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Honor’s Blog 10: Occupy Wall Street
This weeks reading was about a the protestors at the Occupy Wall Street movement. The articles explored the different views and opinions of the people that are taking part in the movement. There seems to be a consensus of why these … Continue reading
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Honor’s Blog 9: Arts in School
This weeks reading is about the arts in schools across America. The article goes into the issue of math and sciences taking over schools and their funding. With the economic times that we are in, many schools have had to … Continue reading
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Honor’s Blog 8: Hitchhikers
This weeks topic was about hitchhikers. Hitchhiking is not something that you see very often anymore. Many people say it is unsafe and crazy to take that risk of getting in someones car that you have no idea who they … Continue reading
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Honor’s Reading 7: History of Christmas
This week we were given an essay about the origins of Christmas. Bruce Forbes, a religion teacher here at Morningside, wrote the essay called Christmas Was Not Always Like This: A Brief History. He writes about how the traditions that we … Continue reading
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Honor’s Blog 6: Connections Between Readings
Over the past weeks we have read a few articles and watched a couple videos. Many of these readings have connections, but the connection that stands out to me the most is the common theme of discrimination. The articles that … Continue reading
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Honor’s Blog 5: Vonnegut
This week we read Kurt Vonnegut Jr’s earliest speech and latest speech he wrote. When I started reading the speeches I thought it made no sense. The speeches kept switching points and ideas without any warning. It’s as if he … Continue reading
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Honor’s Blog 4: Hunting Hidden Dimensions
When I first was told we are having a person from the math department coming to lead discussion and decide on the weeks reading, I thought I was going to be in to something really boring. But as I started … Continue reading
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Honor’s Blog 3: Sports
Summary: Both the readings for this week focused on the negatives of the sports world. The First reading, “What’s ‘manly’, what’s not for athletes,” talks about the negativity towards athletes. Even for little things that would not matter if an … Continue reading
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Honor’s Blog 2: Cicero
Summary: Cicero starts off by explaining his views and beliefs on eloquence and the art of rhetoric. He begins with explaining the relationship between wisdom and good rhetoric, good public speaking. He shows in his essay that almost every great … Continue reading
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Honor’s: Liking What You See
Summary: Throughout the article Liking What You See, the controversial topic of “lookism” is explored. The article focuses on a procedure called calliagnosia or calli, the ability not to see “beauty” or “ugliness” in a person. This controversial procedure was … Continue reading
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