How did Carl Sandburg use personification in his poetry, and why did he use it so often? How can the structure of a poem contribute to its meaning? What are some strategies to approach understanding the meaning of a poem? How does Poe use literary devices such as repetition, rhyme...
This I’m not so sure about. Comprehensive change would have to originate with leaders who understand the issues, know where to find help, and have enough influence to move the industry quickly and decisively away from counterproductive traditions toward more productive business practices. Given the...
So John Buxton wrote, many years ago, in a book on Sidney which has long, and deservedly, been considered a classic. The application to Sidney of the lines he quoted did not originate with him. Yeats had echoed them in his elegy for "our Sidney and our perfect man," ...
Why study Ancient Greek? Classicists are asked this all the time, and most will answer by pointing to the cultural achievements of the Greeks: this is the language of the first great epic poetry (Homer), historians (Herodotus and Thucydides), playwrights (Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristo...
How did Tai Chi originate within Taoism? What are the five basic relationships according to Confucius? How is Daoism practiced? How did Confucianism change over time? How do ethics relate to Confucianism? What Chinese philosophy was based on the teachings of Laozi? How does the philosophy of ed...
But even when the text is in English, there may be references to foreign names, places, or simply the need for specific characters because of how words have been adopted into languages from which they did not originate. Therefore, it is highly recommended to familiarize oneself with the text...
Legends that exceed these boundaries of 'realism' are called fables. Fable comes from Latin, fabula, meaning 'conversation', 'narrative', 'tale'. Although fables originate in the narrative of human history and are presented in a conversational tone, they have become figurative or fictional stories...
How Did the Illusion of Mapping Originate? Even with Lee and Martin’s thoughtful caveats, we still should ask which two objects in their trial analyses play the role of the Grand Canyon landscape and of its map per theirFigure 1(LM, p. 12).Footnote6With the geographical map, Lee and ...
although California has a new teacher-support program, my mentor did little to prepare me or support me in the classroom. The mentor was just too busy, and my erratic teaching schedule prohibited much contact. Natalie -- without extra pay or incentive -- really nurtured my teaching success....
Although an STI can originate from the visions of single individuals or small col- lectives, it only takes shape when it is communally held, institutionally stabilized, and publicly performed (Jasanoff 2015). Some STIs will therefore be more durable than oth- ers due to support from 'powerful...