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Written by the Students of Baruch College

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I did not thoroughly understand, and therefore could not thoroughly enjoy

by Great Works

— Alexandra Shyklo One text that we’ve read “in class” that I feel as though I did not thoroughly understand, and therefore could not thoroughly enjoy, is “Endgame” by Samuel Beckett. I put “in class” in quotation marks because my class analyzed this text as a portion of our distance-learning curriculum, during the pandemic. It […]

One of the hardest works we read …

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— Anonymous One of the hardest works we read in class has to be Incidents in the life of a slave girl written by Harriet Jacobs. In the autobiography Jacobs associates herself as Linda Brent, a slave girl whose only dream is to make it to the north and experience freedom. Jacobs’s work is great […]

This book was really hard to read …

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— Anonymous This book was really hard to read, and was not quite as ambitious, is nearly as good, with its depiction of 19th century Australia, up in the undeveloped ‘sticks’ above Brisbane, when that town was little more than a glorified ‘village.’  The author’s nuanced insight into the point of view of each character […]

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 […]

This story begins with a strange person walking out of the Australian wilderness…

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—Ronaldo Neziraj This story begins with a strange person walking out of the Australian wilderness, or bush, into an English settlement in the early 1860’s. The visitor is suspicious in settlers’ eyes. Because he was raised by Aboriginals, he is viewed as untrustworthy. The settler’s idea of bringing civilization is totally wrong, it is what […]

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