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GP Essay #46: How crucial is a sense of history in shaping...
Since the earliest civilizations, humans have always been interested in our past: who we...
PAPER 2 COMPREHENSION PRACTICE #14 (“MATERIALISM”)
On my desk stands a miniature of an Easter Island moai, carved for me by a Rapa Nui craftsman from...
GP Essay #45: The possibility of a world war in the near future...
The thirty-fourth President of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower, once remarked that “every...
PAPER 2 COMPREHENSION PRACTICE #13 (“IMMIGRATION”)
There is a moment in Charles Dickens’s travelogue, ‘American Notes’, when the author comes to...
GP Essay #44: Is there still privacy in today’s world...
“To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world,” quipped English...