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Written by the Students of Baruch College

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Family affection—Revenge or Gratitude

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—Wenyi Luo The literary text that makes me feel most uncomfortable, whether intellectually or emotionally, is Samuel Beckett’s play — Endgame. From the scenario, I feel really uncomfortable to see the background of Endgame is set in a narrow and dark room. The characters have ugly and strange outlooks and wear dirty and ragged clothes, […]

Passion of life

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—Wenyi Luo The literary text that I did not understand when I first read it on my own is The Lady with the Dog written by Anton Chekhov. It is a story about extramarital affair. There are two people, Anna and Gurov, lovers who are married to different people, and are tortured by their individual […]

The story that I am going to be talking about is …

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— Phillip Rozental The story that I am going to be talking about is called “Adults Alone”. It is about two adults, a husband and wife, who send their two sons to Florida to spend some time with grandma, while the adults have their alone time at home. As I was reading the story, it […]

Li Po and I

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—Wenyi Luo Li Po’s Drinking Alone in the Moonlight is a great work. One of the qualities making for a great work is that the work is worth reading repeatedly hundreds of times in one’s life, and each time, it brings people different insights and thoughts. Furthermore, the sentences in it can accurately describe their […]

disrespect for the old

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—Anonymous First, the reason why I not understand the text is that I can not get what the author want to explain the main idea. What I get is that the story structure of the work. Here is what I get in reading before discussion. The relationship between Clov and Hamm is a mutualism, they […]

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