to help us improve not to allow us to reach perfection. To better understand how we relate ourselves to the technology we have nowadays and the technology that we have been exposed to in the past‚ we first analyze the book “Beyond Humanity” by Allen Buchanan. In this book‚ Buchanan explain enficices the idea that technological improvements are not new to us‚ he says “... to enhance human beings is to expand their capabilities- to enable them to do what normal human beings have hitherto not been
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California came onto the national stage in the summer of 1957 with the sudden arrest of Shigeyoshi Murao and surrendering of Lawrence Ferlinghetti in regards to the publishing and selling of Howl by Allen Ginsberg. Prosecuting Ferlinghetti was an advance in the broader crusade “to protect families by keeping controversial expression‚ like that in “Howl‚” out of newspapers and off airwaves.” The rise of juvenile delinquency encouraged radical conservatives to seek out contentious content and remove
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“Only Connect…” The Goals of a Liberal Education William Cronon What does it mean to be a liberally educated person? It seems such a simple question‚ especially given the frequency with which colleges and universities genuflect toward this wellworn phrase as the central icon of their institutional missions. Mantra-like‚ the words are endlessly repeated‚ starting in the glossy admissions brochures that high school students receive by the hundreds in their mailboxes and continuing right down to the
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In “The Sphinx” by Edgar Allen Poe‚ the narrator accepts an invitation brought forth to him by his relative to stay at his cottage. He accepts the invitation and spends the summer with him. They enjoy the summer together but what got to them were the unpleasant signs of death from the cholera outbreak. Every morning‚ more and more people would die from the disease. Their best bet was to stay indoors secluded from the outside world. The relative was so shocked at what was going on‚ that he became
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In Edgar Allen Poe’s poem “Alone”‚ Poe reveals that egocentrism can lead to loneliness because of an inability to see beyond oneself and truly know and understand others and experiences. In the poem‚ the persona speaks about how he has felt different ever since his childhood; he focuses on himself and his own problems instead of trying to have positive outlook on life. Excessive use of the words “I”‚ “my”‚ and “me” projects the idea of egocentrism and also portrays the inability to understand
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What thoughts I have of you tonight‚ Allen Ginsberg. The famous Beat writer haunts my own supermarket as Whitman does his. It is difficult to read Howl and Other Poems without succumbing to the vein of defeat running throughout its pages. It is difficult to stop yourself from throwing your hands up in surrender to Ginsberg’s “Moloch.” It is also difficult to read Ginsberg on an empty stomach. Throughout his poems Ginsberg references again and again the ideas of hunger‚ starvation‚ fruits‚ vegetables
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Allen Ginsberg’s "Howl" (2540-2547) explores American culture and presents the issues that creative minds‚ "the best minds" (line 1) of his generation face in a traditional conforming society. "Howl combined apocalyptic criticism of the dull‚ prosperous Eisenhower years with the exuberant celebration of an emerging counterculture." (2538). Ginsberg’s repetition serves as both stability and disruption as it takes the reader from thought to thought in the eccentric form of this poem. "who cut their
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Exxon: Yesterday‚ Today and Tomorrow Monique Barnett Southern New Hampshire University Abstract This paper will provide a brief history of the corporation Exxon‚ and a description of CSR issues that the company has endured. It will describe the impact on organizational‚ economic‚ and societal stakeholders of Exxon. It will explore the current status of the corporation by looking into the CSR failure filter‚ strategic CSR‚ and will identify two of the five driving forces
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The frequent shift of a dark‚ somber tone to a defeated‚ accepting tone in Edgar Allen Poe’s “Alone” asserts the overall meaning that one’s acceptance of their own personality‚ different or similar to people around them‚ ultimately results in their seclusion. At the start of the poem‚ the narrator declares his childhood isolation through an ominous tone as he affirms his dark feeling of loneliness when he compares himself to the children around him. He is an outcast‚ an outlier; “all [he] lov’d—[he]
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the eminent return home? The article‚ “The Boomerang Effect” by Marni Jackson‚ discusses how the baby boom generation has affected their children. The Boomerang Effect is an adaption from the novel “Home Free: The Myth of the Empty Nest” by Thomas Allen. The narrative is about an apprehensive mother and her twenty-something audacious son who complicates matters by dropping out of school to travel the world‚ followed by returning home once again. The article discusses this “twenty-year-old son dropping
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