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1. Essay
   Essay writing as a genre has a lot of masks that it puts on to withstand the requirements set by a certain situation and task. In other words, there are many essay styles. The most basic way of differentiating them is to divide essay writings into academic and publicistic groups.
2. Stephen Jay Gould -- Essays
   Stephen Jay Gould was diagnosed with peritoneal (abdominal) mesothelioma in 1982, when he was only 40 years old. He lived a remarkable 20 years after his diagnosis, dying in 2002 of a second and unrelated lung cancer. After his diagnosis, Dr. Gould wrote The Median Isn’t the Message, published in Discover magazine, about the power and place of statistics for disease outcome and how he dealt with the discouraging statistical information available on mesothelioma at the time of his diagnosis. The essay has been called a source of reason and hope for those diagnosed with diseases such as mesothelioma that have a disheartening prognosis.
3. George Orwell -- Essays
   A brilliant essayist with a magnificent command of the English language, Orwell in this first collection dealt with Charles Dickens, the English "boys' weeklies," and Henry Miller. He used his subjects to dwell on a wide variety of issues including "cultural unity," propaganda, and literary trends. These essays, as one critic later remarked, are "small masterpieces in a limited field." In early 1940 1,100 copies (with overs) of this book were printed; the book went out of print before the end of the year. All copies were not sold; some were destroyed by bombing. Orwell probably earned less than £30 for this splendid collection. No American edition of this book has been published.
4. Ayn Rand -- Essays
   The Ayn Rand connection for this song is a mention in her essay "The Comprachicos." "The best illustration of this process [learning by means of repetition and concrete-bound association] is a song that was popular some twenty years ago called 'Mairzy Doats.' Try to recall some poem you had to memorize in grade school; you will find that you can recall it only if you recite the sounds automatically, by the 'Mairzy Doats' method; if you focus on the meaning, the memory vanishes." You will know what she was talking about when you hear the words. This particular recording was the top selling version. The Merry Macs were a vocal group that started in the late 1930s and reached the peak of their popularity during World War II.
5. Descriptive Essays -- Writers
   Descriptive essays describe different people, places and things in such a vivid way that the reader can have a mental picture of the things in the essay. The images in the essay should come alive to the reader. Descriptive words are used to make the events seem real. The vocabulary of the writer uses language that is active and fresh. The essay is well-organized in such a way that each paragraph falls in sequence.
6. Virginia Woolf -- Essays
   "How queer," Virginia Woolf once observed, "to have so many selves." In her novels and essays, not to mention nearly 4,000 letters and a 30-volume diary, Woolf left behind a voluminous anatomy of self, and in the years since her 1941 suicide, biographers and critics have created a succession of further portraits.
7. John Locke -- Essay Concerning Human Understanding
   Using his intimate knowledge of John Locke’s writings, John W. Yolton shows that Locke comprehends "human understanding" as a subset of a larger understanding of other intelligent Beings—angels, spirits, and an omniscient God. Locke’s books on Christianity (The Reasonableness of Christianity and Paraphrases of St. Paul’s Epistles) have received extensive analysis and commentary, but little attention has been given to the place of his Essay concerning Human Understanding in his religious and theological beliefs. Yolton shows that Locke’s account of what it is to be human in that work is profoundly religious.
8. Schoenberg -- Techniques
   Practically an autodidact except for some formal lessons in counterpoint with Alexander von Zemlinsky, Schoenberg was a great teacher; consequently his enlightening exposition of twelve tone technique is of paramount importance. His essays on Brahms and Mahler, whom he greatly admired, are novel and penetrating, and his Harmonielebre (1911) is one of the definitive textbooks on modern music theory.
9. John Adams -- Kerry Democrat
   John Adams was by his mental and moral constitution a federalist. He believed in strong government. To the opposite party he seemed much less a democrat than an aristocrat. In one of his essays he provoked great popular wrath by using the phrase "the well-born." he knew very well that in point of hereditary capacity and advantages men are not equal and never will be. His notion of democratic equality meant that all men should have equal rights in the eye of the law. There was nothing of the communist or leveler about him.
10. Chaucer, Geoffrey -- Works
    Lowes is noted for his essays and lectures on poetry and is the author of Geoffrey Chaucer and the Development of His Genius. In the following excerpt from one of his published lectures, Lowes provides cultural, biographical, and literary sources for Chaucer's works.

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