Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

football game. Lefty calmly goes to his parents’ bedroom, retrieves a gun from his father’s bedstand, and walks out to the living room [p. 43]. Surprisingly, Boyle has fine comedic timing. I value a writer who can draw me into a tumble of humor. That he can see and respond to comedy in the deeply broken lives of the barrio is both remarkable and refreshing and provides needed balance and release. I laughed aloud often, and I wept. There are ample depictions of tragedy in Tattoos, but Boyle unfailingly leads his reader to discoveries of healing revelation. The author weaves in wonderful quotes from many renowned authors, including Hafez and Levertov, Blake, Dickenson, William Carlos Williams, Mary Oliver, Nietsche, Tich Nat Hahn, Teilhard de Chardin, Thomas Merton, Pema Chödrön, and Anne Lamott. The great tapestry of life needs all its colors, pale and vivid, dark and bright. One quality does not exclude the other, nor can it exist without it. This interdependent, holistic view is consistently brought forward in Tattoos, whose reach has successfully extended to a diverse audience of widely differing sophistication and experience. From the refined, expressive depths of poets, theologians, philosophers, to the desperately cutting, poignant, sometimes hilarious vernacular of the barrio, through the anecdotal, graceful ease of Boyle’s narrative, the voices of life combine here in transcendent harmony. In his poem, Two Ways of Running, the great poet, Rumi wrote: You can’t…

Bliss Bergmark Ms. Laura Randazzo Freshmen Honors English 27 January 2015 Hate the Player, Not the Game Broken world records, last second shots, and Hail Mary’s consume the media and stay fresh in the minds of fans everywhere. Lurking in the world of sports, however, is a darker side to these accomplishments. Today, it is all too common to watch once­celebrated athletes fall from grace by committing crimes. Yet, after these athletes complete their punishments, they are welcomed back into their…

The modern revival of the Olympic Games is often credited by many to be due to Baron Pierre de Coubertin’s hard work. However, it is known that there was numerous more players in the execution of bringing the Games back. There is no doubt that all five men deserve credit for helping revive the Games, however the one that deserves the most credit is not de Coubertin, although he is typically credited by a large portion of the population. Similar to the luck-filled, improbable revival of the…

In Tom Wolfe’s essay, “Digibabble, Fairy Dust, and the Human Anthill,” Wolfe utilizes his knowledge of sociobiology to explain the concepts of “convergence” and the “noosphere”, which are thought to be precursors to the World Wide Web, i.e., the Digital Universe. He found a specific interest in convergence. Wolfe states, “Thanks to technology, ‘the hitherto scattered” species Homo sapiens was being united by a single ‘nervous system for humanity,’ a ‘living membrane…a unified consciousness that…

breaking-the-social-norms thinkers were not recognized during their time on earth. A French man by the name of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was ridiculed for the majority of his adult life for his stance that evolution and religion can coexist with one another. Going over Teilhard’s basic beliefs, his view on Genesis, and how the world reacted with his ideas can provide a deeper understanding on his life and on the overall subject. The thought of God playing a key role in evolution was an…

While Chardin and Leroi-Gourhan provide novel accounts of humanity’s development from its primitive state, Lévi-Strauss avoids privileging a narrative of humankind’s progression from primitivism; instead, he is interested in the study of the primitive as a lens through which to view the world. However, all three authors agree that humankind’s progress into the near future will be accompanied by significant transformations in the very nature of humanity, for better or for worse. In The Phenomenon…

for this campaign was to instill a sense of comfort and hope to all children that went through experiences similar to her own. Her collegues were inspired by her dedication and enthusiasm Eleanor brought to the campaign. Eleanor Sheridan will be remembered for her utter generosity, willingness to help others, and the compassion she showed to others everyday. Her family appreciates any donations made to the campaign in rememberance of Eleanor during this time. She will be missed. “In the final…

details in them. She had the characters with her short stories experience actions of grace in the world. To O’Connor actions of grace occurred in the form of violence. She intertwined the actions of grace and added a comical sense to it. O’Connor had her acts of case, most violent acts, descent upon her often unknowing and obsequious characters, making them have eye opening moments of realization, most of the time these moments killed them. O’Connor said that she felt is was necessary for her…