tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70848445776497394062023-06-20T05:20:58.200-07:00Des Cruz's American Lit BlogDeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265997974681853023noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084844577649739406.post-5527452188244135292013-03-05T17:34:00.000-08:002013-03-05T17:34:03.830-08:00Interesting Facts ; George Bernard Shaw . <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">George Bernard Shaw was known for his wit, it even led to creation of a Shawism - witty phrase:</span><span class="post-body"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world."</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- George Bernard Shaw</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">George Bernard Shaw was an iconoclastic playwright, journalist, polemicist, scintillating public speaker, arts reviewer and campaigning socialist,</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Shaw actually hated the George in his name, and used just Bernard Shaw</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With Sidney and Beatrice Webb, and Graham Wallas, George Bernard Shaw was a co-founder of the London School of Economics. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">George Bernard Shaw was a leading member of the Fabian society (a, along with luminaries such as Annie Besant and the Webbs</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">George Bernard Shaw was</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A committed vegetarian</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A socialist</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Opponent of First World War</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Supported belief in Eugenics.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Despite nearly dieing from smallpox, Shaw joined a public campaign in opposition to vaccination against smallpox.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shaw helped </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">T.E. Lawrence</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, with his book the <span style="font-style: italic;">Seven Pillars of Wisdom </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shaw was a keen amateur photographer.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He is the only person to have been awarded both a Nobel Prize for Literature (1925) and an Oscar (1938) for work on transcribing <span style="font-style: italic;">Pygmalion</span> (adaption of his play of the same name).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He married but it was never consummated and he had no children</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">George Orwel</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">l</span> asked George Bernard Shaw for permission to quote from one of his works in a BBC interview for the 'Voice', magazine programme, to be broadcast by the Indian Service Shaw responded with the terse refusal "I veto it ruthlessly". </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In George Orwell's <span style="font-style: italic;">Animal Farm</span>, Mr. Whymper a man hired by Napoleon to represent Animal Farm in human society, is loosely based on George Bernard Shaw who visited the U.S.S.R. in 1931 and praised Stalin and what he found.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">George Bernard Shaw rejected many honours during his lifetime. He only accepted the Nobel Prize at the behest of his wife who thought it would bring honour to Ireland.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shaw was a strident critic of contemporary education. in his Treatise on Parents and Children he considered the curriculum useless.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">George Bernard Shaw had no particular religion, but was receptive to a range of religious views: "(my) religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative revolution."</span></li>
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Deshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265997974681853023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084844577649739406.post-90231548952730668272013-03-05T17:28:00.001-08:002013-03-05T17:28:47.774-08:00Vocabulary For The Book .<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chronic: Persisting for
a long time or constantly recurring.<br />Sentiment: A view of or attitude toward
a situation or event; an opinion.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Morality: Principles
concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad
behavior.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Remorse: Deep regret or guilt
for a wrong committed. <br />Defect: A shortcoming, imperfection, or lack:
"genetic defects"; "the property is free from defect".<br />Acquaintance: person's
knowledge or experience of something.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sanity: The ability to think
and behave in a normal and rational manner; sound mental health.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Implication: The conclusion
that can be drawn from something, although it is not explicitly
stated.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Alternative: (of one or more
things) Available as another possibility.<br />Savage: (of an animal or force of
nature) Fierce, violent, and uncontrolled: "a savage beast".<br />Phenomenon: A
fact or situation that is observed to exist or happen, esp. one whose cause is
in question.</span><br />Deshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265997974681853023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084844577649739406.post-4464441069240061432013-02-26T17:41:00.002-08:002013-02-26T17:41:30.102-08:00My Modernist .I chose George Bernard Shaw because he was a critic of many plays , and wrote several plays . Me personally , i like plays . Therefore , i picked George Bernard Shaw .<br />
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<img alt="File:George Bernard Shaw 1936.jpg" height="320" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/George_Bernard_Shaw_1936.jpg/434px-George_Bernard_Shaw_1936.jpg" width="231" />Deshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265997974681853023noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084844577649739406.post-71098710323643100012013-02-14T18:30:00.000-08:002013-02-14T18:30:33.978-08:00A Dover Beach Related Poem <span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Well the Poem is Basically about Losing All faith and Hope. So here<span style="font-size: medium;"> Is</span> what we Got: </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Reaching out to something I may never find<br />Keeps me from moving forward, afraid of what I'll leave behind<br />It's always dark and there's a chilling cold here<br />Where around every corner there's something new to fear<br />I cannot move with no light guiding me<br />It's impossible to gain distance when I cannot see</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The rights the wrongs, how do I tell<br />When all I feel are the arms of this living hell<br />Release and <span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap" id="itxthook0p"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap itxtnewhookspan" id="itxthook0w" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: transparent transparent rgb(0, 204, 0); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-weight: normal; padding: 0px 0px 1px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important;">trust</span><img class="itxtrst itxtrstimg itxthookicon" id="itxthook0icon" src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png" style="margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px ! important; vertical-align: baseline ! important;" /></span> are things I fear to feel<br />So now before you God I desperately kneel<br />Its not the fist time I've felt so frayed<br />But this time Lord I turn to you instead of the blade</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap" id="itxthook1p"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap itxtnewhookspan" id="itxthook1w" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: transparent transparent rgb(0, 204, 0); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-weight: normal; padding: 0px 0px 1px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important;">Help</span><img class="itxtrst itxtrstimg itxthookicon" id="itxthook1icon" src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png" style="margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px ! important; vertical-align: baseline ! important;" /></span> me find answers to the questions I don't know<br />I'm praying for your presence to somehow show<br />I have picked up broken pieces before<br />Though I fear I've lost some as they've shattered to the floor<br />I as you to please now take my hand<br />I'm not sure I have anyone else who will understand</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I've lost all battles within myself it seems is true<br />Please dear Lord don't let me lose this one too<br /><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap" id="itxthook2p"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap itxtnewhookspan" id="itxthook2w" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: transparent transparent rgb(0, 204, 0); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-weight: normal; padding: 0px 0px 1px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important;">Show</span><img class="itxtrst itxtrstimg itxthookicon" id="itxthook2icon" src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png" style="margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px ! important; vertical-align: baseline ! important;" /></span> me the path I must now take<br />But please God hurry, my wills about to break.</span></span><br />
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by <span style="color: black;">Heather Lehman</span></h3>
Deshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04265997974681853023noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7084844577649739406.post-56886726178798737192013-02-07T19:49:00.003-08:002013-02-07T19:49:21.624-08:00Vocabulary spring #2Praetorian- of having the power of a praetor<br />
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Sieve- a strainer<br />
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Veiled- to obscure with a veil<br />
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Saccharine- artificial sweetner<br />
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Harlequin- a jester<br />
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Toil- work extremely hard or incessantly<br />
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Delinquent- characterized with a tendency to commit crime<br />
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Gibbering- speaking rapidly and unintelligibly<br />
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Insidious-proceding harmfuly im a subtle fashion<br />
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Strewn- to scatter or spred<br />
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Pratonage- the act of buying something<br />
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Cadence- pace<br />
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Suffused-to spred through or over<br />
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Centrifuge- a machine with rapidly rotating container<br />
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Dentifrice- tooth paste.<br />
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Leisure- freedom from work<br />
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Vessel- a large craft<br />
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Phonograph- record player<br />
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Profusion- an abundance of stuff
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