Nüshu (literally “women’s writing” in Chinese) is a syllabic script created and used exclusively by women in the Jiangyong County in Hunan province of southern China. Up until the late Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) women were forbidden access to formal education, and so Nüshu was developed in secrecy as a means to communicate. Since its discovery in 1982, Nüshu remains to be the only gender-specific writing system in the world.
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George Romney
The Infant Shakespeare Nursed by Tragedy and Comedy
Romney employed Emma Hart, Lady Hamilton, as a model for the figure of Comedy.
Went to the Denver Art Museum 2 weeks ago, this is honestly my favorite piece, probably ever.
Dirty Politics (Yes, it’s a bit redundant.)
“I saw just parts of it yesterday,” he said. “First of all, it is just stupid. Second of all, yeah, I lived overseas four times … I speak Chinese, of course I do. If someone wants to poke fun of me for speaking Chinese, that’s OK. The thing I object to is bringing forward pictures and videos of my adopted daughters and suggesting that there is some sinister motive there. I have a daughter from China who was abandoned at two months of age and left in a vegetable market, picked up by the police and sent to an orphanage.”
“I have a second daughter who was born in India in a very rural village … and left for dead the day she was born,” he added. “And luckily she was picked up before the animals got her, and she was sent to an orphanage for her safety, was raised and now she is in my family. So I have two little girls who are a daily reminder that there are a lot of kids in this world who don’t have the breaks that you do and face a very uncertain future … and now these two girls are on the presidential campaign trail. I say, how cool is that?” -Jon Huntsman.
What are your opinions? Who’s at fault?
Apotheosis of Homer (detail of the Iliad personified), Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, 1827.
I’m now convinced that this is all one big practical joke.
Beside him being a real pissant, what do you think of his philosophy as a whole or just part? What are your examples of his Categorical Imperative? How can those be tied to the notion of respect for persons, should there be that respect for persons? Are his arguments for morality convincing or useful to our society or are they just for his time? Are we rational beings?
{Can we even act rationally? If our natural state is rendered irrational by hormones, experience, personal beliefs, sheltered vision, and emotions; then, is our natural state irrational? Was rationality even an option to begin with.}
