Word: essayed
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Ricky's fetish lies in the tradition and history of the English culture. While you and I were pounding hamburgers at the House of Beef, Ricky was writing his college entrance essay in support of keeping the House of Lords. Ricky's fanaticism started in the fourth grade when an English transfer student offered him a copy of Pride and Prejudice in the playground. Since then it has been a downward spiral into the bowels of English culture. Yet the freshman declined to study in England in lieu of the lesser Cambridge School, Harvard...
...thesis--and catchy name for it--is almost irresistible as a way of describing the effect marketing is having on culture. It would have made a great essay. As a book it includes a lot of interesting but extraneous material: the dance the interns do at MTV, for instance, or what Bill Clinton said to David Geffen. Seabrook has stitched together a bunch of his articles from the New Yorker to make this garment, and sometimes the seams show...
...this essay my main idea is that though turner's examination and explication of this state of marginality has significant sociological merit, it is lacking in the psychological analysis necessary to truly understand the human disposition with respect to liminality in cult membership. The psychological torment that the neophyte endures is the direct result of his systematic demoralization, which makes the idea of social death even more genuine. The biggest problems that I am having in the writing process are my inability to do an outline, my inability to stay within the page limitations given, and my ability...
...Gregorian points out that President Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote, "to those whom much is given, much is expected," in his senior essay at Harvard...
...course, I believe, as many do, that all these changes will become moot owing to the coming invasion of Superior Beings from the 12th Quadrant of the Fifth Dimension, known to us earthers as the Great Nebula in Orion (see my essay "Who Will Destroy Our Civilization and Lay Waste to Life on Earth as We Know It in the Next Century?" in the next Visions issue). If the indicators are correct, the mother ship of these Ecstatic Beings will emit a cloud of radioactive gas that blankets the planet, wiping out all life for a period...