for January 22

This post is easy:

Find five poems from Poem in Your Pocket you enjoy, and explain why you enjoy them. Just write a sentence for each poem.

For example, I like Donald Hall's "Self-Portrait as a Bear" because sometimes I feel fat and lazy and like to sit in the sunshine, too.

January 20

Hello All,

Today will be a group blog done in class.

First, view Walter Martin and Paloma Munoz's art. Then, in groups of two or three, analyze one artwork.

What is the theme/message of this artwork? How do the artists use archetypes to convey this theme/message?

Your response should be a paragraph that contains at least one of each type of sentence:

simple
compound
complex
compound-complex

Blog for January 20

Hello All,

For Wednesday's blog, divide and classify the artwork/photography on the walls of your room or home; this should be a short paragraph.

After you have broken these items into categories and labeled/described each category, try to take an objective perspective and answer this question: What do these items seem to imply about your life and self?

January 8, 2010

Hello All,

For today's post, reread the New York Times article "Making College 'Relevant'" and pages 3-35 in Ariadne's Clue. On page 16, Anthony Stevens writes, "Through evolution we have acquired the capacity to use symbols to connote concepts [. . . ] we can relate one concept to another and, through their interplay, create myths, arts, and religions and make new scientific discoveries. Like all psychobiological capacities, symbol formation has an adaptive formation: it promotes our grasp on reality. It enables us not just to adapt passively to reality but to master it, to adjust reality to our needs."

Your question is this: How do the ideas expressed in this quote relate to the purpose of a university education?