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Written by the Students of Baruch College

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Life wisdoms and society problems

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— Anonymous Tolstoy’s “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” impressed me significantly since he narrates the thoughts, feelings and experience of death so vividly, and more importantly, he reveals life wisdoms and society problems beneath Ivan’s death. It reminds me of Cao Xueqin’s words about what is a great work “a grasp of mundane affairs is […]

With just words you feel all these emotions

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— Anonymous One of my favorite readings so far is “This Way For The Gas, Ladies And Gentlemen”, by Tadeusz Borowski. It is an easy to read text that is about events that happened, not this specific story but the history around it. It gives us, with plenty of details, about how those people lived […]

What is important and how we value things

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— Anonymous Reading “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” by Tolstoy opened my mind in so many thoughts and feelings. Spending most of our time in our homes due to the COVID-19 pandemic, I think some of us have lots of free time and either we want it or not, we spend some of it thinking […]

You can read the text in many different ways

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— Anonymous Our first reading this semester was “Du Tenth Sinks the Jewel Box in Anger”. It is very easy to read the text. At the beginning there is a short historical introduction which explains what was going on at that time of period which I find a very interesting way to start the text. […]

A work of literature that delivers a message to its readers

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— Sumi Paul In my opinion, I believe the poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot is a great work of literature because it is a work of literature that delivers a message to its readers. Reading this poem was confusing at first, however after reading it a second time, I […]

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