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Week 1 Discussion
"Baroque Style" Please respond to the following, using sources under the Explore heading as the basis of your response:
· Select two (2) Baroque style paintings from the Websites below that no other student has selected. Identify each as to artist, date, and title or description. From the summaries of the Baroque style’s features in our class text, identify specific key aspects of each painting that fit the Baroque style. Explain why you selected each and what you like or dislike about it. Compare this style to a modern film, type of film, or to a modern situation.
Explore:
Baroque Visual Arts
· Chapter 21 (pp. 677-9; 689-691) and chap. 22 (pp. 703-8; 714-723); Baroque style and its characteristics; Baroque in the north
· Baroque samples at http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/1600-1700-the-Baroque.html ; scroll down and see the captions by each illustration; also, see http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/1600-1700-the-Baroque.html
· Examples of Baroque paintings from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam at https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/explore-the-collection/styles/baroque (click on images; go full-screen; click “i” for info on the artist and date and painting)
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Week 2 Discussion
"The Arts and Royalty; Philosophers Debate Politics" Please respond to the following, using sources under the Explore heading as the basis of your response:
· The philosophers Thomas Hobbes and John Locke disagreed on the understanding of political authority, with Locke taking what is commonly called the “liberal” view. Choose a side (be brave perhaps; take a side you actually disagree with). Using the writings of each given in our class text or at the Websites below, make your case for the side you chose and against the other side. Identify one (1) modern situation in the world where these issues are significant.
Explore:
Philosophers Debate Politics
· Chapter 24 (pp. 768-9)
· Hobbes: text at http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/hobbes/leviathan-contents.html; summary at http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hobbes-moral/; also http://jim.com/hobbes.htm
· Locke: text at http://www.thenagain.info/Classes/Sources/Locke-2ndTreatise.html; General background of the concept at http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/teachers/lesson_plans/pdfs/unit1_12.pdf
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Week 3 Discussion
"Classical Music; Early Abolitionist Art and Literature" Please respond to the following, using sources under the Explore heading as the basis of your response:
· Explain whether you think an autobiographical or fictional account by a slave (such as Phillis Wheatley and Olaudah Equiano) is more persuasive than a biographical or fictional account by a white author (such as John Gabriel Stedman or Aphra Behn). Explain whether you believe the representations of slavery in the visual arts (such as William Blake’s illustrations, William Hackwood’s cameo, or John Singleton Copley’s painting) were more compelling and convincing of the injustices of slavery than the literary representations already mentioned. In your explanations, use specific examples and consider both audience and the content and nature of the work. Identify the literary or art form in modern times that you think is most effective at depicting injustice.
Explore:
Early Abolitionist Art & Literature
· Chap. 26 (pp. 864-6): Equiano, Stedman, Wheatley, Behn; Chapter 26 (pp. 871-3): Equiano and Behn
· Wheatley at http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/webtexts/Wheatley/phil.htm
· Chapter 26 (pp. 864-7): Blake, Hackwood, Copley
Explore:
Classical Music
· Chapter 25 (pp. 826-832), classical style described; examples; review the Week 3 “Music Folder”
· Haydn at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JESXMWrwzVQ and http://www.npr.org/artists/16110605/franz-joseph-haydn
· Mozart at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hywOY9BS9tQ and http://www.npr.org/artists/15327819/wolfgang-amadeus-mozart
Early Abolitionist Art & Literature
· Chapter 26 (pp. 870-2): Equiano, Stedman, Wheatley, Behn; Chapter 26 (pp. 877-879): Equiano and Behn
· Wheatley at http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/webtexts/Wheatley/phil.htm
· Chapter 26 (pp. 870-873): Blake, Hackwood, Copley
WEEK 4 Ds=iscussion
"Beethoven; Art and Protest in the 1800s" Please respond to the following, using sources under the Explore heading as the basis of your response:
· Select one (1) example of a literary work or a work of visual art from the 1800s—either Romantic or Realist in style—that responds in some way to the Industrial Revolution. Identify the work and the artist or writer, describe its features and style, and explain the manner in which it responds to the Industrial Revolution. Next, describe one (1) example of how either black slaves or white abolitionists used literature or the visual arts as a form of protest against slavery. Identify one (1) specific literary or artistic work of our day that effectively protests a social injustice.
Explore:
Art Reacting to Social RealitiesBeethoven
· Chapter 28 (pp. 920-948), art and literature in Industrial Revolution; Chapter 28 (pp. 930-936), slavery
· The Museum of Fine Art in Ghent, Belgium (MSK Gent) —Romantic and Realist Art of the 1800s at http://www.mskgent.be/en/collection/1820-romanticism-and-realism/romanticism-and-realism
· New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art—French Realist Art of the 1800s at http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/rlsm/hd_rlsm.htm
· Haven's article on Goodman's scholarship on art protesting slavery before the Civil War at http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/february18/artists-slavery-protests-021809.html
· Art and Slavery article at http://www.realhistories.org.uk/articles/archive/the-art-of-slavery.htm
WEEK 5 Discussion
Intrusions in Asia; Opera and Society and a Dilemma" Please respond to the following, using sources under the Explore heading as the basis of your response:
· Read, listen to, and watch the sources for the opera composers at the Websites below and in this week's Music Folder. Describe the major influences that Verdi, Wagner, or Puccini exerted upon opera in terms of making it more innovative, realistic, and even controversial. Next, consider Wagner and this dilemma: Wagner's brilliance is clear because his works remain some of the most popular and admired productions in our own time. Yet, he was a blatantly antisemitic and held notions of racial purity, traits that have stained his artistic legacy. (This was compounded by the later celebration of Wagner's music by Hitler and the Nazis). New York Times writer Anthony Tommasini wrote of Wagner in 2005: "How did such sublime music come from such a warped man? Maybe art really does have the power to ferret out the best in us." So, consider the issue of whether we should or can separate the artist from the art, whether we can appreciate the art but reject the artist. Or whether we should reject both the person and his or her art. Identify one (1) modern musician or artist where this dilemma arises.
Opera and Society
· Chapter 30 (pp. 1003-1010), Wagner and Verdi; (pp. 1133-1134), Puccini
· Huizenga article and audio selections at http://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/2012/04/11/150420827/talk-like-an-opera-geek-how-verdi-wagner-and-puccini-got-their-grooves
· Wagner video of a stage production (Tristan und Isolde) at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAEkTK6aKUM
· Verdi video clip of stage production (Rigoletto) at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5NEOh-XhyA
· Puccini video clip of stage production (Tosca) at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sSoKbv46zc
Business And Society Disussion
Week 1 Discussion
"Assessing Stakeholder Positions" Please respond to the following:
· Apple is about to release its latest technology. The company needs to develop a plan to communicate with key stakeholders about the release. You have been tasked with identifying those main stakeholders and selecting the method for communicating with each group. Summarize your plan in a two to three paragraph post.
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Week 2
"Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Global Citizenship" Please respond to the following:
· You are the author of a popular CSR article. For this week’s discussion post, discuss the main reasons why Apple is or is not a socially responsible organization. List at least two examples of Apple’s actions that support your position. Be sure to use terms from Chapter 3 to demonstrate your understanding of corporate social responsibility.
· Additionally, rate the quality of your peers’ posts. You can rate posts by clicking on the stars in the upper right hand corner of each post. A rating of one star is the lowest and five stars is the highest. The post with the highest rating will be acknowledged by the instructor in next week’s announcements.
Week 3
"Business Ethics and Ethical Reasoning" Please respond to the following:
· Think back to a time when you had a supervisor or coworker who you believe made an unethical decision or exhibited unethical behavior. List at least two reasons why you think people are tempted to act unethically. Describe the most effective safe guards that you believe an organization can put into place to prevent unethical behavior within the organization.
WEEK 4
"Globalization and Corporate Citizenship" Please respond to the following:
· Congratulations! You have been appointed as a new product manager with Apple and have been tasked to introduce the latest iPhone in a new country. Choose and research a country other than the United States, and then formulate a plan to effectively integrate this product from a global and social standpoint. Speculate on the major challenges and opportunities you anticipate facing in this role.
WEEK 5
Week 5 Discussion
"Business and Government Relations" Please respond to the following:
· Discuss the main reasons why a business should or should not be involved in political discussions or take a political stand. Use terms found in Chapter 9 to demonstrate your understanding of the material. You can submit your initial discussion post and responses in either written or video format (2-3 minutes or less).
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