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“A mother who watches a child eagerly push a friend aside as she or he climbs a tree is torn between preserving the child from danger, encouraging the child’s physical skills and courage, and shaping a child according to moral restraints, which might, for example, inhibit the child’s joy in competitive climbing.” (Ruddick 216) This… Continue reading Commonplace Book 6

“Let the wenches dawdle in such dressAs they are used to wear, and let the boysBring flowers in last month’s newspapers” (Stevens, 4-6). https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45234/the-emperor-of-ice-cream These verses come from “The Emperor of Ice Cream,” a poem by Wallace Stevens. The poem itself is about a funeral, and I specifically selected these lines because they highlight the main idea… Continue reading Commonplace Book 5

https://sports.inquirer.net/files/2021/03/georgetown.jpg For this entry, I chose an image of Georgetown winning the Big East Tournament Championship, earning them a bid in the NCAA Tournament. After a season where the team struggled, finishing 8th overall in their conference, Georgetown was able to complete an improbable run to win the Big East Tournament, and now has a… Continue reading Commonplace Book 4

When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that’s amore “That’s Amore” by Dean Martin I chose this lyric by Dean Martin because of the imagery it conveys. By using a “pizza pie” to describe the moon, he is able to create a vivid depiction of a large, circular moon in the… Continue reading Commonplace Book 3

https://e00-marca.uecdn.es/assets/multimedia/imagenes/2021/02/05/16125452140513.png I chose this image because of the message it conveys. In Super Bowl LV, the quarterback matchup is between Tom Brady, a veteran and experienced player, versus Patrick Mahomes, a younger and less experienced player. Thus, this game represents a chance for a “passing of the torch,” between two different eras of the NFL.

But many disagreements, includingpolitical disagreement between entrenched partisans, will rest on a substratum ofdifference so deep that nothing one party could say will move the other one inch.Rather than listening to and weighing what your opponent says, you hear hiswords as the surface issue of deep ideological commitments you fear anddespise. “Political Arguments” by Stanley… Continue reading Commonplace Book 2