New Glossary:
the set of actions that should be performed in order to safely leave a building, such as an office, factory, or school, when it is on fire, or an occasion when this is practiced.
Extension word: earthquake drill
2. Virtual Reality noun [U] /ˌvɝː.tju.əl riˈæl.ə.t̬i/
= VR, a set of images and sounds, produced by a computer, that seem to represent a place or a situation that a person can take part in.
Extension word: Amplified Reality=AR
to prove that something exists or is true, or to make certain that something:
Are you able to verify your account/allegation/report/theory?
These numbers are surprisingly high and they'll have to be verified.
[ + (that) ] Under interrogation, she verified (that) the tapes were authentic.
Extension word: verfication
Could you provied some verifications to get the credits?
energy and strength:
According to the packet, these vitamin pills will restore lost vitality.a style of art, writing, music, theatre, and especially architecture popular in the West in the 1980s and 90s, that includes features from several different periods in the past or from the present and past.
very forceful or energetic:
a vigorous debate
There has been vigorous opposition to the proposals for a new road.
He takes plenty of vigorous exercise.
healthy and strong
Cutting the bush back in the autumn will help promote vigorous growth in the spring.
mainly disapproving intended to teach, especially in a way that is too determined or eager, and often fixed and unwilling to change:
a didactic approach to teaching
intended to teach people a moral lesson:
didactic literature
the act of representing or imitating reality in art, especially literature:
For both Plato and Aristotle, artistic mimesis is relatively incapable of expressing the character of fundamental reality.
9. fragment
frag- breaking into parts
noun
1.
a part broken off or detached:
scattered fragments of the broken vase.
2.
an isolated, unfinished, or incomplete part:
She played a fragment of her latest composition.
3.
an odd piece, bit, or scrap.
verb (used without object)
4.
to collapse or break into fragments; disintegrate:
The chair fragmented under his weight.
verb (used with object)
5.
to break (something) into pieces or fragments; cause to disintegrate:
Outside influences soon fragmented the Mayan culture.
6.
to divide into fragments; disunify.
7.
Computers. to split a file into smaller parts and store in non-contiguous sectors on a disk, resulting infragmentation ofboth the file and available free space on the disk.
Extension word: fragmentation
Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity.
This covers the ancient Mediterranean world, particularly ancient Greece and Rome. It encompasses the study of ancient languages, literature, philosophy, history, and archaeology. Traditionally in the West, the study of the Greek and Roman classics was considered one of the cornerstones of the humanities and a necessary part of a rounded education. Since the 20th century, however, the popularity of the discipline has declined.
This covers the ancient Mediterranean world, particularly ancient Greece and Rome. It encompasses the study of ancient languages, literature, philosophy, history, and archaeology. Traditionally in the West, the study of the Greek and Roman classics was considered one of the cornerstones of the humanities and a necessary part of a rounded education. Since the 20th century, however, the popularity of the discipline has declined.
The literature of ancient Greece and Rome has been studied continuously since it was written, though it was only in the 16th century that it began to be referred to as the classics in the modern sense. In the 19th century, the discipline of classics broadened, with other aspects of the study of the classical world, such as history and archaeology, being included within it. From the 20th century, however, the traditional domination of the classics as part of elite education in the West has been erode
New Phrases:
— phrasal verb with file US /faɪl/ verb
to make an official request for something such as divorce or bankruptcy
Important People:
1. Aristotle
Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle was born circa 384 B.C. in Stagira, Greece. When he turned 17, he enrolled in Plato’s Academy. In 338, he began tutoring Alexander the Great. In 335, Aristotle founded his own school, the Lyceum, in Athens, where he spent most of the rest of his life studying, teaching and writing. Aristotle died in 322 B.C., after he left Athens and fled to Chalcis.
Poetry is more "philosophical" than history, according to Aristotle, because in order to unfold a plot in a manner that is convincing to the audience, the poet must grasp and represent the internal logic, the necessity, of the outcome of those events.
2. T. S. Eliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965) was a British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic and "one of the twentieth century's major poets".
Eliot attracted widespread attention for his poem "The Love Song of J, Alfred Prufrock" (1915), which is seen as a masterpiece of the Modernist movement. It was followed by some of the best-known poems in the English language, including The Waste Land (1922), "The Hollow Men" (1925), "Ash Wednesday" (1930) and Four Quartest (1945). He is also known for his seven plays, particularly Murder in the Cathedral (1935). He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948, "for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry".Four Quartets- http://www.coldbacon.com/poems/fq.html
Quartet No1- Burnt Norton
Quartet No2- East Coker
Quartet No3- The Dry Salvages
Quartet No4- The Gidding
3. John Milton
John Milton was born in London on December 9, 1608, into a middle-class family. He was educated at St. Paul’s School, then at Christ’s College, Cambridge, where he began to write poetry in Latin, Italian, and English, and prepared to enter the clergy.
Paradise Lost
paradise Lost is about Adam and Eve how they came to be created and they came to lose their place in the Garden of Eden, also called Paradise. It's the same story you find in the first pages of Genesis, expanded by Milton into a ver long, detailed, narrative poem. It also includes the story of the origin of Satan. Originally, he was called Lucifer, an angel in heaven who led his followers ina war against God, and was Ultimately sent with them th hell. Thirst for revenage let him to cause man's donfall by turning into a serpent and tempting Eve to eat the forbidden fruit.
4. Louise Rosenblatt
Rosenblatt was born in Atlantic City to Jewish immigrant parents. She attended Barnard College, the women's college at Columbia Unieverity in New York City, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1925.Her roommate was Margaret Mead, the anthropologist, who urged her to study anthropology. She initially planned to travel to Samoa after graduation in order to do field research, but decided instead to continue her studies in France. In Paris, she met French author Abdre Gide and American expatriates Gertrude Stein and Robert Penn Warren.
Rosenblatt obtained a Certitude d'etudes Françaises from the Univerity of Grenoble in 1926. She continued her studies in Paris, receiving a PhD in Comparative Literature from the Sorbonne in 1931.
Rosenblatt published her first book in 1931. It was written in French and examined the "art for art's sake" movement that had stirred England in the latter portion of the nineteenth century.
Rosenblatt was enrolled as an instructor at Barnard College in 1931, and remained on the college's rolls through 1938. In 1938 she transferred to Brooklyn College, and remained on that college's rolls through 1948. In 1948 she became a Professor of English Education at New York Univerity's School of Education, where she remained until her retirement in 1972. She retired to Princeton, New Jersey. In 2002 she moved to Arlington, Virginia, to live with her son Jonathan. She died of congestive heart failure at the Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington on 8 February 2005.
During World War II Rosenblatt worked for the United States Office of War Information, analyzing reports concerning or coming from France, which at that time was controlled by the Germans.
5. Roland Barthes
Barthes studied at the University of Paris, where he took a degree in classical letters in 1939 and in grammar and philology in 1943. After working (1952–59) at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, he was appointed to the École Pratique des Hautes Études. In 1976 he ... (100 of 473 words)
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