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The American Scholar Information
499 words, approx. 2 pages
The American Scholar was a speech given by Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1837 to the Phi Beta Kappa Society in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was invited to speak as a result of his ground breaking work Nature, published a year earlier in which he established a...


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Venus Zine
What does Samuel Taylor Coleridge have to do with liquid nitrogen ice cream?
6/25/2007: 592 words, approx. 2 pages
I read pretty much all of At Large and At Small in one sitting, slightly hung over, lying around in bed on a Saturday morning. When I’m reading a collection of essays by a pronounced journalist (Fadiman being the former editor of The American Scholar),...
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The New York Observer
Our Critic\'d5s Tip Sheet On Current Reading: Week of October 15th, 2007
10/9/2007: 395 words, approx. 1 pages
Manhattan declared war on Brooklyn on Sept. 16, and the first casualties are Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss. Writing in The American Scholar (www.theamericanscholar.org), Melvin Jules Bukiet gives the recipe for “Brooklyn Books of Wonder”: “Take mawkish self-indulgence, add a heavy dollop of creamy...
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The New York Observer
The New Yorker at War
1/23/2005: 4,882 words, approx. 16 pages
General Forrest Harding's house in Franklin, Ohio, is preserved as it was before his death in 1970, and it is a museum of disappointment. Musty evening wear fills the closet, a shrunken military tunic hangs from a stand. Hidden away in the drawers can be...
 


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Essay Grade: 97%
American Scholar
1,595 words, approx. 5 pages
The following is a creative essay based on the views of Ralph Waldo Emerson's lecture "The American Scholar."


 

The American Scholar

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