Meaning Making and the Importance of Questioning in the Great Books Pantheon

Through the Great Books Pantheon, we have read and talked about the works of various people trying to answer important questions. What is the point? What? As a student, we have always faced challenges as well as making each piece of work worth the face value. When reading a book, it is necessary to appropriately judge the written purpose of the author, add knowledge and opinions to the work, basically create and integrate one's ideal, and to put it in oneself It is important to evaluate. I analyze it. heart

Questions about the nature of consciousness and the future of mankind made me wish to write books based on the future (like other people in Asimov and Science fiction) and wondered how human beings progress . My theological background and my interests and resentment about fanatical and religious fundamentalism mean that these themes also quietly entered the book. The title and the title of the hero are (literally) come from the dream I had in August 2006. This book is also an explanation of the characters in this book, and their knowledge makes them severely troubled and also knowledge about humans. I can not truly understand fate or guarantee fate. "

You emulate another protagonist's pantheon. The story and sermon are full of your scriptures. The great Prophets of the Book of Mormon: Nephi, Ammona, Alma, and the daughter of Queen Mosia. The Egyptian Old Testament, Sarah, Rebecca, the female chief of Rachel, and descendants of Josephine. Of course, Eve was seduced by Adam. The most important contribution of the Prophet is to teach you about the nature of God. This god is not an indefinite ghost of another faith, it is a real human being. This god is your mother in heaven. She knows you and loves you.

Phillip Lopate is not a surname, but he is one of the greatest essaysist of life. After placing his great work on his body against Joie de Vivre, the singles and the teachings of Harlem put him in the Pantheon. His wonderful collection of essays on other people - "art of personal prose" - defines the pantheon. His recent work, "portrait in my mind" is a mixture of his memories and opinions, faithful to his prose principle and technique as a writer. A reader familiar with Lopate 's early work will recognize his role quickly in the spirit of goodwill and research. He has neither Zadie Smith 's X - ray field nor Hunter S. Thompson' s neural energy, but his rich and fluid writing is fun; I have explained him as an intersection between Sontag and Sedaris . A portrait is a small work (basically "uncollected work", a work without a theme), but small pieces of Lopate are still gifts.