ENG 131
Instructor: Jeb Waldschmidt
Email: waldschg@ipfw.edu
Spring Semester, 2011
Write an “argumentative essay ” with the following headline:
Subhead: write your own to reinforce your own evaluation of “Darymple’s” evaluation of the “end of History” and “Ideology” AND/OR the story of The White Rose.
First, check out “the iron law of oligarchy:” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_oligarchy
READ about The White Rose
Their Story : http://www.deheap.com/Their_story.html
The Rhetoric that Followed (for the next 50 years): http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/publications/articles/whiteros947.htm
“They hoped that the words in the leaflets they clandestinely distributed in Munich in the Summer of 1942 and in early 1943 would rouse those contemporaries out of a presumably fear-inspired moral lethargy.”
Try comparing some ideas of Daniel Bell with those of Francis Fukuyama as "Theodore Dalrymple" has done. What are all of these writers trying to understand... and what does it have to do with The Matrix?
Write a 1250 word essay to show how you a)read about what you think and b)think about what you read. Cite at least FIVE GOOD SOURCES on a SEPARATE “Works Referenced/ Cited” page.
Add this to the mix (if you like): http://www.joebageant.com/joe/2010/10/algorithms.html
Due: Thursday, March 31, 2011.