Unit+11+creativity (final).pptVIP

Unit 11: CreativitySection A Where Do Those Bright Ideas Come From? What is creativity? We’ve successfully made many inventions, using connections. Here are some examples What do today’s youth think about creative people? Are creative people… Fun? Successful? Popular? Smart? Only one-third of youth believe that creative people are popular. Half of young people believe that creative people are happy. How to be a creative person ? Knowledge Industrious To explore Confident Unremitting不懈的 Consider Attitude… Example Thomas Alva Edison Example Dante Alighieri 《Divine Comedy 》《神曲》 《Rebirth》《新生》 《Banquet》《宴会》 Example Example Madame curie Devoted all her life to discovering Radium镭. Richard Wagner (1813-1883 ) : the greatest composer of German opera, who made a major contribution to the creation of music drama. Music drama combines singing, orchestra, verse (poem), story, drama and spectacle. Wagner’s works include “The Ring of the Nibelung”尼伯龙根的指环 (1853-1874), a set of four operas based on historical German stories. The Rhinegold莱茵的黄金 The first of the four operas in the “Ring” cycle, which exemplifies Wagner’s theory of music drama in its purest form. Henri Poincare (1854-1912) A great French mathematics and theoretical science professor at the Sorbonne (University of Paris), who had a highly original influence on the development of pure and applied mathematics. He also worked on functions that changed celestial mechanics天体力学, helped algebraic topology代数拓扑and co-discovered the special theory of relativity. Cogito ergo sum It is Latin for “I think; therefore, I exist”, a key point in Descartes’ philosophy. He claimed that the only thing anyone can be certain of is that s/he thinks and, therefore, s/he exists. The “I” is the mind which can exist without being extended so that it can in principle survive the death of the body. Pre-reading Activities First reading Scan the text with the following questions in yo