Pete Benck Ms. Finnegan AP Literature 28 October 2005 An Essential Theme in John Gardner’s Grendel In art museums‚ there are ageless paintings and sculptures. On the radio‚ classical music and classic rock is still played. These are some of today’s ways of carrying on the past through art forms. The painter and the rock legend are artists immortalized through their works. The artists in Grendel are the Shaper and the court harper. Their singing of great men’s deeds‚ no matter how inflated or
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through his art and use those emotions to manipulate them into constructing a common‚ coherent‚ and uplifting value system. Having seen the past that the Shaper glorified‚ Grendel is horrified by sheer power of the Shaper’s poetry and feels weak when he realizes that he too is being manipulated into believing the Shaper’s lies. When Grendel first hears the Shaper’s song‚ he is so overcome with emotion that he bursts into tears‚ momentarily loses his ability to speak and could not help but flee‚ “thus I
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Grendel and Born of Man and Woman were similar in surprisingly many ways. The biggest point of comparison between these two works is the human/monster ambiguity that is present. Both of them make if difficult to decipher whether or not the main character is really human or not. They each have very human-like characteristics‚ but there are many things that point to them each not being human. For instance‚ Grendel is obviously not human by the way humans react to him‚ and from the description of his
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Fight Club ’s Philosophy Today‚ a large part of society revolves around entertainment‚ such as movies‚ television shows‚ and novels. Many of these forms of entertainment contain hints of philosophical ideas in the content. They aid in the exposure of philosophy to the public through obscure meanings hiding behind interesting plots. No matter how intricate or how simple the plot may be‚ philosophical lessons could always be concealed in the characteristics of the protagonist of a book‚ or in the
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Hidden Lessons David Suzuki is the world renowned scientists and visionary. He has won many awards throughout his life time and still continues to right stories about his life. David Suzuki has written numerous amounts of books in order to educate the larger public about the dangers of and promises of science. He has written an article named Hidden Lessons describing his thesis of how for convenience & cleanliness‚ adults subconsciously teach and demonstrate to the younger generation to hate
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School of Communication & Information ITI 04:547:220:03-04 Retrieving and Evaluating Electronic Information Fall 2013 COURSE SYLLABUS Revised August 30‚ 2013 Instructor: Marie L. Radford (mradford@rutgers.edu) Teaching Assistant: Mark Alpert (mark.alpert@rutgers.edu) Course Meets: Thursdays‚ 11:30-2:40 Classroom Location: SC&I Building CIL 201 Course Website: Sakai (https://sakai.rutgers.edu) Office: Room CIL 329 (third floor) Office Hours: Thursdays 2:40-4:00pm and
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Date of preparing: 03/09/2013 Date of teaching: 04/9/2013 Class of teaching: 7B Unit 1. BACK TO SCHOOL Period 6. B. Names and address (B6‚ 7) I. Objectives. By the end of the lesson‚ students can be able to listen to the text and recognize the distances from Lan’s house to some places. They also make a survey about some personal information. II. Language content 1. Vocabulary: post‚ means of transport‚ pocket‚ centre‚ recess 2. Grammar : review and practice structure:
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Kitila 5/16/13 Pd.2 Major Lessons In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Harper Lee selects Jean Louise Finch‚ "Scout"‚ as the narrator. It allows the reader to see how Scout matures as a person. The story takes place in Maycomb‚ Alabama around the 1950’s. Scout lives with her brother Jem‚ and her father‚ Atticus .Scout is six when the story begins‚ and as she grows she can see how things really were. Scout learns not to judge people‚ fight in what you believe in and that the world
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Beowulf/Grendel Trial or Debate Activity Debate: Two teams will debate the merits of Grendel’s viewpoint. The rest of the class will act as judges and rate the winning team. (ALL students will contribute to the debate by helping to suggest/refine talking points - each group will vote for members to participate in debate). Resolved: Since the world and everything in it is an unplanned accident‚ existence is meaningless ;the past is irrelevant; nothing matters. For: This team will take the
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idea is called ethical egoism or the idea of putting one’s self before others. John Gardner’s Grendel hones in on this philosophy in chapter six. Gardner focuses on how Grendel only really cares for himself. He doesn’t care for his mother‚ he doesn’t care about any gods‚ and he definitely doesn’t care about humans. He is so self-centered that he rarely does anything that does not benefit or amuse him. Grendel isn’t the only one who does this however‚ in fact I’d say just about
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