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...write to respond to Sabrina Lee’s impassioned criticism of the Social Studies 10 syllabus (“The Social Studies Ideology”, Sabrina G. Lee, Feb. 10, 2010). Lee has raised important concerns, but her argument is misinformed and insufficiently argued. As I see it, she has made two criticisms. First, she claims that Social Studies 10 has rejected “including gender theory or postcolonial theory on the course syllabus.” This is factually incorrect. Her second criticism is that by including only “white, European, heterosexual male theorists...
...What do you believe is the most compelling argument for the existence...
...Number 35 is the best argument but it’s for Spinoza’s God. What Spinoza means by “God” is this world that we are in [that] explains everything. So it’s not for a god that exists outside of the universe, it’s for the universe itself as a source of all of our wonder. And I kind of believe that. I don’t like any of the other ones—I think they’re kind of weak...
...What do you believe is the most compelling argument against the existence...
...major argument against including more female and nonwhite writers on the Social Studies 10 syllabus calls attention to the course description’s stated mission. Social Studies 10 is, according to the course description, a study of classic texts; as such, it bears no responsibility to diversify and perhaps shouldn’t. This argument, however, is complicated by the fact that Social Studies 10 is one of the only courses required of all concentrators and thus binds together an otherwise loosely-defined humanities concentration...