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.

Exercise 4.2 #1-5

1.

a) America has become more reliant on cars and other forms of transportation, so sidewalks have become obsolete.

b) It is the cities job to save the “old town” feel associated with sidewalks.

c) Developers will do anything to cut costs and time.

d) Walkers need to become more proactive in saving sidewalks, which keep them safe from traffic.

2.

a) Food has become increasingly important to families, who spend more time near the kitchen.

b) Families have decreased formalities and spend more time in the family room near the kitchen.

c) America has become more frivolous with more rooms in their houses that aren’t needed or used.

3.

a) Fences are needed to be on positive terms with neighbors and keep privacy within the home.

b) Fences keep peaking toms away.

c) The best neighbors are fences because they are silent, protective, and not judgmental.

4.

a) Females can verbally express their emotions more easily than men.

b) Females are better at multi-tasking than men.

c) Men are able to express their harsh feelings with their words without feeling the emotions associated with their words.

5.

a) Prisons will be occupied with more inmates that committed their crime when they were still in their teens.

b) The US taxpayers will spend more money on juveniles convicted as adults than they would if they were convicted as minors.

c) The U.S. public has become increasingly intolerant with the mistakes of teenagers.

Excersize 4.2 #1-5

1) -Most people own their own cars.

- Pedestrian traffic is not prominent.

- Cities do not want to fund the construction of sidewalks.

2) -House designs promote family togetherness.

-Recent designs make the kitchen into more of a common room, similar to the living room and family room.

-The family room is associated with the kitchen, maybe as a place for eating.

-The family room is more private than the living room.

3) -People live in proximity to each other more comfortably if their are some barriers.

-Good neighbors don't let their cows wander onto each other's property.

-If a fence is good then neighbors don't need to argue over repairing it.

-People should mind their own business.

4) -Women talk more than men.

-Women express their feelings verbally more than men.

-Man can not voice their feelings.

5) -Minors are committing more violent crimes.

-The justice system is cracking down on juvenile offenders.

-Many of the adults in jail have been there since their teens.

Poems for the next few weeks

Hey everyone,

The poetry packet containing the poems we'll be reading over the next few weeks (including the Whitman poems we'll be looking at on Tuesday) can be downloaded here:

POETRY PACKET

Dig it.

-Ben

Exercise 3.6 Evens

2. The president's aides attempted to assert his immunity from a congressional subpoena.

4. Any data that supported your criticism of my findings were omitted when you analyzed my report.

6. A papal appeal was made to the world's rich nations to assist those facing the threat of African starvation.

8. The class agreed on the reading list based on the assumption that there would be tests on only certain selections.

10. The fraternities recognized the need to control over drinking on campus.

12. The coaching staff is responsible for the team's physical condition.

14. We were disappointed but not surprised because we expected the Dean to decide to reject our proposal.

3.6 EVENS

2. The president’s aides attempted to assert his immunity from a congressional subpoena.
4. When you analyzed my report you omitted any data that supported your criticism of my findings.
6. Those threatened by African starvation made a papal appeal to the world’ rich nations for assistance.
8. The class agreed on the reading list because they assumed that there would be only tests on certain sections.
10. Fraternities recognized the need for controls over drinking on campus.
12. The coaching staff was responsible for physically conditioning the team.
14. We were disappointed when the Dean rejected our proposal because we had already expected that the decision had been made.

Nietzsche: A Terrible Writer?

During the last discussion, there were some people who believed Nietzsche to be a terrible writer, simply due to the fact that his arguments were less than completely clear and concise— or, in other words, idiot-proof. However, I believe this notion regarding Nietzsche's writing prowess to be less than valid. Nietzsche writes like this, in my opinion, because he doesn't care whether or not most people understand him. He believes most of the world to be stupid, and it is unimportant that that demographic— the one composed of the mentally indisposed to the normal barbarian— understands his paper at all. His relatively complicated and convoluted way of explaining his argument is his way of subtly insulting those who do not and cannot understand him, and— at the same time— this is his tool to weed out those from whom he would not derive appropriate reactions from, anyways. Those who understand his way of writing, or the "intelligent" people, are the individuals closest to the "truth", or what we regard to be the truth. When these people begin to question "truth", a concept they all believe themselves to be well-versed in, due to their own supposed intelligence, it's quite a spectacle to an amused Nietzsche.

My two cents. I might as well kick off this discussion.

Style 3.6 Evens

2. The president’s aides attempted to assert that the president was immune from a congressional subpoena.

4. When you analyzed my report, you omitted any data supporting your criticism of what I found.

6. The show made a papal appeal to the world’s rich nations to assist Africans in threat of starving.

8. The class agreed on the reading list because they assumed that there would be tests on select things.

10. The fraternities recognized the need for controlling drinking on campus.

12. The coaching staff is responsible for the physical condition of the team.

14. We were disappointed when the Dean rejected our proposal, but we weren’t surprised because we expected him to have already decided.

Exercise 3.6 Evens

2. The President's aid attempted to assert that he was immune from a congressional subpoena.

4. When you analyze the findings in my report your critique omits any supporting data.

6. The papal made an appeal so that the world's rich nations could assist those starving in Africa.

8. The class agreed on the reading list assuming that they would be tested only on certain selections.

10. Fraternities recognized the need for drinking controls over campus.

12. The coaching staff is responsible to condition the team.

14. When the Dean rejected our proposal it was disappointing but not surprising because we expected the decision.

"Style" Section 3.6 (evens)

2. The president's aides attempted to assert the president's immunity from a congressional subpoena.

4. When you analyzed my report, you omitted any data that supported your criticism of my findings.

6. Africans who were facing the threat of starvation made a papal appeal to the world's richest nations for assistance.

8. The class agreed on the reading list because they assumed they would only be tested on certain sections.

10. Fraternities recognized the need to control drinking on campus.

12. The coaching staff is responsible for physically conditioning the team.

14. Even though we were disappointed that the Dean rejected our proposal, we were not surprised because we expected that he had already made his decision.

Style- 3.6 even

Style – 3.6

2. The president’s aides attempted to assert his immunity from a congressional subpoena.

4. When you analyzed my report, you omitted any data that supported your criticism of my findings.

6. Those threatened by African starvation made a papal appeal to the world’s rich nations for assistance.

8. The class agreed on the reading list because they assumed that there would only be tests on certain sections.

10. Fraternities recognized the need for controls over drinking on campus.

12. The coaching staff was responsible for physically conditioning the team.

14. We were disappointed, not surprised, when the Dean rejected our proposal, because we had already expected that the decision had been made.