Apply one of the three principles of women’s dress to a single article or item explaining how it displays “conspicuous expensiveness,” “novelty,” or “ineptitude.” It would be great if you could find an image on the internet that you could share with us (by creating a link). For example, I found a bottle of water [...]
Entries from March 2009
Veblen’s “Economics of Women’s Dress”
March 23rd, 2009 · 19 Comments
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Turn It In Instructions
March 22nd, 2009 · 1 Comment
Go to turnitin.com
Select “New User”
Class ID: 2666575
Enrollment Password: cwepassword
Here is a handout about turnitin in case you have problems: Turnitin_student_qs
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Blog #2 Alternative
March 9th, 2009 · 6 Comments
For those who missed class and did not write an Arendt Paragraph, please review the “Moral Altruism” article and then write a short review of the article- Is morality a favorable trait? How and why might this be one of the structures that benefit an entire community? Go back to the quote we discussed in [...]
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Class as usual- March 2
March 2nd, 2009 · No Comments
It’s cold and there is still some snow on the ground but we’ll be going ahead with business as usual in tonight’s class. However, let me review the schedule and policies.
1) Before class tonight everyone should submit a paragraph that summarizes a section of Arendt’s essay.
2) Tonight we will discuss Darwin’s “Natural Selection”
3) The Final [...]
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Arendt Paragraph
March 2nd, 2009 · 10 Comments
(1)In Ardent’s “A Novel form of Government” she uses if….then statements to prove or disprove theories within the reading. (2)Through questioning and investigation Ardent argues the origins of Totalitarianism. (3)According to her essay the origin of totalitarianism cannot be traced through history implicating that the past isn’t an element that caused totalitarianism to emerge.(4) She [...]
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