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The American Scholar

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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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Academe
New pathways and the new American scholar
07/01/2003: 777 words, approx. 3 pages
In my last column, I began a three-part analysis of the New Pathways Project undertaken by the American Association for Higher Education (AAHE) in 1995. Since papers from the project have been widely distributed, and form the basis for views about the faculty that...
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Canadian Journal of Education
White Scholars/African American Texts
01/01/2007: 1,051 words, approx. 4 pages
Lisa A. Long, (Ed.). (2005). White Scholars/African American Texts. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. 247 pages. ISBN: 0-8135-3599-9 (paperback). This book reminds me of the time I invited a non-Hispanic professor to speak to my race and ethnic relations class on Hispanic...
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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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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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