Word: subjection
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...consider expanding a paper you wrote for a seminar or other course. It makes perfect sense to go back to your favorite paper from your college career; you know a lot about the subject, you know you find it interesting and you'll have a chunk of material to get you off the ground. That said, don't expect to use much of it in the end; by your 200th rewrite, not much of what you wrote in three nights last reading period will be left intact. To have a paper that you might reasonably expand into a thesis, however...
Slatin not only served as the subject of the portrait, but also provided necessary technical assistance, according to Cardozo...
...then, of course, these deranged parents are going to subject their child to even more torture by probably naming their kid Millie, Miles, or Mills. My heart goes out to the poor souls, once again. But the worst is going to be celebrating "Millie's" birthday. Instead of looking forward to a Big Bird cake and Bozo the Clown, each birthday will be a painful reminder that the child was conceived not in an act of love or in the heat of the moment, but as part of a world-wide gimmick and the parents' pathetic efforts to make their...
True feminist points, though, might go to Otherwise Engaged, which, while no paragon of craftsmanship, takes on the subject of female commitment fear, not a topic feverishly discussed in McCall's. The novel deconstructs a year in the life of Eve, a successful ad executive, as she prepares to marry at 36. She has dated her beau for four years. All along she has thought happiness would come in a ring box, but once Eve gets her gem, all she can do is panic over the foreverness of it all--aren't all married people miserable? It is comforting...
...pages; $34.95), she realized that the picture she was getting from plowing through a mass of Morgan documents, many of which no previous biographer had seen, was far more complex. Starting over, she has produced a more balanced and crisply written--though at times unnecessarily detailed--portrait than her subject could ever have drawn. History, Strouse observes, is written by "the articulate," and Morgan was anything but. The best explanation he could come up with for some of his deals was, "I thought it was the thing...