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Written by the Students of Baruch College

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Who Really Are The Good Country People?

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— Anonymous On my first read-through of “Good Country People” by Flannery O’Connor, I did not realize its true depth and status as a “Great Work”. Going through the text my first time, I really did not see a lot of themes or connections that really made the text great. I also did not see […]

Kant: Leading to Spiritual Growth

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—Anonymous After my first-time reading Kant’s view on what Enlightenment is on a Sunday, I couldn’t help but think about its inherent view on religion. Being Christian myself, there are a lot of ways to perceive Kant’s writing. A lot of what Kant states in his view on enlightenment is opposite to what Christians typically […]

The play shows the opposite characters of irresponsible vs responsible

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— Anonymous Part 1 The play “Love Suicide at Amijima” by Chikamatsu Monzaemon, is a tragic love story of a young prostitute(Koharu) and a business, family man (Jihei). They both fall in love with each other but that is impossible to be together. Because the first reason is that jihei was a married person and […]

It is fascinating to read about Paul Monette’s grief and the epidemic situation caused by “AIDS”

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— Anonymous It is fascinating to read about Paul Monette’s grief and the epidemic situation caused by “AIDS” during eighties and nineties. I was not familiar of AIDS until I went to high school. There were many proses, poems, or verses about AIDS. As far I remember from my high school texts, there was a […]

The complexity of being human

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— Anonymous I read the text “What is Enlightenment” by Immanuel Kant in the school library at the beginning of the semester. In my opinion, what makes a great literature is that it should have a theme and it should explain the relevance of the theme. The excerpt from Immanuel Kant has an essential theme […]

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