CWE Core Humanities

What did you think of the art? What was your reaction to Melissa Oden or Myrah Brown-Green’s art work?

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Students should respond to the secondary readings, using the sentence structure to format their responses. You should find a quote or argument from the secondary source, and then show a section in the primary text (Nietzsche or O’Connor) that proves or disproves what the author is arguing.

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Due to the fact that students will no longer be doing the research essay, the grading has been modified accordingly.
Class Participation                                    10%
Blog Posts                                                   25%
First Three Formal Essays                     45%
Final Essay (4-6 Pages) 20%

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Here is a link to a website with supplemental lectures on Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals.

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Last night in class we were discussing the seemingly opposite outlooks posed by Victor and Thomas. In this post I would like you write about what they intend to do with Victor’s father’s ashes. What do they think will happen when the pour out the ashes? How is this expectation significant to understanding their overall [...]

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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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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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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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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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