Write an essay and present it to our class.
Write a essay on either the single most important thing you learned this semester (not necessarily in English Class) or the three most important things you learned this semester. I am expecting an essay of five paragraphs including an introduction, conclusion and three well-developed body paragraphs. On Tuesday and Thursday December 6 & 8, we will draw names and each of you will do a presentation, five minutes maximim on your paper. You should employ visuals either through Powerpoint or some other media to present your paper. We are having conferences in class this Thursday, December 1, first come first serve basis. I will hold office hours through next week.
Your final Journals are due Wednesday, November 30 by midnight. I will take them no later than Saturday, December 3rd mindight. If you hand them in on or before 11/30/11, I will awared 25 extra credit reading points for 125/100 points.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Need Extra Credit? 0990 or 1220
The following assignment will be graded and you will be awared extra credit points up to 100 for both reading and writing. The better you do, the more points it is worth.
Choose an American Short Story, produce an accurate, correct APA format bibliographic reference for your story. Read the story and write a two part assignment. The first part is a summary of the story. The second part is an essay that expresses your opinion on why you think the author wrote the story. What message did he or she wish to communicate. Use evidence from the story to establish your thesis using correct format in-text citations.
You may do up to four stories, four separate assignments. You will probably find other people who have written about the story you choose. If you do and you choose to incorporate their ideas into your work, you must create accurate bibliographic references and properly cite their work in your essay.
I strongly suggest either conferencing with me during office hours or visiting the center for student success before handing in the assignment on or before December 10th.
Choose an American Short Story, produce an accurate, correct APA format bibliographic reference for your story. Read the story and write a two part assignment. The first part is a summary of the story. The second part is an essay that expresses your opinion on why you think the author wrote the story. What message did he or she wish to communicate. Use evidence from the story to establish your thesis using correct format in-text citations.
You may do up to four stories, four separate assignments. You will probably find other people who have written about the story you choose. If you do and you choose to incorporate their ideas into your work, you must create accurate bibliographic references and properly cite their work in your essay.
I strongly suggest either conferencing with me during office hours or visiting the center for student success before handing in the assignment on or before December 10th.
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
1220 T & V
Homework:
Write an essay on one of the following three topics.
Describe a time when morality or ethics affected an important decision you have made or had to make. What was the decision and what role did morality or ethics play in the decision? In hindsight, did you make the right decision? Why or why not?
Describe what you consider to be the most important moral or ethical lesson you have learned. What was the lesson? What circumstances lead to the lesson? How difficult or costly was it to learn the lesson? How will this lesson affect your actions in the future?
After viewing Zak's presentation, how has your understanding of morality, ethics and virtue changed and why?
Paul Zak on Morality and ocytocin.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/paul_zak_trust_morality_and_oxytocin.html
Free Hugs in Sondrio Italy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN8CKwdosjE
Write an essay on one of the following three topics.
Describe a time when morality or ethics affected an important decision you have made or had to make. What was the decision and what role did morality or ethics play in the decision? In hindsight, did you make the right decision? Why or why not?
Describe what you consider to be the most important moral or ethical lesson you have learned. What was the lesson? What circumstances lead to the lesson? How difficult or costly was it to learn the lesson? How will this lesson affect your actions in the future?
After viewing Zak's presentation, how has your understanding of morality, ethics and virtue changed and why?
Paul Zak on Morality and ocytocin.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/paul_zak_trust_morality_and_oxytocin.html
Free Hugs in Sondrio Italy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN8CKwdosjE
Monday, November 14, 2011
Thursday, November 10, 2011
1220 Morality Articles--OK for Reading Journal fodder for Anyone
PSU trustees
fire Paterno, Spanier
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=ap-pennstate-abuse
Arizona Enacts Stringent Law on Immigration
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/24/us/politics/24immig.html
The Vatican can't
bring morality to the money markets
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2011/oct/27/vatican-morality-money-markets
Before Ethics
and Morality by James W. Prescott
http://www.violence.de/prescott/humanist/ethics.html
The Moral
Instinct
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/magazine/13Psychology-t.html?pagewanted=all
Why Legalizing
Marijuana Makes Sense
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1889166,00.html
Doctors must
respect wishes of terminal patients 'to refuse treatment and die'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7741046/Doctors-must-respect-wishes-of-terminal-patients-to-refuse-treatment-and-die.html
Morality by
Design
http://www.allaboutphilosophy.org/morality.htm
Frank Girardot:
Herman Cain, J. Edgar Hoover and moral character
http://www.whittierdailynews.com/news/ci_19284711
Politically
Correct or Morally Correct? What Is The Purpose Of American Life?(t)
http://questioningwithboldness.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/politically-correct-or-morally-correct-what-is-the-purpose-of-american-life/
Ethics,
morality, and virtue: A foundation for modern training
http://www.correctionsone.com/corrections-training/articles/3225913-Ethics-morality-and-virtue-A-foundation-for-modern-training/
ETHICAL ISSUES
IN CONTEMPORARY CULTURE
http://www.blatner.com/adam/psyntbk/ethicissues.htm
Are
Deontological Moral Judgments Rationalizations? http://lesswrong.com/lw/74f/are_deontological_moral_judgments_rationalizations/
Money and the
Meaning of Life
Why do
brilliant people allow their hunger for money to cause their ruin?
http://www.businessweek.com/managing/content/may2011/ca20110517_527245.htm
Ethics vs
morals and morality
http://www.philosophyblog.com.au/ethics-vs-morality-the-distinction-between-ethics-and-morals/
"The Only
Moral Abortion is My Abortion"
When the
Anti-Choice Choose
http://mypage.direct.ca/w/writer/anti-tales.html
How do morals
change?
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v464/n7288/full/464490a.html
Basis of
Catholic Moral Teachings
http://www.aboutcatholics.com/life_in_christ/christian_morality/
Response to:
"All morality is culturally determined and is therefore relative, not
absolute."
http://www.newmediaministries.org/Morality/CulturallyDetermined_S.html
Is it okay to
spank?
http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/08/living/parents-spanking-p/index.html?hpt=us_t5
Joan Cusack: My
family values: The actor talks about her family
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/apr/09/joan-cusack-my-family-values
Sydney escort agency selling girl's virginity
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/8371723/sydney-escort-agency-selling-girls-virginity
Elderly woman
shoots husband over 'affair'
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/8371915/elderly-woman-shoots-husband-over-alleged-affair
Prosecutors
file complaint against anti-abortion protester
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11312/1188328-56.stm
God and the
Good: Does Morality Need Religion?
http://theologytoday.ptsem.edu/apr1964/v21-1-article4.htm
Aristotle,
Virtues And Happiness
http://coachingtohappiness.com/aristotle-virtues-happiness.html
Ethics and
Morality
http://www.endusmilitarism.org/ethicsandmorality.html
Kansas High School Newspaper Says It's Moral to Execute
Gays
http://news.change.org/stories/kansas-high-school-newspaper-says-its-moral-to-execute-gays
fire Paterno, Spanier
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=ap-pennstate-abuse
Arizona Enacts Stringent Law on Immigration
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/24/us/politics/24immig.html
The Vatican can't
bring morality to the money markets
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2011/oct/27/vatican-morality-money-markets
Before Ethics
and Morality by James W. Prescott
http://www.violence.de/prescott/humanist/ethics.html
The Moral
Instinct
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/magazine/13Psychology-t.html?pagewanted=all
Why Legalizing
Marijuana Makes Sense
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1889166,00.html
Doctors must
respect wishes of terminal patients 'to refuse treatment and die'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7741046/Doctors-must-respect-wishes-of-terminal-patients-to-refuse-treatment-and-die.html
Morality by
Design
http://www.allaboutphilosophy.org/morality.htm
Frank Girardot:
Herman Cain, J. Edgar Hoover and moral character
http://www.whittierdailynews.com/news/ci_19284711
Politically
Correct or Morally Correct? What Is The Purpose Of American Life?(t)
http://questioningwithboldness.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/politically-correct-or-morally-correct-what-is-the-purpose-of-american-life/
Ethics,
morality, and virtue: A foundation for modern training
http://www.correctionsone.com/corrections-training/articles/3225913-Ethics-morality-and-virtue-A-foundation-for-modern-training/
ETHICAL ISSUES
IN CONTEMPORARY CULTURE
http://www.blatner.com/adam/psyntbk/ethicissues.htm
Are
Deontological Moral Judgments Rationalizations? http://lesswrong.com/lw/74f/are_deontological_moral_judgments_rationalizations/
Money and the
Meaning of Life
Why do
brilliant people allow their hunger for money to cause their ruin?
http://www.businessweek.com/managing/content/may2011/ca20110517_527245.htm
Ethics vs
morals and morality
http://www.philosophyblog.com.au/ethics-vs-morality-the-distinction-between-ethics-and-morals/
"The Only
Moral Abortion is My Abortion"
When the
Anti-Choice Choose
http://mypage.direct.ca/w/writer/anti-tales.html
How do morals
change?
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v464/n7288/full/464490a.html
Basis of
Catholic Moral Teachings
http://www.aboutcatholics.com/life_in_christ/christian_morality/
Response to:
"All morality is culturally determined and is therefore relative, not
absolute."
http://www.newmediaministries.org/Morality/CulturallyDetermined_S.html
Is it okay to
spank?
http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/08/living/parents-spanking-p/index.html?hpt=us_t5
Joan Cusack: My
family values: The actor talks about her family
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/apr/09/joan-cusack-my-family-values
Sydney escort agency selling girl's virginity
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/8371723/sydney-escort-agency-selling-girls-virginity
Elderly woman
shoots husband over 'affair'
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/8371915/elderly-woman-shoots-husband-over-alleged-affair
Prosecutors
file complaint against anti-abortion protester
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11312/1188328-56.stm
God and the
Good: Does Morality Need Religion?
http://theologytoday.ptsem.edu/apr1964/v21-1-article4.htm
Aristotle,
Virtues And Happiness
http://coachingtohappiness.com/aristotle-virtues-happiness.html
Ethics and
Morality
http://www.endusmilitarism.org/ethicsandmorality.html
Kansas High School Newspaper Says It's Moral to Execute
Gays
http://news.change.org/stories/kansas-high-school-newspaper-says-its-moral-to-execute-gays
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
1220 T & V
Before Thursday, November 10, Find two articles on line that deal with the subjects of Morality, Ethics or Virtue. Include these two articles in your reading journal. (I'll be looking for them.) Hand in the journal entries with your regular journal submission at the end of the month.
If you do at least one of them today, Tuesday, 11/8, be the first to email me a link to your article and if you are the first to send me the article, I will give you 10 general extra credit points. If you are not the first to send me a link to a particular artical, that is, if your submission duplicates an article that someone else has previously submitted, you will recieve 3 general extra credit points.
If you do at least one of them today, Tuesday, 11/8, be the first to email me a link to your article and if you are the first to send me the article, I will give you 10 general extra credit points. If you are not the first to send me a link to a particular artical, that is, if your submission duplicates an article that someone else has previously submitted, you will recieve 3 general extra credit points.
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