of this state of marginality has significant sociological merit, it is lacking in the psychological analysis necessary to truly understand the human disposition with respect to liminality in cult membership. The psychological torment that the neophyte endures is the direct result of his systematic demoralization, which makes the idea of social death even more genuine. The biggest problems that I am having in the writing process are my inability to do an outline, my inability to stay within the page limitations given, and my ability...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: As Follows: from the expos files | 2/24/2000 | See Source »

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