What will be the impact of technology? Is it going to make our life easier or harder? What about human species, will we be genetically modified or not? Will we live only on planet Earth or even elsewhere? Do you think we will be free (freedom)? What decisions will we face?
What will prevail: the positive or negative traits? Decide for one or the other and justify!
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Jane Eyre
Analyze how Brontë portrays women in society. Is this an early feminist book? How does Jane compare to contemporary women? Use direct quotations from the book and explain them to support your answer.
How technology is changing written English
The topic for this assignment is how technology is changing written English. (Take the position of being bad, you just have to back up the position with sources.) You are to cite at least 3 independent sources for your paper. None of your primary sources can be Wikipedia or "The Keypad Solution." However, you can use The NYTimes Magazine's "On Language" archives for source material.
The Problem of Induction
discuss the role of "experience" in our ability to obtain knowledge of contingent things, and explicate the basis of Hume's skeptical doubts concerning the adequacy of past experience as a basis for making projections about the future. Describe Nelson Goodman's New Riddle of Induction, and discuss the relationship to Hume's problem.
The Master Butchers Singing Club
Identify and discuss the novel's use of one or more of the following literary conventions: Biblical or Classical Allusions; acts of communion; seasons; geography or weather; illness, disease, or disfigurement; violence and its aftermath. Remember that you must make some claim about the convention, not merely identify it.
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