However, the admission rate went up to 68 percent for those people in the group who wrote an essay about a time they had power, and fell to a low 26 percent for those who wrote an essay about a time they lacked power.
Then, after more details surfaced, she wrote a somewhat self-serving essay for Time that conceded fault but insisted that her mistakes were inadvertent, the result of inadequate research procedures.
So we note with great satisfaction that Jackie Chan, who made his literary debut with a charming autobiographical essay in TIME's 1997 special issue on Hong Kong, has found fame in the movie business.
To her credit, Goodwin did not leave the Time essay as her last word on the subject.
Ginjer recently had an essay published in Time magazine recalling the encounter and describing her life after Sandy.
In the first condition, applicants wrote a short essay about a time they had power just before entering an interview.
Nor did Goodwin's Time essay address the embarrassing fact that in 1993 she chastised Joe McGinniss , author of a book about Edward Kennedy , for allegedly lifting material from The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys without proper attribution.
In the second condition, applicants also wrote an essay, but this time about a time they lacked power.
Another is that the contemporary essay has for some time now been gaining energy as an escape from, or rival to, the perceived conservatism of much mainstream fiction.
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Ralph Waldo also lived here for a time and wrote Nature, an essay that embodies the tenets of American Transcendentalism.
She gave interviews and wrote that essay in the Feb. 4 issue of Time, underscoring her eagerness to correct the problems.
He had a hard time getting through it, and he wrote an essay, in 1932, in which he tried to sort through his reaction to the book.
In the latest expedition, Whiteread, who won the 1993 Turner Prize for her concrete cast of the inside of a building, spent her time in the Artic walking, while McEwan wrote an essay on rescuing "the Earth from our own depredations".
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To understand what a real essay is, we have to reach back into history again, though this time not so far.
In an essay, Clayton Christensen, a business prof at Harvard, says it's time for computers to change education in a radical way.
He told reporters afterwards that when he spoke to students in common rooms, their chief concerns were the amount of contact time they had with tutors and "why it took three weeks for an essay to be marked".
In this satirical essay, Swift criticizes the relationship between landowner and peasant, the attitude toward the working class of the time, and even some behaviors of the people for whom he was fighting.
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