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...e to do for you, reader. With this drop of ink at the end of my pen, I will show you the roomy workshop of Mr. Jonathan Burge, carpenter and builder, in the village of Hayslope, as it appeared on the eighteenth of June, in the year of our Lord 1799....

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............... 6 Adam Shaffer ?And Unknown Leader? .................................................................... 7 Khyati Valand ?A Neighborhood in India?............................................................... 9 Katie Aughenbaugh ?My Grandfather? ................................................................. 11 Devon Bowlin ?Almost Famous?.....................

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...of Four Volume 7 Student Voices A Commonwealth College Publication Editor in Chief Jim Manis Editor Lucy Morrison Associate Editors Liz Wright Suzann... ...the student essays contained herein were produced by students regis- tered in English 004, within the Commonwealth College of the Pensylvania Univer- ... ...en permission. No portion of Best of Freshman Writing may be repro- duced in any fashion without the express written permission of the authors. Best ... ...xperi- ence. I loved it there. While living there, I learned much about my culture and reli- gion. This environment was right or me, and it’s a good p... ...pushed so far and teased for being “losers” they would give anything to be popular for once (Cohen 44). In a survey conducted on the subject, I dispen... ...d’s desire to be famous. Society puts so much pressure on chil- dren to be popular, to be “the best.” Just watching television, a child can see who th... ...pular, to be “the best.” Just watching television, a child can see who the popular characters are, and who the outcasts are. Children all aspire to be... ...ng are the stores, cafés, and offices. Behind it lie the nightclubs, bars, museums, and the- aters. Belfast is alive with energy from the crack of daw... ...t- napping, only to awake early and begin the cycle again. The stores, the museums, the theaters, the music on the street corners, and the preaching i...

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..........................................................................27 THE FLOWERING OF THE STRANGE ORCHID .....................................34 IN THE AVU OBSERVATORY .....................................................................42 ’PYORNIS ISLAND ....................................................................................48 THE REMARKABLE CASE OF DAVI...

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..................................................................................................................................................... 49 IN EXILE .................................................................................................................................................................... 53 THE CATTLE-DEALERS ................................

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...ION .................................................................................................................................... 61 THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR ................................................................................................... 70 THE BLACK CAT.....................................................................................

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ure that name of Romanesque which it has assumed. The building is used for museums and lectures, and was given to the city by one James Smithsonian, a... ...ston without a guard of police. Now, at this moment of my writing, he is a popular hero. The very men who, five years since, were accustomed to make s... ...the skeleton of a State militia only was required, such an arrangement was popular and not essentially injurious; but now that war had become a realit... ...n to believe that slavery will die out in Missouri. The institution is not popular with the people generally; and as white labor becomes abundant— and... ...haps in af- fection; but he cannot separate himself from England in mental culture. It may be suggested that an Englishman has the same advantages as ...

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...ge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ained within the docu ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. What Is Man and Other Essays by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them, a... ...en Mrs. W. asks how can a millionaire give a single dollar to colleges and museums while one human being is destitute of bread, she has answered her q... ...stop it, and it seemed to me that I must surely go crazy. O.M. And the new popular song? Y.M. Oh yes! “In the Swee eet By and By”; etc. Yes, the new p... ...avage race has produced architects who could approach the air in genius or culture. No civilized race has produced architects who could plan a house b... ...ded that it was “ordained from above.” I think this ver dict will not be popular “above.” If the deed was ordained from above, there is no rational... ... had been stocked, but not their understandings. It was a case of brickbat culture, pure and simple. There are several curious “compositions” in the l... ...s are very well, but books do not cover the whole domain of esthetic human culture. Pride of profes sion is one of the boniest bones in existence, if...

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...Excerpt: The telephone bell rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gymnastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. There is the usual trouble in connecting up, minute voices in Folkestone and Dover and London call to one another and are submerged by buzzings and t...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvan... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...nt of these waterplanes is an important step towards the huge and swarming popularisation of flying which is now certainly imminent. We ancient surviv... ... that that is the work for which he is fitted by his inferior capacity and culture, that these others are a special and select sort, very specially tr... ...our Unrest in the Press is to have learnt quite a lot about the methods of popular thought. And among other things I see now much better than I did wh... ... other things I see now much better than I did why patent medicines are so popular. It is clear that as a community we are far too impa- tient of deta... ...mity to consuming markets, it may present the con- centration of intensive culture. There may be an adjacent Wild supplying wood, and perhaps controll... ...nd was invaded by the idea of classification, by memories of specimens and museums; and he initiated that accumulation of desiccated anthropological a...

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...ture and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual. A question seldom stated, and hardly ever discussed, in general terms, but which profoundly influences the practical controversies of the age by its latent presence, and is likely soon to make itself recognized as the vital question of the future. It is so far from being new, t...

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.... Any Any Any Any Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or person using this document file, for any pur... ... way does so at his or person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or person using this document file, for any pur... ... way does so at his or person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or person using this document file, for any pur... ... of the politi cal rulers. The rulers were conceived (except in some of the popular governments of Greece) as in a nec essarily antagonistic positio... ...ave no need to limit their power over themselves, might seem axiomatic, when popular government was a thing only dreamed about, or read of as having e... ...ing few, and which, in any case, belonged, not to the per manent working of popular institutions, but to a sudden and convulsive outbreak against mon... ...of denying it to the rest of the world: thus giving to the elite more mental culture, though not more mental freedom, than it allows to the mass. By t... ...aining the kind of mental superiority which its purposes require; for though culture without freedom never made a large and liberal mind, it can make ... ...s to stop railway travelling on Sunday , in the resistance to the opening of Museums, and the like, has not the cruelty of the old persecutors, the st...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Proposed Roads to Freedom by Bertrand Russell, the Pennsylvania... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...egard to both Social- ism and Anarchism is the association of a widespread popular movement with ideals for a better world. The ideals have been elabo... ...creed, it is only in the modified form of Syndicalism that it has achieved popular- ity. Unlike Socialism and Anarchism, Syndicalism is prima- rily th... ...ext chapter. 29 Bertrand Russell CHAPTER II BAKUNIN AND ANARCHISM I N THE POPULAR MIND, an Anarchist is a person who throws bombs and commits other o... ...cattle in Great Britain. Even more astonishing are the achievements of the Culture Maraicheres round Paris. It is impossible to summarize these achiev... ...the free road. The same spirit per- vades thousands of other institutions. Museums, free librar- ies, and free public schools; parks and pleasure grou... ...ing such valuable objects of art as would naturally be preserved in public museums. It may be contended that such forms of theft would be prevented by...

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...Excerpt: Heartbreak house is not merely the name of the play which follows this preface. It is cultured, leisured Europe before the war. When the play was begun not a shot had been fired; and only the professional diplomatists and the very few amateurs whose hobby is foreign policy even knew that the guns were loaded. ...

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...HEARTBREAK HOUSE: A FANTASIA IN THE RUSSIAN MANNER ON ENGLISH THEMES by BERNARD SHAW 1913-1916 A Penn St... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes by George Bernard Shaw is a publica... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...HOUSE is not merely the name of the play which follows this preface. It is cultured, leisured Europe before the war. When the play was begun not a sho... ...uld read; some of them could write; and they were the sole repositories of culture who had social opportunities of con- tact with our politicians, adm... ...e flung off as an intolerable affectation; and the picture galler- ies and museums and schools at once occupied by war work- ers. The British Museum i... ...orts to avert the war. M. Clemenceau was shot by another gentleman of less popular opinions, and happily came off no worse than hav- ing to spend a pr... ...lass passengers, including a famous theatrical manager and the author of a popular farce, had been drowned, among others. The others included Sir Hugh... ... defeated or hindered by publicity. A precept which I endeavored vainly to popularize early in the war, “If you have 22 Heartbreak House anything to ...

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...ou made the suggestion; and you knew your man. It is hardly fifteen years since, as twin pioneers of the New Journalism of that time, we two, cradled in the same new sheets, made an epoch in the criticism of the theatre and the opera house by making it a pretext for a propaganda of our own views of life. So you cannot plead ignorance of the character of the force you set i...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by George Bernard S... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... me when I, too, frequented those uncomfortable build- ings, and found our popular playwrights in the mind to (as they thought) emulate Ibsen. I take ... ... due to the incidental con- ventional melodrama with which the experienced popular author instinctively saves himself from failure. But what did you w... ... From Prometheus to my own Devil’s Disciple, such enemies have always been popular. Don Juan became such a pet that the world could not bear his damna... ... to the new habit of locking them up. And since what we call education and culture is for the most part noth- ing but the substitution of reading for ... ...enomenon. OCTAVIUS. What is? TANNER. Straker is. Here have we literary and cultured persons been for years setting up a cry of the New Woman whenever ... ...s and hidden the day with cloud vast wings. Where are they now? Fossils in museums, and so few and imperfect at that, that a knuckle bone or a tooth o...