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Written by the Students of Baruch College

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I feel like this story, The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Tolstoy, is very relatable especially due to our current circumstances…

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— Abdulla Al Sudman I feel like this story, The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Tolstoy, is very relatable especially due to our current circumstances. It speaks on how human beings naturally follow a specific path and for the longest time they believe that that’s the only path that should be taken. And this routine […]

“Bewitched,” by Ueda Akinari, is an interesting piece of literature…

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— Abdulla Al Sudman “Bewitched,” by Ueda Akinari, is an interesting piece of literature for me because it really touches upon something much deeper than a man’s attraction to beauty, instead on how beauty, and as an extension women, are perceived by people. This is a “Great Work” because it illustrates how people thought and […]

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 […]

Medea, the name of a woman whose sacrifices does not have any limit…

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— Anonymous Medea, the name of a women whose sacrifices does not have any limit. For me these poem is really sad and hurtful because here I could see a women who took all the danger for the only person she loves in her whole life but in the end of the day left her […]

Anton Chekov’s “The Lady with the Dog” teaches the readers never give up on finding your true love…

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— Anonymous Anton Chekov’s “The Lady with the Dog” teaches the readers never give up on finding your true love, as the arranged marriage could be suffering for both the parent and the children. However, many people won’t follow this notion in real life due to many reasons. In my experience so far, I have […]

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