![]() These connections will lead us to questions that will drive research based on the themes of the class. Through in-class discussions, we will draw connections between literature, criticism, philosophy, psychology and personal understanding of today. The readings reflect several genres and disciplines, but focus on fiction, short stories and academic writing. What would you like to say about these messages? Writing offers a way to express difficult painful, beautiful ideas in the world. What is literature? Why do people write and why do people read? What is its purpose in our society? If you do not see a place for yourself, the reader, in the books you study, then how can you determine why they say what they do and whether it is relevant? The goal of this class is for you to find a place in the world of literature by questioning the message every piece of writing transmits. The goal of this class is for you to exit the room asking questions and observing the world in a way you haven’t before. ![]() ![]() ![]() Overview: While this course focuses on mastering the skills of expository writing: analyzing and evaluating sources, developing theses and arguments, researching topics, using evidence and citation, developing and navigating bibliographic materials, drafting and revising, and structuring a paper, it can do more than that. ![]() Instructors' Pages: A-B Toggle Dropdown. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.Īlthough I completely agree with what u/ARQHeHateMe had said, I would suggest you start with Traveler's Gate Trilogy. I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Suggested topic: Double Stuffed Oreo Pizza recipe. At the same time all Wintersteel related Meme-grade posts should be sealed with a NSFW level veil in order to prevent chaos leakage and Iteration collapse. In addition they should carry a spoiler tag. ![]() For this purpose newly arriving posts that feature discussion of Wintersteel project should never include any spoilers in their title. On October 8th the quarantine will be lifted and surviving entities will be allowed to discuss the Wintersteel project outside the confines of the Megathread.įrom October 5th to October 12th all use of Meme-grade posts will be expressly forbidden in order to facilitate Wintersteel project discussion.įrom October 5th to December 5th Rule 2 will require all entities to conceal all spoilers. During this period all discussion regarding the Wintersteel project will be sealed within the Megathread. Information requested: Iteration defense protocolsįrom October 5th to October 7th all posts entering the Iteration will require manual approval from Moderator level authority. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Green has a strong relationship with his fans known as "Nerdfighters" and said his interactions with the online community helped frame the way he approached writing this book. "Writing about the relationship between parents and children in this book was really important to me." "I hope people understand, maybe get a glimpse of what it's like to live with this kind of mental illness," he went on. "She feels like she has thoughts that she can't get rid of that kind of feel like they're coming from the outside of her and then she uses compulsive behaviors to try to manage these thoughts that she can't stop having," Green explained. The book focuses on a 16-year-old girl named Aza who suffers from OCD. "I think that psychic pain can be tremendously isolating and that only compounds the hurt of it." "One of the reasons I wanted to write this book was because I did feel very alone in that for a long time," Green told ABC News chief anchor George Stephanopoulos. — - Best-selling author John Green said his new novel, "Turtles All the Way Down," was a way for him to connect with children who suffer from obsessive compulsive disorder and an opportunity to share his personal struggle with the disease. ![]() ![]() But reality intrudes when shocking news comes from home: Tatiana Blackthorn has escaped the Adamant Citadel, and London is under new threat by the Prince of Hell, Belial.Cordelia returns to a London riven by chaos and dissent. ![]() Even worse, she is now bound to an ancient demon, Lilith, stripping her of her power as a Shadowhunter.After fleeing to Paris with Matthew Fairchild, Cordelia hopes to forget her sorrows in the city’s glittering nightlife. In only a few short weeks, she has seen her father murdered, her plans to become parabatai with her best friend, Lucie, destroyed, and her marriage to James Herondale crumble before her eyes. Chain of Thorns is a Shadowhunters novel.Cordelia Carstairs has lost everything that matters to her. James and Cordelia must save London-and their marriage-in this thrilling and highly anticipated conclusion to the Last Hours series from the #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Cassandra Clare. ![]() Chain of Thorns (The Last Hours, #3) Full ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Well-functioning polities invest in public goods, like walls and laws, in order to enable political action. This is why Arendt suggests in The Human Condition that lawmaking, like wall-building, is properly a pre-political activity: “before men began to act, a definite space had to be secured and a structure built where all subsequent actions could take place … the laws, like the wall around the city, were not results of action but products of making” ( HC 194). They thus delimit the stage within which actors can act. I go on to clarify how ideology relates to terror and finally compare ideology to the concept of action as developed in The Human Condition (1958).Īccording to Arendt, laws are like city walls: they establish the pre-conditions for exercising political freedom. ![]() Towards this end, I begin by outlining how totalitarianism differs from tyranny, according to Arendt. To understand just how ideology substitutes for action, we must understand how totalitarianism emerges historically as a novel form of government. These principles take the place of genuine political action, which is the key characteristic of any well-functioning polity. These regimes, Arendt says, are characterized by ideology and terror. Hannah Arendt develops her theory of ideology from her analysis of historically existing totalitarian regimes, namely those of Hitler and Stalin, in The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951). ![]() ![]() A youth caught in the "tripartite crossfire of masculine prejudice, white illogical hate, and Black lack of power." For a very similar but contemporary and urban narrative of this multivariate crossfire turn to Ta-Nehisi Coates' The Beautiful Struggle. ![]() Written when Angelou was eighty, and full of love and forgiveness, it is easy to imagine the intended audience of Letter to My Daughter is actually Angelou’s own young self-so perfectly sketched in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring, still. I have all along known that I wanted to tell you directly of some lessons I have learned and under what conditions I have learned them. ![]() This letter has taken an extraordinary time getting itself together. Maya Angelou (Ap– May 28, 2014), a poet, activist, and writer, penned Letter to My Daughter in 2008 as a series of letters to the collective daughters she's nurtured and inspired throughout her life. I imagine for Maya Angelou it would be a task of unloading things pressed upon her heart. “How can I tell you Everything in my Heart?" asked illustrator Maira Kalman, heaving out her curious, observational mind into pictures and words. ![]() ![]() ![]() Bell’s earnest rabbit/human characters, her ability to capture her own sonic universe (“eh sounz lah yur unnah wawah!”), and her invention of an alter ego-the cape-wearing El Deafo, who gets her through stressful encounters (“How can El Deafo free herself from the shackles of this weekly humiliation?” she asks as her mother drags her to another excruciating sign language class)-all combine to make this a standout autobiography. ![]() AAAID?”) and its joys, as when she discovers that the microphone picks up every word her teacher says anywhere in the school. Her graphic memoir records both the indignities of being a deaf child in a hearing community (“IS. A bout of childhood meningitis left Bell ( Rabbit & Robot: The Sleepover) deaf at age four, and she was prescribed a Phonic Ear, with a receiver draped across her chest and a remote microphone her teachers wore. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I am interested in this idea for some reasons related to my scholarship, but lately I have been thinking about it in connection with my teaching. This is the “new class” line of thought which I wrote about a little in my last post: the idea that “knowledge workers” or a cultural/technical/professional/creative elite have, over the course of the twentieth century, used their privileged positions in political, economic, academic, and cultural institutions to insulate themselves from both pressure from below and control from above, leaving them free to influence society according to their internal values and mores without being accountable either to their audiences or their economic superiors. ![]() Its many mendacities are both so petty and so bold that it’s not worth taking the time to critique, but the book’s constant paranoia about cultural elitism (or just plain snobbery) as the glue uniting a ruling class of intellectual mavens is illustrative of a broader tendency of thought that does deserve attention. I recently read Fred Siegel’s The Revolt against the Masses: How Liberalism Has Undermined the Middle Class (2015), a self-inflicted fate which should excuse anyone else of ever having to read it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now standing in the way of their desire are Valerie’s wounded heart, Steven’s lone destiny, and a villain who will stop at nothing to crush them both. Then he reappears in society under his true identity, Viscount Ashford, but, despite the danger, their consuming passion cannot be denied. If they make it off the ship alive, to protect her from his enemies he must never see her again…Īn Undeniable Love Back in England, and under the ton’s scrutiny for a reckless past she hasn’t escaped, Valerie dreams of the breathtaking ‘man of the cloth’ with whom she shared her greatest adventure. Temptation has never been so intoxicating or so forbidden, for Steven is disguised as a French priest. ![]() A professor of History, she writes fiction because she thinks modern readers deserve grand adventures and breathtaking sensuality too. ![]() Only one seductive detail threatens his victory: the scandalous beauty imprisoned with him, Lady Valerie Monroe. Katharine lives in the wonderfully warm Southeast with her beloved husband, son, dog, and a garden she likes to call romantic rather than unkempt. A Secret Identity When pirates storm Viscount Steven Ashford’s ship upon the high seas, it brings him closer than ever to the nefarious criminal he seeks to ruin. ![]() ![]() ![]() Twenty-five copies of the present edition were offered on large paper. ![]() Roman house-entrance with flanking shops 7. roof-construction, doorways, Tuscan order 10. Ten Books on Architecture (De Architectura) is a treatise on architecture written by the Roman architect Vitruvius and dedicated to his patron, the emperor. Gwilt states that he was determined to give the English student a truer interpretation and his remained the standard translation throughout the nineteenth century. German and Spanish translations were also made, but the first English translation was an abridgment (1692, reissue 1729) - Newton's complete translation not appearing until 1771-1791. This is the second complete translation into English of Vitruvius's De architectura - the only ancient text on Greco-Roman architecture that has survived complete which provides an account of Greek and early Roman architecture to around the end of the first century B.C.Ī Latin text was printed between 14 but the versions of Barbaro (1556), Perrault (1673) and Galiani (1758) became the most widely used editions. ![]() |