I hope that the rain and October sky this weekend didn't overshadow your writing inspiration! If you haven't already be sure to read the previous posts. It is vital that you view, download, and print the updated Rubric for Paper #1, as it contains important -- and hopefully clarifying -- changes. Do recycle the old version.
I know that Tuesday is a schedule swap and we do not meet... So, here is how I want Thursday's (10/6) meeting to proceed:
(a) Bring two (2) copies of your typed rough draft to class. That's two copies in total. Not three... not one... just two. Again, bring two stapled ready-to-hand-in copies. Double-sided printing is excellent, as it saves paper. Also, have your trusty pencil ready because we are going to be performing a peer-edit of your drafts during the second half of the period.
(b) Read Section C3a-d in Hacker's Writer's Reference, pages 20-28. This will give you a nice "refresher" on the differences between local revision and global revision. In preparation for the peer-edit, this reading will equip you with the critical eye needed to best evaluate your fellows' written academic work. This brief page provides further review; albeit the terms differ slightly.
(c) Complete the HW below.
THURSDAYS HOMEWORK: To compensate for the class missed last week, I ask that you to reread and annotate the Marx & Engles reading in detail. Afterward, offer a reply below to the following prompt:
Choose one quote or passage from Marx and Engles. Present it, then explain in detail why you selected this piece of text, using key words from your selection to drive your response.
How was Marx and Engles challenging? What stood out as noteworthy? What parallels can be drawn between the other texts or ideas we have discussed so far in class? How does this text and/or your selection illuminate themes, lessons, or trends in history, politics, economics, and culture? Recall this text is from the mid-1800s. How might the arguments made by Marx and Engles apply today? How might they not?
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ReplyDeleteCan you tell me the difference between how does one go about resisting culture and what are the archetpical characteristics of acts that aim at resisting culture?
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ReplyDelete“Therefore it stands to reason that those with power to shape society also have power to shape our consciousness, to wit: “the ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas” (Max and Engels 42) The reason that I selected this particular quote is because it encamps everything that we have discussed and also read about since we have been in this class. It states the ruling class in the society determines all aspects of the society that we live in. It provide us with different somas to keep us stimulated and to give us the impression that we are contributing or even have a say about what is going on. The other text also addresses this issue about that a peculiar class which stands above all other and in every respect they determine what we perceive. Culture changes because at various times the class that is on top changes , our idea of beauty is said to be in the eyes of the beholder but at the same time we all have a prototype of what it should be created from and external sources. There are few things that would never change in life and I believe that the ruling class determining what should be the social norm is one of them. Even in 2011 we are still bound by what we should do with our life when we sit down to think about the control and the direction that we have over the life we live it would be shocking to find out how it’s close to none unless you intend on sabotage your own life. People may not stop you from falling but when it comes to growing let’s see where the ruling class stand. “I did not re-read this post idk why”
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ReplyDeleteTrina L Price said...
"the first act of humans is to produce, and produce in interaction with the natural and Social world" This quote tells me that human need to have family. That should be there first need. Society today is moving away from family and moving toward financial status.
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