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    distinction between human senses and reality became clearer. John Donne’s Good Morrow, as well as Margaret Cavendish’s book, The Blazing World, both, discuss nature through battles between reality and the wild perceptions of humans. The Good Morrow demonstrates the human perception of the world through the imaginary telescope of love and sex. The Blazing World demonstrates the struggle to revolutionize scientific methods with particularly the invention of a physical telescope, against remediate…

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    of conflict, yet humans have not found a way to deal with it better than war. The history of conflict stretches as far back as the beginning of humanity and can be observed in many authors writing. It is known that conflict is spread around the world and through time, as man has progressed through time. For example in the 8th century when an Anglo-Saxon recorded…

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    There are certain cravings people experience in the world and many of them either help or hurt people. One of the most common yearnings people have is power. This five-letter word has been used in many ways, each with a great impact on history. They have left humans wondering: what is a healthy amount of power to award humans with? How much power should they have in the first place? There is a common misconception that the more power you have, the more of a positive impact you are making. That…

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    characteristics is his use of green worlds, specifically in his comedies. Shakespeare uses green worlds to introduce a deviation of society to his characters. In these spaces, the rules and obligations of the other world do not apply, his characters are allowed play with different identities in the green world. Two plays that particularly highlight this are A Midsummer Night’s Dream and As You Like It. In these plays some of the characters travel through their green world, realize something…

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    After going through my notes, I found the seven concepts that stood out to me the most. The following are, Race is a social construct, “Life is always fixable”, the three steps to making a video go viral, Be Brief, Be Bright, Be Gone, RPIE, “Make the world a better place”, and The Five Levels of Leadership. The following concepts are already concepts I use in my everyday life and others and the others I plan on taking with me into my future. To begin, the concept of race. Race is a social…

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    The Natural World The poem “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” by Walt Whitman is talking about him listening to an educated astronomer lecture using his proofs, figures, columns, charts, diagrams and how to add, divide, and measure them. While he was sitting in the lecture room with that astronomer teaching, the rest of the room began to applause. It seemed to be too much for him because he became unaccountably tired and sick. He felt that way until he left the room and went outside and…

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    natural world. God gave humans command over the world, its animals, and also the responsibility to maintain it. Somehow, at some period of time humans started to take advantage of the earth, no longer taking just what they needed but rather what they desired. Is the fall to blame for this? Did humans fall out of harmony with nature as they fell out of the garden of Eden? Whether all humans believe in this myth or not, most of the history in relationships with other humans and the natural world…

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    With every good deed that they committed there comes an equal evil action that accompanies it and evens it out in a universal law of equilibrium. “Do I dare to change the universe,” (Eliot line 51-52) shifting the world and cutting off this balance point? I would if it meant the world would be a better place to live in but I have this deep fear that I might…

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    Twenty years ago in the year 2030, I was a middle aged women striving to be the world 's best historian. I had so many plans to give the current generation at that time the best knowledge than any of us had gotten. I gave the world a chance to see History in a new light, the real light of how History happened. My plan was to create and build a time machine for me and my college class to travel back and see History for what it really was. My Goal was to educate the future of the past so they…

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    happens, but somehow still manages to develop a relationship with his children. Everyday thousands of Christians bring their trouble and problems to God, and he always stands ready with his arms open ready to forgive and love. Instead of ruling over the world like his people are his slaves, he talks and loves each one, for example in Romans 5:8 it says, “But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinner, Christ died for us.” Somehow God always forgives always loves and always…

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