My Response to the essay – “Don’t you think it’s time to start thinking?” by Northrop Frye In the piece “Don’t you think It’s time to start thinking?”‚ Northrop Frye takes on a powerful yet imposing tone wherein he makes it a fact rather than a perspective that a person’s ideas and thoughts don’t exist unless expressed using proper words. The title itself questions one’s thinking mechanism. It makes the reader wonder whatever he has been thinking is any thinking at all. The essay aims at people who
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Northrop Frye in ‘The motive for metaphor’ compares science and art. The common element between the two seems to be imagination. In science it becomes the final element and in art the starting point. In Frye view‚ a scientist examines the world which we are given to live‚ scrutinises all the data and attempts at forming certain theories which would underlay the rules governing the world. I doing so‚ he moves from the known realm‚ tangible world towards the concepts in his mind‚ therefore a creation
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Role of the Humanities Northrop Frye states‚ “A society like ours does not have very much interest in literacy” (3)‚ and maybe he’s right‚ but does that mean our society is unable to think? I strongly disagree with that assumption and it is an assumption because he has no facts to prove it‚ but I have facts to prove why he is wrong. Frye says that people need to learn humanities‚ so they can know how to think. People‚ who have developed better verbal skills than others‚ do not have very many
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In class‚ we watched a movie called “You Don’t Know Jack”. The movie begins with a former pathologist doctor name Jack‚ he believes that if someone is suffering they have the right to end they life‚ so he creates this machine that could end people lives‚ jack had a big man and also his sister by his side that had a lab. He tried his best to advertise what he does so he had a lot of patient that would do what except the offer. He did it for no money‚ however the medications aren’t not cheap and so
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In Don’t You Think It’s Time to Start Thinking‚ Northrop Frye discusses several issues which face the modern world and our generation. Mostly‚ he talks about how reading is no longer important for literacy. Its main use nowadays‚ he argues‚ is to read every day things like traffic signals‚ and to read only as much as you need to make money at work. Frye argued that literacy is no longer valued in modern society. Because of this‚ people don’t think as much and they all have basic thoughts that aren’t
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common thought. The company that he built is surrounded around the attitude of more money and more clients. Jerry spends a long night contemplating this attitude and decides he won’t stand for it anymore. Jerry writes a mission statement “The Things We Think But Don’t Say” and hands it to all his colleges at the conference he is attending. He is first greeted with applaud for his guts to speak the truth but doesn’t last long
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The book I have chosen to review is “If You Don’t Feed the Teachers They Eat the Students! Guide to Success for Administrators and Teachers” by Neila A. Connons‚ Ph.D. Neila A. She has written many articles and has made numerous presentations to provide inspiration and direction for teachers and educational leaders all over the world. “If You Don’t Feed the Teachers They Eat the Students!” has documented the author’s real-world experience as an educator and a school leader‚ addressing both the desire
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and a TED Talk presentation reflecting on how the accelerating pace of life and the distractions/noise in form of new means of communication are affecting our concentration and vanishing our “sanctuary” where we can dedicate time for thoughtful reflections. * “No time to think: Reflections on information technology and contemplative scholarship”‚ David M. Levy. (2007) * “Speed and the Unsettling of Knowledge in the Digital University”‚ Ray Land‚ (2011). * TED Talk “5 ways to listen better”
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that lutherans use a lot is Romans 3:28 which states "we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the Law”. However catholics believe that we are saved by faith plus love and good works. Implying that you don’t go to heaven because you just believe you have to work hard to get into heaven by saying “I deserve to go to heaven not this man who hardly shows up on sunday”. That is why catholics work in the community more than other religions such as Lutheran’s‚ Baptist’s‚ Methodist’s
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Don´t Do Drugs The drug empire is growing is an article that New York Time pubished in may 11th 2012 and it says. People use drugs in societies around the world more than ever before. Why is it this way? Is it cheper to buy drugs today than 40 years ago? Or is it just easier to reach drugdealers who are selling drugs? I belive it is the last mentioned cause. That is why I also belive we must have stricter laws cocerning druguseing as well as drugdealing to make people stop use drugs. If you ask
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