It is suggested that the blind could be taught to read through their sense of touch ( a later essay, Lettre sur les sourds et muets, considered the case of a similar deprivation in the deaf and mute ).

This powerful essay ... revolves around a remarkable deathbed scene in which a dying blind philosopher, Saunderson, rejects the arguments of a providential God during his last hours.

A lost epic, Titanomachia, attributed to the blind Thracian bard Thamyris, himself a legendary figure, was mentioned in passing in an essay On Music that was once attributed to Plutarch.

My first sentence of my essay to get into college was like, ' Imagine being blind and deaf at age seven.

Such manipulations are frequently encountered in his essay on the suppression of the monasteries during the English reformation.

This essay is widely held to be one of the greatest examples of sustained irony in the history of the English language.

[...] It is not as philosophically thorough as the works of D. Saliba, A. M. Goichon, or L. Gardet, but it is probably the best essay in English on this important thinker of the Middle Ages.

Like he had with montages of landscapes and indigenous art, Marker created a film essay that contrasts and juxtaposes a variety of lives with his signature commentary ( spoken by Marker's friends, singer-actor Yves Montand in the French version and Simone Signoret in the English version ).

In his essay " Politics and the English Language ", George Orwell observes that political language serves to distort and obfuscate reality.

For a while he " went native " in his own country, dressing like a tramp and making no concessions to middle-class mores and expectations ; he recorded his experiences of the low life for use in The Spike, his first published essay in English, and in the second half of his first book, Down and Out in Paris and London ( 1933 ).

In his essay Politics and the English Language ( 1946 ), Orwell wrote about the importance of precise and clear language, arguing that vague writing can be used as a powerful tool of political manipulation because it shapes the way we think.

Nevertheless Penny Rimbaud of the English anarcho-punk band Crass said in interviews, and in an essay called The Last Of The Hippies, that Crass was formed in memory of his friend, Wally Hope.

" In her much reprinted essay " Science Fiction and Mrs Brown ," the science fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin has approached an answer by first citing the essay written by the English author Virginia Woolf entitled " Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown " in which she states:

Gary K. Wolfe, professor of humanities and English at Roosevelt University, identifies the introduction of the term New Wave to SF as occurring in 1966 in an essay for the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction written by Judith Merril, who was indirectly yet it seems unambiguously referring to that term in order to comment on the experimental fiction that had begun to appear in the English magazine New Worlds, after Michael Moorcock assumed editorship in 1964.

In his 1870 essay " On the Graphical Representation of Supply and Demand ", Fleeming Jenkin in the course of " introduc the diagrammatic method into the English economic literature " published the first drawing of supply and demand curves therein, including comparative statics from a shift of supply or demand and application to the labor market.

Peterhouse runs annually three essay prizes for History, Science and English.

Edmund Gosse, influenced by Théodore de Banville, was the first English writer to praise the villanelle and bring it into fashion with his 1877 essay " A Plea for Certain Exotic Forms of Verse ".

* The film director Terrence Malick translated Heidegger's 1929 essay " Vom Wesen des Grundes " into English.

The noble savage achieved prominence as an oxymoronic rhetorical device after 1851, when used sarcastically as the title for a satirical essay by English novelist Charles Dickens, who wished to disassociate himself from 18th and early 19th-century romantic primitivism.

While at the University of Vilnius he wrote the article, " Neuholland und die brittische Colonie in Botany-Bay ", published in the Allgemeines historisches Taschenbuch, ( Berlin, Dezember 1786 ), a remarkably prescient essay on the future prospects of the English colony founded in New South Wales in 1788.

Penny Rimbaud of the English anarcho-punk band Crass said in interviews, and in an essay called The Last Of The Hippies, that Crass was formed in memory of his friend, Wally Hope.

In 1927 he published a short book, On the Poems of Henry Vaughan, Characteristics and Intimations, with his principal Latin poems carefully translated into English verse ( London: H. Cobden-Sanderson, 1927 ), expanding and revising an essay that he had published in November 1926 in the London Mercury.

" The 1959 edition features White's expansions of those sections, the " Introduction " essay ( derived from his magazine feature story about Prof. Strunk ), and the concluding chapter, " An Approach to Style ", a broader, prescriptive guide to writing in English.

An essay on the cultural history of Irkutsk ( and another one about the nearby Lake Baikal ) is included in Rasputin's non-fiction collection Siberia, Siberia, which is also available in an English translation.

Gay Head Cliffs in Martha's VineyardThe linguist William Labov wrote his MA essay on changes in the Martha's Vineyard dialect of English.

* English translation of Rudople Guilland's essay on Byzantine eunuchs " Les Eunuques dans l ' Empire Byzantin: Étude de titulature et de prosopographie byzantines ", in ' Études Byzantines ', Vol.

A lucid statement of this is found in an essay written by the British mathematician G. H. Hardy in defense of pure mathematics.

While spacetime can be viewed as a consequence of Albert Einstein's 1905 theory of special relativity, it was first explicitly proposed mathematically by one of his teachers, the mathematician Hermann Minkowski, in a 1908 essay building on and extending Einstein's work.

However, at just the same time, the Flemish mathematician Simon Stevin ( 1548 – 1620 ) wrote an essay containing the correct mathematical formulation of equal temperament for the first time in Western musical theory, though his manuscript remained unpublished until long after the author's death ( Kutter 1975, 167 – 68 ; Stevin 1884 ).

He is usually known by those outside the field of mathematics for his essay from 1940 on the aesthetics of mathematics, A Mathematician's Apology, which is often considered one of the best insights into the mind of a working mathematician written for the layman.

A Mathematician's Apology is a 1940 essay by British mathematician G. H. Hardy.

* George Mason University has an economics essay award named in honor of Hayek.

* The Mont Pelerin Society has a quadrennial economics essay contest named in his honor.

" A Story About A Tree " is a short essay written by Raph Koster regarding the death of a LegendMUD player named Karyn, raising the subject of inter-human relationships in virtual worlds.

The term was coined in a 1989 essay, in La Revue du Cinema n ° 449, by a critic named Raphaël Bassan ,.

Linus's Law as described by Raymond is a claim about software development, named in honor of Linus Torvalds and formulated by Raymond in his essay and book " The Cathedral and the Bazaar " ( 1999 ).

In his infamous essay attacking detective fiction, Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd, American critic Edmund Wilson decried this novel as dull, overlong and far too detailed ; describing how he skipped a lot of the prose about bell-ringing ( quote: " a lot of information of the kind that you might expect to find in an encyclopaedia article on campanology "), and also large amounts of Sayers ' focal sleuth character, " the embarrassingly named " Lord Peter Wimsey.

* In 2006, the Atlas Economic Research Foundation launched an annual essay contest for Muslim students named in Ibn Khaldun's honor.

In the essay that accompanied the publication of its anthology, several reasons are given for why the magazine was named as such.

In the episode, an over-the-top name-dropping fashionista named Val, editor of Val magazine, visits Lawndale High after Daria wins an essay contest.

Feminist and LGBT bookstore A Room of One's Own in Madison, Wisconsin was named after Woolf's essay.

Canadian literary journal showcasing the work of women writers and visual artists, Room of One's Own, now Room, was also named for Woolf's essay.

The Smiths ' song Shakespeare's Sister is named after a section of the essay.

He was named ' Columnist of the Year ' in the 2002 What the Papers Say awards and in 2008 was awarded the David Watt Prize for Journalism, in recognition of his essay ‘ Bush ’ s Amazing Achievement ’, published in The New York Review of Books.

Halo Effect: An Unauthorized Look at the Most Successful Video Game of All Time, an essay on references to mythology in Halo and previous Bungie games, analyzed the significance of Cortana's name, stating is a variant of Curtana, the sword used by the legendary Ogier the Dane, just as the titular AI character of Marathon 2: Durandal is apparently named after another legendary sword, Durendal.

Smith's publication followed an earlier essay by Delia Bacon, which claimed that Shakespeare had not written the plays, though she had not named an alternative author.

The essay, supposedly written by a Swiss scholar named Michel Desommelier, included concocted passages from Laura that fooled scholars and even Dmitri Nabokov.

The " Gradiva Awards ", given by the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis, are named after Freud's essay.

Cégep André-Laurendeau was named after André Laurendeau, a novelist, playwright, essay writer, journalist and politician in Quebec, Canada.

After consistently touring through Europe and the Americas, the band recorded their next studio album, called El Miedo a la Libertad, named after Erich Fromm's classic essay, Fear of Freedom.

The epistle was a familiar literary convention of Antiquity ; it is not to be supposed that this essay is an actual letter written by a man named Eugnostos (" right thinking ", sometimes Eugnostus ).

The Group's magazine Anticipations, named after the title of an essay by HG Wells, was founded in 1996.

The Padovan sequence is named after Richard Padovan who attributed its discovery to Dutch architect Hans van der Laan in his 1994 essay Dom.

# Mary Kay Bray Award-The Mary Kay Bray Award, first given in 2002 and established in honor of the late scholar for whom it is named, recognizes the best essay, interview, or extended review to appear in the SFRA Review in a given year.

There is no written biography on Malaise, but Fredrik Sjöbergs essay named Flugfällan ISBN 91-578-0448-6 ( The Fly Trap, only available in Swedish ) and in German (" Die Fliegenfalle ") contains several chapters with tidbits from the life of Malaise that he has found in different places.