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Written by the Students of Baruch College

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The Value of Life

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— Anonymous Reading Leo Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich at a weird time like this, I would say, is like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich: no one thought they were going to be a good match until someone put them together, proclaimed about its delightful taste, and called it a day. But I […]

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 […]

If one day someone asks me…

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—Anonymous If one day someone asks me a question regarding New York City, I will defiantly point out to the poem “To New York” by Leopold Sedar Senghor. This great masterpiece is one of my favorite poems. I also considered it to be a “great work” because it introduces New York to the readers by […]

During this whole COVID-19 pandemic …

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— Eunice Ojedele During this whole COVID-19 pandemic, I have been able to learn a lot about the value of time and life itself. The reading of Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich further serves as a great reason or example on why we should make sure that we are living life to the fullest, […]

Throughout the course, in the story “Sonny Blues” …

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— Elizabeth Nguyen Throughout the course, in the story “Sonny Blues” by James Baldwin was a short story that expressed the dominant themes and images from Baldwin’s life. The story demonstrates Baldwin’s ability to transform his social and political concerns into modern art. The story talks mainly about deterioration, religion, drug addiction, and World War […]

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