CWE Core Humanities

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Entries from March 2009

Veblen’s “Economics of Women’s Dress”

March 23rd, 2009 · 19 Comments

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 [...]

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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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