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The Chase |
Author: Annie Dillard Author Description: Dillard is a renowned author and English professor, best known for a Pulitzer Prize win. Brief Summary: Dillard recounts a memory in which as a child, a man who's car she threw snowballs at passionately and relentlessly chased her around a neighborhood before giving her a cliché lecture. Context: An autobiographical memoir taking place in Dillard's childhood (most likely during the 1950's) Representative Sentence: "The point was that he had chased us passionately without giving up, and so he had caught us." Paired Work(s): It's Not Talent, It's Hard Work |
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It's Not Talent; It's Hard Work |
Author: Annie Dillard Author Description: Dillard is a renowned author and English professor, best known for a Pulitzer Prize win. Brief Summary: Dillard explains to the graduates that there is no such thing as talent, but that everyone has equal potential. She emphasizes that everything is hard work, but you just do it because it has to be done. Context: A commencement address given by Dillard to a graduating class of 1979 Representative Sentence: "I would do it, grumbling, for love and because it has to be done." Paired Work(s): Are athletes really getting better, faster, stronger? / World's Fastest Clapper / This is Water |
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1874 Case of Mary McCormack |
Author: Howard Markel Author Description: A professor at the University of Michigan, writing an article for the New York Times. Brief Summary: Markel recounts the case of McCormack, the poster child for child abuse, and reminds readers of its relevance to the present. Context: This article follows the release of the 2009 movie "Precious," which contains themes of child abuse. Representative Sentence: Mary Ellen’s story reminds us of a simple equation: How much our society values its children can be measured by how well they are treated and protected.
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Eat, Pray, Love |
Author: Elizabeth Gilbert Author Description: Gilbert is an author most noted for the success of Eat, Pray, Love and its film adaption. Brief Summary: On a whim, Gilbert makes a day trip to Naples and gleefully takes in the chaos, excitement, and pizza of the city. Context: Eat, Pray, Love is a memoir of Gilbert's year spent traveling the world. Representative Sentence: "Still, when I look at myself in the mirror of the best pizzeria in Naples, I see a bright-eyed, clear-skinned, happy and healthy face. I haven't seen a face like that on me for a long time." Paired Work(s): None |
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This Is Water |
Author: David Foster Wallace Author Description: Wallace was an author and English professor well known for his "influential and innovative" writing prior to his death due to suicide. Brief Summary: Wallis explains to graduates that the whole point of their education was not to be knowledgeable, but to consciously choose how to perceive others and conduct themselves in every day life. Context: Commencement address at Kenyon College in 2005 Representative Sentence: "The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day." Paired Work(s): It's Not Talent; It's Hard Work |
