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For instance, the computer judges "topical analysis" by favoring "similarity of the essay's vocabulary to other previously scored essays in the top score category."
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In abandoning these gestures, Robbe-Grillet's "experimental" fiction is actually an experiment in the further possibilities of realism, a realism that accepts, as Robbe-Grillet puts it in his essay's conclusion, that "everything is constantly changing" and that "there is always something new."
Experimental Fiction 2010
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A few friends of mine -- all at least as deserving of the title "New Elite," particularly given their background in higher education, about which Murray obsesses -- gathered with me to examine the essay's litany of specific cultural references that we weren't supposed to appreciate.
Is the 'New Elite' really so out-of-touch? Does it matter? Stephen Stromberg 2010
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The essay's third paragraph listed a number of well-known phrases which, it said, "appear in English versions of the Bible published long before the King James translators took up their pens".
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The inaugural exhibition Global Feminisms was curated by Linda Nochlin, whose seminal essay "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" spearheaded a new room in the ivory tower that would eventually steer the postmodern dialectic, celebrated at a 2001 Princeton conference I attended on the 30th anniversary of the essay's 1971 publication in ArtNews.
Lisa Paul Streitfeld: Feminist (R)evolution in Brooklyn: Reclaiming Women for Pop Lisa Paul Streitfeld 2011
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The essay's impact on the frail political opposition in Eastern Europe was profoundly transformational.
Jamyang Norbu: Seeking the Power of the Powerless Jamyang Norbu 2011
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Within hours of the essay's appearance it became a leading topic on Twitter.
My 'Reprehensible' Take on Teen Literature Meghan Cox Gurdon 2011
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But the essay's authors said that they have received "scores" of horrified responses.
Abuse Claims Roil School Sophia Hollander 2011
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The essay's impact on the frail political opposition in Eastern Europe was profoundly transformational.
Jamyang Norbu: Seeking the Power of the Powerless Jamyang Norbu 2011
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The inaugural exhibition Global Feminisms was curated by Linda Nochlin, whose seminal essay "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" spearheaded a new room in the ivory tower that would eventually steer the postmodern dialectic, celebrated at a 2001 Princeton conference I attended on the 30th anniversary of the essay's 1971 publication in ArtNews.
Lisa Paul Streitfeld: Feminist (R)evolution in Brooklyn: Reclaiming Women for Pop Lisa Paul Streitfeld 2011
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