Yearly Archives: 2022

Up (2009) dir. Pete Docher (Disney+) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORFWdXl_zJ4Links to an external site. The reflection about this movie should address the following questions: In your opinion what adaptive choices made by the filmmaker/content creators best reflect this decade in American film history? What insights do the chosen source(s) give on the style and composition of American cinema? […]

What is the most important political issue raised in the essay? Douglas never talks about the law, but he implies a great deal about justice and morality. How do justice and morality intersect in Douglass’s story of his life as a slave? How aware does he seem to have been that he was being dealt […]

Navigate to the website Challenges of Cultural Diversity: Protect Yourself and your Patients https://www.thedoctors.com/articles/challenges-of-cultural-diversity-in-healthcare-protect-your-patients-and-yourself   Read the webpage and the case study. What did you learn from the case study? Next, choose one of the four useful websites to explore. State which site you visited and two important takeaways.   In response to your peers, […]

Feedback on Josh’s post: The 2009 Disney-Pixar film Up, directed by Pete Doctor, is a pretty emotionally affecting film. The first twenty minutes (in)famously depict the budding relationship between the main character, Carl, and his soon-to-be future wife, Ellie; the two grow up together, fall in love, get married, and move in together, all played […]

How can emerging technologies contribute or enhance project base learning and situated learning in education  

“The Sum of us” what racism cost’s everyone and how we can prosper together by heather McGhee  The Hidden Wound was an interesting chapter to read. On page 226, the author quoted “Therefore love the stranger” written from the Bible. Explain what those words mean to you.

What have you learned from the class of Introduction to Communication? About yourself? About others? About communication rules and behaviors? About your own group interactions? About public speaking? How do you see things differently now? Which of your findings would you most like to share? In your final analysis, you should showcase what you have […]

Groundwork for a metaphysics of morals, Immanuel Kant  Kant argues that all objective morality is built on top of the intrinsic value (dignity) of human life. For this week’s initial post (150 word minimum), I would like students to address to following questions:. Is there a conflict between successful business practices and Kant’s assertion that […]

Both the textbook reading and the Jabali article talk about social activism via the media. Is Obama right about “woke” culture not being the same as activism? Does social media work as modern activism? Discuss the strengths and weaknesses in light of these readings.  

In the Bustle and Conversation articles on Childish Gambino’s This is America, much is made about what happens in the background rather than what Donald Glover’s dancing in the foreground is taking attention away from. What are some of the most striking images from the video you found? How do they connect to ideas from […]