About Harvard Harvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders in many disciplines who make a difference globally. The University, which is based in Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts, has an enrollment of over 20,000 degree candidates, including undergraduate, graduate, and professional students. Harvard has more than 360,000 alumni around the world. Harvard at a Glance Harvard faculty are engaged with teaching and research to push the boundaries
(MW1:30-3:00) Edwin Arlington Robinson 1869–1935 Robinson 's "Richard Cory" Edwin Arlington Robinson was born on December 22, 1869 in Head Tide. Later than high school, Robinson did study for two years at Harvard University as a special student. And his early poems were released in the Harvard Advocate. Robinson then printed and divulged confidentially his first volume of poetry,The Torrent and the Night Before, in 1896; this selection was largely improved and released in 1897 as The Children of
Indian deans heading top business schools During a quiz contest for college students in Bangalore the other day, the quiz master threw a short poser: “Who’s Nitin Nohria?” Teams pressed their buzzers immediately: the name of the Indian-born Dean of Harvard Business School (HBS) was well-known. Nohria, 53, was born in Nohar, Rajasthan, and spent his childhood in Kolkata, Delhi, and Mumbai. His father, Kewal Nohria, who was Chairman of Crompton Greaves, grafted him into the business world even as he was
Common Wealth is an outstanding book written by Jeffrey D. Sachs published in 2009. Sachs has been on of the youngest professor at Harvard University, and is currently the director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University. His impressive career has made him one of the most important scholars in the world. Therefore, his book is for young students an impressive source of inspiration and a tool to understand the current economic and political situation. In his second Chapter titled, ”Our Crowded
the list continues. Social network nowadays are so numerous users don’t know what should and what shouldn’t they use, but back in February 4, 2004 , a college student that is called Mark Zuckerberg and his college roommates and classmates in Harvard university launched Facebook. At the beginning the founders of Facebook limited the amount of people to use Facebook, but throughout time they expanded the amount of users to use Facebook, by allowing other college students to use it within the areas of
Margaret Atwood, an internationally acclaimed novelist, poet and short story writer is widely considered as a major figure in Canadian litrature. In her works, she focuses on the themes of alienation and self-identity. As a poet, her works concentrate on the question of identity with as much pasion as Neruda and Walcott. There is a style and force in her writing.The major themes of Atwood’s poetry include the inconsistencies of self-perception, the Canadian identity and experience, the paradoxical
Close Reading: The Awakening Chapter I-XIII In the story, the birds symbolize women and flight represents freedom. The birds are in a cage which inhibits their flight; this can be compared to women in captivity lacking freedom. What’s important to point out is that the bird, specifically the one mentioned in the passage, speaks a language that only other birds can understand. “He could speak a little Spanish, and also a language which nobody understand, unless it was the mockingbird hung on the other
On the chance that one is born in to a world of godless gloom, without religion and no path to salvation, a bleak and heavy hopelessness is bound to be engrained in the way of the land. T.S. Eliot paints a picture of a woeful world of despair where the “hollow men” live solely with religious reverie and of salvation in slumber. By joining literary methods of imagery, tone, and diction in his poem, “The Hollow Men,” the hopelessness is visible all over the whole poem, and is established as the poem’s
Early in March 1946, we left Camp Cooke by train and passed through the southern states to Fort Eustis, Virginia. We stayed at this camp for about a week while attending a course designed to deepen our understanding of democracy. We then moved to Camp Shanks, New York, for a few days before boarding a ship that sailed to Le Havre, France. Arriving at the port city on April 7, we went by truck to Camp Bolbec [in Le Havre] for three weeks. At the end of the month, we reached the discharge center at
Romanticism was an artistic movement that invaded most of Europe countries, USA North and South, but did not invade France until the eighteenth century; the peak of this movement was in mid-of the eighteenth century. It was a reaction caused by the industrial revolution. It was a mutiny against the aristocratic social and political standards of the age of enlightenment and a reaction against the rational rationalization. In our part “Romanticism” was provided by a specific space, and we chose to
insecurities or imperfections. Also, they are often mislead by a fake persona of public figures and famous individuals that life is meant to always be good and that they are living the ideal life. Additionally, Richard G. Hodgson is a writer of the Purdue University Press and explains this wrongdoing of the modern individual in a clear way. Expressed by
The Advantages and Disadvantages of Using Facebook 1. Facebook.com, fb.com, and thefacebook.com all open the similar site. 2. To treasure trove the official pages of Facebook founders, add "4," "5," or "6" to the end of facebook.com/. For example, facebook.com/4 will take you to the official page of Mark Zuckerberg. 3. More than 450 billion photos have been uploaded to Facebook. 4. Facebook needs several Exabyte servers to store all of the data uploaded by its billion users. One Exabyte = one billion
(September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963) was an American poet, closely associated with Modernism and Imagism. Williams was also a physician with his own practice and he worked as one for all his life in America. He met Ezra Pound when he entered the University of Pennsylvania and they became friends. Pound introduced Williams to the Imagist Movement and encouraged him to write poetry. However, he did not agree with Pound’s broken multi-cultural style. Williams’ major difference with Pound lay in his belief
Introduction Higher Education Institutions in the Philippines are challenged to meet the new mandate of the Commission on Higher Education on Typology, Outcomes-Based Education and Institutional Sustainability Assessment. Accreditation is considered as part of the criteria for Commitment to Excellence as well as for Institutional Sustainability and Enhancement, which are the bases for the vertical classification of HEI as Autonomous, Deregulated or Regulated. Further, accreditation has become one
Graduate with a degree has made compulsory for students nowadays as the minimal demand for survival. By securing a place in top universities, financial loan or scholarships are taken by the parents as the key to social mobility. C. Topic Sentence (2 Marks) Last but not least, the reason that causes cheating in exams is lack of effort from the students. 1. Supporting Point (2 Marks)
(AGG) Many people believe that money will buy you happiness, but no matter how much money you spend, you will never get the true happiness you receive from people. (BS-1) The characters in the novel Fahrenheit 451 focus on looks and value their possessions. (BS-2) Becoming materialistic has many effects towards people. (BS-3) There are some people in the society who reject the idea of materialism. (TS) Ray Bradbury created a society full of materialistic people to warn the readers about the dangers
Have you ever experienced both happiness and sorrow at the same time? Walt Whitman, in “O Captain! My Captain!,” incorporates sadness over the death of President Lincoln and happiness about the victory of the North and the end of the Civil War. The Civil War (1861-1865) was set on American soil where Americans fought against Americans. The North (Union) wanted unity of the country and the end of slavery, while the South (Confederacy) wanted separation and the continuation of slavery. The war ended
raised in a big industrial town starting from the age of eighteen months due to his father’s new occupation as a school medical officer for the city of Birmingham. Auden received his education throughout boarding schools continuing on to Oxford University where he formerly began study biology and shifted to English which was difficult but verifying success after his graduation in 1928, he was known for his British poets, producing a new generation. Throughout W. H. Auden’s career, he voiced the concerns
The most well-known stereotype for teenagers is their tendency to rebel against their parents. Adults have been trying to figure out this problem for many, many years, and still cannot seem to keep teens from pushing their limits. “The reason why parents usually dislike adolescent rebellion is that it creates more resistance to their job of providing structure, guidance, and supervision…” (Pickhardt). Parents have that structure because they want to keep their children safe, but adolescent kids continue
Wager (n.d.) suggests that Gagne’s legacy was inspired by his fascination for the studies of both teaching and learning, which encouraged him to create a theory of instruction that has since been used to form a strong foundation for research and can be adapted to guide further research in the future. Robert Mills Gagne (1916-2002) was a pioneer within the multidisciplinary field of educational psychology, specifically specialising in instructional technology. In fact, he is often informally referred