IUF – Flashcards

David Wallace- This is water
-consciously deciding what has meaning
-understanding how to think
-being able to choose for your happiness
(t&c) think & choose

David Wallace- This is water
-“the real value of a real education–not knowledge but awareness of what is real and essential”

Victoria Pagan-video on Wislawa Syzmborska’s The Onion
-take risks
-entertain
-say things in ways no one else can
teach us:
-new approaches to understanding things in new ways
-to communicate w/ each other
-to explore our community

Victoria Pagan-video on Wislawa Syzmborska’s The Onion
-does not have a plot or summary
-intimate, personal poem
-lyric poems use images-not logical

Victoria Pagan-video on Wislawa Syzmborska’s The Onion
-literary figure where words/characteristics/concepts are peaked in reverse order

Victoria Pagan-video on Wislawa Syzmborska’s The Onion
-made up words
-onionoid

Victoria Pagan-video on Wislawa Syzmborska’s The Onion
-repetition of the same sound in several words in close succession (assonance)

Parthenogenesis-Pablo Neruda
-“asexual reproduction”
-comes from Greek word for virgin
-as the title of the poem it means slight differences contributing to a whole

Victoria Pagan’s video on Parthenogenesis by Pablo Neruda
-author of Parthenogenesis
(from Victoria Pagan video)
-public face for chile
-won noble prize
-believes we are part of a great mass of humanity

Victoria Pagan’s video on Parthenogenesis by Pablo Neruda
-mask that poet puts on to express views of the “poetic persona,” not the poet
-character taken on by a poet to speak in a first-person poem

Kupperman, Six Myths About the Good Life
-time & object
-pleasure lasts a short time, whereas someone can be happy for a summer, year, or lifetime
-pleasure has an object-you are pleased by some experience or person, whereas happiness is about nothing in particular

Kupperman, Six Myths About the Good Life
-valuable experiences that occur when one is caught up in a sequence of skilled activities
-can be proud of self
-is enriching

Kupperman, Six Myths About the Good Life
-an idea that compares pleasure-seeking humans to a gerbil running endlessly on his wheel and getting no where

Herodotus, The History:
-Athenian wise man
-lays laws down for Athenians and left to Europe so he would not be forced to change any
-believes a blessed man is not wealthy, has a good family, children, healthy & uncrippled

Herodotus, The History:
– Prince of Egypt- orders servants to show Solon their wealth & treasure
-believes he has everything to be happy and is living the good life
-son dies, he realizes relationships were more important than material items

Herodotus, The History:
-Athenian who Solon says is the most blessed/happiest of all
-family, good children, dies in honor
-city in good state, good & beautiful sons
-died in battle and was honored by his state-brothers who died a glorious death pulling a cart w/ mother on it in place of oxen
-gained eternal recognition for the respect and love they had shown toward their mother
-honored by citizens

The Roots of Ayurveda, Wujastyk
-the will for life- you believe when life is lost, everything is lost
-the desire for prosperity- allows one to live a long life filled w/ honor
-the aspiration for the world beyond- working toward something bigger than yourself

The Roots of Ayurveda, Wujastyk
-food, sleep, chaste life

The Roots of Ayurveda, Wujastyk
-overuse, underuse & abuse of sense objects, actions, or time

National Geographic: Inside Mecca (video):
-mandatory religious duty for Muslims
-sacred pilgrimage to Mecca

National Geographic: Inside Mecca (video):
-most sacred site in Islam-50 ft tall
-represents muslims God
-has golden doors & a black stone

National Geographic: Inside Mecca (video):
-preparation for Hajj that involves wearing certain clothes & performing cleansing rituals
-calm state of being
-represents purity
-main objective is to avoid attracting attention-consists of 2 white sheets, universal in appearance

Henry David Thoreau, Walden
-live life to the fullest
-not waste a moment
-“to front only the essential facts of life”
-live to achieve your goals
-pay attention to every detail in your life
-make a conscious decision to be aware- (relates to This is Water)
-Henry David Thoreau went to live in a cabin in the woods bc he wished to live deliberately

Henry David Thoreau, Walden
-human connection w/ nature is necessary for intellectual/moral stability
-promotes intuitive, spiritual thinking over scientific thinking
-very individualistic, anti-materialistic, rely on the work of our hands
-believe in rising above the norms of society and living a fuller life

Henry David Thoreau, Walden
-one that doesn’t have ways of thinking differently about things
-not a powerful imagination, doesn’t give you other options

Henry David Thoreau, Walden
-quote by HDT
-control men & control their lives
-men have become reliant on their tools
-distract our attention from serious things

Henry David Thoreau, Walden
-allows us to have more pasture for our imagination
-get rid of “tools” and electronics
-Thoreau lived 2 year w/ only basic necessities, allowing him to live a life less problematic & complex

Henry David Thoreau, Walden
-having a relationship w/ your environment
-not necessarily the place but who you are in the place-learn to let that place move you

Henry David Thoreau, Walden
-change & growth occurs when you know your environment
-during his time in solitude, thoreau was better able to observe & commune w/ nature

David Hackett, “Leaving Home” and “Enlightenment” (videos): Siddhartha, Herman Hesse
-a world religion
-founder-Buddha, who was a Hindu
-believe that desires are the source of suffering

David Hackett, “Leaving Home” and “Enlightenment” (videos):
1.) life is suffering
2.) the source of suffering is desires
3.) the end of suffering comes w/ letting go of desires-(meditation)
4.) follow path that leads us to refraining from doing things that will make us suffer

David Hackett, “Leaving Home” and “Enlightenment” (videos):
spirtitual-person who believes in a transcendence/God and has certain practices but doesn’t go to church (separated from religious community, more individualistic)
religious-” but does go to church, all religion has a spiritual journey

David Hackett, “Leaving Home” and “Enlightenment” (videos):
-happens when people are moving from one status to another
-like searching for answers
-going w/ what we are comfortable w/ bc of this, and being limited
-things are “blurry” or unknown
-no structure
ex.) going to college-familiar state to a place where things are not set in place

David Hackett, “Leaving Home” and “Enlightenment” (videos):
-spiritual & religious people believe in a transcendence
-existence/experience beyond the normal/physical level

Herman Hesse, Siddhartha
-enlightened ferryman-guide who finally leads Sidd to enlightenment
-able to listen w/ mind and heart
-told Sidd he should learn from the river
-godlike but humble

Herman Hesse, Siddhartha
-instructs Sidd in the art of physical love
-teaches him the ways of the city
-dies from a snakebite

Herman Hesse, Siddhartha
-rejection of the body & physical desire
-Sidd and Govinda attempt to fin enlightenment through asceticism
-followed by semanas

Herman Hesse, Siddhartha
-guide taught by buddha toward nirvana
Right:
-view (see the world as it really is)
-thinking (renounce material world)
-speech
-action (murder/harming/theft/sex)
-livelihood
-diligence
-mindfulness (awareness of thoughts)
-concentration (meditation)

Herman Hesse, Siddhartha
-state of perfect peace where one has escaped the cycle of life & death
-universal understanding of life
-Sidd & govinda on a journey to find Nirvana
-leads to a perfect relationship w/ the world
-an end goal that each man aspires to reach, comes from w/in
-Sidd reaches thanks to Vandera

Susan Bordo, Reading the Slender Body:
-obsession w/ appearance/ being slender
-controls women
-aimed at a purely physical transformation
-includes diet, exercise, chemicals & surgery
-fat is targeted instead of appetite & desire
-dietary achievements are measured by the # on the scale

Susan Bordo, Reading the Slender Body:
-expected to be both producers & consumers-overindulge & be slim
-contradictoins that make self-managment impossible
-consumer capitalism has conditioned us to feel impulsive & submit to our desires to indulge, but we are pressured by society to be slim

Susan Bordo, Reading the Slender Body:
-overdetermine slenderness as a contemporary ideal of specifically female attractiveness
-males arent as affected

Cameron Russell, Looks Aren’t Everything. Believe Me, I’m a Model:
-just getting the genes that give you features society deems as “beautiful”
-her genes made her tall, feminine, white & slender
-societal norms allowed her to be a model

Cameron Russell, Looks Aren’t Everything. Believe Me, I’m a Model:
-hair stylists, make-up artists, photographers
-build/sculpt, not really her

Kevin Connelly, Double-Take: A Memoir:
-game played by kevin and his mom-mom asked what if…and inputs a scenario to try to get Kevin ready for the outside world

Kevin Connelly, Double-Take: A Memoir:
-Kevin takes snapshot of people who look at him after group of kids taking pic of him

Greg Garber, Mike Webster Sports Injury Series and Timeline: The NFL’s Concussion Crisis:
-nickname given to Mike Webster cuz he was so strong and seemingly immune to injury
-suffers from chronic injuries from playing football for so many years
-lived the good life playing football & having so much $, but cannot be in kids life & has so many injuries
-25,000 violent collisions, 17 yrs
-becomes broke, depressed & suicidal

Greg Garber, ESPN Mike Webster Sports Injury Series
-Webster had from football
-desease in brain found in athletes, developed from repetitive brain trauma, hits to the head/concussions

Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks:
-cells taken from Henrietta Lacks
-first immortal human cells, kept growing, scientists astonished
-led to numerous discoveries and billions of dollars for researchers
-1951- cells were cancerous

Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks:
-patients today must be fully informed of the procedure, their rights, and what will be done w/ the results
-Henrietta didn’t know her cells were taken
-kids cells were taken for research they didn’t really know about

Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks:
-doctor who took HeLa cells from Henrietta lacks w/o her knowing

Plato’s “Ladder of Love” – (Reading and Rothschild Video)
-goddess, teaches Socrates about love (ladder of love)
-believes life is worth living when a vision of the soul of beauty is attained

Plato’s “Ladder of Love” – (Reading and Rothschild Video)
-Greek word meaning love
-root of “erotic,” which humans are
-force behind physical passion

Plato’s “Ladder of Love” – The Ascent to Beauty Itself (Reading and Rothschild Video)
1.) love 1 physical form, 1 body
2.) gain an appreciation for all bodies
3.) love the mind
4.) love the soul
5.) love practices & laws that make people better
6.) love knowledge
7.) the beautiful itself

Mark Twain’s Excerpts from the Diaries of Adam and Eve
-twains type of writing, uses to mock many diff. aspects of the modern world
-uses humor, irony, exaggeration
-twain gives us a satirical look at Adam & Eve in the garden

Mark Twain’s Excerpts from the Diaries of Adam and Eve
-Mark Twains real name
-Author of the Diaries of Adam and Eve
-1862 acquired pen name
-began w/ humorous pieces

Mark Twain’s Excerpts from the Diaries of Adam and Eve (Reading and Smith video):
-opportunity to develop self
-Enjoyed his solitude bf Eve arrived , her presence changed him
-falls in love w/ having eve around
-less solitude w/ baby

Clive Thompson, “I’m So Totally, Digitally Close To You”:
-thousands of little updates that give us an overall idea of a person
-everything is coming to us passively through newsfeed, -“incessant online contact”
-knowing what others are doing

Clive Thompson, “I’m So Totally, Digitally Close To You”:
-posting small frequent update of what your doing
-far shorter than blogs, far more frequent & less carefully considered
-twitter

Clive Thompson, “I’m So Totally, Digitally Close To You”:
-messaging back & forth small messages of what you’re doing
-many messages make up the phenomenon

Clive Thompson, “I’m So Totally, Digitally Close To You”:
-people can have 150 social bonds at one time
-social media allows for an increase in this # cuz we can know many people at once

Clive Thompson, “I’m So Totally, Digitally Close To You”:
-relationships w/ celebrities or fictional characters
-can take space from dunbar #
-follow these people closely

Brenda Smith and Ron Burrichter, Multimedia Lecture on Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”:
-ode to Joy was the inspiration for many countries anthems
-gives us a sense of loyalty, music seems to enhance it
-promotes nationalism & sovereignty
-how countries celebrate the good life

Brenda Smith and Ron Burrichter, Multimedia Lecture on Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”:
-conducted Symphony No. 9 in the video
-American composer
-majored in philosophy
-wanted to educate us in opera
-wrote famous musical pieces such as West Side Story
-believes in stillness & silence (relate to Sabbath) “silence is our most intense mode of action” ideas & emotions bred from silence
meditation
prayer
“every human being is great”
“most like an angel”

Brenda Smith and Ron Burrichter, Multimedia Lecture on Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”:
-wrote the poem Ode to Joy which Beethoven used for Symphony No 9
-German philosopher, play writ, & poet
-believed art is dedicated to joy
-wanted to see a united Europe

Brenda Smith and Ron Burrichter, Multimedia Lecture on Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”:
-heaven
-perfect place/promised land
-place to go to celebrate
-state of being where death is not destructive but loving and transcendent
-being in joyful state

Brenda Smith and Ron Burrichter, Multimedia Lecture on Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”:
-Ode to Joy (Symphony No 9)- played at famous events, by Beethoven
-West & East Berlin wall came down, this song played in the place where the wall was taken down
-German word for freedom
-Berstein had choir sing Ode to Freiheit (freedom) instead of the word for Joy (freud)

Abraham Heschel, The Sabbath, Chapter 1: “A Palace in Time”:
– the “7th day”
-“palace in time” where people separate themselves from the toils of everyday life
-focus on friends, fam, & God
-day of not working, a day to mend tattered lives
-day of rest & celebration of the spirit, body & soul
-a time of praise and acknowledgment of the unity of the spirit & soul
-day of the soul and the body to get comfort and pleasure

Abraham Heschel, The Sabbath, Chapter 1: “A Palace in Time”:
-the name of god
-holy word (not used in vain)

Abraham Heschel, The Sabbath, Chapter 1: “A Palace in Time”:
-to rest, not in the sense of refraining from working but in the sense of:
-tranquility
-happiness
-stillness
-harmony
-all troubles are at rest
-the state wherein men lies still, weary rest, wicked cease from troubling (link to Berstein)
-essence of a good life

PBS: Aron Myers, “The Life and Times of Zora Neale Hurston” and Hurston’s “Drenched in Light”:
-african american writers, singers, performers, and artists came to new york (harlem)
-1920s-period of intense black artistic activity
-post reconstruction era
-celebration of black culture

PBS: Aron Myers, “The Life and Times of Zora Neale Hurston” and Hurston’s “Drenched in Light”:
-the black people who migrated to harlem and did not standby and let black people be discriminated against
-got involved in civil rights
-WEB Debonis-advocated integration
-synonymous with harlem renaissance

Hurston’s “Drenched in Light”:
-main character always getting herself into trouble
-Everybody in the town knows “Isis the Joyful”
-Isis is full of joy and dreams of big things, but grandmother wants her to be realistic
-“drenched in light” referring to isis’ joyful and happy attitude.

-book is an exploration of particular values and their role in making a life desirable
-a life of true virtue will be rewarding, however rarely attained

-the most obvious, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about
-be able to understand how we think & make our own decisions
-“the real value of a real education’–“NOT KNOWLEDGE BUT AWARENESS OF WHAT IS REAL AND ESSENTIAL”

-be your individual self, when you are paired w/ another danger can come- you can cry like cutting an onion

-a poem that tells you to be exactly who you are-not what others wish
-“luckily, I paid no attention”
-“I’ll go on as I was in the beginning”

-main idea is relationships are more essential in living a good life than material items

-main idea of the book is how to live a healthy life-its a medical book

-Muslims believe they must go on the Hajj pilgrimage to Kabaa to receive good life after death

-main idea is that we need to separate ourselves from the social world and focus on finding ourselves/what makes us happy. Learn about ourselves
-“to front only the essential facts of life”
-“Men have to become tools of their tools”

-music can enhance the good life & spread joy

-take a day to rest & enjoy people around you, important to not to lose yourself in work & everyday life (compare to This is Water, can’t realize the obvious bc we are so engulfed in everyday life)

dreams can come true

-we are all searching for the good life, can be achieved only by yourself w/ your own effort, everyone achieves differently