Rhodes Scholarship Application Essay

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Cover letters

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1 page

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Published date :

09/27/2007

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Table of Contents Rhodes Scholarship Application Essay Table of Contents

 
  1. Introduction.
  2. Main body of the essay.
  3. Acknowledgement.

Abstract

When I was a child, I told myself I would read every book ever written. In the two-floored, two-roomed library of my small New Hampshire town, I thought nothing could stop me from reading the world. Innocent naivety yes, but so much the foundation of who I am and why I find myself writing this open letter.

If I could only leave Emerson College with one lesson learned, it would be the utter importance of personal experience. There are too many movies about filmmakers, books about authors, and plays about producers. I have spent four years watching fellow students slave over their art, only to realize in the end they forgot to live the inspiration. The literature majors who believe too blindly in the imagination, imagining the fulfillment of their goals and nothing else. They are learning to be better teachers, they believe, but literature is only Frankenstein's monster, built piecemeal from experiences understood only when the books placed back on the shelves. Live, I tell them. Live and then teach the world to the world, not its imitation. Live and then speak of literature, not as the imitation, but the thing to imitate.

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About the author :

pencil image Jennifer B. Student
Level :Advanced Study : Literature School/University : Emerson College

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