How to use "essay" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "essay" in popular movie and book plots

  • He contacts the Barbara Xiang, an old friend and the author of an essay about “weaponized memetics,” who isn’t sure what to think of the situation, but notices that those who view the image feel compelled to spread it to others.  - Memetic (comic)
  • With no time to write anything and his job on the line once more, he is forced to plagiarise an essay byS.  - Patterson (radio series)
  • Alex (Ariel Winter) refuses to write Luke’s (Nolan Gould) essay about Nixon, she is able to help, however, Jay (Ed O'Neill) to discover who is the troll who sabotages his web show.  - The Cover-Up (Modern Family)
  • Rakhi Sawant will essay the role of one of the eunuchs in the film.  - Upeksha (film)
  • Instead, she gave Chanel and Grace an essay assignment about the university.  - Black Friday (Scream Queens)
  • Kara meets with Cat, who announces she is going to run a photo essay on soup kitchen volunteers, instead of the usual post-holiday celebrity gossip feature and tells Kara that she wants to know her better.  - Livewire (Supergirl)
  • PC Worlds Hayden Dingman believed the game was designed to demonstrate the fallacy of the Death of the Author essay applied to video game development, in which commentators attempt to attribute aspects of a game to how the game developer approached it, as opposed to considering how the game affected themselves.  - The Beginner's Guide
  • Desperate to get out of the house after being grounded, the kids compete to be Aunt Gayle's "date" for the evening via an essay contest.  - The Gayle Tales
  • Bob learns from Cynthia that Logan is working there to write an entrance essay on terrible jobs that build character for a summer college prep program.  - Late Afternoon in the Garden of Bob and Louise
  • Yasuko then turns her attention to the essay The Shrine in the Fields whereupon Mieko reveals that it was intended for her lover who died from a disease contracted at the front after having been conscripted to China.  - Masks (novel)
  • Meanwhile, Alex (Ariel Winter) continuously sends Claire new versions of her College essay for her to proof read, but Claire ignores them.  - Connection Lost
  • The Charles Oldham Shakespeare's essay writing competition and they both won it.  - Old Love (story)
  • Lolita (Anna Morna), a young woman from a far off planet, hands in an essay on Earth culture which she receives a poor grade.  - Lolita from Interstellar Space
  • Alex (Ariel Winter), who has an AP Biology essay assignment about narcolepsy, notices that her dad constantly falls asleep and knowing that this might be a sign of guilt, she forces him to tell the truth on their way to Jay's (Ed O'Neill) house.  - Sleeper (Modern Family)
  • Yojirō pens an essay for the Literary Review under a pen name, expounding the benefits of a native Japanese appointment and all but nominating Professor Hirota as the man for the post.  - Sanshirō (novel)
  • The essay "The Nine-Tailed Turtle: Pornography or 'Fiction of Exposure'" by Jean Duval, published in the book The Chinese Novel at the Turn of the Century, categorizes this novel as having a "string-like plot".  - The Nine-tailed Turtle
  • The novel's plot is purposely underdeveloped, as Dujardin acknowledged in a later essay on his novel and its technique, Le Monologue intérieur (1931) and especially in a letter written a year after the novel's publication.  - Les lauriers sont coupés
  • Meanwhile, Manny (Rico Rodriguez) and Luke (Nolan Gould) have an essay assignment entitled "My Hero".  - My Hero (Modern Family)
  • Her very quotidian life ("the emotional vacuum that overcomes a young educator, once her school career is finished") changes when one of her students, 12-year-old Annette Rieu (whose father died in World War I "because he suffered too much (31)), writes an essay containing the sentence, "The saddest day of my life comes back every week, the day when Mother entertains her friends and I hear the sound of laughter" (25).  - Burnt Offering (novel)
  • A convincing essay by the young Actress.  - Karuvelam Pookkal
  • During the first three days he is allowed no food or sleep and told to write an exhaustive essay on his life to date.  - National Security (2012 film)
  • His sister Evelyn enters the scene and addresses the camera directly, commenting that she is writing an essay about America's two biggest innovations: nuclear weapons and rock 'n roll.  - Not Fade Away (film)
  • But her final essay for the course refers to the kidnapping in ways that taunt Hind: "Call the kidnapers Sylvia and Jack, mr Hind, call the kid May.  - Hind's Kidnap
  • Shelly reads out an essay from her book.  - Death of a Superhero
  • While working there, she continues to pursue her dream of becoming a published writer by winning a baking soda company's essay contest; fends off several suitors; and returns to Green Gables whenever she can to visit her adoptive mother, Marilla.  - Anne of Avonlea (1975 film)
  • His first essay is about Kim (Leven Rambin), his crush, whose dog he saved when he was 8, which caused him to nearly drown.  - Chasing Mavericks
  • He is working to rebuild his relationship with his son, who visits to talk with him about a college application essay on "the most fascinating person that I've never met".  - Flight (2012 film)
  • Haley (Sarah Hyland) has an essay for her school with the subject "Biggest obstacle you had to overcome".  - Treehouse (Modern Family)
  • Jay (Ed O'Neill) and Manny (Rico Rodriguez) are both stressed out; Jay tries to get a new client and Manny has to write an essay for the school.  - Hit and Run (Modern Family)
  • Bernie Goldsmith has no idea that he is the man in question as he enjoys his daughter's school essay on patriotism.  - Three Brave Men
  • In the Spanish class, the teacher Ben Chang (Ken Jeong) takes a small infraction by Annie (Alison Brie) to force everyone to write a twenty-page essay due the next Monday.  - Environmental Science (Community)
  • However, when the travel essay book Lovers in Asuka, written by Chul-soo on Ma-ri's behalf, becomes a bestseller, Ma-ri gets caught up in the controversy generated by the ghost writing.  - Star's Lover
  • The book is his response to the essay question, "What are your best and worst qualities.  - The November Criminals
  • Based on Oliver Sacks' essay The Last Hippie, the film tells the father-son relationship between Henry Sawyer (JK.  - The Music Never Stopped
  • Later, Marie catches up with Nicolas in the street and first tells him the letter she sent was meant for a female friend accidentally switched with an academic essay she intended for him.  - Heartbeats (film)
  • Rhoda enters an essay contest sponsored by a millionaire entrepreneur who is offering a civilian space flight to the mirror Earth.  - Another Earth
  • promises "an essay of Fancy, where Invention is shewed with Judgment".  - The Man in the Moone
  • Meanwhile, at the same time during the kidney crisis, United States President Barack Obama has decided to visit Quahog, and Chris' entire English class is assigned to write an essay about hope.  - New Kidney in Town
  • When Stan and Kyle find Cartman crying in front of his locker at school, he explains that he's upset about the essay mr Garrison assigned, "What I Want to Be When I Grow Up".  - Poor and Stupid
  • At school, Tony reads aloud an essay about the role of sex in relationships, embarrassing Michelle.  - Michelle (Skins series 1)
  • The quote is taken from the essay "A Poet's Advice to Students," which appeared in the book Cummings, A Miscellany.  - The Vast Fields of Ordinary
  • At times, it appears to be in the form of an essay or letter to the reader, but at other times it seems to be simply the protagonist telling his story.  - Sprout (novel)
  • Throughout their letter writing, Tracey seems to get in touch with her "softer" side, which includes writing an essay about her Nanna.  - Letters from the Inside
  • The film is part narrative and part documentary essay picture about German history and politics.  - Germany Year 90 Nine Zero
  • They wear medallions inscribed "10%", an allusion to the Du Bois essay The Talented Tenth, which says that a class of exceptional members of the black race will rise to lead it.  - Freaknik: The Musical
  • Then one day, she decides to enter the local newspaper’s essay writing contest and what happens after that nearly turns Booky’s life upside down.  - Booky Makes Her Mark
  • Pereira, an old journalist of a Portuguese newspaper - the Lisboa - who loves literature and practically spends all his life for it, reads an essay written by a young man about death.  - Pereira Maintains
  • The opening essay describes the "Country of Lost Borders," an area of land between Death Valley and the High Sierras.  - The Land of Little Rain
  • In Sandra Oh's essay "Sight Unseen: Adrian Tomine's Optic Nerve and the Politics of Recognition".  - Shortcomings (comics)
  • Siggi Jepsen (the first-person narrator), an inmate of a juvenile detention center, is forced to write an essay with the title "The Joy of Duty".  - The German Lesson
  • Chelsea has difficulty writing a sociology essay about unemployment, but after her mother is fired she writes an excellent essay and decides to study harder in the future.  - Does Anyone Ever Listen?
  • This is an essay on how three different girls from three different social and economic backdrops try to cope with their life against all odds.  - Dalamarmarangal
  • Justin Russo is excited to meet London Tipton when he wins an essay contest prize, which is a "Teen cruise" on the SS Tipton.  - Wizards on Deck with Hannah Montana
  • This inspires Hubert to write an essay for school titled "I killed my mother".  - I Killed My Mother
  • (He was told to make a 500 word essay on acne) The next day, the students go on a field trip to Black Vine Swamp.  - Scat (novel)
  • Her essay about her life was published in a newspaper and generous donations flooded in both from inside Cambodia and from foreign countries to Lyka's family which fed her family and paid the hospital bills for Lyka's mother.  - Gratefulness
  • So the narrator eventually decides to give up the piano in favour of philosophy, and spends much of his subsequent time composing a rambling, never-completed essay entitled "About Glenn Gould".  - The Loser
  • Unfortunately, Vanessa misinterprets his preaching, and alienates herself by presenting an anarchist essay at the opening school ceremony.  - Dear Lemon Lima
  • Aside from the mysterious Plyck, whose origin remains unknown (an essay on hands and the number five was told instead), all of the members of the Juris died from being intentionally buried alive—in the case of Clius, buried after his limbs were torn off on a rack.  - House of Secrets (Vertigo)
  • The new cheerleaders compete, and Carr discovers Cindy had written an essay about her, discussing how she stood up to the administration and stopped Brooke and the Fab Three from terrorizing their school, revealing that Carr did change things after all.  - Fab Five: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal
  • Kenneth learns of an opportunity to be an NBC page at the Beijing Olympics, however, head page Donny Lawson (Paul Scheer) tries to make sure that he does not submit his essay on time.  - Cooter (30 Rock)
  • Roger Constable, provost of Lancaster, is the next person on the list and he reveals a story about how Lloyd-James stole the contents of an essay he was given a prize for from an unpublished essay written some 20 years earlier.  - Bring Forth the Body
  • In this meeting, he quotes extensively from Bertrand Russell's essay "Why I Am Not a Christian".  - Indignation (novel)
  • "The End" is a response to the Argentine epic Martín Fierro, which Borges had discussed in a long essay published earlier that year.  - The End (story)
  • After completing an essay entitled Traité de la Volonté ("Treatise on the Will"), Lambert is horrified when a teacher confiscates it, calls it "rubbish", and – the narrator speculates – sells it to a local grocer.  - Louis Lambert (novel)
  • After writing a misogynistic and controversial essay - even Warholic finds it "harsh on the chicks" -, opining that women who create "abrogate their own psychobiology", Eyestones takes a break from writing and invites Laura on a Summer vacation drive across the country.  - Laura Warholic
  • The story is narrated in first person by a twelve-year-old girl in 8th grade, and takes the form of a school-assigned essay intended for submission to a national competition, and expected to be stored in a time capsule to be opened in 100 years.  - The True Meaning of Smekday
  • Brian announces that he has won an award for an essay he wrote and has been invited to Martha's Vineyard to receive it, and offers to take them with him on vacation to ease the anxiety.  - Play It Again, Brian
  • As he reads the ribbon, he finds it is an essay written by scientist Paolo Zeder discussing the existence of K-Zones—areas where death ceases to exist.  - Zeder
  • A Common Reader is used by Virginia Woolf as the title work of her 1925 essay collection.  - The Uncommon Reader
  • In class the next day, Albrecht reads aloud an essay in which he condemns the execution of the Soviet POW's as a criminal act and his own participation in it as "evil".  - Before the Fall (2004 film)
  • He assigns a 1000 word essay on “Your most defining moment”.  - Grin and Bear It (Ugly Betty)
  • "An Examination of the Work of Herbert Quain" is a fictional essay surveying the following works, written by fictional deceased Irish author Herbert Quain:.  - An Examination of the Work of Herbert Quain
  • During his stay, Durrell worked first as an English teacher at the Pancyprian Gymnasium, where several of his female students reportedly fell in love with him: Invited to write an essay on her favourite historical character, [Electra] never failed to delight me with something like this: 'I have no historical character but in the real life there is one I love.  - Bitter Lemons
  • Her school grades are terrible and she has to deal with unfair teachers; on one occasion she is caught plagiarising an essay her sister wrote a year before.  - Peppermint Soda
  • Lauren is doing an essay for homework which is called 'Who Am I.  - Girl, Missing
  • At school, ms Grundy assigns a two-thousand word essay and threatens to fail anyone who does not complete it.  - Bad Boy Trouble
  • Jamal writes an essay to Forrester that discusses the gift of friendship.  - Finding Forrester
  • The other pieces include "Mental Telegraphy," a serious essay reflecting Twain's continuing interest in the occult—he and his wife would later try several seances, poignantly and unsuccessfully, to contact their daughter Suzy; "The German Chicago," contrasting Berlin of his era with the American city, "About All Kinds of Ships," about steamboats old and new; plus a tongue-in-cheek "Petition to the Queen of England" for relief from taxes.  - The £1,000,000 Bank Note and Other New Stories
  • When the episode begins, mrs Garrison storms into her classroom enraged over a failed date, and takes her rage out on her male students with an essay assignment over the weekend, making them read The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway in its entirety.  - D-Yikes!
  • Hank starts a new year at his school and meets his new teacher, who has her students write an essay about their summer vacations.  - Niagara Falls, or Does It?
  • Ben did not have anything to dazzle the director then, so he walks away, trying to write an essay with nothing in mind to compose it.  - 21 (2008 film)
  • She writes an essay in hope that it will be counted as good intelligence.  - Love Lessons (novel)
  • The film flashes back to a day in high school when Jim was given an award for an essay describing the ideal home he supposedly has.  - I Accuse My Parents
  • A detailed comparison between aspects of the novel and their real-world antecents is detailed in the essay Christy and Leonora: City Girl, Country Gal.  - Christy (novel)
  • Mary Butts in a 1933 essay described The Dancing Floor as "one of the first novels to owe its origin to The Golden Bough".  - The Dancing Floor
  • As his train pulls away, he reads Raffaele's homework essay - the first homework he has handed in - which discusses the end of the world, and how many people will go to Hell, but some may yet enter Heaven.  - Ciao, Professore!
  • The essay following the story relates the circumstances of de Camp's discovery of Howard's manuscript and his revision and publication of it.  - The Treasure of Tranicos (collection)
  • Veronica proves that the essay hers was supposedly plagiarized from was posted after she turned in her paper; nevertheless, she still wants to find who framed her.  - Hi, Infidelity
  • Wilma goes from being a nobody to being truly unpopular when a very personal essay written for language arts class is read aloud to the class by her teacher.  - The Wish (novel)
  • After a letter reflecting on Conan's life written by Howard to Schuyler Miller and John Clark, both fans of Howard's work, is an essay on the invented prehistory in which the hero's adventures are set tracing its development up to Conan's own time.  - Conan (short story collection)
  • In an essay on memoirs and truth in the academic journal PMLA, Nancy Miller explains that as Bechdel revisits scenes and themes "she re-creates memories in which the force of attachment generates the structure of the memoir itself".  - Fun Home
  • After an investigation, the professors at the school hold that the primary cause of Moritz's suicide was an essay on sexuality that Melchior wrote for him.  - Spring Awakening (play)
  • They discovered that in 1965, their mother, an Italian war bride, had a four-day affair with Robert Kincaid, a travelling professional photographer who had come to Madison County, Iowa, to shoot a photographic essay for National Geographic on the covered bridges in the area.  - The Bridges of Madison County (film)
  • The essay chronicles the 1989 season for his son Owen's Little League baseball team, Bangor West.  - Head Down (essay)
  • As an English assignment, she has to write an essay of her choice.  - Read It and Weep
  • The two of them did not become close friends initially, as they competed in school for top marks in English class and in the annual high school essay competition.  - Betsy and Joe
  • Instead, he assigns them to write a 100-page essay on good citizenship and that they can't turn it into a story with Captain Underpants.  - The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby
  • Sensing their intense love for each other, Pattabhi (a very natural essay by Delhi Ganesh once again), the manager at Vishwa's house, helps them overcome their fears.  - Vishwa Thulasi
  • The essay begins with Wright's first encounter with racism as a child, when his attempt to play a war game with white children turns violent, and ends with a scolding from his mother, blaming him for the incident.  - Uncle Tom's Children
  • Young Ralph Pendrel of New York City has written a fine essay on the reading of history.  - The Sense of the Past
  • The role of The Portier in European hotels and how they make their living, a description of Heidelberg Castle, an essay on College Prisons in Germany, "The Awful German Language", a humorous essay on German language, a short story called "The Legend of the Castle" and finally a satirical description of German newspapers.  - A Tramp Abroad
  • In the magazine, he notices an ad for a children's contest in which an essay must be written about what makes America great.  - Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington
  • As the plot unfolds, Hannah holds a $100-per-entry essay contest to find a new owner for the grill.  - The Spitfire Grill
  • The outstanding element of the third novel is the essay titled The Disintegration of Values.  - The Sleepwalkers (Broch novel)
  • As she has recounted in interviews, the book began as an essay of her childhood in Haiti and her move as a young girl to New York City.  - Breath, Eyes, Memory
  • When she writes an essay for school that asks why there are no storks in their village, she set all the others to wondering.  - The Wheel on the School
  • Vyvyan acquires an amputated human leg from the morgue on which he has to write an essay for anatomy class, though he would prefer to mount it on the bonnet of his Ford Anglia.  - Demolition (The Young Ones)
  • Back at school, Charlie only comes up with 13 words on his essay that he and Linus are forced to write on the first day, after both boys are caught playing hangman in class.  - It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown
  • When Nicholas manages to escape from the house, he goes to Louisa's home, where he finds Jo's encyclopedia (which Jo had brought through the mirror to show to Louisa and her brother Titus when they have to write an essay about the Roman Empire).  - Mirror, Mirror (TV series)
  • On his return to the real world, Conrad writes a school essay about his experiences.  - The 35th of May, or Conrad's Ride to the South Seas
  • member Stevie Littleton (Jonah Rooney), offers a tribute to Garfield by reading an essay about him.  - One Eight Seven
  • After various petty arguments, the Country Bears read Beary's school essay about them and they realize that Beary was right and decide that they must do the concert.  - The Country Bears
  • More than a century later, Jean Janes, a magazine photographer working on a photo essay about the murders, returns to the Isles with her husband Thomas and five-year-old daughter.  - The Weight of Water
  • A German high school student, Sonja (Lena Stolze as a fictionalized version of Anna Rosmus) wins an essay contest and goes on a trip to Paris.  - The Nasty Girl
  • Peter Mandrake (Coyote), an American photographer in Brazil, is preparing an in loco essay for his new book, about the "Train Surfers" (groups of boys who court danger "surfing" on the roof of the trains) in the city of Rio de Janeiro.  - A Grande Arte
  • " was an essay from a 14-year-old Adam Mitchell.  - The Long Game
  • South Park Elementary teacher mr Garrison announces that Cartman has won the school's "Save Our Fragile Planet" essay contest, much to the anger of his classmate Wendy Testaburger, who immediately suspects him of cheating.  - Weight Gain 4000
  • Although Ana does consent to spend sweaty summer days working in the factory, she spends her nights writing her college entrance essay for Columbia University and sneaking out to see her American boyfriend Jimmy.  - Real Women Have Curves
  • Before making a final decision about expelling him, Finn has Will write an essay on who he is.  - Young Americans (TV series)
  • Ethan learns that his son won a nationwide essay contest by plagiarizing classic American authors and orators, but when Ethan confronts him, the son denies having any guilty feelings, maintaining that everyone cheats and lies.  - The Winter of Our Discontent
  • Suspicions begin to arise when the essay is turned in to the principal, who questions Irwin about the truth of his essay.  - Cheaters (film)
  • Pnin is persistently bothered by the fear that he may lose his lecture papers, or muddle them with the student essay he is correcting.  - Pnin
  • It has also been published separately, translated from Russian to English by Koteliansky and Virginia Woolf, with an essay on Dostoevsky by Sigmund Freud.  - Demons (Dostoyevsky novel)
  • In their English class, Professor Taub (Viveca Lindfors) reads an essay composed by Walter as a writing assignment, which is a description of his night with the Sure Thing.  - The Sure Thing
  • Vada is given a school assignment to write an essay on someone she admires but has never met.  - My Girl 2
  • With time they become a couple, and Deja helps Malik with his essay and spelling errors.  - Higher Learning
  • The long middle chapter then takes the form of a historical essay written at some unspecified time in the future.  - War with the Newts
  • The soundtrack during the credits is "Everybody's Free (to Wear Sunscreen)", a setting of an essay by Mary Schmich.  - The Big Kahuna (film)
  • Stimulated by Lebedyev's eloquence, everyone engages for some time in intelligent and inebriated disputation on lofty subjects, but the good-humoured atmosphere begins to dissipate when Ippolit suddenly produces a large red-sealed envelope and announces that it contains an essay he has written which he now intends to read to them.  - The Idiot
  • Ponyboy decides to write his English assignment about the recent events, and begins his essay with the opening line of the novel: "When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.  - The Outsiders (novel)
  • When her parents see her report card, they prompt her to see mr Neck (Robert John Burke), who tells her to write an essay on any history topic.  - Speak (film)
  • Bell initially finishes fourth in Hundert's essay competition that precedes the contest, but Hundert raises his grade on the final essay after reviewing it again, thus eliminating Blythe.  - The Emperor's Club
  • Oddly enough, the Family Tablets are not there as they enter, but instead a plaque containing an essay by Chen Chiju, titled "The Home Garden", one of the Four Pillars of Civilization.  - The Story of the Stone (Barry Hughart)
  • He tries to get out of his creative writing essay by making up a lie, but gets caught by his English teacher, ms Caldwell, who alerts his parents.  - Big Fat Liar
  • This element makes the novel one of Stapledon's efforts to write "an essay in myth making".  - Star Maker
  • "The Bear" chose McLean for this duty because an essay McLean had written in a previous year marked him as the only liberal in the student body.  - The Lords of Discipline
  • Born in Seattle, Washington, Frances Elena Farmer is a rebel from a young age, winning $10000 in 1931 from The Scholastic Art and Writing Awards for a high school essay called God Dies.  - Frances (film)
  • After hearing mrs Granger's explanation, and having to write an essay about it for homework, he creates a new name for the pen: "frindle".  - Frindle
  • Furthermore, "Locke" publishes an essay detailing the Chinese betrayal just as it is happening, and on the basis of this prescience (and other miracles over the years) Peter Wiggin is elected Hegemon over the world.  - Shadow of the Hegemon
  • Caution eventually destroys or incapacitates it by telling it a riddle that involves something Alpha 60 can not comprehend: poetry (although many of Alpha 60's lines are actually quotations from the Argentine poet Jorge Luis Borges; the opening line of the film, along with others, is an extract of Borges's essay "Forms of a Legend" and other references throughout the movie are made by Alpha 60 to Borges's "A New Refutation of Time").  - Alphaville (film)
  • When Nick writes a school essay on the benefits of unemployment insurance, his school requests that New York State send social workers to investigate his living conditions.  - A Thousand Clowns
  • Annette is a 'paradigm of chastity and virtue' who recently wrote a published essay about saving herself for marriage and has been temporarily staying with Sebastian's aunt.  - Cruel Intentions
  • Dumas included this essay in one of the editions from 1846.  - The Count of Monte Cristo
  • As the detention nears its end, the group requests that Brian complete the essay for everyone and John returns to the storage closet to fool Vernon into thinking he has not left.  - The Breakfast Club

Example sentences for "essay" in interesting articles

  • This essay describes the stark differences in the organization and financing of health care services that my family recently experienced, and how those differences affected our ability to make important health care decisions. Previous SectionNext Section US EXPERIENCE My mother, a 71-year-old, fit, active woman, arrived in Boston from Bangalore, India, in June 2013 for a 4-month visit.  - The Cost of My Mother’s Cardiac Care in the United States and India
  • And anyone else who thinks this this missive is intended to be a dumping on India. This is just an essay on why cheap, overseas outsourced programming isn’t the dream/threat that it commonly perceived to be (dream for managers, threat for programmers).  - Why I Will Never Feel Threatened by Programmers in India
  • As Matthew Desmond, a sociologist at Harvard University, explains in a magisterial essay on the MID in the New York Times Magazine, this little fact has played an outsized role in the United States’ yawning wealth inequality. Federal housing policy transfers lots of money to rich homeowners, a bit less to middle-class homeowners, and practically nothing to poor renters.  - Neither the Will nor the Cash: Why India Wins So Few Olympic Medals
  • As Matthew Desmond, a sociologist at Harvard University, explains in a magisterial essay on the MID in the New York Times Magazine, this little fact has played an outsized role in the United States’ yawning wealth inequality. Federal housing policy transfers lots of money to rich homeowners, a bit less to middle-class homeowners, and practically nothing to poor renters.  - Behind the 'Bad Indian Coder'
  • The tone isn’t for everyone, but it shares the same approach as the above, and also has lots of tactical tips.How to make friends as an adult, a short essay on Barking Up the Wrong Tree.7.  - Evidence-based advice we've found on how to be successful in a job
  • So if you want a little friendly advice from the person who has probably made the single best living of anyone who has ever tapped finger to keyboard, this is your guy. The biggest problem I have with King's essay is that business in #5 about throwing away your thesaurus.  - Stephen King: “Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully”
  • As Matthew Desmond, a sociologist at Harvard University, explains in a magisterial essay on the MID in the New York Times Magazine, this little fact has played an outsized role in the United States’ yawning wealth inequality. Federal housing policy transfers lots of money to rich homeowners, a bit less to middle-class homeowners, and practically nothing to poor renters.  - AOL Is Still the Weirdest Successful Tech Company in America
  • But Baidu had deliberately obscured this fact from their users so they could charge more for the ad.The hospital proceeded to recommend an expensive and unproven drug instead of the standard — and far cheaper — treatment of surgery and chemotherapy.After exhausting his family’s savings of $30,o00 on the ineffective treatment, the 21-year-old student wrote one final essay about his situation and how Baidu had lead him right into the hands of fraudsters.  - The Invisible War for the Open Internet
  • As Matthew Desmond, a sociologist at Harvard University, explains in a magisterial essay on the MID in the New York Times Magazine, this little fact has played an outsized role in the United States’ yawning wealth inequality. Federal housing policy transfers lots of money to rich homeowners, a bit less to middle-class homeowners, and practically nothing to poor renters.  - The Real War 1939-1945, by Paul Fussell (1989)
  • For more on this, see my essay “The Herd Mind.” At one point, this characteristic of the Ohmu is deliberately stimulated and exploited by the government of one of the warring kingdoms, just as real-life governments and other terrorist organizations exploit and engineer atrocities so as to induce war fever.  - Miyazaki's Beautiful Anti-War Dreams
  • "I'm not sure reading most economists would do the same."The collection includes the famous essay "Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren", in which Keynes predicted that today's generation would work only 15 hours a week.You can read the full text online.12.  - Books Warren Buffett thinks you should read
  • As Matthew Desmond, a sociologist at Harvard University, explains in a magisterial essay on the MID in the New York Times Magazine, this little fact has played an outsized role in the United States’ yawning wealth inequality. Federal housing policy transfers lots of money to rich homeowners, a bit less to middle-class homeowners, and practically nothing to poor renters.  - The War on Terror's Jedi Mind Trick
  • As Matthew Desmond, a sociologist at Harvard University, explains in a magisterial essay on the MID in the New York Times Magazine, this little fact has played an outsized role in the United States’ yawning wealth inequality. Federal housing policy transfers lots of money to rich homeowners, a bit less to middle-class homeowners, and practically nothing to poor renters.  - Why Workers Are Losing the War Against Machines
  • As Matthew Desmond, a sociologist at Harvard University, explains in a magisterial essay on the MID in the New York Times Magazine, this little fact has played an outsized role in the United States’ yawning wealth inequality. Federal housing policy transfers lots of money to rich homeowners, a bit less to middle-class homeowners, and practically nothing to poor renters.  - Publishers Gave Away 123M Books During World War II
  • Lajpat Rai, a writer, politician, and freedom fighter, wrote, while in prison, an essay on the martial Gita, in which he took the argument that a warrior should “take up arms and risk his life” to defend dharma to mean that Indian youths should risk their lives, if necessary, to oppose British colonial rule.  - War and Peace in the Bhagavad Gita
  • As Matthew Desmond, a sociologist at Harvard University, explains in a magisterial essay on the MID in the New York Times Magazine, this little fact has played an outsized role in the United States’ yawning wealth inequality. Federal housing policy transfers lots of money to rich homeowners, a bit less to middle-class homeowners, and practically nothing to poor renters.  - How Meals Win Wars
  • (For a critique of Pinker’s statistical methods, see Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s essay on the Long Peace.) If the socialist revolutionary Fanya Kaplan had succeeded in assassinating Lenin in August 1918, violence would still have raged on in Russia.  - John Gray: Steven Pinker is wrong about violence and war
  • As Matthew Desmond, a sociologist at Harvard University, explains in a magisterial essay on the MID in the New York Times Magazine, this little fact has played an outsized role in the United States’ yawning wealth inequality. Federal housing policy transfers lots of money to rich homeowners, a bit less to middle-class homeowners, and practically nothing to poor renters.  - The War Against Boys
  • As Matthew Desmond, a sociologist at Harvard University, explains in a magisterial essay on the MID in the New York Times Magazine, this little fact has played an outsized role in the United States’ yawning wealth inequality. Federal housing policy transfers lots of money to rich homeowners, a bit less to middle-class homeowners, and practically nothing to poor renters.  - Buy Coal: the best way for concerned billionaires to fight global warming
  • In one essay in the journal Current Science -why the editors were so careless in refereeing his paper is another matter for another day -he has cited an Italian paper on tunneling in the presence of groundwater and quoted one select passage that does nothing more than note the need for care in tunneling in such conditions.  - Tunnel vision blocks neutrino lab progress
  • And so I’ll dispense with the three thousand word essay to Dr.  - The Yale Problem Begins in High School
  • As Matthew Desmond, a sociologist at Harvard University, explains in a magisterial essay on the MID in the New York Times Magazine, this little fact has played an outsized role in the United States’ yawning wealth inequality. Federal housing policy transfers lots of money to rich homeowners, a bit less to middle-class homeowners, and practically nothing to poor renters.  - Stop Penalizing Boys for Not Being Able to Sit Still at School
  • As Matthew Desmond, a sociologist at Harvard University, explains in a magisterial essay on the MID in the New York Times Magazine, this little fact has played an outsized role in the United States’ yawning wealth inequality. Federal housing policy transfers lots of money to rich homeowners, a bit less to middle-class homeowners, and practically nothing to poor renters.  - What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success
  • You seriously make me question whether I should apply and after reading your article in the Michigan Daily, Im having the worst time writing my final essay Why I want to attend Ross.  - Business School is a Joke
  • As Matthew Desmond, a sociologist at Harvard University, explains in a magisterial essay on the MID in the New York Times Magazine, this little fact has played an outsized role in the United States’ yawning wealth inequality. Federal housing policy transfers lots of money to rich homeowners, a bit less to middle-class homeowners, and practically nothing to poor renters.  - When Schools Overlook Introverts
  • As Matthew Desmond, a sociologist at Harvard University, explains in a magisterial essay on the MID in the New York Times Magazine, this little fact has played an outsized role in the United States’ yawning wealth inequality. Federal housing policy transfers lots of money to rich homeowners, a bit less to middle-class homeowners, and practically nothing to poor renters.  - Why Some Schools Are Selling All Their iPads
  • Eventually, as robotics comes to fruition, it will consume every job niche but the true experts. I think a fair criticism of this essay is “there’s nothing new here,” and in a general sense, that’s true.  - Programming is the new High School Diploma
  • At the request of the district’s Office of Internal Resolution, a private investigator, Reginal Dukes, looked into the reported problems and, in March of 2006, concluded that teachers at Parks had cheated on the Georgia Middle Grades Writing Assessment, leaking the essay prompt to students.  - A Middle-School Cheating Scandal Raises Questions About No Child Left Behind
  • As Matthew Desmond, a sociologist at Harvard University, explains in a magisterial essay on the MID in the New York Times Magazine, this little fact has played an outsized role in the United States’ yawning wealth inequality. Federal housing policy transfers lots of money to rich homeowners, a bit less to middle-class homeowners, and practically nothing to poor renters.  - The Law-School Scam
  • As Matthew Desmond, a sociologist at Harvard University, explains in a magisterial essay on the MID in the New York Times Magazine, this little fact has played an outsized role in the United States’ yawning wealth inequality. Federal housing policy transfers lots of money to rich homeowners, a bit less to middle-class homeowners, and practically nothing to poor renters.  - When Finnish Teachers Work in America's Public Schools
  • It will never be finished. "Worse is Better" (also called the "New Jersey style") is an important essay on software development that everybody in this field should have read.  - Things They Don't Teach You in School
  • I think you'll like it better:       · Firefox blocks pop-up windows.       · It's more secure against viruses and spyware.       · It keeps Microsoft from controlling the future of the internet.       · It's better for web designers and developers.       · Features like tabbed browsing make reading webpages easier. Click the button on the right to download Firefox.  It's free. Continue without Firefox >> I found this essay in the Fall '91 issue of Whole Earth Review.  - The Six-Lesson Schoolteacher
  • I was talking to a former student's mother about her son's essay on the phone (I know, I know, Exhibit A, but I was invested in educating that mother) and I reminded her about adopting a "he" versus "we" and "his" versus "ours" mindset when it came to his college application.  - How Schools Are Handling an 'Overparenting' Crisis
  • “In life, as in a foot-ball game,” Theodore Roosevelt wrote in an essay on “The American Boy” in 1900, “the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard; don’t foul and don’t shirk, but hit the line hard!”Athletics succeeded in distracting not just students but entire communities.  - The Case Against High-School Sports
  • As Matthew Desmond, a sociologist at Harvard University, explains in a magisterial essay on the MID in the New York Times Magazine, this little fact has played an outsized role in the United States’ yawning wealth inequality. Federal housing policy transfers lots of money to rich homeowners, a bit less to middle-class homeowners, and practically nothing to poor renters.  - Why Japanese Kids Can Walk to School Alone
  • I think you'll like it better:       · Firefox blocks pop-up windows.       · It's more secure against viruses and spyware.       · It keeps Microsoft from controlling the future of the internet.       · It's better for web designers and developers.       · Features like tabbed browsing make reading webpages easier. Click the button on the right to download Firefox.  It's free. Continue without Firefox >> I found this essay in the Fall '91 issue of Whole Earth Review.  - The Six-Lesson Schoolteacher
  • As Matthew Desmond, a sociologist at Harvard University, explains in a magisterial essay on the MID in the New York Times Magazine, this little fact has played an outsized role in the United States’ yawning wealth inequality. Federal housing policy transfers lots of money to rich homeowners, a bit less to middle-class homeowners, and practically nothing to poor renters.  - What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success
  • According to the Fredrick Douglass Foundation of New York, the schools' teachers and administrators were so offended by Williams' essay that they began a campaign of harassment—kicking her out of class and trying to suspend her—that ultimately forced her parents to withdraw her from the school. In her essay, which was written for a contest, Williams reflected on what Douglass heard his slave master, Mr.  - A 13-year-old's slavery analogy raises some uncomfortable truths in school
  • As Matthew Desmond, a sociologist at Harvard University, explains in a magisterial essay on the MID in the New York Times Magazine, this little fact has played an outsized role in the United States’ yawning wealth inequality. Federal housing policy transfers lots of money to rich homeowners, a bit less to middle-class homeowners, and practically nothing to poor renters.  - How to Make School Better for Boys
  • As Matthew Desmond, a sociologist at Harvard University, explains in a magisterial essay on the MID in the New York Times Magazine, this little fact has played an outsized role in the United States’ yawning wealth inequality. Federal housing policy transfers lots of money to rich homeowners, a bit less to middle-class homeowners, and practically nothing to poor renters.  - How One Kitchen Table in Brooklyn Became a School for Coders
  • However, this push to utilize advanced diction, albeit to the detriment of semantic transfer, makes for awful writing. I don’t remember many of the books I read in high school, but one that sticks in my mind, ironically, is an essay by George Orwell, called Politics and the English Language.  - How High School English Class Ruined Your Proposals
  • This is one of the standard charter tricks noted in the essay above.  - How to Analyze False Claims about Charter Schools
  • Got a 4.0 and whatever a high MCAT score is? A med school will defect and take you. One medical resident friend read a draft of this essay and simply said that she “didn’t realize that I was looking for nursing.” Or being PA.  - Be a nurse or P.A. instead of a doctor: the underrated perils of medical school
  • Most top schools ask 5 to 7 questions requiring, for the most part, unique essay answers.  - Business school will cost you five years. Can you afford to wait?
  • According to the Fredrick Douglass Foundation of New York, the schools' teachers and administrators were so offended by Williams' essay that they began a campaign of harassment—kicking her out of class and trying to suspend her—that ultimately forced her parents to withdraw her from the school. In her essay, which was written for a contest, Williams reflected on what Douglass heard his slave master, Mr.  - A 13-Year-Old's Slavery Analogy Raises Some Uncomfortable Truths in School
  • They can’t write because they were taught that every essay needed to be written in Bing-Bang-Bongo format, and nobody ever significantly penalized them for incorrect grammar or spelling.  - School grades are hopelessly broken
  • As Matthew Desmond, a sociologist at Harvard University, explains in a magisterial essay on the MID in the New York Times Magazine, this little fact has played an outsized role in the United States’ yawning wealth inequality. Federal housing policy transfers lots of money to rich homeowners, a bit less to middle-class homeowners, and practically nothing to poor renters.  - Department of Awful Statistics: Small Schools Edition
  • As Matthew Desmond, a sociologist at Harvard University, explains in a magisterial essay on the MID in the New York Times Magazine, this little fact has played an outsized role in the United States’ yawning wealth inequality. Federal housing policy transfers lots of money to rich homeowners, a bit less to middle-class homeowners, and practically nothing to poor renters.  - Tech's Gender and Race Gap Starts in High School
  • As Matthew Desmond, a sociologist at Harvard University, explains in a magisterial essay on the MID in the New York Times Magazine, this little fact has played an outsized role in the United States’ yawning wealth inequality. Federal housing policy transfers lots of money to rich homeowners, a bit less to middle-class homeowners, and practically nothing to poor renters.  - A School District That Was Never Desegregated (2015)
  • As Matthew Desmond, a sociologist at Harvard University, explains in a magisterial essay on the MID in the New York Times Magazine, this little fact has played an outsized role in the United States’ yawning wealth inequality. Federal housing policy transfers lots of money to rich homeowners, a bit less to middle-class homeowners, and practically nothing to poor renters.  - When Military School Offers the Right Kind of Discipline for At-Risk Students
  • That month Anthony Eden replaced the 80-year-old Sir Winston Churchill as prime minister.Two months later, the Architectural Review magazine printed Outrage, an essay by critic Ian Nairn.  - Six decades ago a critic attacked bland "subtopia" in British towns

Meaning of "essay" in English

  • a tentative attempt
  • an analytic or interpretive literary composition
  • make an effort or attempt
    Examples
    - The infant had essayed a few wobbly steps
    - The police attempted to stop the thief
    - He sought to improve himself
    - She always seeks to do good in the world
  • put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to
    Example
    - Test this recipe

Meaning of "essay" in Hindi

  • यत्न ( Yatn)
  • वर्णन ( Varnan, warnan)
  • रचना ( Rachana, rachanaa)
  • निबंध ( Nibandh)
  • प्रबन्ध ( Prabandh)
  • लेख ( Lekh)
  • प्रयत्न करना ( Prayatn karana, prayatn karanaa)
  • परिश्रम करना ( Parishram karana, parishram karanaa)
  • जांचना ( Janchana, jaanchanaa, zanchana)

Synonyms of "essay"

  • prove
  • try out
  • try
  • attempt
  • examine
  • assay
  • test
  • seek

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