I dont know if research papers matter but I do know that research does. Research is about discovery. Its that simple. Theres currently a lot of flap going on about college writing and reading and the nature of composition and literary studies in college and university curricula, but these subjects have always been part of the problem of the Liberal Arts from the Trivium to what we know as the Liberal Arts. What forms a good education will always be a question. Nevertheless, students fell asleep, cheated, and connived their way through class in the medieval university, too. But, for me, all of that is irrelevant to the individual and collective journey through life. I assume that college students take courses to learn things; thats my assumption (this is why paper mills are unethical, because they remove the project of discovery from the individual; if I purchase a paper on Virginia Woolf from collegesucks.com, then Im not discovering anything of worth. Yet, some may say, who needs to read Woolf? This question is irrelevant, because a student may indeed want to learn about Woolf just as they want to learn about atoms or economics. If a person wants to live their life without reading or studying Woolf, he or she wont die as a result).
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Spinning writes, “Every life is a story and every story is a life. We either start out screaming or need to be slapped to take the first breath.” I wonder if this also goes to the reader, who, upon advancing, screams or is slapped?

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