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 | | An American Tragedy | | by Lutra, Feb 18, 2008 | | My thoughts on the book An American Tragedy. Why people who seek great influence will eventually end in failure. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 40 |
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 | | A Separate Peace | | by Lutra, Feb 18, 2008 | | My thoughts on the book A Separate Peace: Why war makes young people lose their innocence. | | Comments(1) Liked It: 31 |
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 | | Three Cups of Tea | | by Xeniba, Feb 8, 2008 | | One man's efforts to address poverty, educate girls, and overcome cultural divisions. | | Comments(1) Liked It: 6 |
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 | | The Princess Bride | | by Xeniba, Feb 8, 2008 | | When I fist started reading the book the princess bride by William Goldman, I thought “What a boring book!” How wrong I was. | | Comments(1) Liked It: 3 |
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 | | Are They Really Dead? | | by Zashuna, Feb 5, 2008 | | A compare and contrast comparing the dead in both A Raisin in the Sun and Death of a Salesman. | | Comments(3) Liked It: 1 |
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 | | Every Man, Every Woman, Every Child: A Review of Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis | | by Nearly Anonymous, Jan 31, 2008 | | Due to its distinctive nature and unconventional format, Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis is inherently problematic as a factual account of the 1979 Iranian Revolution. It is, however, invaluable as an account illuminating the prevailing attitudes and emotions of the period. It is, in fact, itself the raw material of which history is made. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 2 |
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 | | Cartesian Anti-authoritarianism | | by Nearly Anonymous, Jan 31, 2008 | | The defining feature of Descartes’ philosophy is its anti-authoritarian individualism. This is its great strength, but also its weakness. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 1 |
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 | | The Russell-Strawson Debate: A Useful Dichotomy | | by Nearly Anonymous, Jan 31, 2008 | | The theories of Bertrand Russell and Peter Strawson on denoting and referring are often described in terms of the contrast between them. Certainly they have been explained in terms of their immense importance to the philosophy of language. Despite their striking dissimilarities, these two theories may be united into one model, the utility of which outweighs that of both the Russellian and Strawsonian interpretations. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 2 |
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