#Essay

Here’s me ranting as a premed on applying to medical school in the US: 1) Why is it $179 for the first application, then $40 for each additional school you
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A lot of what I’m seeing emerge on Twitter is dispiriting and depressing. People are keen to pick and choose black feminist quotes but perhaps not as willing to internalise
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And speaking of hate mail, would you all mind helping me out by reporting the latest Amazon "review" of Empty the Pews for abuse?The "reviewer" (and I use the term
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Happy Shakespeare Birthday-Day!Whether poetic, political, philosophic, rhetorical, whimsical, fantastical, historical, cultural, or even pop-cultural, he’s our guy. The man that built the words of America. There are too many kinds
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This is the fourth time in just over a century that the Treasury faces the challenge of 'unfreezing' the economy by rolling back emergency controls and subsidies. I hope it's
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STAY TUNED this week as we reveal the essay titles that feature in @slayinyourlane's #LoudBlackGirls, publishing this October. How I learned to be a Shy Loud Black Girl by
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27 years ago today I was married, sort of. I wore this dress, bought at the White House/Black Market on my lunch hour. The marriage ended 7 years later and
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I have a lot I need to get off my chest, I think its important, at least, it's important to me. When I first became Alex the Historian in 2016,
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"Because climate change is an existential problem, it is an essential subject to be worked through in fiction. But it may be that the claustrophobic first-person narrator is not up
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Helpline aside, journalists need supportive, empathetic newsrooms & editors, who have your back, who care for your well-being, & don't rush you back to the field after you've fallen sick
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"im such a jealous person, i hate when people i like talk to other people. im sooo toxic" thats not cute or quirky and its unhealthy for you and everyone
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everyone is making fun of the “there will be blood is a BOY movie” article but the entire series is like the dumb lede olympics this mode of personal-essay popular
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vminkook in specs—a thread in this essay i will in conclusion vminkook bestest boys
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My spiritual teacher is funny. I spent last night thinking and tweeting about voting. Then during my meditation time, I was led to a random page of a 1000 page
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to everyone who is shouting at me for not putting someone that they've requested onto the thread of bi characters, i have some things to say.1. i have to fact
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Here's a fun read (pdf) that helps explains why Critical Social Justice and MAGA aren't all that different. They're both critical theories, just with opposite goals.http://rothbard.altervista.org/articles/right-wing-populism.pdf Excerpt,
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