Just a few thoughts for the weekend. Debate/Speech Be prepared for your test on Monday. It will cover all the material in these notes. AP Language Don’t forget you have a blog due by the end of Sunday (two, if you are making up a quiz) Vocab Quiz 2 on Monday Essay 2 (for next […]
From “Eichmann, the Banality of Evil, and Thinking in Arendt’s Thought” by Bethnia Assy Eichmann in Jerusalem (2) was originated when Hannah Arendt went to Jerusalem in order to report, for The New Yorker, on the trial of Otto Adolf Eichmann, (3) who was acused of crimes against the Jewish people, crimes against humanity, […]
There is, at the moment, a preoccupation with time. Svetlana Boym has called nostalgia—the longing for a different time—a “symptom of our age.”” And Andreas Huyssen has called the “slow but palpable transformation of tem-porality in our lives” the defining characteristic of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.” This preoccupation with time and longing […]
Perhaps money can buy happiness, after all: What’s the magic income number? According to Angus Deaton and Daniel Kahneman, it’s about $75,000, at least when it comes to day-to-day happiness. “As people earn more money, their day-to-day happiness rises,”reports The Wall Street Journal. “Until you hit $75,000. After that, it is just more stuff, with no gain in happiness.” […]
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