Deadlines and Prompts The Welty revision (prompt, page 2) will be due Monday in class. I will give you your first draft with comments on Wednesday or Thursday. The Barry essay (prompt, page 3) has a more complicated process. You need to find a peer editor and turn in a final draft attached to your […]
We’ll be debating the issue of whaling during the block schedule on Wednesday. Our topics will be: Do nations and cultural groups have the right to hunt whales as part of their cultural expression? Is hunting whales cruel because of their intelligence and socialization? Do the economic/scientific benefits of whaling justify it? Some evidence will […]
Slate’s Reihan Salam argues that couples with above-average incomes who have no children should pay higher taxes because of the social benefits of parenting: So now, as a childless professional in my mid-30s, I often reflect on the sacrifices working parents make to better the lives of their children. And I have come to the […]
Beautiful writing can be about any subject, and baseball is certainly no exception. This short essay, by former commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti, captures just what is so great about the game. He opens the piece: It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else […]
The New York Times has an interesting piece about the discussion about micro-aggression occurring on college campuses. The term was first popularized by professor Derald Sue: The recent surge in popularity for the term can be attributed, in part, to an academic article Derald W. Sue, a psychology professor at Columbia University, published in 2007 […]