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Students Sound Off, and Vociferously: Part 2
February 12, 2008 in The Way It Were
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One of the more popular prompts for last week’s essay concerned poetry and prose and how they relate to Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. It had been a popular topic in class, and my kids ran with it. Excerpts from the essays begin here.
“Poetry is easier to understand,” says one of my classmates. [...]
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