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Antigone. Sophocles is considered one of the great ancient Greek tragedians. Among Sophocles' most famous plays are Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone. These plays follow the fall of the great king, Oedipus, and later the tragedies that his children suffer. The Oedipus plays have had a wide-reaching influence and are particularly notable for inspiring Sigmund Freud’s theory of the "Oedipus Complex," which describes a stage of psychological development in which a child sees their father as an adversarial competitor for his or her mother’s attention (or in non-psychology speak, it’s the kill-the-father-sleep-with-the-mother complex).

The three plays are often called a trilogy, but this is technically incorrect. These facts probably explain some of discrepancies found in the plays. Of course, while the plays aren't technically a trilogy and do have discrepancies, they do share many similarities. Antigone matters because it wrestles with civil disobedience. PostSecret.

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Sci fi. Interesting blogs. Fitness. Forensics. If it's not okay,it's not the end! Piece ideas. Coursera. UPDATE: we're doing a live, updated MOOC of this course at stanford-online July-2014 (not this Coursera version). See here: CS101 teaches the essential ideas of Computer Science for a zero-prior-experience audience. Computers can appear very complicated, but in reality, computers work within just a few, simple patterns. CS101 demystifies and brings those patterns to life, which is useful for anyone using computers today. In CS101, students play and experiment with short bits of "computer code" to bring to life to the power and limitations of computers. Here is another video Nick created for this class. Carbonmade : Your online portfolio.

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Make-or-Break Verbs. Draft is a series about the art and craft of writing. This is the third in a series of writing lessons by the author. A sentence can offer a moment of quiet, it can crackle with energy or it can just lie there, listless and uninteresting. What makes the difference? The verb. Verbs kick-start sentences: Without them, words would simply cluster together in suspended animation. We often call them action words, but verbs also can carry sentiments (love, fear, lust, disgust), hint at cognition (realize, know, recognize), bend ideas together (falsify, prove, hypothesize), assert possession (own, have) and conjure existence itself (is, are). Jeff Rogers Fundamentally, verbs fall into two classes: static (to be, to seem, to become) and dynamic (to whistle, to waffle, to wonder).

“Who is it that can tell me who I am?” Jumping ahead a few hundred years, Henry Miller echoes Lear when, in his autobiographical novel “Tropic of Cancer,” he wanders in Dijon, France, reflecting upon his fate: Video Killed the Faculty Star. In what seems the TMZ-ification of higher education, three separate professors have found themselves the subjects of “gotcha” YouTube segments in recent days. While the cases differ widely, faculty members at Cornell University, Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge and the University of Central Florida have all seen pieces of their lectures go viral in the last several weeks. Taken collectively, the carefully edited clips play up familiar stereotypes about faculty: there’s the quick-tempered bore (Cornell), the liberal indoctrinator (Louisiana State) and the lazy test-recycler (Central Florida).

As one would suspect, there's more to these stories than any of the videos can provide. Moreover, there’s evidence at Louisiana State that clips were intentionally cut for effect. But there is one singular, unavoidable reality the spreading of the videos makes clear: professors “caught on tape” is a growing genre, and some think it could have a chilling effect on academe. Photo: Campus Reform. Dinner in 15 Minutes Flat - Make Your Selections | Real Simple - StumbleUpon.

Watch Runaways (2010), The Online for Free - Stream Runaways (2010), The Megavideo, Putlocker, Novamov. Greg Rutters Definitive List of The 99 Things You Should Have Already... - StumbleUpon. The Assumption Song.

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