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This article has allowed me to formulate an understanding of what the humanities are and how they are incorporated into everyone's life. The introduction of A New Deal for the Humanities gave me a clear idea of how different types of people can find different meanings for a subject matter. This passage speaks on how many professionals in higher education fear that the humanities are facing a crisis. The word “crisis” can be seen as a loaded word, just from the highly negative connotation and how it gains the reader’s attention from the beginning. However, if the eloquence about the word “crisis” is withdrawn, the humanities do face increasing pressure from outside parties. In A New Deal for the Humanities, Gordon Hunter and Feisal G. Mohamed

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