Day: December 2, 2021

What is the biggest difference between what you thought would make you happy when you were younger and what did make you happy as you got older?

STEP 1: Watch this TED talk by Robert Waldinger, psychiatrist and professor at Harvard Medical School. He discusses some of the results of the Grant study, which has followed groups of men over a 75 year, longitudinal study, and explains some of the factors leading to a happy life. STEP 2: After viewing this video […]

What do you think is the primary message of the movie to the Filipino generation after more than 100 years of its Independence? How would you want to present Dr. Rizal to the Filipino audience today?

Jose Rizal Movie Answer the following: 1. What do you think is the primary message of the movie to the Filipino generation after more than 100 years of its Independence? 2. Which part or parts of the 3-hour movie should have been deleted or less emphasized? why? 3. In the scenes, characters, or sequences in […]

Identify the key characteristics of each of the four lenses: social science, natural science, history, and the humanities. Identify the types of evidence used when looking through each lens.

Course Outcomes In this project, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following course outcomes: Utilize appropriate information literacy skills when researching topics using library resources Articulate the characteristics of various liberal arts lenses in determining their commonalities and differences Demonstrate how individual topics are represented through the application of various liberal arts lenses Overview […]

Select a position from one of these debates, summarize it, and then write about your own perspective on the debate, including if you agree with the position you selected.

This week you are reading about two different debates: one is about whether men dominating women in all societies is inevitable, and the other is about whether ethnic conflict is avoidable. Each debate has a side, a yes or no position. You are to select a position from one of these debates, summarize it, and […]

What was the role of conflict between American/British/multi-national corporate interests and the nationalization of resources in the overthrows?

Comparing the Cold war in Iran and Guatemala Read both the required Overthrow chapter on Iran (Ch 5) and the additional chapter on Guatemala (Ch 6) 2. Choose from the following prompts below and compare and contrast the Cold War overthrows of democratic leaders in both places. What was the role of conflict between American/British/multi-national […]

Make social psychology “real” by discussing how an actual social event can be understood by invoking the social psychological theory and research we have talked and/or read about in class.

Social Psychology in The Real World Assignment: Pick a real world current event and analyze it from a social psychological perspective. That is, make social psychology “real” by discussing how an actual social event can be understood by invoking the social psychological theory and research we have talked and/or read about in class. More specifically, […]

What sound do your fingers make on the keyboard as you type? What sounds occur around you when you try to write–is it a loud kitchen full of bustle and voices, a quiet bedroom with blue flowered wallpaper, or what?

Consider who you were as a write in September and who you are as a writer now in December, three months and many assignments later. To help you reflect, respond to the following questions in a loose essay form: 1. How well do you think you express your ideas through writing? What are your strengths? […]

Explain how TWO of these theorists represent a break from past ways of thinking about morality.Which do you think provides the most promising new direction for moral philosophy?

Question In the last three weeks of the course, we examined moral philosophy through the lens of existentialism and feminist theory in the writings of Sartre, Beauvoir and Baier. Their perspectives put moral theory on a new footing in comparison to how it has been approached in the past. Explain how TWO of these theorists […]

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