Final exam essay question

Dear Students,
The following question is posted so that you can prepare your answer ahead of time. The final exam will take place on Friday at 8:30 am in the Barber Learning Center.

1. “Are humans an integral part of nature or are they separate from it?”

Discuss how at least three of the texts we have read this term have portrayed “the relationship between humans and the rest of nature.” Which of these portrayals have you found the most compelling? Why?

This essay question is Part Three of Four parts. Part One is Multiple choice, Part Two will ask you to identify passages and discuss their significance, Part Four is also an essay (as much as possible, you will want to refer to different texts in Parts Three and Four. If you do use the same text, discuss different aspects of it in Parts Three and Four).

Please double-space your essays, and write on only one side of the page.

Final Email Exchange

The question for the last penpal email exchange is:

Should the manufacture of DDT be completely banned world wide? Why or why not?

HIST students are initiating the exchange. Please try to email your Science One partner by Monday. The emails are due Friday, Dec 3.

This will be the last email exchange.

For those who didn't attend class today, you'll need to do a little research on the current issues around DDT use. The following key words might be helpful: malaria, Michael Crichton, Stockholm Convention, Sheila
Watt-Cloutier, Iqualuit Declaration, POPs.

videos for Nov. 12 and readings for the following week

Before the class on Thurs [Nov 12], please watch the following Youtube videos:
Trailer of “Free Willy”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6bSTWtAo0U
Trailer of “Fly Away Home”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B5iik_wiK0
Lemming sequence from “White Wilderness”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMZlr5Gf9yY

Next week we will start Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. Please read chapters 1-6 and 15-17.

Assignments for ALL Tutorials Nov. 5-6

ALL students--for this week's tutorial, please turn in the following:
--Please compose a research question that you want to address in your essay (so you would need to know your topic).
--Then put together at least four sources (with, at the minimum, one book and one peer-reviewed article).
--Finally, for Tamara's tutorial students only: bring on a separate sheet info on a person, event, invention or work of art that lived/happened/was invented or created during Darwin's lifetime (1809-1882).

Readings for Week of Nov. 9-13, 2009

Please read the following sections in Wild Animals I Have Known:
the "Note to the Reader" and the stories of "Lobo", "Silverspot", "Raggylug", "The Springfield Fox" and "Redruff"

TA Office location

I have a space in the Brock Hall Annex 2355A. Enter from Walter Gage street next to Buchanon Tower and go up 2 1/2 flights of stairs then turn left. 2355A will be on your left, mine is the 2nd cubicle. My office hours are on Wednesdays, TBA--it is best to email me ahead of time but it is fine to stop by on a Wednesday and see if I'm there.

Video: Pedigree Dogs Exposed

This may prompt some thinking for your Darwin essays:
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=44215931