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This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life is an essay by David Foster Wallace.The text originates from a commencement speech Wallace gave at Kenyon College on May 21, 2005.
The speech was published as a book, This Is Water, in 2009. [29] In May 2013, parts of the speech were used in a popular online video, also titled "This Is Water". [30] Bonnie Nadell was Wallace's literary agent during his entire career. [31] Michael Pietsch was his editor on Infinite Jest. [32] Wallace died in 2008.
David Foster Wallace's commencement speech for Kenyon College, "This Is Water" An excerpt from Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma; Judy Brady's "I Want a Wife" Gloria Naylor's "The Meanings of a Word" Richard Rodriguez's "Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood" An excerpt from Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
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Victoria Woodhull was the first woman to run for president in the U.S. and she made her historic run in 1872 – before women even had the right to vote! She supported women's suffrage as well as welfare for the poor, and though it was frowned upon at the time, she didn't shy away from being vocal about sexual freedom.
The commercialization of water is offered as a response to the increased scarcity of water that has resulted due to the world population tripling while the demand for water has increased six-fold. Market environmentalism uses the markets as a solution to environmental problems such as environmental degradation and an inefficient use of resources.