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When applying for other colleges, students often have to write essays, submit transcripts and even get letters of recommendation.

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An insightful Film Paradise video essay explains its meaning as coded to Derry’s reigning anxieties in 1962, specifically the ravages of nuclear fallout and radiation.

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Orwell had something to say in his famous essay about such verbal gymnastics.

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To persuade Viking to publish the book, Cowley manufactured marketing buzz by writing a series of effusive essays that placed Faulkner within a lineage of American classics.

Incidentally, Harry published an essay this week about "What it means to be British" ahead of his visits with military veterans in Canada this week.

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