Poems!

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For this post, find a poem about the road that you like, and briefly explain why you like it.

Newspaper Articles

"Road death toll soars in poorest countries: More children killed by traffic than by diseases Campaigners call for UN target to reduce carnage." by Randeep Ramesh (from LexisNexis) discusses how more schoolchildren in Africa are killed by traffic than by infectious diseases; Ramesh describes what is causing these deaths as well as various proposals to try to decrease the numbers. The article "Roadside health centre will treat, inform truckers" (from LexisNexis) describes the high percentage of truckers in South Africa who have AIDS and discusses various proposals to try to decrease those numbers as well as the future spread of the HIV virus among those who travel the highways. In the article "On India's Roads, Cargo and a Deadly Passenger" (from nytimes.com), Amy Waldman describes the spread of HIV/AIDS from truckers and prostitues along the highways in India. Waldman gives individual examples (pathos) of those afflicted as well as an overview of the social context in which roads and highways are allowing the disease to spread.

For Friday's Class

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For Friday, read the selections from "Does College Make You Smarter" and post a brief response to your blog: what do you think?  Does college make students smarter?

Take care,

m woodman

The Interview

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Post three questions you could ask the subject of your interview.

Main Ideas for Synthesis Essay

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Post at least four ideas you will develop in your synthesis essay.  These will form the basis of your topic sentences (and body paragraphs).

Enjoy your weekend!

Synthesis Essay

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Post the idea on which your synthesis essay will focus.

Annotated Bibliography #3

As we discussed in class, the annotated bibliography for the Malcolm Gladwell article is due April 22.
Here are the articles from which to choose:

--Open Secrets: Enron, Intelligence, and the Perils of too Much Information


-- Million-Dollar Murray: Why Problems like Homelessness May Be Easier to Solve Than to Manage 
--The Picture Problem: Mammography, Air Power, and the Limits of Looking

-- Connecting the Dots: The Paradoxes of Intelligence Reform
-- The Art of Failure: Why Some People Choke and Others Panic
-- Blowup: Who Can Be Blamed for a Disaster like the Challenger Explosion? No One, and We'd Better Get Used to It
-- Blowing Up: How Nassim Taleb Turned the Inevitability of Disaster into an Investment Strategy
-- How David Beats Goliath: When Underdogs Break the Rules