5. L'Emigrante (2)

COMMENT:

Is Peppino a winner or a loser? Explain why.


REPLY
Wait until at least 5 comments have been posted. Reply to someone you disagree with explaining why.

4. L'EMIGRANTE (1)

COMMENT:

1) What are the TWO most meaningful scenes in the film from your perspective? Explain why.
2) Who are the TWO most convincing characters? Who is the LEAST convincing? Explain why.


REPLY

Read the comments above yours and reply to the comment you find most intriguing and stimulating.
(Wait to reply until at least 5 people have posted their comments.)

RECOMMENDATION: write in short paragraphs and not too much. You want people to read what you have to say. Keep it short, sharp and interesting.

3. From the most intelligent man in America: Why Literature.

I hope it will move you to leave a comment (and maybe also a reply to your favorite comment.)

 

 

Giuliani Divorce: It’s Ugly, It’s Operatic. What Did You Expect?

Hmmm.

Am I oversensitive, or is there a bit of stereotyping in this headline?

 

Here is the LINK to the article.

Even Junk can be fodder for a Philosophycal argument

The first effort is to extract the essential terms of the arguments, to establish the boundaries, in order to preserve the abstract and 'universal'.

In this article there is lots of heat and smoke but very little light. Yet the elements that generate the combustion are there: combustible (the matter that will burn), source of heat,  and comburent.

 

After reading through it, identify the core, the essence of the argument and write it in the Comment. Don't let yourself be distracted by the characters, by the chicken feed of the details, by the "cui prodest"?

 

What is the true question we should deal with?

 

READ ARTICLE HERE

Out of the blue

Do you think you are an intellectual?

 

Do you want to be (or become) an intellectual?

Leave a quick comment, please

My colleagues are concerned about the quality of the BC online bookstore. They started a monkeysurvey, but it is restricted to faculties.

I would like to get your input/feedback about a couple of issues:

Is it easy to find the editions required by the professors?
Is it easy to know if your order has been received?
What about prices? Can you find books cheaper elsewhere?

COMMENT BELOW, please. Try to be concise and to generalize about your experience.

n. 2 Due Sept 10

When you post a comment, imagine you are having a conversation with your classmate, not with me.

1) Online research on The Birth of a Nation:  copy the URL of a site that deals with the influence of this film on the psyche of the American public. In a couple of lines summarize the argument.

2) Comment: going over the outline of Lecture 1 and your notes: what detail you remember more vividly and what does it say about you.

1) Due Sept. 3

Review the anti IT-AM cartoons (video).

 

 

 

 

 

Recall the first, gut reactions when you first saw it. I insist on the 'emotional' responses, not the more cerebral and intellectual ones, which normally come later in the consciousness process.

 

Was it surprise, disgust, embarrassment, discomfort, incredulity - or maybe, pleasure, enjoyment?

(This is no moral test, just an effort to decipher our individual internal mechanisms of response.)

 

 

Click COMMENT and write CLEARLY, addressing the prompt.

 

LATER, return to add your REPLY to one or more comments left by your classmates.