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Written by the Students of Baruch College

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I genuinely love how thought provoking the story is…

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— Anonymous I genuinely love how thought provoking the story is. It relates to two things that I often contemplate on, time and life. Ivan Ilyich were driven to become successful before he gets ill. He believes that living to the standard of upper class is to only proper way to live a life. Because […]

Honestly reading ‘The Death of Ivan Ilyich’ made me think more about my own mortality…

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— Patricia Alvarado Honestly reading ‘The Death of Ivan Ilyich’ made me thing more about my own mortality and what people will remember about me. Ivan led a regular life he was a a run of the mill guy. Having this pause in my life happen if i’ve thought more about what I want to […]

History often represents the greatest indicator of things to come…

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— Anonymous History often represents the greatest indicator of things to come. If we do not learn from the past mistakes people make, then we are destined to make it once again. Every so often humanity is faced with challenges that we see once every couple of generations. In our case in our current time […]

“Remembering Babylon” should be considered …

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— Kevin Pagan “Remembering Babylon” should be considered a “great work.” It was an interesting novel that highlighted a plethora of themes including racism, colonialism, gender, etc. This novel doesn’t really focus on one character, but instead taps into the minds of all the main ones. Character development played a crucial role in making this […]

Being Trapped with Clov

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—Anonymous Once I read the play “Endgame” by Samuel Beckett I decided that this play will be the text that I am going to write about for the Great Work Pilot paper. I can not stress this enough, but this play is the most mysterious text I have ever read since I started college in […]

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