Added by: ninasimeo | Karma: 4370.39 | Fiction literature | 18 April 2010
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Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville
"Bartleby the Scrivener" is one of Melville's most famous stories. It is also one of the most difficult to interpret. For decades, critics have argued over numerous interpretations of the story. Melville wrote "Bartleby" at a time when his career seemed to be in ruins, and the story reflects his pessimism. The narrator, a successful Wall Street lawyer, hires a scrivener named Bartleby to copy legal documents,but he is a scrivener with a difference...
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36 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture) Course No. 4460 Taught by Robert C. Bartlett Emory University Ph.D., Boston College For more than two millennia, philosophers have grappled with life's most profound issues. It is easy to forget, however, that these "eternal" questions are not eternal at all; rather, they once had to be asked for the first time. It was the Athenian citizen and philosopher Socrates who first asked these questions in the 5th century B.C. "Socrates," notes award-winning Professor Robert C. Bartlett, "was responsible for a fundamentally new way of philosophizing": trying to understand the world by reason.
How to Answer Hard Interview Questions: And Everything Else You Need to Know to Get the Job You Want
In this book, experienced interviewer, Charlie Gibbs provides valuable advice on how to prepare for your interview, how to conduct yourself at the interview and, most crucially perhaps, gives examples of the sort of questions you are likely to be asked, with the kind of answers interviewers really want to hear.
Poppypink sat up in bed and yawned. Why is everybody getting up so early? she asked. Is it a holiday? The older fairies were dressing themselves and brushing their long fine hair. Wonderwings is coming to see us, they said. Jump up, little Poppypink. Who is Wonderwings? she asked. You will see when you are dressed. Hurry, or you will miss her. Oh dear! I am so sleepy, said Poppypink, and she yawned again.
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