You will write two essays in response to two of the four essay prompts below. Essays will be 200-250 words long. You will use Times New Roman, 12 point font and 1.5 spacing. Each essay will be turned in on a separate sheet of paper. You will list the essay number (corresponding to the essay prompt number below) and the word count on each essay in the top right hand corner. You will hand write your name on the back (on each essay). You will turn in paper copies before we begin the final exam on Saturday, May 16. If I do not receive a paper copy at that time, I will consider the assignment late. The take home portion of the exam represents 1/3 of your total final exam score.
Essay Prompts
1) Use Gladwell to discuss Michael Lewis' experience at Salomon Brothers (or Michael Burry if you read the Big Short).
2) Compare/contrast Domhoff's power elite and the financial class described by Michael Lewis (in either book).
3) Compare/contrast American attitudes about inequality (from The Undeserving Rich) with the character of inequality in the United States as described by Massey.
4) Choose two authors. One must come from the group of authors we discussed at the beginning of the semester (Marx, Rand, Nietzsche, Steinbeck, Orwell). The second can be Domhoff, Massey, McCall or Lewis. They are in a meeting with the President of the United States in the Oval Office and are offering/debating inequality related policy. How might that conversation go? What would they recommend? Where would they agree/disagree? (Produce a script)
Friday, May 8, 2015
Groups for group evaluations
If you do not see your name here, send me an email ASAP with your name and your group name
W for Win: Sara-Ruth Gabriel; Stephen Poblete; Michelle Kim; Visar Berisha, Maulford Smith; Greg (?); Natasha Wright
$QUAD: Amirah Grady; Eva Suliman; Damarr Gordon, Daniel Parisi, David Teitelbaum
Awesome: Ryan Rumph; Lezah Calvin; Manpreet Chahil; Dawit Taddesse; Khalif Milton
Angry Birds: Maria Nasios; Pierre Bolden; Kaiwen Zhang; Brian Kang; Rashad Williams-Dorsey
Group 4: Malin Niklassen; Dan Naughton; Christina Bijou; Yasmeen Brown; Alina Cooper; Sara Millan; Greg Battista
Lucky 7s: Karen; Jess; Sam; Jeremy; Ivan; Makeda Solomon
Group 2: Madalyn Mahoney; Sam Humbel; Elizabeth Matthew
Thursday, May 7, 2015
Monday, May 4, 2015
Monday, April 20, 2015
Friday class and make-up assignment
I will be out of town this Friday (April 24). In place of class, students will be expected to complete the following assignment:
1) Watch a movie in which inequality is a theme.
2) Comment on that movie here.
Students will receive credit for two comments and those two comments will not count against the five for the semester.
Have a nice weekend.
1) Watch a movie in which inequality is a theme.
2) Comment on that movie here.
Students will receive credit for two comments and those two comments will not count against the five for the semester.
Have a nice weekend.
Monday, April 13, 2015
Gun owners face much higher murder risks, researchers said. Then the NRA silenced them. - MSN News
A good example of how money and resources can be used to influence what research gets done.
Gun owners face much higher murder risks, researchers said. Then the NRA silenced them.
Amber Hall, The Takeaway
PRI - PRI - Monday, April 13, 2015
Back in the early 1990s, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control provided funding for studies on gun violence. The NRA was not pleased. "[Our research] underwent peer review and was thought to be very solid and worthwhile research," says Dr. Fred Rivara, who was part of the team that researched gun violence. "The CDC stood by our research — they had funded it...
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Monday, March 23, 2015
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Monday, March 16, 2015
Exam I partial grades
Exam I partial grades are up on Canvas. I will adjust grades after I have finished grading the take-home portion of the exam.
So far the class average is an 85 (after a curve), median is 85.8 and the standard deviation is 13 (an unstandardly large standard deviation).
So far the class average is an 85 (after a curve), median is 85.8 and the standard deviation is 13 (an unstandardly large standard deviation).
Friday, March 6, 2015
Exam I Prep and Take Home Questions
Take home questions are now up (see the last post). Follow the instructions closely.
Exam I prep is in the class OneDrive folder (AB Exam I Prep).
Enjoy the rest of your snow day.
Exam I prep is in the class OneDrive folder (AB Exam I Prep).
Enjoy the rest of your snow day.
Take-home Exam (Spring 2015)
Essays will be 200-250 words in length (you will include the word count at the top), 1.5 spacing, and printed on separate pages. Each essay will fit on the front side of one sheet of paper. You will list the essay number in the top right corner. You will do your own work (do not discuss the assignment with classmates or anyone else) but you may use the books, class notes/slides. You will write your name on the back side of each essay by hand. You will turn in essays Friday (3/13) at the beginning of class.
Pick one of these:
1) Discuss The Grapes of Wrath as a practical example of principals discussed in the Communist Manifesto.
2) Imagine that the authors of Anthem (Ayn Rand) and the Communist Manifesto (Karl Marx and Friederich Engels) had a discussion. What might that look like? (I want you to produce a script.)
Pick one of these:
3) Gladwell discusses the relationship between genius and becoming an outlier. Summarize and critique his conclusions.
4) Compare/contrast Outliers with a reading from the first section (Animal Farm, Anthem, Between Good and Evil, Communist Manifesto, Grapes of Wrath)
Pick one of these:
1) Discuss The Grapes of Wrath as a practical example of principals discussed in the Communist Manifesto.
2) Imagine that the authors of Anthem (Ayn Rand) and the Communist Manifesto (Karl Marx and Friederich Engels) had a discussion. What might that look like? (I want you to produce a script.)
Pick one of these:
3) Gladwell discusses the relationship between genius and becoming an outlier. Summarize and critique his conclusions.
4) Compare/contrast Outliers with a reading from the first section (Animal Farm, Anthem, Between Good and Evil, Communist Manifesto, Grapes of Wrath)
The Rise in Inequality: A Young Lady or Gentleman's Illustrated Primer
http://www.bradford-delong.com/2015/02/the-rise-in-inequality-a-young-lady-or-gentlemans-illustrated-primer-the-honest-broker-for-the-week-of-february-15-2015.html#text
Monday, March 2, 2015
Friday, February 27, 2015
Monday, February 23, 2015
Saturday, February 21, 2015
Monday, January 26, 2015
Friday, January 23, 2015
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