Great Works \’09

Oppression has been with Erendira from the start
Grandmother and her were world’s apart
With daily chores that squeezed her dry
Erendira’s pleas heard no reply
Night and Day, she would not rest
Submitting to obscene requests
One night, misfortune struck a blow
That left their home with fire aglow
Erendira was in debt
For a mistake she can’t forget
Her body was bargained for,
She [...]

     This lecture started out with the mention of a CEO of Delta Airlines relating English to his hiring practices — what a surprise. In a Business School like Baruch, the English department definitely feels the pressure to not only maintain relevance with the field of business but also to relay this to its students. [...]