Scott Simeral
@scott_simeral
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Joined October 2018
RT @osssociety: Today is Indiana Jones Day. OSS recruited a number of archeologists who used their profession as cover. Indiana Jones was O….
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RT @BrentonDana: The Last Letter of J.R.R. Tolkien, on the 45th Anniversary of His Death
apilgriminnarnia.com
I have just finished reading The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien (1982), which is fitting given that this is the 45th anniversary of his death (2 Sep 1973). With help from Christopher Tolkien, noted...
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RT @TolkienSociety: Today is J.R.R. #Tolkien's 133rd birthday!. As Frodo did for Bilbo, the Tolkien Society continues to celebrate Tolkien'….
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To celebrate Tolkien's 133rd birthday on 3 January 2025, the Tolkien Society invites all Tolkien fans to raise a toast to the Professor. The Toast After Bilbo left the Shire on his eleventy-first...
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RT @osssociety: John Steinbeck, who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962, died OTD 1968. Steinbeck’s 1942 novel, “The Moon is Dow….
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“The study of literature, Dennis Cassovan had always thought, was a preparation for #death. By definition, the #literaryscholar was continuously engaged in a scrutiny of the arc that gave shape to existence, via Aristotle's beginning, middle, and inevitable end.”
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RT @jdeposicion: Ernest Hemingway:. “War is made or planned now by individual men, demagogues and dictators who play on the patriotism of t….
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“The goal of such an education isn’t direct career training but cultivation of the mind—the belief that Lionel Trilling caricatured as ‘certain good things happen if we read literature.’”.
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Enrollment in the humanities is in free fall at colleges around the country. What happened?
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‘Why business needs the humanities: Focusing on STEM degrees has its own economic cost’.
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In the Age of A.I., Major in Being Human (Brooks). "By studying literature, drama, biography and history, you learn about what goes on in the minds of other people.”. #humanities #liberalarts #careeradvice .
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How to acquire the skills no machine can have.
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RT @USSOCOM: A top 2023 paper from @JSOUPress “SOF Quills for the Porcupine: Applying Lessons from Ukraine to Taiwan.”. Retired Gen. Richa….
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“If you open up the frequency and talk reason and sense and literature to people the way the professor used to do, then maybe the insanity of this old man’s war might come to an end.”
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I do like to think she was being serious about this part: Students of #literature and #creativewriting “honed crucial traits that will be of use to you: […] The reading and writing of fiction both requires and instills empathy—the insertion of oneself into the life of another.”
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RT @MilitaryTimes: "The potentially distinct interests" of service academies was a reason Chief Justice John Roberts cited as to not yet ad….
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"The potentially distinct interests" of service academies was a reason Chief Justice John Roberts cited as to not yet address their admissions practices.
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“Mr. McCarthy named the ‘good writers’ as Melville, Dostoyevsky and Faulkner, a list that omitted writers who, as he put it, don’t ‘deal with issues of life and death.’”.
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“All the Pretty Horses,” “The Road” and “No Country for Old Men” were among his acclaimed books that explore a bleak world of violence and outsiders.
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