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primary source analysis

July 29, 2021 in /by

http://web.archive.org/web/20001215223500/http://www.humanities.ccny.cuny.edu/history/reader/analects.htm I would like you to engage in a primary source analysis. Historians do such analyses all the time. It is one of their main ways of understanding what strengths and limitations the sources that tell them about the past have and how reliable those sources may be. Focusing on just one of the primary […]

Death

July 29, 2021 in /by

You will do an audiovisual essay that follows the steps of the essay “What to philosophize is to prepare to die” by Montaigne, in which the French philosopher offers a meditation on death from a personal perspective, albeit based on literary and philosophical texts The video essay should, in essence, answer the following question:– In […]

HATE Portfolio

July 29, 2021 in /by

    READING    News articles:BBC (2019) ‘Brexit “major influence” in racism and hate crime rise’ BBC.co.uk 20 June 2019. Donna Lu (2019) ‘UK police are using AI to spot spikes in Brexit-related hate crimes’ New Scientist 28 August 2019. Academic reading: Kathleen Blee (2003-4) Positioning Hate, Journal of Hate Studies, vol.3(1), pp95-105.

HATE

July 29, 2021 in /by

ESSAY QUESTION: Discuss Freuds proposition that: it is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive the manifestations of their aggressiveness. READINGThere are two key readings this week, and we expect you to read at least one of them. Watch […]