Musician and Poet

Music-making was a popular leisure activity in aristocratic households in the early seventeenth century and a growing number of courtier poets wrote and exchanged verse in aristocratic salons and literary coteries. Chapter 12 continues the exploration of Herbert’s intellectual achievements and reputation as a polymath. It traces his interest in playing the lute and singing, and the musical preferences and fashions demonstrated by the music books he owned and the preludes, fantasias, pavanes, galliards, courantes, voltes, sarabands, and airs assembled in his unique manuscript lute book. It probes his inclusion among the metaphysical poets, exploring the influence of John Donne and Giambattista Marino, but also that of Ben Jonson, Thomas Carew, and Sir Philip Sidney, and of Horace, Juvenal, and Ovid. It uses the themes of love, beauty, immortality, and death to examine examples of his sonnets, elegies, epitaphs, satires, and lyrical poems, some of which were published posthumously as The Occasional Verses of Lord Herbert of Cherbury in 1665, and looks briefly at his Latin philosophical poems and his rough draft for a masque. It explores his preference for deploying verbal ingenuity and erudition rather than feelings, his deployment of metaphysical conceits and concepts, his innovative experimentation with rhyme and the extent of his participation in the literary coterie culture of the times. It claims a place for him among the leading minor poets and suggests that this was an impressive achievement for a man heavily engaged in other intellectual fields as well as political and estate matters.

Honolulu’s colonial legacy of marginalization: A cycle of emergency and urban development

Relying heavily on newspaper archives, this article explores the ‘first rough draft’ of Honolulu’s early urban frontier to rescue the spectacle of environmental and emergency management in the early twentieth-century town of Kakaako. Analysing the interdependent discursive and material processes in response to public health crisis ‐ viewed here serving as a continuation of colonialism ‐ I show how Kakaako existed as a release valve for detritus as part of a dialectical process towards development. Spaces like Kakaako proved central to the partitioning of urban space, serving as receptacles of bio-sociocultural waste. This article details how cycles of emergency cordoned-off spaces utilized to contain, discipline or assimilate certain groups, provoking the development and evacuation of that which is judged as unfit and unworthy while engendering the notion of profitability as a necessary precondition to inhabiting city space.

Electric Energy Potential from Pineapples and Potatoes

Basically, the voltage can be obtained from various sources, including fruit. Fruit is often used as food, drink and a source of vitamins for the body's defense system. It turns out that it has the ability to generate electricity, especially for fruit that has a high acidity level. The acidity in some types of fruit is able to generate electricity because it is electrolyte. Fruits which contain mineral acids in the form of hydrochloric acid and citric acid, are strong electrolytes that break down completely into ions in a water solution. Besides having acid, fruits also contain a lot of water, so that when two different metals are immersed, the fruit solution will create a potential difference between the metal and water so that there is an electrode potential that can generate electric current as well. The purpose of making a rough draft of this practicum is to prove the existence of electrical energy in pineapples and potatoes. In this experiment, it has been proven that pineapples and potatoes can produce an electric current, indicated by the presence of a voltage when measured by a voltmeter.

Just Write

The writing process as it is widely conceived today is five steps: brainstorming, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing. Perhaps none of these steps is more difficult to begin and to finish as the rough draft. The rough draft, before which the writer stares at the “blank page,” and during which the cartoon image of a writer surrounded by crumpled-up pages is seen, is the critical moment of putting the ink to the paper: the first step of getting it all down. And at this moment of beginning, the writer may suffer more than at any other time the repression or “beat down” of the internal editor, a part of the psyche that always seems to tell the individual that they don't know, they can't do it, and it isn't good enough. For this reason, after getting through the rough draft, a writer may think “it's all down hill from here.” And the writer may be right. To get through this difficult process, this chapter will consider various strategies and development ideas so that the writer can succeed in the rough draft stage.

Description of Chinul’s Keeping an Eye on the Hwadu (Translation 3A) and Hyesim’s Diagnosing Illnesses (Supplementary Translation 3B)

Pojo Chinul’s (1158–1210) magnum opus, Excerpts, is dated 1209, a year before Chinul’s death. In the final portion of this text Chinul makes a sharp turn in his orientation: away from the doctrinal teachings of Hwaŏm and toward the huatou practice of Letters of Dahui. Chinul’s “full digestion” of Dahui-style huatou practice comes only with his posthumous Treatise on Resolving Uncertainty about Keeping an Eye on the Hwadu (Kanhwa kyŏrŭiron). However, one is probably on safer ground if one considers this little treatise as a work coauthored by Chinul and his chief disciple Chin’gak Hyesim (1178–1234), who inherited Chinul’s rough draft/notes and “finished” the project. Hyesim compiled another work entitled Diagnosing Illnesses, which focuses exclusively on the mu無‎ hwadu and Dahui’s ten illnesses associated with hwadu practice. This “Description” section is followed by a translation of both Keeping an Eye on the Hwadu and Diagnosing Illnesses.

Rough-Draft Thinking and Revising in Mathematics

Ear to the Ground features voices from various corners of the mathematics education world.