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Essay Quot Earth Quot
2,276 wordsMany authors throughout history have expressed their, or society? s, yearning towards a simpler life: a life without responsibilities or obligations, a life without worry or regret. Sigurd Olson expresses such a yearning in his essay " Contemplation" , where through reading Lao Tzu, he had discovered that in order to understand and relate to wilderness, we only need a contemplative mind, which is simple and easy. He suggested that life in wilderness is a continual contemplation and com...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry David Thoreau
2,161 wordsHe spent his life in voluntary poverty, enthralled by the study of nature. Two years, in the prime of his life, were spent living in a shack in the woods near a pond. Who would choose a life like this? Henry David Thoreau did, and he enjoyed it. Who was Henry David Thoreau, what did he do, and what did others think of his work? Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts on July 12, 1817 (" Thoreau" 96), on his grandmothers farm. Thoreau, who was of French-Huguenot and Scott...
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Social And Economic Laissez Faire
1,627 wordsHERBERT SPENCER. The Herbert Spencer LIBERALISM: HERBERT SPENCER. The most extreme reflection of nineteenth-century individualism is to be found in the encyclopedic system of Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903). Both his paternal and maternal ancestors were of a long English and French nonconformists, dissenters and rebels, and Spencer traces in his " Autobiography" his " conspicuous disregard" of political, religious, and social authority to the tradition of independence and disse...
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3,334 wordsOn of the major playwrights during this period was Jean-Paul Sartre. Sartre had been imprisoned in Germany in 1940 but managed to escape, and become one of the leaders of the Existential movement. Other popular playwrights were Albert Camus, and Jean Anouilh. Just like Anouilh, Camus accidentally became the spokesman for the French Underground when he wrote his famous essay, " Le Myth de Sisyphus" or " The Myth of Sisyphus" . Sisyphus was the man condemned by the gods to roll...
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2,200 wordsA Poets Valediction by Nicholas OConnell In a final interview, poet Denise Levertov discusses the egotism of modern poetry, the sacredness of writing, and the spiritual hunger of our technologically dependent society. Denise Levertov, who died on December 20, 1997, was much loved by her readers and an inspiration to several generations of poets. She forged a middle path in modern poetry, marrying the hard, dry objective style of the Imagist poets with the music and metaphysical yearnings of figu...
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3,280 wordsMark Strand On Poetry And Poeticsfrom Essays Mark Strand On Poetry And Poeticsfrom Essays And Interviews On Donald Justice From the very beginning Justice has fashioned his poems, honed them down, freed them of rhetorical excess and the weight, however gracefully sustained, of an elaborate diction. His self-indulgence, then, has been with the possibilities of the plain statement. His refusal to adopt any other mode but that which his subject demands minimal, narcissist, negating has nourished hi...
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3,957 wordsMary J. Carruthers This essay chiefly considers four volumes of poetry, three published in 1978 and one the previous year. They are Adrienne Rich's The Dream of a Common Language, Audre Lorde's The Black Unicorn (which includes poems published earlier in a chapbook called Between Our Selves), Judy Grahn's The Work of a Common Woman (a collection of poems previously published by the Feminist Press Collective of Oakland, California), and Olga Broumas Beginning With O. Among them, these volumes art...
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7,474 wordsWilliam H. Pritchard On December 16, 1916, he received a warm letter from Meiklejohn, looking forward to his presence at Amherst and saying that that morning in chapel he had read aloud " The Road Not Taken, " " and then told the boys about your coming. They applauded vigorously and were evidently much delighted by the prospect. " Alexander Meiklejohn was an exceptionally high-minded educator whose principles and whose moral tone toward things may be illustrated most briefly ...
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Essay Quot Admissions Officers
1,172 wordsEven seemingly boring topics can be made into exceptional admissions essays with an innovative approach. In writing the essay you must bear in mind your two goals: to persuade the admissions officer that you are extremely worthy of admission and to make the admissions officer aware that you are more than a GPA and a standardized score, that you are a real-life, intriguing personality. Unfortunately, there is no surefire step-by-step method to writing a good essay. Essay Edge editors at Essay Edg...
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