Thursday, November 10, 2011
Today in class we spent the entire time looking at how the Ode Magazine authors use signal phrases in the first article on innovative ideas and innovators like Muhammad Yunus, "Turning Poverty into Peace: What the Nobel Prize means to Muhammad Yunus--and how it shows the way new ideas come into the world" (Kamp and Visscher 43-44).
The second article is an interview with Muhammad Yunus, thus the quotes. The entire article is in his words. Does Yunus agree with the authors' preface?
Students first identified 10 signal phrases. many students didn't remember what signal phrases are: See SPHE pp. 330-332, 335-376. We will review the exercises on Thursday or Monday-Tuesday (8-9 AM) class.
Homework is to work on the SE essay. I don't understand why students don't understand that they need to read the articles they found on their entrepreneur, watch the films, read the book(s).
How can you write an essay about a person or on a topic if you do not know anything about the topic? How do you learn about a topic? Research isn't an activity, one does research to learn more about a topic, in this case the topic is Social Entrepreneurship.
After you have reviewed the five sources, see if you can answer the questions for the assignment (the same questions posed in the Frontline World assignment). If you cannot answer all the questions, then do more research to find the answers.
Students are turning in drafts. Bring in your best work for peer response.
Cyber-Assignment
Post your 3-5 sentences using the article or interview to support the following claim or thesis:
Ideas are more powerful than the most sophisticated weapons of mass destruction. Innovative ideas are even more powerful, because these new thoughts are the premise of industries that not only change lives, they change the world.
Example of sentences that support the thesis using evidence from the article. One is a direct quote. The other is a paraphrase.
1. In the Ode 2006 article "Turning Poverty into Peace: What the Nobel Prize means to Muhammad Yunus--and how it shows the way new ideas come into the world," journalists Kamp and Visscher, use the compelling story of 2005 Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus to illustrate the movement or development of innovative ideas, in Yunus's case: microcredit. They state: "Microcredit, [the system Yunus devised to lend money to the poorest entrepreneurs or business persons] has simply gone through the stages that every innovative idea undergoes: first it is ridiculed; second, it is violently opposed; and third it is accepted and embraced as self-evident" (43).
2. The idea journey is wrought with peril, and often the prize is not within view, yet, the innovator continues on often laboring in the dark or out of the limelight, because he or she believes in the vision and doesn't mind if there are naysayers who don't; I guess as long as these opponents don't effect the venture's bottomline. In such cases, one has to respond as was the case with the Wall Street Journal article in 2001 which criticized Muhammad Yunus's Grameen Bank (43).
The second article is an interview with Muhammad Yunus, thus the quotes. The entire article is in his words. Does Yunus agree with the authors' preface?
Students first identified 10 signal phrases. many students didn't remember what signal phrases are: See SPHE pp. 330-332, 335-376. We will review the exercises on Thursday or Monday-Tuesday (8-9 AM) class.
Homework is to work on the SE essay. I don't understand why students don't understand that they need to read the articles they found on their entrepreneur, watch the films, read the book(s).
How can you write an essay about a person or on a topic if you do not know anything about the topic? How do you learn about a topic? Research isn't an activity, one does research to learn more about a topic, in this case the topic is Social Entrepreneurship.
After you have reviewed the five sources, see if you can answer the questions for the assignment (the same questions posed in the Frontline World assignment). If you cannot answer all the questions, then do more research to find the answers.
Students are turning in drafts. Bring in your best work for peer response.
Cyber-Assignment
Post your 3-5 sentences using the article or interview to support the following claim or thesis:
Ideas are more powerful than the most sophisticated weapons of mass destruction. Innovative ideas are even more powerful, because these new thoughts are the premise of industries that not only change lives, they change the world.
Example of sentences that support the thesis using evidence from the article. One is a direct quote. The other is a paraphrase.
1. In the Ode 2006 article "Turning Poverty into Peace: What the Nobel Prize means to Muhammad Yunus--and how it shows the way new ideas come into the world," journalists Kamp and Visscher, use the compelling story of 2005 Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus to illustrate the movement or development of innovative ideas, in Yunus's case: microcredit. They state: "Microcredit, [the system Yunus devised to lend money to the poorest entrepreneurs or business persons] has simply gone through the stages that every innovative idea undergoes: first it is ridiculed; second, it is violently opposed; and third it is accepted and embraced as self-evident" (43).
2. The idea journey is wrought with peril, and often the prize is not within view, yet, the innovator continues on often laboring in the dark or out of the limelight, because he or she believes in the vision and doesn't mind if there are naysayers who don't; I guess as long as these opponents don't effect the venture's bottomline. In such cases, one has to respond as was the case with the Wall Street Journal article in 2001 which criticized Muhammad Yunus's Grameen Bank (43).
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New ideas want to be realized. And the beautiful truth is that nothing can hold them back. Some peoples thoughts and ideas are more powerful than the most modern weapons of war. Because those ideas can cause new wars or help create better weapons.As Victor Hugo put it "No army can stop an idea whose time has come".(Kamp and Visscher.44)
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english 201a
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New ideas want to be realized. And the beautiful truth is that nothing can hold them back. Some peoples thoughts and ideas are more powerful than the most modern weapons of war. Because those ideas can cause new wars or help create better weapons.As Victor Hugo put it "No army can stop an idea whose time has come".(Kamp and Visscher.44)
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