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Write a paragraph to answer the following questions:

Welcome: Take 5 minutes and…. Write a paragraph to answer the following questions: Describe something you think or feel is beautiful. It might be a concept, a person, an object, a place, a piece of music, or even a type of food. Is the experience of beauty important to you?. Other voices….

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Write a paragraph to answer the following questions:

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  1. Welcome: Take 5 minutes and… Write a paragraph to answer the following questions: Describe something you think or feel is beautiful. It might be a concept, a person, an object, a place, a piece of music, or even a type of food. Is the experience of beauty important to you?

  2. Other voices… We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting. ~Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese American Poet, Theologian, Philosopher Beauty makes the heart break. ~Sara Teasdale American Lyrical Poet

  3. Beauty suspends the desire to be elsewhere. ~Ken Weber in The Eye of the Spirit

  4. There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. ~Francis Bacon from “Of Beauty” English author, courtier, & philosopher (1561 - 1626)

  5. “The Birth-mark” March 1843 Nathanial Hawthorne

  6. Discussion • What do you remember from “The Birthmark?” • Resonance / Resistance • What question does the text ask? • What did I learn about writing? • How did rhetorical appeals operate? (use handout) Ethos Pathos Logos

  7. Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) Pied Beauty     Glory be to God for dappled things—         For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;             For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;     Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings;         Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough;             And áll trades, their gear and tackle and trim.     All things counter, original, spáre, strange;         Whatever is fickle, frecklèd (who knows how?)             With swíft, slów; sweet, sóur; adázzle, dím;     He fathers-forth whose beauty is pást change:                                                 Práise hím.

  8. Discussion Rhetorical Appeals in first two paragraphs of The Wonderful Mistake • Ethos: How does Thomas make himself trustworthy? • Pathos: How does Thomas entrap our emotions? • Logos: How does Thomas engage our reasoning / logic?

  9. Define a major or career: What sorts of careers have the texts tried to define?

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