Bilkent University Student's Name: HUM 111 Fall 2011 Dr. Louise Barry Midterm 1 12.5 % point value of assignment Questions for Midterm 1, on Epic of Gilgamesh, Fall 2011, Dr. Louise Barry You are to write a 3-page (double-spaced, Times New Roman, MLA style) answer on ONE of the following topics. Keep in mind the grading criteria while you are writing! 1. At one point in the Genealogy of Morals, Friedrich Nietzsche
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Detecting Media Bias Hum/111 University of Phoenix August 2, 2013 Media bias is the bias of journalists and other people working within the media industry. These reporters are supposed to report facts and remain bias so the public is receiving factual information and not information formed by opinions. While reporters do report facts and information they are given, they also report interviews of witnesses, who will give their personal opinion, which is hearsay. The case of Trayvon Martin
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HUM/111 11/03/2012 Christina Hon Media Bias in Political News The Political headline news story that I read was accurate and the story did give enough depth for you understand what was going on. The facts were all stated in this article. The story was about Romney losing to a state he had thought he had won over and how the election was going to be a close call. The article never had any bias on who they thought was going to win the election, which was a good thing. They stated
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Page 1 Final Exam Hum 111 11/25/12 Page 2 A critical thinker is open minded and mindful of alternatives. Critical thinking is a type of reasonable reflective thinking that is aimed at deciding what to believe or what to do. Reading, writing, speaking, and listening can be done critically or uncritically. Thinking critically involves seeing things in an open minded way and consider an idea or concept from as many angles as possible. One of the three things about what I learned in this
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Jared Lucas Hum 111-D020 2/16/16 Essay 1 The topic that I chose to talk about is whether the Palace of Versailles is impressive or excessive. I believe the palace of Versailles is impressive because it has so much history behind it and so many historical people have been there ranging from all of the kings that have live their since it was first built in 1682 to all of the diplomatic meetings that have taken place such as the Versailles summit had taken place in 1982, where a lot of industrialized
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To Drill or Not To Drill Hum/111 1/25/13 Angela Funk To Drill or Not To Drill As the population in the United States increases, so is the need to keep up with the energy demand. Developing new energy sources such as solar, wind, clean coal, natural gas and nuclear power the US can become less dependent on foreign countries. Although off shore drilling is a good resource that has been in existence for years, with the recent oil explosion (2010) and 11 lives and a massive spill of oil in the
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Creative thinking. Hum/111 1/26/2014 • How might you use the strategies for applying creativity to problems and issues in addressing this topic? Addressing this topic there is several ways a person can go about using creativity in order to help solve problems or any issues that could come up. Creative thinking is helpful for way that people can answer questions that might come up from reading an article. For a reporter it up to the reporter to make sure every angle possible is looked at and
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Global Warming HUM/111 January 16,2011 Tina Clarin Global Warming Until recently I didn’t know how global warming affected us. I was looking at the Greenpeace website and have read some interesting articles on how global warming changes our environment. It causes floods in the Midwest and droughts in the Southeast. I do know that the weather has changed over the last decade. When I was younger, I remember harsher winters and hotter summers. People are constantly complaining about the
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Running Header: AFRICIAN ANCIENT MASKS African Ancient Masks Kie Morrison Hum 111 Professor Dodson AFRICAN ANCIENT MASKS In African masks can be traced back to well past Paleolithic time from 1875 to 1925. These art objects were, and are still made of all kind of material; included are leather, metal, fabric and various types of wood. African masks are considered amongst the finest creation in the art world today. Many of these African masks pieces can be viewed in museums and art galleries
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Microeconomics In My Daily Life Throughout my life, I have always been reading and hearing about economic issues and concepts, but I never thought about the impacts of economic models on my personal life. Before learning about microeconomic concepts, I always thought that a course in the field of Economics, would teach me theories that only apply to the economy of a nation as a whole and not to an individual’s life. However, there were a lot of concepts throughout this course that I found relative
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