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Written by the Students of Baruch College

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I’m Dead

by Great Works

—Anonymous I really wish that somebody warned me the texts I would read in college would progressively f— me up more and more. The Dead by James Joyce was a short story that I don’t think I was fully prepared to read. I’ve spent about 90% of this quarantine reflecting on my failed relationship (sorry […]

Usually, when we read something for English class…

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—Anonymous Usually, when we read something for English class, the text would always be in the most difficult English language. It would be hard for young adults to understand and really take it the meaning of these works. Looking at the readings that we did over the semester so far, they have all been very […]

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 […]

Reading Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich is complementary to the current state of the world…

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— Jeremy Ramirez Reading Tolstoy’s “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” is complementary to the current state of the world. A vast majority of people’s lives were interrupted due to the pandemic. We’ve been for many years in a deep nap of our reality and once in a while we are awakened in a state of […]

For it to be considered a “Great Work,” …

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— Anonymous For it to be considered a “Great Work,” in my opinion, the literary piece must have a message that had its fair share of aging through time but is still considered valid today. In that case, Alexander Pope’s “Essay on Man” delivers exactly that. From start to finish, Pope’s philosophical take on the […]

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