Today in the early morning class we all squeezed into the small space and shared thoughts on "respect:"

What is it?

Who deserves it?

What are the presenting indicators?

Why is respect important in a civilized society?

Is respect something only people deserve? How is respect tied into law? Do we respect our enemies? Why? Why not? How is fear tied into respect?

Do we respect entities we fear and disrespect those we do not fear? Can one buy respect?

Are certain entities born with respect? How do we "earn" respect and what happens if the bank account has insufficient funds? What if the bank is not FCC licensed? What if the currency is not accepted at the market or in the market where we trade? Can one live without respect? If one does not respect oneself, can one respect another?

If respect were one of the pillars of humanity, what would it be tied to? What others pillars would we erect along side it? What kind of geometrical shape would this building take? What could we call this metaphor?

This is my brainstorm.

Homework is the read and annotate the article from Newsweek by Farai Chideya, MyWord: On Respect (republished from San Francisco Magazine, October 9, 2005). I passed out copies. http://www.sfgate.com/magazine/article/On-Respect-Diary-of-a-mad-bad-sad-and-2603105.php

There were many students who were on the waiting list. I told them to come to class. Students who were not on the waiting list, I told to find another class. I shared the books. Buy them all except Stewart Pidd Hates English, unless your grammar is poor and you need the extra help. We will complete an exam this week and see where the class places. If the class does well, we can skip Pidd and just use Hacker.