Top 100 Speeches of the 20th Century by Rank. Poe the Writer: Poe the Perfectionist. Imagine you are sitting in a car and your favorite song comes on the radio. Unfortunately, the stereo settings seem to be messing up your favorite tune, so you begin to adjust the treble and base levels, fiddle with the speaker balance, and fine-tune the volume. In other words, because you care about the song and how it sounds, you're trying to perfect your listening experience, right down to the last detail.
Poets are perfectionists too. Instead of treble and base levels, speaker balance, and volume, though, poets adjust things like structure, punctuation, and word choice to perfect their creations. They will rewrite poems half a dozen times or more — changing a comma here, a word or phrase there — all in an attempt to get just the right feelings and ideas from their mind onto the page. What kinds of changes do poets like Poe make when they're revising and perfecting a poem? To give you a better idea, here are three drafts of one of his earliest poems, "The Lake. " UNEXPLAINED AMERICA - UNSOLVED MYSTERIES! Www.math.rutgers.edu/~lenci/jokes/chicken. WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD? Plato: For the greater good. Karl Marx: It was a historical inevitability. Machiavelli: So that its subjects will view it with admiration, as a chicken which has the daring and courage to boldly cross the road, but also with fear, for whom among them has the strength to contend with such a paragon of avian virtue?
In such a manner is the princely chicken's dominion maintained. Tetrapharmakos. The Tetrapharmakos (τετραφάρμακος) "four-part remedy" is a summary of the first four of the Κύριαι Δόξαι (Kuriai Doxai, the forty Epicurean Principal Doctrines given by Diogenes Laërtius in his Life of Epicurus) in Epicureanism, a recipe for leading the happiest possible life. They are recommendations to avoid anxiety or existential dread.[1] The four-part cure[edit] As expressed by Philodemos, and preserved in a Herculaneum Papyrus (1005, 5.9–14), the tetrapharmakos reads:[4] This is a summary of the first four of the forty Epicurean Principal Doctrines (Sovran Maxims) given by Diogenes Laërtius, which in the translation by Robert Drew Hicks (1925) read as follows: 1.
A happy and eternal being has no trouble himself and brings no trouble upon any other being; hence he is exempt from movements of anger and partiality, for every such movement implies weakness 2. 3. 4. Don't fear god[edit] Don't worry about death[edit] As D. What is good is easy to get[edit] References and notes[edit] List of idioms in the English language. This is a list of notable idioms in the English language. An idiom is a common word or phrase with a culturally understood meaning that differs from what its composite words' denotations would suggest.
For example, an English speaker would understand the phrase "kick the bucket" to mean "to die" – and also to actually kick a bucket. Furthermore, they would understand when each meaning is being used in context. An idiom is not to be confused with other figures of speech such as a metaphor, which invokes an image by use of implicit comparisons (e.g., "the man of steel" ); a simile, which invokes an image by use of explicit comparisons (e.g., "faster than a speeding bullet"); and hyperbole, which exaggerates an image beyond truthfulness (e.g., like "missed by a mile" ). Idioms are also not to be confused with proverbs, which are simple sayings that express a truth based on common sense or practical experience. Visit Wiktionary's Category for over eight thousand idioms. See also[edit] Readers by Author « Lauren Leto.
Stereotyping People by Their Favorite Author (by the way – I respect every author on here, kind of) J.D. Salinger Kids who don’t fit in (duh). Stephenie Meyer People who type like this: OMG. J.K. Smart geeks. Jack Kerouac Umphrey’s McGee fans. Jeffrey Eugenides Girls who didn’t get enough drama when they were younger. Lauren Weisberger Girls who can’t read. Jonathan Safran Foer 30somethings who were cool when they were 20something. Jodi Picoult Your mom when she’s at her time of the month. Chuck Klosterman Boys who don’t read. Chuck Palahniuk Boys who can’t read. Christopher Hitchens People I would love to hang out with. Leo Tolstoy Guys I want to date. Fyodor Dostoevsky Guys I want to sleep with. Christopher Buckley (or William F. People who love excess verbiage.
Ayn Rand Workaholics seeking validation. David Foster Wallace Confirmed 90’s literati. Jane Austen (or Bronte Sisters) Girls who made out with other girls in college when they were going through a “phase”. Haruki Murakami People who like good music. Liars. Doce Poetas Rusos. Creative Writing Contests and Competitions. Internet Resources - Writers Resources - Writing Links & Writers Links for Writers - Word Stuff. Unsorted [/writers] James Patrick Kelly - Murder Your Darlings - "When time comes to make that final revision, however, you must harden your heart, sharpen the ax and murder your darlings. " Greda Vaso - Determining the Readability of a Book - includes formulas for Gunning's Fog Index, Flesch Formula, Powers Sumner Kearl L.
Kip Wheeler - Literary Terms and Definitions L. Kip Wheeler - Comp - Lit - Poetry - Links - more Style - Grammar - Errors in English [/writers]American Heritage - Book of English Usage - free download Band-Aid AP StylebookPaul Brians - Common Errors in EnglishCJ Cherryh - Writerisms and other Sins The Chicago Manual of Style FAQ Gary N. Curtis - The Fallacy Files - Logical fallacies and bad arguments Prof. Charles Darling [RIP] - Guide to Grammar and Writing The Economist (UK) - Style Guide John Eshleman - Logical Fallacies H.W. FREE Online Rhyming Dictionary. If by Rudyard Kipling. 50 Most Influential Books of the Last 50 (or so) Years. In compiling the books on this list, the editors at SuperScholar have tried to provide a window into the culture of the last 50 years.
Ideally, if you read every book on this list, you will know how we got to where we are today. Not all the books on this list are “great.” The criterion for inclusion was not greatness but INFLUENCE. All the books on this list have been enormously influential. The books we chose required some hard choices. We also tried to keep a balance between books that everyone buys and hardly anyone reads versus books that, though not widely bought and read, are deeply transformative. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 45. FullBooks.com - Thousands of Full-Text Free Books. Book recommendations for people who like Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling.
Poetry 180 - Tuesday 9:00 AM. Fire and Ice by Robert Frost. Review ONLINE. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. Chapter One A SQUAT grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY. The enormous room on the ground floor faced towards the north. Cold for all the summer beyond the panes, for all the tropical heat of the room itself, a harsh thin light glared through the windows, hungrily seeking some draped lay figure, some pallid shape of academic goose-flesh, but finding only the glass and nickel and bleakly shining porcelain of a laboratory.
Wintriness responded to wintriness. The overalls of the workers were white, their hands gloved with a pale corpse-coloured rubber. The light was frozen, dead, a ghost. "And this," said the Director opening the door, "is the Fertilizing Room. " "Just to give you a general idea," he would explain to them. Meanwhile, it was a privilege. Tall and rather thin but upright, the Director advanced into the room. Mr. Mr. Literature Project - Free eBooks Online. Www.cs.utexas.edu/~field/holzer/truisms.txt. I carry your heart.