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...take a look at the laundry list of possible changes in California alone, the loser is clear: personal freedom. For two centuries, humans have essentially had free reign to pollute the atmosphere as they wish without consequence. But these days are no longer. Nearly every crucial human activity today??agriculture, transportation, heating, construction—ultimately adds more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere than it removes, and our lifestyles will have to change drastically if we want our planet to survive. We’re about to lose more than just the freedom to choose light bulbs...
Forty years ago, when we were at Harvard and Yale, lofty ideals were affordable. Back in the ’70s, the average annual tuition and fees for a private college were around $7,000, inflation-adjusted to today??s dollars. Four-fifths of American households had annual incomes in excess of that. Beyond assistance with the direct cost of college, very few students counted on parents for help with housing or income. Student loans were small, seldom more than $2,000 total, and most of those who borrowed paid off their loans quickly...
...like Truman Capote gained access to a whirlwind life of cocktails, beautiful women, and beautiful men because of their writing. But such a life no longer exists for overweight Southern authors. We now have different standards for our celebrities, and an over-fondness for Krispy Kremes is a dealbreaker. Today??s author celebrities are famous either because of the immense amounts of money their books have made (Dan Brown) or because they are new, young, and attractive (Marisha Pessl). When books are competing with so many other media sources, good looks and a marketable image are as important...
...even though it was the most popular section. He was concerned that fiction courses failed to teach students how to write expository prose. Although the decision was met with outrage by many students and even some Expository Writing preceptors, the course was never reinstated.Option III was eventually replaced by today??s creative writing program. The program functions largely as an autonomous body: The creative writing faculty makes most of their administrative decisions independently, and some of the instructors aren’t even affiliated with the English department. “There is a drastic difference between...
...LOLOLOL” I exclaimed.“It’s called ‘Don’t Stop Believing,’” she said.And thus, an obsession was born. Generation X had the apathy of the grunge movement, but today??s youth is happy to indulge passionately and wholeheartedly—as long as they can do so with a grain of salt. We laugh about our poor choices, triumphantly exulting in our drunken mistakes and guilty pleasures. We like the political commentary of “South Park?...