Terry Eagleton: The original political vision: sex, art and transformation One reason Gordon Brown gave for not holding an election was to have time to roll out his vision. It is not a meaning of the word that Britain's greatest revolutionary poet would have recognised; William Blake, born 250 years ago today, had what George Bush Sr called "the vision thing" in the way other people have headaches or fits of laughter. At four he glimpsed God's head at the window, at eight a tree shimmering with angels. Like Brown, Blake grew up in a lower-middle-class Christian milieu. Blake's politics were not just a matter of wishful thinking, as so many radical schemes are today. In this, they are faithful to the libertarian lineage of John Milton; but Milton knew rather more about politics than freedom of expression. In his own mighty epic - Milton - Blake turned back to his great Protestant forebear from a Britain now scarred by industrial capitalism. Politics today is largely a question of management and administration.
Friedrich Nietzsche. Diez mandamientos para escribir con estilo. Top 10 Thinking Traps Exposed Our minds set up many traps for us. Unless we’re aware of them, these traps can seriously hinder our ability to think rationally, leading us to bad reasoning and making stupid decisions. Features of our minds that are meant to help us may, eventually, get us into trouble. Here are the first 5 of the most harmful of these traps and how to avoid each one of them. 1. “Is the population of Turkey greater than 35 million? Lesson: Your starting point can heavily bias your thinking: initial impressions, ideas, estimates or data “anchor” subsequent thoughts. This trap is particularly dangerous as it’s deliberately used in many occasions, such as by experienced salesmen, who will show you a higher-priced item first, “anchoring” that price in your mind, for example. What can you do about it? Always view a problem from different perspectives. 2. In one experiment a group of people were randomly given one of two gifts — half received a decorated mug, the other half a large Swiss chocolate bar. 3. 4.
Sprachzerstörung aus Konzilianz Home / Aufsätze über weitere Themen Das Phänomen Zahlreiche Redaktoren, Autoren von Sachtexten, Gesetzgeber und Werbetexter haben sich angewöhnt, menschliche Funktionsträger stets doppelt zu erwähnen, und so liest und – soweit es auszusprechen ist – hört man denn allenthalben von Athleten und Athletinnen, EidgenossInnen, Arzt/Ärztinnen und Bürger/innen. "Bereits die mildeste und häufigste Form der Trennung einer ‘Rolle des Verantwortungstragens’ (Arzt/Ärztin) von einer ‘Rolle des sich-Anvertrauens und sich-Unterordnens’ (Patient/in) reduziert die Eigenverantwortlichkeit, mit der der/die Patient/in Entscheidungen in Bezug auf seine/ihre Gesundheit trifft. Es ist kaum anzunehmen, dass jemand mit besonderer Freude solcherart geschriebene Bücher lesen möchte. Der Irrtum Das oben zitierte Beispiel ist – neben vielen ähnlich aussehenden Textpassagen – ein deutlicher Hinweis darauf, dass da irgend etwas nicht stimmen kann. Die Konsequenzen Die konkreten Auswirkungen Bilanz Was ist also zu tun? Dr.
.: poems and poets :. .: classic poetry, world's largest critical poetry forums, poetry links from everypoet.com :. The Olympic Girl - Poem by John Betjeman The Olympic Girl by John Betjeman The sort of girl I like to seeSmiles down from her great height at me.She stands in strong, athletic poseAnd wrinkles her retroussй nose.Is it distaste that makes her frown,So furious and freckled, downOn an unhealthy worm like me?Or am I what she likes to see?I do not know, though much I care,xxxxxxxx.....would I were(Forgive me, shade of Rupert Brooke)An object fit to claim her look.Oh! would I were her racket press'dWith hard excitement to her breastAnd swished into the sunlit airArm-high above her tousled hair,And banged against the bounding ball"Oh! Plung!" View John Betjeman:Poems | Quotes | Biography | Books
Ian Gibson, conmovido por el asesinato de León Trotski ampliar foto El hispanista Ian Gibson, en la Feria del Libro. / EFE Me ha conmovido esta novela más que ninguna otra leída últimamente: por la maestría de su construcción narrativa, la ingente investigación que hay detrás, la enjundia de su prosa, el suspense que logra mantener hasta el final (pese al asesinato anunciado desde la primera página), su análisis de los mecanismos de la implacable represión estalinista, responsable de la muerte de tantos millones de seres humanos, su profunda humanidad... Ilumina muchos aspectos de la Segunda República y la Guerra Civil, y es imposible terminarla sin llegar a la deprimente conclusión, una vez más, de que el ser humano padece una insuperable proclividad al dogmatismo letal (es el caso de Ramón Mercader, el verdugo de Trotsky). Tiene el valor añadido, por lo menos en mi caso, de provocar el intenso deseo de volver ahora al testimonio de los grandes historiadores de la época.
The Ten Most Revealing Psych Experiments Psychology is the study of the human mind and mental processes in relation to human behaviors - human nature. Due to its subject matter, psychology is not considered a 'hard' science, even though psychologists do experiment and publish their findings in respected journals. Some of the experiments psychologists have conducted over the years reveal things about the way we humans think and behave that we might not want to embrace, but which can at least help keep us humble. That's something. 1. The Robbers Cave Experiment is a classic social psychology experiment conducted with two groups of 11-year old boys at a state park in Oklahoma, and demonstrates just how easily an exclusive group identity is adopted and how quickly the group can degenerate into prejudice and antagonism toward outsiders. Researcher Muzafer Sherif actually conducted a series of 3 experiments. 2. The prisoners rebelled on the second day, and the reaction of the guards was swift and brutal. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
DAVID ROSE: The mini ice age starts here By David Rose Created: 23:15 GMT, 9 January 2010 The bitter winter afflicting much of the Northern Hemisphere is only the start of a global trend towards cooler weather that is likely to last for 20 or 30 years, say some of the world’s most eminent climate scientists. Their predictions – based on an analysis of natural cycles in water temperatures in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans – challenge some of the global warming orthodoxy’s most deeply cherished beliefs, such as the claim that the North Pole will be free of ice in summer by 2013. According to the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre in Colorado, Arctic summer sea ice has increased by 409,000 square miles, or 26 per cent, since 2007 – and even the most committed global warming activists do not dispute this. They say that their research shows that much of the warming was caused by oceanic cycles when they were in a ‘warm mode’ as opposed to the present ‘cold mode’. The work of Prof Latif and the other scientists refutes that view.