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Read Great Works

Written by the Students of Baruch College

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

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— 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 […]

After reading one of the best short stories …

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— Anonymous After reading one of the best short stories written by James Joyce, “The Dead”, I felt a personal connection with the text in many ways. I read this in my own room a week after the coronavirus outbreak had forced in-class sessions transition to online seminars. The first thing that I admired was […]

Throughout the course of the semester …

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— Elizabeth Nguyen Throughout the course of the semester while reading the play, Endgame by Samuel Beckett, was first to understand at first because I didn’t really understand what was going on in the play. After reading it a second time and responding to the questions asked by my other classmates, I started to realize […]

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