In Jorge Luis Borges’s Labyrinths, he writes a parable entitled “Borges y yo,” which translates as “Borges and I.” In it, Borges writes about “the other one,” his counterpart, who shares his preference for “hourglasses, maps, eighteenth century typography, the taste of coffee, and the prose of Stevenson,” but is not the same as he. [...]
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-We reviewed Religio Medici, by Sir Thomas Browne.
-There are two books that Browne writes about: the Bible and the book of nature.
-God can’t create deformity because he is perfect.
-Chaos has no form, therefore it cannot be deformed.
-The rest of the period was for us to work on…work. The whole period tomorrow will be devoted to [...]
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Class started at 6:50, Eldridge late once again.
We started with a game where Eldridge gave us a word and we had to take the last two letters and find a word in the same category. For example, Wisconsin to Indiana (both states). Others included: spruce to cedar, square to rectangle, and Churchill to [...]
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Hello everybody, these are the notes for today
The class was silent at first. (Not really)
The lecture about Roman Numerals began, (we all looked confused)
IV = 4 and VI=6. (Roman numerals look alike, right? Look again, it so happens that if the number on the right is smaller you add and if it is on [...]
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ExCredit: What familiar three-word phrase, in 14 letters, contains only two different consonants, N & G each repeated several times?
St. Pauls Letter to the Corinthians
- Main Idea: Love
- Love is an emotion without physical representation which makes it difficult to interpret because it is [...]
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The Close of January heralds The Close of the First Semester and many of our grades are in a horrendous state. For most of us, the reason for a weak grade is not a weak mind but a weak desire to finish what has been started. The Class of 2009 is The Class of [...]
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Elisa Spins around idiotically and still loses arm wrestling match. Mr. Eldridge hands out the portfolio project. Portfolios handed out by Vijay9:53 phone ringsI beat Nghiem at arm wrestling. Laila is here for some reason unbeknownst to me. The Beatles were playing in our room. I realize my portfolio is rather empty. A grand total [...]
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Jessica was absent, so I’m doing the scribe notes. Basically, we started out the day with turning in Virtue essays, which only two people did. Sadly and shamefully, neither of those two were me. Anyway, Mr. Eldridge was planning to peer edit the essays, and we did not do that. Instead, [...]
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“Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust,” wrote the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in his “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” I want to hear your thoughts on justice as it relates to this “human personality” that Dr. King mentions.
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Written by Elizabeth P.
Work
Finished Cliches WS
Eldridge Reviewed the answers
Diction #16 by Norman Mailer
Trope of the Day: Epanalepsis-Laila presented
Corinthians discussion
They didn’t have places to go
Syntax is weird but when read slow, understandable
“Even” was put in front of “though”-people understood the sentence better that way
Tongues=languages
Charity=love
Main topic of the three sentences we read in class: material things [...]
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