No Man’s Land, by John Toland, is a book about the Great War and the last year of the conflict. John Toland was an American novelist, Pulitzer Prize winning author, and historian who was chiefly a writer of fact-based books. Toland describes World War I using a myriad of eyewitness accounts, memoirs, diaries, and other explanations in a way that is not too overwhelming. That being said, Toland has produced a very comprehensive and sensible piece of work.…
Flatman is very popular for its various unique forms, in which the main character called ‘Flatman’ can change its form into circle, square and triangle.…
Steven Johnson’s The Ghost Map is a detailed description of the cholera epidemic in 1864, but the more interesting part of the book is how Dr. John Snow and Rev. Henry Whitehead’s different ideas merge to solve the mystery of the source of the illness. Although as Johnson makes clear in the early pages of his novel, it is not really a mystery when you consider the sanitation issues they were facing in mid-nineteenth century London. Johnson describes how two men from different fields with different ideas came together to map out the cholera crisis. In The Ghost Map, Steven Johnson uses two men’s maps to show the connection of urban society, the genesis of an epidemic, and the events leading up to the discovery of the source of cholera .…
In order to ask the reader to question Victorian social norms Abbott employs the use of estrangement. He achieves this through his depiction of Flatland: it may be geologically and aesthetically different as a 2-Dimensional landscape, but the social norms and customs of the residents are parallel to that of the Victorians. Khanna describes: ‘The other world proposed in such fiction not only stretches the imagination of what is possible in social organisation, but also makes us see our present society with new eyes… The “cognitive estrangement” so achieved allows us to see problems in our society that we were able to ignore before.’ (39) Cognitive estrangement is especially relevant to Flatland because the reader is estranged from reality and…
Flatland is a book that was written in 1884 by Edwin Abbott. His book shows the narrator’s adventures throughout the many dimensions he did not know of. The narrator, A. Square, shares his experiences by telling his story starting in Flatland. The way A. Square shares his stories is very different from what we know today. In his stories everything and everyone is made up of shapes and many more things that you would never see in the 21st century culture.…
Bartholomew’s story Ordinary World- Bartholomew lived alone, with no friends and no family. He lived in the slums, where the streets were cold and violence was everywhere. His daily routine was to trudge down to the street corner and beg the rich, who walked by and only ate a few harsh rations a day. One cold and miserable day, Bartholomew was at his usual spot when he heard the rumbling of the nearby patrolling Roman soldiers in the distance.…
“She had reshaped our garden overnight into eight neat burial mounds. I fetched my father…then the two of us together, without a word passing between us, leveled it out again as flat the Great…
Tuan discusses the aspects of “space” and “place” through shared experiences. The meaning of “space” refers to a certain location or setting, while place refers to the meaning the individual has for a specific space. The author explains that space can become a place once the space has developed meaning purpose to the individual. One person may find meaning and purpose in one space while another individual does not. These concepts that Tuan discusses, can be beneficial for community-based occupational therapy practice by providing more meaning to their interventions. An occupational therapist can provide more meaningful treatment that can allow an individual to reintegrate back to their place of purpose. This can increase the motivation of the…
Michael Barkun, Professor of political science at Syracuse University, posits that the idea of a reptilian conspiracy originated in the fiction of Conan the Barbarian creator Robert E. Howard. The first appearance of "serpent men" in literature was in Howard's story, "The Shadow Kingdom", published in Weird Tales in August 1929. This story drew on Theosophical ideas of the "lost worlds" of Atlantis and Lemuria, particularly Helena Blavatsky's The Secret Doctrine, with its reference to "'dragon-men' who once had a mighty civilization on a Lemurian continent".[4] Howard's "serpent men" were described as humanoid with human bodies but snake heads, able to imitate real humans at will, who lived in hiding in underground passages, using their shapechanging…
Never seen daylight or behind them. Behind them sat a fire, then a wall lined with statues which are controlled by other people that are also out of sight. Their only reality lies within the shadows casted from the fire. A prisoner is finally set free and able to see that everything he once thought was real, really wasn’t. He figured out his situation and why the shadows came about and figured the fire and statues was what was really real. The prisoner is taken through different levels on the line. There is a visible realm we enhance with our sense and then there is an intelligible realm we enhance with our minds. Plato believes that we have knowledge of knowing things even before we were born. Obtained knowledge through recollection drives us back to already of had having that…
In the book Flatland, a sense of a new world is introduced. Three different dimensions are shown in Flatland, the first dimension, the second dimension, and the third dimensions. The main character, A. Square, narrates the story from his perspective as he travels through the dimensions. The book appears to take place in the Victorian England era.…
The man thing I like about this blog is that it is up to date and provides a large amount of information of political issues in Canada and United States. The blog does not only use written form, but a Paul Wells (the writer for the blog found on MacLean’s website), incorporates a wide variety of images that can be easily translates well with the written…
1. Do you agree or disagree with Friedman’s assessment that the world is flat? Be sure to justify your answer…
The title, Cloudstreet, although a bit plain, couldn't be more appropriately named as everything that happens within the story revolves around the house nicknamed Cloudstreet. Winton sets this book around Perth, Western Australia, around the time of the second end of the Second World War over a span of twenty years. From reading other Winton novels it's easy to see that his part of the country has had a big impact on him and he has a strong affinity with his country and me being from the West makes it easy for me to relate to the novel. Winton uses words that only someone who has had the experience of growing up or living in country Western Australia would understand, for example he uses the word "boondie" which, if you had lived in country western Australia, is word used to describe a clump of hard sand and you use it to throw it at people, "boondie wars" and because he doesn't explain this to the reader it gave me a little smile on my face and made me feel I had some sort of relationship with the author.…
The late 1600s bridged a time in the New World where religion was highly valued and superstitions, established from a previous time, ran rampant. Over several centuries ago, from the 1300s-1600s, England was experiencing its own type of witchcraft craze as it went through the process of executing thousands of people for their supposed misdeeds. After putting into place, appealing, reformatting and reenacting various acts all of which, in their own manner, banned supernatural acts and resulted in the death of many, England had finally seemed to move past this elongated obsession, just in time to pass it onto their fellow Englishmen in the New World. Due to the past exposures of hysteria and the already traumatic events occurring in the area,…