5 Works in Classic Essays
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The difference between a humorous story and a comic one, with two stories to practice on.
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- English
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- 1,958
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- 1/1
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- 1
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Why Thoreau spent a night in jail instead of paying a tax that funded slavery and a war he opposed, and why he thinks you should be willing to as well.
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- English
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- 9,383
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- 1/1
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- 1
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Trust your own thinking over custom, consistency and other people's approval.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 10,066
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- 1/1
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- 1
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- 0
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The pamphlet that argued, in plain language, that the American colonies should stop asking the king for things and become independent.
- Language:
- English
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- 21,497
- Chapters:
- 5/5
- Kudos:
- 1
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- 0
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A deadpan proposal for solving poverty in Ireland that gets more horrifying the more reasonable it sounds.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 3,384
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 1
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- 0