I disagree with Evelyn Waugh’s thoughts on news. His idea that “news is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read” is a contradiction in itself. If one does not care much about anything, why would he bother reading the news? In addition, his thought, “…it’s only news until he’s read Read more…
SIG, Princeton Reflection My feelings about the Summer Institute for the Gifted before I left for the sleep-away school, were: nervousness, worry and fatigue. I felt the opposite while I was there. I had a fascinating and memorable time. A few months before SIG, my mom announced that I was going to Princeton sleep-away Read more…
I certainly agree with Safire’s quote. Safire is commenting on the expansion of the time and space allocated to the coverage of news, and the corresponding expansion of things that are included in the news. Safire is pointing out that the more people know, the more they want to know. However, in our current society, Read more…
I think that the first quote means that news is everywhere. “News expands and fills time and space…” is evidence of this belief. When news expands, this is when reporters go out and report it. I do agree with this quote because I think that news is everywhere in our lives. News is on television, Read more…
“News expands to fill the time and space allocated to its coverage.” William Safire “News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read. And it’s only news until he’s read it. After that it’s dead.” Evelyn Waugh Pick one of the above quotes to interpret and agree or disagree with. Read more…
THE HOBBIT The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien is truly a masterpiece. Tolkien brought in the idea of something new, which would eventually be a hit all over the world. Tolkien created the genre we know now as fantasy. In 1937, when the book was published, it was misunderstood and was perceived as “a Read more…
In this quote, Lincoln is describing the weakness of one’s argument. By mentioning the “shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death”, Lincoln is describing the severe thinness of the argument. It lacks depth, profundity, and is not very rich in information. A type of a “thin” argument is one similar to an Read more…
From Skagway to Ketchikan to Juneau Up in the air with all this equipment in a helicopter looking down onto the city of Skagway: my favorite thing in Alaska was the helicopter ride up to the glaciers. The helicopter was very small, but we managed to fit in. When we got onto the glacier, Read more…
Lincoln, in this quote, is saying that Douglas’s argument is incredibly shallow and without substance. A type of argument that would qualify as one “as thin as homeopathic soup” is one that argues expectations over results, or theory over reality. Such was the argument held by American Socialists like Frances Fox Piven in the Read more…
“His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.” ~ Abraham Lincoln, speaking of Stephan Douglas Lincoln extends a simile and thereby extends the possibility for nuance in his meaning. Please think of what type of argument would be Read more…
