Friday, September 10th, 2010

Posted: September 10, 2010

Writing 110 - your objective is to write a one page minimum (single spaced) response to one of the following. This is to pass in on Monday.Please choose one:  - Twenty, fifty, or one hundred years from now how do you think the events of September 11th, 2001 will be understood as part of the larger context of United States history? What about world history? In your opinion, what other events had a similar impact on U.S. or world history?  - How would you explain 9/11 today to someone who was born on September 12, 2001?  - Sally Regenhard laments “the four words no mother should ever hear” when she asks about her son: “I want to know where my son is,” she says. The official responds “He is unaccounted for.” She then reflects “That is something that happens in a war…”How would you react to being told that someone you loved was “unaccounted for”? Why might it matter to a person’s relatives that the person’s body be accounted for?   Eng 112 - Today in class we reviewed our notes on the short story. Class was assigned one of Aesop's short fables to read and transfer onto a plotline. Follow the example given today, this is to pass in on Monday. Review and re-read your notes on the short story, you will be tested!   Eng 111 - Today we completed and compiled our notes on Shakespeare and the drama of his age and you were assigned the song "Sympathy for the Devil" by the Rolling Stones. You are to go through the lyrics and identify the various types of allusion found within. See what you know on your own and use reputable sources before you consult Wikipedia ;)