51 Matching Annotations
  1. Mar 2017
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    1. þ

      The runic letter thorn. Pronounce as soft th, as in think

    2. ð

      The runic letter eth. Pronounce as hard th, as in that

    3. ū

      As you read this out loud to yourself, pronounce long vowels as though you're saying them twice in a row

    4. wēox under wolcnum,      weorð-myndum ðāh,

      ...and in this line, w is repeated. Notice that alliteration/consonance is usually limited to a single line, perhaps as a way to "glue" a line together

    5. fēa-sceaft funden:      hē þæs frōfre gebād,

      Old English poems focused as much on alliteration (or consonance) as later poems would focus on rhyme. In this line, f is repeatedly used...

    6. Hwæt! wē Gār-Dena      in geār-dagum

      Old English poem format — two half-lines (not necessarily reflected in surviving manuscripts however)

    7. cyninga

      king

    8. Scyld

      A king — great-grandfather of Hrothgar

    9. Hwæt!

      Much debate about how to translate this: Lo!, Hey!, So.

  3. Jan 2017
    1. Marilynne Robinson

      At the John Jay Library: Housekeeping, located in the Browsing Collection

    2. I've annotated this page on behalf of the library of John Jay College of Criminal Justice. I've highlighted authors and book titles to note where to find them at John Jay or CUNY. (Not sure how to find and check out books? Tutorial: http://jjay.cc/findbookJJ)

    3. Barbara Kingsolver

      At the John Jay Library:

      • The bean trees, located at Stacks PS3561 .I496 P76 2000
      • Prodigal summer, located at Stacks PS3561 .I496 P76 2000
    4. Mr. Díaz

      [Repeat] At the John Jay Library:

      • The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao, located at Stacks PS3554 .I259 B75 2007
      • Drown, located at Reserve PS3554 .I259 D76 1997
    5. Zadie Smith

      At the John Jay Library:

      • On Beauty, located at Stacks PR6069.M59 O5 2006b
      • White Teeth, located at Stacks PR6069 .M59 W47 2001 and the Browsing Collection
    6. Mr. Whitehead

      At the John Jay Library: The colossus of New York: a city in thirteen parts, located at Stacks F128.55 .W54 2003

    7. Dave Eggers

      At the John Jay Library: What is the what, located at Stacks PS3605 .G48 W43 2007

    8. Saul Bellow

      At the John Jay Library: Herzog, located at Stacks PS 3503 .E4488 H45 1964

    9. Philip Roth

      At the John Jay Library: American pastoral, located at Stacks PS 3568 .O855 A77 1997

    10. Jhumpa Lahiri

      At the John Jay Library:

      • The namesake, located at Stacks PS3562 .A316 N36 2003
      • Interpreter of maladies: stories, located at Stacks PS3562 .A316 I58 1999
    11. Junot Díaz

      At the John Jay Library:

      • The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao, located at Stacks PS3554 .I259 B75 2007
      • Drown, located at Reserve PS3554 .I259 D76 1997
    12. A Bend in the River

      At the John Jay Library: located at Stacks PR 9272.9 .N32 B4 1979

    13. The Sixth Extinction

      At the John Jay Library: located at Stacks QE721.2 .E97 K65 2014

    14. Thinking, Fast and Slow

      At the John Jay Library: located at Stacks BF441 .K238 2011

    15. The Underground Railroad

      Located in many CUNY libraries: check locations or request at http://onesearch.cuny.edu/jj:cunywide:CUNY_ALEPH008658768

    16. The Woman Warrior

      At the John Jay Library: The woman warrior: memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts, located at Stacks CT 275 .K5764 A33 1989

    17. The Golden Notebook

      At the John Jay Library: located at Stacks PR6023 .E833 G6 1999 (by Doris Lessing)

    18. One Hundred Years of Solitude

      At the John Jay Library: located at Stacks PQ8180.17 .A73 C513 2006

    19. Niebuhr

      At the John Jay Library: The irony of American history, located at Stacks E744 .N5 2008

    20. Sartre

      At the John Jay Library: Nausea, located at Stacks PQ 2637 .A82 N3 1964

    21. Emerson

      At the John Jay Library:

      • Essays & lectures, located at Stacks PS 1605 1983
      • The works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (essays, lectures, letters), located at Special Collections (open shelves) PS 1600 .E83
    22. Nietzsche

      At the John Jay Library:

      • The Portable Nietzsche (essays, letters, notes), located at Stacks B3312.E52 K3 1968
      • The will to power, located at Stacks B3313 .N5 1968
    23. St. Augustine

      At the John Jay Library: Confessions, located at Stacks BR65 .A6 E5 2008

    24. Malcolm X

      At the John Jay Library: The Autobiography of Malcolm X, located at Stacks E 185.97 .L5 A3 1992 and as an ebook at http://jjay.cc/malcolmxbio

    25. DuBois

      At the John Jay Library:

      • The Souls of Black Folk, located at Stacks E185.6 .D797 1990 and as an ebook at http://jjay.cc/duboissouls
      • Black reconstruction (essay), located at Stacks E668 .D83 1956
    26. Wright

      At the John Jay Library:

      • Native Son, located on Reserve PS3545 .R815 N25 2005
      • Works (several novels and other writing) by Richard Wright, located at Stacks PS 3545 .R815 1991
    27. Hughes

      At the John Jay Library: Selected poems of Langston Hughes, located at Stacks PS 3515 .U274 A6 1990

    28. Ellison

      At the John Jay Library: Invisible Man, located at Stacks PS3555 .L625 I5 1995

    29. Baldwin

      At the John Jay Library:

      • Collected essays, located at Stacks PS 3552 .A45 A16 1998
      • Go tell it on the mountain, located at Stacks PS3552 .A45 G62 2005
    30. “Dreams From My Father,”

      At the John Jay Library: Located at Stacks E185.97 .O23 A3 2004

    31. “The Three-Body Problem”
    32. Gettysburg Address
    33. Nelson Mandela

      At the John Jay Library: Long walk to freedom: the autobiography of Nelson Mandela. Located at Stacks DT 1949 .M35 A3 1995

    34. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

      At the John Jay Library:

    35. Gandhi

      At the John Jay Library:

      • An autobiography: the story of my experiments with truth by Mahatma Gandhi. Located at Stacks DS 481 .G3 A34813 1983 and as ebook at http://jjay.cc/gandhibio
      • Gandhi in India, in his own words. Located at Stacks DS 481 .G3 A3 1987
    36. Lincoln

      At the John Jay Library: Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings. Located at Stacks E 457.92 1969

  4. Dec 2016
    1. Two days nine hours 37 minutes into the mission. The Apollo 13 crew leaves the Command Service Module and takes refuge in the lunar module.

      TEST TWO

    2. Alright, Houston, we have a problem.

      TEST ONE

  5. Dec 2015
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