Write on Zola, Dostoyevsky, Nietzsche, or Marx, 600 words minimum. If you wrote on one of these authors for your research paper, choose a different one to write on for this assignment. Sample topics on Germinal: Women Changes in the Miners Sexuality and Nature The Mine as Monster Sample topics on Dostoyevsky: The UM’s Assault […]
Second paper assignment Paper on Goethe’s Faust Write a minimum of 1200 words about some aspect of Goethe’s Faust. Design your own topic or choose one of the following, remembering that you will be expected to define your topic further, since most of these are very broad: Again, if you have trouble choosing or defining […]
Cultural event assignment What events qualify? Any concert, exhibit, or dramatic performance which involves the presentation of works created in Europe outside of England during the 18th or 19th centuries. For instance, exploring the relevant galleries of a major art museum in a nearby city, perhaps when you are traveling, qualifies as does attending a […]
Humanities 303Reason, Romanticism, and Revolution A WebCT Coursedeveloped by Paul Brians(3 credit hours) Course Overview Note: This course is no longer being offered. This page is being left on the Web so that people interested in designing similar courses can use it for ideas. Note: Because this is a discussion class in which exchanges between […]
Syllabus for Humanities 303 (2007) Spring 2007 Instructor: Paul Brians All of the study guides and other materials for this class are available in WebCT on the Web. As soon as possible, you should go to this page and log in using your campus network ID and password and begin your work. Browse through the […]
This class is part of a sequence of courses in the humanities in Europe which are taught in the Department of English at Washington State University, Pullman, Washington. Humanities 101 covers the ancient world, 302 the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and this course the period from roughly 1750 to 1914. The period since 1914 is […]
Socialist governments with strong democratic traditions regulating mixed economies can avoid the problems of traditional Marxist governments. The evidence to support this argument is fairly strong. The socialist governments of various northern European governments in particular managed to create societies in which personal liberty, income equality, low unemployment, strong public welfare systems and a high […]
Centralized socialist states can evolve into democratic communitarian societies. The odds against this happening seem very long indeed. It is true that the old capitalist dogma that Communism was irreversible except by revolution from below or intervention from without was belied by Mikhail Gorbachev in the Soviet Union, but his attempt to create democratic socialism […]
People can be trained to value common property as much as their own private property. What belongs to all belongs to no one. In Russia even today hallways and shared spaces are often unkempt and rundown while private apartments are lovingly maintained inside. Travel the Chinese highways and you will see abundant litter scattered along […]
Socialist planning can stabilize the economy and develop it in a rational manner. Only the most optimistic Marxist can still believe that an entirely controlled economy can work efficiently. Lack of inflation and full employment can be mandated, but a flow of high-quality goods to the public has never been generated by a Communist economy […]