The Dalai Lama spent the day with hundreds of conservatives in Washington, D.C.:
http://news.yahoo.com/dalai-lama-happiness-american-enterprise-institute-230853925.html
Thursday, February 20, 2014
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
EXTRA CREDIT
Extra credit grades will replace the
lowest quiz grade that is not dropped. If two extra credit assignments are
completed they will replace the lowest two quiz grades. If your quizes are all
above a 7 the extra credit will add 4 points to the final exam grade (for a
possible total of 8 points)
Read one of the following books or watch
one of the following movies and then write up a two to three page response
paper to that book or movie.
BOOKS:
Sidartha by Herman Hesse
The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Chosen by Chiam Potock
Monkey by Wu Ch’eng-en (Trans. Arthur
Waley)
Q by Luther Blissett (highly
recommended)
MOVIES:
Gandhi
Black Robe
The Little Buddha
Malcolm X
Seven Years in Tibet
Kundun
The Cup
The Message
Monday, February 17, 2014
Monday, February 3, 2014
Mother Ganges
This video is slightly dated, and has a clear environmental agenda. However aside from its rhetorical intent it provides a good insight into the importance of the Ganges as a god, especially to those who live near it.
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