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Category Archives: Humanity
What Ones’ Slumber Can Do Others Perception
In Plate 12, line 5 (p. 101), why is Enitharmon’s eighteenth hundred-year-old slumber described as a “female dream”? William Blake’s, Europe: A Prophecy sets a tone into a different comprehension of how we can be able to view Blake’s literature. Within this section of his work, it doesn’t persuade us to be able to predict […] Continue reading
Posted in Design, feminism, Humanity, literature, society, The Flames of Orc (10/23), William Blake's reception
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Accept God, But Don’t Be Deceived
Thomas Paine employed his literature that empowers a spark inside the English circles that his work has been either ridiculed or praised by readers for centuries. Contrary to popular belief, Paine was driven to express his admiration and faith in God, and just like a Newtonians, he avows the Deistic for the pursuit of happiness […] Continue reading
Posted in christianity, Earth, Empire vs. Revolution (10/16), Humanity, literature, Religion, William Blake's reception
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The Mind is a Powerful Place
In The Divine Image from The Songs of Innocence, Blake is addressing Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love. This poem takes all four aspects and individually connects them to the aspects of humanity; where “Mercy has a human heart” which is personifying an emotion (l. 9). To “Pity, a human face / And Love, the human form […] Continue reading
Posted in christianity, Experience, Earth, and Adulthood (9/18), Humanity, Religion, Songs of experience, Songs of Innocence, the mind
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The Cosmic Calendar: Humanities Brief Reign
In the grand scheme of the Universe, mankind has been around for an almost unfathomably short amount of time. Condensing the span of the universe into one calendar year we see clearly how our mark on the universe has barely just happened. All of what what we consider “modern” history takes place on December 31st, … Continue reading The Cosmic Calendar: Humanities Brief Reign → Continue reading → Continue reading
Posted in astro2110, blog1, Historical, Humanity, Time
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What A Long Strange Trip It’s Been
Daniel Lizaola Lopez Humberto Garcia English 190: Senior Thesis May 2, 2018 I wasn’t always an English major. I was lost in the vortex of societal norms and allowed the cosmology of my origin be originated by my environment. In high school, I was influenced by Ernesto “Che” Guevara and his passions. For the duration […] Continue reading
Posted in art, Earth, environment, essay, health, Humanity, life, literature, poetry, Reflective Essay (5/2), Self, society, system, teaching, truth, William Blake's reception
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Good and Evil
Milton needs to “go down to self annihilation and eternal death” because he is the “Poetic Genius” who protects “Divine Humanity” (The Prophetic Books of William Blake). This idea of being the protector of the people correlates with the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. According to the Bible, Jesus Christ died in order to save humanity […] Continue reading
Posted in corruptibility, evil, good, Humanity, The Last Judgment (11/6-11/13), William Blake's reception
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We Are What They Tell Us to Eat
William Blake has given me a framework to reflect on our relationship with the living world I inhabit. I have arranged three of his plates above to highlight our connected histories and fate with nature. The three plates I chose demonstrate never-ending relationships of language, gender, religion, freedom and so forth. But I think they […] Continue reading
Posted in Co-Creation, colonialism, genocide, Humanity, Innocence, Eden, and Childhood (1/27), sustainability, William Blake
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Pattan’s Pumpkin: A Traditional Flood Story from Southern India
Pattan’s Pumpkin: A Traditional Flood Story from Southern India Chitra Soundar and Frané Lessac have adapted a traditional Irula story to make it more accessible: turning the traditional churraka into a pumpkin and highlighting the story’s universal themes. The story does, not, however, abandon its cultural roots. It is authentic in its language, retaining the Indian names […] Continue reading
Posted in Ages 6-8, animals, chitra soundar, comparative religions, Fiction, flood, flood story, folklore, folktale, frane lessac, geography, Grades 3-6, Grades K-2, Humanity, India, Irula, kindness, Marvelous Picture Books, multicultural, plant, Pre-K, pumpkin, Religion, retelling, the environment, traditional
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Take a Picture of Me, James VanDerZee!
Andrea J. Loney and Keith Mallett’s New Voices Award Winner Take a Picture of Me, James VanDerZee! is one that, according to author Loney herself, “celebrate[s] the humanity of all children.” In this case, the child celebrated is James VanDerZee, an African-American boy born in 1886 to the former butler and maid of President Ulysses S. Grant. […] Continue reading
Posted in andrea loney, art, beauty, biography, Dreams, Grades 3-6, harlem renaissance, history, Humanity, james vanderzee, keith mallet, Marvelous Picture Books, multicultural, new voices award, photography, race, social studies, united states, Winning Titles
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