Word: essays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Abra Fortune Chernik said in her essay "The Body Politic," "Gaining weight and getting my head out of the toilet bowl was the most political act I ever committed...
...shadow of insult fell," said Du Bois in his essay, "A Negro Student At Harvard At The End of The Nineteenth Century," of being mistaken for a servant. Turned away from local barbershops, refused lodging by families who habitually hosted white students and excluded from various activities such as the Glee Club, Du Bois focussed on academic achievement while coping with the many facets of on campus racism...
...application process required submission of a resume and a 300- to 500-word essay describing the applicant's preparations for a career in the software industry. An on-campus interview was also required...
...large rather than airing them in the Western press, access to which is denied the majority of his nation's population. Of course, such freedom of speech may lead to Khatami's being deposed, but that is the "risky and rough" path to which he refers in his essay in TIME and the one upon which he must now be prepared to embark. TIM PURCELL Wing, England...
When I read the essay by Khatami, the first thing I thought of was the slap I received, simply for possessing a copy of TIME, from the special interrogator in a political prison in Tehran. I finally had to escape from my beloved homeland and settle in Europe. Despite Khatami's hints that there should be freedom of thought, if you want to speak about freedom nowadays in Iran, you are accused of being a corrupt person. Khatami's remarks bring hope not only to the people who voted for him but also to Iranians like me who love...