Category: War
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November 4, 2022 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. For the October Quarterly Discussion, we read Plutarch’s “Coriolanus” and a speech by David McCullough titled “Knowing History and Knowing Who We Are.” I was not really sure if this combination would work because of the great differences between the two pieces. Plutarch’s …
October 22, 2021 Thanks to A. Calhoun, a 2021 Fellow in Ideas, for today’s blog post. [I]f in these times of fear, This melancholy waste of hopes overthrown, If, ‘mid indifference and apathy, And wicked exultation when good men On every side fall off, we know not how, To selfishness, disguised in gentle names Of …
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April 16, 2021 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. In BattleBots, a television show based on robot combat, Faruq announces each competitor with poetic flair. His powerful voice and dominant presence animates the crowd and fans the flames of rivalry and competition. He riddles his introductions with puns which make them fun, …
April 9, 2021 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Today’s post is a brief look at translation and word choice in Thucydides. Both small sections from The History of the Peloponnesian War, Book IV, Chapter XII, furnish a glimpse of the author’s opinion. Though Thucydides set out to write a history of …
September 18, 2020 Thanks to Dean Coslovi, a 2020 HMU Fellow in Ideas, for today’s post. You must wish to consume yourself in your own flame: how could you wish to become new unless you had first become ashes! – Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche In Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche’s enlightened sage, “Zarathustra”, declares …
April 24, 2020 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. “If you observe the hot-foot sun and the moon’s phases,/ To-morrow will never cheat you” – Virgil, Georgics, Book I In celebration of poetry this month, our April Quarterly Discussion focused on Virgil’s Georgics, Book I, and a selection of poems from Wendell …
March 20, 2020 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Dr. Deborah Deacon, a former Dean of Harrison Middleton University, co-authored a book entitled A Century in Uniform; Military Women in American Films, published earlier this year. Stacy Fowler and Dr. Deacon’s book dedicates a chapter to each decade (or so) since the …
February 28, 2020 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. To listen to a short run-through of all sixty paintings and captions by Jacob Lawrence, visit the Khan Academy’s tutorial or visit the Phillips Collection to view them one-by-one. So much of Black History Month highlights notable African Americans who have contributed positive …
February 7, 2020 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. “If this war is to be forgotten, I ask in the name of all/ things sacred what shall men remember?” ~ Frederick Douglass Since Natasha Trethewey chose this quote to introduce her poem “Native Guard,” I also begin with it. As the centerpiece …
September 6, 2019 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. I get very excited when the world combines disciplines in an unexpected way. Recently, I came across a children’s book entitled, Dazzle Ships: World War I and the Art of Confusion by Chris Barton and illustrated by Victo Ngai. Not only is this …
