College Uneducation (shania) I wish to speak on “College Uneducation.” Is it possible that our college educationmay “uneducate” rather than educate? I answer “Yes.” It is a paradox but nonetheless the truth—the grim‚ unmerciful truth. We all believe in higher education; else we should not be in the University. At the same time‚ college education—like all other human devices for human betterment—may build or destroy‚ lead‚ or mislead. My ten years’ humble service in the University of the Philippines
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Throughout my study of Mahon’s poetry‚ I was struck by how important explorations of people and places were to him. His poetic style can be considered quite detached as he rarely divulges personal details or experiences. Instead‚ his poetry focuses on detailed portraits of memorable characters and insightful analyses of a wide variety of landscapes. “After the Titanic” is another of Mahon’s poems that paints a portrait of an unexpected figure. Here‚ Mahon adopts the persona of Bruce Ismay‚ President
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English 61: Some Concepts to Consider I Romantic Personae A. Wordsworth: close to Nature ‚ family and friends. 1. Believes we can only hope to retain in middle age some of the energy and enthusiasm for Nature we enjoyed in youth. Nature takes the place of Truth and Beauty in Plato’s philosophy of metempsychosis and anamnesis. Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us‚ our life’s Star‚ Hath had elsewhere its setting‚ And cometh from afar: Not in
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William Wordsworth secured the reputation of being one of the great Romantic poets. His verse celebrates the moral influence exerted by nature on human thought and feeling. Considered one of England’s greatest poets‚ John Keats was a key element in the Romantic Movement ‚ know especially for his love of nature ‚ his poetry also resonated with deep philosophic questions. Wordsworth has secured the reputation of being one of the great Romantic poets. Although often viewed as a ’nature poet ’ ‚ his
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subjects stay true to their respective stylistic periods—with Poussin’s French Baroque work being a classical‚ western subject and Turner’s Romantic work being from a different time and place‚ speaking to an interest in abolitionism and conjuring the sublime—and both are clearly presenting the topic of injustice and death; however‚ the way in which these narratives were depicted creates a large difference in their underlying messages. Ultimately‚ Poussin is suggesting that man has control of and dominates
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moderate‚ gentle and flexible way that shuns all forms of extremism‚ violence‚ vehemence and zeal‚ inviting to the righteous path without being impulsive‚ undermining the interests of the target audience or offending the latter. The discourse must be sublime and elegant in form and content. It must be free of imitation and must transcend ephemeral trends or overwhelming currents‚ in such a way as to preserve its independence and its distinction. It must be
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Nia Salcedo Mrs. Fireman English 1 Honors‚ Peiod 2 15 May 2016 The Story of How Darnay got Sentenced to Death One day‚ two men sought out Doctor Manette and adjured him to use his medical experience. Saunter‚ they took him to a house right by Paris. The men ordered Doctor Manette to take care of a vexed‚ and attenuated young lady and her brother. The brother of the peasant lady told Doctor Manette timorously that a non-convivial men had raped the lady and insolently tortured her husband to death
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and Sisa in mreind whenhe described the country as “enveloped in morning clouds and mist‚ always beautiful and poetic‚and the more idolized by her sons when they are absent and far away from her.”Love of country is the purest‚ most heroic and most sublime human sentiment. It isgratitude‚ it is affection for everything that reminds us of something of the first days of our life; itis the land where our ancestors are sleeping. Love of country is never effaced once it has penetrated the heart‚ because
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anomalies in film history from the past hundred years was projected within the confined space of South Korea‚ where the coevalness of emergent and late capitalism‚ global and local forces‚ and cultural oscillation between modernist affectation of the sublime and its postmodern invalidation produced a desire to magnify the cultural significance of authentic cultural
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nature was that it was a great gift and blessing to experience such a sight. As he recalls his first visit in Sierra Club Bulletin‚ January 1908‚ he says‚ “it is a wonderfully exact counterpart of the great Yosemite‚ not only in its crystal river and sublime rocks and waterfalls‚ but in the gardens‚ groves‚ and meadows of its flower park-like floor.” the Hetch-Hetchy floor about
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