13 May 2013

Classical World View: Quest for the First Principle

The Western Philosophies in Classical or Ancient era had gone after the quest for the ‘First Principles’. Philosophers had discussed about several elements which were supposed to originate the existence of earth with. That quest had begun from first philosopher in western World, Thales of Ionia (636-546 BC) who was one of the pre-Socratic philosophers, till the time of Aristotle (4^th Century BC). These classical or Greek philosophers are often tagged as natural philosophers with their supposition of natural things or world to be the fundamental elements.

The first philosopher to make the quest is Thales of Ionia. He started to talk about natural concept destroying divine and mythological concepts. Argumentative method for philosophy was developed. Thales claimed that everything in this world is made up of water because everything come with moisture. He created the metaphysics. He even believed that the earth floats in water. Seeds of everything have got some sort of moist in it which is the element of water. 

“ Oh Sweet Lorraine”- Oldest Man to Break the Record for Top 100 Billboard Chart

Oldest Man Ever to hit the Billboard Top 100 Charts 

“Everybody has that point in their life where you hit a crossroads and you've had a bunch of bad days and there's different ways you can deal with it and the way I dealt with it was I just turned completely to music.” 
                                                                                                                                                                       ― Taylor Swift 

I still remember love Story singer Taylor Swift saying this quote.  BUT, what made me to feel really astonished today is the love story of 96 years old Fred Stobough penning for his deceased wife (75).

Music is the universal language and now it has been comprehended by this nonagenarian.

A retired truck driver Mr Stobough penned this lyrics for his passed wife-Lorraine.

Jacob Colgan, Musician, (Green Shoe Recording Studio) made it through to stay in Top 100 of Billboard.

He knocked Tony Bennett, previous oldest star.

Here is the heart breaking song "Oh Sweet Lorraine"

 

“ Oh Sweet Lorraine” Lyrics 

Oh Sweet Lorraine

I wish we could do
The good times
All over again
Life only goes around
Once
But never again
I wish we could do
All the good times all over
Again
Linger on
Oh sweet Lorraine
The memories will
Always linger on
The memories will
Always linger on

Oh sweet Lorraine

Oh sweet Lorraine

My memories will always 

--With the help of Agencies--

“Taste of Rainbow Trout: trip to Dhading”

      I had been Dhading for several times while I was in College tour or other purposes. But, I had never got chance to taste the real beauty of Dhading. This time, I got it SUPERB.

As we moved towards Dhading for the Educational Tour with my students of Apple Academy, I happened to taste the serene beauty along with villagers’ raw accent welcoming us. The thing that I can’t forget is the taste of Rainbow Trout.

“Rainbow trout, also called redband trout, are gorgeous fish, with coloring and patterns that vary widely depending on habitat, age, and spawning condition. They are torpedo-shaped and generally blue-green or yellow-green in color with a pink streak along their sides, white underbelly, and small black spots on their back and fins.” (Nationalgeography.com)

Though, it smelt nasty at first, but when tore first bite of it, it tasted really good for me. I took three pieces of it hmm YUMMY.

Check it once before you die.

"What Work Is"

Understanding Capitalistic Ideologies: Interpreting What Work Is by Phillip Levine

           

The poem “What Work Is” by Phillip Levine is laden with capitalistic ideologies. In the poem, ‘we’ is representing the working class people. The poem is set in industrial city of USA where those people are shown to be queuing up for the work. And the speaker of the poem is trying to define what is work?.

We stand in the rain in a long line

       waiting at Ford Highland Park. For work.   (1-2)

   

In these first two lines of first stanza , we can see how those people are waiting over there in the line for the work besides the uncertainties of employment. The Poem was written in the era of massive industrial production during 19^th century. They are waiting in a long line in front of Ford Highland Park which is currently known as Ford Highland Park Plant. Here in this poem, Ford Highland Park stands for Capitalism, because it is the true employer over there. Ford Highland Park was previously manufacturing company of biggest car company Ford in USA. The name of the company Ford is synonymous to cars all over the world. Similarly, cars are the part of the American Dream.

Slanting rays of sun on frigid zone

Slanting rays of sun on frigid zone

Frigid zone is the one of the heat or climatic zones of the earth which lies in 66.5˚ and above latitudinal height towards south and north poles of the earth. On the basis of the heat received from the Sun, earth is divided into 3 heat zones. They are Frigid zone (66.5˚ and above South and North), temperate zone (23.5˚ to 66.5˚ South and North) and torrid zone (0˚-23.5˚ South and North). Heat zone is synonymously used as the climatic zone in geography.

The earth rotates in the direction of east to west and along with the equatorial line. That’s why, places in equator gets direct vertical heat of the sun and heat zone is also called torrid zone. In torrid zone, temperature rises extremely  and weather changes very frequently. Similarly, in temperate heat zone climate remains warm, moist and damp causing relief rainfall.

As Frigid zone (Southern and Northern frigid zones) stretches from 66.5˚ latitude up to 90˚ latitudinal height of the earth, it lies in extreme south and North poles of the earth. So, when earth orbits in the direction east to west putting vertical rays over equator, slanting rays are spread over