Lecture

In the Fifth Lecture: Man Seen from the Outside of Merleau-Ponty’s The World of Perception, Merleau-Ponty explores the assimilation between the understanding of ourselves and the understanding of others. He starts off his fifth lecture with Descartes and how he believes that we best understand ourselves through our own self-consciousness which is connected to our own physical body, which is located in physical space. Although Merleau-Ponty does agree with this, he fully cannot support it as a…

both the question and quote is exactly this - humans were meant to be together. This way we can learn ‘common sense’, important lessons, and morals from others and go on to reshare them. Not only to better ourselves but also mankind. In The Last Lecture this concept is displayed in some of the lessons Randy Pausch has learned, and shares with the reader. Such as how his parents, professor, coach and many others have all helped him become an improved version of himself. When Pausch was in high…

Randy Pausch was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in September 2006 and then delivered this famous speech; Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams, a year later in 2007. This speech has become one of the most viewed lectures on the Internet. Though different techniques and strategies Pausch performed a near perfect speech. To begin, Randy Pausch opens up with a joke followed by addressing the elephant in the room. When beginning a speech you need to get the audiences attention. Jokes in…

Marilyn Chandler McEntyre's lecture, "Why Worry about Words" (2004), argues that the English Language is ugly and bad because of bad habits many people of today have picked up. McEntyre states the availability of words being written and spoken correctly has never been done before and believe this is good news so it can be taught. She also explains that George Orwell and George Steiner describes that language once served people and thier agendas. Lastly, McEntyre explains the reasoning of George…

revolves around the Four Noble Truths (Jacob’s lecture). The First Noble Truths is that life is marked by suffering. In Hinduism, suffering is known as “dukkha” (Prothero, 177). Prothero expands this meaning by saying “Yet each of us, no matter how rich or poor or powerful or weak, is going to get sick, grow old, and die” (182). The Second Noble Truth is that suffering has an origin (Jacob’s lecture). That origin is the human themselves (Jacob’s lecture). Prothero further explains this by…

A significant relationship between video lecture watching behaviors of learners and lecturers’ gender was found (X2 = 29.31, N = 10282, p < .001). 62% of completely watched events belonged to female lecturers’ videos. A Chi-square test of independence was calculated to compare the viewing behaviors…

In modern times it is very typical to see new technology being utilized as a tool in university classrooms. Whether it’s a laptop used to follow along with lecture slides and take notes, or a phone to quickly fact check and connect with others in the class, during lectures, there is a multitude of technological devices at students’ disposal. Despite the benefits of convenience and easy access to resources, Dietz and Henrich (2014) have demonstrated that technology, specifically phones for…

several students volunteered to be part of the text group that would be texting a pre-written conversation with others who also volunteered (Gingerich & Lineweaver, 2014). Before the lecture began, all of the students were informed that there would indeed be a multiple choice quiz at the conclusion of the lecture in order to test the researchers hypothesis that texting in class is indeed a distraction and can significantly lower test results…

“ When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” is a poem in which Walt Whitman, the author, talks about an astronomer’s lecture and how the narrator had gotten lost in the said astronomer’s lecture. The narrator explains things that he/she envisioned during the lecture and how he/she reacted mentally to the things said by the astronomer in his lecture. Like a lot of his other writings, Whitman wrote this poem in free verse. This poem consists of one stanza with eight lines. The first four lines of this…

with naturally good intentions, but they can only be truly good through the learning of humaneness, rightness, ritual, and wisdom (Lecture 9/4). Mencius, a contemporary of Confucius, created a story to explain the natural goodness of humans (Lecture 9/9). He explains that if a child were to fall into a well, a human beings initial reaction would be to save the child (Lecture 9/9). Essentially, Mencius claims that, “All human beings have a mind that cannot bear to see the sufferings of…