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9-22 LONGHORN as TOTEM Animal +

9-20 Hawk as Power Animal 9-15 Power Animals; SYMPATHETIC IMAGINATION ;9-13 Universities, U. T., Liberal Arts, Plan II;  + 9-8 Permutations of Fear: Domination, Sadism,  Lord of the Flies; + 9-6  PP. 351-435 Emotive Ethics: Empathy and the Sympathetic  Imagination,

LOOKING AHEAD

9-23  EXTRA CREDIT: TILTS: RITA CHARON LITERATURE AND MEDICINE 9 AM. AT+T 102  10 pts. for attendance with selfie taken there; up to 20 more pts. for blog posted in Extra Credit Discussion Board (two images and at least two quotes.)..

9-27 MUST HAVE POWER ANIMAL IN TIME FOR CLASS; SHAPESHIFTING; LEADER: MICHAEL

P1a due online 9-29 Rebirth

P2 required service learning excursion to Taylor animal shelter 11-6

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our  inspirations

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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)  Mathematical Circles

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth." 
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Dass Guided Imagery

"LOVE AND DO WHAT YOU WILL"  St. Augustine


find the ancestors of our longhorns

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At the entrance to Lascaux

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in the cave

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 ENTER and find the ultimate longhorn ancestors

9-22   What is Your Totem Animal? EXTRA CREDIT FOR COMING IN FULL LONGORN REGALIA, OR AS CLOSE AS YOU CAN

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EXPLORE U.T.x

diversity emblem

this window was over the main entrance of the original Main Building

previous class pretending to worship Bevo here

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Bevo in front of the new Main Building after the 2005 National Championship

RUNNING OF THE HORNS up Congress, changing into hybrids, and into the Stadium

 

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Dobie's The Longhorns


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our tribal totem, the longhorn


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW1dNp9d-AA Ft. Worth longhorn drive

TODAY'S GOALS [2I1] “to know thyself.” To know one’s strengths and weaknesses . Self-awareness is essential not only for leadership and ethics, but for good writing for it enables self-management of time and emotional as well as intellectual resources.

TODAY'S ACTIVITIES: Quiz in class. "Best and Worst" for second half of alphabet; blog discussion

REQUIRED READINGS:

TEXAS TOTEM ANIMALS

657-660                 Dobie  introduction
661-679                J. Frank Dobie, The Longhorns
680                        Longhorns Our Totem Animal?
681-696                 Longhorns at U.T.
687-688                 The Texas Myth: Webb & McMurtry
689-690                 Texas Longhorn: origins
691-698              Learning from Longhorns

TOTEM ANIMAL ORIGINS: CATTLE

699-702                       Cattle in Ancient History EGYPT, GREECE
703-706                 Cattle in INDIA
707                         Cattle in Judaism, Islam,MIDDLE EAST               
708                         Cattle in ancient EGYPT,Celts, GREECE
709-711                    Cattle in modern ASIA
712-714                    Cattle in Hinduism INDIA
715-719                    Cattle in Jainism  INDIA
720                          Cattle in The Odyssey GREECE
721-722                 The Sacred Calf in Exodus THE BIBLE, MIDDLE EAST
723-730            Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon
731-763           Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon , HRC MSS.

REVIEW

543-546              Totemism and Power Animals,some definitions

PROJECT ONE INSTRUCTIONS

 


 

honi soit motto

“Stress Recess” Stressed by papers? Tests? Relationship issues? For these and other stressors, take a few minutes to check out a new interactive website called “Stress Recess” at http://www.cmhc.utexas.edu/stressrecess, a component of the UT Counseling and Mental Health Center. This site is loaded with videos, animation, video games, body scans, quizzes, clickable charts and graphics and practical information tailored to YOU. Learn what causes stress, signs of stress and—most importantly---what you can do to manage stress in healthy ways!