Readings and videos for 1st Quarter
(not necessarily in this order)
From Chapter 1: “An Introduction to Rhetoric: Using the ‘Available Means’”
Lou Gehrig Speech (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=626Dt9JdjQs)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYyUWn224AE)
“We Can Afford to Give Parents a Break” Jody Heyman
“Letter to Phyllis” Albert Einstein
Excerpt from The Iliad Homer
“The King’s Speech” King George VI
http://www.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/25/kings.speech.grandson/
“Not by Math Alone” Sandra Day O’Connor
All the texts relating to the death of Diana, Princess of Wales
Other readings:
“What is Man?” Mark Twain
“Allegory of the Cave” Plato
“Pleasure and Happiness” Aristotle
“Going with the Flow” Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
(http://www.ted.com/talks/mihaly_csikszentmihalyi_on_flow#t-367079)