Tag: Education

Discuss how social media use has affected your view of friendship and your interactions with friends. How has this changed in the era of “Social Distancing”?

Evaluate your own level of interaction with social media. On which platforms to you have accounts (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, SnapChat, Pinterest, Tumbler, Google+, YouTube, Blogger, LinkedIn, others?). What does your online presence say about you? Have you ever completed a Google search of your name? What were the results?

Second: Discuss how social media use has affected your view of friendship and your interactions with friends. How has this changed in the era of “Social Distancing”?

Of your friends on social media, how many do you a) know in person, and b) consider close friends? What is your criteria for considering someone a close friend?

Do you feel that expanding circles of friends and acquaintances on Facebook or through online interest groups has affected face-to-face interactions with friends? If so, has the effect been largely positive or negative?

Finally: What is it doing to our sense of self?

Are we becoming more narcissistic? Are we becoming more insecure?

Is technology harmful to our sense of accomplishment, worth, or identity?

Has this online interaction helped you stay connected to others during a pandemic crisis?

What sites did you find helped you manage through this crisis?

What is the significance of honor in Much Ado About Nothing? How is female honor different from that of male honor? In the end, does honor do more harm or more good? Explain

What is the significance of honor in Much Ado About Nothing? How is female honor different from that of male honor? In the end, does honor do more harm or more good?

Why might it hard to share our opinions and convictions on a social problem publicly?

What are your fears in doing this?
What do you think could help make you a better advocate for social problems that you care about?
In what forms (facebook, twitter, campus, friends or strangers, blogs) are you more or less comfortable talking about social problems and why? What might be the limitations of those forms of communication?

Compare the views expressed by Hitler, Mussolini, and the authors of Cardinal Principles of the National Entity of Japan. How are they similar, how are they different, and why?

Compare the views expressed by Hitler, Mussolini, and the authors of Cardinal Principles of the National Entity of Japan. How are they similar, how are they different, and why? To whom were the ideas expressed in these sources attractive, and why?

In what country or countries is World War II sometimes described as a “good war,” in other words, a morally clear conflict between good and evil? To what extent is this true? To what extent is this not true