The Daily Princetonian Essays

  • The Power Of Amory Essay: Literacy As Power

    702 Words  | 2 Pages

    being a Daily Princetonian board member in order to gain popularity among the Princeton students so he set his mind to work hard to enter the most prestigious club in the university. As he is able to be one of the Princetonian member, Anthony’s also gain other thing that improves his popularity. Amory, after an easy victory in the first sophomore Princetonian competition, stepped into a vacancy of the cast as Boiling Oil, a Pirate Lieutenant. (Fitzgerald,

  • My Beloved World, by Sonia Sotomayor

    1403 Words  | 3 Pages

    The American Dream has never been available to minority citizens as easily as it is to American-born citizens. Affirmative action was first implemented around the year 1972, however it was not widely accepted or practiced. During this time society was just getting used to including women in higher education institutions so the concept of including minorities in higher education was almost non-existent. My Beloved World, by Sonia Sotomayor shows the challenges that a first generation, Puerto Rican

  • The Sexism Of School Dress Codes

    1275 Words  | 3 Pages

    exposes the stomach, no short shorts, no miniskirts, etc. Boys on the other hand have no specific dress code policies. Dress codes may come off as sexist for women and they get insulted by it. An article on the problem with dress code from The Daily Princetonian stating "- women are policed so that they are no longer distracting to men, while men, if policed at all, are never told to change for the benefit of the opposite sex. The most prominent example that comes to mind when thinking of male-specific

  • Ethics of Oates' Landfill

    1049 Words  | 3 Pages

    An Ethical Origin Writers have always drawn inspiration from real events for their stories. Joyce Carol Oates is now being criticized as unethical for just that. The critics claim that it was not ethical for Oates to use the events that befell John Fiocco Jr. in her story "Landfill", and also for including many similarities between Fiocco and her main character Hector Campos Jr.. Though there are some similarities between the two, the differences were great enough that only some who knew of the