HAVE A GREAT BREAK!!!

I hope you have enjoyed the class.
Upload your paper to turnitin.

Take care,
dr. s

WEEK TEN BLOG ENTRY

If you could change one thing about humans, what would it be?

--OR WRITE ABOUT THIS--

Agree with one: People are inherently good and seek the best for each other/People are inherently bad and seek their own interests at the expense of others.

WEEK TEN READING

NO EXTRA READING THIS WEEK..JUST WORK ON YOUR FINAL PAPER!

WEEK TEN WRITING ABOUT WHAT YOU READ

NO WRITING ABOUT WHAT YOU READ THIS WEEK!

WEEK NINE BLOG ENTRY

The best restaurant in Bakersfield is...

--or-- (because maybe you don't know Bakersfield:))

The best restaurant I have ever been to is...

WEEK NINE READING

http://lifeandthyme.com/reflections/rise-of-food-culture-peru/
This is a week where you need to click on the above link and read the article from the other site.

WEEK NINE WRITING ABOUT WHAT YOU READ

I know that we already wrote about food this quarter, but now think about food as a phenomenon. Some of you may not know this, but there was once a time when no Food Network existed: when people did not even obsess so much about the latest cool restaurant or food truck or new place near them that happened to be on Diners, Drive Ins, and Drives.
So what do you think of this food culture? Or what do you think about anything from this article about the rise of a food culture in Peru?

FINAL ESSAY OF THE QUARTER ASSIGNMENT

Can you believe that the quarter is coming to an end? Our final assignment (we have no final exam, by the way) deals with our final reading of the quarter, Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point.

TIPPING POINT ESSAY ASSIGNMENT:

The essay should uploaded to turnitin.com. It will be 2-3 pages in length, double spaced.

There are two essay topics to choose from.

Obviously, as you read through the book look for examples that will help you build a fabulous final paper!

Write a 2-3 page double spaced essay on one of the following topics:

1. How might one or more of the ideas in the book The Tipping Point apply to your chosen major or profession?

2. Locate a trend [social, political, cultural, other] that seems to exhibit a "tipping point" phenomenon. Provide a brief explanation of why you think this phenomenon meets Gladwell's criteria for tipping point phenomenon; does it exhibit contagiousness. or little causes having big effects, or dramatic change?

THIS IS DUE NOVEMBER 23rd TO TURNITIN.COM (the syllabus says the 20^th, but it is indeed the 23rd)

LATE PAPERS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED, AND YOU CANNOT PASS THE CLASS WITHOUT THIS ASSIGNMENT, SO BE SURE IT IS IN ON TIME.

WEEK EIGHT BLOG ENTRY

Answer one of the following questions this week:

Is it true that hurt people hurt people?

Would you rather be invincible from physical or emotional harm?

Life is unfair. It is unfair to everyone. So isn't that fair?

Some physicists claim that time travel is impossible. Isn't living already travelling through time?

Would you rather have your ideal job or your ideal mate?

WEEK EIGHT READING

Start reading The Tipping Point this week. As you read, think about how the ideas of the book might apply to your major.

WEEK EIGHT WRITING ABOUT WHAT YOU READ

What do you think of The Tipping Point thus far?