2 interesting 1 connection As I discussed in my first interesting quote, I also noticed how this connects to current times. It reminds me of big corporations like Disney or Apple, who were…

2 interesting 1 connection Lucretius says that he does not believe god doesn’t exist, just that god ignores humans and their troubles for it does not concern God in his omnipotence. It reminds…

2 interesting 1 connection On the bottom of page 156, Greenblatt states, “His career triumph in the pontificate of John XXIII must have given him some pleasure, but it only intensified (the immersion…

2 interesting: 1 connection: “The key that opened the first door through which he slipped was something that has come to mean next to nothing in the modern world: beautiful handwriting.” (pg. 115)…

In my search, I found that in the area of writing and becoming an author, 66% of all people in this field were actually self employed. This stood out to me because it…

2 interesting 1 connection I think the fact that all of the modern day cultures have mixed relates to the ways in which Greek and Roman civilizations mixed together. For instance, despite the…

2 Specific details from the text: 1.On page 37, Greenblatt describes Poggio to be someone who is really against the idea of the monastery. He states “Their whole enterprise seemed to him an…

2 Specific details from the reading. 1: On page 5, Greenblatt states “‘Death is nothing to us.’ To spend your existence in the grip of anxiety about death, he wrote, is mere folly.”…

While making this, one of the harder things to talk about were my more personal goals. Being asked to look introspectively on things I myself am not too sure on was tough for…