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Jan 26, 2008 at 10:40 AM |
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We are pleased to announce the launch of our new study guide store that contains material on subjects from English to Economics. Whether you are looking for a chapter by chapter summary or analysis of themes, our study guides will prove useful to help you critically guage difficult texts. Please check our store here. |
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Oct 22, 2007 at 06:45 PM |
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I recently read Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed, and I must say that after finishing the book I was quite disappointed. In this ‘investigative report’, Ehrenreich gives up all of the materialistic commodities and accommodations she is used to and takes up several positions as a low-wage worker. Purporting to be a newly divorced woman looking to come back to the working world, she finds wages to be dismally low, and she also finds those who occupy this echelon of the working class hierarchy in suffering and want. In Nickel and Dimed, Ehrenreich shares the personal struggles that these women and men go through and expresses her moral outrage regarding their conditions. |
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Sep 30, 2007 at 04:34 PM |
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School is just starting. You have new clothes, good friends, and you’ve had the entire summer to relax and enjoy life. You’re refreshed, you’re eager to learn, and perhaps some of you are even more eager to move on to your professional careers.
Then it happens. Five essays due in one week. Tests, quizzes, homework, and unbearable stress. We’ve all had to deal with it, and often we’ve wondered why in the world we have to write and write and write when we are probably never going to remember the significance of that Walt Whitman poem. But writing presents so many incalculable rewards. Often, we do not even realize it. |
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Sep 22, 2007 at 09:33 AM |
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Although global warming is featured prominently within the news, an article featured on CNN about sea ice loss on September 7, 2007 extracted some emotional reflections on the issue. |
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Sep 20, 2007 at 05:56 PM |
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On September 12, 2007 a New York Times peice discussed parent notification policies and campus drinking. The following article considers the difficult issues raised by campus drinking and policy measurements. |
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