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Written by the Students of Baruch College

life and death

How to deal with the relationship between ourselves and parents

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— Anonymous When I first read Samuel Beckett’s play “Endgame,” I don’t understand the meaning of the trash bin. After looking at the discussion board, I find more clear and specific understanding of the trash bin. One idea inspires me a lot is that the trash bin is a signal of generation conflict. In my […]

Upon further inspection, we can find a lasting value and meaning from these works

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— Anonymous Many times, “great” works challenge us in ways that might leave us unsettled. We may even start to wonder how such a work can be considered a “great” work. At first glance, the work can seem so far removed from other typical examples of “great” works, but upon further inspection, we can find […]

Is the Epic of Gilgamesh a Great Work? To be brutally honest…

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—Anonymous Is the Epic of Gilgamesh a Great Work? To be brutally honest I am not quite sure whether or not I would consider the Epic of Gilgamesh to be a great work. Sure, the piece itself contains many different messages that can be interpreted and derived from the epic but I don’t believe that […]

The definition of the phrase …

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— Kelly Leung The definition of the phrase “great work” to me goes hand-in-hand with the definition of what it means for a work to be a classic, which categorizes a work by the way it teaches life lessons that maintain relevancy and withstand the test of time. There is a list of canonical books […]

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