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DECEMBER BIRTHDAY:JAGUAR
Sir Paul McCartney sings Happy Birthday to You!
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Garfield's happy birthday dance
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Born free, as free as the wind blows
As free as the grass grows
Born free to follow your heart
Live free and beauty surrounds you
The world still astounds you
Each time you look at a star
Stay free, where no walls divide you
You're free as the roaring tide
So there's no need to hide
Born free, and life is worth living
But only worth living
'cause you're born free
(Stay free, where no walls divide you)
You're free as the roaring tide
So there's no need to hide
Born free, and life is worth living
But only worth living
'cause you're born free
http://www.youtube.com/v/1qBK4RRpouQ&hl=en&fs=1&
born free -- animals
[1] Ponder Einstein statement
"A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security." Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) Source: Mathematical Circles
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[2] Dass Guided Imagery focused on sending light and love
TODAY'S ACTIVITIES:
Best and Worst" for SECOND half of alphabet, awards, evaluation
LOOKING AHEAD:
12-7 Office Hours From noon by appointment bump@utexas.edu
12-8 Office Hours 10:30-11:30, and from 1:30 by appointment
12-8 Final Due Date for P2 hard copy folder (up to 215 points)*, P2 Critiques (up to 80 points) and all extra credit assignments, including up to 135 points just in blogs: Totem Cattle, Banerjee, Humpback Whales, Cowspiracy, PK Witness
{Also, the following have yet to get credit for their P1 critiques: Black Bear, Bee, Deer, Falcon, Starfish}
P2: The experiment: extending the sympathetic imagination to a live animal
SAVE THE PAPERS IN THIS FOLDER FOR NEXT SEMESTER OR -100
NAME
FOR P3 CONCENTRATE ON
_________: (part one), up to 30 points: a monologue from the point of view of the animal (at least three-hundred words) REQUIREMENT: YOU MUST INCLUDE THE ANIMAL'S POINT OF VIEW ABOUT LOSS OF FREEDOM, ABOUT THE ANIMAL'S PHYSICAL CONFINEMENT, etc. *
________: (part two) Evaluating the experiment, incorporating responses to questionnaire;
up to 30 points:
_________ good transition from the animal's point of view to yours. Up to 10 points
_________ research, up to 25 additional points
________ plus points for good writing, detail, insight, etc.
______ points from the three rubric categories designated for P2 (up to 140 points) -3 for each error or infelicity in each of your three P2 rubrics
________*Substantial bonus points for not only including passages from Kafka's Report to the Academy, especially this section, but also revealing insights into the meaning of this section.
_______ subtotal
___ deductions from other rubric categories
_______ deductions for missing items from folder (questionnaire etc.) and/or missing requirements: an essay in blog format* of at least fourteen-hundred words that must include multimedia (at least one video (put on youtube and supply URL) and three stills of the animal), at least the two required citations, and footnotes Must include the animal's point of view about physical confinement, loss of freedom, etc. Must be acceptable college-level writing. Must end with accurate word counts both with and without quotations.
Additional requirements for part two: DO NOT just rehearse your visit, or just provide an account of it. EVALUATE the possibility of extending the sympathetic imagination, empathy, sympathy, and/or compassion to another species. Devote most of P2B to explaining your answers to the questionnaire. Include at least one well-integrated quotation about the sympathetic imagination, empathy, sympathy, or compassion and at least one UNIQUE well-integrated and documented quotation from the readings about cats (pp. 904-947) or dogs (pp. 893-903 or https://www.la.utexas.edu/users/bump/Dogs.pdf ) in our anthology illustrating the sympathetic imagination).
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*WHAT SHOULD BE IN THE FOLDER TO BE HANDED IN?
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REQUIRED TO PASS THE COURSE
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[1] YOUR FINAL COPY CLEARLY MARKED AS "FINAL COPY. " and with the three categories for evaluation clearly marked. FORMAT: DOUBLE-SPACED, WITH A TITLE, PAGE NOS., and FOOTNOTES AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGES, using the University of Chicago footnote method. LAST PAGE SHOULD PROVIDE THE WORD COUNT (both with and without quotes) AND THE U.R.L. OF THE BLOG VERSION.
[1A] Part one (at least 700 words from the points of view of the animal)
[1B] A good transition
[1C] Part two: At least seven-hundred more words explaining your answers to this questionnaire. TO BE INCLUDED: REQUIRED: Include at least one well-integrated quotation about the sympathetic imagination, empathy, sympathy, or compassion and at least one UNIQUE well-integrated and documented quotation from the readings about cats or dogs in our anthology illustrating the sympathetic imagination). DOUBLE POINTS for additional well-integrated quotations from this section or related assigned reading in our anthology listed below. SINGLE ADDITIONAL POINTS if you just use the footnote option in WORD for this, but footnotes do enable you to work in digressions and many more citations without breaking up the flow of your beautiful prose.
THIS FINAL VERSION SHOULD BE PUT IN A POCKET FOLDER WITH YOUR NAME ON THE OUTSIDE OR -5.
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ALSO IN THIS FOLDER SHOULD BE these and only these related materials
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ALSO REQUIRED TO PASS THE COURSE:
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[2] The P1 rubric evaluation form from me and the P1 final essay edited by me, with my marks on the copy **
[3] A COPY OF YOUR ORIGINAL DRAFT of P2B, THE ONE YOU UPLOADED TO CANVAS;
[4] ALL CRITIQUES YOUR COLLEAGUES MADE OF YOUR SECOND PROJECT, PUT INTO A SINGLE WORD DOCUMENT, WITH THE NAME OF THE REVIEWER and the color code AT THE TOP OF EACH CRITIQUE.
[5] A SECOND DRAFT OF P2 WITH ALL THE CHANGES YOU MADE IN RESPONSE TO ALL THE CRITIQUES, WITH CHANGES NOW HIGHLIGHTED AND COLOR-CODED TO SHOW WHICH CHANGES WERE MADE IN RESPONSE TO TO WHICH REVIEWER, INCLUDING ANY MADE IN RESPONSE TO THE INSTRUCTOR'S CRITIQUES OF P1.
[6] THE QUESTIONNAIRE, WITH ALL QUESTIONS ANSWERED.
** ELECTRONIC OPTION: IF YOU SCAN AND MAKE A FILE OF the P1 final essay edited by me, with my marks on the copy YOU CAN SUBMIT ALL THIS AS ATTACHMENTS TO AN EMAIL -- in that case no folder required.)
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