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Additional Reading this week will include 2 short articles “Tiny Town Big Decision” by Chris Flavelle from the New York Times, and She Survived Hurricane Sandy, then Gentrification Hit” by Amir Kafagy from the Guardian. These articles discuss recent issues

   Discussion for Carvers Cathedral In the 1980s, Raymond Carver was the most influential short story writer since Ernest Hemingway. Carver developed and popularized the writing technique called minimalism. Like Hemingway, Carver wrote in a very sparse, highly controlled manner,

In this discussion, you will share one of your reasons and connect it with information from one of the previously assigned readings.  You will also give and receive feedback from your classmates. Initial Post  Think about the development of your case

Week Six: April 19-23        ReadingAssignment: By Wednesday, read the following sections of Ruth WilsonGilmore, Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus,Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California: Chapter 5: MothersReclaiming Our Children (p. 181-240); Chapter 6: What Is to Be Done? (p.241-48); Epilogue: Another

Charlie Chaplin and Humphrey Bogart achieved great success for their powerful screen personas. Consider contemporary examples of actors, male and female, who have maintained consistent and recognizable screen personas over a number of roles. Choose two different actors whose careers

The chapter presents a number of different theories that suggest that human action is determined by forces other than free choice. Choose the one of these you think is the strongest and explain why it is more compelling than two

Consider William Wordsworth’s poem “My Heart Leaps Up.” Explain what the ideas of the speaker and the images and details in the poem suggest about the meaning of living and life. I. Identify what the speaker and poem suggest about

consider a work of art (film, song, painting, play, novel, nonfiction work) with a nature theme. Analyze the attitude toward nature that the work of art supports. Use many details to support and illustrate your point. I. Choose an artwork

Think about the direction that you will take for the case study project and write a post where you: (1) state your topic/issue (2) state your working thesis  (3) list at least three reasons to support your thesis (4) Write in an academic

Describe how agnosticism and atheism challenge the certainty of religion. I. Describe agnosticism’s appeal to the unknowable nature of reality.II. Describe both informal and formal responses to belief in divinity and the pragmatist response. (Minimum 300 words)