Boule de Suif
Boule de Suif Short Story by Guy de Maupassant For several days in succession fragments of a defeated army had passed … Continue Reading
Learning is the process of acquiring new or modifying existing knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, or preferences. Evidence that knowledge has occurred may see changes in behavior from simple to complex, from moving a finger to skill in synthesizing information, or a change in attitude.
The ability to know possess by humans, animals, and some machines. There is also evidence of some kind of knowledge in some plants.
Some learn immediately, induced by a single event (e.g. being burn by a hot stove), but much skill and knowledge accumulate from repeat experiences.
The changes induced by knowledge often last a lifetime, and it is hard to distinguish known material that seems to be “lost” from that which cannot retrieve.
Boule de Suif Short Story by Guy de Maupassant For several days in succession fragments of a defeated army had passed … Continue Reading
Why Some Succeed While Others Fail Short Story by Benjamin Franklin Possibly there never has lived a man who has excited … Continue Reading
Benjamin Franklin Short Story by Nathaniel Hawthorne “He is Born 1706 and Died 1790.” In the year 1716, or about that … Continue Reading
I and My Chimney Short Story by Herman Melville I and my chimney, two grey-headed old smokers, reside in the … Continue Reading
Bartleby, the Scrivener Short Story by Herman Melville “A Story of Wall-street.” I AM a rather elderly man. The nature of … Continue Reading
Hop-Frog Short Story by Edgar Allan Poe I NEVER knew anyone so keenly alive to a joke as the king was. … Continue Reading
Berenice Short Story by Edgar Allan Poe MISERY is manifold. The wretchedness of earth is multiform. Overreaching the wide horizon … Continue Reading
A Descent Into the Maelstrom Short Story by Edgar Allan Poe WE had now reached the summit of the loftiest … Continue Reading
The Cask of Amontillado Short Story by Edgar Allan Poe THE thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best … Continue Reading
A Horseman in the Sky Short Story by Ambrose Bierce “In this Civil War story, Carter Druse, a young soldier from … Continue Reading