Please type up, on your blog, 5-10 questions you have about poverty and wealth in the U.S. For instance - "Since the U.S.'s 'safety net' is relatively weak - what will happen here in the case of massive economic problems?" or "What percent of white people currently live in poverty?"
Then do some research and type up the results of your research on those (and on questions you think of while doing the research). Please post your results at the end of class, and also please include citing info for your answers - either link to the site or copy and paste the address next to your answer.
To get you moving, you could look at the following websites.
Interview with NYU Prof
Left/Liberal Think Tank Graph
Trend in Income Growth (from Left/Liberal Think Tank)
Apologetics for Wealth Inequality from Conservative Think Tank
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Thursday, March 26, 2009
What's Due Now - LDH2BM
The following assignments will provide the basis of the 50% of your grade that is from your work outside of class.
If you have a hard time getting work done, please just do them. Even a 6/10 on each will likely lead to you receiving credit for the course. If you are able to get work done, please try to think harder and post a second draft - that will likely lead to more learning and higher grades. And finally - if you have already been thinking again and posting a second draft - do that then look at a couple other strong students' blogs and integrate your insights about their arguments into your own 3rd draft.
If you have a hard time getting work done, please just do them. Even a 6/10 on each will likely lead to you receiving credit for the course. If you are able to get work done, please try to think harder and post a second draft - that will likely lead to more learning and higher grades. And finally - if you have already been thinking again and posting a second draft - do that then look at a couple other strong students' blogs and integrate your insights about their arguments into your own 3rd draft.
- Feelings Currently About Old Folks
- Multiple Interviews with Old Folks
- Q&A for Internet Research
- Thoughts and feelings regarding organizing your own living funeral
- Animal paper - Explain and analyse the most important of the 6 cultural obstacles to seeing ourselves as animals - explain and analyse the most important of the 4 benefits of seeing ourselves as animals for living a good and meaningful life. Conclude with your perspective, perhaps including additional obstacles and/or benefits. Please speak your own truth.
What's Due Now - AWOL
The following assignments will provide the basis of the 50% of your grade that is from your work.
If you have a hard time getting work done, please just do them. Even a 6/10 on each will likely lead to you receiving credit for the course. If you are able to get work done, please try to think harder and post a second draft - that will likely lead to more learning and higher grades. And finally - if you have already been thinking again and posting a second draft - do that then look at a couple other strong students' blogs and integrate your insights about their arguments into your own 3rd draft.
If you have a hard time getting work done, please just do them. Even a 6/10 on each will likely lead to you receiving credit for the course. If you are able to get work done, please try to think harder and post a second draft - that will likely lead to more learning and higher grades. And finally - if you have already been thinking again and posting a second draft - do that then look at a couple other strong students' blogs and integrate your insights about their arguments into your own 3rd draft.
- Initial Feelings About Birth
- Birth Stories - Including Your Own
- Birth Questions & Answers
- Normal vs Natural Birth
- Break HW
- Business of Being Born Response
- American Way of Birth Big Project
- Danish Response
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
AWOL - Social Welfare System & Taxes - Comparative Analysis
To follow up on the Danish visit please describe your understanding of the social welfare and taxation system in the U.S. in one or more paragraphs. Then describe your understanding of the Danish system, based on your notes from our guests' presentations in one or more paragraphs. Finally, do you think the U.S. should adopt the Danish model and become more of a social democracy, or turn away conclusively from that model and move back towards a purer capitalist framework, or jump over social democracy with a revolutionary move towards socialist anarchy? Explain your thoughts and feelings.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
A Poem for Each Course
AWOL
The Language of the Brag
I have wanted excellence in the knife-throw
I have wanted to use my exceptionally strong and accurate arms
and my straight posture and quick electric muscles
to achieve something at the center of a crowd,
the blade piercing the bark deep,
the haft slowly and heavily vibrating like the cock.
I have wanted some epic use for my excellent body,
some heroism, some American achievement
beyond the ordinary for my extraordinary self,
magnetic and tensile, I have stood by the sandlot
and watched the boys play.
I have wanted courage, I have thought about fire
and the crossing of waterfalls, I have dragged around
my belly big with cowardice and safety,
my stool black with iron pills,
my huge breasts oozing mucus,
my legs swelling, my hands swelling,
my face swelling and darkening, my hair
falling out, my inner sex
stabbed again and again with terrible pain like a knife.
I have lain down.
I have lain down and sweated and shaken
and passed blood and feces and water and slowly alone in the center of a circle I have passed the new person out
and they have lifted the new person free of the act
and wiped the new person free of that
language of blood like praise all over the body.
I have done what you wanted to do, Walt Whitman,
Allen Ginsburg, I have done this thing,
I and other women this exceptional
act with exceptional heroic body,
this giving birth, this glistening verb,
and I am putting my proud AMERICAN boast
right here with the others.
–Sharon Olds
LDH2BM
Roses, Late Summer
What happens
to the leaves after
they turn red and golden and fall
away? What happens
to the singing birds
when they can't sing
any longer? What happens
to their quick wings?
Do you think there is any
personal heaven
for any of us?
Do you think anyone,
the other side of that darkness,
will call to us, meaning us?
Beyond the trees
the foxes keep teaching their children
to live in the valley.
So they never seem to vanish, they are always there
in the blossom of the light
that stands up every morning
in the dark sky.
And over one more set of hills,
along the sea,
the last roses have opened their factories of sweetness
and are giving it back to the world.
If I had another life
I would want to spend it all on some
unstinting happiness.
I would be a fox, or a tree
full of waving branches.
I wouldn't mind being a rose
in a field full of roses.
Fear has not yet occurred to them, nor ambition.
Reason they have not yet thought of.
Neither do they ask how long they must be roses, and then what.
Or any other foolish question.
--Mary Oliver
The Language of the Brag
I have wanted excellence in the knife-throw
I have wanted to use my exceptionally strong and accurate arms
and my straight posture and quick electric muscles
to achieve something at the center of a crowd,
the blade piercing the bark deep,
the haft slowly and heavily vibrating like the cock.
I have wanted some epic use for my excellent body,
some heroism, some American achievement
beyond the ordinary for my extraordinary self,
magnetic and tensile, I have stood by the sandlot
and watched the boys play.
I have wanted courage, I have thought about fire
and the crossing of waterfalls, I have dragged around
my belly big with cowardice and safety,
my stool black with iron pills,
my huge breasts oozing mucus,
my legs swelling, my hands swelling,
my face swelling and darkening, my hair
falling out, my inner sex
stabbed again and again with terrible pain like a knife.
I have lain down.
I have lain down and sweated and shaken
and passed blood and feces and water and slowly alone in the center of a circle I have passed the new person out
and they have lifted the new person free of the act
and wiped the new person free of that
language of blood like praise all over the body.
I have done what you wanted to do, Walt Whitman,
Allen Ginsburg, I have done this thing,
I and other women this exceptional
act with exceptional heroic body,
this giving birth, this glistening verb,
and I am putting my proud AMERICAN boast
right here with the others.
–Sharon Olds
LDH2BM
Roses, Late Summer
What happens
to the leaves after
they turn red and golden and fall
away? What happens
to the singing birds
when they can't sing
any longer? What happens
to their quick wings?
Do you think there is any
personal heaven
for any of us?
Do you think anyone,
the other side of that darkness,
will call to us, meaning us?
Beyond the trees
the foxes keep teaching their children
to live in the valley.
So they never seem to vanish, they are always there
in the blossom of the light
that stands up every morning
in the dark sky.
And over one more set of hills,
along the sea,
the last roses have opened their factories of sweetness
and are giving it back to the world.
If I had another life
I would want to spend it all on some
unstinting happiness.
I would be a fox, or a tree
full of waving branches.
I wouldn't mind being a rose
in a field full of roses.
Fear has not yet occurred to them, nor ambition.
Reason they have not yet thought of.
Neither do they ask how long they must be roses, and then what.
Or any other foolish question.
--Mary Oliver
Friday, March 13, 2009
AWOB - Assignments and Protest
Three Choices for AWOB Project -
1. Paper - 3-10 pages - Clear thesis, three arguments supporting thesis, two pieces of evidence per argument, cite sources.
2. Poster - Above but succinct - pictures, graphs, images, big colorful headlines - be strategic and don't make a poster which will be removed by nervous middle school teachers.
3. Website - Above but with links and embedded videos etc.
Good source:
http://www.choicesinchildbirth.org/
Protest they're organizing - 6 to Canal and then walk:
We invite you to come to a rally of support for this case, the choice of homebirth, and access to medical coverage. Bring yourselves, your friends and your signs to show your solidarity!
Please email Kelly Renn at kelly@choicesinchildbirth.org for more information.
1. Paper - 3-10 pages - Clear thesis, three arguments supporting thesis, two pieces of evidence per argument, cite sources.
2. Poster - Above but succinct - pictures, graphs, images, big colorful headlines - be strategic and don't make a poster which will be removed by nervous middle school teachers.
3. Website - Above but with links and embedded videos etc.
Good source:
http://www.choicesinchildbirth.org/
Protest they're organizing - 6 to Canal and then walk:
| Date: | Wednesday, March 18, 2009 |
| Time: | 11:30am - 1:30pm |
| Location: | Outside the SEIU Local-32BJ |
| Street: | 101 Avenue of the Americas |
| City/Town: | New York, NY |
| Phone: | 2129834122 |
| Email: |
Description
Choices in Childbirth is hosting a rally outside the Service Employees International Union Local 32BJ to support an expectant mom who was denied healthcare coverage by SEIU for her choice of a homebirth. SEIU Local 32BJ is having a hearing so that she can appeal this decision on March 18th.We invite you to come to a rally of support for this case, the choice of homebirth, and access to medical coverage. Bring yourselves, your friends and your signs to show your solidarity!
Please email Kelly Renn at kelly@choicesinchildbirth.org for more information.
Friday, March 6, 2009
AWOB - First Draft
Please write an outline and add in some stuff from your notes for a basic paper on the American Way of Birth. What's your thesis? What evidence do you have? What questions will you explore further?
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