What was the impact of the Second Great Awakening? Who were the Transcendentalists and what did they stand for? Explain some of the social reform movements discussed in this chapter.
What was the impact of the Second Great Awakening?
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Write an essay on Dante’s Inferno.
Dante’s Inferno
At various times throughout the text Dante is so overcome by the souls that he faints. Elsewhere, he heaps scorn on figures such as Filippo Argenti. He seems to vacillate between these two positions. Why the different reactions, and what is the right attitude of the elect towards the damned? Why are the damned concerned with their memory, like Ciacco, or with posterity, like Farinata and others?
Write about For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf -Glengarry Glen Ross.
Answer the follow questions about these plays in this reflection paper.
Plays -Our Town
-Raisin in the sun
-Death of a salesman
-Long days journey into night
-House of blue leaves
-For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf -Glengarry Glen Ross
Questions to answer
1) Find at least three SPECIFIC things in each plays that you think made it appealing in the year or decade in which ist made its premiere (you can support this with historical facts/data, if necessary).
2) Find at least three SPECIFIC things in each play that you believe help to make it timeless (or if not timeless, at least still popular with audiences today).
3) One of the overriding themes of the history of our country (and the world) is the emergence of marginalized populations. How does the progression of plays we have looked at so far reflect this emergence (or repression) of different populations which have been marginalized?
4) The history of the American Theatre is driven primarily through the plays of the American theatre. Those plays that are popular or successful are cultural artifacts that help us to better understand the years in which they were popular.
Explore an area of addiction and to review the current organizations, governmental and/or non-governmental agencies responding to this issue.
explore an area of addiction and to review the current
organizations, governmental and/or non-governmental agencies responding to this issue.
Students may choose an area of addiction that interests them. This is a research
assignment which will require exploring both addiction and community resources. You
may include our course resources and will need to look beyond. Some of the research may
be academic in nature i.e. articles/textbooks and some may be more popular e.g. reliable
websites and governmental/community agencies/organizations.
Tasks:
- Begin by choosing a population of interest and/or an addiction and provide a
rationale for your interest in an introduction.
o Populations of interest may include: adolescents, women, people
experiencing homelessness, Indigenous communities etc.
o Addictions may include: alcohol, caffeine, gaming, shopping, opioids,
gambling etc.
- Define the population and/or the addiction selected; discuss the current Canadian
statistics on the prevalence of the issue; any key factors and/or concerns related
to this issue including but not limited to social determinants of health, economic
and/or social costs, the BPS+ model, intersections with other populations and/or
addictions etc.
- List 3 Canadian organization/agencies designed to respond to the issue. Describe
Write an essay in which you analyze the similarities between Panopticism and the situation in China that Weiwei describes.
In the essay “Panopticism,” Michel Foucault analyzes a model of a prison, developed by Jeremy Bentham, to explore questions of surveillance, visibility, discipline, and self-discipline. In the essay “How Censorship Works,” the Chinese artist A Weiwei writes about censorship and self-censorship in China. Write an essay in which you analyze the similarities between Panopticism and the situation in China that Weiwei describes. What insight can we come to by thinking about these texts together?