Post the final draft of your paper as Blog #10
Wednesday 5 December 2012
Friday 23 November 2012
Blog 8: Free will and determinism
The movie Minority Report and the play Oedipus the King deal with the issues of free will and determinism and how much control humans have over their lives. The article “Free Will and Determinism in the World of Minority Report” expands on this issue, offering some working definitions of determinism as well. Compare and contrast the perspectives of the two texts (the play and the movie) on the issue of how much control humans have over their lives or whether forces such as destiny natural and biological laws etc determine the outcome of our lives, making sure you include references to the article. While this is a philosophical topic, you will need to use textual evidence that make the topic’s development tangible and concrete for your readers. When using evidence from Minority Report, remember that you are not writing a movie review or mere plot summary.
You must post this blog by 9 am on Monday 11/26
You must post this blog by 9 am on Monday 11/26
Wednesday 24 October 2012
Blog 7: The Allegory of The Cave through History
Plato uses the allegory of the cave to discuss the situations in life where people live in an illusion or refuse to accept the truth. Discuss such a situation from human history and explain what the illusion was; you can do some research on the internet to get an idea, but you cannot simply paste internet information to your post. If you use a small quote (no more than a couple of lines), put it in quotation marks. If you refer to information you found but put it in your own words (ie paraphrase it) again include full information about the source. Please avoid the obvious examples we used in class (slavery, the holocaust, Galileo and the shape of the earth).
Wednesday 17 October 2012
Blog 6: Free will and destiny in Oedipus
Make a case either for Oedipus having free will or for destiny deciding his life in the play Oedipus the King. No matter the position you take, make sure you use textual evidence in your response. The response should be at least 350 words.
Wednesday 10 October 2012
blog 4: Essay 1 complete draft
Post a complete draft of your paper as Blog 4. Also bring three paper copies to class for peer review
Wednesday 12 September 2012
Blog 2: Utopia and Dystopia
For blog #2, first find a definition of the two terms, utopia and dystopia, and copy the definitions to your blog entry. Then discuss how you understand each, and what examples come to mind. We will discuss these in class. For this assignmet it is ok to use the internet, but remember to tell us where you got the definition (name of website) and put it in quotation marks. Edited
Blog 1: Autobiographical
Post an autobiography of yourself (post as blog #1). There is a 300 word minimum
Monday 10 September 2012
Create and Customize a blog today
- Today you will join Google and create a blog in Blogger. (http://www.blogger.com/)
- You will be able to have whatever address you want for your blog, provided it is available. So if your name is Jane Smith, your blog address could be http://janesmith.blogspot.com
- it is best to name your blog by your name
- copy the web address of your blog and post HERE
- Your address will be in the form of http://youraddress.blogspot.com NEXT TO IT ADD YOUR NAME (FIRST AND LAST OR FIRST NAME AND BEGINNING OF LAST NAME)
- disable "captcha" for Comments and add this blog to your blogroll.
- Name can be full name
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