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...particularly Black women, flock to this course and, thus, not to a course on Dante (his example). Social segregation between Black and white students, he contends, is reinforced by intellectual and academic self-segregation. Moreover, a Core education should include texts chosen "by dint of their universality," texts that "transcend the confines of historical and cultural context," he argues...
...generation ago, social theorist Marshall McLuhan proclaimed the advent of a "global village," a sort of borderless world in which communications media would transcend the boundaries of nations. "Ours is a brand-new world of allatonceness," he wrote. " 'Time' has ceased, 'space' has vanished. We now live in . . . a simultaneous happening." McLuhan underestimated the enduring appeal of the status quo and the stubborn persistence of the petty side of human nature. The fusion of television and satellites did not produce instantaneous brotherhood, just a slowly dawning awareness of the implications of a world transfixed by a single TV image...
...game of the championship series that year, with Abdul-Jabbar injured, Johnson played all five positions, and somehow in his rookie season conjured a victory out of thin air. But even when the Most Valuable Player awards and championships became commonplace, and the miraculous expected, Johnson worked overtime to transcend all expectation, developing a three-point shot that was lethal, practicing free throws till he became the best in the league. It was not simply his ability that made him a star but his determination as well to recast and expand that ability daily...
...Oxford English Dictionary defines empathy as "the power of projecting into (and so fully comprehending) the object of contemplation." Another way of expressing this would be to speak of human transcendence-the ability, and most importantly, the willingness of individuals to transcend their own sphere of interest or private life in order to gain greater understanding of another's situation. It is a fundamental sort of generosity, a generosity of spirit and mind which allows the embrace of another's problems, an understanding of another's agony...
Columbus' sense of his humble origins was crucial. He was determined to transcend them; his means would be navigation. At first he wanted to succeed through trade. Sea trade was the lifeblood of Genova la superba, proud Genoa. As a merchant navigator, Columbus sailed all over the Mediterranean, to the Guinea coast of Africa and as far north as Ireland. He may have gone as far as Iceland too. Sometime between 1478 and 1484, the full plan of self- aggrandizement and discovery took shape in his mind. He would win glory, riches and a title of nobility by opening...