Discussion Week 4

  3Qs Discussion Post 4 For each half-page post, students will be prompted to think about three different “Qs” as they relate to the assigned material of each learning module: QUALITY: This is a personal reaction to/reflection on a specific part of the reading. Step 1: Describe something from the reading that surprised you, challenged…

Based upon the evidence examined this week, did WW II unleash permanent liberating changes for women, or did the post-war period bring about a loss of war-time gains and opportunities?  Consider our nation’s diverse population of women as you develop a three-paragraph response. 

Please carefully read Einstein’s Four Letters to Roosevelt. Then, based on a careful and detailed analysis of these letters, please address the following questions.  Why did Einstein write to FDR? What were his specific concerns? What did he claim was happening in Germany that prompted him to send follow up letters? Take note of the date…

   : Upon whom does Sophocles put the responsibility for what ended so tragically in his story? And what might have this (these) characters done that would have been wiser? 

  Roosevelt called his program to reform the nation’s economy during the Great Depression the New Deal. Not only did it bring about major reforms, and introduce tougher regulation of big business, it also set a precedent for greatly expanded federal government involvement in the economy and society. Some of the programs that were initiated…

Question 1 : William F. Buckley Jr. defined  conservatives as people who stand “athwart history, yelling Stop, at a  time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with  those who so urge it.” Detail the ideological differences between modern  liberalism and conservatism. How and why did conservatism become the…