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.

His essay has served as an inspiration to other liberal-minded economists wishing to distinguish themselves from conservative thinkers, for example James M. Buchanan's essay " Why I, Too, Am Not a Conservative: The Normative Vision of Classical Liberalism ".

* 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.

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.

This essay had the same shock value as the original " Modest Proposal " for those readers who had not been exposed to Swift.

Orwell may have been the first to use the term cold war, in his essay, " You and the Atom Bomb ", published in Tribune, 19 October 1945.

Rousseau had read about an essay competition sponsored by the Académie de Dijon to be published in the Mercure de France on the theme of whether the development of the arts and sciences had been morally beneficial.

The term " Jewish-Christian " had been used in this sense as early as 1785 in Richard Watson's essay " The Teaching and Witness of the Holy Spirit ", and " Jewish Christian " ( as an adjective ) as early as 1644 in William Rathband's A Briefe Narration of Some Church Courses.

In his essay, Dijkstra noted that the newer computers in his day " embodied such serious flaws that felt that with a single stroke the progress of computing science had been retarded by at least ten years ".

Even though Breton by 1946 responded rather negatively to the subject of music with his essay Silence is Golden, later Surrealists, such as Paul Garon, have been interested in — and found parallels to — Surrealism in the improvisation of jazz and the blues.

James T. Costa said that because the book was an abstract produced in haste in response to Wallace's essay, it was more approachable than the big book on natural selection Darwin had been working on, which would have been encumbered by scholarly footnotes and much more technical detail.

In 1949, Wright contributed to the anti-communist anthology The God That Failed ; his essay had been published in the Atlantic Monthly three years earlier and was derived from the unpublished portion of Black Boy.

Nelson had been inspired by " As We May Think ", a popular essay by Vannevar Bush.

Schiele's life and work have also been the subject of essays, including a discussion of his works by fashion photographer Richard Avedon in an essay on portraiture entitled " Borrowed Dogs.

Cecil has been a character in many works of fiction and documentary essay concerned with Elizabeth I's reign.

Black is best known for a 1985 essay, " The Abolition of Work ," which has been widely reprinted and translated into at least thirteen languages ( most recently, Urdu ).

Two more essay collections were later published as books, Friendly Fire ( Autonomedia, 1992 ) and Beneath the Underground ( Feral House, 1994 ), the latter devoted to the do-it-yourself / fanzine subculture of the ' 80s and ' 90s which he called " the marginals milieu " and in which he had been heavily involved.

One critic claimed that he had been paid by Jewish groups to write his critical essay on Quebec.

In May 1968 he completed an essay, " Reflections on Progress, Peaceful Coexistence, and Intellectual Freedom ", where the anti-ballistic missile defense is described as a major threat of world nuclear war.

She was the subject of Simone de Beauvoir's 1959 essay, The Lolita Syndrome, which described Bardot as a " locomotive of women's history " and built upon existentialist themes to declare her the first and most liberated woman of post-war France.

Robert M. Price described in his essay " H. P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos " two stages in the development of the Cthulhu Mythos.

" Biographer Joseph Wood Krutch described the essay as " a rather highly ingenious exercise in the art of rationalization ".

Jacintha Buddicom repudiated Orwell's schoolboy misery described in the essay, stating that " he was a specially happy child ".

The exhibition is described as " the first in Feininger ’ s native country in more than forty-five years, and the first ever to include the full breadth of his art " and as " accompanied by a richly illustrated monograph with a feature essay that provides a broad overview of Feininger ’ s career ..."

In the essay, Wright described how, as a young girl, she misheard the last line of the first stanza from the 17th-century ballad " The Bonny Earl O ' Moray ".

Those who expressed sympathy for McVeigh typically described his deed as an act of war, as in the case of Gore Vidal's essay The Meaning of Timothy McVeigh.

Arthur Clarke also wrote an essay in which he described the game and how he got hooked on it.

In 1907, he wrote an essay on " Education in the Light of Spiritual Science ", in which he described the major phases of child development that were later to form the foundation of his approach to education.

Lewis described the origin of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in an essay entitled It All Began with a Picture:

In his 1936 essay " Wotan ", Jung described Germany as " infected " by " one man who is obviously ' possessed '...", and as " rolling towards perdition ", and wrote

It was also described in 1848 by Frédéric Bastiat in his essay " What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen ".

In the essay, Bush described a microfilm-based machine ( the Memex ) in which one could link any two pages of information into a " trail " of related information, and then scroll back and forth among pages in a trail as if they were on a single microfilm reel.

On the same subject, American feminist theorist and author of Gender Trouble Judith Butler wrote in the scholarly journal Diacritics an essay entitled " Further Reflections on the Conversions of Our Time ", in which she described the shift in these terms:

The work is a fictional historical essay dealing with the preamble to the events described in Tolkien's epic novel The Lord of the Rings, and the events themselves, in the style of The Silmarillion.

Linus's Law as described by Raymond is a claim about software development, named in honor of Linus Torvalds and formulated by Raymond in his essay and book " The Cathedral and the Bazaar " ( 1999 ).

For example, wearable computer imaging systems were described by Vannevar Bush in his essay " As We May Think " in the Atlantic Monthly in July 1945 and wearable devices for timing the trajectory of the balls on a roulette table were built and used by Ed Thorp and Claude Shannon in 1961.

" An essay by Louise Overton in 1930 described the town as " a beautiful and well cared for little city.

Stewart Holbrook described this conflagration in his essay " The Gorse of Bandon.

" Indeed, as Dr. Lois Parkinson Zamora of the University of Houston writes, " Roh, in his 1925 essay, described a group of painters whom we now categorize generally as Post-Expressionists.

In 1967 Smithson began exploring industrial areas around New Jersey and was fascinated by the sight of dump trucks excavating tons of earth and rock that he described in an essay as the equivalents of the monuments of antiquity.

The 2008 DVD release of " The Time Meddler ", as well as containing the last commentary she made before her death, also contains a short documentary feature " Verity Lambert Obituary " described as " A concise essay looking back over the career of one of Doctor Who's co-creators.

The playwright David Edgar described the Monday Club in an academic essay as " proselytis the ancient and venerable conservative traditions of paternalism, imperialism and racism.