make sure to refresh this page every time you access it;  

updated: 11/24/16

6=============================================================

              How's the dirt? How's the worm?   

=============================================================

A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe," a part limited in time and space.  He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.  This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.  Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.  Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security.

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)  Mathematical Circles

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth." 
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Dass Guided Imagery

"LOVE AND DO WHAT YOU WILL"  St. Augustine

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 11-29 the ART OF WRITING 1: ^WC; "Best and Worst" (pairs); QUIZ; Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon Blog 1 (points can be applied to either semester)

TODAY'S GOALS [2I1] “to know thyself.” To know one’s strengths and weaknesses . Self-awareness is essential not only for leadership and ethics, but for good writing for it enables self-management of time and emotional as well as intellectual resources.

REQUIRED:

723-730            Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon selection +

Horses - the forgotten victims of bullfighting

by Maria Lopes
Co-ordinator of the International Movement Against Bullfights
View Original. Article © www.iwab.org 2006

http://www.sharkonline.org/?P=0000000482

What is a bullfight, and who suffers in this bloody so-called sport? In Anglo-Saxon countries it is regarded as a sport, perhaps due to lack of knowledge. It is, after all, banned throughout the UK and the Commonwealth nations, as well as most of Europe. In countries where bullfighting is allowed it is increasingly becoming recognised as sheer barbarity. This savagery involves two beautiful animals, bulls and horses. While the bulls are guaranteed to die, the future of the horses is often no brighter.

Bullfights take place in three European countries, France, Portugal and Spain and in some parts of Latin America. In some states of North America a form of bullfight is permitted but the animal is covered with velcro and the spears used are imitation.

It's commonly believed that in Portuguese bullfights bulls or horses don't suffer unlike the Spanish versions. This is unfortunately a myth since the suffering is the same in both bullfight styles.

The only difference is that in Spanish bullrings the bull is killed in the ring instead of in the slaughterhouse when the "entertainment" is over.

Every year more than 50,000 bulls are killed in bullfights in Europe alone. Countless horses die or suffer severe injuries.

 

Bullfighters claim that bulls bred for bullfights are aggressive and fearsome animals. This is also untrue. They fight because they are fighting for their lives.

But bulls are not the only creatures to suffer in bullrings. The tormented bull does not understand that it is the man on the horse's back that is causing his pain, only that he is in agony. He therefore sees the horse as his enemy as much as the man.

It's not unusual for horses used in bullfights to be so badly gored by the bulls that they have to be killed, but only after they have been dragged from the ring and the view of the spectators.

Spanish bullfights also employ "picadors", men on horseback armed with spears.

These horses are often gored even though they are protected by what is termed a "peto", or a protective cape. These petos often do little more than hide the horses wounds.

The horses are blind-folded to prevent them from becoming terror stricken at the charge of the bull. It is commonly believed that their ears are stuffed with cottonwool to prevent them from panicking and their vocal cords cut to stop them screaming with fear at the bull's attack.

As little as 12 days ago in Madrid another horse was gored by a bull and had to be killed.

This is the fate of these beautiful animals. To be used to entertain a crowd that lusts for blood and claims that bullfighting is a tradition and "cultural heritage".

What about the brave matadors, picadors and their ilk? Bullfighters are rarely injured and seldom killed in the ring. With their armoury of weapons to weaken the bull until it can no longer fight, their lives are not at great risk. In fact, in the last 50 years only 10 bullfighters have been killed worldwide.

Should you ever find yourself in a country where bullfighting is practiced, please do not be tempted to attend one of these sadistic displays. The continuation of bullfighting depends on government subsidies and the tourist industry. Don't be an accomplice to this savagery by supporting it with your dollars.

731-763           Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon  MSS selection,

1294                        Hemingway on Rewriting

WRITING AS DISCOVERY LEARNING, AS ART

=================================

O= 2. Organization and Logical Order of the Prose  +V = 4. Integration of Verbal and  Visual   Rhetoric

1262                           Writing Well is Thinking Well
1265                           Yeats, "Hammer Your Thoughts"; IRELAND
=======================================

RETHINK REWRITE  ALSO  = ^ [coherence]

 

1266                           Forster, "Only Connect" [ CONNECT Your Head and Your Heart]  ALSO ^ [coherence] BRITAIN
1267-1268              Creating a Strong Thesis
1269                       Structure of a Professional Research Paper
1270                        "COMPOSITION," the meaning of    ALSO ^ [coherence]
1271                       Introductions and Conclusions        ALSO ^ [coherence]
=======================================

^ = 1. UNITY, COHERENCE, AND FLOW
1272-1273           Flow and Transitions     ALSO O
1274                       COHERENCE, sign of an 'A' paper
1275                        Transitional     Expressions
 1276                       Focusing on Transitions  

W= 8. WORD CHOICE + S= 3. SPECIFICITY: 

1321-1322           Verbs that Take Prepositions
1323                       Rough Guide to Preposition
1324                        Revisions    Checklist
1325-1326           Saying What You Mean
1327-1328                        Diction and Conciseness

USE THE Oxford English Dictionary:
https://login.ezproxy.lib.utexas.edu/login?qurl=http%3a%2f%2fwww.oed.com%2f
  
  ======================================= 
C= 9. CONCISENESS
1327-1328          Diction and Conciseness   ALSO  W= 8.
1329-1330           Eliminating Wordiness  ALSO  W= 8.
1331                       Readability and Clarity  ALSO  W= 8.
1332                        Tips for Improving Readability  ALSO  W= 8.  
  ======================================= 

published version

 

At the first bullfight I ever went to I expected to be horrified and perhaps sickened by what I had been told would happen to the horses. Everything I had read about the bull ring insisted on that point; most people who wrote of it condemned bullfighting outright as a stupid brutal business, but even those that spoke well of it as an exhibition of skill and as a spectacle deplored the use of the horses and were apologetic about the whole thing. The killing of the horses in the ring was considered indefensible. I suppose, from a modern moral point of view, that is, a Christian point of view, the whole bullfight is indefensible; there is certainly much cruelty, there is always danger, either sought or unlooked for, and there is always death, and I should not try to defend it now, only to tell honestly the things I have found true about it.

 

So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is that you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after and judged by these moral standards, which I do not de- fend, the bullfight is very moral to me because I feel very fine while it is going on and have a feeling of life and death and mortality and immortality, and after it is over I feel very sad but very fine. Also, I do not mind the horses ; not in principle, but in fact I do not mind them. I was very surprised at this since I cannot see a horse down in the street without having it make me feel a necessity for helping the horse, .....

The question of why the death of the horse in the bull ring is not moving, not moving to some people that is, is complicated; but the fundamental reason may be that the death of the horse tends to be comic while that of the bull is tragic. In the tragedy of the bullfight the horse is the comic character. This may be shocking, but it is true. Therefore the worse the horses are, provided they are high enough off the ground and solid enough so that the picador can perform his mission with the spiked pole, or vara, the more they are a comic element. You should be horrified and disgusted at these parodies of horses and what happens to them, but there is no way to be sure that you will be unless you make up your mind to be, no matter what your feelings. They are so unlike horses ; in some ways they are like birds, any of the awkward birds such as the adjutants or the wide-billed storks, and when, lifted by the thrust of the bull's neck and shoulder muscles their legs hang, big hoofs dangling, neck drooping, the worn-out body lifted on the horn, they are not comic; but I swear they are not tragic…… when the canvases are stretched over the horses, the long legs, and necks, the strange-shaped heads and the canvas covering the body to make a sort of wing, they are more like birds than ever. They look a little as a dead pelican does. A live pelican is an interesting, amusing, and sympathetic bird, though if you handle him he will give you lice ; but a dead pelican looks very silly…. . I have seen these, call them disembowellings, that is the worst word, when, due to their timing, they were very funny. This is the sort of thing you should not admit, but it is because such things have not been admitted that the bullfight has never been explained.

 

 

 

 

Blog Instructions: Required: the usual 2 unique images AND at least one unique ENDING from Hemingway's Farewell to Arms  with explanation of why you prefer your unique ending AND an analysis of the significance of one unique revision from the MSS. of Death in the Afternoon.

 

REVIEW

WRITING INSTRUCTIONS

 
  =======================================

1256-1257                 High School to College Writing Transition
1258-1259                 Researching
1260-1261                 Paraphrasing vs. Plagiarism
   
  =======================================

 ======================================= 
P= 7.  PUNCTUATION:
1277-1287           Eats, Shoots, and Leaves: commas, semicolons
1288-1289           Quick Guide to Commas  
  ======================================= 
 
DOC= 6. DOCUMENTATION
1290-1293           Chicago Manual of Style: Endnotes Only; No Bibliography; Consecutive endnote numbers with no repeats;  specific page nos. required for all print source citations ;
do not use automatic citations systems unless they match this one EXACTLY
  ======================================= 
 
"Our papers came back bloodied with red marks –most lavishly the withering "ww" for "wrong word."  Fun Home" by Alison Bechdel (page 201) AMERICA

 
P =PROOFREADING
1333-1335          Proofreading
1336                     Why spell checkers are not enough
  
  ======================================= 

“Stress Recess” Stressed by papers? Tests? Relationship issues? For these and other stressors, take a few minutes to check out a new interactive website called “Stress Recess” at http://www.cmhc.utexas.edu/stressrecess, a component of the UT Counseling and Mental Health Center. This site is loaded with videos, animation, video games, body scans, quizzes, clickable charts and graphics and practical information tailored to YOU. Learn what causes stress, signs of stress and—most importantly---what you can do to manage stress in healthy ways!

• Counseling and Mental Health Center:
  512-471-3515
• UT Telephone Counseling (24 hours/day, 7 days/week):
  512-471-CALL (2255)
• Behavior Concerns Advice Line (24 hours/day, 7 days/week):
  512-232-5050

---

Return to Schedule

 

 

Return to Bump Home Page