Important as was Mr. O'Donnell's essay, his thesis is so restricting as to deny Faulkner the stature which he obviously has.

It has also been argued that A Modest Proposal was, at least in part, a response to the 1728 essay The Generous Projector or, A Friendly Proposal to Prevent Murder and Other Enormous Abuses, By Erecting an Hospital for Foundlings and Bastard Children by Swift's rival Daniel Defoe.

The essay has been emulated many times.

In a chapter-long essay reprinted in In Search of Wonder, entitled " Cosmic Jerrybuilder: A. E. van Vogt ", Knight famously remarked that van Vogt " is no giant ; he is a pygmy who has learned to operate an overgrown typewriter.

Analytic geometry has traditionally been attributed to René Descartes Descartes made significant progress with the methods in an essay entitled La Geometrie ( Geometry ), one of the three accompanying essays ( appendices ) published in 1637 together with his Discourse on the Method for Rightly Directing One's Reason and Searching for Truth in the Sciences, commonly referred to as Discourse on Method.

In the literature concerning artificial intelligence ( AI ), Searle's essay has been second only to Turing's in the volume of debate it has generated.

According to a controversial essay titled " The Death of Environmentalism " ( Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, 2004 ) American environmentalism has been remarkably successful in protecting the air, water, and large stretches of wilderness in North America and Europe, but these environmentalists have stagnated as a vital force for cultural and political change.

A very recent essay by Leone Montagnini, discussing the question of the shape of the Earth from the origins to the late Antiquity, has shown that the Fathers of the Church shared different approaches that paralleled their overall philosophical and theological visions.

* George Mason University has an economics essay award named in honor of Hayek.

* The Mont Pelerin Society has a quadrennial economics essay contest named in his honor.

If the book itself, Animal Farm, had left any doubt of the matter, Orwell dispelled it in his essay Why I Write: ' Every line of serious work that I ’ ve written since 1936 has been written directly or indirectly against Totalitarianism ... dot, dot, dot, dot.

Susan Haack has an essay on Gaudy Night as a philosophical novel.

The " Outlines " became sufficiently common for James Thurber to parody the trend in his humorous essay, " An Outline of Scientists "— indeed, Wells's Outline of History remains in print with a new 2005 edition, while A Short History of the World has been recently reedited ( 2006 ).

In a foreword to his essay Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy ( 1886 ), three years after Marx's death, Engels claimed confidently that " In the meantime, the Marxist world outlook has found representatives far beyond the boundaries of Germany and Europe and in all the literary languages of the world.

" Marcuse's 1965 essay " Repressive Tolerance ", in which he claimed capitalist democracies can have totalitarian aspects, has been criticized by conservatives.

The essay has been described as " a daring and original piece of work in which he set out to show that theology must yield to the superior wisdom of philosophy ", and as such was controversial, particularly among the conservative professors at the University of Berlin.

Arthur Schopenhauer has been accused of misogyny for his essay " On Women " ( Über die Weiber ), in which he expressed his opposition to what he called " Teutonico-Christian stupidity " on female affairs.

Although the concept has existed for centuries, the term meritocracy was first coined by British politician and sociologist, Michael Young in his 1958 satirical essay, " The Rise of the Meritocracy ", which pictured the United Kingdom under the rule of a government favoring intelligence and aptitude ( merit ) above all.

As Singer argues in the same essay, regardless of the soundness of his fundamental defense of utilitarianism, his argument has value in that it exposes conflicts between many people's stated beliefs and their actions.

" In her much reprinted essay " Science Fiction and Mrs Brown ," the science fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin has approached an answer by first citing the essay written by the English author Virginia Woolf entitled " Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown " in which she states:

Thoreau's 1848 essay Civil Disobedience, originally titled " Resistance to Civil Government ", has had a wide influence on many later practitioners of civil disobedience.

In this essay, he explored the idea that the progress of culture is associated with the deletion of ornament from everyday objects, and that it was therefore a crime to force craftsmen or builders to waste their time on ornamentation that served to hasten the time when an object would become obsolete.

In brief, the Pirenne Thesis, an early essay in economic history diverging from the narrative history of the 19th century, notes that in the ninth century long-distance trading was at a low ebb ; the only settlements that were not purely agricultural were the ecclesiastical, military and administrative centres that served the feudal ruling classes as fortresses, episcopal seats, abbeys and occasional royal residences of the peripatetic palatium.

He contributed an essay, " Remarks on the Southern Religion " to I'll Take My Stand, a book of essays by the so-called Southern Agrarians that served as the movement's manifesto.

He served as adviser to the India Planning Commission, as well as to the governments of Zambia and Burma — an experience that led to his much-read essay on " Buddhist Economics.

In a famous 1921 essay marking the Manchester Guardian < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s centenary ( at which time he had served nearly fifty years as editor ), Scott put down his opinions on the role of the newspaper.

In another essay, " The Affective Fallacy ," which served as a kind of sister essay to " The Intentional Fallacy " Wimsatt and Beardsley also discounted the reader's personal / emotional reaction to a literary work as a valid means of analyzing a text.

In 1948, Jean-Paul Sartre analyzed the négritude movement in an essay called " Orphée Noir " ( Black Orpheus ) which served as the introduction to a volume of francophone poetry called Anthologie de la nouvelle poésie nègre et malgache, compiled by Léopold Senghor.

Sarraute's essay The Age of Suspicion ( L ' Ère du soupçon, 1956 ) served as a prime manifesto for the nouveau roman literary movement, alongside Alain Robbe-Grillet's For a New Novel.

The UC regents developed a new system, including essay requirements that served to reveal the applicant's race and ethnicity.

In his essay " Subculture: The Meaning of Style ", Dick Hebdige discusses how an individual can be identified as a bricoleur when they " appropriated another range of commodities by placing them in a symbolic ensemble which served to erase or subvert their original straight meanings ".

In McNeill's speculative essay, the Assyrians were forced to withdraw by disease, an event which in McNeill's opinion served to support Judaism's then-new monotheistic tradition.

In Edinburgh, he served an apprenticeship in dentistry ; he then moved back to Anstruther where he wrote his noted essay on " Teeth "; in 1840 he was appointed Conservator of the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in succession to the great William McGillivray, and lecturer on Diseases of Bone in 1842.

This piece, based on his experience as a teacher and as an often-arrested activist in the civil rights movement, served as the title essay of his first book.

In his essay, Qian Zhongshu quoted Goethe's simile of translators as geschäftige Kuppler, and stated that Lin Shu served well as a matchmaker between Western literature and Chinese readers, as he himself ( a most avid reader of western books ) was indeed motivated by Lin's translations to learn foreign languages.

Hutt, Reynolds contributed an essay and served as editor.

In particular, because the officials Wang Shuwen and Wang Pi, who dominated the court of Emperor Xianzong's father Emperor Shunzong — who had previously served as Emperor Shunzong's staff members while Emperor Shunzong was crown prince — were at that time denounced as frivolous and power-hungry, Yuan submitted an essay detailing what he saw as qualifications that the crown prince's and other imperial princes ' staff members should have, and Emperor Xianzong was impressed upon reading it.

Combined with the inspiration of John Ruskin — in particular his essay " The Nature of Gothic " — architecture played an important symbolic part in Morris's approach to socialism.

Gertrude's descriptive essays apparently began with her essay of Alice B. Toklas, " a little prose vignette, a kind of happy inspiration that had detached itself from the torrential prose of The Making of Americans ".

Holmes was the subject of several books, a lengthy essay in Rolling Stone, two feature length documentaries, and was the inspiration for two Hollywood movies ( Boogie Nights and Wonderland ).

His views on inspiration were indicated in his work Die Propheten und ihre Weissagungen ( 1860 ), in his essay on the " Alte Inspirationslehre ," in Deutsche Zeitschrift für christliche Wissenschaft ( 1850 ), and in his Gespräche über die vornehmsten Glaubensfragen der Zeit ( 1846 ; 2nd ed., 1867 ).

In one essay about the National Parks, he referred to them as " places for rest, inspiration, and prayers.

The film's inspiration came from an essay by Herbert Asbury titled Gangs of New York.

In 2007, the collective relaunched the magazine as Room, reflecting a more outward-facing, conversational editorial mandate ; however, the original name and its inspiration is reflected in a quote from the Woolf essay that always appears on the back cover of the magazine.

For example, John Hookham Frere's mock-heroic Arthurian tale Prospectus and Specimen of an intended National Work had suggested Beppo, and, at the same time, had prompted and provoked a sympathetic study of Frere's Italian models, Francesco Berni and Luigi Pulci ; and, again, the success of Beppo, and, still more, a sense of inspiration and the conviction that he had found the path to excellence, suggested another essay of the ottava rima, a humorous poem " à la Beppo " on a larger and more important scale.

The boxset also includes a booklet with an essay and three short stories from which the film draws inspiration: Akinari Ueda's " The House in the Thicket " and " A Serpent's Lust ", and Guy de Maupassant's " How He Got the Legion of Honor ".

The essay laid a groundwork for ethical intuitionism and provided inspiration for some of the most influential moral philosophers, such as John Rawls.

Donna Haraway is the inspiration and genesis for cyberfeminism with her 1985 essay " A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century " which was reprinted in " Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature " ( 1991 ).