Easy Rider and Hendrix

As is pretty evident Wyatt's journey is about freedom and his attainment. As I was watching the movie I came across "If 6 was 9" by Hendrix. This sort of reminded me of Hendrix's “Are You Experienced” which made me interpret it in a different manner. Especially the following lines:

“ If you can just get your mind together

Then come on across to me

We’ll hold hands and then we’ll watch the sunrise

From the bottom of the sea”

By coming across and then going to the spot that Jimi Hendrix is at does he mean overcoming the barrier which separates any ordinary individual and a person who has gained total consciousness of himself and has been able to reconnect with himself? He mentions that peace of mind, represented here by watching the sunrise which can only be once found once the person has gained total awareness and has been able to have that surreal experience. He mentions that once the person has been “experienced” or in other words has had a sort of spiritual awakening , which is symbolized by the line “from the bottom of the sea” he can finally be at peace with himself as he has succeeded in his self-discovery. Is this interpretation a bit too outlandish? Any takers?

Peer Editing Worksheet

Here's the Peer Editing Worksheet.  Please print out a copy for each paper you edit, then bring it to class with you next Tuesday.

To view: Peer Editing Worksheet

To download: Peer Editing Worksheet

Any problems, let me know!

-Ben

Final class meeting place

Hello all,

Just got word ... our last class (next Tuesday, Dec 7), will be in our normal classroom, 156 Dwinelle.  Same time as always.

See you there!

-Ben

Schedule for the last few weeks of class

Ok, as promised, here's the schedule we all agreed upon in class:

Nov 30 (Tues): "Easy Rider"
Dec 2 (Thurs): No Class
Dec 3 (Friday): Drafts due, e-mailed to everyone in your group and to both Ben and Amanda by 8pm.

Dec 7 (Tues): Peer Editing, 156 Dwinelle (same room as normal), same time as normal class (9:30-11)

Dec 13 (Mon): Final Papers due by 4pm in box outside of 7408 Dwinelle


Any questions?  Feel free to post them in the comments.

Room for Sunday night's film screening

Hey all,

Information just came through.  So, we'll be watching "Easy Rider" this Sunday, Nov. 21, at 6pm in 174 Barrows.  Yes, Barrows (weird, I know).

I will be taking attendance, so if you can't make it, please let me know beforehand.  (An e-mail at 5:30pm doesn't count as beforehand!)

You're free to bring food if you want.  The film's about 90 minutes long, so you shouldn't be there past 8.

See you all tomorrow.

-Ben

Thanksgiving week

Hey Ben, I was wondering whether we are going to have class on the 23rd of November (the week of thanksgiving)?

Music for Tuesday

Hey all,

Ok, here's the music for this Tuesday's class.  There are two songs, Nina Simone's composition "Mississippi Goddamn" (from 1964) and John Coltrane's piece "Alabama" (from 1963).  Both were written as partial responses to actual events, most notably Medgar Evers' murder and the 16th St. Baptist Church bombing (which killed four little girls) in Birmingham.  Please follow the links to read about them!

If you want to download the songs and lyrics to your computer, click here.

Otherwise, music and lyrics are after the jump (if this still doesn't work for people, please let me know)...

Style, Exercise 6.2

1. During the reign of Queen Elizabeth, the tale of King Lear and his daughters was a popular one. By Elizabeth's death, at least a dozen books offered iterations of the story to anyone seeking it. With a simple narrative and obvious moral, the characters were underdeveloped in most versions of the story. Shakespeare must have had several versions of the story available to him when he began work on Lear. Even though his characters were based on stock figures of legend, he turned them into credible human beings with complex motives.

2. The issue at hand is whether management's "duty to disclose" during contract bargaining includes disclosing the date an operation intends to close down. Management should bargain in good faith to minimize conflict even though case law is scant on this matter. Companies are obligated to disclose major changes in operation during bargaining in order to allow the union to put forth proposals on behalf of its members.

3. The most important event in Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War is Athens' catastrophic Sicilian Invasion which required three-quarters of the history to set up. Thucydides' anticipation of the invasion is demonstrated by his step-by-step description of the decline in Athenian society. We anticipate the invasion as inevitable because we have associated it with the tragic drama of decline.

4. The current hypothesis explaining the severe condition of altered mucosal and vascular permeability is of a toxin elaborated by the vibrio. Evidence favoring this hypothesis is found in changed capillaries located near the basal surface of epithelial cells and the appearance of numerous microvesicles in the cytoplasm of the mucosal cells. The altered capillary permeability is key to the hydrodynamic transport of fluid into the interstitial tissue and then through the mucosa into the lumen of the gut.

5. Changes in revenues are as follows. In the Ohio and Kentucky areas, from July 1-August 31, an increase to $56,792 from $32,934 was realized, a net increase of approximately 73%. In the same period there was an increase of $15,370, from $153,281 to $168,651, in the Indiana and Illinois areas - an increase of 10 percent. A decrease in the Wisconsin and Minnesota regions occurred in almost the same period of time, to $190,580 from $200,102, or 5 percent.

-Justin Lin

Exercise 6.2

1. During the reign of Queen Elizabeth, the story of King Lear and his daughters was a popular story. By the time Elizabeth died, there were at least a dozen books that offered the story to anyone wishing to read it. However, even though the story was a simple narrative that stated obvious morals, the character were undeveloped in most of these stories. While writing perhaps his greatest tragedy, King Lear, Shakespeare must have had several versions of the story available to him. However, even though his story was based on the stock figures of legend, he turned the characters into credible human begins with complex motives.

2. It would appear that the issue here is whether the date an operation intends to close down might be part of management’s “duty to disclose” during contract bargaining. The central rationale for the duty that management has to bargain on good faith with is for the minimization of conflict. Although the case law is scanty on this matter, companies are obliged to disclose major changes in an operation during bargaining in order to put forth proposals on behalf of its members.

3. An important event in Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War was Athens’ catastrophic Sicilian Invasion. Due to this reason, three-quarters of the history is devoted to setting up the invasion. We can see how he chose to anticipate the Sicilian through the step-by-step decline in Athenian society. The basic reason for the need to anticipate the invasion is the inevitability that we associate the tragic of drama.

4. A kind of severe condition is defined by the mucosal and vascular permeability altered a toxin elaborated by the vibrio. The hypothesis is favored because there are changes in small capillaries located near the basal surface of the epithelial cells and the appearance of numerous micro vesicles in the cytoplasm of the mucosal cells. It is believed that hydrodynamic transport of fluid into the interstitial tissue and then through the mucosa into the lumen of the gut depends on altered capillary permeability.

5. In the Ohio and Kentucky areas from July 1-August 31, there was an increase to $56,792 from $34,934. There was also a 10 percent increase of $15,370, from $153,281 to $268,651 in the same period in the Indiana and Illinois areas. However, in almost the same period of time, there was a decrease to $190,580 from $200,102, or 5%.

6.2

1. During the reign of Queen Elizabeth, the story of King Lear and his daughters was a popular one. By the time Elizabeth died, at least a dozen available books offered the story to anyone wishing to read it. The story was a simple narrative that stated an obvious moral, due to the fact that the characters were undeveloped in most of these stories. When he began work on Lear, perhaps his greatest tragedy, Shakespeare must have had several versions of this story available to him. Even though they were based on the stock figures of legend, he turned the charaters into credible human beings with complex motives.
2. The date an operation intends to close down might be part of management's "duty to disclose" during contract bargaining would appear, whether it is an issue here or not. The central rationale for the duty that management has to bargain in good faith is the minimization of conflict. Companies are obligated to disclose major changes in an operation during bargaining, in order to allow the union to put forth proposals on behalf of its members, though the case law is scanty on this matter.
3. The most important event in Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War is Athens' catastrophic Sicilian Invasion. Because of this, three-quarters of the history is devoted to setting up the invasion. Through the step-by-step decline in Athenian society that Thucydides describes, we can see how he chose to anticipate the Sicilian Invasion. The basic reason for the need to anticipate the invasion is the inevitability that we associate with the tragic drama.
4. A current hypothesis to explain mucosal and vascular permeability is the alteration by a toxin elaborated by the vibrio. Evidence in favor of this hypothesis include changes in small capillaries located near the basal surface of the epithelial cells, and the appearnace of numerous microvesicles in the cytoplasm of the mucosal cells. It is believed that hydrodynamic trasport of fluid into the interstitial tissue and then through the mucosa into the lumen depends on altered capillary permeability.
5. Changes in revenues are as follows. The Ohio and Kentucky areas saw an increase from $32, 934 to $56, 792, a net increase of approximately 73 percent, from July 1-August 31. In the Indiana and Illinois areas there was in the same period an incrase of $15,370, from $153,281, to $169, 651, a 10 percent incrase. However, in the Wisconsin and Minnesota regions in almost the same period of time, there was a decrease from $200,102 to $190,580, a 5 percent decrease.

Exercise 6.2 - Daniel Lee

1. During Queen Elizabeth's reign, the story of King Lear and his daughters was so popular that, by the time Queen Elizabeth died, the story was available in at least a dozen books. However, most of these stories were simple narratives which had underdeveloped characters and an obvious moral. Several versions of this story must have been available to Shakespeare when he began work on Lear, perhaps his greatest tragedy. Even though Shakespeare's characters were based on the stock figures of legend, he turned them into credible human beings with complex motives.

2. It would appear that the issue is whether the management has a "duty to disclose" the date an operation intends to close down during contract bargaining. The management has to bargain in good faith to minimize conflict. Though the case law is scanty, companies are obligated to disclose major changes in an operation during bargaining in order to allow the union to put forth proposals on behalf of its members.

3. The most important event in Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War is Athens' catastrophic Sicilian Invasion. As a result, three-quarters of the history is devoted to setting up the invasion. We can see how Thucydides anticipates the Sicilian Invasion through the step-by-step decline in Athenian society. We need to anticipate the invasion in order to associate inevitability with the tragic drama.

4. It is currently hypothesized that mucosal and vascular permeability is altered by a toxin that is elaborated by the vibrio. Evidence favoring this hypothesis include changes in small capillaries located near the basal surface of the epithelial cells and the appearance of numerous microvesicles in the cytoplasm of the mucosal cells. Altered capillary permeability is also believed to depend on the hydrodynamic transport of fluid, first flowing into the interstital tissue and later making its way through the muocsa and into the lumen of the gut.

5. From July 1-August 31, revenue changes are as follows: Ohio and Kentucky went up 73 percent, from $32,934 to $56,792; Indiana and Illinois went up 10 percent, from $153,281 to $168,651; Wisconsin and Minnesota went down 5 percent, from $200,102 to $190,580.

Paper Topics, Essay #2

As promised:

Rhetoric 1A, second essay prompts

Drafts of this paper are due at the beginning of class on Tuesday, November 2, and final versions are due at 4pm on Monday, November 8 in the box in front of 7408 Dwinelle. Both your draft and your final version should be 5-6 pages long, and should employ standard formatting (double-spaced, 12pt Times New Roman or equivalent, standard margins, etc).

Choose one of the topics below, or feel free to make up your own.  These topics are means only to be rough guidelines here to help you direct your thinking; we encourage you to use them as starting points, rather than prescriptions to be rigidly adhered to.

1. Our discussion of “Their Eyes Were Watching God” addressed numerous themes that work their way through the book.  Among these one might include (but would certainly not be limited to): judgment and the idea of God; the relationship between inside and outside; speech, silence and multi-vocality; individual identity vs. communal identity; animality; figurative language and its relation to selfhood; play; men’s ways of knowing and being vs. women’s.  In your paper, take a single theme from the book (this may be one of the above or anything else you’ve noticed), describe how it plays out in the book, and make an argument about what that theme means for the book as a whole.  While doing so will likely necessitate your looking at at least two moments in the book, you want to make sure that your paper doesn’t just note that these two moments exist and that they help elaborate one of the main ideas of the book; you want to make sure that your paper makes a claim about what the moments or the idea you’re examining help us see or understand about the book as a whole that isn’t available upon initial or superficial reading.

2. In our discussions of the 'vernacular' one phenomena that has come up repeatedly has been artists’ having created a variation of another work as a mode of reply or response to it.  We’ve seen this strategy at work in Hughes’ response to Whitman, Jimi Hendrix’s reading of “The Star Spangled Banner,” Aretha Franklin’s reworking of Otis Redding’s composition, and even, perhaps, Nina Simone’s modification of the generic Broadway show tune.  Write a paper that addresses this idea of variation as response, using one or more of the above examples, or another pairing that fits.  As usual, you don’t just want to note that one artist uses another’s work as the opportunity for response, but to use the pairing to engage some deeper questions about the nature of the reworking you’re examining and the questions it raises.  To what extent, for example, do these variations on more canonical poems or songs express a style that is independent and original, as opposed to one that is merely parasitic?  What does this strategy of variation accomplish that a more “original” piece of art can’t (if anything)?  Are these artists of 'response' simply rebelling against established cultural ideas, or are they also preserving them in some way, and if so, why does this sort of preservation matter, at least as the works you’re examining see it?

3. Both "The Old People" and "A Rose for Emily" have endings that radically alter our perception of events that occur throughout narration of the story. Strange or perplexing details make sense in light of the endings of these stories, giving us a sense of resolution and understanding that can only come retrospectively, as it were. This is one of many strategies Faulkner uses to vary the linear sequence of narration, so as to change our experience of time. Through a comparison of these two stories, and by using specific scenes and examples, discuss how Faulkner engages themes of time, repetition and memory through his form (the way the story is organized).  If possible, try to relate these ideas of time to the thematic content of the stories – blood ties and family, heritage, melancholic clinging to the past, ghosts, identity, etc. 

Exercise 6.2

1. During the reign of Queen Elizabeth, the story of King Lear and his daughters was popular. By the time Elizabeth died, at least a dozen books included the story. However, most of these versions were simple narratives with obvious morals and undeveloped characters. When Shakespeare was writing King Lear, he must have used several versions of the story. Working from these simple stories, he transformed the stock figures of legend into credible, complex human beings.

2. The issue at question is whether the management's “duty to disclose” during contract bargaining includes the date an operation is intended to close down. The management must bargain in good faith in order to minimize conflict. For this reason, companies are obliged to disclose major changes in the operation, even though the law is unclear on the matter, so that unions can make proposals that are beneficial for union members.

3. The most important event in Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War is Athens' catastrophic Sicilian invasion, so three quarters of the book is sent setting it up. Thucydides' anticipates this invasion by his description of the step-by-step decline in Athenian society. This anticipation is necessary to create the inevitability of tragic drama.

4. Currently, this condition is thought to be caused when mucosal and vascular permeability is altered by a toxin elaborated by the vibrio. Evidence for this hypothesis is provided by changes in small capillaries located near the basal surface of the epithelial cells, and the appearance of numerous microvesicles in the cytoplasm of the mucosal cells. The altered capillary permeability is believed to increase hydrodynamic transport of fluid into the interstitial tissue, and then through the mucosa into the lumen of the gut.

5. Changes in revenue are as follows. In the Ohio and Kentucky areas, from July 1-August 31, revenue increased from $32,934 to $56,792, a net increase of 73%. In the Indiana and Illinois areas over the same period revenue increased from $153,281 to $168651, a net increase of 10%. However, the Wisconsin and Minnesota regions had a decrease in revenue over the same period, from $200,102 to $190,580, a net decrease of 5%.

   
   

   -Andrew Lampinen

A rose for Emily

Hey, i just came across these 2 songs which are adapted from A rose for emily..The first one is "A rose for emily" by the Zombies and the the second one is "To the end" by My Chemical Romance..Just thought I had let you guys know..

The Old People

The Old People

A Rose for Emily

A Rose for Emily

Hey can someone please remind me what assignment is due for tomorrow? Thanks!

Music for Thursday

Hey all,

So here are the two songs we'll be listening to and talking about on Thursday.  This song was written by Otis Redding in 1965, and became a big hit for him, but was then redone by Aretha Franklin in 1967, and became an enormous hit for her.  Enjoy!

Please download, print out, read and bring to class the lyric sheet HERE.

If you want to download the songs to your computer, you can click HERE.

Otis Redding - "Respect"


Aretha Franklin - "Respect"


-Ben

Ex 5.3

1. 1.Though modern mass communication offers many advantages, it also proposes many threats. If it were controlled by a powerful minority, it could manipulate public opinion through biased reporting. And while it provides us with knowledge of public affairs through its national coverage, it may accentuate divisiveness and factionalism by connecting otherwise isolated, local conflicts into a larger conflict when it shows us conflicts about the same issue occurring in different places. It will always be true that human nature produces differences of opinion, but the media may reinforce the threat of faction and division when it publishes uninformed opinion in national coverage. According to some, media can suppress faction through education when it communicates the true nature of conflicts, but history has shown that the media give as much coverage to people who encourage conflict as to people who remove it.

2. 2. After Peter the great, seven of eight reigns of the Romanov line were plagued by some sort of palace revolt or popular revolution. In 1722, when the principal of heredity was terminated by Peter, achievement by merit became the basis of succession. As a result many tsars, including Peter, did not appoint a successor before dying. When Ivan VI was appointed by Czarina Anna, he was less than two months old. Anna was defeated by the daughter of Peter the great, Elizabeth, who ascended the throne in 1741. Boyars regularly disputed who was to become sovereign because succession was not dependent upon authority. In 1797 when Paul 1, codified the law of succession, male primogeniture became the law. One of the conspirators, one of whom was his son, Alexander 1, strangled him.

3. 3.When Truman considered the Oppenheimer committee’s recommendation to stop the hydrogen bomb project, he had to consider many issues. Russia and China had just proclaimed a Sino-Soviet bloc, so one issue he had to face was the Cold War. He was also losing support for his foreign policy among republican leaders in Congress, and when the Russians tested their first atom bomb, the public demanded that he should respond strongly. It was inevitable that Truman had to conclude that he could not let the public think he had allowed Russia to be first in developing the most powerful weapon yet. In retrospect, according to some historians, Truman should have risked taking the Oppenheimer recommendation, but he had to face political issues that were too powerful to ignore.

Discussion Topic!

This doesn't really have much to do with the actual class, but I just wanted to ask people about their opinions on this statement:

All people deserve to live; not all people deserve to be saved.

Interpret this in whatever manner you wish.

Hurston Reading

Hi everyone,

Just a quick favor. I have a different version of Their Eyes Were Watching God than the one sold at the bookstore, so if someone could please post where page 76 is in terms of the chapters that would be very helpful to me!

Thanks!

- Kathleen

hey everyone!

So I was reading the poem "Dream Variations" by Langston Hughes and I thought it was really interesting that it seems like the tone between the two stanzas is different. The first seems to before the dream whereas the second verse seems to be after the fact... Like the dream has already come true in a sense. Does anyone else get the same feeling? Or is it just me?

Laney

Jimi Hendrix songs for Tuesday

Hey everybody,

Here's the music we'll be talking about on Tuesday.  It's two performances by Jimi Hendrix, "Are You Experienced?" and his version of the Star Spangled Banner.  As usual, you want to be thinking about how these songs work, what they're doing, what sort of arguments they might be making, how they read America, etc.

To prep for the discussion, I'd highly recommend that you read something about the blues.  Wikipedia is fine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues

If you want to download the tunes to your computer, you can click here.

Jimi Hendrix - "Are You Experienced?"


Jimi Hendrix - Star Spangled Banner (from Woodstock)


Enjoy!

-Ben

Paper Topics

Ok, so I said I'd get these on the blog on Friday ... I'm late by 48 minutes.  Apologies.  Anyway, here they are:

Rhetoric 1A, first essay prompts

Essays are due at 3pm on Monday, October 4 in the box in front of 7408 Dwinelle. Your essay should be 4-5 pages long (minimum 4, maximum 5), and should employ standard formatting (double-spaced, 12pt Times New Roman or equivalent, standard margins, etc).

Choose one of the topics below, or feel free to make up your own.  If you choose to write on a topic of your own creation, you must get your topic approved by either Amanda or Ben.  ONE CAVEAT: you are not allowed to write about the Frost poem “The Road Not Taken.”

1)  In the first few weeks of class, we’ve seen many of the writers we’ve read engage with the concept of "identity."  Whitman is the most obvious candidate here – his poems, we’ll remember, work most explicitly to figure America (and perhaps the individual American body) as the paradoxical assemblage of unlike, perhaps even conflicting modes of being – but Nietzsche and Hughes too, certainly contribute to this discussion, Nietzsche by posing identity proper as merely a story we tell ourselves to stave of fears of meaninglessness, and Hughes by singing America with a voice whose sincerity is always under question. 

In your paper, take either Nietzsche or Hughes and read their work as a potential response to the version of identity we get in Whitman’s poems.  That is, you want to start by explaining what you take to be Whitman’s reading of identity (this can be either individual or national identity), then go on to show how Nietzsche or Hughes either complicates, confirms, elucidates, problematizes or recasts what you’ve said about Whitman.  What you should be shooting for is not a simple compare and contrast paper, but one that shows why the pairing you’ve chosen is significant and what it lets us see that we couldn’t see by reading Whitman on his own.

(After writing this, I realized that Frost’s “Mending Wall” might also be a good poem to pair with Whitman along this dimension.  So if you’re feeling super ambitious, feel free to substitute “Mending Wall” for “Nietzsche or Hughes” in all the above.)

2) One of the key elements animating Nietzsche’s work is the concept of metaphor.  This happens for Nietzsche on at least two levels: on one level, his essay describes how he thinks metaphor helps fundamentally constitute both language, and by extension, truth; on the other, his essay uses metaphor after metaphor, many of them quite striking, to make this point.

In your paper, take a particular metaphor from any of the works we’ve read (this includes the many poems we didn’t have a chance to get to) and show how that metaphor works both in relation to the work of which it is a part and as a potential truth-making moment of the sort Nietzsche describes.  You have a bit of free rein here as to the importance Nietzsche himself will play in your analysis.  That is, your paper can spend a lot of time on Nietzsche, with the metaphor you’ve chosen from a different authoe merely helping to explain Nietzsche’s argument, or can use Nietzsche to frame your more specific reading of another author.  Or, if the metaphor you’re struck by comes from Nietzsche’s work itself, you’ll probably want to use some combination of the two approaches.

3) Perform a close reading of one of the poems in the packet (whether we discussed it in class or not) with an eye towards what that poem has to do with the idea of vernacular as we’ve started to understand it.  As a good close reading, your analysis of the poem should attend to one or more of the poem’s formal elements - syntax (word order), diction (choice of words), rhythm, meter, enjambment (line breaks), structure or punctuation, among many others.  Whether you use those formal names or not isn’t important (i.e. we don’t care if you call what you describe “syntax” or not); what is important is that you show how the elements you’ve selected help us understand how the poem works, what it communicates, and how these elements, when put together, describe a particular vision of what “vernacular” either means or could mean.

How to Scan Poetry

Hey there,

It seems that some people were interested in learning more about poetic meter and how it works.  In case you happen to be one of those people, here's a good place to start: it's a short introduction to scansion written by Robert Hass, who's a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, was Poet Laureate of the US in the 1990's, and, luckily, teaches in the English Department at Berkeley.  Should set you on the right track:

How to Scan Poetry 

-Ben

(btw, I highly recommend taking Hass' classes, if you ever get the opportunity.  He'll remind you of the uncle you'd always wished you'd had.)

Exercise 4.2 #1-5

1. a. Houses are being built further apart making it harder to walk places.

b. Sidewalks are now only needed in areas with a lot of foot traffic.

c. Society relies so heavily on cars that sidewalks are no longer needed.

2. a. House designs have tried to become more open.

b. Many new homes are being built.

c. The family room is more for bringing the family together because it is connected with the kitchen.

3. a. People feel more comfortable when there are boundaries in place.

b. Neighbors like to have the option to have their privacy.

c. Good fences make things feel secure.

4. a. Women speak about their emotions more.

b. Men may feel the same emotions but keep them to themselves.

c. Men are able to speak more rationally because their emotions do not get in the way as much.

5. a. Juveniles are committing much worse crimes now than before.

b. The judicial system is trying to make a statement that crime will not be tolerated no matter what the age.

c. The judicial system has given up on trying to let the youth change in prison.

p.55 Exercise 4.2

1. Towns have been changing their requirements lately, many new housing developments have been built recently, many people are moving to towns now and requiring more houses to be built.

2. People tend to eat in the family room, people like to hang out near their food, houses are being built with fewer rooms, people don't like to be separated by walls in their homes, families are becoming closer to each other socially, people don't use their living rooms very often.

3. Fences in between houses are beneficial, people feel more comfortable with a fence next to their homes, neighbors are more friendly with a fence in between them, bad fences make bad neighbors.

4. Males are less emotional and speak less than females, males are worse than females at activities that require spatial reasoning (like geometry), females have better social skills than males, males tend to not tell people how they are feeling.

5. Judges and juries are becoming stricter with their punishments, juveniles are committing more crimes, the prisons are becoming fuller, the laws are changing.

Exercises 4.2 #1-5

1.

• · City councils are setting fewer restrictions on real estate developers.
• · Old American residential neighborhoods are being bought up and remodeled.
• · The price of creating sidewalks has increased dramatically.

2.

• · More families are buying new homes.
• · People are spending less time in their kitchens and do not feel it needs to be separate from the rest of the house.
• · Living rooms have become a more formal area than they used to be and it is no longer appropriate to use them for leisure activities.

3.

• · Suburban neighborhoods with fences surrounding the houses are nicer than city dwellings.
• · People are happier when they avoid others and keep to themselves.
• · Physical barriers must be erected in order to prevent the neighbor’s pets from digging up people’s yards.

4.

• · Females are more likely to verbalize their emotions than males.
• · Men tend to think rationally before they speak.
• · Women’s Corpus Callosums have more neural fibers connecting the hemispheres of the brain than men

5.

• · The American legal system has lost faith in its juvenile reformation system, and no longer believes teenage criminals can be changed.
• · There are not enough juvenile courts to try all teenage offenders and therefore regular federal courts are being asked to help out.
• · Teenagers are committing more and more crimes in the United States.