modernity in terms of its affluent realistic value to contemporary society. This paper explores the modernity of Dickinson’s poem “I’m Nobody! Who are you?”, with echoes of the “Nobody” springing up in the current Covid-19 outbreak. By connecting the “Nobody” in the poem with ...
he underestimated the peasants' role in China's revolution, concluding that the movement could surge only alongside a surging workers' movement, and that the Red regime could not survive in the backward rural areas when the urban proletariat was forced onto ...
Rhiannon Giddens is such a person a breath taking performer whose music is inspirational, honest and crucial if we are to understand the pain and suffering people have gone through on this planet just to survive. Her music is real and her performance always swings back to optimism and hope. ...
In the dark future I visualised in Lifehouse, humanity would survive inevitable ecological disaster by living in air-filtered seclusion in pod-like suits, kept amused and distracted by sophisticated programming delivered to them by the government. As with Tommy, people’s isolation would, in my st...
Next, we will put tiny robots into the body that can travel into even smaller spaces and treat illness at an early time. Imagine a tiny robot that can treat a blood clot deep in your brain that can’t be reached with the catheters we are using today. We may not actually need ...
Telling a person who is dying that it is okay to go and offering them the assurance that those left behind will hurt, but will survive after their death, offers the person the freedom to let go. Give them the gift of presence While we struggle with the right thing to say to someone ...
It was a young man with delicate features and golden blond curls who dressed in a white nightgown as “Wee Willie Winkie” from the childhood poem: Wee Willie Winkie runs through the town, Upstairs and downstairs, in his nightgown; Rapping at the window, crying through the lock, “Are the...
What new thought can you share, what song will you write? What poem will call out to our people to unite, ignite and incite for good? Here’s a great example of how sharing your art can ripple. Thank you to Bruce and Cheryl who shared one of Bruce’s paintings with me on Facebook...
8:53 Amanda Gorman reflects on 4 years since her inaugural poem Jan 08, 2025 1:32 Winter storm disrupts water service in Richmond, Virginia Jan 08, 2025 2:23 Judge blocks release of special counsel's report Jan 08, 2025 0:36 Trump claims he'll rename 'Gulf of Mexico' to 'Gulf of ...
The last two lines of this classic poem sum it up well: “Though each was partly in the right, And all were in the wrong!” So how could the argument have been easily solved? And do we all, on occasion, behave somewhat like these learned men of Indostan?