Category: Creation
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July 2, 2021 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. “thing within thing up to the very pinnacle of source” – Plotinus When two mirrors face each other, whatever appears in the mirror seems to endlessly repeat. Actually, light bounces off the surface duplicating the image each time. The endless reflections are all …
June 4, 2021 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Summer provides an excellent time to write. If any of you (or your students) tire of standard five paragraph essays and thesis statements (as I do), then use the summer to free yourself of these restrictions. Today’s blog suggests a couple of ways …
June 14, 2019 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Ancient history can be a difficult subject for students because it is inherently foreign to them. Not only is there a language difference, but it is genuinely difficult to envision life removed from today’s technologies. When speaking of ancient cities, most people think …
February 1, 2019 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. I have a number of questions still rumbling around after Harrison Middleton University’s January Quarterly Discussion. We read Archimedes’ Sand Reckoner and G. H. Hardy’s Mathematician’s Apology. I put these two pieces together because I am interested in mathematical discourse separated by thousands …
January 11, 2019 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. “Let’s listen with our eyes and not just our ears. That would be the ideal.” –Christine Sun Kim Early exposure to language seems to be the key in all languages. The key to what? Success in that language, or with language in general? …
November 16, 2018 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. In Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula Le Guin has her protagonist, Genly Ai, travel to the distant planet Gethen which has no birds or flying insects. As a result, the communities there never even thought to attempt flight and their language has no …
November 9, 2018 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Manifesto, directed by Julian Rosefeldt, disorients the viewer. Locations change without warning, as do characters. The speaker is a sometimes character and sometimes narrator. So many things happen simultaneously that it would be difficult to express them all. I will wander through a …
April 13, 2018 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. “The difference between the present and the past is that the conscious present is an awareness of the past in a way and to an extent which the past’s awareness of itself cannot show.” – T. S. Eliot I used to work for …
October 13, 2017 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. “The vastness of heavens stretches my imagination… Why do the poets of the present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were like a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane …
October 6, 2017 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Myth is what happens to a strong belief once the belief has changed. In other words, what was once firm belief, turns into cultural story and entertainment. They become important narratives, but not necessarily belief systems. For example, we know who Zeus is, …
