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November 12, 2021 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Narrative is a tricky word. Originally, I thought that perhaps we had overloaded the term recently, but even the original Latin term carried a number of connotations. Wheelock’s Latin defines narro as “to tell, report, narrate (narration, narrative, narrator).” This makes me wonder …
September 27, 2019 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. If you have been to a personal trainer or regularly attend the gym, you understand the importance of the core. All of our limbs extend from a core whose strength allows us to be upright, graceful, and strong. In other words, core fitness …
September 21, 2018 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. According to Merriam-Webster, a weed is either A) a plant that is not valued where it is growing, or B) an obnoxious growth, thing or person. In better understanding how we use the term “weed” and what it signifies, I want to demonstrate …
July 22, 2016 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. In “Meno”, Socrates and Meno attempt to define virtue. Here is Meno’s first attempt: “Let us take the first virtue of a man – he should know how to administer the state, and in the administration of it to benefit his friends and …
February 26, 2016 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Defining poetry is next to impossible, and I have been studying it for as long as I can remember. Its power thrills me. The fact that poetry escapes definition really seems appropriate to me. In an effort to wrangle with some of the …
February 12, 2016 Love is an incredibly complicated idea. It is ubiquitous…in the universe, in literature, in our lives. Everyone experiences love, all ages and in all forms. We can talk about familial love, the love of brothers and sisters, our love of entertainment, platonic love, love that holds a marriage together, the love …
