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In his classic essay The Myth of Sisyphus, existentialist philosopher Albert Camus compared the punishment to humanity’s futile search for meaning and truth in a meaningless and indifferent universe.
It is now writing a 600-word essay on maritime trade in the 17th century.
For the second stage written test, it is required to write a 600-word essay like this one: [Discuss the rise and fall of the maritime trade in East and Southeast Asia in the 17th century ...] and as I have shown earlier, our robot took the sentences from the textbooks and Wikipedia, combined them together, and optimized it to produce an essay without understanding a thing.
But surprisingly, it wrote a better essay than most of the students.
Seven years ago, I wrote an essay in "Science" to celebrate the human genome's 10-year anniversary.
It starts as small as a poem, an essay, a single short story ... Fifty percent of them are returning to the app to write again.
But his lasting notoriety comes from a brief political essay known as The Prince, framed as advice to current and future monarchs.
My 14-year-old granddaughter, Maddie, was writing an essay on the death penalty for school, and she was asking me questions.
As he earned acclaim for his fiction, Baldwin gathered his thoughts on race, class, culture and exile in his 1955 extended essay, "Notes of a Native Son."
I recently gave an 18-year-old college student an essay.
As he stood before me reading his essay, his voice cracking and his hands trembling, he said that he worried that he had become an alcoholic like his mom, who had died a couple of months prior due to alcohol-related liver disease.
The Yale Law professor Yochai Benkler, in an essay called "Coase's Penguin," talks about this open-source model, which we're familiar with from Linux, as being potentially applicable in a whole host of situations.
But the serious part is what threw me, and I couldn't quite get a handle on it until I remembered an essay.
And it's an essay I read 30 years ago.
And I'm going to read you this essay, or an excerpt from it because it really hit home for me.
And this hubris was best captured in a very famous essay by Francis Fukuyama called "The End of History?" Now, Fukuyama was putting across a very sophisticated message, but all that the West heard from this essay was that we, the liberal democracies, we have succeeded, we don't have to change, we don't have to adapt, it's only the rest of the world that has to change and adapt.
Unfortunately, like a dangerous opiate, this essay did a lot of brain damage to the West because it put them to sleep just at precisely the moment when China and India were waking up and the West didn't adjust and adapt.
Now, we all think that Shelley obviously is the great romantic poet that he was; many of us tend to forget that he wrote some perfectly wonderful essays, too, and the most well-remembered essay is one called "A Defence of Poetry."
So, in 2016, I was commissioned to produce a photo essay about the water crisis in Flint, Michigan.
As a school bus driver, Shea Cobb became the central figure of the photo essay, along with her mother, Ms. Renée, and her eight-year-old daughter, Zion.
When my photo essay "Flint is Family" came out in August of 2016, it was released to remind America that although Flint was no longer headline news, the water crisis was far from over.
An essay I'd written about my father, the year before he died, was in Tim's new book.
And I reread my essay.
I am of course quoting from a famous essay by Leonard Read, the economist in the 1950s, called "I, Pencil" in which he wrote about how a pencil came to be made, and how nobody knows even how to make a pencil, because the people who assemble it don't know how to mine graphite, and they don't know how to fell trees and that kind of thing.
In her essay, "The White Album," Joan Didion writes, "We tell ourselves stories in order to live.
Mary Douglas asked in an essay on poverty written 35 years ago.
A few yrs ago, I remember reading an essay by a feminist film theorist who briefly mentioned Rosalind Russell.
Classic author C.S. Lewis once wrote an essay stating that no children's story is worth the reading, viewing etcetera if it can only be enjoyed by children.
I am disappointed in Flex Alexander for even thinking about accepting such a POOR EXCUSE FOR A SCRIPT let alone essay the role.
The whole point of these comments is to give an indication of whether the movie is worth watching: not write an essay gushing about it or taking it apart.
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