Allan Bloom

more in tune with God is in the highest regard of the perennialist (American Education pages 77-78). Some educational leaders were Jacques Maritain, Robert M. Hutchins, Mortimer J. Adler, and Allan Bloom. Jacques Maritain was a French philosopher who believed that the world could not be understood by just intelligence, but having a relationship with a superior being was the only way to completely understand the entire universe. Maritain was also an ecclesiastic perennialist meaning that his philosophy was targeted towards God oriented learning. Robert M. Hutchins and Jacques Maritain both agree that the ideal education is one that is motivated towards develop mentation of the mind and also the study of the Great Books. Hutchins was a lay perennialist which means he was intrigued by the teaching of the basis curriculum of perennialism, but he was a little less of the Spiritual Being intertwined with education (American Education pg. 79). Other lay perennialists were Mortimer J. Adler and Allan Bloom. Both Adler and Hutchins advocated that every student should receive the same education, and they believed that by studying the great books that life will be much simpler. Allan Bloom wrote “The Closing of the American Mind” which describes illiteracy to be the downfall of civilization. Bloom also agrees with Adler and Hutchinson on the teaching of the Great books of the Western Civilization because the information does not change throughout history (American Education pg. 78-79).…

In his 1987 book, The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom makes the case for what he describes as higher education failing democracy through an emphasis on historicism and relativism. This academic emphasis, for Bloom, creates a paradoxical restrictive freedom in the minds and hearts of students, leaving them without a moral compass, and creating a void that can easily be filled with demagoguery. Along the way, Bloom staunchly defends elitism and ethnocentrism, attacks feminism, and lays…

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Growing up is a part of life and though some may bloom later than others everyone grows up sooner or later. In Bobbie Ann Mason’s “Shiloh,” truck driver Leroy Moffitt is badly injured and suddenly forced to stay at home with Norma Jean, his distant wife. This brings her to the realization that she is no longer happy with where she is. She displays maturation that brings her to a better place and through her drastic self improvements Mason reveals that maturing and moving on are key parts of life…

“When I left that icy prison I’d no idea where north and south were but I did have two very strong convictions. One was that good novels must be a poetic transposition of reality, and the other was that mankind’s immediate future lay in socialism” (qtd. in Bloom 11). This is the essence of Gárcia Márquez. A man of hard principles and passionate imagination, he was born on March 6, 1928 in Aracataca, Columbia. His childhood years were marked by his relationships with his grandparents and his…

freshwater lakes and ponds respond to the changes in their climate in two ways. They either can not respond, therefore, the number of that organism decreases and can become extinct, or they adapt so well that they overpowers other organisms causing the other organisms to become extinct. In the Arctic, ice caps have started to melt causing many animals to be stranded. All of these environmental changes are also affecting us humans. Freshwater lakes and ponds have drastically been affected due…

necessary process of strengthening oneself, even the benefit of a degree of selfishness, are themes that appear throughout How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom and “I Stepped from Plank to Plank” by Emily Dickinson. Harold Bloom’s thesis is that how and what one reads has to be distinctly personalized to themselves; because of our constant race against the clock, reading needs to be for the individual alone. Dickinson enforces this idea of solitary exploration and…

Anthropological Critique of the Journal Article ‘Anthropogenic Nutrients and Harmful Algae in Coastal Waters’ by Davidson et al. (2014) Introduction (1/2 page) With geological experts currently attempting to declare a new geological period, the Anthropocene, Humanistic-scientific spectrum (1 page) The scientific and the humanistic perspectives form two contrasting approaches towards approaching research. Each approach is applicable in the appropriate situation. However, neither perspective is…

of Mexico. The area in the Gulf of Mexico that is noted for oxygen depletion is called the “dead zone”. A dead zone, also known as a hypoxia zone, is an area with little to no dissolved oxygen in the water. It is believed that these areas are depleted of oxygen because of the pollution in the runoff delivered by the mighty Mississippi River. A fair amount of this pollution comes from fertilizer runoff from Midwestern farms that leach into the Mississippi River. This fertilizer contains large…

What are some common symptoms of food poisoning? Based on those symptoms, which dinoflagellate do you think is responsible for the outbreak? A bloom of dinoflagellates can change the water color colloquially known as red tide. Red tide can infect shellfish and cause shellfish poisoning if people eat the bad shellfish. Some symptoms of shellfish poisoning are nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea Explain how an HAB outbreak can have a devastating economic impact. There would be a bad impact on…