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Student ambassador Keziah Bacor was selected for her personal essay titled, “Why Violence?” The piece was written for a classroom assignment that asked students to reflect on how youth ...

Woolf summoned her in the 1924 essay “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown ... The Radical Power of Personal Narrative.” Those who look askance at trauma memoirs, she says, are replicating the ...

Under the current system, prospective students have been filling out a free-response essay for their personal statement, which can be up to 4,000 characters long. But amid concerns the task helps ...

In the midst of this, a longstanding and useless narrative has re-emerged ... As James Baldwin wrote in a 1965 essay titled The White Man’s Guilt for Ebony magazine: “people who imagine ...

You can choose a topic that’s personal or create an entirely ... the first person or third person? A narrative poem can use any type of perspective. Writing a narrative poem is much easier when you ...

What makes this exercise even worse with the personal ... the college essay, namely to prop up the mythology of elite universities with stories of individual triumph. “This narrative of ...