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Assignment for 11/5

Read Dante's Inferno.

Have fun with the following:



Create a Punishment: The Hellish Game of Entertainment



Dante’s form of punishment always fits the crime. Design a level of hell for one of the following:

1. People who cut in lines
2. Men who leave the seat up
3. Women who want men to be more sensitive
4. Television remote control hogs
5. Internet spammers

To get full credit, you must create the punishment and explain how the punishment fits the crime! Explain how it is similar to one of Dante’s punishments.

Homework for 10/29

Attention! Attention! A change in the readings!

Next up is the Koran and The Thousand and One Nights: Read those selections and answer the following starter question:


Koran Starter Question



Question: Compare a story we have read in the Bible to its representation in the Koran. How is it different? What similarities are there? Consider characters, actions and themes.

Write a one-to-two page, typed, and double spaced response.

Due at the start of next class.

Homework for 10/22

Read The New Testament selections and The Confessions of St. Augustine selection.

Answer the Starter Question for Confessions

Starter Question for Confessions

Starter Question for Confessions

Our book’s introduction claims:
“This is, as far as we know, the first authentic ancient autobiography, and that fact itself is a significant expression of the Christian spirit, which proclaims the value of the individual soul and the importance of its relation to God.”

Using this quotation, find examples from our selection that demonstrate this concern with the individual (the self) and its relationship to God. Where do you see this point most clearly presented in our reading? Explain why.

Test Tomorrow

Don't forget your bluebook and your text book. You will need both for the exam. We are ONLY taking the exam tomorrow night. There is no discussion or other reading.

Starter Questions for 10/8/08

Answer one of the following questions:

Starter Question for Confucius

Our introduction to Confucius claims:

The Confucian Way was one of social roles. These usually involved hierarchies of relations, but to Confucius social hierarchy was valid only if it came naturally and spontaneously. The only hierarchical relation that was above judgment was the relation between parent and child, and that natural relation of mutual but differing qualities of affection was the model to which all other social relations aspire.

Where do we see this emphasis on social roles and social hierarchies in our selection? How do the values Confucius promotes support meaningful social hierarchies? What examples from the selection create “proper” functioning hierarchies. In what ways do they support order over chaos? Consider how an individual’s behavior is discussed in terms the relationship he or she has with others.

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Classic of Poetry Starter Question

Carefully read and explicate (explain lines and their significance) one of the selected poems.

You should explain the use of symbol, the meaning of the poem and its theme. Do not retell the poem. Explain it.

Topics for Lys. and the Aeneid Discussion

Lysistrata

• Comedy--how it is created and its purpose
• Stereotypes of women and men. How the play does and doesn't support them.
• Role of women in Greek society as presented
• Power in men and women
• The place of sex in the world--Greek attitudes
  
• Athens/Sparta

Aeneid

• The Roman character and gravitas
  
• Dido, her passion and death
  
• The Gods
• The Underworld (compared to previous afterlives)
• The sacking of Troy
• Carthage
• The poetic style of Virgil
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