“Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to the body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this much; I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound men and women with their hearts in a safe deposit box, and their eyes hypnotized […]
“The trains roared by like projectiles level on the darkness, fuming and burning, making the valley clang with their passage. They were gone, and the lights of the towns and villages glittered in silence.”- D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers
We will be having a test over existentialism on Friday. It will cover these subjects: Basics of Existentialism Jean-Paul Sartre Albert Camus Friederich Nietzsche Soren Kierkegaard Andre Malraux Simone de Beauvoir The notes are all available here and you may use a single 3×5 notecard for the exam. A download packet in a single PDF […]
Antithesis in Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death Patrick Henry, a Virginian revolutionist and politician, presented his most renowned oration, Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death, to delegates of the 1775 Virginia Convention. During this time, the American colonies were controlled by Great Britain. After several decades of political tension between the colonies […]
“How could it be that two people who really liked each other, and who took a brave crazy leap on not just living together, which lots of mammals do, but swearing fealty and respect in front of a huge crowd, and filing taxes as a joint entity, and spawning a child, and cosigning mortgages and […]