Identify the different stakeholders, their interests, and power: who are the most important stakeholders and why? What are the risks and benefits of Tembec rejecting the Lands for Life (L4L) recommendations? What are the risks and benefits of Tembec accepting the Lands for Life (L4L) recommendations?
Treatment or no Treatment Based on the information provided, do you think the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation can actually rehabilitate adult offenders sentenced to prison?
How do Buber, Levinas, and Wiesel differ from Frankl in their views of the possibility of finding meaning in response to the Holocaust? What do the terms freedom, responsibility, and suffering mean to Frankl? Does the fact that Wiesel and Frankl endured the concentration camps give their views a greater resonance for you? Explain
Topic and Position: Prison Reform: Punishment vs. Rehabilitation
Retribution and punishment are still important, but so are rehabilitation, treatment, education, and support for those caught up in the criminal justice system. In recent years, despite an emerging bipartisan consensus around the need for criminal justice reform, there has been insufficient action to address people serving lengthy sentences who no longer pose a serious risk to public safety. Likewise, America’s prisons and jails have produced a new social group, a group of social outcasts who are joined by the shared experience of incarceration, crime, poverty, racial minority, and low education.
Consider the story of Thor and Utgard-Loki. What does this story show about the Icelandic gods?
Evaluate Snorri Sturluson as a storyteller. In his account, what sorts of character and personality traits do the Icelandic gods exhibit? Would Snorri have had any reason not to be fair to them? Is his account biased?
Chapter 21, The MwindoEpic
What can you learn from the Mwindo Epicabout the daily life of the Nyanga?
To be a great leader, Mwindo must learn to be a grown-up. What lessons does he learn? Compare Mwindo’s learning to be a wise ruler with that of Gilgamesh. What similarities do you find?
Chapter 22, Oedipus the King,Sophocles
Who do you think is responsible for the tragedy of Oedipus? (Some candidates: the gods, Apollo, fate, Oedipus’ hubris, Teiresias, Jocasta and Laius, the Sphinx.) Find specific passages in the play that support your views. Be sure to include in your discussion the views of Bernard Knox and John Jones as presented in the introduction and marginal notes, even if you want to argue against the points they make.
Give some examples of how the symbols of blindness and sight are connected with the themes of ignorance and knowledge in this play. How do you think the solution to the riddle illustrates Oedipus’ knowledge and ignorance?
