![]() ![]() ![]() Early on, Davy wrote poetry, and later became friends with Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Holmes also looks at the British chemist Humphry Davy, who, among other accomplishments, discovered that chlorine and iodine were elements. He even compared his skill at seeing astronomical phenomena with the skill required to play Handel’s fugues. That led to an interest in mathematics and then astronomy, which he pursued with the same emotional fervor as any classical music piece. Astronomer William Herschel, who discovered the planet Uranus in 1781, started his career as a musician. The author focuses primarily on the lives of two men who straddled both worlds, who embraced “Romantic science” and pursued it with the passion of poets or painters. However, British historian Holmes ( Sidetracks: Explorations of a Romantic Biographer, 2000, etc.) writes, the divide between scientific endeavors and artistic pursuits was not always so clearly delineated. ![]() Romanticism, the deeply emotional artistic movement of the second half of the 18th century, was partly a reaction against the pragmatism of Enlightenment scientists. Energetic analysis of the “Romantic Age of Science.” ![]()
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6/26/2023 0 Comments Chocolate joanne harris![]() To some extent, the wind presents the characters of Vianne and Anouk as they are independent and wild, the same as the wind that brought in the carnival. “We came on the wind of the carnival.” The quoted piece of literature displays the sly exotic wind, a rather unusual one for February. In the extract, we first encounter Vianne with her daughter Anouk as they brave the harsh wind and settle into the new village. Through reading the extract and analyzing each significant line of literature, we are able to understand the narrator and the young girl’s character to a more advanced degree. Joanne Harris creates a compelling story, but not without exaggerated or overstated situations. ![]() Throughout the extract there are a variety of juxtapositions, polarizations, and much contrast building the subject. ![]() ![]() If we were all to rebel against what we’ve always known to be accepted, if we were to completely ignore the teachings of our elders and do the things we’ve been taught to be “evil” and “sinister”, what would happen? This situation is one which occurs in a small and tranquil French town in the extract from Chocolat. ![]() 6/26/2023 0 Comments Chinese cinderella![]() ![]() This is the best book I have ever read’ – Bronti (Australia) ‘I feel really lucky and really thankful that I have the family that I do. 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Brief Summary of Book: To Marry a Scottish Laird (Highland Brides #2) by Lynsay Sands ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet, interestingly enough, Berman's examination of the Left, especially abroad, brings him back to a consideration of why that Left often held as its ideal American culture and the spirit of liberal democracy-at the very moment that this same ethos found itself under attack from the Left in the United States. Having said that, however, one qualification immediately intrudes that is, this is a study of protest on the Left. ![]() In many ways, therefore, this is intellectual and cultural history at its broadest. In the process of exploring these four revolutions, he ranges far and wide to focus on human behavior, the human spirit, and institutional change across a breadth of time far wider than 1968. Although at first blush this reads like a rather neat packaging of change in the late 1960s, Berman's study is really much more than that. 8), the challenge to western imperialism, and finally the left-wing revolt against Communism, particularly in Czechoslovakia. 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