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...first, let’s revisit some shopping week highlights of the day. We heard that in African and African American Studies 10: "Introduction to African American Studies," Professor Henry L. Gates Jr. played an attention-grabbing rap about literacy. Though it may sound like a strange convergence of themes, Gates used the song to discuss how during the Enlightenment, literacy was viewed as the link to humanity, and Africans who could not write were seen as less than human...
...fewer Americans than usual tune in to the address on TV, it will suggest that the country has tuned out the President. The West Wing has to hope that the nation is still interested in what its (relatively) new leader has to say. (See Barack Obama's top 10 sound bites...
...Science of the Physical Universe 12: "Natural Disasters," which we recommend below, students were told to close their eyes as the professor turned the lights off and played a loud recording. As the intensity of the sound grew, the students, we were told, felt as if they were shaking. When the lights came back on, students were shown a photo of the disaster in Haiti and told that the noise was what they would have experienced had they been physically there at the time, and that scene was what they would have seen had they been alive...
...though she was the recipient of doctorates in religion and sacred theology, she left the church and confronted its politics. Daly also authored 10 books, including The Church and the Second Sex and Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation. "There is nothing like the sound of women really laughing," she wrote in Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism. She was a central figure in contemporary feminist thought, and her influence is unlikely to fade...
...financial crisis that struck the world this past November reminded all Americans just how important literacy of the financial markets and sound business practices are to economic vitality. President Barack Obama and the leading economists at the world’s biggest bank proclaimed that this was the most severe economic shock since the Great Depression. Articles were written, memos were circulated, and legislation was signed, but all to no avail...