Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Students work term-time and summer jobs to help pay for their tuition. Sometimes the obligation to make money for tuition prevents a student from taking a lower-paid, more educational internship or participating in a time-consuming extracurricular. Why couldn't this increase in federal aid help to decrease some of students' expected contribution--turning the focus of their days at Harvard toward education instead of finance...
After the announcement earlier this year that students would receive more financial aid, not being able to benefit from the Pell Grant increase comes as a slap in the face. Why should the University pocket money meant to go to students? Silly Harvard, financial aid is for kids, not endowments...
...tall, grave man whose dignity is slowly eroded by a festering hatred of the Christians who persecute his nation. He becomes a sort of tragic hero, bound to the stereotype of the Jewish usurer, who can only mourn the loss of his daughter by mourning the money she takes with her in her flight. Foley commands the attention of his audience, charging his "hath not a Jew eyes" soliloquy with a vindictive conviction, skillfully opening up Shylock as a man who has learned hatred from hatred; whose suffering is channeled into vengeance...
...deeply ironic, actually, that Shakespeare chooses to cast his antagonist in the stereotypical role of the miser. As the play progresses, we see the stereotype reflected onto its creators as money reveals itself to be the foundation for their actions. Antonio's friendship with Bassanio is the relationship between benefactor and courtesan. Bassanio's love for Portia is linked to the fortune she will bring him, and even the marriage between Bassanio's man Gratiano and Portia's maid Nerissa (Catherine Crow HGSE '99) is contingent upon their employers' financial union. The Christians themselves embody the gross materialism they condemn...
...thought about how amazed the person who wrote the book five years ago would have been if he had been told this was going to happen. At that point, I was unemployed and ghostwriting teen horror novels for money. I thought I was coming to the end of my rope as a writer and I would have to give up my dream. But things have turned around since them...