I found many broad similarities among ideas in each essay, such as the concepts of academic writing, and the demand for scrutiny of university funding and instruction, especially the idea of promoting active/free thinking, and found even more specific differences between the essays' ideas. ... Then, after rereading and analyzing the essays, I found many similarities that connect the main ideas of each essay in one way or another. ... A key concept that is present in all six essay is the concept of promoting active, free thinking. ... "Are Colleges Worth the Price" promotes acti...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Essays are pointless, in the highest sense of the word. ... Nothing new is learned or introduced through an essay, nothing is gained by writing 3-5 pages of what mostly consists of utter bullshit, and nothing is accomplished by wasting hours of our childhood laboring away, both at the keyboard and on paper, to produce what people have come to term: an "Essay." ... The first amendment clearly states: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech- The freedom of speech includes the freedom of opin...

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As Ellen DeGeneres puts it in her essay "This is How We Live," "Phones have gone through such an evolution. ... In "Pearls before Breakfast: Joshua Bell on the Subway", Gene Weingarten notes that although one of the best musicians in the world was playing violin for free from the Metro at the L'Enfant Plaza station, most people didn't notice him because they were preoccupied and had other things on their minds: "Some who were on cellphones spoke louder as they passed [him], to compete with that infernal racket" (486). ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate