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Written by the Students of Baruch College

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Love is Love …

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— Anonymous Love is Love After reading many different types of literature, I found most connected to “A Carcass” by Charles Baudelaire. Even though the poem talked about a rotted dead body throughout the whole text, but somehow, I found out the poem itself might be talking about love. At the beginning of the poem, […]

When reading there isn’t much that …

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— Anonymous When reading there isn’t much that will make me question the motives of a character when they decided to do something that I consider questionable. But when it comes to the short story “Adults Alone” by A. M. Homes the first time I read it I couldn’t help but question the reason why […]

After reading one of the best short stories …

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— Anonymous After reading one of the best short stories written by James Joyce, “The Dead”, I felt a personal connection with the text in many ways. I read this in my own room a week after the coronavirus outbreak had forced in-class sessions transition to online seminars. The first thing that I admired was […]

Throughout the semester, the story …

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— Elizabeth Nguyen Throughout the semester, the story, “The Toughest Indian in the World” written by Sherman Alexie made me feel uncomfortable intellectually and emotionally because of the sex scene of the narrator and a hitchhiker in the hotel room towards the end of the story. The narrator follows in his father’s footsteps to only […]

Throughout the course of the semester …

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— Elizabeth Nguyen Throughout the course of the semester while reading the play, Endgame by Samuel Beckett, was first to understand at first because I didn’t really understand what was going on in the play. After reading it a second time and responding to the questions asked by my other classmates, I started to realize […]

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