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...recent essay in L'espresso, an Italian news magazine, Eco finds this unusual emotion dating to a Pagan conception of honor, in the city-states of Greece, taking one's life was a heroic response to a fall from grace. Suicide represented a recognition of grave wrongdoing, and more significantly, a moral catharsis, the individual would regain his honor in society by taking his life, and would preserve respect in the memory of his name...
...Generality is a vague statement that means nothing be itself, but when placed in an essay on a specific subject might very well mean something to the grader. The true master of the Generality is the person who can write as 10-page essay, which means nothing at all to that person, and have it mean a great deal to anyone who reads it. The Generality banks on the knowledge possessed by the grader, hoping the marker will read things into the essay...
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...essays are: "Self-Reliance" by Emerson. "The Ethics of Identity" by Gates, a transcript of Rudenstine's 1992 Commencement speech and Chiu's essay. "Masquerade Attired in the Robes of the Woman Warrior," from the winter 1993 issue of Tian, a Chinese-American student magazine...
...essay, Gates argues that racial differences should be perme- able experiences rather than rigid boundaries. Chiu's piece discusses cultural exchange between the East and the West. The Emerson work is a celebration of the individual...