NOTES TOWARD THE MAKING OF A WHOLE HUMAN BEING:
The flow of this essay is very well put together. I like the way the essay starts off by describing the school and giving examples of how this school is different from any other. For example in the first paragraph the school is described as "a small desert college in the American West for which young men at eighteen are plucked from the East and delivered to a campus surrounded by mountains, the size of Manhattan, closed off from the world by a series of cliffs, honor, dehydration cattle guards, mountain lions, community censure, nearly fifty-three miles to the next human outpost, and the lure, at eighteen, of a world behind walls where boys can be boys,".
The description throughout this essay is very detail and it gives you a sense for what the college really is. An example of some of the activities students perform are " Locke and lassoing young calves to the ground, clipping their ears, branding their rears, cutting quickly into their one-year-old scrota"I think this is what really holds the essay together, description is essential for essay's and I think the author knows this which is why the details of the university and the boys are so vivid.
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