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I had low expectations for “Breathless” as well (I thought it was going to be as short as “La Jetee” was), but I must admit I found the film to be quite entertaining as you did. I think director...
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In their respective treatments of place, both Lorde and Philip focus their essays on certain aspects of their childhood homes that in turn triggered their nostalgic impulses. Just as the island of...
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Patricia Hampl, “Memory and Imagination” As Hampl begins her essay with a “little story about [her] first piano lesson” with Sister Olive Marie (93), she gives off the impression that the rest of her...
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Joan Nestle, “A Restricted Country” “A Restricted Country” is structured into four sections that each “explore and dramatize a number of themes [in Nestle’s teenage life, including] socioeconomic...
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Richard Price, “Bicycle Safety on Essex” The driving factor behind Price’s “Bicycle” anecdote is how he provides a haunting sense of realism with a light touch humor while describing a misconception...
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Sonia Nazario, “Enrique’s Journey” While I was reading “Enrique’s Journey,” I was at first under the impression that it would mainly focus on Enrique’s literal journey from Mexico to San Francisco in...
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Vivian Gornick, “The Situation and the Story” According to Gornick in “The Situation and the Story,” the “situation” is the background of the story that has caused an impact upon the writer, and the...
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David Sedaris, “A Plague of Tics” Throughout the majority of “A Plague of Tics,” Sedaris’s narrative persona engages the reader to experience his continuous struggle with Tourette’s syndrome or...
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Kirk Read, “How I Learned to Snap” The most appealing aspect that drew me in to Read’s “How I Learned to Snap” is how he appears to be paying tribute to Jesse Fowler and his fierce courageousness while...
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Here is some of the advice that resonated most with me: “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” – Ernest Hemingway Through “bleeding,” Hemingway is encouraging...
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Paul Auster, “The Invention of Solitude” Throughout this section of Auster’s memoir, we slowly see how his grandmother (Anna) played a very heavy impact on his father (Sam) as she became more mentally...
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In Douglas S. Massey’s “Globalization and Inequality: Explaining American Exceptionalism,” he discusses how the United States is so “exceptional” due to the “rising inequality over the past 30 years...
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Assignment 3: Period Pieces, A Collaborative Timeline A discussion on the shifting of the tax burden by Kateryna Ponomarenko, Shavell Reid, Kimani Wilson-Hunte, and Sean Zvi.
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I highly agree with the fact that “overcrowding has gone up” over the past few years, and I feel this issue continues to be seriously overlooked today. I could even apply this statement to when my...
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It is quite heartbreaking to see just what type of effects gentrification has upon the culture of Harlem, as seen in how it causes the city’s “traditional dishes [to] become increasingly hard to find”...
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