In Alison Schneider’s essay, “Frumpy or Chic? Tweed or Kente” Sometimes Clothes Make the Professor” Camille Paglia says, “Yes, teaching is a performance art. But when the teacher hijacks the classroom for self-display – of fashion or mannerism or cult of personality – we have a corruption of education (143).” Some believe that their professors should use the classroom for self-display. People want their professors to look professional and clean-cut, and of course personality is important as well because without a personality, the professor is just plain boring. Without a sports jacket and dress pants professors look trashy and can’t be taken seriously.
For our group work, we talked about the totalitarian regimes. This helped me a lot because I was able to share my ideas with my peers and receive more clarity on the rulers. Now I can confidently discuss these topics, but I still feel confused on the differences between totalitarianism and absolutism. Overall, going over the reading as a group and then discussing it as a class really gives me a better understanding of what I am reading. Regarding my research project, I haven't really had time to go over all my sources and fill in my outline.
Something that Ansel Adams said about his photography was “In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.” His photographs filled the pages and pages of the country’s finest magazines and they definitely made it into the National Geographic Magazines. When Ansel Adams would take his landscape pictures he often knew where to stand before taking the good shot. Ansel Adams throughout his career wrote many books and made his art be noticed by others all over the
For example, some of the scientists were motivated by a desire to make life better for other people. Some of the scientists were clearly not interested in money. All of the scientists were hard workers. Reread the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem you read in the first lesson. As you read, think about how it applies to the different scientists.
He could not hold in his guilt anymore because he felt bad for conforming, or imitating, what the other members of the Dead Poets Society had done in Mr. Nolan’s office. Todd succeeded in following another one of Emerson’s philosophies, “To trust thyself”, when he successfully composed a poem [on the spot] in front of the class. “To trust thyself” means that one should always trust one’s self, even if one may be wrong. By following this transcendentalist idea, Todd gained more confidence in himself and the courage to speak his mind. He also showed intuition
Mysticism and Meditation Meditation is a practice in which an individual trains the mind or induces a mode of consciousness. Meditation often involves an internal effort to self-regulate the mind in some way. To Japanese monks, meditation is a large part of their beliefs and they spend many hours of their day practicing it. These monks may meditate individually or in a group setting. Japanese Buddhist monks stress monastic life and feel the individual needs to look after their own development.
The Jungle: Book Review In 1904, in the midst of a bitter stockyard strike, socialist writer Upton Sinclair’s two-month visit to Chicago’s “Packingtown” area provided him with a wealth of material that he turned into his best-selling novel, The Jungle. The book is best known for revealing the unsanitary process by which animals became meat products. Yet Sinclair’s primary concern was not with the goods that were produced, but with the workers who produced them. Throughout the book, as in this chapter, he described with great accuracy the horrifying physical conditions under which immigrant packing plant workers and their families worked and lived, portraying the collapse of immigrant culture under the relentless pressure of industrial
The movie Dead Poets Society follows a group of teens at a strict school who become heavily influenced by the transcendentalist philosophies of their new teacher, Professor John Keating. The values they are taught completely change their entire perspective and attitude towards life. For the most part this is a good thing, as the boys normally lead boring lives that they are bored with. They form a group known as the Dead Poets Society and their lives are immediately changed forever. They live by the philosophies of writers like Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
He found his passion through his addiction to filmmaking, but it came at a price of making poor grades in school. In other situations students are multi-tasking with technology because of their addiction. While doing homework or writing an essay the students are being distracted by listening to music, texting, and watching television. In my personal experience with this I also get very distracted and sidetracked and cannot keep focused on what I’m supposed to be doing. I end up forgetting I have homework and not coming back to it later that night or the next morning to finish it.
Moreover, students do not try to proof read their assignment before they hand it out. Besides he complained about students pay less attention on proof reading, he criticizes that students always try to copy and paste the original work from the Internet. He understands that technology can help everyone, and it makes human’s life efficiently. However, he thinks human should not apply their material which find on the Internet because some of those resource are very fundamental. At last, he believes that libraries and instructors should be responsible for teaching students how to do their research by using books to leads them have enthusiasm on their studies.