Citazioni In these pages you can find a collection of 8295 quotes and aphorisms. You can search for a specific word using the form below, or surf among the categories. If you find errors, please let me know! The horror of the Same Old Thing is [. . .] an endless source of heresies in religion, folly in counsel, in.delity in marriage, and inconstancy in friendship. Lev felt the strength of his friends and the whole community, supporting and upholding. Consider how erroneous and unwise it is to fear death, a state that deserves, rather, vindication! Death seemed more like an old friend than an interruption. [On Earth:] ‘‘A peaceful world, certainly,’’ said Zinin. The earth pulled him down, tugging at him like a burdensome friend. - George Zebrowski, Macrolife (1979) Education, my friend, is not always a blessing. The most fearful of monsters is the well-known friend slightly altered. - Kobo Abé, InterIceAge4 (1959)
"Street Haunting: A London Adventure," by Virginia Woolf - Classic British Essays In this essay by English novelist Virginia Woolf, the quest to buy a pencil serves as an occasion to contrast "street sauntering," with its sense of carefree wandering, with "street haunting," which hints at the more disturbing aspects of walking in the city. Be prepared to compare Woolf's essay with Charles Dickens's account of walking the streets of London, Night Walks. Street Haunting: A London Adventure by Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) 1 No one perhaps has ever felt passionately towards a lead pencil. But there are circumstances in which it can become supremely desirable to possess one; moments when we are set upon having an object, an excuse for walking half across London between tea and dinner. 2 The hour should be the evening and the season winter, for in winter the champagne brightness of the air and the sociability of the streets are grateful. 3 But when the door shuts on us, all that vanishes. Continued on page two
1. Don't submit things that aren't rage comics. : metarage U B U W E B - Film & Video: Robert Hughes - The Shock of the New (1982) Robert Hughes (1938-2012) The Shock of the New (1982) The Mechanical Paradise - Episode 1 Traces how developments in technology inspired art between 1880 and the end of WWI, leading to movements like cubism and futurism. The Powers that Be - Episode 2 Hughes explores the interplay between art and politics, seeing how artists were affected by the development of mechanised warfare and ideologies like fascism and communism. The Landscape of Pleasure - Episode 3 The French artists who attempted to reconcile man with nature, from the determination of the impressionists to paint outside to Matisse's vibrant use of colour. Trouble in Utopia - Episode 4 How modern architects in the wake of the Bauhaus aspired to change societies with their designs, a move represented both by Le Corbusier and the plans for the city Brasilia. The Threshold of Liberty - Episode 5 The art movement that gripped its exponents with the fervour of a religion: surrealism. UbuWeb Film | UbuWeb PennSound | CENTRO | EPC | WFMU
Persuasive Writing: Take a Stand . NOW Classroom . NOW Persuasive Writing: Take a Stand The ability to state ideas clearly and back them up with proof is increasingly important, regardless of one’s profession, age or background. New technologies such as blogs, podcasts, instant messaging, virtual social networks and email make opinionated self-expression easier and more encouraged than ever before. At the same time, learning to distinguish reputable sources of information from inaccurate sources is challenging, yet important when making credible arguments. Learning how to recognize credible sources and use those to form opinions and support them is a skill used by everyone from sports stars and homemakers to business leaders and politicians. Learning Activity: 1. Think of examples from your daily life when the ability to clearly state an opinion and support it with the credible facts, reasons, and examples was important to you. 2. 4. 5. 6. Determining who is sponsoring/presenting the content you are using as a resource. www.pbs.org www.cnn.com
Materials for Students: Writing the Academic Paper: Developing Your Thesis How Shakespearean are you? The words of Shakespeare are still held, nearly 400 years after his death, to be some of the most poetic ever written and his influence on modern English is indisputable. Contributions such as pound of flesh (Merchant of Venice) and green-eyed monster (Othello) are fairly well-known, but did you know that he was the first person to use the adjectives misplaced (from King Lear) or neighbouring (Henry IV, Part 1); or the adverbs obscenely (Love’s Labour’s Lost) or out of work (Henry V)? These days we often hear accusations of the English language having been dumbed down, so it is interesting to compare English now to that used by Shakespeare. Enter some English text in the box below and click the button. Shakespeare feature loading, please wait… To produce this page we took the freely available text from our 1916 edition of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare and processed it with a script that extracted all the unique words used in the plays.
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