By Elliott Feedore & Sarah Craig It’s that season. Girl scout cookie season, that time from about January to March where little girls in green uniforms try to sell their tasty treats to us consumers. It’s like clockwork, the same thing every year, since before any of us can remember, right? Wrong. This year there’s [...]
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On On Self Reliance
A critical analysis of the classic essay By Elliott Feedore Okay, so — technically — I was supposed to write about that essay “On Self-Reliance” (1841) by Ralph Waldo Emerson — that guy who used to hang out with Thoreau a lot back in the day. Well, I started it, and it was all “I [...]
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Cornell’s student-curated exhibit captivates our cluttered minds By Elliott Feedore We are all programmed to be philistines. I mean this descriptively, not (necessarily) critically. It’s no coincidence that the diagnosis of Attention Deficit Disorder is a recent “innovation”; culture has become increasingly caffeinated, and that is that. The concept of “taking in” a painting at [...]
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