Tag: Imagination
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February 17, 2023 Thanks to James Robertson, HMU student, for today’s blog. In a poem, Whitman writes “This is no book; who touches this touches a man” (Leaves of Grass). In contrast, Plato has Socrates observe that “writing is unfortunately like painting; for the creations of the painter have the attitude of life, and yet …
October 28, 2022 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Fortunately for us, David Hume wrote a lot of his thoughts down in his book A Treatise on Human Nature. Yet it might not have been so. At the end of Book I, Hume admits, in lengthy detail, that he doubts himself, his …
June 10, 2022 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. “The hardest thing of all to see is what is really there.” – John Baker, The Peregrine ”Learning is a profession….” – Zena Hitz 2022 Fellow in Ideas David Yamada recently wrote a book review that inspired me. Per his suggestion, I quickly …
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 28, 2019 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Letters often hold interest for me as a researcher and reader. They demonstrate humanity in ways that other writing cannot. People allow themselves a level of intimacy on paper that is not allowed in other areas of life. I love to write letters …
March 1, 2019 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. I never needed a reason to love the world, I simply just always have. With its faults and near-misses, its greed and its hope. I love the way it is patched together like a great quilt of countries and languages, mountains and deserts. …
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 …
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 …
November 6, 2015 Last week, we posted Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats as a lead into the idea of spirit and/or death. Today, we intend to look more closely into that poem to find out what exactly is the mood, tone, spirit, quality and devices of the poem. Critical thinking will help inform …
