Tag: Popular Culture
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September 8, 2023 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. If it’s been awhile since you have read Machiavelli’s The Prince, you might consider reading an excerpt with us this fall. We will examine two chapters of it in the October Quarterly Discussion. (Reach out to Alissa at as****@hm*.edu for more information). I …
July 6, 2018 Thanks to Matt Phillips, a 2018 Harrison Middleton University Fellow in Ideas, for today’s post. This April, HBO premiered a new, two-part documentary about Elvis Presley. Directed by Thom Zimny and produced by John Landau and Priscilla Presley, Elvis Presley: The Searcher offers an intimate portrait of the man behind the universal …
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June 8, 2018 Thanks to Ben Peterson, a 2018 Harrison Middleton University Fellow in Ideas, for today’s post. “Laughter is the best medicine.” — everybody ever If you have been alive at any point in time, you have probably heard this expression. If you’ve been alive for more than a few years strung together, you …
May 18, 2018 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s blog. Conversation: an oral exchange of sentiments, observations, opinions, or ideas. Discussion: consideration of a question in an open and usually informal debate; or a formal treatment of a topic in speech or writing. When does conversation become a discussion? According to Merriam-Webster, conversation …
January 26, 2018 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Recently, I read an article that claimed museum culture is changing. I have been pondering this idea for some time. Culture is preserved in many ways, and certainly museums play a large role. As with everything else, technology affects all of our capabilities. …
January 12, 2018 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post: from Chaucer to Chappelle “Let fancy fly, with all her lofty graces,/ Pack wisdom in, with tenderness and passion,/ But never put good fooling out of fashion.” – Goethe Chaucer’s wit still resonates today. In The Canterbury Tales he developed characters that might …
December 1, 2017 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Before reading today’s blog, I suggest watching the following four minute music video: Taylor Swift “Look What You Made Me Do” It would be hard to pin down my musical tastes. Truly, I can listen to nearly anything. While I am not an …
November 17, 2017 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. This book review was originally published in the November 2017 issue of HMU: Dialogues. Tube Talk, Double Features, and Sound Bites, three new publications from the Great Books Foundation. In February, Harrison Middleton University will cohost the inaugural Southwest Great Books Weekend which …
September 29, 2017 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. “I think many of the stories that we tell ourselves as a society – the stories that encode our hopes, aspirations, and fears – preserve the traces of classical culture and myth and are part of our classical legacy.” – Professor Elizabeth Vandiver …
February 24, 2017 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Last week was a busy one for me, even though the majority of it was spent in a chair. I attended the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Conference (SWPACA). Dr. Deborah Deacon, HMU Dean and Tutor, attended with me as we both had scheduled …
