Readings for next week: 87, 85

Hi all,

The readings for next week are numbers 87 and 85. Please hand in your reading response logs with two questions each during Monday afternoon's class.
Wishing you a scary Halloween...
Professor Ferrante

Readings for next week: # 89, 121

Please hand in your response journals on Monday with two questions per reading. Don't forget to create three posts and check back to see how others have responded to the posts. I will be responding to various posts that you make, so check back often. Learning logs will be completed for this class as well, so don't forget! See you on Monday. Professor Ferrante.

PS- please remember that your posts should be 5-7 sentences long!

#36 "The Truth About Growing Up Rich" & #37 "The Working Mother as Fashion Victim"

Feel free to respond to either the comments section, the questions section, or both.

Some comments:

"A woman like Eileen Fisher is not the ideal working mother; she doesn't have to worry about spending time to clean her house or about preparing a meal for her family. Her two full-time domestic servants take away from the stresses of a working mother; therefore, Eileen becomes a full-time mother who happens to have a part-time job."

"Rich women feel that because they don't add any 'flavor' to their financial success, then they are worth nothing. Granted, the women don't mind spending the money on lavish things from time to time, but they still don't feel complete."


Some questions:

What impact would it have on society if a woman like Elizabeth Kolodzey was placed on the cover of People magazine?

Is it only a woman's social class that can distinguish what type of working mother she is?

Read Me First

So here is how this will work: I will get the online discussion started by positing a consideration, proffering an opinion, or posing a set of questions based on one of our weekly articles. Each of you will not only respond to me, but to at least three students. We'll keep the language professional and academic, as is the case for your hardcopy response journals. As for a minimum response, let's begin with an "oversized" paragraph of 5-7 sentences per response per individual.

Also, after you register at http://www.blogger.com/ (you'll need to do this in order to post comments), be sure to name yourself at the very end of each response (as usernames are often something other than your given name). Hopefully, this (we)blog will grow as your skills grow and this will also serve to put a new spin on an old "tried and true" method of collegiate discussion.

Lastly, for everyone's convenience, I've added links on the right navigation bar to Google (since its popularity and usefulness rival that of Mr. Webster's dictionary), Encarta (which also functions as a thesaurus as well as a dictionary), and also "The New York Times." The last of these links might seem like the proverbial "third wheel," but it will be quite useful to you in the future when you're given assignments such as "Quote a recent tabloid..." on such-and-such a topic. It's always handy to have solid supporting evidence in your academic wanderings.

A. Ferrante