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Topic: Introducing Our Thematic Frameworks https://fiu.instructure.com/courses/143558/discussion_topics/1618168 1/3  This is a graded discussion: 100 points possible due Oct 21 Introducing Our Thematic Frameworks Michael Grafals 1 1 Due Date Your initial post and response post to a peer are due by midnight on Friday (by 11:59 PM) . You must write at least 600 words […]

something about why tragedy is singled out as the model for human action. Xix [Since] the turn of events involves not to much a change as a reinterpretation of what has already occurred, some recognition seems necessary. Reversal must, therefore, be our recognition as an audience that what we thought to be is not what

Aristotles On Poetics:Translated by Seth Benardete and Michael Davis St. Augustine’s Press 2002 Introduction by Michael Davis Insofar as all human action is always already an imitation of action, it is in its very nature poetic. This places the beginning of Aristotle’s famous definition of tragedy—that tragedy is an imitation of action—in a new light.

Research Topic: Effects of Early Sexual Abuse. Create a power point presentation using the outline below to present some info about your research article.   I suggest your power point presentation contain the following:   I.                   Title Page (2pts) a.   Your Name & major course of study   II.                Topic Introduction (6 pts) a.       Identify the social problem you

“The Lottery” Quiz   1. Were you surprised by the ending of the story? If not, at what point did you know what was going to happen? How does Jackson start to foreshadow the ending in paragraph 2 and 3? Conversely, how does Jackson lull us into thinking that this is just an ordinary story

What are some examples of irony in this story? “The Lottery” (1948) by Shirley Jackson The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green. The people of the village began to gather in the square, between

Is Google Making Us Stupid? NICHOLAS CARR “DAVE, STOP. STOP, WILL You? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave?” So the supercomputer HAL pleads with the implacable astronaut Dave Bowman in a famous and weirdly poignant scene toward the end of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Bowman, having nearly been sent to a deep-space death

Which is smarter at chess-humans or computers? CLIVE THOMPSON brings us back to our original question here: Which is smarter at chess-humans or computers? Neither. It’s the two together, working side by side. We’re all playing advanced chess these days. We just haven’t learned to appreciate it. Our tools are everywhere, linked with our minds,

Why Robots Will-and Must- Take Our Jobs KEVIN KELLY Imagine that 7 out of 10 working Americans got fired tomorrow. What would they all do? IT’s HARD TO BELIEVE you’d have an economy at all if you gave pink slips to more than half the labor force. But that- in slow motion-is what the industrial

Should immunizations be mandatory? In early colonial America, the smallpox virus spread quickly among growing populations, killing as many as half of those who caught it. When one of the earliest forms of immunization, called “inoculation”, was introduced in the West, colonizers fought over whether it was safe. Their fear was reasonable. In the 1700s, inoculation