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"Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.Ó E. M. Forster, Howards End (1910), ch. 22
"We go for a walk in nature, we see a beautiful sunset Ñ we breathe the order in through our senses, we feel connected. The inside begins to mirror the magnificent outside. In the Vedic tradition that connectedness is called 'yoga.'Ó
Chris Adamason, Vedic Architecture http://www.newlifejournal.com/aprmay04/adamson_0504.shtml
ÔOne day when I was twenty-three or twenty-four this sentence seemed to form in my head, without my willing it, much as sentences form when we are half-asleep, ÔHammer* your thoughts into unityÕ. For days I could think of nothing else and for years I tested all I did by that sentence [...]Ó* William Butler Yeats, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (*cited in Frank Tuohy, Yeats, 1976, p.51 )
"If I Had a Hammer .... I'd hammer out love between my brothers and my sisters/ All over this landÓ words and music by Lee Hays and Pete Seeger
150 pts. additional extra credit available, due no later than May 9.
[1] Optional web page creations for extra credit. Worth up to fifty points.
Turn our collection of pictures at http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~bump/E328/pics/
into a handsome html account of our course by providing some unifying themes, putting the pictures, with captions, in web pages, etc. (The result can not be just the personal picture presentations you are going to use in your electronic portfolio.) Present your plan to the instructor and get his approval before you begin.
N.B. Neither options [1] or [2] can be used to raise your final course grade higher than a B. For example, if you think your final count will be in the 700s, one or both of these options could raise your grade to a B. On the other hand, if you think your final count will be in the 800s, these options can not be used to raise your grade to an A.
[2] Optional Take Home Final, worth up to 100 pts.
Due in the mail slot of Par 132 no later than May 9.
Relate our novel and course anthology readings to a unifying theme, such as leadership, pattern of conversion, disappearance of God, nature, or a theme of your choice.
You will be expected to cite at least eight authors, beginning with at least one citation from the assigned readings for each Discussion Board to which you did not contribute. You will need to follow the same rules as the Discussion Board contributors did: you will not get credit for any quote already used in that Discussion Board. On the other hand, if you cite properly from readings assigned for a Required Discussion Board you missed, the negative points you have in the Gradebook for that DB will be removed.
(You can not get credit for late DB entries made after May 1 if you take this option.)
You will be evaluated on how many authors and texts you can cite meaningfully and specifically, and how well you can integrate them in your essay. All your ideas must be fully assimilated and be expressed in your own words: the premium is on thinking for yourself and hammering your thoughts into unity.
You need to supply quotation marks and footnotes with complete bibliographical information.
No more than seven pages at 350 words per page will be accepted.
To be included in your portfolio in the Òextra creditÓ category.
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