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| Fdn 111A—Revolution and Renaissance Reading Questions 2: Plato’s Apology Due: Friday, Sep The goal of these assignments is to encourage you to ask the right kinds of questions of a text as you read. Hopefully after you’ve done several of these assignments, you’ll begin asking these kinds of questions on your own! 11.63 Kb. 1 | read |
| A virtues man is a man who feel good with himself and make choices that will bring him happiness and who has no regrets after he has done an action The difficulty is that people don’t agree on what makes for a happy or good life, so the purpose of the Ethics is to find an answer to this question 6.21 Kb. 1 | read |
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| Confessions Due: Monday, Sept. 26th (beginning of class) The goal of these assignments is to encourage you to ask the right kinds of questions of a text as you read. Hopefully after you’ve done several of these assignments, you’ll begin asking these kinds of questions on your own 7.23 Kb. 1 | read |
| Definitions of Variables Martin Kozloff a definition is a statement that tells what a word a name A definition is a statement that tells what a word (a name for a variable, or concept) means, or signifies, or points to 24.95 Kb. 1 | read |
| Is bad writing necessary? George Orwell, Theodor Adorno, and the Politics of Literature English Language, to borrow the title of George Orwell's famous 1946 essay. Must one write clearly, as Orwell argued, or are thinkers who are truly radical and subversive compelled to write radically and subversively--or even opaquely 57.36 Kb. 1 | read |
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| The Status of Literature: English teaching and the condition of literature teaching in schools 69.79 Kb. 1 | read |
| Donald Rumsfeld How was the military restructured and why? I set about that task, and there were a great many reforms that were needed. We needed to change the personnel system so that we were able to bring people in and move people around with a great deal more flexibility than had been the case 23.48 Kb. 1 | read |
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