Under the headline, "Forecasts for 1907," a black and white cartoon showed a well-dressed Edwardian couple sitting in a London park. The man and woman are turned away from each other, antennae protruding from their hats. In their laps are little black boxes, spitting out ticker tape.
If there's a joke here, I think it went over my head.
If your friend wishes to read your "Plutarch's Lives," "Shakespeare," or "The Federalist Papers," tell him gently but firmly, to buy a copy. You will lend him your car or your coat—but your books are as much a part of you as your head or your heart.
this is so true because books are something you should be able to just note in even if its on sticky notes . Also Shakespeare is one of my favorite writers and he was always marking and writing to the point his hands where always covered in ink
“He was indeed,” said the Officer, nodding his head with a fixed and thoughtful expression. Then he looked at his hands, examining them. They didn’t seem to him clean enough to handle the diagrams. So he went to the bucket and washed them again. Then he pulled out a small leather folder and said, “Our sentence does not sound severe. The law which a condemned man has violated is inscribed on his body with the harrow. This Condemned Man, for example,” and the Officer pointed to the man, “will have inscribed on his body, ‘Honour your superiors.’”
Alas, the double entendre of "sentence" as a grammatical and legal entity at once is not active in German, but the slippage certainly fits here!
Clearly the mind is always altering its focus, and bringing the world into different perspectives. But some of these states of mind seem, even if adopted spontaneously, to be less comfortable than others.
Minds are never fixated on one single thing and are constantly darting from one thing to the next. We can't always helps what comes into our head and how that makes us feel, causing some states of minds "to be less comfortable than others". I believe that's what the author is talking about? Also, is it a good thing to feel these uncomfortable states of minds? What if we were always content?
The Marshall Experience13Harry PotterJ. K. Rowling published Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stonein 1997. If you are 18 now, you are too young to have witnessedthe beginning of the Harry Potter phenomenon—but old enough to notice its effect on older siblings and friends. And if you didn't eventually take up reading the books yourself, the movies most certainly drew you in a few years later. Wherever you belong in the Harry Potter universe, you know that the books and movies shaped an entire generation over the last 18years. If you have a winning idea, J. K. Rowling's story ofsuccess would be a good one to follow. As she tells it, the idea for the orphaned wizard-‐to-‐be popped into her head during a long train ride from Manchester to London in 1990.7She finished themanuscript by 1995 andeventually signing a contract with Bloomsbury Children's Books. In 1996 she received a £2,500 advance on the book (about $4,000), and in 1997 Bloomsbury launched an initial print-‐run of 500 copies. By 2001,the book had sold over 11.6 million copies and Rowling was reportedly a billionaire. She is the first and only billionaire to have come by her fortune through writing. Rowling’s story seems to bear out everything we believe about successful people: talent, hard workand some well-‐timed luck equals success. But did you notice the details? Go back and reread the paragraph I just wrote. Look at the dates. Idea à1990. Manuscript finished à1995. Publisher secured à1996. In print à1997. Author becomes a billionaire à2001. Five yearsof writing?That’s more time than you plan tospend at Marshall getting your bachelors degree. Would you risk working on a project for five years, knowing that it wasn’t a sure t
When passion is this strong, yes. Simply put, if the brain believes it will happen, it will happen. No matter what obstacles show up along the way.
Formost men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about it, whether it is of the devil or of God,and have somewhat hastily concluded that it is the chief end of man here to "glorify God and enjoyhim forever."
Mr Crowley what goes on in your head?
As VR creator Anna Henson—associate producer of Styles and Customs of the 2020s—explained in an email, “the museum is responsible for an interaction in which two people’s physical space will intersect. This is, in fact, a very intimate interaction.” Moments of intimacy range from introducing a visitor to VR by pantomiming how to put on the headset, asking for permission to tighten the strap against a visitor’s head, or being the first person a visitor sees when a session is cut short due to in nausea or dizziness. The museum took care to select and train gallery ambassadors who would be sensitive to visitors’ vulnerability. Henson also included a monitor that allowed bystanders to gain a glimpse into what their plugged-in companions were seeing, an effort to create a more inclusive and social experience.
I've found myself in several situations having to figure this out on the fly. It felt weird to have this big responsibility of introducing someone to their first VR experience - loosing their VRginity. I like Desi Gonzalez' positive tone here: as public institutions, Museums have a huge opportunity to shape visitors' (first) experiences with VR works. Likewise at festivals, where I must say I have been usually disappointed by the way (mostly volunteer) attendants guided my experience. This was usually due to providing too little context or introduction. Just asking if a visitor has ever done VR before - and providing guidance accordingly - can make all the difference.
Columbus had stood the world on its head towards 1500;
Columbus did not stand the world on it's head! Big surprise, but America was already discovered by the Native Americans :-)
She waved away the spoon when I brought it toward her and, holding up the piece of clear trash, she said, “Isn’t this a cute thing?” then continued to look at it for a long time. She pointed at the toe of my boot and said, “Whose head is that? Is it a baby’s?” She looked at the sunlight coming along the wall and asked me why they had done that, why they hadn’t left it the way it was. After the meal, she appeared to doze, then opened her eyes and said,” What am I supposed to know? Do I know anything? Do I have a name?”
She seems to be struggling from sort of mental disorder or is hallucinating, possibly from medication.
“Isn’t this a cute thing?” then continued to look at it for a long time. She pointed at the toe of my boot and said, “Whose head is that? Is it a baby’s?” She looked at the sunlight coming along the wall and asked me why they had done that, why they hadn’t left it the way it was.
The woman seems to be suffering from some sort of mental disease.
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I didnt want to highlight and talk on all these individually, my question is because of the language could they not simplify all these points into few? Though I complain they cover many points to protect their people even though their leader is murder crazed and wants to cut off everyones head.
Perhaps now it would be better to give up seeking for the truth, and receiving on one’s head an avalanche of opinion hot as lava, discoloured as dish-water
What's better/easier--the truth or opinions that make sense?
rather annoys the good folks
That one particular song by Ludacris is playing in my head right now
ghost.
Is this where we got the idea that if you put a white sheet over your head you're automatically a ghost?
The remedy!!!
The proportion of the hole the rope makes to the size of his head appears small. I wonder how he gets it around his head.
Civil-rights leader Andrew Young (left) and others stand on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel pointing in the direction of an assailant after the assassination of civil-rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who is lying at their feet, in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. # Joseph Louw / The LIFE Images Collection / Getty Read more This aerial view shows clouds of smoke rising from burning buildings in northeast Washington, D.C., on April 5, 1968. The fires resulted from rioting and demonstrations after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. # AP Read more Firemen battle a blaze on 125th Street in Harlem, New York, on April 4, 1968, after a furniture store and other buildings were set on fire after it was learned that civil-rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated. # AP Read more President Johnson called federal troops into the nation's capital to restore peace after a day of arson, looting, and violence on April 5, 1968. Here, a trooper stands guard in the street as another (left) patrols a completely demolished building. # Bettmann / Getty Read more Coretta Scott King, the widow of Martin Luther King Jr., walks on the arm of Dr. Ralph Abernathy, her husband's successor as head of the Southern Christian Leadership conference, leading about 10,000 people in a memorial march to the slain Dr. King. The King children, Yolanda, Martin III, and Dexter are at left with Harry Belafonte. Reverend Andrew Young marches next to Dr. Abernathy. # Bettmann / Getty Read more Original caption: Dr. Timothy Leary holds a conference in New York City on February 21, 1968. The LSD advocate said he is tuning in with peaceniks and “Yippies” and hopes to have a million young people in Chicago during the Democratic Party’s convention in August. He said he hopes they will disrupt the convention through “Flower Guerrilla” warfare. At left is Abbie Hoffman, who said he is an organizer and at right is Jerry Rubin, peace movement worker. # AP Read more 1968 was truly a year of protest around the world. Here in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, state police cavalry charge students attending a memorial mass for Edson Luis de Lima Souto, a student killed by police, at Candelaria Church on April 4, 1968. Edson had been part of an earlier protest over high prices in a restaurant in downtown Rio, and was shot by police who were trying to remove students from premises. # Agencia JB / AP Read more Violent clashes between policeman and students take place during the May 1968 protests in Paris, France. [Editor's note: This photo replaces a previous image in this position that had been mislabeled by the source.] # Jacques Haillot / Apis / Sygma via Getty Read more A massive anti-Vietnam war demonstration in London on March 18, 1968. Hundreds were arrested as they demonstrated outside the United States embassy. # Corbis via Getty Read more Demonstrators march on Washington, D.C., during the Poor Peoples' Campaign Solidarity Day on June 19, 1968. # Charles Tasnadi / AP Read more The Beatles pose together on February 28, 1968. From left are Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Ringo Starr, and George Harrison. This was the year they released the White Album. # AP Read more American actor Gary Lockwood on the set of 2001: A Space Odyssey, written and directed by Stanley Kubrick. The groundbreaking film premiered in April of 1968, and earned the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. # Sunset Boulevard / Corbis via Getty Read more A propaganda image from China's Cultural Revolution. In 1968, China was in a phase of their Cultural Revolution where Chairman Mao Zedong's cult of personality was still being elevated, and intellectuals and disloyal citizens were being forced into labor camps or exiled to remote farming regions. Original caption: Members of the Sichuan Province Revolving Committee unite with civilians and soldiers to work in the fields on August 26, 1968. # API / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Read more Federal Nigerian troops walk along a road near Ikot Expene, Nigeria, to the frontier with Biafra, a few miles away, on October 13, 1968. On the roadside, two emaciated Nigerian boys slowly die from starvation and malnutrition. Biafra was a breakaway state within Nigeria that fought a war for independence from 1967 to 1970, ending after years of fighting and a crippling blockade by Nigeria resulted in the deaths of between 500,000 and two million Biafran civilians by starvation. # Dennis Lee Royle / AP Read more A street scene from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Grant St. at 5th Ave. on August 24, 1968. See the same scene today in Google Street View. # CC BY David Wilson Read more Original caption: A Feminine First. Mexico City: Mexico's Norma Enriqueta Basilio, the first woman in the history of the modern Olympic Games to light the Olympic Fire, runs up the 90 steps with the Olympic Torch during the opening ceremonies here on October 12, 1968. # Bettmann / Getty Read more Tommie Smith and John Carlos, gold and bronze medalists in the 200-meter run at the 1968 Olympic Games, engage in a victory stand protest against unfair treatment of blacks in the United States. With heads lowered and black-gloved fists raised in the black power salute, they refused to recognize the American flag and national anthem. Australian Peter Norman is the silver medalist. # Bettmann / Getty Read more Senator Robert F. Kennedy is surrounded by hundreds of people as he leans down to shake hands during a presidential campaign appearance at a street corner in central Philadelphia on April 2, 1968. Kennedy had declared his candidacy for the presidency of the United States only weeks earlier, on March 16. # AP Read more Senator Robert Kennedy lies sprawled, semi-conscious in his own blood after being shot in the head and neck while busboy Juan Romero tries to comfort him in kitchen in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California, on June 5, 1968. A Palestinian immigrant named Sirhan Sirhan, who was angry with Kennedy over his support for Israel, shot Kennedy three times. Sirhan remains in prison to this day, last denied parole in 2016. # Bill Eppridge / The LIFE Picture Collection / Getty Read more Coretta Scott King, widow of Martin Luther King Jr., walks past the casket containing the body of the assassinated Senator Robert F. Kennedy in St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City on June 7, 1968. # Bettmann / Getty Read more A large crowd lines railroad tracks as the funeral train of Robert F. Kennedy passes on its way to Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, D.C. # Bettmann / Getty Read more Youths prepare to board buses for Chicago in August of 1968. Peace activists and anti-war groups organized to travel to Chicago to demonstrate outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention. # AP Read more Police and demonstrators clash near the Conrad Hilton Hotel on Chicago's Michigan Avenue August 28, 1968, during the Democratic National Convention. # Bettmann / Getty Read more Mike Wallace, a CBS newsman, is hustled off the Democratic National Convention floor in the aftermath of a row between delegates and security officers during the nominating session on August 28, 1968 in Chicago. He was taken up a ramp to a second-floor room. # AP Read more Vice President Hubert Humphrey and his running mate, Sen. Edmund S. Muskie, with their wives shown at the final session Democratic Convention in Chicago following their nominations for president and vice president, on August 29, 1968. # AP Read more Members of the Black Panthers gather in front of entrance to the Alameda County Courthouse in Oakland, California, on July 15, 1968, to protest the trial of Huey Newton, 26, the founder of the Black Panthers. Newton went on trial for the slaying of an Oakland policeman and for wounding another officer on October 28. # Ernest K. Bennett / AP Read more Original caption: Miami policemen, one holding the man's arm and the other with an arm lock on his neck, drag away a Negro youth during a clash between police and rioters in that city's predominantly Negro Liberty City district on August 8, 1968. # Bettmann / Getty Read more Helicopters fly low during Operation Pegasus in Vietnam on April 5, 1968. They were taking part in the operation to relieve the Khe Sanh marine base, which had been under siege for the previous three months. # Dang Van Phuoc / AP Read more Evidence of the My Lai Massacre. A photograph of Vietnamese women and children in My Lai before they were killed by U.S. soldiers in the massacre on March 16, 1968. According to court testimony, they were killed seconds after the photo was taken. The woman on the right is adjusting her blouse buttons because of a sexual assault that happened before the massacre. Image taken from Volume III, Book 6, of the Report of the Department of the Army Review of the Preliminary Investigations into the My Lai Incident, photographed by United States Army photographer Ronald L. Haeberle. # Ronald L. Haeberle / U.S. Army Read more A U.S. Marine keeps his head low as he drags a wounded buddy from the ruins of the Citadel's outer wall during the Battle of Hue in Vietnam on February 16, 1968. # Bettmann / Getty Read more United States President Lyndon B. Johnson listens to a tape recording from his son-in-law Captain Charles Robb at the White House on July 31, 1968. Robb was a U.S. Marine Corps company commander in Vietnam at the time. Robb was later awarded the Bronze Star and, after returning home, became governor of Virginia in 1982, and later a senator for the same state. # Jack Kightlinger / AP Read more Original caption: Several hundred hippies gathered at "Hippie Hill" in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park for a happening at which several bands played rock 'n' roll music. Most of the hippies sat and listened, but some just couldn't keep from dancing to the rhythms. # Bettmann / Getty Read more Mexican army soldiers crouch with weapons ready in Mexico City's Tlatelolco district, in this October 2, 1968 photo. The truth behind the stunning assault on a peaceful democracy protest known as the Tlatelolco Massacre, in which some 300 people are believed to have been killed, remains largely hidden by government and military secrecy. # AP Read more Soldiers cut a student's hair after he was arrested during the first hour and a half of shooting in the Tlatelolco area in Mexico City on October 3, 1968. Another student stands against the wall. # AP Read more SRI’s Bill English, the engineer who built the first computer mouse prototype, prepares for the December 9, 1968 "mother of all demos." The demonstration is hailed as one of the most significant technological presentations in history, showcasing technologies that have become what we now know as modern computing. He gave the first public demonstration of a computer mouse, a graphical user interface, windowed computing, hypertext, word processing, video conferencing, and much more. # SRI International Read more Richard M. Nixon is mobbed by wildly cheering supporters as he arrives at the Hilton Plaza Hotel, his Miami Beach headquarters. # Bettmann / CORBIS / Getty Read more French Foreign Minister Michel Debre and U.S. President Lyndon Johnson watch television coverage of the flight of the Saturn 1 B Rocket launching from Cape Kennedy, Florida, on on October 11, 1968, in the White House Office in Washington, D.C. # Charles Gorry / AP Read more A heavy beard covers the face of astronaut Walter M. Schirra Jr., Apollo 7 commander, as he looks out the rendezvous window in front of the commander's station on the ninth day of the Apollo 7 mission on October 20, 1968. Apollo 7 was the first Apollo mission to carry a crew, and it made 163 orbits around the Earth in 10 days, setting the stage for Apollo 8, which was heading to the moon. # JSC / NASA Read more Apollo 8, the first manned mission to the moon, entered lunar orbit on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1968. That evening, the astronauts—Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot Jim Lovell, and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders—held a live broadcast from lunar orbit, in which they showed pictures of the earth and moon as seen from their spacecraft. Said Lovell, "The vast loneliness is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth." 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The sad day where Dr. King himself died and wondering of the whereabouts of the killer, and a possibility that civil rights itself may have lost because of its head figure dying.
On the roadside, two emaciated Nigerian boys slowly die from starvation and malnutrition. Biafra was a breakaway state within Nigeria that fought a war for independence from 1967 to 1970, ending after years of fighting and a crippling blockade by Nigeria resulted in the deaths of between 500,000 and two million Biafran civilians by starvation.
This somber text shows the paralyzing image in your head of the effects of war and famine
A U.S. Marine keeps his head low as he drags a wounded buddy from the ruins of the Citadel's outer wall during the Battle of Hue in Vietnam on February 16, 1968. #
The U.S Marine is trying his best to attempt to save his friend during this war. It looks like his friend is not only severely wounded but he is also unconscious.
If you tripped and bashed your head on the floor, I noted, a neurologist would be waiting conveniently for you around the corner.
I think the use of some comedy and irony within the essay is important to why the author may have written this piece.
add the word 'maker' or 'poet' to the name of the metre, and speak ofelegiac poets, or epic
For some reason the concept of metal or electronic music came to mind with the distinctions between also the sub genres. Those who don't pay attention to the details may lump them all under one classification, when those to delve into them find the difference that can vastly alter and distinguish certain areas of the genre. For some reason this modern example kept coming to my head when reading about poetry vs. writing.
"You put trust in these universities. You trust them with your kid on and off the court. And once you're a damaged good, they just kick you to the curb."
The universities and colleges are trying to get into the students' and athletes' head to get money from them.
, she illustrated the potential evils of scientific hubris and at the same time challenged any conception of science and the scientific method that rested on a gendered definition of nature as female. Fully to appreciate the {{90}} significance of Mary Shelley's feminist critique of modern science, {288} we must look first at the particular scientific research upon which her novel is based. I The works of three of the most famous scientists of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century -- Humphry Davy, Erasmus Darwin, and Luigi Galvani -- together with the teachings of two of their ardent disciples, Adam Walker and Percy Shelley, were crucial to Mary Shelley's understanding of science and the scientific enterprise. While no scientist herself (her description of Victor Frankenstein's laboratory is both vague and naive; apparently Victor does all his experiments in a small attic room by the light of a single candle), Mary Shelley nonetheless had a sound grasp of the concepts and implications of some of the most important scientific work of her day. In her novel, she distinguishes between those scientific researches which attempt to describe accurately the functionings of the physical universe and those which attempt to control or change that universe through human intervention. Implicitly, she celebrates the former, which she associates most closely with the work of Erasmus Darwin, while she calls attention to the dangers inherent in the latter, found in the work of Davy, Galvani, and Walker. Victor Frankenstein chooses to work within the newly established field of chemical physiology; thus, he must be familiar with recent experiments in the disparate fields of biology, chemistry, mechanics, physics, and medicine. M. Waldman, Victor's chemistry professor at the University of Ingolstadt, observes that "a man would make but a very sorry chemist, if he attended to that department of human knowledge alone," and therefore advises Victor "to apply to every branch of natural philosophy, including mathematics."2 {{91}} Victor and Professor Waldman's concept of the nature and utility of chemistry is based upon Humphry Davy's famous introductory lecture to a course in chemistry given at the newly founded Royal Institution on 21 January 1802.3 Immediately published as A Discourse, Introductory to a Course of Lectures on Chemistry, this pamphlet is probably the work that Mary Shelley read on Monday, 28 October 1816, just before working on her story of Frankenstein.4 Waldman's enthusiasm for and description {289} of the benefits to be derived from the study of chemistry seem to be derived from Davy's remarks, as does Victor Frankenstein's belief that chemistry might discover the secret of life itself. Davy probably also supplied Mary Shelley's description of the first parts of Professor Waldman's introductory lecture on chemistry -- the opening "recapitulation of the history of chemistry and the various improvements made by different men of learning," followed by "a cursory view of the present state of the sciences," an explanation of several key terms and a few preparatory experiments (F, p. 42) -- which come not so much from Davy's Discourse as from his later textbook, Elements of Chemical Philosophy (London, 1812), which Percy Shelley ordered from Thomas Hookham on 29 July 1812.5 This may be the book listed in Mary's Journal on 29, 30 October, 2 and 4 November 18l6, where Mary notes that she "read Davy's 'Chemistry' with {{92}} Shelley" and then alone. A glance at the table of contents of this book would have given Mary Shelley the outline she attributes to Waldman: a brief history, followed by a discussion of several specific elements and compounds, with descriptions of experiments performed. The contents probably also provided her with the description of the lectures on natural philosophy that Victor Frankenstein attended in Geneva: Some accident prevented my attending these lectures until the course was nearly finished. The lecture being therefore one of the last was entirely incomprehensible to me. The professor discoursed with the greatest fluency of potassium and boron, of sulphates and oxyds, terms to which I could affix no idea. (F, p. 36) Davy's Discourse, written to attract and keep a large audience, provided Mary Shelley with both the content and the rhetoric of Waldman's final panegyric on modern chemistry, which directly inspired Victor Frankenstein's subsequent research. Waldman concludes, The ancient teachers of this science . . . promised impossibilities, and performed nothing. The modern masters promise very little; they know that metals cannot be transmuted, and that the elixir of life is a chimera. But these philosophers, whose hands seem only made to dabble in dirt, and their eyes to pore over the microscope or crucible, have indeed performed miracles. They penetrate into the recesses of nature, and shew how she works in her hiding places. They ascend into the heavens; {290} they have discovered how the blood circulates, and the nature of the air we breathe. They have acquired new and almost unlimited powers; they can command the thunders of heaven, mimic the earthquake, and even mock the invisible world with its own shadows. (F, p. 42) Davy, in his celebration of the powers of chemistry, asserted that "the phenomena of combustion, of the solution of different substances in water, of the agencies of fire, the production of rain, hail, and snow, and the conversion of dead matter into living matter by vegetable organs, all belong to chemistry."6 Arguing that chemistry is the basis of many other sciences, including mechanics, natural history, mineralogy, astronomy, medicine, physiology, pharmacy, botany, and zoology, Davy insists, How dependent, in fact, upon chemical processes are the nourishment and growth of organized beings; their various alterations of form, their constant production of new substances; and, finally, their death and decomposition, in which nature seems to take unto herself those {{93}} elements and constituent principles which, for a while, she had lent to a superior agent as the organs and instruments of the spirit of life! (Discourse, no. 8) After detailing the necessity of chemical knowledge to all the operations of common life, including agriculture, metalworking, bleaching, dyeing, leather tanning, and glass and porcelain making, Davy paints an idealistic portrait of the contemporary chemist, who is informed by a science that has given to him an acquaintance with the different relations of the parts of the external world; and more than that, it has bestowed upon him powers which may be almost called creative; which have enabled him to modify and change the beings surrounding him, and by his experiments to interrogate nature with power, not simply as a scholar, passive and seeking only to understand her operations, but rather as a master, active with his own instruments. (Discourse no. 16) Davy then sketches an even more visionary picture of the scientist of the future, who will discover the still unknown general laws of chemistry, for who would not be ambitious of becoming acquainted with the most profound secrets of nature; of ascertaining her hidden operations; and of exhibiting to men that system of knowledge which relates so intimately to their own physical and moral constitution? (Discourse, no. 17) {291} These are Waldman's chemists, who "penetrate into the recesses of nature, and shew how she works in her hiding places." The result of such activity, Davy confidently predicts, will be a more harmonious, cooperative and healthy society. True, he cautions, "We do not look to distant ages, or amuse ourselves with brilliant, though delusive dreams, concerning the infinite improveability of man, the annihilation of labour, disease, and even death" (Discourse, no. 22). But even as Davy apparently disavows the very dream that would inspire Victor Frankenstein, he claims for his own project something very similar: "we reason by analogy from simple facts. We consider only a state of human progression arising out of its present condition. We look for a time that we may reasonably expect, for a bright day of which we already behold the dawn" (Discourse, no. 22). Having boldly stated the social benefits to be {{94}} derived from the pursuit of chemistry, Davy concludes by insisting on the personal gratifications to be gained: "it may destroy diseases of the imagination, owing to too deep a sensibility; and it may attach the affections to objects, permanent, important, and intimately related to the interests of the human species," even as it militates against the "influence of terms connected only with feeling" and encourages instead a rational contemplation of the universal order of things (Discourse, no. 26). In fairness to Davy, he was very skeptical about Victor Frankenstein's chosen field, the new field of chemical physiology. Commenting on just the kind of enterprise Frankenstein pursues, the search for the principle of life itself, Davy warns: if the connexion of chemistry with physiology has given rise to some visionary and seductive theories; yet even this circumstance has been useful to the public mind in exciting it by doubt, and in leading it to new investigations. A reproach, to a certain degree just, has been thrown upon those doctrines known by the name of the chemical physiology; for in the applications of them speculative philosophers have been guided rather by the analogies of words than of facts. Instead of slowly endeavouring to lift up the veil concealing the wonderful phenomena of living nature; full of ardent imaginations, they have vainly and presumptuously attempted to tear it asunder. (Discourse, no. 9) Mary Shelley clearly heeded Davy's words, for she presents Victor Frankenstein as the embodiment of hubris, of that Satanic or Faustian {292} presumption which blasphemously attempts to penetrate the sacred mysteries of the universe. But in contrast to Davy, Mary Shelley doubted whether chemistry itself -- insofar as it involved a "mastery" of nature -- produced only good. She substituted for Davy's complacent image of the happy scientist living in harmony with both his community and himself the frightening image of the alienated scientist working in feverish isolation, cut off both physically and emotionally from his family, friends, and society. Victor Frankenstein's scientific researches not only bring him no satisfaction; they also leave him, as Laura Crouch has observed, disgusted with the entire scientific enterprise.7 Detached from a respect for nature and from a strong sense of personal responsibility for the products of one's research, scientific experimentation and purely objective thought can and do produce monsters. Mary Shelley might have found trenchant support for her view in Humphrey Davy's praise for one of chemistry's most notable {{95}} achievements: "in leading to the discovery of gunpowder, [chemistry] has changed the institutions of society, and rendered war more independent of brutal strength, less personal, and less barbarous."8 In contrast to Davy, Erasmus Darwin provided Mary Shelley with a powerful image of what she considered "good" science, a careful observation and celebration of the operations of nature with no attempt radically to alter either the way nature works or the institutions of society. Percy Shelley acknowledged the impact of Erasmus Darwin's work on his wife's novel when he began the Preface to the 1818 edition of Frankenstein with the assertion that "the event on which this fiction is founded has been supposed, by Dr. Darwin, and some of the physiological writers of Germany, as not of impossible occurrence" (F, p. 1). To what specific suppositions, theories, and experiments, by Erasmus Darwin and others, did Percy Shelley allude? Mary Shelley, in her Preface to the 1831 edition, referred to an admittedly apocryphal account of one of Dr. Darwin's experiments. During one of Byron and Shelley's many long conversations to which she was "a devout but nearly silent listener," Mary Shelley recalled, various philosophical doctrines were discussed, and among others the nature of the principle of life, and whether there was any probability of its ever being discovered and communicated. They talked of the experi- {293} ments of Dr. Darwin (I speak not of what the doctor really did or said that he did, but, as more to my purpose, of what was then spoken of as having been done by him), who preserved a piece of vermicelli in a glass case till by some extraordinary means it began to move with voluntary motion. (F, p. 227) Even though Mary Shelley acknowledges that the animated piece of vermicelli is probably a fiction, Erasmus Darwin's theories have significant bearing on her purposes in Frankenstein. Erasmus Darwin was most famous for his work on evolution and the growth of plants, and it is this work that Mary Shelley affirmed. Victor Frankenstein is portrayed as a direct opponent of Darwin's teachings, as an anti-evolutionist and a parodic perpetrator of an erroneous "Creation Theory." To perceive this dimension of Victor Frankenstein's project, we must first review the basic tenets of Erasmus Darwin's theories as they appear in his major works, The Botanic Garden (1789, 1791), Zoonomia; or, The Laws of Organic Life (1794), Phytologia (1800), and The Temple of Nature (1803). Eighteenth-century scientists generally conceived of the universe as a perfect, static world created by divine fiat at a single moment in time. This universe, metaphorically represented as a "great chain of being," manifested myriad and minute gradations between the species, but these relationships were regarded as fixed and permanent. {{96}} As Linnaeus, the great eighteenth-century classifier of all known plant life, insisted in his Systema Naturae (1735), "Nullae species novae" -- no new species can come into existence in a divinely ordered, perfect world. But by the end of the eighteenth century, under pressure from Herschel's new discoveries in astronomy, Cuvier's paleontological researches, William Smith's studies of fossil stratification, Sprengel's work on botanical crossbreeding and fertilization, and observations made with an increasingly powerful microscope, together with a more diffuse Leibnizian "natural theology" that emphasized the study of nature and her interactions with human populations, the orthodox Linnaean concept of an immutable physical universe had begun to weaken.9 Erasmus Darwin was inspired by the researches of the Comte du Buffon, the "father of evolution," who in his huge Histoire Naturelle (44 volumes, 1749-1804) had described myriads of flora and fauna and interspersed comments on the progressive "degeneration" of life forms {294} from earlier and more uniform species, often caused by environmental or climatic changes. Although he adhered to the concept of the scala naturae and the immutability of species, Buffon was the first to discuss seriously such central evolutionary problems as the origin of the earth, the extinction of species, the theory of "common descent," and in particular the reproductive isolation between two incipient species.10 Significantly, it was to Buffon that Victor Frankenstein also turned after his early disillusionment with the alchemists, and Buffon whom he "still read . . . with delight" (F, p. 36).11 But it was Erasmus Darwin who for English readers first synthesized and popularized the concept of the evolution of species through natural selection over millions of years. By 1803, Erasmus Darwin had accepted, on the basis of shell and fossil remains in the highest geological strata, that the earth must once have been covered by water and hence that all life began in the sea. As Darwin concisely summed up this theory of evolution in his notes to The Temple of Nature, After islands or continents were raised above the primeval ocean, great numbers of the most simple animals would attempt to seek food at the edges or shores of the new land, and might thence gradually become amphibious; as is now seen in the frog, who changes from an aquatic animal to an amphibious one, and in the gnat, which changes from a natant to a volant one. At the same time new microscopic animalcules would immediately commence wherever there was warmth and moisture, and some organic matter, that might induce putridity. Those situated on dry land, and immersed in dry air, may gradually acquire new powers to preserve their existence; and by innumerable successive reproductions for some thousands, or perhaps millions of ages, may at length have produced many of the vegetable and animal inhabitants which now people the earth. As innumerable shell-fish must have existed a long time beneath the ocean, before the calcareous mountains were produced and elevated; it is also probable, that many of the insect tribes, or less complicate animals, existed long before the quadrupeds or more complicate ones.12 Meditating on the suggestion that mankind descended from "one family of monkeys on the banks of the Mediterranean" that learned to use and strengthen the thumb muscle and "by this improved use of the sense of touch . . . acquired clear ideas, and gradually became men," Darwin speculated, {295} {{97}} Perhaps all the productions of nature are in their progress to greater perfection! an idea countenanced by modern discoveries and deductions concerning the progressive formation of the solid parts of the terraqueous globe, and consonant to the dignity of the Creator of all things. (Temple of Nature, p. 54) Darwin further suggested that such evolutionary improvement is the direct result of sexual selection: A great want of one part of the animal world has consisted in the desire of the exclusive possession of the females; and these have acquired weapons to bombard each other for this purpose, as the very thick, shield-like, horny skin on the shoulder of the boar is a defense only against animals of his own species, who strike obliquely upwards, nor are his tusk for other purposes, except to defend himself, as he is not naturally a carnivorous animal. So the horns of the stag are not sharp to offend his adversary, but are branched for the purpose of parrying or receiving the thrusts of horns similar to his own, and have therefore been formed for the purpose of combating other stags for the exclusive possession of the females; who are observed, like the ladies in the times of chivalry, to attend the car of the victor.13 Erasmus Darwin anticipated the modern discovery of mutations, noting in his discussion of monstrous births that monstrosities, or mutations, may be inherited: "Many of these enormities of shape are propagated, and continued as a variety at least, if not as a new species of animal. I have seen a breed of cats with an additional claw on every foot" (Zoonomia, 1794, 1: 501). In relation to Frankenstein, Erasmus Darwin's most significant evolutionary concept was that of the hierarchy of reproduction. Again and again, in Zoonomia, in The Botanic Garden, in Phytologia, and in The Temple of Nature, Darwin insisted that sexual reproduction is at a higher evolutionary level than hermaphroditic or solitary paternal propagation. As Darwin commented in his note "Reproduction" in The Temple of Nature, The microscopic productions of spontaneous vitality, and the next most inferior kinds of vegetables and animals, propagate by solitary generation only; as the buds and bulbs raised immediately from seeds, the lycoperdon tuber, with probably many other fungi, and the polypus, volvox, and taenia. Those of the next order propagate both by solitary and sexual reproduction, as those buds and bulbs which produce flowers as well as other buds or bulbs; and the aphis and probably many other {296} insects. Whence it appears, that many of those vegetables and animals, which are produced by solitary generation, {{98}} gradually become more perfect, and at length produce a sexual progeny. A third order of organic nature consists of hermaphrodite vegetables and animals, as in those flowers which have anthers and stigmas in the same corol; and in many insects, as leeches, snails, and worms; and perhaps all those reptiles which have no bones. . . And, lastly, the most perfect orders of animals are propagated by sexual intercourse only. (Temple of Nature, Additional Notes, pp. 36-37) This concept of the superiority of sexual reproduction over paternal propagation was so important to Erasmus Darwin that it forced him radically to revise his concept of reproduction in his third, "corrected" edition of Zoonomia. In 1794, Darwin had argued, following Aristotle, that male plants produce the seed or embryon, while female plants provide only nourishment to this seed, and by analogy, had contended "that the mother does not contribute to the formation of the living ens in normal generation, but is necessary only for supplying its nutriment and oxigenation" (Zoonomia, 1794, I: 487). He then attributed all monstrous births to the female, saying that deformities result from either excessive or insufficient nourishment in the egg or uterus (p. 497). But by 1801, Darwin's observations of both animal and vegetable mules had convinced him that both male and female seeds contribute to the innate characteristics of the species (see Zoonomia, 1801, 2: 296-97. Interestingly, while Darwin no longer attributed monstrous births to uterine deficiencies or excesses, he continued to hold the male imagination at the moment of conception responsible for determining both the sex of the child and its outstanding traits: I conclude, that the act of generation cannot exist without being accompanied with ideas, and that a man must have at this time either a general idea of his own mate form, or of the forms of his male organs; or an idea of the female form, or of her organs, and that this marks the sex, and the peculiar resemblances of the child to either parent. (Zoonomia, 1794, p. 524; 1801, 2: 270) {{99}} The impact of the female imagination on the seed in utero is less intense, argued Darwin, because it lasts for a longer period of time and is therefore more diffuse. It follows that Darwin, in 1801, attributed the bulk of monstrous births to the male imagination, a point of obvious relevance to Frankenstein. {297} Erasmus Darwin's work on what he called "the economy of vegetation" has equally significant implications for Frankenstein. Darwin's comments on plant nutrition, photosynthesis, and the use of fertilizers and manures in Phytologia for the first time put gardening and agriculture on a sound scientific basis.14 Again and again in this lengthy work, Darwin emphasized the necessity to recycle all organic matter. His discussion of manures runs to over 25,000 words and is by far the largest section in this book on plant agriculture. The best manures, Darwin reports, are: organic matters, which . . . will by their slow solution in or near the surface of the earth supply the nutritive sap-juice to vegetables. Hence all kinds of animal and vegetable substances, which will undergo a digestive process, or spontaneous solution, as the flesh, fat, skin and bones of animals; with their secretions of bile, saliva, mucus; and their excretions of urine and ordure and also the fruit, meal, oil, leaves, wood of vegetables, when properly decomposed on or beneath the soil, supply the most nutritive food to plants.15 He urges every gardener and farmer to save all organic matter for manure, "even the parings of his nails and the clippings of his hair" (p. 241), and further urges the heretical notion that the soil nourished by the decomposition of human bodies ought to be available for growing plants. Mourning the waste of rich soil in churchyards and cemeteries, he argues that proper burial grounds should be consecrated out of towns, and divided into two compartments, the earth from one of which, saturated with animal decomposition, should be taken away once in ten or twenty years, for the purposes of agriculture; and sand or clay, or less fertile soil, brought into its place. (p. 243) Throughout his writings, Darwin described a universe that is constantly evolving in abundant creativity. Donald Hassler tellingly defines Darwin's vision of "material forces moving inexorably over vast distances of time and space, with no supernatural or anthropological agency, to produce nearly infinite configurations of organic and inorganic matter" as Darwin's "comic materialism."16 The phrase neatly combines Darwin's comic acceptance of limitations with his sense for the infinitely expansive potential of the universe. I myself would classify Darwin's celebration of a universe that generates itself out of "one {298} central chaos" and returns to that chaos in a catastrophe that "may again by explosions produce a new world" (Temple of Nature, pp. 166-67) as yet another example of English romantic irony, of that revolutionary conception of a universe that is not created by divine fiat but is rather in constant process, merrily multiplying itself out of an abundant chaos or what Friedrich Schlegel called the Fülle.17 Mary Shelley was introduced to Darwin's thought both by her father and later by her husband, who had been heavily influenced by Darwin's evolutionary theories while writing "Queen Mab." Percy Shelley first read The Botanic Garden in July 1811, and in December 18l2 he ordered Darwin's Zoonomia and The Temple of Nature from the booksellers Hookham and Hickman.18 The extensive impact of Darwin's evolutionary and agricultural theories, as well as of {{100}} his poetic language, on Percy Shelley's Notes to "Queen Mab" and on such poems as "The Cloud," "The Sensitive Plant," and Prometheus Unbound has been well documented.19 It is clear that Darwin's work remained vivid in Percy Shelley's mind throughout the period in which Mary Shelley was writing Frankenstein, as his prefatory comment to the novel testifies. II Reading Frankenstein against the background of Darwin's work, we can see that Mary Shelley directly pitted Victor Frankenstein, that modern Prometheus, against those gradual evolutionary processes of nature described by Darwin. Victor Frankenstein wants to originate a new life form quickly, by chemical means. In his Faustian thirst for knowledge and power, he dreams: Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me. (F, p. 49) Significantly, in his attempt to create a new species, Victor Frankenstein substitutes solitary paternal propagation for sexual reproduction. He thus reverses the evolutionary ladder described by Darwin. And he engages in a notion of science that Mary Shelley deplores, the idea that science should manipulate and control rather than describe and understand nature. {299} Moreover, his imagination at the moment of conception is fevered and unhealthy; as he tells Walton, Every night I was oppressed by a slow fever, and I became nervous to a most painful degree; . . . my voice became broken, my trembling hands almost refused to accomplish their task; I became as timid as a love-sick girl, and alternate tremor and passionate ardour took the place of wholesome sensation and regulated ambition. (F, p. 51) Under such mental circumstances, according to Darwin, the resultant creation could only be a monster. Frankenstein has further increased the monstrousness of his creation by making a form that is both larger and more simple than a normal human being. As he acknowledges to Walton, "As the minuteness of the parts formed a great hindrance to my speed, I resolved, contrary to my first intention, to make the being of a gigantic stature; that is to say, about eight feet in height, and proportionably large" (F, p. 49). {{101}} Darwin had observed that nature moves "from simpler things to more compound" (Phytologia, p. 118); in defying nature's law, Victor Frankenstein has created not a more perfect species but a degenerative one. In his attempt to override natural evolutionary development and to create a new species sui generis, Victor Frankenstein enacts a parody of the orthodox creationist theory. While he denies the unique power of God to create organic life, he confirms the capacity of a single creator to originate a new species. Thus he simultaneously upholds the creationist theory and parodies it by creating only a monster. In both ways, he blasphemes against the natural order of things. He moves down rather than up the evolutionary ladder; he reverses human progress and perverts the law of the survival of the fittest. And he denies the natural mode of human reproduction through sexual procreation. Victor Frankenstein perverts natural evolutionary progress in yet another way. Despite Darwin's insistence that all dead organic matter including decomposing human flesh and bones found in cemeteries ought to be saved for compost heaps and manure, Victor Frankenstein removes human flesh and bones from graveyards. And he does so not in order to generate life organically through what Darwin described as spontaneous animal vitality in microscopic cells"20 but to create a new life form through chemical engineering. Frankenstein has thus dis- {300} rupted the natural life cycle. His attempt to control and speed up the transformation of decomposing organic material into new life forms by artificial means violates the rhythms of nature. Mary Shelley's novel implicitly invokes Darwin's theory of gradual evolutionary progress to suggest both the error and the evil of Victor Frankenstein's bad science. The genuine improvement of the species can result only from the fusing of both male and female sexuality. In trying to have a baby without a woman, Frankenstein denies to his child the maternal love and nurturance it requires, the very nourishment that Darwin explicitly equated with the female sex. Frankenstein's failure to embrace his smiling creature with maternal love, his horrified rejection of his own creation, spells out the narrative consequences of solitary paternal propagation. But even if Frankenstein had been able to provide his child with a mother's care, he could not have prevented its social ostracism and misery. {{102}} It is therefore a triple failure of imagination that curses Victor Frankenstein. First, by not imaginatively identifying with his creation, Frankenstein fails to give his child the parental support he owes to it. He thereby condemns his creature to become what others behold, a monster. Second, by imagining that the male can produce a higher form of evolutionary species by lateral propagation than by sexual procreation, Frankenstein defines his own imagination as profoundly anti-evolutionary and thus antiprogressive. Third, in assuming that he can create a perfect species by chemical means, Frankenstein defies a central tenet of romantic poetic ideology: that the creative imagination must work spontaneously, unconsciously, and above all organically, creating forms that are themselves organic heterocosms. Moreover, in trying to create a human being as God created Adam, out of earth and water, all at once, Victor Frankenstein robs nature of something more than fertilizer. "On a dreary night in November, . . . with an anxiety that almost amounted to agony," Victor Frankenstein infused "a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay" at his feet (F, p. 52). At that moment Victor Frankenstein became the modern Prometheus, stealing fire from the gods to give to mankind and thus overthrowing the established, sacred order of both earth and heaven. At that moment he transgressed against nature. To understand the full implications of Frankenstein's transgression, {301} we must recognize that his stolen "spark of life" is not merely fire; it is also that recently discovered caloric fluid called electricity. Victor's interest in legitimate science is first aroused by the sight of lightning destroying an old oak tree; it is then that he learns of the existence of electricity and replicates Benjamin Franklin's experiment with kite and key and draws down "that fluid from the clouds" (F, p. 35). In the late eighteenth century, there was widespread interest in Franklin's and Father Beccaria's discoveries of atmospheric electricity, in static electricity, and in artificial or mechanical electricity generated through such machines as the Leyden jar. Many scientists explored the possibility, derived from Newton's concept of the ether as an elastic medium capable of transmitting the pulsations of light, heat, gravitation, magnetism, and electricity, that the atmosphere was filled with a thin fluid that was positively and negatively charged and that could be identified as a single animating principle appearing under multiple guises (as light, heat, magnetism, etc.). Erasmus Darwin speculated that the perpetual necessity of air to the human organism suggests that "the spirit of animation itself is thus acquired from the atmosphere, which if it be supposed to be finer or more subtle than the electric matter, could not long be retained in our bodies and must therefore require perpetual renovation.21 {{103}} And Humphry Davy, founder of the field of electrochemistry, first gave authoritative voice to a theory of matter as electrically charged atoms. In his Elements of Chemical Philosophy, Davy argued: Whether matter consists of indivisible corpuscles, or physical points endowed with attraction and repulsion, still the same conclusions may be formed concerning the powers by which they act, and the quantities in which they combine; and the powers seem capable of being measured by their electrical relations, and the quantities on which they act of being expressed by numbers. (p. 57) He further concluded that it is evident that the particles of matter must have space between them; and . . . it is a probable inference that [each body's] own particles are possessed of motion; but . . . the motion, if it exist, must be a vibratory or undulatory motion, or a motion of the particles round their axes, or a motion of particles round each other. (p. 95) {302} Reading Darwin and Davy encouraged Percy Shelley in scientific speculations that he had embarked upon much earlier, as a schoolboy at Dr. Greenlaw's Syon House Academy in 1802. Inspired by the famous lectures of Dr. Adam Walker, Percy Shelley had early learned to think of electricity and the processes of chemical attraction and repulsion as modes of a single polarized force. Walker even identified electricity as the spark of life itself. At the conclusion of his discussion of electricity in his A System of Familiar Philosophy, Walker enthused, Its power of exciting muscular motion in apparently dead animals, as well as of increasing the growth, invigorating the stamina, and reviving diseased vegetation, prove its relationship or affinity to the living principle. Though, Proteus-like, it eludes our grasp; plays with our curiosity; tempts enquiry by fallacious appearances and attacks our weakness under so many perplexing subtilties; yet it is impossible not to believe it the soul of the material world, and the paragon of elements!22 Percy Shelley's basic scientific concepts had long been familiar to Mary Shelley, ever since the early days of their relationship when he {{104}} ritually celebrated his birthday by launching fire balloons.23 That Percy Shelley endorsed Adam Walker's identification of life with electricity is everywhere apparent in his poetry. The imagery of Prometheus Unbound explicitly associates electricity with love, light, and life itself, as in the final act where the Spirit of the Earth, earlier imaged as a Cupid figure, becomes a radiant orb -- or "ten thousand orbs involving and involved" -- of pure energy. And on the forehead of the spirit sleeping within this "sphere within sphere" is a "star" (or negative electrode) that shoots "swords of azure fire" (the blue flames of electrical discharges) or Vast beams like spokes of some invisible wheel Which whirl as the orb whirls, swifter than thought, Filling the abyss with sun-like lightnings, And perpendicular now, and now transverse, Pierce the dark soil, and as they pierce and pass, Make bare the secrets of the Earth's deep heart.24 When Victor Frankenstein steals the spark of being, then, he is literally stealing Jupiter's lightning bolt, as Benjamin Franklin had proved. But in Percy Shelley's terms, he is also stealing the very life of nature, the source of both love and electricity. {303} Fully to appreciate the science that lies behind Victor Frankenstein's endeavors, however, we must remember that in the 1831 Preface to Frankenstein, Mary Shelley specifically associated electricity with galvanism. In 1831, Victor Frankenstein is disabused of his belief in the alchemists by a "man of great research in natural philosophy" who teaches him the "theory which he had formed on the subject of electricity and galvanism" (F, p. 238); and in her Preface, Mary Shelley directly linked the attempt to give life to dead matter with galvanism. After referring to Dr. Darwin's vermicelli experiment, she writes: "Not thus, after all, would life be given. Perhaps a corpse would be reanimated; galvanism had given token of such things: perhaps the component parts of a creature might be manufactured, brought together, and endued with vital warmth" (F, p. 227). In 1791 the Bolognese physiologist Luigi Galvani published his De Viribus Electricitatis in Motui Musculari (or Commentary on the Effects of Electricity on Muscular Motion),25 in which he came to the conclusion that animal tissue contained a heretofore neglected innate vital force, which he called "animal electricity" but which was subsequently widely known as "galvanism"; this force activated both nerves and muscles when spanned by an arc of metal wires {{105}} connected to a pile of copper and zinc plates. Galvani believed that his new vital force was a form of electricity different from both the "natural" form of electricity produced by lightning or by the torpedo and electric eel and the "artificial" form produced by friction (i.e., static electricity). Galvani argued that the brain is the most important source of the production of this "electric fluid" and that the nerves acted as conductors of this fluid to other nerves and muscles, the tissues of which act much like the outer and inner surfaces of the widely used Leyden jar. Thus the flow of animal electric fluid provided a stimulus which produced contractions of convulsions in the irritable muscle fibers. Galvani's theories made the British headlines in December 1802 when, in the presence of their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the dukes of York, Clarence, and Cumberland, Galvani's nephew, disciple, and ardent defender, Professor Luigi Aldini of Bologna University, applied a voltaic pile connected by metallic wires to the ear and nostrils of a recently killed ox head. At that moment, "the eyes were seen to open, the ears to shake, the tongue to be agitated, and the {304} nostrils to swell, in the same manner as those of the living animal, when irritated and desirous of combating another of the same species."26 But Professor Aldini's most notorious demonstration of galvanic electricity took place on 17 January 1803 -- On that day he applied galvanic electricity to the corpse of the murderer Thomas Forster. The body of the recently hanged criminal was collected from Newgate, where it had lain in the prison yard at a temperature Of 30 degrees Fahrenheit for one hour, by the president of the College of Surgeons, Mr. Keate, and brought immediately to Mr. Wilson's anatomical theater where the following experiments were performed. When wires attached to a pile composed of 120 plates of zinc and 120 plates of copper were connected to the ear and mouth of the dead criminal, Aldini later reported, "the jaw began to quiver, the adjoining muscles were horribly contorted, and the left eye actually opened" (p. 193) -- When the wires were applied to the dissected thumb muscles, they "induced a forcible effort to clench the hand"; when applied to the ear and rectum, they "excited in the muscles contractions much stronger . . . The action even of those muscles furthest distant from the points of contact with the arc was so much increased as almost to give an appearance of re-animation." And when volatile alkali was smeared on the nostrils and mouth before the galvanic stimulus was applied, "the convulsions appeared to be much increased . . . and extended from the muscles of the head, face, and neck, as far as the deltoid. The effect in this case surpassed our most sanguine expectations," Aldini exults, and remarkably concludes that "vitality might, perhaps, have been {{106}} restored, if many circumstances had not rendered it impossible" (pp. 194-95). Here is the scientific prototype of Victor Frankenstein, restoring life to dead bodies.¶ An event so notorious and so widely reported in the popular press must have been discussed in both the Shelley and Godwin households at the time and would have been recalled, however inaccurately, during the conversations between Shelley and Byron in which the possibility of reanimating a corpse was discussed. Indeed, the popular interest in galvanic electricity reached such a pitch in Germany that an edict forbidding the use of decapitated criminals' heads for galvanic experiments was passed in Prussia in 1804. It is probably to these events, as well as to experiments in Germany by F. H. A. Humboldt, C. J. C. Grapengiesser, and Johann Caspar Creve and reports of them pub- {305} lished by J. A. Heidmann and Lorenz Oken, that Percy Shelley referred in his Preface to Frankenstein when he insisted that "the event on which this fiction is founded has been supposed, by Dr. Darwin and some of the physiological writers of Germany, as not of impossible occurrence" (F, p. 6). Even though Erasmus Darwin never fully endorsed the revolutionary theory of Galvani and Volta that electricity is the cause of muscular motion, he was convinced that electricity stimulated plant growth (Botanic Garden, 1:463). {{107}} Mary Shelley's familiarity with these galvanic experiments came not only from Shelley and Byron, but also from Byron's physician, Dr. William Polidori. As a medical student at the University of Edinburgh, Polidori had been exposed to the latest galvanic theories and experiments by the famous Edinburgh physician Dr. Charles Henry Wilkinson, whose review of the literature, Elements of Galvanism in Theory and Practice, was published in 1804. Dr. Wilkinson continued research on galvanism and developed his own galvanic treatments for intermittent fevers, amaurosis, and quinsy, and he reported several successes. II Mary Shelley based Victor Frankenstein's attempt to create a new species from dead organic matter through the use of chemistry and electricity on the most advanced scientific research of the early nineteenth century. But Frankenstein reflects much more than merely an intelligent use of the latest scientific knowledge. Perhaps because she was a woman, Mary Shelley understood that much of the scientific research of her day incorporated an attempt to dominate the female. Francis Bacon heralded the seventeenth-century scientific revolution as a calculated attempt to control and exploit female Nature: "I am come in very truth leading to you Nature with all her children to bind her to your service and make her your slave." Bacon's metap
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But there was another genre of popular fiction in the age whose writers acknowledged the world of Imperial conquest, the colonial, and the colonized female even as they revealed the deepest anxieties of Imperial culture -- loss of manhood, identity, and racial purity. Charlotte Brontë's Bertha Mason, Joseph Conrad's Mrs. Almayer, Rider Haggard's Ayesha, or She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed, and Kipling's native women are all products of English anxieties, primarily about erotic desire and domination, but also about sexually taboo encounters with darker races whose embrace will result in terminal boundary disintegra- {27} tion. Bertha, Rochester's West Indian wife, as so many readers have reminded us, is a nightmare figure, a racial monstrosity: "What it was, whether beast or human being, one could not, at first sight, tell: it grovelled, seemingly, on all fours; it snatched and growled like some strange wild animal: but it was covered with clothing; and a quantity of dark, grizzled hair, wild as a mane, hid its head and face" (Brontë, 258). Rider Haggard, however, worked his way around the problem of miscegenation even in darkest Africa: his solution was either to kill the African girl before love could be consummated (King Solomon's Mines), or to have his Europeans discover, in "darkest" Africa, a lost white civilization with an almost white female at its heart (Allen Quatermain and She). In She (1887) however, the exquisite, near-immortal, and learned queen meets with a death more hideous than any other in nineteenth-century literature. Sandra Gilbert suggests that the frightful image of the female in Haggard may also be the consequence of anxiety over a new socio-cultural phenomenon -- the emancipated New Woman: Ayesha, or She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed may, she suggests, have been half-consciously modelled on other nineteenth-century works about female assertiveness and the New Woman such as Tennyson's The Princess (1847) and Olive Schreiner's The Story of an African Farm (1883). Conrad's Almayer (1895) is destroyed by two women -- his native wife and his daughter, an unthinkable type of the new half-breed woman. Although he imagines his marriage to the native Malay will evolve into a bourgeois western family with traditional power divisions, Mrs. Almayer, the "savage tigress," with witchlike claws, instead sets fire to curtains and furniture, moves outside his house into her own hut and defies all his efforts to civilize her into domesticity. Yet, Conrad does not simply caricature her. His ambivalence towards miscegenation, imperialism, and gender roles is seen in his dialogical internalization of both the racist and anti-imperialist discourses of his time (see McClure 154). Denied speech for the major part of the novel, the native woman is momentarily, but significantly, restored into both language and history as she rejects her European husband and his civilization, articulates the forbidden wish to expel the colonizer, and is finally indulged by having all her desires met even as Almayer is allowed to die of opium and a broken heart. Even more important for this genre, Conrad allows the mixed marriage to produce a daughter who is not only beautiful, but allowed to speak, smarter than the Europeans and independent enough to choose native Malay life over western civilization.
some slight references to socio economic divisions
At the same time, stu-dents often have limited opportunities to understand or make sense of top-ics because many curricula have emphasized memory rather than under-
I agree with this statement. Students are expected to memorize a plethora of facts and be assessed on them. This way of teaching can lead to a student studying for hours, hoping that they will know all of the facts. From a perspective from a future Spanish teacher, memorization is key part to learning a language, especially for students who are taking their first year of the language. A large issue is that students will know the word in their head, but they won't know how to pronounce it or use it in a sentence, so I believe that I can combat the memorize-mania with more speaking exercises and listening exercises.
M. C. Milinkovitch, L. Manukyan, A. Debry, N. Di-Poï, S. Martin, D. Singh, D. Lambert, M. Zwicker, Crocodile head scales are not developmental units but emerge from physical cracking. Science 339, 78–81 (2013).
This paper discusses the way that crocodile head scales form. Unlike feathers, hair, and other scales, crocodile facial scales are formed when growing cells physically crack to form unique patterns.
He was, by then, closing in on his 10th year as head of the Cloud Appreciation Society and, as he’d done after 10 years with The Idler magazine, he was questioning his commitment to it. Somehow, being a cloud impresario had swallowed an enormous amount of time. He was lecturing about clouds around the world, sharing stages at corporate conferences and ideas festivals with Snoop Dogg and Bill Clinton and appearing monthly on the Weather Channel.
Most of this part of the paragraph seems to be of narrative form as it tells about some of Pretor-Pinney's life changes after the years of cloud research and his lecturing of clouds.
what kind of ‘productive interruptions’ and pauses might come our way in 2018.
Some of my most productive pauses are destructive ones that are part of the path toward creating. For example, I get to teach a composition class of 24 with more than half of my students being Saudi. I have always had international students in my classes. My department head says it is because I am a softie. That is not a compliment in the unholy land of 'rigor'. So this class gives me great pause. How the fuck can I rise to this challenge? I think I have to break a great many sacred pedagogical icons along the way, but I don't know for sure how to go about it. Knowing political conditions in Saudi Arabia right now, a 'rigorous' approach might will be an indirect death sentence. Now that gives me pause.
and semantic errors
Semantic errors are by far the hardest to deal with.
The program runs, it just doesn't work.
To find a semantic error, you have to run the program in your head, line by line, maybe using a piece of paper, and note where the program does something differently than what you intended it to.
But that's the hard part - since YOU wrote the code, how do you see where this difference is?
Codelens (and the visualizer) can help.
When a peculiarity rears its head and gets in the way of a necessary change, there'll be less to demolish and rebuild.
Modularity is good but it adds overhead in other places. Maybe the overhead is justified but it requires discipline to keep under control because it too can balloon out of proportion relative to useful work being done by the system.
module SumOfList where sumOfList :: Int -> [Int] -> Int sumOfList total lst = if (x == []) then total else sumOfList (total + (head x)) (tail x)
I was really trying to wrap my head around where the variable x is coming from?
I even get a compile error that the variable is not in scope.
This phenomenon has penetrated my mind since I was child and has always had a looming presence in the back of my head. I have always felt as if sometimes I’m the the only one. The one carrying the anxiety of the world on my shoulders. Anxiety has had a presence in my life from an early age. Often, it is extremely difficult for someone who doesn’t understand anxiety to notice someone who is struggling from it. In one sense, I do feel and have felt throughout my life as if I’m the only one living and everyone else is simply nothing, just ghosts living through the motions. Through my insight gained from Weingarten’s article, I have now grown even more worried. Humans have and continually will detach themselves from reality by immersing themselves in technology and so on. So the question arises, is the future of this world going to be characterized by this inability to care for anyone or anything? I do believe that we can stop this frightening trend, but significant strides need to be made in order to rekindle the human emotion in all of us.
I believe this paragraph— which is entirely new writing— exemplifies my growth as a writer in terms of being aware of my audience (essentially anyone) and my own voice and initiating the conversation between the two. Originally, this piece was a response that simply summarized the article and had brief analysis. However, by using a personal example that relates to the analysis injects my voice into the paper and lets the reader know of my presence. Upon doing this, lead my analysis up to a question, which invites the audience into the text. This effectively starts the conversation in my writing. And by answering my question, I continue the conversation and leave the audience with a powerful message (that we need to change our shallow ways) that allows them to also continue the conversation in the form of actually changing the world for the better. Overall, this writerly move to ignite this conversation draws the reader in and entertains them throughout.
We were at a particularly tipsy table. That was my fault-Gatsby had been called to the phone, and I'd enjoyed these same people only two weeks before. But what had amused me then turned septic on the air now. "How do you feel, Miss Baedeker?" The girl addressed was trying, unsuccessfully, to slump against my shoulder. At this inquiry she sat up and opened her eyes. "Wha'?" A massive and lethargic woman, who had been urging Daisy to play golf with her at the local dub to-morrow, spoke in Miss Baedeker's defence: "Oh, she's all right now. When she's had five or six cock-tails she always starts screaming like that. I tell her she ought to leave it alone." "I do leave it alone," affirmed the accused hollowly. "We heard you yelling, so I said to Doc Civet here: 'There's somebody that needs your help, Doc.'" "She's much obliged, I'm sure," said another friend, with-out gratitude, "but you got her dress all wet when you stuck her head in the pool." ''Anything I hate is to get my head stuck in a pool," mumbled Miss Baedeker. "They almost drowned me once over in New Jersey." "Then you ought to leave it alone," countered Doctor Civet. "Speak for yourself!" cried Miss Baedeker violently. "Your hand shakes. I wouldn't let you operate on me!"
106 What is the purpose, significance and effect of this dialogue? Why does Fitzgerald include it here?
When he was alone, Jose Arca-dio Buendia consoled himself with the dream of the infinite rooms. He dreamed that he was getting out of bed, opening the door, and going into an identical room with the same bed with a wrought-iron head, the same wicker chair, and the same small picture of the Virgin of Help on the back wall. From that room he would go into another that was just the same, the door of which would open into another that was just the same, the door of which would open into another one just the same, and then into another exactly alike, and so on to infinity. He liked to go from room to room, as in a gallery of parallel mir-rors, until Prudencio Aguilar would touch him on the shoulder. Then he would go back from room to room, walking in reverse, going back over his trail, and he would find Prudencio Aguilar in the room o
139 Passage ends on the next page with the word "reality." What is the purpose, significance and effect of this description of JAB's dream?
Gatsby, his hands still in his pockets, was reclining against the mantelpiece in a strained counterfeit of perfect ease, even of boredom. His head leaned back so far that it rested against the face of a defunct mantelpiece clock, and from this position his distraught eyes stared down at Daisy, who was sitting, frightened but graceful, on the edge of a stiff chair. "We've met before," muttered Gatsby. His eyes glanced momentarily at me, and his lips parted with an abortive attempt at a laugh. Luckily the clock took this moment to tilt dangerously at the pressure of his head, whereupon he turned and caught it with trembling fingers and set it back in place. Then he sat down, rigidly, his elbow on the arm of the sofa and his chin in his hand. ''I'm sorry about the clock," he said.
86 Analyze the symbolic significance of the clock
Whether a lobster is stabbed between the eyestalks or is slowly boiled alive, it most likely feels pain as does any other animal. Although killing animals for food may be mentally discomforting for some cooks, it still does not prevent people from preparing and consuming them.
I added this as a conclusion to my original draft because I ended the essay too abruptly. I wanted to include some thoughts I had after reading and analyzing "Consider the Lobster" that DFW could perhaps agree with. This addition also supports why the moment I explain in this essay is significant. The knife-in-head method is gruesome and might not actually be a more humane way in killing lobsters, but it doesn't stop people from doing so.
Every morning, my first priority is to shower. My usual routine is to head to the showers right after I wake up. On most days, my floormates have already gone to class, and as I enter the restroom, I love when it is filled with an ambient, cold silence. The restroom itself is by no means remarkable. It is exactly what you would expect in a public men’s restroom. After I walk around the row of sinks, I face four mediocre-looking showers. The floor and walls of the shower are made of white plastic. Usually I glance around, inspecting each shower, seeing which sparkles from a fresh layer of morning shower dew, a sure sign that one of my floormates has showered in this area within the past three or so hours. Unless there are no other options left, I refuse to use an already wet shower. Just like the routine of heading to the showers after I wake up, the second shower from the right remains a constant in my life: every day, it is dry as the Sahara. This shower is always the least used by my floormates. It is by far the cleanest out of the four, yet it stands unchosen, unappreciated, for it is neither the closest shower as one enters the restroom nor the shower at the end, which has beside it a convenient metal rack that can hold clothes, towels, etc. This shower is a point of stability among a blurring, dizzying world filled with complications and change. It is the diamond in the rough. It is the holy ground. There is something unsatisfying about entering an already wet shower. In contrast, there is something glorifying about stepping onto the dry, fruitless land of an unused shower. It is like walking along uncharted territory. The shower is yours, and you have given this shower meaning and significance while the rest of the world left its presence unacknowledged. You stomp on that dry shower and puff up your chest in pride, claiming this small area your territory. You are the first one here, and no one can take that status away from you. A clean shower is just as important as an unused one. No one wants remnants of calcified, old Old Spice. No one wants those clumped curdles of bar soap. Lastly, no one wants those icky strands of hair strewn about like vegetation. A clean shower is a good shower, and a place where one becomes clean should be clean itself.
I remember that I initially had bland statements on why wet and dirty showers are unappealing. I thought I could do better with it and genuinely make the readers feel the disgust that I often feel when I approach a wet or dirty shower. While the descriptions are exaggerated, I think the exaggeration was necessary for the reader to feel anything visceral. On one portion specifically, I initially had written down "bar soap clumps," which sounded boring. In the back of my mind, I always thought of these clumps as curdles, so I went with my gut instinct and went with that metaphor. It seemed like, at least from the writers' workshop, that my peers genuinely felt a degree of disgust, so I think these revisions were the proper choice.
Every morning, my first priority is to shower. My usual routine is to head to the showers right after I wake up. On most days, my floormates have already gone to class, and as I enter the restroom, I love when it is filled with an ambient, cold silence. The restroom itself is by no means remarkable. It is exactly what you would expect in a public men’s restroom. After I walk around the row of sinks, I face four mediocre-looking showers. The floor and walls of the shower are made of white plastic. Usually I glance around, inspecting each shower, seeing which sparkles from a fresh layer of morning shower dew, a sure sign that one of my floormates has showered in this area within the past three or so hours. Unless there are no other options left, I refuse to use an already wet shower. Just like the routine of heading to the showers after I wake up, the second shower from the right remains a constant in my life: every day, it is dry as the Sahara. This shower is always the least used by my floormates. It is by far the cleanest out of the four, yet it stands unchosen, unappreciated, for it is neither the closest shower as one enters the restroom nor the shower at the end, which has beside it a convenient metal rack that can hold clothes, towels, etc. This shower is a point of stability among a blurring, dizzying world filled with complications and change. It is the diamond in the rough. It is the holy ground.
Initially, this whole first paragraph used to be an embellished description of every morning in college. It had a lot of jokes scattered around, and I intended for it to be a way for me to draw attention. I realized later on that the humor was a little cheap, and the story was not well-connected to the rest of the essay. I eventually decided to go with something more straight-forward and less silly. I still tried to make it a compelling narrative through the descriptions that I use. Hopefully, it draws the readers in. While I do like some of the descriptions and metaphors that I use, I still do think that there may be more room for improvement for having a stronger "hook."
It’s seven o’clock in the morning. It’s the day of my calculus final. I am lying in my bed, staring at the ceiling. Although I am already awake for the last three hours, I don’t want to get out of bed. I force myself into the shower, put on a loose hoodie and a pair of jeans, eat my morning toast with butter and marmalade and make my way to the tram station. In the tram I try to distract myself with my phone, but suddenly the speakers sound: “Ladies and Gentlemen, due to technical problems we run 15 minutes behind schedule.” My heart starts pounding, then racing. Am I gonna fail my exam because I’m late? At my final stop, I jump down the stairs of the tram and sprint towards my high school. On the main street I bump into a man: “Hey! Watch out where you’re going!” he shouts. I keep running because there is no time for apologising. As I reach my high school, I jump up the stairs. Room 408, here it is. I rip open the door. “Brenninkmeijer, you’re five minutes late!” Professor Skrivanek shouts. I pleadingly look into his eyes and he mercifully hands my an exam paper. I sit down in the last row and look at the first math problem. Oh no, an optimisation problem! How does that work again? I stare at my paper, hoping for a miracle. Two minutes pass by, sweat drops from my forehead on the paper and my head starts spinning. I decide to take a break: I inhale and exhale. One more time, I inhale and exhale. Finally, I remember some math formulas and start working again. I finish the optimisation problem, then two linearisation problem and a derivative problem. Two hours have passed, I have barely made it to the last problem, but I have to hand in my exam. I don’t have a good feeling about half of the problems, but thank god, normal life can continue. Only three days later, I have to present my finals paper about population growth in Asia. I arrive half an hour early, set up my power point presentation and go through my text in my head for a last time. Philipp and Vincenz are the first ones to enter the room. They wish me luck for the presentation and I smile back at them. Then Professor Schmidt arrives and sits down in the front row. The room gets quiet and I stand in front of a crowd of 30 people, with my legs deeply rooted in the ground, my hands firmly holding my notes, my back upright and my chest out. I start off my presentation at nine o’clock sharp: “Today I will present to you the results of my research…” The next 20 minutes run as planned: “Knowing all these facts is also a curse because I can never see a baby again without thinking: You will have to pay for my rent one day.” The room bursts into laughter and I become even more confident and energised.
When I wrote the first version of this essay, I specifically had these two events in my head when looking for an answer to what energizes me. However, rather than describing the two events, I generalized my experiences. For example, rather than writing "I inhale and exhale. One more time, I inhale and exhale. Finally, I remember some math formulas[...]" I wrote "after receiving the exams, I usually had to calm myself down for the first two minutes in order to be able to think clearly again." My new approach of vividly describing situations is more entertaining for the reader because it more authentically reproduces my emotions and thoughts.
The bitter taste of salt burned my mouth as I desperately gasped for air. Wave after wave crashed down upon me, each time it felt like I was gaining a foothold. Desperate for air before the tide submerged me once more, I stretched my neck, took a deep breathe and suddenly water was cascading down through my throat. One gulp after another, my throat and lungs burned. After what seemed like an eternity, I finally escaped the riptide, more by chance than anything else. As other kids threw away their armbands and floats, I clutched to mine every time my parents took me to the beach. One day, I glanced upon a bunch of kids diving into the water like dolphins and competing to find a key one of them was hurling blindly into the water. Spray and laughter erupted from the sea as one boy emerged from the water proudly holding aloft the shining silver key. Attracted by the excitement of the game, I asked if I could join, one kid looked skeptically, and sneered, “How can you dive…with… that thing?” I responded by pretending to be absolutely calm as I stepped forwards and felt the icy chill of the water. I spotted the key just a few meters behind me. I remember myself diving fearlessly, but in truth this was probably one of the most graceless dives in human history. But my head emerged with the key firmly clasped in my fingertips.
This whole section, as I mentioned in the previous paragraph, originated from one of my previous free writings. Obsessed with swimming those days, I wondered how does it feel like to be a professional swimmer. I imagined my essay would start off by giving some personal swimming experience. The short hook used to be : "I was once afraid of water. The desperate feeling that water brought me when the depth reach my chest had always make me stressed out. But not any more." The hook demands the questions: How does it feel to be afraid of water? What are some possible reactions? It is not fully elaborated. I think it is an important moment in my life, so I decided to work further on it. Hopefully this little piece could show my growth as a writer who is able and willing to present herself effectively and unreservedly to her readers in her writing.
Cognitive: It’s about argument and logic. Linguistic: It’s rich in stretching language. Physical: It’s reliant on body position and posture. Emotive: It’s supported by persuading the head and the heart
I wonder what they do for students who have a hard time making eye contact and using good presentation skills.
It is a rather late evening. I sit on the stair of Quincy Market. Night is the most emotional time of day. From social perspective, night is when we truly pull off our “masks.” We all play multiple roles during the day: daughters, sons, students, friends, etc. Different roles demand us to behave differently in order to meet the social norm. Students are supposed to follow rules. Kids are supposed to respect elders. Friends are supposed to sit together and talk. But at night, when we are mostly alone, there is no “supposed to be”. The only person we need to deal with is ourselves. Our focus shifts from what others might think of us to what we think about ourselves. The location where we meditate also matters because different places may trigger us to think about different things in our lives. Quincy Market is the place that night for me to greet and embrace myself. The whole market, as always, is immersed in the aroma of food—chocolate’s sweetness, cheese’s sourness and grilled sausages’ fragrance… People walking in and out of the market’s entrance are drowning in this happiness and satisfaction. Chewing, chatting, whispering, laughing… I observe these people in the square from the sidelines. There is a guy standing in the middle of the empty space, facing me, playing his guitar and singing love songs. He uses tiny, twinkling, colorful light bulbs to decorate his guitar case, and uses the case to collect tips. Behind him, there are three benches. A young couple is sitting together on one bench, feeding each other pizza. A middle aged woman is sitting next to them, tapping her toes with the beat of the song. A family is sitting on another bench. The father is taking pictures of the performer, and the mother is fondling the baby’s face. How nice. I always love people watching, because I like imagining different kinds of lives in other people’s shoes. But this night, I lose my ability to interpret and imagine. I try to fantasize that I am the man, the couple, the woman, the baby… but I can’t. I fail completely, because my heart is not there, but somewhere else. Staring at them, I feel a sense of alienation, as if I am watching a movie, as if I do not belong here, as if I am sitting in another dimension, watching all these movements like an outsider of this peaceful life and an intruder in this harmonic image. That man’s intimacy with his guitar is not a part of my world. The young couple’s romance is not a part of my world. The woman’s impulse to dance is not a part of my world. Even the family’s harmony that can be mine, shall be mine, used to be mine is not a part of my world at that moment. The market is booming, busy, lonely. I don’t know where to look. I feel lost. This is not the same Quincy Market. The sky is utterly dark, without stars. I can feel time ticking forward by looking at people’s movements and listening to guitar’s melody. What I see don’t belong to me, but the object that makes all these scenes visible to me is solely mine—that light, shinning from the lamp next to the bench where that family was sitting. The bulb of the lamp looks like a transparent bubble. The white effulgence occupies the space inside the bulb very fully, like if the bulb bursts, the light will become crystallized and spill out like diamonds. That light grabs all my attention and become a visual focus. No one claims the light, so I decide to float with it for a while. Unlike other light, its radiation is so pure that I feel like it is staring at me. The sudden thought that it is communicating with me emotionally surprises and unsettles me for a while, but soon I begin to enjoy this strange attachment. Like a mysterious force, the light pushes me to face the very core of myself. Questions buried in my heart that I wish somebody would ask me pop up in my mind one after another: Recognize that bench? You sat on that bench with your parents the other day. How’s the lobster roll in your hand taste? Isn’t it as good as the one your mother had? How do you like the music? Hear the musician sang: “And if you want to cry / I am here to dry your eyes/ and in no time, you’ll be fine…?” (Sade, By Your Side, Line 13-15) Your mom said that she guessed you would be fine, remember? Are you fine? How’s school? How’s life? And… how are you? I can’t help myself responding to those questions over and over again. That conversation is so personal, so sentimental, so ethereal. While I am answering them, a sudden warmth takes over me along with an overwhelming bitterness that made me want to cry. The juxtaposition of past and present amplifies the sadness and loneliness. All alone in the crowd, I am reminded I am not home. All the things are still here, but people are not the same. I feel like I am sitting in a kaleidoscope with scenes of time spent with my parents constantly overlapping with what I am seeing right now at the same location but alone. Together, these different scenes create a sense of dizziness that make me want to shake my head and figure out what have happened to me during the time in between of these two experiences. Why this contrast makes me emotional? Answers to previous simple questions triggered by the light now become clues for this complex question. At that moment, I was certain that the light was the origin of unexpected warmth and the generator of this kaleidoscope of loving memory and current loneliness. I realize that the light has just led me to communicate genuinely to myself in a way that is rare in my daily life, so I am drawn into this communication deeper and deeper with that perfectly alluring light as my muse. Although I feel there may be too many things going on at the same time, I am not lost. I am not alone anymore. I am with myself.
Although the story happens in the past, I narrate it in the present tense in order to draw a contrast with the previous experience I mentioned (My visit to Quincy with my parents). I had a huge tense issue in the first draft because I was very confused about how to contrast something in the past with other things that happened even before "the past." Brian suggested me to try to change my lonely experience part into present tense and see how it goes. I made the change and kind of like it. The tense difference divides my essay into two chunks which is just what I intended to do at the beginning. My essay also gains a clearer structure this way.
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Athletic environments, American football in particular, have long been viewed as a potentially rich test-bed for understanding concussions. Over the last decade, two methods have been employed to obtain head acceleration measures occurring from actual impact events. Laboratory reconstructions utilize precision measurement equipment to recreate on-field impacts but are limited by cost, technical expertise, and the necessary assumptions of the human surrogate models. The HIT System is an on-field measurement system that allows for large-scale data collection by actively measuring head acceleration of athletes during play. Given that the current knowledge base has been developed using both techniques, the current study was required to establish the relationship between these two measurement methodologies. From these laboratory tests, a relationship has been established between the two systems, particularly when considering peak metrics such as linear and rotational acceleration for distributions of impacts; however, it is important for users of HIT System technology to understand the practical limitation of ensuring proper fit of a player’s helmet. This limitation could result in error for single impacts that is similar to those previously reported for laboratory reconstructions. Results from this study indicate that measurements from the two methods of study are correlated and provide a link that can be used to better interpret findings from future study using either technology.
This paragraph summarizes the main findings of the article and shows just how much more research needs to and can still be done on this injury. Technology is consistently improving, therefore it can be hopeful for further discoveries on the matter in the future. Scientists should even consider examining impact even more closely to find more detail
This relationship, though, should only be assumed for conditions included in the test distribution. For example, considering the A, B, C, and D impact sites and associated test velocities were previously found to be representative of concussion in the NFL, it would be expected from these test results that HIII measures obtained by Pellman et al. would closely match those recorded by the HIT System for concussive injuries when compared as a group. This close relationship has been confirmed in several studies
It is important to note the relationship between results, and the environment or condition that was chosen to be the focal point of research. Since this particular study examined head injuries in the NFL specifically, it somewhat limits its validity variablitity. More studies on collegiate, and interscholastic football players should be implemented to make work more credible.
We chose to use regression analysis as the primary means for correlating output between the HIT System and HIII. One of the primary benefits of the HIT System is its ability to record large amounts of in vivo impact data that are inclusive of all on-field scenarios that can be experienced by different playing positions and skill levels.5,11,12,27,42,44 It can reasonably be assumed that each of the 286,636 impacts reported in the previously described study by Crisco et al. represents a specific combination of input conditions that could influence the player’s head kinematics. Because of this variability in conditions, researchers have primarily chosen to present data from the HIT System in the form of impact distributions inclusive of a variety of impact conditions (e.g., impact location, impact severity, playing position, etc.).
Testing and results are decided carefully for this specific study due to the amount of variability that can be involved with such kinematic variables. Because there are so many subjects that have been tested, and so many contact points and conditions, regression and the HIT system analysis is deemed the most effective for this work.
Mihalik et al. have reported statistically lower average peak linear acceleration for impacts to the frontal region of the head than to the top.
Studies have shown that the location of impact that may lead to serious injury is found to be higher than most scientists anticipate. This can be deemed truthful because of how players tackle and block. Recently you have seen more "spearing" type impacts where a player puts his head down lower than recommended to create a bigger impact on the field.
The unknown parameters of head mass, head moment of inertia, and the point of rotation about the neck are determined by the relationship of peak linear and rotational acceleration of on-field impacts obtained from a similar device paired with a full six degree of freedom processing algorithm.
Angular kinematics was also beneficial in route to concluding this study. Mass, moment of inertia are both relate-able to the neck as the neck can rotate and not just move in a line. A big thing that happens in football that people do not know are neck injuries. This would be a good extensional study from this one.
Researchers have long sought to determine the relationship between head kinematics following impact and the pathophysiology of traumatic brain injury. One approach to understanding this relationship for mTBI has been to treat the football playing field, where athletes may sustain more than 2000 impacts to the head during a season,11, 12, 13 as a living laboratory. Specifically, researchers have monitored the impacts sustained by football players and have attempted to correlate their impact exposure with signs and symptoms of injury. Over the last decade, two primary approaches have been implemented for quantifying head kinematics following impacts experienced during play: laboratory reconstruction of impacts recorded on video and on-field measurement using instrumented helmets. The aim of this study was to correlate HIT System output with Hybrid III ATD output in a laboratory test using a linear impactor system under realistic input conditions.
Research about brain injuries and football has been seen in a multitude of ways but has not come to an easy conclusion. The only two methods for determining the effect these collisions have in respect to kinematics is on field digitizing and laboratory time. It would be important to think about what other ways can be used to go about solving the issue of why these injuries happen and how improvements can be made.
Linear acceleration time series data from both the HIT System and HIII were processed in real time to obtain the resultant linear acceleration for each impact. Because a simultaneous trigger was not feasible, the linear acceleration resultants were synchronized post-processing by minimizing the RMS error between resultants.1,41 HIII data were then truncated to a 40-ms time window to allow direct time series comparison with the instrumented helmet. Resultant linear acceleration data from both systems were utilized to calculate two impact metrics used for relating time-weighted head acceleration to risk of injury, GSI and HIC15. GSI was calculated for each impact event19:GSI=∫Ta(t)2.5dtGSI=∫Ta(t)2.5dt {\text{GSI}} = \int\limits_{{}}^{T} {a\left( t \right)^{2.5} dt} (1)where a(t) is the linear resultant acceleration of the head CG, and T is the impact duration. HIC15 was evaluated over an incremental time window38,45 of maximum duration t2 − t1 = 15 ms:HIC15=⎧⎩⎨⎪⎪⎪⎪(t2−t1)⎡⎣⎢∫t1t2a(t)dt/(t2−t1)⎤⎦⎥2.5⎫⎭⎬⎪⎪⎪⎪maxHIC15={(t2−t1)[∫t1t2a(t)dt/(t2−t1)]2.5}max {\text{HIC}}_{15} = \left\{ {\left( {t_{2} - t_{1} } \right)\left[ {\int\limits_{{t_{1} }}^{{t_{2} }} {a\left( t \right)dt/\left( {t_{2} - t_{1} } \right)} } \right]^{2.5} } \right\}_{\max } (2)where t1 and t2 are the initial and final points of the time window and a(t) is the linear resultant acceleration of the CG.To establish a correlation between severity measures from the HIT System and HIII, linear regression analysis (Microsoft Excel 2010) was performed on all acceleration and severity measures—peak linear acceleration, peak rotational acceleration, GSI, and HIC15.1 All regressions were performed both on the entire dataset and by impact site using Eq. (3):y=mx+y0y=mx+y0 y = mx + y_{0} (3)where x is the HIII measure, y is the HIT System measure, and the linear slope, m, is the relationship between the measurements. For all conditions, y0 was constrained to be zero since both systems have a baseline output of zero when not impacted. The coefficient of determination (r2) was also calculated for each regression as a measure of goodness of fit. Finally, the average absolute location difference between the estimated instrumented helmet location and the direction vector (in spherical coordinates) of the peak HIII linear acceleration was calculated for each impact. The overall average difference between the two measures along with the difference by impact site was calculated.
For data analysis, linear acceleration was the focused measure. Resultant acceleration to be exact was looked upon as a way to relate impact with severity. The faster the acceleration of the head or a moving object towards the head, the harder the impact. Acceleration equations include time, velocity, and other variables.
The sliding table allows for both more realistic kinematics and improved equipment durability while not affecting the head response, since the head acceleration impulse occurs before significant neck bending.39Open image in new windowFigure 1A pneumatic linear impactor (Biokinetics, Inc) was employed to replicate on-field reconstruction of head impacts. The ram mass, impactor surface, and target velocities were selected to best simulate on-field head impacts occurring in the National Football LeagueImpacts were delivered to the HIII using a pneumatically activated linear impactor
Impulse will be a very critical factor to measure through the use of such special equipment because it involves the tracking of velocity, and mass of an object. It can also include overall surface area that will be impacted over a certain amount of time.
Head Impact Telemetry (HIT) System technology (Simbex, Lebanon, NH; Sideline Response System, Riddell, Chicago, IL) records the frequency, location, and magnitude of impacts sustained by football players during live play,4,11,16,20,27,44 and was specifically developed to enable research to better understand the relationship between measured parameters of head kinematics and concussion. This technology incorporates an array of non-orthogonal accelerometers (Analog Devices, Inc., Cambridge, MA), data acquisition, and RF telemetry hardware into self-contained inserts placed in commercially available helmets. While physically connected to the helmet, the instrumented insert acts as an effective spring to maintain contact with the head during impact and to decouple head acceleration from helmet acceleration.26 Because traditional mathematical approaches to calculate linear and rotational acceleration at the head center of gravity, such as those employed by the HIII, require precise mounting of accelerometers that is not practical for field implementation, the HIT System uses proprietary, simulated-annealing optimization algorithms to estimate linear and rotational acceleration
Head Impact Telemetry technology has revolutionized the game of football. there are mechanical inserts that are physically connected to helmets to ensure that all the kinematic data that is needed for research is directly gotten by live in game hits. This is the beauty of technological advances and progress making research easier in the long run.
In an additional study to quantify the effect of head, neck, and torso coupling, Beusenberg et al. found that if a player’s neck coupling with the head (e.g., stiffness, strength, etc.) deviates from that of the HIII head and neck, peak linear acceleration can be altered by more than 15% and peak rotational acceleration will be drastically different.3 Due to the complexity of these reconstructions and the beneficial insight they provide, these errors were deemed to be within an acceptable level, and output measures from the reconstructions were considered reasonable for use in estimating the actual head kinematics for this group of impacts.31
Additional research shows that specific deviations away from the standard ATD machines in a group of tested athletes is something to be interested in. We see that peak linear and rotational acceleration are important when it comes to impacts. These sentences foreshadow what measures are going to be focused on throughout the paper.
By matching the obtained impact velocity and observed direction, these 31 cases were re-enacted in a laboratory using Hybrid III (HIII) anthropomorphic test devices (ATDs). Head linear and rotational accelerations were measured from accelerometers in the ATD’s head, permitting calculation of injury metrics such as Gadd Severity Index (GSI) and Head Injury Criterion (HIC)
anthropomorphic test devices or ATD is a fancy term for crash dummies. With the use of these devices over a large number of reenactments will allow in depth research on the bio-mechanical aspect of a head collision.
To better understand the etiology of concussion and the relationship between head impacts and injury, however, a large number of measured impacts from multiple athletes, both concussed and non-concussed, are required.
This is considered to be a good introduction into the methods section of a scientific paper. it sets up nicely the variables and the different groups that variables will rely on.
Over the last decade, advances in technology have enabled researchers to evaluate concussion biomechanics through measurement of head impacts sustained during play using two primary methods: (1) laboratory reconstruction of open-field head contact, and (2) instrumented helmets. The purpose of this study was to correlate measures of head kinematics recorded by the Head Impact Telemetry (HIT) System (Simbex, NH) with those obtained from a Hybrid III (HIII) anthropometric headform under conditions that mimicked impacts occurring in the NFL. Linear regression analysis was performed to correlate peak linear acceleration, peak rotational acceleration, Gadd Severity Index (GSI), and Head Injury Criterion (HIC15) obtained from the instrumented helmet and HIII. The average absolute location error between instrumented helmet impact location and the direction of HIII head linear acceleration were also calculated.
Due to increasingly prevalent concussion incidents in the game of football, scientists and specialists are finding ways to increase head gear technology. Through the use of bio mechanical measures like linear acceleration, research will be able to correlate impact to kinematics.
The head of a small university’s "academic innovation" office explains why that phrase isn’t a contradiction in terms, and how the office helps professors amplify creative approaches to teaching and learning.
Then, how should I live? To live in US, should I change my point of view?
These sentences show that I moved from the thoughts to a point where I started meditation. I wanted to connect my pieces of thoughts with the conclusion that I had found. To show the path of my meditation, I thought it would be more effective if I use the questions that I really had in my head than just saying 'I arrived to this point'. And the following sentences in same paragraph shows the process I made.
Today, I am late and cannot take the class, so I head to the hall.
I wanted to show the readers where I started to become unfamiliar with the Plex by adding this sentence. On first draft, I just started to pose questions about the differences of American and Korean gyms. So the readers couldn't understand why the meditation has started and they felt the meditation to be abrupt. To show the start point of my meditation, I added the situation where I start to wonder about familiar situation as unfamiliar. Because I couldn't take the yoga class, I started to recall the things that happened to me in several minutes and from there I found cultural differences.
They dragged out Dr. Noguera, tied him to a tree in the square, and shot him without any due process of law. Father Nicanor tried to impress the military authorities with the miracle of levitation and had his head split open by the butt of a soldier's ~ifle.
How does GM want us to feel about what has happened to these characters? What is the purpose or significance?
While the sad inten'ogation of the snake-man was taking place, he made his way through the crowd up to the first row, where the gypsy girl was, and he stopped behind her. He pressed against her back. The girl tried to separate herself, but Jose Arcadia pressed more strongly against her back. Then she felt him. She remained motionless against him, trembling WiUl surprise and fear unable to believe tl,e evidence, and finally she turned her , head and looked at him wilh a lremulous smile.
What statement is Márquez making about sexuality, especially sexuality as viewed through a psychoanalytic lens?
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Analyze this scene. What is the purpose, significance and effect? What does it tell us about what solitude might be?
If I have portrayed the dark side of slavery, I also have painted the bright side.
This sentence kinda makes me scratch my head because as I read narratives from many slaves and as I see movies pertaining to the subject I never see the good in slavery.
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I was the head of the dance team and the dance instructor’s right hand.
thats so cool
I think it was hard for me to wrap my head around the fact that this was not normal. I thought everyone had a hard time sleeping over. I thought everyone had hard times in the dark.
I can't even imagine. People are so selfish. While shooting a 6 year old is an atrocity, the shooter also did something arguably worse. he robbed this child of his sense of safety and security and normality.
“intelligence and heart and lengthiness.”
Strayed was referring to this sentence by Bassist: "That said, I’m high-functioning—a high-functioning head-case, one who jokes enough that most people don’t know the truth. The truth: I am sick with panic that I cannot—will not—override my limitations, insecurities, jealousies, and ineptitude, to write well, with intelligence and heart and lengthiness".
Reference: Strayed, C.,& Bassist, E. (2010). DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #48: Write Like a Motherfucker.The Rumpus. Retrieved from: The Rumpus
By the poverty and ignorance of his people, the Negro minister or doctor was tempted toward quackery and demagogy; and by the criticism of the other world, toward ideals that made him ashamed of his lowly tasks
The black minister or doctor has made himself ashamed and lowered his self-esteem by listening to his own people that try to put negative messages in his head and bring him down.
We passed the School, where Children strove At Recess – in the Ring – We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain –
Lots of good imagery to get a good image in your head
I was banging my head against the wall . . . I think breakthroughs come from that kind of stress.”
How do we leverage this for students? I think we often reach a point in education where banging your head against a wall doesn't lead to the learning breakthrough we hope but rather to "breaking" the learner. Where their significant take away involves having no power or leverage in the system and education inflicted upon them. How can we provide this stress essential to breakthroughs and growth without diminishing the capacities of our learners? In other words, how do we find just enough stress?
Becoming the kind of teacher I wanted to become meant banging my head against the wall
Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head. One of us lifted something from it, and leaning forward, that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils, we saw a long strand of iron-gray hair.
This detail suggests that Emily has been sleeping beside the dead body of her lover. This symbolizes a focus of Faulkner in his works, the morbid Southern nostalgia for the Antebellum ways of life, just like Emily holding on to the decrepit house, the old traditions and dead body of her lover. This can also be traced to the time when her father dies, and she insists that he is not.
She died in one of the downstairs rooms, in a heavy walnut bed with a curtain, her gray head propped on a pillow yellow and moldy with age and lack of sunlight.
Death is a characteristic of Southern Gothic. It is interesting that Miss Emily died where there was no sunshine. Nothing to illuminate her body. The mold suggest the out-datedness of Miss Emily.
My hands grown tired, my head weighed down with dreams—
This is extremely relatable because many people all over the world settle for a job they don't like always wondering what could or should have been.
“As I approached the place where three roads joined, a herald, a colt-drawn wagon, and a man like the one you describe, met me head on. The man out front and the old man himself began to crowd me off the road. The driver, who’s forcing me aside, I smash in anger” (728).
Remember not to end the paragraph with Evidence. You need more analysis of these quotes here throughout. Remember, that I will be looking specifically for lots of Analysis.
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Three pages of manuscript is plenty. Price has her head on backwards throughout this "analysis".
To prove this statement, we will first discuss the moments in the play where fate rears its stubborn head, then we will look at how it is used to create suspense thanks to the dramatic irony (Their denial Our knowledge), and we’ll finish by focusing on its inescapability thanks to the tragic plot.
This is excellent.
Lover’s Lute
a stringed instrument having a large pear-shaped body, a vaulted back, a fretted fingerboard, and a head with tuning pegs which is often angled back from the neck
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,
The funeral isn't actually physical, it's a mental funeral in her head.
commonwealth
An international association consisting of the UK with states who were previously part of the British empire. The British monarchy is head of the commonwealth.
James Madison
When I first saw James Madison's name at the bottom here, I thought "Oh of course him and Jefferson were very close friends. That's why he's here." Then I began researching further and came to the realization that Madison was heavily involved with the conception of our university and its continuation after Jefferson's death. He was on the Board of Visitors right from the start, and after Jefferson's death, he was chosen as the Rector of the board. Rector is essentially the head executive, and in this position, he maintained the university according to the image Thomas Jefferson had. He was also an active supporter and funder of the Library at the university. His courageous leadership and funding of the university shows that he was just as important to this University as Jefferson and every other man on this list.
http://static.lib.virginia.edu/jamesmadison/protector.htm http://static.lib.virginia.edu/jamesmadison/patron.htm
I always imagine her with her hood pulled down over her eyes, one hand clutching the cloth tightly at her throat, head bent, startled by every snapping twig, every cry of a bird. But this incorporates too much of my own fears and insecurities into the picture. The girl, Little Red, is an innocent, like Adam and Eve in the garden, and her innocence protects her from fear. She walks down the woodland path to her grandma’s house without a worry in the world, chasing every butterfly, smelling every rose. It is this innocence that is almost her undoing.
That's pretty sad but its true, even in real life, you have to be aware of the danger around as people will try to control and manipulate you through your entire life.
I think the educational and psychological studies I mentioned are examples of what I would like to call Cargo Cult Science. In the South Seas there is a Cargo Cult of people. During the war they saw airplanes land with lots of good materials, and they want the same thing to happen now. So they’ve arranged to make things like runways, to put fires along the sides of the runways, to make a wooden hut for a man to sit in, with two wooden pieces on his head like headphones and bars of bamboo sticking out like antennas—he’s the controller—and they wait for the airplanes to land. They’re doing everything right. The form is perfect. It looks exactly the way it looked before. But it doesn’t work. No airplanes land. So I call these things Cargo Cult Science, because they follow all the apparent precepts and forms of scientific investigation, but they’re missing something essential, because the planes don’t land.
Sounds kinda strange but true, if the people don"t understand how the technology/ system works-
She was a dark mulatto of a rich, yellow, autumnlike complexion,with a matchless, cushionlike head of hair, neither straight nor curly, buthandsomer than either
Interesting how they describe her here and the way her hair looks.
Gardner Fox, who wrote the Justice Society stories, made her the society’s secretary. In the summer of 1942, when all the male superheroes head off to war, Wonder Woman stays behind to answer the mail. “Good luck boys,” she calls out to them. “I wish I could be going with you!” Marston was furious.
I think that this passage relates to the unplugged telephone. While Wonder Woman is allowed into the Justice Society as a member, she is made the secretary and isn't allowed to head off to war along with the male superheroes. The idea that she is in the Justice Society would make people assume that she is using the powers and abilities she has just as any other superhero would (just like how if the wonder woman telephone is displayed, people would assume that it is useful and working just as any other telephone). However, she is not allowed to show her full potential because she is being suppressed, and instead is just in the Justice Society "for show" (just like how an unplugged phone doesn't allow it to be useful, but simply a display or decoration).
Poundmaker
Poundmaker was a tragic figure in the history of indigenous Canadian peoples. His life was an all too common example of the mistreatment of natives at the hands of southern Canadians. He was born in Saskatchewan in 1842 and was adopted by the head chief of the Blackfoot, Crowfoot. Poundmaker rose to prominence within the Cree community and eventually became a Cree chief, at which point he became a powerful “vocal [opponent] to settler expansionism” (Monaghan 491). In his adamant opposition to Treaty No 6 and general expansionism, Poundmaker was “placed under systems of surveillance” by the Canadians (Monaghan 491). Sir Edgar Dewdney, the Indian commissioner for the North-West Territories at the time, said that Poundmaker “will have to be broken, he is at the bottom of all the trouble” (St. Germain 317). Dewdney, who was theoretically supposed to look out for the inhabitants of the North-West Territories, completely failed at his job. He was clearly more interested in peace through submission.
He played a role in the North West Rebellion, standing with other native chiefs against the tyranny of the Canadian government. He was not quick to fight though, he prefered a peaceful resolution. At the beginning of the rebellion “Poundmaker had initially urged peace,” (Markowitz, Harvey, and Carole A. Barrett 393). He allied himself with the leader of the rebellion, Louis Riel. In fact, he went as far as “pledg[ing] to assist Riel and his followers to the end,” (Markowitz, Harvey, and Carole A. Barrett 393). Poundmaker’s biggest moment in the rebellion came during the Battle of Cut Knife Creek, when a Canadian colonel with 300 men marched on the natives. After about six hours of fighting the colonel knew that his forces would not win this skirmish so he called for a retreat. As they were retreating, Poundmaker, being the peaceful man that he was, urged his people not to attack the retreating Canadian forces. He was able to convince them not to attack, thus saving hundreds of Canadian lives. However, he was not thanked for this by the Canadians, instead they incarcerated him for a year. After his release, he went back home but wasn’t ever the same and died shortly after.
Berger included Poundmaker in the report because he serves as a perfect example of the abuse of Canadian power towards the natives. Dewdney stated that his intent from the beginning was to break Poundmaker, so it didn't matter that he saved hundreds of Canadian lives. They wrongfully convicted him just because he was standing up for his home. Berger is trying to point out the one sided relationship that exists between the natives and the southerners. The relationship that, for hundreds of years, has dictated the way that native claims have been handled.
Markowitz, Harvey, and Carole A. Barrett. 2005. American Indian Biographies. Pasadena, Calif: Salem Press, 2005. eBook Collection (EBSCOhost), EBSCOhost (accessed November 6, 2017).
St. Germain, Jill. "Treaty Six and the Northwest Rebellion, 1885." In Broken Treaties: United States and Canadian Relations with the Lakotas and the Plains Cree, 1868-1885, 311-44. Lincoln; London: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. doi:10.2307/j.ctt1dgn3sg.14.
Monaghan, Jeffrey. "Settler Governmentality and Racializing Surveillance in Canada's North-West." The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers Canadiens De Sociologie 38, no. 4 (2013): 487-508. http://www.jstor.org/stable/canajsocicahican.38.4.487.
Buel, Oliver, Poundmaker, also known as The Drummer, (ca. 1842-1886), a Cree chief, later adopted by Crowfoot of the Blackfoot Nation. 1885. Photographic print. Library and Archives Canada.http://collectionscanada.gc.ca/ourl/res.php?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&url_tim=2017-11-06T06%3A06%3A58Z&url_ctx_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=3241485&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fcollectionscanada.gc.ca%3Apam&lang=eng
Canadian Pacific Railway
The Canadian Pacific Railway company was incorporated in 1881. Less than five years later the transcontinental line from Montreal to Port Moody, a distance of 2,893 miles, was completed (Eagle, 3). Its original purpose was in the construction of a transcontinental railway, to fulfill a promise made to British Columbia upon its entry into Confederation in 1871. On November 7th, 1885, company director Donald Smith drove the last spike among the mountains of British Columbia, marking the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway (Woodcock, 47). It was completed in less than half the time it was originally contracted for; and the feat of building this three-thousand-mile railroad over difficult terrain in less than five years can be largely attributed to William Cornelius Van Home, the first General Manager of the Canadian Pacific (Woodcock, 54). The creation of the CPR provided Canada with a transportation infrastructure necessary for its western ambitions and allowed the country to make use of the land it had acquired. Its completion in 1885 “marked an important stage in the process by which Canada changed from a loose group of scattered colonies, divided by a great waste of prairie and mountains inhabited only by Indians and fur traders, into the nation it is today” (Woodcock, 48). The CPR soon became the country’s most successful narrative and played an important role in the development of the nation by connecting the Canadian territory from east to west and unifying the dominion in its path.
In order for the railway to be profitable, the CPR needed more passengers and cargo, however few people inhabited the Canadian west at that time. The CPR operated mostly in the wilderness and the usefulness of the prairies was considered to have great potential for the newly formed Dominion of Canada. As early as 1881, Canadian Pacific got involved in land settlement and land sales. Under the initial contract with the Canadian Government to build the railway, the CPR was granted 25,000,000 acres of land and the Canadian Pacific began an intense campaign to bring immigrants to Canada. Canadian Pacific advertised land for settlers in Eastern Canada and the United States, and placed advertisements in European newspapers describing the fertile land of the Canadian Prairies. In 1909, Canadian Pacific spent more money promoting immigration than the Canadian government (Eagle).
The CPR represented the long-awaited liberation of the Canadian West; however, it was a privately-owned corporation as well as a national dream and its profits benefited the Canadian Pacific Railway company, not the nation as a whole (Friesen, 8). Its power in western Canada was immense and without competition, Canadian Pacific was a monopoly. However, as more people continued to head west, settlements sprang up overnight and there soon developed both a need for more transportation and a break in the monopoly and power of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company (Lowe, 53). In 1904, the passage of the Transcontinental Railway Bill through the Parliament of Canada became one of the most significant legislative acts for the Dominion of Canada (MacKenzie King, 136). It represented the movement away from the privately owned Canadian Pacific Railway Corporation and the need for more security and independence in regard to the industrial and commercial expansion of Canada.
Photo Credit: The Last Spike
Bibliography:
Friesen, Gerald, A. 1984. "Preparing for Western Settlement, 1870-1890." Journal of The West 23, no. 4: 5-10.
Lowe, Norman, J. 1978. "Canada's Third Transcontinental Railway: The Grand Trunk Pacific/National Transcontinental Railways." Journal of The West 17, no. 4: 52-61.
Regehr, T. D. The Canadian Northern Railway: Pioneer Road of the Northern Prairies, 1895–1918. Toronto: Macmillan. 1976.
W. L. MacKenzie King. "The National Transcontinental Railway of Canada." The Quarterly Journal of Economics 19, no. 1 (1904): 136-48. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1884867.
Woodcock, George. 1958. "The Canadian Pacific Railway." History Today 8, no. 1: 47-55.
L. Paul Bremer III, head of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, signs an order disbanding the Iraqi army and intelligence services, sending hundreds of thousands of well-armed men into the streets
Insanity in individuals is something rare—but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.
I agree with this quote from Nietzsche because it is so true that it is rare an individual is insane because usually their ideas are kept in their head. Once you spread that idea and is accepted, that idea of insane might not be so crazy. An example would be Hitler and his ideas of exterminating the Jewish people. He got a whole nation to follow his lead and that "insane" idea was flipped to be ok.
There is something in the morality of Plato which does not really belong to Plato, but which only appears in his philosophy, one might say, in spite of him: namely, Socratism, for which he himself was too noble. "No one desires to injure himself, hence all evil is done unwittingly. The evil man inflicts injury on himself; he would not do so, however, if he knew that evil is evil. The evil man, therefore, is only evil through error; if one free him from error one will necessarily make him—good."
Nietzsche's brings up the fact that Plato has this idea in his philosophy that is more connected to Socrates than Plato himself. This idea is that evil is something that is done without the knowledge of it happening. Someone who commits an evil crime doesn't know that what they are doing is evil, something inside their head is obviously telling them that it is right or else they wouldn't do it. Just as no one desires to injure themselves, no one likes to admit that what they have done is wrong. Nietzsche then says that removing the evil man from the error he has created makes him "good" again. I take this as him saying that all people have good in them and it is the bad influences around them that taint their good inside and technically make them bad. If you have the power to get rid of the bad then you are left with once again a good person, but there is nothing that you can do to guarantee that they wont take part in evil again.
And whenever anyone speaks without bitterness, or rather quite innocently, of man as a belly with two requirements, and a head with one; whenever any one sees, seeks, and WANTS to see only hunger, sexual instinct, and vanity as the real and only motives of human actions; in short, when any one speaks "badly"—and not even "ill"—of man, then ought the lover of knowledge to hearken attentively and diligently; he ought, in general, to have an open ear wherever there is talk without indignation
Anyone who wishes to discuss a person or ideas must listen with an open ear because those who don't will hold some type of bias.
Treaty 8
In 1899, the Canadian government signed the eighth of a total of eleven treaties partnered with aboriginal tribes in western Canada. Known as the Numbered Treaties, these treaties allowed for the settlement of eastern Canada (as well as the collection and cultivation of the resources offered by the region). Treaty 8 applied to parts of British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan (an area known as the Lesser Slave Lake) and covered lands as far north as the Northwest Territories.
In the 1890’s, rumors of gold strikes in the far west of Canada began to spread, sparking the interest of prospectors to travel to the distant region in search of their fortunes. This movement became known as the Klondike Gold Rush, which saw thousands of Canadians and Americans rushing to the Yukon-Alaska border in search of gold. Substantial amounts of gold were discovered along the Klondike River in the Yukon, driving almost all mining companies north through Canada in order to excavate the area. (8) With a huge increase in the number of Canadians traveling through western provinces, increased opportunities for contact with indigenous people arose. This increased contact with previously isolated indigenous people led to the signing of Treaty 8 in an effort to head off possible hostile confrontations between gold prospectors and indigenous tribes. Furthermore, while most prospectors opted to travel to Northwestern Canada, the Canadian government also chose to include in Treaty 8 the region settled by the Sekani tribe in McLeod Lake, British Columbia. While less popular to prospectors than the Klondike River valley, the Canadian government was aware of substantial mineral deposits in the region.
Some historians believe that Treaty 8 was also drawn up to protect the land and mineral rights of the Sekani in British Columbia, though others resist this theory. Historian Robert Irwin argues in a response to an article by Arthur J. Ray that the “[Sekani] cultural landscape was not a significant enough reason to extend the eastern boundary of the treaty.” (9) Furthermore, Irwin conversely argues that Canada greatly limited the borders of Treaty 8, which effectively reduced the amount of land reserves granted to the Sekani. The Treaty 8 Sekani boundary issue became a subject of controversy in years following the signing of the treaty. (10)
Ray responded to Irwin’s counter arguments, debunking most of his claims and points. Ray contends that the boundaries of Treaty 8 were mostly ambiguous, yet not nearly as small as Irwin suggested. While many topographical landscape features, such as the Liard River representing the Northernmost boundary, are assumed to be treaty borders, Treaty 8 never defined outright its designated territorial size. (11) However, Ray agrees with Irwin that the treaty's ambiguous boundaries precipitated controversy after the treaty's signing. Because the border was not officially determined, the Sekani tried to reassert their rights in the treaty, “after they had become disillusioned with the ongoing comprehensive claims and the modern treaty negotiation processes.” (12)
(8) Bockstoce, John R., and Felipe Fernandez-Armesto. "End of the Century." In Furs and Frontiers in the Far North: The Contest among Native and Foreign Nations for the Bering Strait Fur Trade, 355. Yale University Press, 2009.
(9) Irwin, Robert. 2000. "TREATY 8: An Anomaly Revisited." BC Studies no. 127: 85. America: History and Life with Full Text, EBSCOhost (accessed November 5, 2017).
(10) Irwin, Robert. 2000. "TREATY 8: An Anomaly Revisited." BC Studies no. 127: 87. America: History and Life with Full Text, EBSCOhost (accessed November 5, 2017).
(11) Ray, Arthur J. 2000. "TREATY 8 AND EXPERT WITNESSES: A Reply to Robert Irwin." BC Studies no. 127: 104. America: History and Life with Full Text, EBSCOhost (accessed November 24, 2017).
(12) Ray, Arthur J. 2000. "TREATY 8 AND EXPERT WITNESSES: A Reply to Robert Irwin." BC Studies no. 127: 103. America: History and Life with Full Text, EBSCOhost (accessed November 24, 2017).
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Map of Dominion of Canada corrected to January 1887, to show lands covered by Indian Treaty No. 8, 1898
Photo Credit: MIKAN no. 2171999
within the powers of a single professor
The founders should have included a method for more professors to head a group of subjects. They should also have included a vetting process for professors to make sure the quality of the students' education was high. If the professor they hired for the group was terrible, students that wanted to major in that area were out of luck, a situation that is not conducive to a proper education.
-Shannon Lee
James Madison
At first I was confused as to how James Madison was affiliated with the University of Virginia. Upon further research, I found that Madison was the 2nd rector (or head) of UVa until 1836 and that the law school was actually named after him. He was an important part of the University's founding and often worked alongside Thomas Jefferson, which explains why he was included in the individuals who signed this report.
ccording to local author David Aaron Moore, the plan went like this: Ghantt would go to work as normal, leave at the same time as the last employee and return to the vault, where he would load carts with bags of money before putting them into a van. From there, he’d meet Campbell, Chambers and Grant, a friend of Chambers, in a parking lot, from where they would head to an industrial warehouse and load all but $50,000 into a rental van. Ghantt would pocket the $50,000 and head to Mexico with Campbell, where he’d stay until it was safe to come back.
This was a good plan, you pretty much get the guy who works there to be the last one to leave, unlock the safe, load some bags and bring it to an unmarked van. The problem was there were three cameras and he only grabbed two of three camera footage, so it was pretty easy from there and all they had to do then was figure out who else was a part of the crew.
I published a study on football players, NFL players who had been hit in the head thousands of times. What we did for them is put them on a multiple vitamin, high dose omega-3 fatty acids 5.6 grams, and blend ... I like higher EPA than DHA. A supplement I created calledBrain and Memory Power Boost that works in seven different ways, and 80% of our players showed improvement including, not just self-report, they showed improvement in blood flow to their prefrontal cortex zones back. That's not a placebo thing. A placebo thing is not actually going to improve blood flow to the focus, or thought judgment, impulse control part of your brain.
Memory Power Boost. High Dose Omega 3. TBI's
I personally never seen it as a problem with my patients, but the only people I know who are taking like 20 grams of fish oil are in head trauma recovery programs. People say, "Oh, you should worry about bleeding or bruising." I haven't seen that as a significant problem.
High doses Fish Oil. Omega 3
We are light years ahead of the rest of the world,” Jim Winship, the head of the BSA, told me.
This quote conflicts with the overall tone of the essay. It seems satirical.
then continued to look at it for a long time. She pointed at the toe of my boot and said, “Whose head is that? Is it a baby’s
Does mom have Dementia? it never tells us why mom is in the hospital
a publication not known for hyperbole.
Good to mention that the same journal published another set of Antarctic sea level rise projections one year before (2015) that are far less dire (Potential sea-level rise from Antarctic ice-sheet instability constrained by observations). This, and much more background on this Grist article, is highlighted in a great Guardian article written by Tamsin Edwards: How soon will the 'ice apocalypse' come?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
A "one-two" jab, right cross combination to the head. I am down for the count.
microcephaly
underdevelopment of the brain causing a child’s head to be smaller than normal
Pym turns this well established paradigm on its head insisting that we should see translators as inhabiting an inter-culture in which they share two sets of norms and it is more effective to understand the nature of these norms if they are studied over time.
Interesting! I wonder how much he's influenced by Bhabha here? Also, wondering if he has a methodology in mind to study that inter-culture?
The wicked, quaint fruit-merchant men, Their fruits like honey to the throat But poison in the blood;
The fruit sold in the marketplace is very well a symbol of sexual temptation and Laura is, in a sense, ruined by falling those temptations. Despite this, the poem ends with Laura’s marriage which seems as though she is able to rise from the ruin of the marketplace, but marriage during Roffetti’s time was more of a business transaction rather than one of love. Roffetti could be insinuating that the fruit being sold in the market could be a symbol of male desire and the goblins are wealthy men who try to seduce young women into marriage. This could be proven by the sisters lamenting the days of when they were living together and unmarried. Roffetti could be claiming that the idea of marriage, while seemingly happy and an easy way of going through life in the 19th century, is “poison in the blood” of young women and forces them to live the domestic life trapped in their homes - taking the marriage plot narrative and turning it on its head.
I sit and sew—a useless task it seems, My hands grown tired, my head weighed down with dreams— The panoply of war, the martial tred of men, Grim-faced, stern-eyed, gazing beyond the ken Of lesser souls, whose eyes have not seen Death, Nor learned to hold their lives but as a breath— But—I must sit and sew.
Is she trying to say that she feels her sewing is not helping the war and she should be more useful by participating in it?
I sit and sew—a useless task it seems, My hands grown tired, my head weighed down with dreams—
This text in a way symbolizes the tasks that women have to do that appear simple but require much more than her strength to endure.
My hands grown tired, my head weighed down with dreams
similar to the other poem, the author speaks of the importance of dreams, and faith and how it took over their minds o escape their living situation,
I sit and sew—a useless task it seems, My hands grown tired, my head weighed down with dreams—
Portrays a woman that sits while her husband is out in the battlefield and their is nothing she can do about it.
I sit and sew—a useless task it seems, My hands grown tired, my head weighed down with dreams—
It seems as though she wants to do more than sew. She has dreams of doing something but I cannot depict if she wants to help slaves or leave the situation that she is in
To be less afraid to use instinct as a guide. If a little red flag keeps going off in your head, it’s generally a sign that something isn’t right, even if others are saying otherwise. Communicators generally have good antenna, and we need to ask the hard questions without fear.
Love this. I don't know if I can count the times I've ignored that red flag only to have it backfire in some way.
What business had his slave to be marching round the country, inventing machines, and holding up his head among gentlemen? He’d soon put a stop to it. He’d take him back, and put him to hoeing and digging, and “see if he’d step about so smart.” Accordingly, the manufacturer and all hands concerned were astounded when he suddenly demanded George’s wages, and announced his intention of taking him home. “But, Mr. Harris,” remonstrated the manufacturer, “isn’t this rather sudden?” “What if it is?—isn’t the man mine?”
First of all what a dick. Secondly damn how threatening it must feel to suddenly not hold the little sad power you have.
What business had his slave to be marching round the country, inventing machines, and holding up his head among gentlemen? He’d soon put a stop to it. He’d take him back, and put him to hoeing and digging, and “see if he’d step about so smart.”
He's insecure about a lowly slave being more intelligent and doing more than him
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a general increase in contraction time from head to tail
In little tunny, the muscles near the head contracted faster than those by the tail, which was different from the other fish that relied more on their tails to propel through water, and hence had lower contraction times near their tails than their heads.
My horse hitched low his head. Red apples rolled before him --Eve's apples, seek-no-furthers.
But though the Piazza shows a world that is in many ways a fantasy, that is sort of a modern Adam and even, while the religious connotations of the story are in a way not heavily imprinted in it, the allusions mark it as a retelling of that story in many ways. The most important act of the story is when The narrator has a similar encounter as that of Adam and the Apples. But a very fundamental difference is that he eats the apples before he meets the girl, as opposed to the original story where Adam has met Eve; and she is the one who introduces him to the apples.The narrator states, "My horse hitched low his head. Red apples rolled before him -- Eve's apples, seek-no-furthers. He tasted one, I another; it tasted of the ground. Fairyland not yet, thought I, flinging my bridle to a humped old tree, that crooked out an arm to catch it. For the way now lay where path was none, and none might go but by himself, and only go by daring” (Melville). It is this allusion that the narrator knows it could be the proverbial Eve's apples, as that it is going to take him to Fairyland but this is where it starts to lead him out. The apple represents his gaining of rationality, which he had a seed of when he talked about the showers that did not allow him to see the coronation. As noted by a scholar, “ Reenacting the Central Symbolic act of Christian Mythology, the narrator eats of Eve's apples and nature at once opposes him as opposed to bolstering him”(Hinds). This is another interesting aspect, as he eats the apple the world around him changes. The hostility of nature becomes more real for him, as the apples of knowledge, spur the earlier seed in his head. It is interesting to note that while this is key for him, the seed spurs to him the reality of the world he hid from. He wanted reality to be something else, but it is starting to shatter. His love of nature and the way he at points in this story heralded it, is starting to fall apart.
During the first year of my residence, the more leisurely to witness the coronation of Charlemagne (weather permitting, they crown him every sunrise and sunset),
This paragraph demonstrates the way the world works in the Bible and in the Piazza is that of an Eden in a way. The protagonist is the creator of his world mirroring god's creation of the world in Genesis. The narrator's creation is based on his own idealistic fantasy. These worlds are created in a way to demonstrate idealism. “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth”(Holy bible, Genesis Chapter 1). In this case God creates a being in the image he prefers which is himself, and in that case he can assert control over that being by having the being maintain control over the world. But the being is not in absolute control, as that they have control of their lives, but not the environment in which they live. So it puts god in control. This is contextualized in the way the control of the world is carried over in the story of the Piazza. In this case the narrator is the creator of the world; However the narrator also plays the role of god and the role of Adam. This is demonstrated when the narrator states, “During the first year of my residence, the more leisurely to witness the coronation of Charlemagne (weather permitting, they crown him every sunrise and sunset), I chose me, on the hillside bank near by, a royal lounge of turf -- a green velvet lounge, with long, moss-padded back; while at the head, strangely enough, there grew (but, I suppose, for heraldry) three tufts of blue violets in a field argent of wild strawberries; and a trellis, with honeysuckle, I set for canopy”(Melville). Through these subtle paragraphs we see that the control of the world in the piazza is also manifested through it's creation. It is here we see a stark contrast to the story in the Bible. The first hint that we see of this is when the narrator states that he witnesses the coronation of Charlemagne, and we see that manifest in his fantasy; but unlike god, he is not in total control, He states that he can only see this coronation when the weather permits. It shows the duality of the narrator, that he has control of the magical ideas that manifest the illusions, but the reality that surrounds this, is uncontrollable. In this way, Melville adds a sense of human fragility showing that the narrator is in an Eden and similar to that of god, and it is a human Eden, but not utopian Eden. So the narrator has the fragility of Adam and the ideas of god. It is just that already the reality around him limits him.
They canmislead us not only when we are in emotional turmoil, such as when inanger the red mist comes down over the eyes; they can also mislead uswhen we are ignorant of our emotions, such as when a deeply sup-pressed envy is quietly lurking in the background. If we do not have theright emotional dispositions, prudential and moral, that properly attuneus to the world, then, I will argue, our emotions can distort perceptionand reason so that the world seems to us other than it really is: as I willput it, the emotionsskew the epistemic landscape.
Feelings have the tendency to mislead us when we are feeling emotionally irrational to the point where we can't even perceive what might really be happening because we are so caught up in what we're thinking about a certain situation, such as if you think your significant other is out with someone you're not comfortable with then you start to create these scenarios in your head that you think is going to happen when in reality everything is fine. Humans can certainly be mislead irrationally by their thoughts and feelings
Tony entreated her not to do it to-night, and the mother and — 79 — their coloured nurse threatened her, but Maime merely smiled her agitating smile. And by and by when they were alone with their night-light she would start up in bed crying ‘ Hsh ! what was that ?’ Tony beseeches her, ‘It was nothing don’t, Maimie, don’t!’ and pulls the sheet over his head. ‘It is coming nearer ! ‘ she cries. ‘Oh, look at it, Tony! It is feeling your bed Avith its horns it is boring for you, O Tony, oh ! ‘ and she desists not until he rushes downstairs in his combinations, screeching.
Very similar to Mr. Little Thimblefinger story organization
How To Put On and Take Off a Male Condom Carefully open and remove condom from wrapper. Place condom on the head of the erect, hard penis. If uncircumcised, pull back the foreskin first. Pinch air out of the tip of the condom. Unroll condom all the way down the penis. After sex but before pulling out, hold the condom at the base. Then pull out, while holding the condom in place. Carefully remove the condom and throw it in the trash.
This is a credible source and I believe we should include these simple steps in our presentation. The do & don't list is also straight forward and can be explained throughout the presentation. -Diana Xicotencatl
As we head into the busiest toy-buying season of the year, the world’s largest toy retailer has filed for bankruptcy in the US and Canada, loaded with a staggering £3.7bn worth of debt. For Toys R Us fun has come at a price.
Needs character return after this paragraph Should read 'spend-per-child' - hyphen missing between per and child
As we head into the busiest toy-buying season of the year, the world’s largest toy retailer has filed for bankruptcy in the US and Canada, loaded with a staggering £3.7bn worth of debt. For Toys R Us fun has come at a price.
Needs character return after this paragraph
prohibited
Maybe mention that anyone NOT wearing steel-toed boots and Class 2 high-viz vests and head protection were not allowed inside the cordon (although this fell apart at the end of the dig).
SP: What went through your head when you first saw me?
This question on the other hand seems a little out of the blue and did not connect or flow well from the previous answer. However, that does not mean that is was not a good question.
In his case, I was gratified;
Isabella says she is "gratified" by her husband's sadness. If we recall the early chapters of the book, Isabella was girlish and shy. She would blush and run away at the mention of Heathcliff's name. When the chance came for her to get her knight in shining armor, she took it, not realizing that she had created a Heathcliff in her head that was much different from the reality. Silly mistakes made in youth, at a time of critical development, can echo throughout one's life. In Isabella's case, this cost her her empathy. This hardened Isabella is hardly recognizable from the girl at the beginning of the book. In these passages, we see her showing signs of having been poisoned by the pattern of cruelty displayed by the Earnshaws and Heathcliff. Interestingly, it seems to be her personal strength that caused her to take on this defense mechanism, as Edgar, a much softer character, never did exhibit such behavior despite his time spent with Catherine. This raises a question: who is the happier sibling? Isabella, battle-hardened and bitter, or Edgar, abused but with his humanity fully intact?
direct contradiction
I think it's really interesting that the author chose to include this poem he had written and then write multiple reasons why it was wrong. Is this what he actually remembered? If it is, how did it get so off target? How memory in traumatic situations like this works is still kind of a mystery to many people, which makes witnesses to criminal activities so difficult, but I think part of what he is showing here is that there are so many things that can go awry in the brain and uses it in a direct contrast to the physical lump in his head.
Christ urg'd it as wherewith to justifie himself, that he preacht in publick; yet writing is more publick then preaching; and more easie to refutation, if need be, there being so many whose businesse and profession meerly it is, to be the champions of Truth; which if they neglect, what can be imputed but their sloth, or unability?
"They plucked the seated hills with all their load, Rocks, waters, woods, and by the shagy tops Uplifting bore them in their hands: amaze, Be sure, and terror seized the rebel host, When coming towards them so dread they saw The bottom of the mountains upward turned" (PL Book VI, 644-649)
So I noticed this interesting little contradiction and just had to point it out. We were discussing Milton's fantastical depiction of the war in heaven which Raphael relays to Adam and Eve in class the other day, and that popped in my head while reading this part of Areopagitica in which Milton depicts writers as the champions of truth. This reinforces my conception of Milton as a no-nonsense type writer, particularly in biblical contexts. So no, I definitely do not think he was mocking or satirizing the unreal aspects of the traditional heroic epic. I think, in Book VI, Milton really was trying to depict an Angel's relaying a message to mortal humans that they truely cannot understand in the same manner he does; meaning to say, the mountains are a war of matter, the lightning electricity. Everything in Raphael's story is a representation in laymen's terms, per say, meant to relay a truely subliminal scene to Adam and Eve.
All of which raises a question: In the end, what is the ethical distinction between a Brazilian who sells a homeless child to organ peddlers and an American who already has a TV and upgrades to a better one —knowing that the money could be donated to an organization that would use it to save the lives of kids in need?
This brings up a great point. It makes me feel guilty for all the new things I get when kids somewhere else don't even have a roof over their head. There can be a compromise of getting new things and giving money or something to help someone somewhere else. If an American upgrades their tv they could have giving their old one away to a charity or something along those lines.
the light encircling the boy’s head
is it a halo?
“Blood Head 4.” Then: “Washington.” It was his first time at this level. Another world began to construct itself around Bill Peek, a shining city on a hill.
This boy seems to be very intone with whatever threat is occurring than most other, he must be very much involved he is not innocent.
A hand, lousy with blue veins, reached out for the light encircling the boy’s head, as if it were a substantial thing, to be grasped like the handle of a mug. “Ooh, look at the green, Aggie. That shows you it’s on.” The boy was ready to play. He touched the node on his finger to the node at his temple, raising the volume.
This sounds a lot like a black mirror episode
Straightway Rumor flies through Libya’s great cities, 220Rumor, swiftest of all the evils in the world. She thrives on speed, stronger for every stride, slight with fear at first, soon soaring into the air she treads the ground and hides her head in the clouds. She is the last, they say, our Mother Earth produced. Bursting in rage against the gods, she bore a sister for Coeus and Enceladus: Rumor, quicksilver afoot and swift on the wing, a monster, horrific, huge and under every feather on her body—what a marvel— an eye that never sleeps and as many tongues as eyes 230and as many raucous mouths and ears pricked up for news. By night she flies aloft, between the earth and sky, whirring across the dark, never closing her lids in soothing sleep. By day she keeps her watch, crouched on a peaked roof or palace turret, terrorizing the great cities, clinging as fast to her twisted lies as she clings to words of truth. Now Rumor is in her glory, filling Africa’s ears with tale on tale of intrigue, bruiting her song of facts and falsehoods mingled . . . 240“Here this Aeneas, born of Trojan blood, has arrived in Carthage, and lovely Dido deigns to join the man in wedlock. Even now they warm the winter, long as it lasts, with obscene desire, oblivious to their kingdoms, abject thralls of lust.”
Everyone’s got a good angel and a bad angel,” she explained. “And if it’s a bad angel that picks you out”—she pointed to a craft swooping low—“there’s no escaping it. You’re done for.”
Everyone's bad angel could be the negative voice inside their head. You have the choice to let it get to you and bring you down, or ignore it and become better than it.
Are we in it?
In what? His head?
light encircling the boy’s head
The light encircling the boys head enables him to see things that others can not see
They broke you in like oxen, They scourged you, They branded you, They made your women breeders, They swelled your numbers with bastards. . . . They taught you the religion they disgraced.
This is so chilling! It really emphasizes the way slaveowners dehumanized their slaves. It hits it right on the head. Also, in regards to Hughes, it points out what the White class did to the Negro class, why would the Negro class want to imitate the White class?
a rapidly moving panorama brings scene after scene before me
The previous hardships she's gone through slavery still sticks to her head. Makes you think of the impact slavery had on other people besides the narrator.
He tried his utmost to corrupt the pure principles my grandmother had instilled. He peopled my young mind with unclean images, such as only a vile monster could think of.
Seem like the master was trying to brain wash by telling him these things and putting these images in his head.
The doctor stamped his foot at him in a rage, and exclaimed, "Get out of the way, you little damned rascal! If you don't, I'll cut off your head."
The response that Dr. Flint gave to Benny showed the anger built from not being able to find Jacobs.
One morning in March, Ai was alone in his dining room, eating a bowl of noodles at the head of a wooden table long enough for a medieval banquet. Sunlight streamed through a two-story bank of windows. On the wall to his left was a piece he made in 1993 by altering a government poster about the dangers of fireworks in such a way that a large bandaged hand was now flipping the viewer the bird. “My wife hates this one,” he said.
More setting details--the dining room, the wooden table, sunlight streaming in, the bowl of noodles--and some of Ai's own words: "My wife hates this one," he said. This gives a sense of Ai as a person living in the world. Note here, too, that the writer is beginning to tell the story of his encounter(s) with the artists--that is, that Osnos was there with Ai, at the table, preparing to have a conversation. This is one hint of the narrative strategy in a profile.
“So it must,” replied the cousin; “for there is no doubt but Adam had a head and hair; and being the first man in the world he would have scratched himself sometimes.”
this goes back to basic beginnings and primal instincts something Freud focused on.
Due to the responsibility associated with interdisciplinarity, students must learn how to make concrete decisions, how to effectively combine multiple disciplines into a cohesive major, and how to know what they want.
my best decision in five years of college was to return to PSU as an interdisciplinary studies major. I honestly do not think I would have returned if my advisor hadn't put this idea in my head. the ability to have educational freedom before i head to grad school is rivaled by close to nothing. as an older student i know what i want from my classes and my education and I know how to get it and IDS has helped me accomplish that
And far into the night he crooned that tune. The stars went out and so did the moon. The singer stopped playing and went to bed While the Weary Blues echoed through his head. He slept like a rock or a man that’s dead.
The rhyme scheme in this poem is strong as well as the meter, making for an actual bluesy sounding poem. The musical value to this mirrors and mimics the sorrow and pain felt throughout the community and is an effective use of connections to pull the audience into the poets world and see things as they see them.
I’s gwine to quit ma frownin’ And put ma troubles on the shelf.”
I actually sang this in my head along to jazz/swing music and that just goes to show how poetic Hughes is in his seemingly radical poetry.
The sin upon my head, dread sovereign! For in the book of Numbers is it writ, When the man dies, let the inheritance Descend unto the daughter. Gracious lord, Stand for your own; unwind your bloody flag; Look back into your mighty ancestors:
Canterbury is asking to take blame, as it is written in the Numbers. He says unfurl your banners of war.
oppositional advocacy that topples regimes but does little to co-construct a better future.
I've been rolling this point around in my head for the last couple of days, thinking about the nuances it implies. When I first read it, I immediately remembered the disturbing fact that so many prominent white supremacists managed to earn bachelor's degrees in philosophy, even completed honor's theses in philosophy. If Richard Spencer can satisfy our honors requirements while training himself to peddle a violent mythology, then we need to critically reevaluate the ways in which we assess and cultivate our students. And like Ball, I think that focusing on the skills involved in critical thinking won't suffice. We need to make explicit the connections between good philosophy and empathy for our fellows.
spider. With its various legs being our Workrooms. Sometimes we were called upon to work alongside Abnesti in the head of the spider. Or, as we termed it: the Spiderhead.
Reference to the title. This control room is what is behind the scenes of these science experiments. This seems to be the operating room for all of the little experiments in whatever kind of creepy place this is.
Eventually, the drinking and smoking pot lead to hard drugs because there's never enough to keep the pain away. Finally the drug controls you, and you don't feel that pain anymore.
The pain being described is mythological is a pain she has created base on feelings, feelings that just get deeper as she does into an addictive world of drugs and alcohol. Trying to get a fix or cure to her pain created in her head gets her in to a greater pain of depending on the drug to take a break from the pain.
"If we are right, our study challenges decades of paleoclimate research," said Anders Meibom, the head of EPFL's Laboratory for Biological Geochemistry and a professor at the University of Lausanne. "Oceans cover 70% of our planet. They play a key role in the earth's climate. Knowing the extent to which their temperatures have varied over geological time is crucial if we are to gain a fuller understanding of how they behave and to predict the consequences of current climate change more accurately."
It seems the authors of this paper are not au fait with the decades of work that has been done with other proxies that also show warmth at these times, since they take their observed changes in oxygen isotopes in deeply buried and heated sediments, and extend their results outrageously, discounting hundreds of papers on either shallow, well-preserved samples, or organic temperature proxies, or pollen assemblages, or leaf margin analysis, or clumped isotopes- all of which show that the poles were indeed warmer at this time.
The medical field is most likely one of the most specialized fields in the world, even though it seems the human body and its complex systems would be the number one use for interdisciplinary study.
Couldn't agree more. From past experience of being a nursing student, the program and subject is interdisciplinary. You are consistently taking what you learn from multiple subjects and coming up with solutions in your head. If one was to only focus on the anatomy and the pharmacology, there would be no proper human interaction.
I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.
This line seems to be written for the purpose of catching the reader's attention. This classic opening to a slave narrative, "I was born..." is almost always present in the readings that we have done in the past. However, Harriet Jacobs has taken this line and turned it on its head. Very interesting.
She pointed at the toe of my boot and said, “Whose head is that? Is it a baby’s?” She looked at the sunlight coming along the wall and asked me why they had done that, why they hadn’t left it the way it was.
I feel so sorry for not only the mother, but the child as well. And so far, it seems like they are going through this alone.
We crowded round, and over Miss Cathy’s head I had a peep at a dirty, ragged, black-haired child; big enough both to walk and talk: indeed, its face looked older than Catherine’s; yet when it was set on its feet, it only stared round, and repeated over and over again some gibberish that nobody could understand.
Through the first few chapters of Wuthering Heights, the families and characters are introduced, and here they are shown to be resentful of the orphan that Mr. Earnshaw brings home to live with them. They see the child as dirty and consistently refer to him as an "it" in attempt to distance themselves from him in class, manners, and appearance. This passage highlights the ways in which the family rejects the presence of a lower class child, and as he is merely tolerated and not welcome-- the family does not hide their disgust for the child, and does their best to dehumanize and effectively "other" him. The ways in which this family attempts to tear down and reject Heathcliff's presence demonstrates the dark and twisted nature of these people and how their behavior conflicts with they ways in which they view themselves.
For many Muslim women who wear hijab, having their head uncovered in front of men who are not immediately family members — such as parents, brothers, sons — is like being naked.
I have many family members who choose to wear the hijab and this is exactly what they state because to them a hijab becomes part of their everyday clothing just like a shirt or pants
sphinx
Word: Sphinx is a mythological character with a lion's body and a human head. In the most popular legend, the sphinx said to have terrorized the people by demanding the answers to riddles. When they could not answer, the sphinx would devour them.
And if you’re crying in the bathroom because your stomach hurts and your head hurts
How long do you have to go without food to start hurting like that.
snotreflectedin country music, but is, rather, partiallyproducedby it
This claim is what marked my official interest and "buying in" to this article. This statement made me curious into how the author would go about answering it, and also presented the idea in my head that sometimes culture doesn't create its components but at times a subculture of sorts can stem from a component, of course in this case country music.
I do most of my work with water. I get a cold becauseI wash clothes. After delivery one gets rest for at leastthree months but I had rest only for a month andfrom the next month onwards I had to do all thework, and that’s the reason why I have all thesehealth problems.yThe doctor cannot find anything.This is why I think I fall ill because of tension. I get acold and then it passes on to my child and then he toofalls illyI have to wash clothes all by myself. I take alot of time to do this, and after that I have to lookafter the child and by the time I finish doingeverything it is 2.30 p.m. and by then my hungerdies. Before I used to enjoy everything, now I don’tenjoy anything. I feel like there is a heavy burden onmy head. I don’t have the motivation to doanythingyI don’t do anything for myself because Iam fed up of my lifeymy husband does help, but hehas to be told
According to the context, these PND mothers get sicked because they have a tense relationship with their husbands. However, the PND mother thinks the reason why she is sicked because she does most of her work with water. According to the women, the reason how she falls ill is somehow related to her husband simply because her husband only helps out when he is told. She thinks doctors are not helpful because they cannot find anything. She believes that she gets a cold because she washes clothes instead of getting virus or flu.
“Are you alive, or not? Is there nothing in your head?”
Another instance of the uncertainty and reference to zombies.
Where rest not England’s dead.
Throughout the poem,the emphasis on the death surrounding England is obviously very strong. I found it interesting while reading that she used "there" as opposed to "their" because as I was reading it, I felt as if she was speaking about the service men who died, but upon rereading, it seems as though because these men are dying (or are already dead) it is making England weary or dead in itself. This could possibly be alluding to the families that are left behind or that the English soldiers are the heart of England, hence its death. The repetition of the phrase, even in its alterations, makes it clear the mass amounts of people that died for England and gives an leaves an almost guilty tone in the reader's head as if it there is something that could've been done.
Representatives of the World I have come toGeneva to discharge in your midst the most painful of the duties of the head of a State. What reply shall I have to take back to my people?
This is a truly powerful appeal to the United Nations. Instead of helping to stop the Italians that are killing mass amounts of people unlawfully, they are choosing to possibly break up the country of Ethiopia, which are a member of the United Nations. It really shows the United Nations lack of respect for the continent of Africa. Especially the parts that are struggling against European powers for control of their countries
Before Henry left they insisted upon, and anointed him a priest of the orderof High Conjurors, and amusing enough it was to him who consented tosatisfy the aged devotees of a time-honored superstition among them. Theirsupreme executive body called the “Head” consists in number of seven agedmen, noted for their superior experience and wisdom. Their place of officialmeeting must be entirely secluded, either in the forest, a gully, secluded hut,an underground room, or a cave.
He is playing into their superstitions and religious beliefs in order to gain their trust.
The “Head” seemed, by the unlimited power givenhim, to place greater reliance in the efforts of Henry for their deliverance thanin their own seven heads together. “Go, my son,” said they, “an' may God A'mighty hole up yo' han's an' grantus speedy 'liverence!
This just re-emphasizes the comparison between Henry and Moses. It is interesting to see him compared to such a religious figure when he is so anti-Christianity.
Giving his head an unconscious scratch accompanied with a slight twitch ofthe corner of the mouth, Franks seemed to comprehend the whole of it.
Once she denied opening up further on what was troubling her he didn't press the matter anymore, he silently understood.
Mrs. Franks looking him imploringly in the face, let drop her head, buryingher face in the palms of her hands. Soon it was found necessary to place herunder the care of a physician
Because she's emotional, they found the need to put her under the care of a physician. She cared for the slaves and they didn't think it was normal. To them it was considered a mental issue.
using the style tag and writing the CSS inside it or by using the link tag to link to a style sheet. Either of these tags go in the head portion of your HTML.
How to include CSS in a page/site. Goes in the Head
Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touch’d from, The scent of these arm-pits aroma finer than prayer, This head more than churches, bibles, and all the creeds.
A bit of sacrilege, eh? Well, what's he driving at? What culture is he responding to? Why might it be liberatory to celebrate the body in this manner?
Even the most dejected parts of the body, though? The arm-pits? Who likes the scent of arm-pits ... well how is this "finer than prayer" in a church?
(Is it that the human body is so divine that this is clearer access to miracle?)
neck
part of the body that connects to your head
In regard to content (what is transmitted), it is organized around a stock of established knowledge, and becomes how to use a terminal. In place of “what is true?” we ask, “what use is it?” “Is it saleable?” “Is it efficient?”
Within the broader university retraining aspect, Lyotard explains what happens to content when students are retrained. The lessons are organized around similar ones, but their points are misused in that we no longer question its validity, but rather we automatically swallow it and then ask how it can be used for our benefit. If the knowledge has nothing to do with our major, for example, we are hesitant to give it much attention because we think we will never use it. Not only is this modern value of efficiency rooted in the way we do business and produce things, it also rears its head in our psychological processes. In simpler terms, we no longer learn for the purpose of learning and gaining knowledge, we learn in order to increase our usefulness, our efficiency.
“Human Sadness” by Julian Casablancas+The Voidz might be a bit unsuited for play at house party, and it is notably longer than the average song length at 11 minutes, but somehow I never grow tired of it. The broad title fits the song well, as it seems to be a narrative of both Julian Casablancas’ own sadness in his life as a result of estrangement from his father, as well as the sorrows that haunt all humans as a result of greed and too much dependence on emotion rather than reason. Casablancas writes lyrics that are quite personal and specific, such as “hits you on the head when nobody’s there / then he says ‘come here, could you fix my tie?’” regarding the way his father, the well-dressed founder of a modeling agency, treated him coldly when they weren’t in the public view. Between glimpses of Casablancas’ relationship with his father he writes about the human condition; “vanity overriding wisdom” being a way that social interaction can be corrupted. “Human Sadness”, by addressing both general woes of the human population and intimate details from Casablancas’ own life, is both relatable and personal. This seems to be the kind of alluring authenticity Barker and Taylor see in the blues songs they examine in their article.
When Francis Bacon approaches a white canvas its empty surface is already filled with the whole history of painting up to that moment, it is a compaction of all the clichés of representation already extant in the painter’s world, in the painter’s head, in the probability of what can be done on this surface.
Anne Carson argues that using clichés is easier than creating something new. She states that there is nothing that has not been said before. In this quote, she writes that when creating a work of art, a painter is not really creating something new. The painting is just an interpretation of what the painter has already experienced in the past or has prior knowledge to. The white canvas, while being seen by the painter, is a “compaction of all the clichés of representation already extant in the painter’s world, in the painter’s head, in the probability of what can be done on this surface.” This is implying that it is impossible for the painter to create something that is non existent in the painter’s world. The description in this quote is very similar to the act of translation. Before anyone is able to interpret a text or an image, they have to use their prior knowledge and past experiences to be able to understand what they are seeing or reading. By using their prior knowledge and experiences they are able to create their own unique interpretation of the text or image and translate it into a different text.
My question is: Do you think that it is possible to analyze or interpret something without using your prior knowledge or experiences?
Another tip is to read the paper out loud. That’s one way to see ho
Reading out loud can really help. When I had to study for a presentation I would read what I had to say out loud. It sounded great on screen and in my head, but it sounded off once said out loud. I will try this for this lesson.
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You have ever had a net in the driveway, front lawn or on your head at McDonald's, send $20. You ever imagined Angelina Jolie in fishnets, $20. So you stay home and eat on the dinette. You'll live.
I'm pretty sure this is not a reliable article because to start of with at the beginning of the sentence it doesn't make sense and just this in general is irrelevant.
seems so silly, obviously no one wants mass shootings to happen, but this is where the demagoguery comes in. In today’s society, it seems as though each political party views the other as a group of terrible, evil people with bad ideas. Although I don’t know much about politics, I do read many twitter arguments and shake my head at how these parties go against each other so aggressively.
OK, these are examples of weak arguments, but you need to show how they fit the definition of demagoguery.
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This shows that the crimes vary for why they are in this study. But I feel like there should be different experiments going on for the various levels of crimes. Like Rachel did way worse, and was still getting the same punishment/treatment that Jeff was.
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I don't believe in equating poetry to music, even though I understand the similarities between them. Yes, poetry should have an aesthetic element that pleases the ear or in some cases the eye, however music is more complex than just verse. Music is a binding of two aesthetic elements, verse and sound, where poetry can just be read silently. You could argue that you can read music and "hear" it inside your head, just as you do poetry, but that requires technical training and poetry does not.
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"We need to make it seem like we really didn't want to do it, so no one gets upset. Also, I don't think Antony is a problem without Caesar."
Especially problematic is the fact Yosef is not studying Torah. Inaccordance with Haredi values, Rabbi Dov said that the fact that Yosefwas not steeped in learning created a dangerous situation
I disagree with what the author is stating, he's saying that Yosef issues are because of his lack of religious beliefs. Religion in my opinion doesn't play with your head and his issue started once he experience the accident with the women. Ever since he lived this experience he hasn't been the same, this is why he's getting help. Studying and dedication more time towards his religion is not going to get him the answers to his problem.
sefdescribed his distress as asuddenbreak in his life, a rupture caused by atraumatic event in which he felt helpless.
This accident has affected Yosef so severely that he now embodies the feeling of being ruptured and helplessness. As evident by his inability to get over it (with adequate help) Yosef keeps going back to the idea that he is helpless when this woman visits him in his dream and at night, which is really (in my opinion) him just reliving the experience in his head and the guilt about not helping constantly swallowing him up, causing him to be unable to think about anything else in various moments throughout his day. I think that this PTSD has embodied him to the point where he will likely need therapy and will be unable to cope with this until he comes to grips with the idea that it is not actually his fault, (although the Rabbi doesn't help, as in earlier paragraphs the Rabbis has reported telling him that the only thing that is his fault is that Yosef has not studied medicine/ known first aid and was thusly not able to help the woman).
Roberto Rosario, president of the electoral commission, insisted that the government is not denying anyone the right to a nationality,
Robert Rosario, the head of the electoral commission, says that he is not taking away anybodies right to have a nationality.
his also draws on tenets from Understanding by Design (UbD) as you begin with the end in mind and think about where you would like to bring students by the end of the project.
This is crucial in your lesson planning. You need to have student learning outcomes and goals or else there is no point to the lesson. It can be helpful at the start of the project to tell your students what the goals and outcomes should be. You can collaborate with your students about what their goals should be, but you should have a set of general goals already in your head.
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Would eventually go on to be one of the biggest incomes for America.
In all i think that just from looking at one comment on a website, that she was right in that there are certain characteristics that pop up to notify you if a rhetor is using demagoguery based rhetoric. Things like the “us” vs “you” mentality, playing the victim, demonizing/ dehumanizing of the out-group, heavy reliance on fallacious arguments, and pandering to popular prejudice and stereotype all help identify demagoguery based rhetoric and almost all of these popped up in the comment we took a look at. Miller hit the nail on the head in her assessment of the characteristics of demagoguery.
Fascinating stuff. You have located some great target material and you correctly identify the relevant characteristic of demagoguery. This has a ton of raw potential. But it does seem to need revision to clarify and tighten up the analysis.
In the aftermath of the rally and the car ramming, some criticized the police handling of the rally. Claire Gastañaga, executive director of the Virginia ACLU, wrote that "The situation that occurred was preventable" and the ACLU's lawsuit, which resulted in a federal court granting an injunction allowing the rally to go forward at Emancipation Park, "did not cause it."[146] Gastañaga wrote that: "The lack of any physical separation of the protesters and counterprotesters on the street was contributing to the potential of violence. [Police] did not respond. In fact, law enforcement was standing passively by, waiting for violence to take place, so that they would have grounds to declare an emergency, declare an 'unlawful assembly' and clear the area."[146] On August 12, investigative news organization ProPublica published an article reporting that Virginia State Police troopers and Charlottesville police "wearing protective gear watched silently from behind an array of metal barricades" and allowed "white supremacists and counterprotesters to physically battle" without intervening. A. C. Thompson wrote that in "one of countless such confrontations," police watched passively as "an angry mob of white supremacists formed a battle line across from a group of counterprotesters, many of them older and gray-haired, who had gathered near a church parking lot. On command from their leader, the young men charged and pummeled their ideological foes with abandon. One woman was hurled to the pavement, and the blood from her bruised head was instantly visible."[97]
It's interesting that the police took a bystander approach to this rally. In the media we have have seen countless amounts of innocent victims being slain by the police in the defense that they were scared and in the Charlottesville rally, the police idled around until something happened. If the police are too afraid to do their jobs adequately then they don't have them or need more extensive training.
so they that equalize devils with Christ for power, make Christ either no King for power, or at least devils for power Kings equal to Christ. This is not a bruising of his heel only, which is as much as the devil is said to do; but a breaking of his head, nay a crushing of his heel, head, heart, members, body, and all into atomes: are not these cruel handlings, and manglings used against Christ? Sure the Godhead, as in all other Excellencies, so in power must have the preheminence, and be paramount, or else his power will not answer his other Excellencies (he Page 6 should be lame on that side) nor befit the Godhead
This is talking about how the power of the Devil should never be equalized to the power of Christ. Those who do so will be punished.
It turned out that, in fact, Gypsy hadn’t used a wheelchair from the moment she left her house a few days earlier. She didn’t need one. She could walk just fine, there was nothing wrong with her muscles, and she had no medication or oxygen tank with her either. Her hair was short and spiky, but she wasn’t bald — her head had simply been shaved, all her life, to make her appear ill. She was well-spoken, if shaken by recent events. The disabled child she’d long been in the eyes of others was nowhere to be found. It was all a fraud, she told the police. All of it. Every last bit. Her mother had made her do it.
this is such a wow moment, how could you really fake all of those things and why? makes me wonder how she tricked the make a wish foundation.
college’s two head T.A.L.O.N.S. Brandon and Bailey fou
"the college's" - should we say instead "the university's"? Also: comma between "two head T.A.L.O.N.S." and "Brandon and Bailey"
saw at least three people who weren't going to wake up again, ever. One of them was he~dless. I caught myself looking around for the head.
This is very interesting in the sense that people are killing others just for nothing sometimes. I wonder what the connections are between how Octavia Butler's life was for her to write this.
. The red coat was changed for one of blue and buff, a sword was held in the hand instead of a scepter, the head was decorated with a cocked hat, and underneath was painted in large characters, General Washington.
so he has woken up either during the Revolutionary War or after it was won
When anything that was read or related displeased him, he was observed to smoke his pipe vehemently, and to send forth short, frequent, and angry puffs; but, when pleased, he would inhale the smoke slowly and tranquilly, and emit it in light and placid clouds, and sometimes, taking the pipe from his mouth, and letting the fragrant vapor curl about his nose, would nod his head in approbation.
this reminds me of the devil wears prada when Miranda has certain facial expressions that represent her opinions without speaking ahaha
advantageous to morals
While triple rooms certainly wouldn't be the most comfortable, I also can't quite wrap my head around why those writing this report have deemed housing only two students per dormitory as "advantageous to morals," but I additionally can't see why this is considered so important that it's the first item on this list of advantages. Avoiding arguments and peer pressure, sure, but was this really that major of a concern (especially considering 'maintaining order' is already on the list)?
Annie P
p.74 Summarises the place of the university/multiversity
(1) The multiversity is a place where great thought and great research are often possible.
(2) The multiversity is a place from which great contributions can often be made to society.
(3) The multiversity is a place in which the claims of institutional continuity and efficiency come to head-on collision with its educational aims; the latter are normally wiped off the map.
(4) The multiversity is a place in which the education of the vast majority ranges from the mediocre to the pernicious. This fact creates new educational norms, which become positive deterrents to the education of any who wish to go beyond the majority. It is for these students -- the bright ones, the original or independent ones, the ones who care deeply --that the university is such bad news. It is in the crazy position of obstructing their education.
(5) Education at the multiversity is post-secondary, encouraging the transfer of discrete units of information and theory, rather than liberal, encouraging the contemplation of energizing form in what a student comes to know. And the system of lectures, essays and exams, and the root assumptions of thousands of the university's members, canonize the post-secondary version of education. It is possible to go beyond it, but only by radically dissenting from the university. For the twenty-year-old who does not know what he is dissenting in favour of, this is either very isolating or very undermining.
There is a scene early in “Mary Poppins” in which Mr Banks, a well-to-do banker enjoying life in the heyday of imperial Britain, sings a little song upon arriving home from the office at 6pm. His routine is a precise one: every day he walks through the door, collects the slippers, sherry and pipe waiting for him, and then awaits the presentation of his children, washed and scrubbed, so he can “pat them on the head and send them off to bed”. “Mary Poppins” is hardly documentary, yet it reflects the habits of the British upper classes in much of the 20th century: the business of child-rearing was largely outsourced to nannies and boarding schools
Good citation for mid century parenting and the upperclass
Home Depot approach
Nail on the head
"And then just something click in my head at that point, it's like 'man, you did it again. You're willing to throw away everything you ever worked hard for, everything you ever had out of life. It was so strange, but I just had a desire to stop. I had the desire to get help, invest myself 100 percent into whatever was going to help save my life. It never really set in the severity of if you fail a drug test, this is over. They're not going to let you keep playing. I never really took it serious. I thought I could keep on doing it and get away with it and get away with it."Gordon also revealed that he violated the NFL substance-abuse policy again prior to entering rehab, which means a four-game suspension is likely if he is reinstated.Additionally, Gordon discussed his time in college at Baylor and said a coach at the university helped him cheat his way through drug tests:"I've been enabled most of my life honestly. I've been enabled by coaches, teachers, professors, everybody pretty much gave me a second chance just because of my ability. Not too long after I got arrested for possession of marijuana at Baylor, one of my coaches came by saying 'you are going to get drug tested by the compliance office. This is how it's going to work, this is what they are going to do. If they do call you in, here goes these bottles of detox.'
Pathos: author uses real emotion and real stories about struggles players encounter. Addiction is a very sensitive topic that will play with readers emotions
As reported previously (5), branching species were more susceptible to hurricane damage than were massive heads (Fig. 4B). In an extremne example, at a depth of 6 m on Monitor Reef on the West Fore Reef (Fig. 1, location C, and Fig. 3) the planar living areas of branching Acropora spp. were reduced by up to 99 percent (Table 2, rows 1 to 3), whereas colonies of foliaceous and encrusting Agraricia agaricites were reduced by only 23 percent (Table 2, row 6),
The shape of corals has a strong influence on how much they are damaged because shape directly affects how much force flowing water exerts on the coral's skeleton. Thinly branching corals are especially susceptible to breaking, whereas corals with thicker, leaflike, encrusting, and head forms experience much less mechanical stress during a storm.
Curls to butter
This line firmly puts into my head the image of steamy cinnabon cinnamon buns glazed in glaze.
china
Seeing as Stein is playing with words and what they represent and how they represent and what they represent and words, I tilted my head like a confused doggy when this line assailed my me. "Wait, does she mean china the country?" I asked for a second. The next lines (such party poopers) show that she did mean china the glass, but I found the concept of burying china and not capitalizing the letter of a country quite Hume or us.
I’m settling on the pool bottom, and the sky is wavy, light blue through eight feet of water above my head.
Palahniuk's imagery in the visual description of the sky by the narrator at the bottom of his swimming pool brings to mind this iconic Impressionist painting by Claude Monet entitled Impression, Sunrise. Impressionists were often believed to have been nearsighted during the creation of their paintings, giving them a blurry and minimal aesthetic field which became mirrored in their work. The symbolism here is that much like the inability to see clearly what is in front of nearsighted artists, the term "short-sighted" also applies to the narrator in the sense that his future as a scholar or football star is cut short from a momentary lapse in judgement. Palahniuk may or may not have used the blurry sky as a foreshadowing for the narrator's bleak fate.
I think the success lies in the fact that the writers of these headlines are rhetorically aware of whom these head-lines are directed toward—college students like you, and more spe-cifically, educated college students who know enough about politics, culture, and U.S. and world events to “get” these headlines
again, emphasizing the importance of knowing your audience. Uses an example to make his idea concrete
ust as he finished his story, Mr. Broadwell came in, and inquired what I was doing there. I knew not what to say, and while I was thinking what reply to make he struck me over the head with the cowhide,
This is cruel. Brown was simply listening to a story and was punished for it. Perfect example of a cruel person sporting their own power.