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The Last Jedi
December 18, 2017 The Last Jedi The Last Jedi is poised precariously between the past and the future. The Last Jedi picks up right where The Force Awakens left off. It follows the template laid down by The Empire Strikes … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV, Mythology
Tagged $1, A New Hope, Alice in Wonderland, Bad, balance, BB8, Ben Skywalker, Blame, Books, Brother, C3PO, Caesar, Canta Bight, childhood, Connection, Crait, Culture, Current, Current Culture, Dark, Die, Divine Nature, DJ, Dogobah, Far Far Away, Father, Feminism, Fighting, Finn, First Order, Flawed, Flaws, Franchise, Future, Galaxy, General Leia, George Lucas, Good, Han Solo, Heroes, Hitler, Hoth, Jacen, Jaina, Jedi, JJ Abrams, Johnson, Kill, King of Hearts, Kylo Ren, Lando Calrissian, Las Vegas, Leia, Let Go, Light, Long Time Ago, Loyalties, Loyalty, Luke, Luke Skywalker, Marsh, May the Force Be With You, Mother, Nero, nobody, Originals, Parents, Parts, past, Perfectionism, plots, Poe, poor boy, Prequels, Present, Princess Leia, R2D2, Rebirth, recycled, Red, red room, Redeem, Return of the Jedi, Rey, Rich, Romanticize, Rome. Praetors, Rose, Save What You Love, Sequels, Sister, Sith, Skelling Michael, Sky City, Snoke, Subtext, Surrendering, Swamp, The Empire Strikes Back, The Force, The Force Awakens. Ben Solo, The Last Jedi, Training, Trump, Twins, Universe, Yoda
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Think On These Things
Think on These Things By Jiddu Krishnamurti, 1964 Self-Knowledge comes when you observe yourself in a relationship with your situation, you teachers are all those around you. It comes when you observe the manner of another, his gestures, the way … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Science/Philosophy
Tagged 1964, America, Anger, beauty, Capitalist, caste, Children, Class, Communist, creativity, Culture, don'ts, dos, education, Europe, Everything, Extraordinary, Family, Feel, Feelings, Freely, Hindu, India, Inquiry, Intellegence, Jiddu Krisnamurti, Learning, Life, Love, Meditate, mindful, Open, Open Mind, Ordinary, Peace, Ponder, Poor, Prisoner, Relationships, revolt, Rich, Self-Knowledge, Socialist, society, Spirit, survival, Teacher, Think, Think on These Things, Torn, Truth, War, watchful, World
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The Age of American Unreason
The Age of American Unreason By Susan Jacoby, 2009 Jacoby writes about anti-intellectualism in America. She was inspired by the book Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter, which was published in 1963. Jacoby points out that more than half … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, History, Literary Criticism, Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV, Pedagogy, Politics/Economics, Religion, Science/Philosophy
Tagged 1800s, 1960s, Alan Bloom, America, Ann Coulter, Anti-Intellectual, Benjamin Franklin, Bible, Book of the Month Club, Bush, Campus Crusades, Cheap Books, Christianity, Clinton, College, Common Sense, Communisim, Communist, Cristina Hoff Summer, Culture, Debate, Democrat, Don Imus, Dumbed Down, English Language, Founding Fathers, Government, Guilded Age, High Brow, Internet, Junk Media, Junk Science, Learning, Lectures, Left Wing, liberal, Literacy, Low Brow, Middle Brow, Nixon, Patriotic, Pop Culture, President, Protests, Publishers, Reason, Regan, Republican, Richard Dawkins, Richard Hofstadter, right wing, Russia, Science Versus Religion, Seperation of Church and State, Socialism, Socialist, Soviet Union, Television, The Closing of the American Mind, The Constitution, The Rights of Man, The Supreme Court, Thomas Paine, United States, Unpatriotic, Unreason, Vietnam War, Working Class
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Literature As Exploration
Literature as Exploration Louise M Rosenblatt 1965 Reprint 1995 Schools and Colleges are there to teach students about themselves and humankind. As students, we try to understand the psychology of the characters we read about. We try to figure out … Continue reading
Posted in Literary Criticism, Literature/Pop Culture
Tagged Anthropology, Book, Books, characters, College, Criticism, Culture, dissatisfaction, Emotions, experience, Flexabilty, framework, Growth, High School, Humankind, ideas, Individual, instructors, judgment, Knowledge, lack of knowledge, Learning, learns, Life, Literary Criticism, Literary Theory, Literature As Exploration, Louise Rosenblatt, motivations, personal experience, Personality, Psychology, Reader Response, Reading, School, society, Sociology, Students, Teachers, Understanding, will to learn
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Fragmentation, Memory and the Loss of Self
Fragmentation, Memory and the Loss of Self: Michael Ondaatje’s book of poetry Handwriting Cari Lynn Vaughn, 2000 To do Michael Ondaatje justice when writing about him, it appears as if one must use poetry to describe his poetry. Many … Continue reading
Posted in Literature/Pop Culture, Poetry, Politics/Economics, Psychology, Religion
Tagged Anil's Ghost, Buddha, Cari Gilkison, Cari Lynn Vaughn, Colonization, Coming Through The Slaughter, Culture, Fragmentaion, Grief, Handwriting, Identity, In The Skin of A Lion, Kirby, Loss, Memories, Michael Ondaatje, Modern Poetry, Mourn, Poem, Poetry, Prose, Running in the Family, Secular Love, Self, Self-hood, Sri Lanka, Temple, The Collected Works of Billy The Kid, The English Patient, There's A Trick I'm Learning To Do With A Knife, Truth, UNCG, War
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