2.1 Introducing Classical studies
How do we learn about the world of the ancient Romans and Greeks? This unit will provide you with an insight into the Classical world by introducing you to the various sources of information used by scholars to draw together an image of this fascinating period of history.
1 Why study the Classical world?
How do we learn about the world of the ancient Romans and Greeks? This unit will provide you with an insight into the Classical world by introducing you to the various sources of information used by scholars to draw together an image of this fascinating period of history.
3.1 Involving all of the senses Becoming more aware of the everyday world around you involves more than just looking. If writing is a perceptual art then perception should involve all of the senses, not just the visual. You must also start to smell, feel, taste and hear the world you are trying to realise. So, in the made up scenario, when you see the man with the Scottie dog you might be too fearful to stroke his dog, but perhaps you could touch the cold metal bar where the dog was tied up – after he is gone, of course!
2.2 Collecting and selecting Writers are always on the alert for potential material. A notebook is an essential tool for any writer and has several functions. These range from the jotting down of observations while you’re out and about to an account of daily events, your rants and raves, ideas for poems, single words, clippings from newspapers, responses to books or poems you’ve read, notes from research, all kinds of ‘gathering’. Your notebook is for you, and it needs to contain whatever helps you or fuels
2.1 Building a believable world Writing is a perceptual art, one in which images are created via language in order for the reader to make meaning. It is therefore imperative that the writer's powers of perception are alert. Writing is a process of becoming aware, of opening the senses to ways of grasping the world, ways that may previously have been blocked. Often we take the world around us for granted, we are so immersed in habit. All of our lives contain relative degrees of routine. We go to sleep, we eat, we go to work.
1.1 Using life experiences in your fiction Creative writing courses and manuals often offer the advice ‘write what you know’. This is undoubtedly good advice, yet what exactly does it mean? Many writers testify to using their life experiences – their memories and their everyday perceptions – as a source for their fiction or poetry, as well as for their autobiographies and memoirs. Yet these experiences aren't necessarily extraordinary in themselves. You don't have to have led an unusual or exotic life in order to write. Y
2.5.1 The reductionist perspective Although theology had been thought of as ultimate knowledge, in post-Enlightenment thought, religion came to be seen by many in the West as a hindrance to progress and the advancement of human knowledge. Some came to believe that a rational and scientific way of looking at the world, unconstrained by religious belief and ‘superstition’, would lead to religion becoming redundant. In the nineteenth century, this idea was boosted by Darwinian theories of evolution. Charles Darwinâ
2.3 Is religion a museum piece? We have used the video sequence below to highlight the emic/etic problem and we would like you to carry out a short exercise using it to consolidate your understanding of these terms. The video introduces St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art in Glasgow, which has been described as the first public museum of religion in the world. Do note, however, that the Museum of Religions at the University of Marburg, Germany was founded in 1927 by Rudolf Otto. It contains a considerable number
1.5 Differing perspectives Closely related to representation of religion is the recurring issue of differing perspectives. In talking about perspectives here, we are thinking about how we look at something. We rarely approach anything neutrally – either consciously or subconsciously we tend to adopt a particular perspective – and how we look at something affects what we see. Whenever we make assumptions, we impose them on events, phenomena and other people. This is as true for scholars examining religion as
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The Concordia Computation Arts program.
Other videos in the series:
Jennifer McGrath - Sleep and Obesity: An Argument for Sleeping in.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_rRNgFuO38
Andreas Athienitis - Design of advanced solar buildings aimed at net-zero annual energy consumption.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njeDcFWIXmU
Vincent Martin - Is 'modern' biotechnology the solution to clean and sustainable biofuel?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGrHyoM_2Vk
Romeo
MSU Taps Project
On November 11, 2010, Veterans Day, the Missouri State University community will witness a first for our campus. The MSU Alliance for Veterans and Veterans Day planning committee will commemorate the World War I moment of cease-fire right before 11 am with the playing of 'Taps.'
The unique feature of this performance will be that it will be performed by 79 trumpeters/buglers stationed all around campus playing 'Taps' in a cascading/round fashion. Trumpeters/Buglers will be spaced at regular
How do you measure success at the top?
Perhaps at no other time in history has CEO compensation come under such scrutiny. What makes these business leaders, who are more often than not men, worth so much money?
Russia & The First World War The First World War & The British Empire The First World War & the Liberal Decline The First World War: The Entente Powers The First World War: The Central Powers International Media Flows: Global Media and Culture Community Discussion on Open Sharing and OpenCourseWare 4.3 Search
Russia & The First World War: Dr. Sarah Badcock, University of Nottingham.
History as written and presented by current historians. Visit thehistoryfaculty.com for free downloads and more information.
How far do you agree that the First World War marked a decisive chance in Britain’s control over its empire in the years 1870-1980? Dr. Chris Prior, University of Leeds: India - nationalism and...
History as written and presented by current historians. Visit thehistoryfaculty.com for free downloads and more information.
Dr. Hester Barron, University of Sussex: ‘To What Extent was The First World War Responsible for the longer-term Liberal Decline?’
History as written and presented by current historians. Visit thehistoryfaculty.com for free downloads and more information.
The First World War: The Entente Powers. A two-part presentation by Professor John Gooch, University of Leeds, for The History Faculty: www.thehistoryfaculty.com.
History as written and presented by current historians. Visit thehistoryfaculty.com for free downloads and more information.
The First World War: The Central Powers. Part of a two-part presentation by Professor John Gooch, University of Leeds, for The History Faculty: www.thehistoryfaculty.com.
History as written and presented by current historians. Visit thehistoryfaculty.com for free downloads and more information.
Ian Condry introduces five graduates of the Comparative Media Studies Program—Aswin Punathambekar, Xiaochang Li, Jing Wang, Orit Kuritsky, Ana Domb —in this final panel, who share their views and experiences about the international/global dimension of the program.
‘Comparative’ can be interpr
Who could have guessed that a Florentine omelet played a role in the origins of the OpenCourseWare initiative? A breakfast meeting in a New York “greasy spoon†was one of the seminal moments shaping OCW, according to William G. Bowen, who dined with Charles Vest and discussed Mellon Foundation support for the initiative. Bowen prais
The World Wide Web is a vast information resource. This unit will provide you with the foundation skills to use search engines confidently to locate both information and images on the Web. You will also learn how to critically assess and reference the information you have found for study purposes.
