last updated: 04/28/08
E603B 08
"Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.” E. M. Forster, Howards End (1910), ch. 22
"We go for a walk in nature, we see a beautiful sunset — we breathe the order in through our senses, we feel connected.
The inside begins to mirror the magnificent outside. In the Vedic tradition that connectedness is called 'yoga.'”
Chris Adamason, Vedic Architecture http://www.newlifejournal.com/aprmay04/adamson_0504.shtml
WHAT IS YOUR CONNECTION SPEED?
WHAT IS YOUR PILGRIMAGE?
‘One day when I was twenty-three or twenty-four this sentence seemed to form in my head, without my willing it, much as sentences form when we are half-asleep, ‘Hammer* your thoughts into unity’. For days I could think of nothing else and for years I tested all I did by that sentence [...]”* William Butler Yeats, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (*cited in Frank Tuohy, Yeats, 1976, p.51 )
"If I Had a Hammer .... I'd hammer out love between my brothers and my sisters/ All over this land” words and music by Lee Hays and Pete Seeger
*hammer images "Thor's Hammer is a symbol of the struggle against chaos and evil. It's the weapon used by Thor against giants, monsters, and other trollish folk who threaten the common good. It seems particularly appropriate in these troubled times" (http://www.ragweedforge.com/ThorsHammer.html). See especially http://www.mackaos.com.au/Articles/Mjol.html
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Writing Projects as of now:
P4 Leadership: What is Your Passion?
choose a passion that connects you to something greater than yourself, some way to help others, some way to change the world for the better
P5 Leadership: What is Your Vision
Formal Writing due dates
"Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show."
first sentence, David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens
Feb 20. 8 PM: Project 4 + self-evaluation submitted to SWORD
choose a passion that connects you to something greater than yourself, some way to help others, some way to change the world for the better
Feb. 21 bring to class hard copies of Project 4 + self-evaluation
Feb. 27 complete reviews of others on SWORD
Feb. 28 bring to class hard copies of your reviews of others
Mar. 6 Bring to class Revised Project 4 for instructor
Mar. 30 Project 5 +self-evaluation submitted to SWORD
Mar. 31 bring to class hard copies of Project 5 + self-evaluation
April 2 First feedback to reviewers of your essay on SWORD
April 3 bring to class hard copies of feedback to reviewers
April 7 8 PM. complete reviews of others' fifth projects on SWORD
April 8 bring to class hard copies of reviews of others' fifth projects
April 14 : Second feedback to reviewers of your essay on SWORD
April 15 Bring to class Revised Project 5 for instructor and all related materials, including hard copies of reviews of others' fifth projects, their reviews of yours, and your second feedback to reviewers
May 1: Last date 2nd revisions and website CDs will be accepted
May 6: Electronic Portfolio due in the mail slot of Par 132 10-12 noon or earlier or -280 points
BRIEF OVERVIEW:
select the date to go to the detailed schedule
Jan. 15 final/best lesson of the freshman year
Jan. 17 RDB Bhagavad Gita
Jan. 22 RDB Bhagavad Gita
Jan. 24 ODB Yudof, topic of religion at state university; Hinduism compared to Jainism, Buddhism
Jan. 29 ODB Isaiah, Psalms, Virgil, Socrates,
Jan. 31 RDB Jesus
Feb. 5 Koran
Feb. 7 DSouza 1, PP. 1-145
Feb. 12 DSouza 2, PP. 146-292
Feb. 14 DSouza 3
Feb. 19 Campbell: Hero of a Thousand Faces + Jung: personality types
Feb 20. 8 PM: Project 4 + self-evaluation submitted to SWORD
Feb. 21 Ego vs. Higher Cause, Sympathetic Imagination; Arnold, Pattern of Conversion, Bob Dylan, Browning Dramatic Monlogues bring to class hard copies of Project 4 + self-evaluation
Feb. 26 Gawain as new kind of hero?
Feb. 27 complete reviews of others on SWORD
Feb. 28 Littlefield House bring to class hard copies of your reviews of others
Mar. 4 King, Gandhi, and Ahimsa;……… review Jesus + Compassion
Mar. 6 Ram Dass How Can I Help? Bring to class Revised Project 4 for instructor
Mar. 18 Ram Dass How Can I Help?
Mar. 20Compassion in Medicine pp. ix-90
Mar. 24 Project 5 +self-evaluation submitted to SWORD
Mar. 25Compassion in Medicine pp. 91-176 ring to class hard copies of Project 5 + self-evaluation
Mar. 27 Toni Morrison The Bluest Eye: Compassion, Racism, Judging by Appearance,
Apr. 1 Bluest Eye II Narrator/Writer as hero
April 2 First feedback to reviewers of your essay on SWORD
Apr. 3 Gender and Diversity: Asian- and Hispanic-American Student Autobiographical Essays Bring to class hard copies of feedback to reviewers
April 7 8 PM. complete reviews of others' fifth projects on SWORD
Apr. 8 Woman Warrior I bring to class hard copies of reviews of others' fifth projects
Apr. 10Woman Warrior II
April 14 : Second feedback to reviewers of your essay on SWORD
Apr. 15 Oleanna Bring to class Revised Project 5 for instructor and all related materials, including hard copies of reviews of others' fifth projects, their reviews of yours, and your second feedback to reviewers
Apr. 17 Oleanna
Return to Nature; Scientist and poet as heroes:
Apr. 22 Hopkins, Emerson
Apr. 24 TMM. Darwin evolution 1
Apr. 27 "Ranch" Party
Apr. 29 Darwin and Tennyson: Evolution II
May 1 Darwin and the Alice books
MAY 6 Electronic Portfolio due in Par 132 10-12 noon or earlier
DETAILED SCHEDULE
P1, P2, P3 = Role Model Essay
(P4, P5, P6 = Leadership Vision 2nd semester)
A=603A anthology
Jan. 15
award ceremony;
final/best lesson of the first semester;
changes in DBs? suggestions:
Doa: I love writing DBs, but I think it's stupid that we don't get to really discuss them. When Ryan lead, we got to do that, and I'd just like to see more discussion about what we write.
Will Benter: I agree with Doa in that we should discuss our DB's more. I think we could learn a lot more about the topics that way.
Andrew : In response to Will and whoever he was responding to, I agree with the idea that we need to ponder our discussion board posts more in class. This may mean decreasing the number (and I'm not just saying that because I never do them :-D). Additionally, to discuss them in class puts social pressure to come to the discussion with something and will increase the likelihood that we will read the material.
Ryan's discussion plan: Everyone, please find a quote about nature from one of the books on your shelves. Don't have any books, go to http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page to search for a free download of 1000s of books. Be sure to make sure that the novel was not written by and American, after all this is World Literature.
DOA: I didn't mean Ryan's nature quote assignment, rather I was referring to his class-style. It was very open, and the questions were not arbitrary, they actually required us to discuss our personal DBs.
Jan. 17 RDB Bhagavad Gita 1 December and January birthday celebrations: Julie C. December, Doa, Jan. 17; Avni Jan. 19; John Jan. 31
student DB images:
Jan. 24
ODB* Religious Literacy.
(*=Optional unless you want to an alternative project. To do qualify for an alternative project you must do all DBs, Required and Optional)
Alex Grey's image of meditation
(Wiley Jennings)
"Love" in Chinese (Crystal Law)
Older Eastern Religions.
273-284 “Religious Literacy,” with test
285-287 “Faith on the Quad”
288 “God and Freshmen”
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289-290 “Asian Exclusion Act”
114-8 “Ahimsa,” Gandhi’s tradition
119 Gandhi biography
291-303 “Jainism and Ecology”
303-306 “Hinduism and the Surabhi Cow”
307-309 “Buddhism”
A771-773 Neo-Confucian Manifesto
A1004A-F HINDU GODDESSES
review, connect, hammer into unity:
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A767-768 Isamu Taniguchi
A769 Taniguchi, "The Spirit of the Garden"
A770 Reading “The Spirit” in the 21st century
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Jan. 29
55-58 Plato, the Apologia : the Greek martyr
60-69 Isaiah, selections, KJV
70-71 Psalms, selections, KJV
72 Virgil, introduction
73-76 Virgil, Eclogue IV
310 Bible Translation and Context
311A Tower motto context
311B Psalm 27 and Oxford motto
The Peaceable Kingdom
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review, connect, hammer into unity:
A741B-741E The First Garden: Genesis
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Patti Smith's song, " Peaceable Kingdom"
Yesterday I saw you standing there With your hand against the pane
Looking out the window At the rainAnd I wanted to tell you That your tears were not in vain
But I guess we both knew We'd never be the same
Never be the sameWhy must we hide all these feelings inside?
Lions and lambs shall abideMaybe one day we'll be strong enough To build it back again
Build the peaceable kingdom Back again
Build it back againWhy must we hide all these feelings inside? Lions and lambs shall abide
Maybe one day we'll be strong enough To build it back again
Build the peaceable kingdom Back again
Maybe one day we'll be strong enough To build it back again
Build the peaceable kingdom Build it back againBuild the peaceable kingdom Build it back again
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art designed to inspire compassion:
the Pieta on the altar at Notre Dame de Paris
relic inspiring compassion: the crown of thorns
ceremony at Notre Dame de Paris
77-114 Gospel of John, KJV
312-314 The environment and the people of the Book
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315-316 “Reading the Koran”
317-322 Mary, Fatima, and the Divine Feminine in Islam323-325 “The Spread of Islam”
326-327 “Islam and the Making of Europe”
328-330 “Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Coexistence”
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Julie P's birthday
331-336 “Radical Islam’s Threat: The Suicide of Reason”
337-339 “The Clash of Civilizations”
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340-342 “Soldiers of Allah”
343-345 “Jihad and Jew-Hatred”
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Feb. 13 EXTRA CREDIT: Earthlings. " a 2005 multi-award winning documentary ... narrated by Hollywood actor and animal rights activist Joaquin Phoenix. Earthlings also features an original score by musician and activist Moby."
7:30 this WED in Wel 1.316. Students Against Cruelty to Animals http://www.UTanimalrights.com
Take pictures if you can and write it up for the Extra Credit DB
"In 2005, Earthlings premiered at the Artivist Film Festival, (where it won Best Documentary Feature), followed by the Boston International Film Festival, (where it won the Best Content Award), and most recently at the San Diego Film Festival, (where it won Best Documentary Film, as well as the Humanitarian Award to Joaquin Phoenix for his work on the film). Phoenix has commented on the documentary that "Of all the films I have ever made, this is the one that gets people talking the most. For every one person who sees Earthlings, they will tell three." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthlings_(documentary)
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Feb. 14 DSouza reversal and the Sympathetic Imagination
131-2 The Sympathetic Imagination ____________________________________________
Feb. 19 Campbell: Hero of a Thousand Faces + Jung: personality types
4-45 Campbell: Hero of a Thousand Faces
46 Apotheosis
47-48 Raglan, The Hero
49 Caryle, intro
50-54 Carlyle, The Hero as Man of Letters
Psychological Type DB 'Who Are You? " said the Caterpillar (repeatedly). Are you an introvert or an extrovert or .....?
Take the psychological “type” test of the Meyers-Briggs variety, such as that at http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes1.htm
or a similar site.
Copy the results and include them at the end of your DB. Then check out the descriptions of the related learning and writing styles in our course anthology and add a evaluation of how well you believe "your" psychological type's learning and writing styles describe you as a reader and writer.
392-396 Teaching/Learning Styles
397-405 Writing Styles
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Feb 20. 8 PM: Project 4 + self-evaluation submitted to SWORD
choose a passion that connects you to something greater than yourself, some way to help others, some way to change the world for the better
To do an alternative multimedia project you must have completed all previous DBs up to and including Feb. 19. As of Feb. 15 no one has done so.
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EXTRA CREDIT ISRAELI BLOCK PARTY
3:30-9 p.m. Texas Hillel hosts 10th Annual Israel Block Party
"Come out to the South Mall to experience Israeli culture and daily life. There will be interactive exhibits on Israeli innovations, art, society, sports and more. The Israel Block Party also offers great Israeli food, Israeli dancing, Krav Maga, gaga tournament and a live performance from world famous Israeli hip hop band Hadag Nachash!"____________________________________________
Feb. 21 hard copies of P4 and self-evaluation due
Ego vs. Higher Cause, Sympathetic Imagination; Arnold, Pattern of Conversion, Bob Dylan, Browning Dramatic Monlogues
131-2 The Sympathetic Imagination
161-72 Buckley, "The Pattern of Conversion"
173-75 Carlyle, crisis chapters of Sartor Resartus
176-7 Dylan, “Lay down your weary tune”
177 Dylan, “In the time of my confession”
178 Browning info
179 Criteria of Dramatic Monologues
180-1 “My Last Duchess”
181-2 “Porphyria’s Lover”
183 Browning discussion questions
184-5 “My Last Professor”
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Feb. 26 Gawain as new kind of hero?
Extra Credit for coming in a truly medieval costume (in case of doubt you must prove it is medieval)
Double credit for quotations in middle English in the DB
Triple credit for performing in class parts of the poem correctly in medieval English
Discussion Questions:
1. How does Gawain compare as a hero to those represented in the Bhagavad Gita and the Ramayana,
as well as in U. T. Heroes, the Alice books, Campbell, Plato's Apologia, Isaiah, John (NT), the Qur'an, the 9/11 readings, etc.
2. What is the meaning of the phrase "Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense”?
3. What is its relevance to Gawain and the Green Knight?
4. What is its relevance to you?
How does the poem relate to our other readings and our explorations of art and architecture ?
How does it relate to the touchstone of "Nature"?
Gawain and the Green Knight: The Challenge of the Gothic North
to Arthur's Round Table:
AUDIO VERSION FIRST NINETY LINES
MOVIE VERSION PART 1
A green man looks down on the Christians at Christ Church cathedral, Oxford
"Green Men" sculptures at Winchester, at York, and at Oxford: Balliol Library, the Bodleian Library, Merton Chapel, and City Hall
"Green Women" on the tomb of St. Frideswide, Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford
Green Giant in the home of the Vikings
The Orders of the Garter and the Thistle
Online Resources
the Cathedral of the Gothic North: the York Minster:
Feb. 27: Finish reviewing your colleagues' essays:
GRADE HONESTLY. IF YOU ASSIGN HIGH NUMBERS TO ALL WITHOUT ADEQUATE JUSTIFICATION AND DISCRIMINATION AMONG THE PAPERS YOUR OWN REVIEWING WILL BE GRADED SEVERELY BY THE INSTRUCTOR.
For alternative P4 projects use the special criteria.
PRINT OUT YOUR REVIEWS AND BRING THEM TO CLASS TOMORROW.
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Alice Liddell visiting our Littlefield House
Meet at the Littlefield House (24th and Whitis): Bring YOUR REVIEWS OF OTHERS, drawing materials, current anthology, and especially last semester's 603A COURSE ANTHOLOGY, VOLUME 2
Extra Credit for coming in a truly Victorian costume (in case of doubt you must prove it is (Victorian)
VICTORIAN ARCHITECTURE: Gothic, Romantic, Dragons, Discovery Learning, the Grotesque
Alice Littlefield, the ghost of the house?
required reading:
A535 Ruskin, “The Nature of Gothic” summary
additional reading:
346-350 Littlefield House
A469-477 Texas Architectural Styles
A523 Gothic, definition
A524-525 Pugin, introduction
A26-532 Pugin, Contrasts between 19th c. and 18th c. architecture [Gothic vs. Neoclassical]
A536-565 Selected Victorian Eclectic "Gothic" Buildings in Texas
A566-573 Texas First Registered Architect: Nicholas Clayton
A533-534 Ruskin, introduction
INTERNET "READING
"Oxford Gargoyles and Grotesques
Victorian Antimodernist Architecture at Oxford: Balliol (virtual tour), Brasenose, Exeter, Ashmolean Art Museum (virtual tour), University Science Museum (virtual tour 1) (virtual tour 2), Oxford Union Library, Keble, ....
Victorian Antimodernist Architecture in London: Westminster Palace (vs. medieval Westminster Abbey)
SELECTED VICTORIAN ARCHITECTURE IN TEXAS
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REVIEW LAST YEAR'S VISIT TO ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL
Extra Credit up to 27 points. Photograph painting(s) and write up your response, connecting to our compassion, gender, Spanish culture themes, or .......
The Virgin, Saints, and Angels
South American Paintings 1600-1825 from the Thoma CollectionJanuary 29 – March 16, 2008
This January Blanton Museum of Art is pleased to present The Virgin, Saints, and Angels: South American Paintings 1600–1825 from the Thoma Collection. Organized by the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, the exhibition features 55 miraculous paintings from South America during the days of Spanish Colonialism in the Viceroyalty of Peru, which encompassed present–day Peru, Paraguay, Uruguay, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, parts of Chile and Argentina, and Panama.
Drawn from the renowned private collection of Marilynn and Carl Thoma, this internationally touring exhibition shows how local artisans, centuries ago, transformed the religious and painting traditions of Spanish missionaries to create an artistry all their own. Gorgeously colored, richly detailed paintings of the Virgin Mary, saints, and angels, replete with mystical symbolism, illustrate how the images of the Old World were transformed by the imagination of the New World.
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Extra Credit: Greenpeace Leadership Training
Up to 100 pts. of extra credit for a semester commitment to this leadership training, if the commitment is made during our semester:
I want to alert you about an exciting opportunity: the Greenpeace
Organizing Term (GOT). The GOT is an action-packed semester of travel and
training. It's a hands-on training program designed to give you the skills
to be an environmental leader.You'll learn about current environmental issues and solutions while being
trained by experts in grassroots organizing, leadership, media, and
campaign strategy.You'll travel internationally with Greenpeace to work with activists
abroad. Also, you'll learn how to engage in peaceful direct action, climb,
and drive Greenpeace boats!On top of all of that, many students are able to receive class credit for
the semester.
ACTION * TRAVEL * TRAINING
Spend a Semester with Greenpeace
http://www.greenpeace.org/gotSummer and Fall programs are filling up, and early applications are due March 7th.
Apply at http://www.greenpeace.org/got
The semester is offered in the Washington D.C. and San Francisco Greenpeace
offices.Contact program staff with questions at got@wdc.greenpeace.org or
877-450-3517 ext. 320.
For a green and peaceful future,
Linda Capato and Kate Bower
Greenpeace USA
Got@wdc.greenpeace.org
http://www.greenpeace.org/got
Graduating soon? Exciting jobs for college grads to stop global warming!
Apply today at: http://members.greenpeace.org/survey/start/41/--
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Mar. 4
MLK: I Have a Dream
114-8 “Ahimsa,” Gandhi’s tradition
119 Gandhi biography
120 King biography
121-3 King, “I Have a Dream”
124-5 Passion
126-7 Compassion
128-30 Sympathy
131-2 The Sympathetic Imagination
Being "Humane" O.E.D. definitions
art designed to inspire compassion:
the Pieta on the altar at Notre Dame de Paris
relic inspiring compassion: the crown of thorns
ceremony at Notre Dame de Paris
77-114 Gospel of John, KJV
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Mar. 6 Bring to class Revised Project 4 for instructor meeting all requirements for a printed copy of a project. Bring to class Revised Project 4 for instructor with original draft of project 4, all of the reviewers' suggestions for your essay, a copy of the revised draft color-coded to indicate which reviewers' suggestions were used where, a clean copy of the revised project 4, and, of course, projects 1-3 with my comments on them.
Ram Dass How Can I Help? pp. ix-121
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March 9: Extra Credit. Passage to India. Barsana Dham. "Maha Shivratri"11:30 am - 1:00 pm.
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MARCH 17-23
CHRISTIAN HOLY WEEK
extra credit for attending services in Spanish, Latin, or at African-American churches if you have not done so before
an example from our architecture tour: St. Mary's Cathedral: March 20, Holy Thursday Mass of the Lord’s Supper, 7:30 p.m. Adoration until 11 p.m.March 21, Good Friday Noon Stations of the Cross 2 p.m. Celebration of the Lord’s PassionMarch 22, Holy Saturday Easter Vigil Mass, 8 p.m March 23, Easter Sunday Mass schedule: 8 a.m., * 9:45 a.m., * Noon, 1:45 p.m. Español, 3:30 p.m. Traditional Latin, 5:30 p.m.
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Mar. 18 Ram Dass How Can I Help? pp. 122-243.
10 points to be awarded for LISTENING, -5 for each time one's behavior distracts others from listening
optional 2nd revisions of P4 due Mar. 27
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Mar. 19
Leadershape: first meeting
Up to 100 points Extra Credit for Commitment to Leadershape training
LeaderShape-Texas May 2008 Session Canyon of the Eagles (Burnet, TX) Sunday, May 18 - Friday, May 23. Information Meetings Tuesday ETC 2.136, 5:00 - 6:00 pm Wednesday, March 19, 2008 UTC 3.110, 12:30 - 1:30 pm. Thursday, March 27, 2008 Deadline to Apply 4:00 pm, Online APPLICATION
Week of March 31, 2008 Application Status Notification; Wednesday, April 23, 2008 Selected Participants' Meeting ECJ 1.204
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Mar. 20 Compassion in Medicine pp. ix-90
10 points to be awarded for LISTENING, -5 for each time one's behavior distracts others from listening
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Mar. 22 . Extra Credit. Passage to India. Barsana Dham. "Holi Festival" 3 pm - 9:00 pm.
Extra Credit: all you need for the minimum 15 points is to be seen by me at 6 at the fountain and get "powdered."* More extra credit will be awarded for pictures uploaded to one of our Facebook sites. However, the most extra credit will be awarded for participating in events earlier in the schedule:
3-4:45 Holi Songs, Discourse, and Fire Worship*: 20 points for proving you were there for this and more for writing this up in the Extra Credit Discussion Board
5-6 Free vegetarian dinner. 10 points for proving you were there for this and more for writing this up in the Extra Credit Discussion Board
*for the meaning of these events visit "Holi Festival"
more pictures of Barsana Dham Barsana Dham site
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March 24
Monday. Last day an undergraduate student may, with the dean’s approval, withdraw from the University or drop a class except for urgent and substantiated, nonacademic reasons.
Last day a student may change registration in a class to or from the pass/fail or credit/no credit basis.____________________________________________
Mar. 25 Compassion in Medicine pp. 91-176
10 points to be awarded for LISTENING, -5 for each time one's behavior distracts others from listening
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MARCH 27
Leadershape Application due today by 4 PM
Mar. 27 Last chance for optional 2nd revisions of P4. REVISION INSTRUCTIONS
10 points to be awarded for LISTENING, -5 for each time one's behavior distracts others from listening
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Mar. 30 Project 5 +self-evaluation submitted to SWORD
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Apr. 1
bring to class hard copies of your Project 5 +self-evaluation
10 points to be awarded for LISTENING, -5 for each time one's behavior distracts others from listening
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Apri. 2 feedback to reviewers of your P4 on SWORD
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Apr. 3
bring to class hard copies of feedback to reviewers of your P4
10 points to be awarded for LISTENING, -5 for each time one's behavior distracts others from listening ____________________________________________
TRAVEL TO CHINA
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April 6 .
Spring Festival at Fo Guang Shan Hsiang Yun Buddhist Temple
6720 N Capital of Texas Highway Austin (on 360, north of 2222, opposite Bull Creek park). Enjoy delicious vegetarian food, raffle drawings, chinese tea, performance, and many more activities.Fo Guang Shan Hsiang Yun Temple: http://www.ibps-austin.org/ more pictures of the temple
Extra Credit: all you need is pictures to prove you were there ____________________________________________
Apr. 7 Complete reviews of others' fifth projects in SWORD
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Bring hard copies of reviews of others' fifth projects
10 points to be awarded for LISTENING, -5 for each time one's behavior distracts others from listening
"Love" in Chinese (Crystal Law) ____________________________________________
+ Girls Need to Be Perfect + Perfectionism video
10 points to be awarded for LISTENING, -5 for each time one's behavior distracts others from listening
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TRAVEL TO INDIA AND MEET "RAM" OF THE RAMAYANA
April 13:
speech, chanting, arti, lunch, etc.
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Apri. 14 feedback to reviewers of your P5 on SWORD
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Apr. 15 Oleanna and issues of GENDER
Bring to class Revised Project 5 for instructor and all related materials, including hard copies of reviews of others' fifth projects, their reviews of yours, and your second feedback to reviewers
10 points to be awarded for LISTENING, -5 for each time one's behavior distracts others from listening
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Apr. 17 Oleanna and issues of GENDER Andrew's birthday and birthday celebrations for all the Summer birthdays: Margaret May 5; Danielle: May 17; Charlotte: May 29; Hannah: June 17; Crystal August 7;
10 points to be awarded for LISTENING, -5 for each time one's behavior distracts others from listening
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Apr. 19 PASSOVER celebration at Hillel 7-9
PM 21st and San Antonio
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Return to Nature; Scientist and poet as heroes:
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10 points to be awarded for LISTENING, -5 for each time one's behavior distracts others from listening
351-365 Emerson, “Nature”
366-376 Hopkins’ Poems
906 Hopkins, “As kingfishers”
Hopkins and Monet on Poplars with Stream
Binsey Poplars
felled 1879 My aspens dear, whose airy cages quelled, Quelled or quenched in leaves the leaping sun, All felled, felled, are all felled;
Of a fresh and following folded rank Not spared, not one
That dandled a sandalled Shadow that swam or sank
On meadow and river and wind-wandering weed-winding bank.
Of if we but knew what we do When we delve or hew -- Hack and rack the growing green! Since country is so tender To touch, her being so slender, That, like this sleek and seeing ball, But a prick will make no eye at all, Where we, even where we mean To mend her we end her, When we hew or delve: After-comers cannot guess the beauty been. Ten or twelve, only ten or twelve Strokes of havoc unselve The sweet especial scene, Rural scene, a rural scene, Sweet especial rural scene.
Texas Students Performing "Binsey Poplars" at Binsey in 2001
The Hole Where the Poplars Once Stood Apparently
Some "Pied Beauty" Remains in the "Brinded" Cows
- http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~bump/oxford/PortMeadow/cowshorses.jpg
- http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~bump/oxford/PortMeadow/horsewelcome.jpg
- http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~bump/oxford/PortMeadow/Jerrykisshorse.jpg
- http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~bump/oxford/PortMeadow/cowsresting.jpg
- http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~bump/oxford/PortMeadow/2atonce.jpg
- http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~bump/images/monet.poplars-autumn.jpg
- http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~bump/oxford/PortMeadow/BinseyPoplars.jpg
HOPKINS'S LETTER TO HIS BROTHER IN THE H.R.C.:
Every art then and every work of art has its own play or performance . . . books play, perform, or are played and performed when they are read; and ordinarily by one reader, alone, to himself, with the eyes only. . . . Poetry was originally meant for either singing or reciting; a record was kept of it; the record could be,was, read, and that in time by one reader, alone, to himself, with his eyes only. This reacted on the art: what was to be performed under these conditions for these conditions ought to be and was composed and calculated. Sound-effects were intended, wonderful combinations even; but they bear the marks of having been meant for the whispered, not even whispered, merely mental performance of the closet, the study and so on. . . . This is not the true nature of poetry . . . till it is spoken it is not performed, it does not perform, it is not itself.. . .
READ WITH YOUR EYES AND THEN COMPARE TO A PERFORMANCE
Spring
NOTHING is so beautiful as spring—
When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;
Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush
Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring
The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing; 5
The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush
The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush
With richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling.
What is all this juice and all this joy?
A strain of the earth’s sweet being in the beginning 10
In Eden garden.—Have, get, before it cloy,
Before it cloud, Christ, lord, and sour with sinning,
Innocent mind and Mayday in girl and boy,
Most, O maid’s child, thy choice and worthy the winning.
MUSICAL PERFORMANCE OF "SPRING"
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The Windhover
To Christ our Lord
I CAUGHT this morning morning’s minion, king-
dom of daylight’s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding
Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding
High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing
In his ecstasy! then off, off forth on swing, 5
As a skate’s heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl and gliding
Rebuffed the big wind. My heart in hiding
Stirred for a bird,—the achieve of; the mastery of the thing!
Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume, here
Buckle! AND the fire that breaks from thee then, a billion 10
Times told lovelier, more dangerous, O my chevalier!
No wonder of it: shéer plód makes plough down sillion
Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear,
Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermillion.MUSICAL PERFORMANCE OF "THE WINDHOVER"
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God’s Grandeur
THE WORLD is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; 5
And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
And wears man’s smudge and shares man’s smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.
And for all this, nature is never spent;
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things; 10
And though the last lights off the black West went
Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs—
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.
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Inversnaid
THIS darksome burn, horseback brown,
His rollrock highroad roaring down,
In coop and in comb the fleece of his foam
Flutes and low to the lake falls home.
A windpuff-bonnet of fáwn-fróth 5
Turns and twindles over the broth
Of a pool so pitchblack, féll-frówning,
It rounds and rounds Despair to drowning.
Degged with dew, dappled with dew
Are the groins of the braes that the brook treads through, 10
Wiry heathpacks, flitches of fern,
And the beadbonny ash that sits over the burn.
What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet; 15
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.MUSICAL PERFORMANCE OF "INVERSNAID"
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The Sea and the Skylark
ON ear and ear two noises too old to end
Trench—right, the tide that ramps against the shore;
With a flood or a fall, low lull-off or all roar,
Frequenting there while moon shall wear and wend.
Left hand, off land, I hear the lark ascend, 5
His rash-fresh re-winded new-skeinèd score
In crisps of curl off wild winch whirl, and pour
And pelt music, till none ’s to spill nor spend.
How these two shame this shallow and frail town!
How ring right out our sordid turbid time, 10
Being pure! We, life’s pride and cared-for crown,
Have lost that cheer and charm of earth’s past prime:
Our make and making break, are breaking, down
To man’s last dust, drain fast towards man’s first slime.
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Apr. 24 TMM. Darwin evolution 1
Oxford University Museum virtual tour
Oxford University Museum images
illustrated account of The Debate at the Oxford University MuseumTexas Memorial Museum
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April 26 : Extra Credit. Passage to India. Barsana Dham. "Mela Fair " noon- 5 pm.
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Apr. 29 Darwin and Tennyson: Evolution II
10 points to be awarded for LISTENING, -5 for each time one's behavior distracts others from listening
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May 1 Darwin and the Alice books
10 points to be awarded for LISTENING, -5 for each time one's behavior distracts others from listening Last day website CDs will be accepted
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MAY 6 Electronic Portfolio due in mail slot of Par 132 2-4 noon or earlier. -140 points if not done.
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