(1) Follow the links Apeldorf provides to look at those documents more closely and in context. Choose one and use it to answer the question, “How did U.S. Citizens Serve their Communities during the Spanish Flu?” I decided to examine the link to the headline from the news article, “Many Women Are Nursing; More Badly Read More …
The prompt for this third essay asks, “What are the conversations that are dominating the public sphere today? How might a liberal education prepare you to participate in them, now, or in the future?”. One possible approach to this prompt would be to answer that political conversations are dominating the public sphere today. Ones based Read More …
(1) Murphy divides his article into 4 sections. For each section, select a passage to quote, set up/contextualize that passage, put it into your own words, and comment on or respond to it. Does it make you raise a question? Can you extend it by connecting to another reading or personal experience? Do you want to Read More …
The three stories that I chose from the CDC Storybook were “Jeanne Shinnick,” in the “I Survived” category; “Dr. Frank Biberstein,” in the “Plantings” category; and “Elmer ‘Bud’ Pancake,” in the “Finding a Cure” category. The first story, which focused on Jeanne Shinnick from Penssylvania, was written by her son, Drew Shinnick. After surviving the Read More …
(1) The Mecca? Why does Coates refer to Howard University as his Mecca? What does he mean by “the crossroads of the black diaspora” (40)? In your explanation, be sure to include a quote from Coates. Throughout this whole excerpt, my printed version was full of questions about his reference to Mecca. This is because Read More …
Coming off a summer of protests, going to school during a pandemic, and reading Pasquerella a week before a federal election, what are you noticing and thinking about our “public sphere” or the conversations that are dominating and defining our current culture (Scheuer, “Critical Thinking and the Liberal Arts”)? 2020 has been a an extremely Read More …
Annotations: Questions: List the courses you’re currently taking. Write a brief description of each that includes where it fits in the Core, the big questions the class is considering, and how you prepare for/participate in it. Take note of similarities among the classes as well as how their approaches differ. Q1 PART 1: Courses ENV104: Read More …
ANNOTATIONS: READING QUESTIONS: Ungar lists 7 “misperceptions”. Pick 4 of these and write a 3-5 sentence summary for each one (What do many people think? What does Ungar think?). Pick ONE quote (include it in the HW response), and respond to or comment on the quote. MISPERCEPTION #1: The first misperception that Ungar explains is Read More …
Both Newstok and Scheur agree that students ability’ to think critically is perhaps the most useful skill they can obtain from their education. In his “Critical Thinking and the Liberal Arts,” Scheur brings attention to the lack of understanding of the liberal arts and the value that they hold in comparison to the STEM related Read More …
Annotations: Questions for Engaging with Scheuer: Question #1: What do you think of when you hear the phrase “liberal arts”? A1: Before I read this article, when I thought of “liberal arts,” I usually associated it with politics, such as fields concerning law, literature, history, writing, and so on. Question #2: Scheuer writes that there Read More …
