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...remember hoping that someday I might write something that would affect a reader in a way similar to the way in which many books I read affect me,” Isabel says...
...think, they cannot be impressed; they are clods. The only way to beat their system is to cheat.) In the humanities and social sciences, it is well to remember, there is a man (occasionally a woman), a human type filling out your picture postcard. What does he want to read? How, in a word, can he be snowed...
...they pile up, we decide: C- (Harvard being Harvard, one does not give D's. Consider C-a failure). Why? Not because they are a sign the student doesn't know the material, or hasn't thought carefully, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. "Locke is a transitional figure." "The whole thing boils down to human rights." Now, I ask you. I have 92 bluebooks to read this week, and all I ask, fully, is that you keep me awake. Talk to me. Is that so much...
...Dickinson? Sifuentes' work focuses on the behavior of lines in Dickinson's poetry. "Her lines are autonomous entities. Read the lines in any order that you want and it still creates a Dickinson poem," said Sifuentes. He said that when Gross asked him to do a project for National Poetry Month, he decided to print up lines from various poems and put them on the chairs, allowing them to be reconfigured every...
...SparkNotes: We don't really have to tell you about this classic website, which saved many of us from having to read Charles Dickens back in high school. But if you realized that watching the movie for "Pride and Prejudice" doesn't actually save you that much time, SparkNotes may be worth a look...