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...The Mosaic is a collection of writing from international students at Brigham Young University-Hawaii. Read poetry, short stories and personal experiences by students from more than 10 different countries as they use English as a common language to share w...

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...ennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, ... ... use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2000 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity uni... ...h attracts in the pages of a good writer, or the talk of a brilliant conversationalist, is the apt choice and contrast of the words employed. It is, i... ...less emphatically than the laws of verse; and the Cheville, I should perhaps explain to some of my readers, is any meaningless or very watered phrase ... ... reach their solution on the same ringing syllable. The best that can be offered by the best writer of prose is to show us the development of the idea... ...o be one thing it now appears is two; and, like some puzzle in arithmetic, the verse is made at the same time to read in fives and to read in fours. *... ...o his pattern of words. It may be thought perhaps that this is a quality of ease rather than a fresh difficulty; but such is the inherently rhythmical... ...er would be astounded at the labours of his brother across the Channel, and how a good quarter of his toil, above all 14 Robert Louis Stevenson invit... ...ifth of the versifier. At times it is very delicate and hard to perceive, and then perhaps most excellent and winning (I say perhaps); but at times ag...

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...Excerpt: Welcome to the seventh volume of Best of ?. For the past half dozen years we were Best of Four, publishing the best writing in English 004 classes, primarily on the Hazleton campus. Two years ago we began accepting submissions from some of the other Commonwealth College campuses, and this year we made the big plunge into accepting submissi...

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...Best of Freshman Writing 1 Best of Freshman Writing Formerly Best of Four Volume 7 Student Voices A Commonwealth Colle... ...Associate Editors Liz Wright Suzanne Harper David Russell Best of Freshman Writing is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. The Pennsylv... ...ia State University is an equal opportunity university. Best of Freshman Writing 2 Best of Freshman Writing: Student Voices is a publication of the ... ...th the writers express written permission. No portion of Best of Freshman Writing may be repro- duced in any fashion without the express written perm... ...on without the express written permission of the authors. Best of Freshman Writing wishes to offer special thanks to Dr. Sandra E. Gleason, Associate ... ... DAA of the Hazleton campus, for housing the publication. Best of Freshman Writing: Student Voices, the Pennsylvania State University, Jim Manis, Seni... ...2001 Changed News Television”........................ 37 Best of Freshman Writing 3 Editorial Staff Editor in Chief: Jim Manis – HN Editor Lucy Morri... ...ton, PA 18202-1291 phone 570.450.3189 email jdm12@psu.edu Best of Freshman Writing Formerly Best of Four Welcome to the seventh volume of Best of …. F... ...…. For the past half dozen years we were Best of Four, publishing the best writing in English 004 classes, primarily on the Hazleton campus. Two years...

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...Excerpt: Welcome to the ninth volume of Best of ?. For the past several years we have been publishing student writing with the intention of both celebrating the work that our students do and of sharing it with others for a variety of instructional purposes. Beginning with volume seven, we started accepting student essays from all twe...

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...iment they cling to as the world steps in to teach them otherwise. The novel is brilliant, hilarious, blasphemous. . . and Voltaire never admitted to writing it....

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...The writing of vast books - setting out in five hundred pages an idea which could be perfectly expressed orally in a few minutes - is an exhausting and impoverishing piece of extravagance. Far better to pretend that such books al...

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... which was sold with its very own Raggedy Ann doll. Sadly, Marcella died at age 13 after complications from a smallpox vaccine, but Gruelle continued writing about Raggedy Ann. (description by Zachary Brewster-Geisz)...

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...iates. Like many of James's novels, it is set mostly in Europe, notably England and Italy.Generally regarded as the masterpiece of his early phase of writing, this novel reflects James's absorbing interest in the differences between the New World and the Old. It also treats in a profound way the themes of personal freedom, responsibility, betrayal, and sexuality. (Summary ...

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...ates. Like many of James's novels, it is set mostly in Europe, notably England and Italy. Generally regarded as the masterpiece of his early phase of writing, this novel reflects James's absorbing interest in the differences between the New World and the Old. It also treats in a profound way the themes of personal freedom, responsibility, betrayal, and sexuality. (Summary ...

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...il, and many other elements expected in classic Dickens. - First published in 1867 there are thematic parallels with other books from Dickens' mature writings, including Little Dorrit (1857) and especially Our Mutual Friend (1865). The Listener will decide if this story yields insights into The Mystery of Edwin Drood (unfinished 1870). - Wilkie Collings collaborated with C...

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...esty, the Queen Mother, on the Death of Mary, Princess of Orange A Rodomontade on His Cruel Mistress Pindaric To His Mistress (After Quarles) One Writing against His Prick About the Editor Also from William Ralph Press...

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...(In fact, it has been some time since I’ve heard the old familiar slight that his popularity in France during the 19th century was perhaps due to his writing gaining something of substance from Charles Baudelaire’s translations.) While perhaps not quite as dramatically prescient in new utterance, form or philosophical depth as Walt Whitman or Emily Dickinson, he certainly ...

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...SEVENTY Mannahatta Paumanok From Montauk Point To Those Who've Fail'd A Carol Closing Sixty-Nine The Bravest Soldiers A Font of Type As I Sit Writing Here My Canary Bird Queries to My Seventieth Year The Wallabout Martyrs The First Dandelion America Memories To-Day and Thee After the Dazzle of Day Abraham Lincoln, Born Feb. 12, 1809 Out of May's Shows Sel...

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...Excerpt: In the latter half of 1914 a few of us were writing that this war was a ?War of Ideas.? A phrase, ?The War to end War,? got into circulation, amidst much sceptical comment. It was a phrase powerful enough to sway many men, essentially pacifists, towards taking an activ...

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...EF PREFA A A A ACE CE CE CE CE IN THE LATTER HALF OF 1914 a few of us were writing that this war was a “War of Ideas.” A phrase, “The War to end War,”... ...was a phrase whose chief con- tent was its aspiration. People were already writing in those early days of disarmament and of the abolition of the arma... ...ialism, and they denounced the “Krupp-Kaiser” al- liance. But against such writing and such thought we had to count, in those days, great and powerful... ...in this connection. It would be a dismaying thing to realize that one were writing 5 H.G. Wells anything here which was not the possible thought of g... ...ells tially religious end of peace on earth. And also there must be German writings upon this same topic. I mention these di- verse sources not in ord... ...he world can be written easily without undue cramping in an ordinary hand- writing upon a postcard. It is the second question that needs answering. An... ...e my eyes upon it. I am not alone in these senti- ments. I believe that in writing thus I am writing the opin- ion of the great mass of reasonable Bri... ...h the politicians have dismembered our Lon- don they are in. Only as I was writing this in my flat in St. James’s Court, Westminster, did it occur to ...

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...im women cannot drive cars. The Koran, like any other scriptures or legal writings, can be interpreted differently. In the case of the Koran it can ... ... cars, yell „kill the cops‟, shoot people 12 times with their six-shooter. Writing good jokes or exciting stories with high ethical standards is diff...

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...e about a scroll that was lost many years ago. He said that it had secret writing on it. Could this be the one?” Sammy pulled the lace and the scroll...

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...sex Tales is a collection of six short stories written by Hardy in the 1880’s. If you’ve never read Hardy they’ll serve as a good introduction to his writing. Though not as comprehensive as his major works they do contain all the ingredients that make him instantly recognisable. (Introduction by T. Hynes.)...

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...Excerpt: ?Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill Appear in Writing or in Judging ill, But, of the two, less dang?rous is th? Offence, To tire our Patience, than mis-lead our Sense: Some few in that, but Numbers err in this, Ten Censure wrong for one who Writes amiss; A Fool might onc...

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...cism By Alexander Pope ’Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill Appear in Writing or in Judging ill, But, of the two, less dang’rous is th’ Offenc... ... a Line, Where Denham’s Strength, and Waller’s Sweetness join. True Ease in Writing comes from Art, not Chance, As those move easiest who have learn’... ...ome judge of Authors’ Names, not Works, and then Nor praise nor blame the Writings, but the Men. Of all this Servile Herd the worst is He That i... ... was the Muse, whose Rules and Practice tell, Nature’s chief Master piece is writing well. Such was Roscomon—not more learn’d than good, With Manne...

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...an autobiographical side to it, perhaps itself criticizing those critics who couldn't see, or wouldn't see, the figures lost in the carpet of his own writing. (Summary by Nicholas Clifford)...