Fourth lecture for my students in English 192, "Science Fiction," summer 2013 at UC Santa Barbara.
Course website: http://patrickbrianmooney.nfshost.com/~patrick/ta/m13/
Five centuries of colonialism have produced in Europe and the USA the worst imaginable PTSS in history on the basis of a European and American managed genocide, culturicide, and humanicide in Black Africa, and the rest of the world with, what's more, black slavery. There is no excuse, no explanation. The PTSS takes unimaginable forms. For example, members of the educated middleclass in Europe try to adopt Black children they uproot from their homes, producing frustrated and often psychotic children and then adults. The middle-class moderately educated people who do this want to compensate for the crime of colonialism. An,d they commit another crime which is familicide generating psychosis or depression in the victims of such adoptions.
Destinations Across Paranormal America 2hughmungus
Intoxicated and irreverent, screenwriter and nine-time fast food employee, Hugh Mungus, navigates American Interstate on a journey for the strange.
Fueled by Big Flats 1901 — Walgreens’ official 50¢ beer — Hugh hunts hobgoblins, commandeers a ghost ship lost in the desert, and gouges for gold beneath White Sands Missile Range.
And you thought Roswell was the only UFO crash. Travel the Extraterrestrial Highway, and grab yourself handfuls of healin’ dirt on your way to Destinations Across Paranormal America 2.
?With her trademark passion, wit, and fierce feminism, Natalie Haynes gives much-needed voice to the silenced women of the Trojan War.??Madeline Miller, author of?CirceShortlisted for the Women?s Prize for Fiction, a gorgeous retelling of the Trojan War from the perspectives of the many women involved in its causes and consequences?for fans of Madeline Miller.This is the women?s war, just as much as it is the men?s. They have waited long enough for their turn . . .This was never the story of one woman, or two. It was the story of them all . . .In the middle of the night, a woman wakes to find her beloved city engulfed in flames. Ten seemingly endless years of conflict between the Greeks and the Trojans are over. Troy has fallen.From the Trojan women whose fates now lie in the hands of the Greeks, to the Amazon princess who fought Achilles on their behalf, to Penelope awaiting the return of Odysseus, to the three goddesses whose feud started it all, these are the stories of the women .
Web Design for Literary Theorists III: Machines Read, Too (just not well) (v ...Patrick Mooney
Third (and last) in a series of workshops for graduate students in the Department of English at UC Santa Barbara.
More information: http://patrickbrianmooney.nfshost.com/~patrick/ta/lead-ta/web-design/2013-2014/
YouTube screencast with audio: http://youtu.be/IwuS0K21ZoU
Eighth lecture for my students in English 192, "Science Fiction," summer 2013 at UC Santa Barbara.
Course website: http://patrickbrianmooney.nfshost.com/~patrick/ta/m13/
Five centuries of colonialism have produced in Europe and the USA the worst imaginable PTSS in history on the basis of a European and American managed genocide, culturicide, and humanicide in Black Africa, and the rest of the world with, what's more, black slavery. There is no excuse, no explanation. The PTSS takes unimaginable forms. For example, members of the educated middleclass in Europe try to adopt Black children they uproot from their homes, producing frustrated and often psychotic children and then adults. The middle-class moderately educated people who do this want to compensate for the crime of colonialism. An,d they commit another crime which is familicide generating psychosis or depression in the victims of such adoptions.
Destinations Across Paranormal America 2hughmungus
Intoxicated and irreverent, screenwriter and nine-time fast food employee, Hugh Mungus, navigates American Interstate on a journey for the strange.
Fueled by Big Flats 1901 — Walgreens’ official 50¢ beer — Hugh hunts hobgoblins, commandeers a ghost ship lost in the desert, and gouges for gold beneath White Sands Missile Range.
And you thought Roswell was the only UFO crash. Travel the Extraterrestrial Highway, and grab yourself handfuls of healin’ dirt on your way to Destinations Across Paranormal America 2.
?With her trademark passion, wit, and fierce feminism, Natalie Haynes gives much-needed voice to the silenced women of the Trojan War.??Madeline Miller, author of?CirceShortlisted for the Women?s Prize for Fiction, a gorgeous retelling of the Trojan War from the perspectives of the many women involved in its causes and consequences?for fans of Madeline Miller.This is the women?s war, just as much as it is the men?s. They have waited long enough for their turn . . .This was never the story of one woman, or two. It was the story of them all . . .In the middle of the night, a woman wakes to find her beloved city engulfed in flames. Ten seemingly endless years of conflict between the Greeks and the Trojans are over. Troy has fallen.From the Trojan women whose fates now lie in the hands of the Greeks, to the Amazon princess who fought Achilles on their behalf, to Penelope awaiting the return of Odysseus, to the three goddesses whose feud started it all, these are the stories of the women .
Web Design for Literary Theorists III: Machines Read, Too (just not well) (v ...Patrick Mooney
Third (and last) in a series of workshops for graduate students in the Department of English at UC Santa Barbara.
More information: http://patrickbrianmooney.nfshost.com/~patrick/ta/lead-ta/web-design/2013-2014/
YouTube screencast with audio: http://youtu.be/IwuS0K21ZoU
Eighth lecture for my students in English 192, "Science Fiction," summer 2013 at UC Santa Barbara.
Course website: http://patrickbrianmooney.nfshost.com/~patrick/ta/m13/
Third lecture for my students in English 165EW, "Life After the End of the World," winter 2013 at UC Santa Barbara.
Course website: http://patrickbrianmooney.nfshost.com/~patrick/ta/w13/
Slideshow for the eighteenth lecture in my summer course, English 10, "Introduction to Literary Studies: Deception, Dishonesty, Bullshit."
http://patrickbrianmooney.nfshost.com/~patrick/ta/m15/
Lecture 08 - “the walking dead in a horror film”Patrick Mooney
Eighth lecture for my students in English 165EW, "Life After the End of the World," winter 2013 at UC Santa Barbara.
Course website: http://patrickbrianmooney.nfshost.com/~patrick/ta/w13/
Seventeenth lecture for my students in English 104A, UC Santa Barbara, spring 2012. Course website: http://patrickbrianmooney.nfshost.com/~patrick/ta/s12/index.html
Lecture 14: The Beginning Is the End Is the BeginningPatrick Mooney
Fourteenth lecture for my students in English 165EW, "Life After the End of the World," winter 2013 at UC Santa Barbara.
Course website: http://patrickbrianmooney.nfshost.com/~patrick/ta/w13/
This list will help teachers find resources for teaching civics and government in their classrooms.
A great deal of information is available to help teachers improve their content understanding of civics and government; locate lesson plans, materials and activities for classroom use; and provide information about groups and organizations involved in citizenship and law related education efforts. This guide has been developed to help classroom teachers access this information. Organizations have been listed alphabetically followed by a website address and a brief summary of what is included on each website.
It is hoped that this resource guide will be helpful to elementary and secondary teachers in planning effective inquiry lessons to help their students gain a better understanding of and a genuine interest in citizenship and government.
Eleventh lecture for my students in English 140, UC Santa Barbara, Summer 2012. Course website: http://patrickbrianmooney.nfshost.com/~patrick/ta/su12/index.html
Lecture 07 - Purity, Deviation, and JudgmentPatrick Mooney
Seventh lecture for my students in English 192, "Science Fiction," summer 2013 at UC Santa Barbara.
Course website: http://patrickbrianmooney.nfshost.com/~patrick/ta/m13/
Lecture 10 - What Language Does: Gender in Lonely Hunter (2 May 2012)Patrick Mooney
Tenth lecture for my students in English 104A, UC Santa Barbara, spring 2012. Course website: http://patrickbrianmooney.nfshost.com/~patrick/ta/s12/index.html
Tenth lecture for my students in English 165EW, "Life After the End of the World," winter 2013 at UC Santa Barbara.
Course website: http://patrickbrianmooney.nfshost.com/~patrick/ta/w13/
Rostros diferentes, comunidades cambiantes: Immigración y racismo, empleos, e...Everyday Democracy
Esta guía para diálogos comunitarios ayuda a comunidades diversas a enfrentar retos relacionados a los inmigrantes, diferencias de idioma, los empleos, y las escuelas. La meta de esta guía es de crear un mejor entendimiento, eliminar estereotipos, y promover mejores relaciones entre diferentes grupos en las comunidades.
Sixteenth lecture for my students in English 165EW, "Life After the End of the World," winter 2013 at UC Santa Barbara.
Course website: http://patrickbrianmooney.nfshost.com/~patrick/ta/w13/
Weird Tales of Cosmic Horror: The World and Work of HP LovecraftnoiseTM
Self-confessed fan-boys Chris Hose and Thomas Morton delve into Lovecraft's gibbering, eldritch world to ask why a writer of pulp short stories is held in such reverence. The surprising philosophical depths of his world view and his wide-reaching influence on modern pop-culture.
Hmmm Squad regulars will have heard the name often whispered furtively by acolytes lurking on the threshold - here's your chance to find out why. Biscuits, beverages, mind-paralysing horror, etc.
That was when all sorts of strawmen went trying to occupy the political field to prevent the real dangerous people from coming up, Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini. LONG LIVE ALL MONSTERS IN OUR DREAMS. And let's hope our dreams are not going to be disturbed by all the red tsunami advocates who are trying to conspire a change in the grain and the marrow of humanity, and these are not the Chinese, nor the Muslims. Nor even the Europeans. Good Morning, Monstrous Trump card that is no ace. Luckily life is no poker game and the only poker players who really win big are cheaters, even if it is only fake phlegm - there must be a word for that in Poker gambling halls.
Lecture 18 - The Turn to Speculative FictionPatrick Mooney
Eighteenth lecture for my students in English 192, "Science Fiction," summer 2013 at UC Santa Barbara.
Course website: http://patrickbrianmooney.nfshost.com/~patrick/ta/m13/
Lecture 14 - The Smallest of Small Towns (16 May 2012)Patrick Mooney
Fourteenth lecture for my students in English 104A, UC Santa Barbara, spring 2012. Course website: http://patrickbrianmooney.nfshost.com/~patrick/ta/s12/index.html
Traits of character notes of incident in bibleGLENN PEASE
NOTE: This rare book by a very popular Bible scholar of the past is now a collectors item that you can purchase for many dollars. This free copy has a good many spelling errors, but the value is still here for those who want to know its content.
INTERESTING INSIGHTS ON SPECIFIC TEXTS.
EVELYN WAUGH NEWSLETTER AND STUDLatin America Ignorance a.docxgitagrimston
EVELYN WAUGH NEWSLETTER AND STUD
Latin America: Ignorance and Irony in The Loved One
by 0800006408
Aimée Thanatogenos “spoke the tongue of Los Angeles” (134), but not the tongue of the angels. That is the
crux of The Loved One (1948), Evelyn Waugh’s satiric novella of American funerary customs. “With a name
like that” (148), she is doomed from the beginning: she is the “death-spawned loved one,” but she is deaf to the
European tongues in which her doom is pronounced. European names occur constantly in the novella—
Heinkel, Bogolov, Medici—but those who bear them are cut off from their ancestral roots, “waifs and
strays” (87-88) in a land of the lowest common denominator:
“I’ve just found a Mr. Medici in my office.”
“Why, yes, Frank. Only he says it ‘Medissy,’ like that; how you said it kinda sounds like a wop
…” (30)
Like a knowledge of Italian pronunciation, Catholicism is not a common denominator, and its angelic
tongue, Latin, is meaningless in the ears of good Americans. A grieving Mrs. Theodora Heinkel rings Dennis
Barlow, the novella’s cynical British anti-hero, to arrange the funeral of her pet Sealyham. Her address is “207
Via Dolorosa” (17), on a street named for the “sorrowful way” Christ trod to crucifixion. Mrs. Heinkel grieves
for her dog but not for her God, and she is deaf to the blasphemy of the white dove that will be released to
symbolize her Sealyham’s soul “at the moment of committal” (21; cf. Matthew 3:16; Mark 1:10; Luke 3:22;
John 1:32). When Dennis collects the dog’s cadaver, he has to translate Latin into English for Mr. Heinkel:
“I have our brochure here setting out our service. Were you thinking of interment or incineration?
“Pardon me?”
“Buried or burned?”
“Burned, I guess.” (20)
A little later, arranging the funeral of his self-strangulated mentor at Whispering Glades, the model for his
pets’ cemetery, Dennis talks with a “Mortuary Hostess” to the strains of the “Hindu Love Song”:
“Can I help you in any way?”
“I came to arrange about a funeral.”
“Is it for yourself?”
“Certainly not. Do I look so moribund?”
“Pardon me?”
“Do I look as if I were about to die?” (42)
He has already heard a Mrs. Bogolov—Bog is the Russian word for “God”—being informed that Wilbur
Kenworthy, the fatuous “Dreamer” of Whispering Glades, “does not approve of wreaths or crosses” (41).
Whispering Glades is an attempt to deny the dirt, ugliness and pain that accompany death. The cross is a
supreme symbol of death’s horror for materialists like Kenworthy, who refuse to accept its true significance.
Hence the ironic double entendre of a parenthesis in chapter five: “After consultation the Cricket Club’s fine
trophy in the shape of cross bats and wickets had been admitted. Dr. Kenworthy had himself given judgement;
the trophy was essentially a reminder of life not of death; that was the crux” (73). A crux is literally a cr ...
strong women with their weird animal bodies, from the snake tail to the awkward little lion body of the Sphinx ...
creepy-crawly, fanged, winged and otherwise-terrifying creatures
Examine how nature is discussed throughout The Open Boat.” Loo.docxcravennichole326
Examine how nature is discussed throughout “The Open Boat.” Look at the literary critical piece by Anthony Channell Hilfer. Once you have established your own ideas, consider how Hilfer discusses nature in the short story and analyze the following questions: What does nature mean to the men aboard the boat? or Do their perceptions of nature shift throughout the story? Why or why not?
Do their perceptions of nature shift throughout the story? Why or why not?
Write down a loose response about what I think of the question and what I remember of the story.
ICE method.
I introduce the citation
C the citation itself
E explain its meaning to your argument.
The scenes shift with no discernable rhyme or reason. Crane invites every reader in. Critic Anthony Channell Hilfer disagrees with point, saying, “Crane’s image is an accusation of the putative picturesque spectators” (Hilfer 254). Hilfer’s challenge goes against what Crane is trying to do, by making nature a copilot through the reading.
3. Nature as Protagonist in “The Open Boat”
Anthony Channell Hilfer
Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Volume 54, Number 2, Summer
2012, pp. 248-257 (Article)
Published by University of Texas Press
DOI:
For additional information about this article
[ Access provided at 9 Apr 2020 17:36 GMT from Marymount University & (Viva) ]
https://doi.org/10.1353/tsl.2012.0012
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/476402
https://doi.org/10.1353/tsl.2012.0012
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/476402
Anthony Channell Hilfer248
3. Nature as Protagonist in “The Open Boat”
The bottom of the sea is cruel.
—Hart Crane, “Voyages”
As many critics have argued, questions of perspective and epistemology are
central to Stephen Crane’s “The Open Boat” (Kent; Hutchinson). The story’s
first sentence famously clues us to this: “None of them knew the color of
the sky” (68). But behind the uncertainties of perspective is a determinable
ontology, a presence, or rather, I shall argue, a sort of presence, the existence
of which implies a rectified aesthetic response. This response emerges, how-
ever, from negations, denials, and occultations: what is not seen, who is not
there, and what does not happen.3 Here again, when we look at nature we
behold things that are not there and miss “the nothing that is.”
Fully as much as Stevens in “The Snow Man,” Crane is concerned
with certain conventions of representation: personification, the pictur-
esque, the American sublime, and the melodramatic, which although it
does not inform “The Snow Man” is played on in Stevens’s “The Ameri-
can Sublime.” Crane’s story is intertextual with nature poetry, sentimental
poetry, hymns, and landscape art, as well as with Darwinism, theological
clichés, and, less obviously, theological actualities. For the most part these
conventions add up to what the Stevens poem declares is “not there.” To
get to “the nothing that is” we must first traverse this ocean of error. Doing
so helps keep our p.
Examine how nature is discussed throughout The Open Boat.” Looronnasleightholm
Examine how nature is discussed throughout “The Open Boat.” Look at the literary critical piece by Anthony Channell Hilfer. Once you have established your own ideas, consider how Hilfer discusses nature in the short story and analyze the following questions: What does nature mean to the men aboard the boat? or Do their perceptions of nature shift throughout the story? Why or why not?
Do their perceptions of nature shift throughout the story? Why or why not?
Write down a loose response about what I think of the question and what I remember of the story.
ICE method.
I introduce the citation
C the citation itself
E explain its meaning to your argument.
The scenes shift with no discernable rhyme or reason. Crane invites every reader in. Critic Anthony Channell Hilfer disagrees with point, saying, “Crane’s image is an accusation of the putative picturesque spectators” (Hilfer 254). Hilfer’s challenge goes against what Crane is trying to do, by making nature a copilot through the reading.
3. Nature as Protagonist in “The Open Boat”
Anthony Channell Hilfer
Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Volume 54, Number 2, Summer
2012, pp. 248-257 (Article)
Published by University of Texas Press
DOI:
For additional information about this article
[ Access provided at 9 Apr 2020 17:36 GMT from Marymount University & (Viva) ]
https://doi.org/10.1353/tsl.2012.0012
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/476402
https://doi.org/10.1353/tsl.2012.0012
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/476402
Anthony Channell Hilfer248
3. Nature as Protagonist in “The Open Boat”
The bottom of the sea is cruel.
—Hart Crane, “Voyages”
As many critics have argued, questions of perspective and epistemology are
central to Stephen Crane’s “The Open Boat” (Kent; Hutchinson). The story’s
first sentence famously clues us to this: “None of them knew the color of
the sky” (68). But behind the uncertainties of perspective is a determinable
ontology, a presence, or rather, I shall argue, a sort of presence, the existence
of which implies a rectified aesthetic response. This response emerges, how-
ever, from negations, denials, and occultations: what is not seen, who is not
there, and what does not happen.3 Here again, when we look at nature we
behold things that are not there and miss “the nothing that is.”
Fully as much as Stevens in “The Snow Man,” Crane is concerned
with certain conventions of representation: personification, the pictur-
esque, the American sublime, and the melodramatic, which although it
does not inform “The Snow Man” is played on in Stevens’s “The Ameri-
can Sublime.” Crane’s story is intertextual with nature poetry, sentimental
poetry, hymns, and landscape art, as well as with Darwinism, theological
clichés, and, less obviously, theological actualities. For the most part these
conventions add up to what the Stevens poem declares is “not there.” To
get to “the nothing that is” we must first traverse this ocean of error. Doing
so helps keep our p ...
Slideshow for the twenty-second lecture in my summer course, English 10, "Introduction to Literary Studies: Deception, Dishonesty, Bullshit."
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Slideshow for the twenty-first lecture in my summer course, English 10, "Introduction to Literary Studies: Deception, Dishonesty, Bullshit."
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Slideshow for the twentieth lecture in my summer course, English 10, "Introduction to Literary Studies: Deception, Dishonesty, Bullshit."
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Slideshow for the nineteenth lecture in my summer course, English 10, "Introduction to Literary Studies: Deception, Dishonesty, Bullshit."
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Slideshow for the seventeenth lecture in my summer course, English 10, "Introduction to Literary Studies: Deception, Dishonesty, Bullshit."
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Slideshow for the sixteenth lecture in my summer course, English 10, "Introduction to Literary Studies: Deception, Dishonesty, Bullshit."
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Slideshow for the fifteenth lecture in my summer course, English 10, "Introduction to Literary Studies: Deception, Dishonesty, Bullshit."
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Lecture 14: "To speke of wo that Is in mariage"Patrick Mooney
Slideshow for the fourteenth lecture in my summer course, English 10, "Introduction to Literary Studies: Deception, Dishonesty, Bullshit."
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Slideshow for the thirteenth lecture in my summer course, English 10, "Introduction to Literary Studies: Deception, Dishonesty, Bullshit."
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Slideshow for the eleventh lecture in my summer course, English 10, "Introduction to Literary Studies: Deception, Dishonesty, Bullshit."
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Lecture 10: Who's Speaking, and What Can They Say?Patrick Mooney
Slideshow for the tenth lecture in my summer course, English 10, "Introduction to Literary Studies: Deception, Dishonesty, Bullshit."
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Lecture 09: The Things You Can't Say (in Public)Patrick Mooney
Slideshow for the ninth lecture in my summer course, English 10, "Introduction to Literary Studies: Deception, Dishonesty, Bullshit."
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Slideshow for the eighth lecture in my summer course, English 10, "Introduction to Literary Studies: Deception, Dishonesty, Bullshit."
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Slideshow for the seventh lecture in my summer course, English 10, "Introduction to Literary Studies: Deception, Dishonesty, Bullshit."
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Slideshow for the sixth lecture in my summer course, English 10, "Introduction to Literary Studies: Deception, Dishonesty, Bullshit."
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Slideshow for the fifth lecture in my summer course, English 10, "Introduction to Literary Studies: Deception, Dishonesty, Bullshit."
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Lecture 04: Dishonesty and Deception, 25 June 2015Patrick Mooney
Slideshow for the fourth lecture in my summer course, English 10, "Introduction to Literary Studies: Deception, Dishonesty, Bullshit."
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Lecture 03: A Gentle Introduction to TheoryPatrick Mooney
Slideshow for the third lecture in my summer course, English 10, "Introduction to Literary Studies: Deception, Dishonesty, Bullshit."
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Lecture 02: Poetics and Poetry: An IntroductionPatrick Mooney
Slideshow for the second lecture in my summer course, English 10, "Introduction to Literary Studies: Deception, Dishonesty, Bullshit."
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Introduction to Web Design for Literary Theorists I: Introduction to HTML (v....Patrick Mooney
First in a series of workshops for graduate students in the Department of English at UC Santa Barbara.
More information: http://patrickbrianmooney.nfshost.com/~patrick/ta/lead-ta/web-design/
YouTube screencast with audio: http://youtu.be/ZyYRmJXbT4o
The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
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How to Split Bills in the Odoo 17 POS ModuleCeline George
Bills have a main role in point of sale procedure. It will help to track sales, handling payments and giving receipts to customers. Bill splitting also has an important role in POS. For example, If some friends come together for dinner and if they want to divide the bill then it is possible by POS bill splitting. This slide will show how to split bills in odoo 17 POS.
The Art Pastor's Guide to Sabbath | Steve ThomasonSteve Thomason
What is the purpose of the Sabbath Law in the Torah. It is interesting to compare how the context of the law shifts from Exodus to Deuteronomy. Who gets to rest, and why?
Unit 8 - Information and Communication Technology (Paper I).pdfThiyagu K
This slides describes the basic concepts of ICT, basics of Email, Emerging Technology and Digital Initiatives in Education. This presentations aligns with the UGC Paper I syllabus.
The Roman Empire A Historical Colossus.pdfkaushalkr1407
The Roman Empire, a vast and enduring power, stands as one of history's most remarkable civilizations, leaving an indelible imprint on the world. It emerged from the Roman Republic, transitioning into an imperial powerhouse under the leadership of Augustus Caesar in 27 BCE. This transformation marked the beginning of an era defined by unprecedented territorial expansion, architectural marvels, and profound cultural influence.
The empire's roots lie in the city of Rome, founded, according to legend, by Romulus in 753 BCE. Over centuries, Rome evolved from a small settlement to a formidable republic, characterized by a complex political system with elected officials and checks on power. However, internal strife, class conflicts, and military ambitions paved the way for the end of the Republic. Julius Caesar’s dictatorship and subsequent assassination in 44 BCE created a power vacuum, leading to a civil war. Octavian, later Augustus, emerged victorious, heralding the Roman Empire’s birth.
Under Augustus, the empire experienced the Pax Romana, a 200-year period of relative peace and stability. Augustus reformed the military, established efficient administrative systems, and initiated grand construction projects. The empire's borders expanded, encompassing territories from Britain to Egypt and from Spain to the Euphrates. Roman legions, renowned for their discipline and engineering prowess, secured and maintained these vast territories, building roads, fortifications, and cities that facilitated control and integration.
The Roman Empire’s society was hierarchical, with a rigid class system. At the top were the patricians, wealthy elites who held significant political power. Below them were the plebeians, free citizens with limited political influence, and the vast numbers of slaves who formed the backbone of the economy. The family unit was central, governed by the paterfamilias, the male head who held absolute authority.
Culturally, the Romans were eclectic, absorbing and adapting elements from the civilizations they encountered, particularly the Greeks. Roman art, literature, and philosophy reflected this synthesis, creating a rich cultural tapestry. Latin, the Roman language, became the lingua franca of the Western world, influencing numerous modern languages.
Roman architecture and engineering achievements were monumental. They perfected the arch, vault, and dome, constructing enduring structures like the Colosseum, Pantheon, and aqueducts. These engineering marvels not only showcased Roman ingenuity but also served practical purposes, from public entertainment to water supply.
We all have good and bad thoughts from time to time and situation to situation. We are bombarded daily with spiraling thoughts(both negative and positive) creating all-consuming feel , making us difficult to manage with associated suffering. Good thoughts are like our Mob Signal (Positive thought) amidst noise(negative thought) in the atmosphere. Negative thoughts like noise outweigh positive thoughts. These thoughts often create unwanted confusion, trouble, stress and frustration in our mind as well as chaos in our physical world. Negative thoughts are also known as “distorted thinking”.
The Indian economy is classified into different sectors to simplify the analysis and understanding of economic activities. For Class 10, it's essential to grasp the sectors of the Indian economy, understand their characteristics, and recognize their importance. This guide will provide detailed notes on the Sectors of the Indian Economy Class 10, using specific long-tail keywords to enhance comprehension.
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How to Make a Field invisible in Odoo 17Celine George
It is possible to hide or invisible some fields in odoo. Commonly using “invisible” attribute in the field definition to invisible the fields. This slide will show how to make a field invisible in odoo 17.
Palestine last event orientationfvgnh .pptxRaedMohamed3
An EFL lesson about the current events in Palestine. It is intended to be for intermediate students who wish to increase their listening skills through a short lesson in power point.
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
Cambridge International AS A Level Biology Coursebook - EBook (MaryFosbery J...
Lecture 04 - Hybrid Life
1. Lecture 4: Hybrid Life
English 192
Summer 2013
8 August 2013
“Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we
know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a
thousandfold more hideous. Science, already oppressive with its
shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our
human species–if separate species we be–for its reserve of
unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loosed
upon the world."
— H.P. Lovecraft, “Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and
His Family”
7. Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890–1937)
● Best known for his stories of
“cosmic horror,” particularly
those associated with the
fictional deity Cthulhu.
● Work – primarily short
stories – was primarily
published in pulp
magazines, especially Weird
Tales.
● Has been greatly influential
on later 20th-century horror,
science-fiction, and fantasy
writers. Lovecraft in 1915.
8. “Cosmic horror” or “cosmicism”
● Lovecraft’s work often takes the position that
humanity is insignificant to the universe as a
whole (and the universe may in fact contain
powerful entities that are hostile to humans).
● Common themes in his work that are implications
of this position:
● Knowledge and understanding lead to madness.
– Truth (the universe, its structure, its scale) is, in the final
analysis, incomprehensible to humans.
● Humanity is influenced by non-human forces.
● Guilt and other effects of one’s decisions are heritable.
9. Community and homogeneity
● Communities in “The Shadow over Innsmouth”
define themselves as racially and culturally
homogeneous and by differentiating themselves
from other racial and cultural communities.
“His [Old Man Marsh’s] mother seems to have been
some kind of foreigner—they say a South Sea
islander—so everybody raised Cain when he married
an Ipswich girl fifty years ago. They always do that
about Innsmouth people, and folks here and
hereabouts always try to cover up any Innsmouth
blood they have in ’em.” (88)
“horrible croaking voices exchanging low cries in what
was certainly not English.” (117)
10. How do we read “Innsmouth”?
“After all, the strangest and maddest of myths
are often merely symbols or allegories based
upon truth.” (101)
“The insane yarn I was hearing [from Zadok
Allen] interested me profoundly, for I fancied
there was contained within it a sort of crude
allegory based upon the strangeness of
Innsmouth and elaborated by an imagination at
once creative and full of scraps of exotic
legend.” (106)
11. “No trials, or even definite charges, were
reported; nor were any of the captives [from
Innsmouth] seen thereafter in the regular gaols
of the nation. There were vague statements
about disease and concentration camps, and
later about dispersal in various naval and
military prisons, but nothing positive ever
developed.” (86)
12. Sources of horror in “Innsmouth”
● Remember our thesis that horror arises from
the transgression of implicit cognitive
boundaries.
● Racial horror.
– This is figured both in terms of cross-race and cross-
species interbreeding.
● The horror of non-Christian religion.
● The horror of degeneration.
● The horror of self-discovery.
● Note that, quite often, more than one of these
factors is in play at the same time.
13. The horror of paganism
“the rumours of devil-worship were partly
justified by a peculiar secret cult which had
gained force there and engulfed all the
orthodox churches.” (92)
“Nothing I could have imagined—nothing, even,
that I could have gathered had I credited old
Zadok’s crazy tale in the most literal way—
would be in any way comparable to the
demoniac, blasphemous reality that I saw—or
believe I saw.” (123)
14. Degeneration
“Gawd knows they [‘the Innsmouth folk’]’ve gotten to
be about as bad as South Sea cannibals and
Guinea savages.” (90)
“the clerk […] discouraged my going to such a
dismal, decadent place. […] Innsmouth was merely
an exaggerated case of civic degeneration.” (90)
“Undoubtedly, the alien strain in the Innsmouth folk
was stronger here [near the Manuxet river] than
farther inland—unless, indeed, the ‘Innsmouth look’
were a disease rather than a blood stain, in which
case this district might be held to harbor the most
advanced cases.” (100)
15. The horror of self-discovery
“Among these reliefs [on the tiara] were fabulous
monsters of abhorrent grotesqueness and malignity—half
ichthyic and half batrachian in suggestion—which one
could not dissociate from a certain haunting and
uncomfortable sense of pseudo-memory, as if they called
up some image from deep cells and tissues whose
retentive functions are wholly primal and awesomely
ancestral.” (92)
“Then the other shapes began to appear, filling me with
nameless horror the moment I awoke. But during the
dreams they did not horrify me at all—I was one with
them, wearing their unhuman trappings, treading their
aqueous ways, and praying monstrously at their evil sea-
bottom temples.” (126-27)
16. Media credits
The photo of H.P. Lovecraft (slide 2) is in the
public domain because it was first published
before 1923. Source:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/
a/a2/Howard_Phillips_Lovecraft_in_1915.jpg