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Post-Humorously - 8. Chapter 8

Every student can remember the poem "The Road Not Taken" by William Wordsworth.

"Ask what you can do for your country." These are the words of President John Kennedy, who insisted that individuals step up and become martyrs for the nation.

In “12 Years as a Slave,” people have been able to connect with the real life problems that prevailed in early 1940s or 50s.

If he would not have taken pains to identify the cause of the apple tree falling over his head, we would be refrained of the utmost principle of gravity.

Shakespeare is famous worldwide for his novels.

Like the works of Picasso, Chopin, or many other famous painters.

The Teary of Versailles.

Ending the Holocaust was definitely a worthy goal, but there still is much debate about whether using the atomic bombs to do it was justifiable.

Scientists found many buildings in the sea confirming the Atlantic continent existed for many years. The Atlantic Ocean's name came from that.

NASA spent millions of dollars to develop a pen that would work in space, while the Russian alternative was to use a pencil.

Giftness is a term that very few people use.

It is important that, me as an educator, know about...

Kids today that have upper class, wealthy parents can decide to send their children to private school.

If students keep focusing on their majors all the time, deeply empty will follow.

Internet violence are only small spots on the wholly white paper, which we can never deny that the paper is still white.

Is Olivia utilizing the power of insanity to find her own moorbid path to freedom from a patriarchal society or has she been driven mad by Hamlet's disturbing behavior that has developed in reaction to his Edipus complex?

This can detach students from reality, which is often a curse for students' future.

His father was a priest who wanted his son to follow his steps and be a priest as well.

copyright 2018 by Richard Eisbrouch
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Haha. I have heard the NASA vs. USSR thing before. Google tells me it is a myth, and they both used pencils at first and then switched to the same pen a nongovernment company designed.

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That's interesting.  Thanks.

 

Most of the things I collect are obviously misspellings or misunderstandings, but every so often, there's an urban legend.  I can't remember if I checked that one out, found the truth, and still liked the story so kept it anyway, or if I never checked.  For a while, one of my favorites was, "Ya gotta risk it to get the biscuit," but then I found out it was from a movie.

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There is some  accidental poetry in these delightful excerpts... Surely this is elegance incarnate? "we would be refrained of the utmost principle of gravity. " and what could be more moving than to watch a group of erstwhile happy students stumble unwittingly upon 'deeply empty;  it might detach them from reality so they suffer the curse of the future.

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I think you're ignoring the warning and reading too many of these too quickly.  You're beginning to think like a college student.  Of course, that's not the worst thing.

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I mainly thought about how bored I was with almost all my classes -- through several degrees.  But when I tried to make them better for all of my students, I didn't succeed.  As the saying kind of goes, "I could only keep some of the students awake some of the time."

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