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odds and ends
Oct. 29th, 2004 12:27 pmI have to respond to the following question:
It seems that the battle over the word "liberty" was at the crux of the changing definition of freedom during the 1930s. (FDR's New Deal, "collective freedom" vs. Robert Taft's capitalist, entrepreneurial, "individual freedom." Although FDR's vision obviously won out in the short term, has a long term victor been established or have we created a balance between the two?
As it turns out, I don't know anything about the New Deal. And since I didn't really do the reading, and the journal is due at 12:40, I think I'm kinda screwed. And I think, once again, I'm just not going to do it. Cause I don't know the answer and I don't really have time to figure anything out. I'll turn it in late, though, and hope Upton doesn't say anything to me this time, cause last time he was kind of scary and intimidating.
On the plus side, I took a shower and I smell really good. So yeah. AND I'm going with Mark and Aster and people to wave Kerry signs in front of the library later on today, so that should be fun. So long as we don't get egged by the Carroll County conservatives or anything.
I've tentatively decided on a schedule for next semester. It should look something like this:
Monday:
9:10-10:10 -- Pilates
10:20-11:20 -- Senior Seminar
3:00-4:30 -- Culture of Latin America (in English!)
Tuesday:
10:00-11:30 -- Rhetorical Approaches to Everyday Discourse
3:00-4:30 -- Literary Journalism (with Pulitzer Prize winning Senior Editor of Washington Post's Bookworld. Heh.)
Wednesday:
9:10-10:10 -- Pilates
10:20-11:20 -- Senior Seminar
3:00-4:30 -- Culture of Latin America (in English!)
Thursday:
10:00-11:30 -- Rhetorical Approaches to Everyday Discourse
3:00-4:30 -- Literary Journalism
Friday:
9:10-10:10 -- Pilates
10:20-11:20 -- Senior Seminar
I'm still not sure about the Latin American class, I may decide to take Greed, Gangsters, and the Great Depression with Upton instead. I'm kind of worried about having two upper level writing classes and senior sem all in the same semester, but I think I can handle it, and my adviser has assured me she thinks I can as well, so. The good thing about that schedule is that Pilates only lasts for the first four weeks, and senior sem won't meet all the time. So my MWF should be pretty easy. Means I'll have lots of time during the day to pick up some hours in the library and the bookstore.
The class I didn't do my homework for starts in a few minutes. I should get dressed and actually go.
It seems that the battle over the word "liberty" was at the crux of the changing definition of freedom during the 1930s. (FDR's New Deal, "collective freedom" vs. Robert Taft's capitalist, entrepreneurial, "individual freedom." Although FDR's vision obviously won out in the short term, has a long term victor been established or have we created a balance between the two?
As it turns out, I don't know anything about the New Deal. And since I didn't really do the reading, and the journal is due at 12:40, I think I'm kinda screwed. And I think, once again, I'm just not going to do it. Cause I don't know the answer and I don't really have time to figure anything out. I'll turn it in late, though, and hope Upton doesn't say anything to me this time, cause last time he was kind of scary and intimidating.
On the plus side, I took a shower and I smell really good. So yeah. AND I'm going with Mark and Aster and people to wave Kerry signs in front of the library later on today, so that should be fun. So long as we don't get egged by the Carroll County conservatives or anything.
I've tentatively decided on a schedule for next semester. It should look something like this:
Monday:
9:10-10:10 -- Pilates
10:20-11:20 -- Senior Seminar
3:00-4:30 -- Culture of Latin America (in English!)
Tuesday:
10:00-11:30 -- Rhetorical Approaches to Everyday Discourse
3:00-4:30 -- Literary Journalism (with Pulitzer Prize winning Senior Editor of Washington Post's Bookworld. Heh.)
Wednesday:
9:10-10:10 -- Pilates
10:20-11:20 -- Senior Seminar
3:00-4:30 -- Culture of Latin America (in English!)
Thursday:
10:00-11:30 -- Rhetorical Approaches to Everyday Discourse
3:00-4:30 -- Literary Journalism
Friday:
9:10-10:10 -- Pilates
10:20-11:20 -- Senior Seminar
I'm still not sure about the Latin American class, I may decide to take Greed, Gangsters, and the Great Depression with Upton instead. I'm kind of worried about having two upper level writing classes and senior sem all in the same semester, but I think I can handle it, and my adviser has assured me she thinks I can as well, so. The good thing about that schedule is that Pilates only lasts for the first four weeks, and senior sem won't meet all the time. So my MWF should be pretty easy. Means I'll have lots of time during the day to pick up some hours in the library and the bookstore.
The class I didn't do my homework for starts in a few minutes. I should get dressed and actually go.
