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Essay Instructions: Being human and Being Dehumanized

Consider specific examples (please quote!) from the text. At all costs, avoid extensive plot synopsis. This is an analytical paper; it must have a clearly defined thesis and make a coherent argument.

Essay Instructions: To study the humanities is to study what it means to be human. In your 10 weeks, you thought critically about concepts like myths and narratives, morality and decision making, freedom, and happiness, as well as specific subjects like literature, art, music, film, and popular culture. All of these ideas and applications are ways to communicate with the past, present, and future.
Your Project for this course will be a virtual time capsule. A time capsule is a grouping of items for future discovery. Imagine that your time capsule will be buried at the end of the course and opened 100 years later.
The goal of the capsule is to provide an overview of what you believe future generations should remember about the 20th and early 21st Centuries. The project can be composed in Microsoft Word or PowerPoint. It can include multimedia if you wish.
You must include the course materials in your time capsule; incorporate APA formatting, including citations and a references section. Word count specifications are described below for each category.
The Project should include the following EIGHT criteria
Item 1: Letter of introduction:
Write a letter, including a minimum of 250 words, describing your current life to a potential reader 100 years in the future.
In your letter, consider the following questions: What is your daily experience? Describe your daily routine, as well as your customs and habits (i.e., holidays, work schedules, etc.). Also describe your perspective on the modern era, and your dreams/goals for the future.
Item 2: Morality/Decision Making
Include one specific example of morality and decision-making in current culture. Reference the course materials, or specific examples of morality. Include at least 100 words for this category.
Item 3: Happiness
Include your definition of happiness in 100 words or more. Describe how you reached this view of happiness. Do you believe your definition of happiness corresponds with one of the theories of happiness you studied in the unit on happiness?
Item 4: Literature
In one paragraph, select one specific literary word (poem, short story, play, or novel). Indicate why this literature selection is significant to you. Why is this item worth preserving for readers 100+ years in the future? What does this selection communicate about our culture today?
Item 5: Art and Architecture
In one paragraph, select one piece of architecture or art. Indicate why this art or architecture selection is significant to you. Why is this item worth preserving for readers 100+ years in the future? What does this selection communicate about our culture today?
Item 6: Music
In one paragraph, select one specific song (or group of songs). Focus specifically on the selected song(s) and not the artist/musician for the song(s). Indicate why this song or group of songs is significant to you. Why is this item worth preserving for readers 100+ years in the future? What does this selection communicate about our culture today?
Item 7: Film
In one paragraph, select one film. Indicate the film genre as well as why this film selection is significant to you. Why is this item worth preserving for readers 100+ years in the future? What does this film selection communicate about our culture today?
Item 8: Pop Culture
In one paragraph, select one specific item from pop culture. Indicate why this item from pop culture is significant to you. Why is this item worth preserving for readers 100+ years in the future? What does this selection communicate about our culture today?
Conclusion/Summary:
Summarize your time capsule in a concluding paragraph. What should a reader in the future learn about the current era after reviewing your time capsule?
Please feel free to include examples that you discovered in your studies this term; incorporate the course materials in your time capsule. Challenge yourself to choose items that might be valuable for the future, though they might not necessarily be your favorites. Feel free to incorporate additional outside sources. Add citations and references for all consulted sources. Complete the project using the Microsoft Word template in Doc Sharing.
APA formatting:
Incorporate APA citations throughout the time capsule as well as a references section at the end of the time capsule. Review the APA quick reference guide on the left-hand sidebar under course home for APA formatting guidelines. As always, contact your instructor if you have questions.

Course Material: The Art of Being Human: The Humanities as a Technique for Living Author: Richard Janaro and Thelma Altshuler

Essay Instructions: In a five paragraphs essay write about how technologies are good since they were invented to help make our lives faster and easier.
One of the source must come from
Janaro, Richard Paul, and Thelma C. Altshuler. The Art of Being Human. 7th ed. New York: Longman, 2003.

Must have a strong thesis stament. Each paragraph must have a strong topic sentence, explaination, examples and a nice conclusive sentence.

Essay Instructions: Using MLA style format, write a positive point of view response to/commet on the film You've got Mail. Comment or response shoud be about RELATIONSHIP (for example you can talk about How do we love each other or anything you wanna to write about as long as the essay should be about relationsip). Keep in mind this relationship topic doesn't included family or family love).

One of the source must come from chapter 1 or 2 of the book
Janaro, Richard Paul,and Thelma C. Altshuler. The Art of being Human. 7th. New Yor: Longman, 2003.
The film is the second source.

If you don't wanna to write about the film you've got mail you can pick from one of the following films:
Finding Forrester
PitchBlack
Soldeir
x-men

expend the essay if needed.