Category: LIL120

“Students overwhelmingly have come to view general education as irritating interruption– an annoying detour on their way to their degree. They all too often do not see how such requirements will help them get a job or live a life” (Boyer 217). Understanding annotation “The […]

“The subject of some microhistories are important, famous people, and, at least according to Backscheider, the subjects of some biographies are humble folk. Second, it is unhelpful: it simply begs the question of classification” (Lepore 132). I don’t like to this that everyone there has […]

Q: “Woolf begins by observing tartly that a truthful dialogue between them may not be possible. For though they belong to the same class, “the educated class,” a vast gulf separates them: the lawyer is a man and she is a woman” (Sontag 1). C: […]

Q: “Calling such wishes “morbid” suggests a rare aberration, but the attraction to such sights is not rare, and is a perennial source of inner torment” (Sontag 96). C: This is a really conflicting statement for me personally, not something I particularly agree with Sontag […]

“It seems the appetite for pictures showing bodies in pain is as keen, almost, as the desire for ones that show bodies naked” (Sontag 41). Q:”Perhaps the only people with the right to look at images of suffering of this extreme order are those who […]

Q: “But literature has been, and will continue to be, as long as it exists, one of the common denominators of human experience through which human beings may recognize themselves and converse with each other, no matter how different their professions, their life plans, their […]

1.Q: “Formulaic style diminishes the creativity of both the author and the receiver of art because it introduces the apparent accessibility of trademarked homogeneity into the art” (132).C: Forcing artists to pertain to a certain style limits the artist themselves. You cannot expect someone who […]

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