Lois' Little Essays by Lois Vidaver (9 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Deep in my junior year at Hunter College in New York City, I began the semester with a new professor in the Creative Writing department. By then, we students had all been through a course or two: yes, we had scripted a play and plumbed a poem or three."For your first assignment in this class," she announced, "I want you to write in a genre you had never tried before. Try something new."I took the assignment seriously, realizing with a start that I had never written an essay, so write one I would. Opinionated as I was, it seemed a natural. I do not even remember my theme. But I do recall her words several days later as she was returning our submissions."I received two essays," she stated, "and they were not good, not good at all." When I look back on it, I distinctly recall, or, given my over-active imagination perhaps, that she dramatically crossed the room and tossed the offending pages into the wastebasket beside her desk.I got the point. This from a teacher I thought I would like. ...

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Experimental Determination of the Velocity of Light Made at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis by Albert A. Michelson (2 Reviews)    Price verified 11 hours ago

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