Humanities Survey
End of Semester Project on Violence, War, and Terrorism
Students
For your final semester assignment, I would like you to take all that you’ve learned and thought about concerning violence, war, and terrorism and produce a video production.
The video should creatively explain what your topic is, the necessary facts, any illustrations that would help your viewers to understand both sides of the issue, and end [...]
Ethics Debate Collaboration Links
Make sure you do some research over the break if you expect to be prepared for the debate on October 13th & 15th.
Asking Questions on Euthanisia / Assisted Suicide Articles
Homework – Using the articles that you found and posted here, increase your understanding of the dilemma of euthanasia & assisted suicide by asking and answering questions. You should:
Ask three different questions. Post them as three separate comments so that we can create a thread off of each one.
Answer three different questions. Reply to the [...]
Euthanisia/Assisted Suicide Articles
Please print out and bring in four different articles regarding euthanasia and assisted suicide. Two of the articles should be encylopdic (no Wikipedia for this one) and two should be news articles.
Also, please post the links to those articles below by Sunday, August 30, 2009 at 7pm so that I can verify that they are [...]
Citations (References) for Paper
Some of you seem to be confused about the citation requirements for your paper so I wanted to clarify them here.
Citations should be done using endnotes. Those are like footnotes, but instead of being on every page, you put them at the end of your paper.
The endnotes are to be on a third, separate page; [...]
Clarify Your Thoughts: Worldview Paper
This is a fresh post that you can use to clarify your thoughts for your paper, that is due Tuesday, August 25, 2009. Please feel free to post rough draft paragraphs and ask your classmates to help you edit them. I might even jump in on the foray and edit one or two of them, if you post them.
What is Is Truth? Is Truth Relative?
For the last two blog discussions before your paper is due on Tuesday, August 25, I would like you to discuss the concept of “truth”. What is truth? Does truth exist? Is truth relative (i.e., truth is not the same for everybody)? Or is truth absolute (i.e., truth exists outside of a person’s belief, opinion, [...]
What is Is Truth? Is Truth Absolute?
For the last two blog discussions before your paper is due on Tuesday, August 25, I would like you to discuss the concept of “truth”. What is truth? Does truth exist? Is truth relative (i.e., truth is not the same for everybody)? Or is truth absolute (i.e., truth exists outside of a person’s belief, opinion, [...]
My Worldview Paper – Due Aug. 25
Your first paper is due in just over a week. I’ve decided to adjust the due date from Aug. 20 to August 25, to give you a weekend to put the final touches on it. You can download the template here. Here’s a rundown of the requirements though. Pay close attention, as I adjusted the format as well so that you have a little more space.
How Shall I Live? Opposite Perspective
Question for debate:
What is the standard by which we are supposed to live our lives? (Opposite Perspective)
