What has Rubin been up to this week? English 1A 1-2:50
Students collaborated on writing summary analysis on this week's reading for THP. Questions posed for this writing assignment are: Do you think Rubin's time has been well-spent recently? Why or why not? use citations to support your arguments. See They Say (Chapter 2-3 pp. 30-51).
See also Hacker pp. 543-550. We reviewed this in class.
Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013, the English 1A 1-2:50 p.m. class will meet in the library (LRC 1st floor) with Professor Jane McKenna for an hour. We will return to class afterward for the final 40 or so minutes.
Students started off the class with THP discussions followed by a brief lecture on citations, signal phrases, ellipses marks, brackets, and long quotes (4+ lines). I introduced what I call the "amen" factor (smile). Students later on pursued Rubin to answer the question posed in They Say, exercise 1:1. We then shared as a group.
If anyone wants to post their Rubin selections and rationale, feel free to do so.
Homework is to keep reading the essays in 50 Essays and They Say. We might have time to do exercise 2: 51 Wednesday with one of the selected readings for this week. I really like chapter 4 in They Say: "Three Ways to Respond."
Two students indicated interest in attending the Tim Wise lecture tomorrow. We can probably caravan over tomorrow. Let's confirm this tomorrow early afternoon. I finish teaching at 12:15 p.m.
See also Hacker pp. 543-550. We reviewed this in class.
Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013, the English 1A 1-2:50 p.m. class will meet in the library (LRC 1st floor) with Professor Jane McKenna for an hour. We will return to class afterward for the final 40 or so minutes.
Students started off the class with THP discussions followed by a brief lecture on citations, signal phrases, ellipses marks, brackets, and long quotes (4+ lines). I introduced what I call the "amen" factor (smile). Students later on pursued Rubin to answer the question posed in They Say, exercise 1:1. We then shared as a group.
If anyone wants to post their Rubin selections and rationale, feel free to do so.
Homework is to keep reading the essays in 50 Essays and They Say. We might have time to do exercise 2: 51 Wednesday with one of the selected readings for this week. I really like chapter 4 in They Say: "Three Ways to Respond."
Two students indicated interest in attending the Tim Wise lecture tomorrow. We can probably caravan over tomorrow. Let's confirm this tomorrow early afternoon. I finish teaching at 12:15 p.m.
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Amit Dhingra
Kahina Touati
Emily Walters
Professor Sabir
English 1A 1-2:50pm
25 February 2013
Summary of Rubin
Currently in the happiness project, Rubin has trying to find happiness through money. Before this she was looking for it through friendship, work, and time management. According to Rubin there are three factors that shape happiness through money, “It depends on what kind of person you are, It depends on how you spend your money, [and] It depends on how much money you have relative to the people around you and relative to your own experience” (pg. 169).
It looks like Gretchen Rubin is spending a great amount of her time to find happiness through money. Also she has been doing a lot of unnecessary research on this topic. One of Rubin’s friends states that, “Money can’t buy happiness” (pg. 176). Then Rubin herself states that, “Buy some happiness, of course it has its limits. She meant by this that there is not much happiness you can get through material things.
Cole Goodman
Professor Sabir
English IA 1-2:50pm
25 February
Checking in on Chapter 7:
In Chapter 7 of the Happiness Project Gretchin Ruben focuses on the connection of money through happiness. Although Ruben is aware that many people preach the idea that "money cannot buy happiness," personally she has to find out if this idea applies to herself. She is well aware that not everyone is made happy by the same things, so a general statement like this is naive. In her opinion money is connected to power and having control, therefore the ability to spend money to a certain degree is funny in order for her to feel like she is in control and thus more stable and happy. Gretchen uses some actual scientific evidence such as the fact that people in similar environments with more money report being happier than those with less money. Gretchen comes to the realization that as people gain money and come to enjoy a new quality of living, they end up taking what they have for granted. It becomes "ordinary existence" Gretchen's ultimate idea here is that money can buy happiness, depending on how one spends it. It is those decisions that can either improve or diminish happiness. She says that the best way money can make you happy is to prevent you from being sad. This is because the benefits of having money are less intense then the downfalls of not having it. Ruben thinks it is important to "indulge in a modest splurge" (170) She decides to spend more money on improving her health, through training sessions and good food. She boughs pens for work, purchased file boxes and donated money. She also mentions that throwing a party for her sister would be a large source of happiness.
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