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Jenny Ge, Helen Shen, Jason Zhang, Douglas Zhang Aging and Hubris

a study in King Lear

Education
English
7040 Words
No Age Recommendation
1999
4

A study guide in the themes of Shakespeare's King Lear, Aging and Hubris explores the relationship between the [more]

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Ryan Lanosa, Adam Charette Hubris Brings Death

Fantasy
English
2003 Words
Ages 8 and up
58
0

In this short story a boisterous and blood thirsty knight discovers that his pride will be his undoing, [more]

Keywords: Knight, Pride, Sword, Hero

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Allan Deya I Just Want To Talk

Excuse Me

Poetry
English
243 Words
Ages 14 and up
500
0

There comes a time in our lives when we fall out with those we care most about; it [more]

Keywords: Love, Communication, Trust

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Dr. Jennifer Agard Brain Challenge Puzzles: A Fun Way to Learn Vocabulary – Grade 7 and 8 Part 1

Practice your vocabulary - HOME SCHOOL TOOL

Education
English
8227 Words
Ages 12 and up
172
0

Brain Challenge: A Fun Way to Learn Vocabulary offers a unique, educational approach to teaching vital skills to [more]

Keywords: worksheet, puzzle, grammar, sentence, practice, definition, abase, abate, abdicate, aberrant, abet, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abnegate, abrogate, abscond, abstruse, accede, accelerate, adroit, advocate, aggrandize, amalgamate, ambiguous, animus, antipathy, apathy, ardor, attain, attenuate, bewilder, baleful, balk, barricade, becalm, becloud, beget, beguile, benefactor, benevolent, benign, berate, betray, biased, blatant, blithe, bombastic, boor, breach, broach, burgeon, burnish, buttress, bursar, bypass, audacious, autocrat, aver, cessation, cajole, calumny, candid, cantankerous, capricious castigate, cataclysmic, censure, cerebral, challenge, chicanery, coalesce, cogent, colloquial, conflagration, congruity, conservatism, conserve, convivial, convoke, copious, corporeal, corroborate, countenance, craven, crude, culpable, belobor, bellicose, dearth, daunt, debacle, debase, decorum, decry, deft, delineate, deluge, demur, deprecate, depreciate, desiccate, detractor, diatribe, diffidence, disabuse, disavow, disparage, disparate, dispassionate, display, dissemble, distant, distend, dogged, dogmatic, doleful, drought, extant, ebullient, edict, efface, efficacy, emollient, emulate, endemic, endure, enervate, engender, enigma, enjoin, ensconce, ephemeral, equivocate, erudite, eschew, esoteric, espouse, eulogy, exacerbate, exculpate, exorbitant, explicit, expunge, expound, fathom, facetious, fallacious, fatuous, fawn, feckless, fecund, feign, felicitous, fervid, fetid, fetter, fictive, fidelity, figurative, flaw, flee, flippant, florid, flourish, foil, forbearance, forum, fracas, fractious, frenetic, furlough, furtive, futile, garrulous, gambol, gamely, gargantuan, garish, gauche, generalize, genial, glacier, glib, glossy, glower, glutton, goad, gourmand, gracious, grandiloquent, gratis, gratuity, gravity, gregarious, grievous, grovel, gruff, guile, guileless, gullible, gustatory, hapless, hackneyed, harangue, harass, harbinger, haughty, hazardous, heckler, hedonist, heed, heinous, hermetic, hesitant, heterogeneous, hiatus, hidebound, hierarchy, hindrance, hindsight, histrionics, hoary, hodgepodge, hoist, hubris, humane, hyperbole, hypocrisy, hypocrite, hypothesis, vocabulary, word [more][Less]

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Harriet Lummis Smith Peggy Raymond's Way Or, Blossom Time at Friendly Terrace

Fiction
English
56352 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
0

mma, by Jane Austen, is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance. The novel was first published in December 1815. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian-Regency England; she also creates a lively comedy of manners among her characters. Before she began the novel, Austen wrote, "I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like."[2] In the very first sentence she introduces the title character as "Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich." Emma, however, is also rather spoiled, headstrong, and self-satisfied; she greatly overestimates her own matchmaking abilities; she is blind to the dangers of meddling in other people's lives; and her imagination and perceptions often lead her astray. [more]

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Rittik Chandra 100% Love

A Novel

Romance
English
157312 Words
No Age Recommendation
273
2

Novelist Rittik Chandra’s "100% Love" is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance. Kristen, the protagonist of the story, is a beautiful, high-spirited, intelligent, and 'slightly' spoiled young woman of the age of twenty. Although intelligent, she lacks the necessary discipline to practice or study anything in depth. While she is in many ways mature for her age, Kristen makes some serious mistakes, mainly due to her conviction that she is always right and her lack of real world experience. Although she has vowed she will never ever marry, she delights in making matches for others. She seems unable to fall in love, until she realises at the end that she has loved Mr. Einstein all along. [more]

Keywords: love, romance, 100%, affair, romantic, loving, novel, story, best, book, seller, Kristen

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Jane Austen Emma

Fiction
English
157442 Words
Ages 12 and up
460
3

Emma, by Jane Austen, is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian-Regency England; she also creates a lively comedy of manners among her characters. Before she began the novel, Austen wrote, "I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like." In the very first sentence she introduces the title character as "Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich." Emma, however, is also rather spoiled, headstrong, and self-satisfied; she greatly overestimates her own matchmaking abilities; she is blind to the dangers of meddling in other people's lives; and her imagination and perceptions often lead her astray. Emma Woodhouse, aged 20 at the start of the novel, is a young, beautiful, witty, and privileged woman in Regency England. She lives on the fictional estate of Hartfield in Surrey in the village of Highbury with her elderly widowed father, a valetudinarian who is excessively concerned for the health and safety of his loved ones. Emma's friend and only critic is the gentlemanly George Knightley, her neighbor from the adjacent estate of Donwell, and the brother of her elder sister Isabella's husband, John. As the novel opens, Emma has just attended the wedding of Miss Taylor, her best friend and former governess. Having introduced Miss Taylor to her future husband, Mr. Weston, Emma takes credit for their marriage, and decides that she rather likes matchmaking. [more]

Keywords: emma, jane austen, classic literature, historical romance, love story, english literature

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Rittik Chandra Angelina- The Real Love Story

Romance
English
157311 Words
No Age Recommendation
870
3

"Angelina- The Real Love Story" is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance. Angelina, the protagonist of the story, is a beautiful, high-spirited, intelligent, and 'slightly' spoiled young woman of the age of twenty. Her mother died when she was very young, and she has been mistress of the house ever since, certainly since her older sister got married. Although intelligent, she lacks the necessary discipline to practice or study anything in depth. She is portrayed as very compassionate to the poor, but at the same time has a strong sense of class. Her affection for and patience towards her hypochondriac father are also noteworthy. While she is in many ways mature for her age, Angelina makes some serious mistakes, mainly due to her conviction that she is always right and her lack of real world experience. Although she has vowed she will never ever marry, she delights in making matches for others. She seems unable to fall in love, until she realises at the end that she has loved Mr. Knightley all along. [more]

Keywords: Angelina, love story, romance, romantic, novel, best, young, age, youth, beautiful

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Marc Batko Surveying Utopia

Abandoning Empire and Myopia

Philosophy
English
18409 Words
Ages 8 and up
110
0

Unlike a chair, an idea can be shared by a whole people. The time is right for alternative economics, reduced working hours, redefining work, security, health and happiness, person-oriented work, labor-intensive investment (not capital-intensive investments) and soft power. The only way to solve the three crises of mass unemployment,m environment destruction and trade imbalance is to move from quantitative to qualitative growth (cf. Hans-Christoph Binswanger). Access could replace excess as enou9gh could replace more. Possessions possess us more than we possess them. The car is more than a metal box but is a whole way of thinking encouraging domination, narcissism, solipsism and self-righteousness. Consumerism goes through the roof, not population. We have enough for everyone's need, not for everyone's greed (cf. Gandhi). The dialogue "Surviving Utopia" with Elmar Altvater and Raul Zelik intimates the wonders and obstacles to utopian thinking. Utopia, the place of no-place, is more a goal and objective than a concrete reality. Economics changes with the times. Once savings was the elixirr and then spending became the elixir. States are different than Swabian housewives. They can become indebted and invest and safeguard their future. What is rational from a microeconomic perspective can be destructive from a macroeconomic perspective. Increasing competitiveness is sensible for an individual corporation or businessperson but may be disastrous if all countries reduce their workforces. Wages are both costs and demand or purchasing power. Neoliberal myths and assumptions give unbounded freedom to capital while demeaning labor as only an inevitable cost. The articles "Learning from History," "Community Centers in O Canada," "Nature as Healer and Teacher," "Cinderella's Sisters and King Midas" and "Shouting from the Caboose" are invitations to ecological, sustainable, respectful and future-oriented change. "We must be wounded to be healed," Dorothee Soelle said. Have we been sufficiently wounded by materialism, imperial hubris, the financial crisis, deregulation, commodification, instrumental rationality, suburbanization and the work religion? In "Surveying Utopia," the emeritus professor Elmar Altvater shares the Polish proverb: You can make fish soup out of an aquarium but you can't make an aquarium out of fish soup. The future should be anticipated and protected in the present, not extrapolated from the present. The future could be full of community centers, free Internet books and soft power if we become active subjects and not passive objects, enthralled in the present and future like children. Music, books and questions make our lives rich and independent of the trickle-down market jingles. [more]

Keywords: utopia, active subjects, historical consciousness, public sector, redefining work, security, community centers, infrastructure investment, proleptic existence, hope, qualitative growth, work religion consumerism, sharing

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Bhimeswara Challa Man's Fate and God's Choice

An Agenda for Human Transformation

Philosophy
English
267738 Words
Ages 16 and up
744
0

Stagnate as a 'creepy caterpillar' or transform into a 'beauteous butterfly'-this path-breaking book of a rare genre suggests-is the seminal choice before mankind, and every one of us. In this setting, the book raises some fundamental questions: What is man's rightful place in the cosmos and his manifest destiny on earth? Why are we so self-righteously self-destructive? Are we a doomed species? Or 'divine' beings struggling to overcome the hubris of the human intellect? Is God getting weary of mankind? How should we synergize human effort and Divine Grace? The book posits that any betterment in human behavior needs a cathartic change at the deepest levels. That requires diluting the dominance of the mind and reawakening the long-dormant intelligence of the human heart. To meet that challenge, we need minimum numbers, a 'critical mass' to create self-sustained momentum for transformation through consciousness change. And every single human of this generation should behave in such a way that he or she is that single person whose transformation could make the decisive species-scale difference. The book offers a menu of ideas and an agenda of action. This book could be itself become an input to mobilize that very 'critical mass' it advocates for human transformation. Well-planned and cohesively written, the book is noteworthy for its delightful blend of information and arguments, and reveals the depth of the author’s understanding of the human predicament... This is a closely argued and thought-provoking book... The Hindu, 13 Sept 2011 [This book] is a gripping exposition on human nature and self-transformation without preference to religion... Challa has critically provided a foundational argument for a deeper discussion of philosophical and practical ideals concerning self-transformation... harmonizing the head and the heart is the way for humans to function as spiritual beings. Recommended by the USR. The US Review of Books [The author] reflects upon the crisis of contemporary civilizations and outlines a blueprint for a new world order based on progressive spiritual values and change of human consciousness. The strength of this treatise is the sweep of Challa’s reach and his treatment of a vastly complex set of issues that bedevil humankind today... India International Center Quarterly, Summer 2012 As a thinker and erudite scholar, [the author] has made a profound study of the world situation and the moral decadence of man... [This book] deserves to be on the shelves of university, college and public libraries... Triveni Magazine, July–Sept 2011 It is difficult to pigeon-hole this book as... a ‘prophetic discourse’, a ‘journey into the human mind’, a ‘guide for human survival’, a ‘spiritual treatise’. It is an amalgam of all these and more... the volume reaches out to those who are already uneasy about the way we on this earth are progressing. The Book Review, India, June 2013 [more]

Keywords: Humanities, Social sciences, Philosophy, Psychology, Behavioural science

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