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US 2. Second in a Series. For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are more often influenced by things that seem than by things that are. -- Niccolo Machiavelli.

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US 2

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  1. US 2 Second in a Series

  2. For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are more often influenced by things that seem than by things that are. -- Niccolo Machiavelli

  3. The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. -- William Blake

  4. That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. -- Aldous Huxley

  5. The whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. -- Bertrand Russell

  6. The future of a civilization depends on our overcoming the meaninglessness and hopelessness which characterizes the thought of men today. -- Albert Schweitzer

  7. Is not the real business of the artist to seek for man's salvation, and by understanding his ingredients to make himself less an outlaw to himself? -- Loren Eisley

  8. The invisible tensive straws that can save us are those of individual human integrities -- in daring to steer the individual's course only by truth, strange as the realized truth may often seem -- wherever and whenever the truths are evidenced to the individual -- wherever they may lead, unfamiliar as the way may be. -- R. Buckminster Fuller

  9. Just as an explorer penetrates into new and unknown lands, one makes discoveries in the everyday life, and the erstwhile mute surroundings begin to speak a language which becomes increasingly clear. -- Wassily Kandinsky

  10. To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. -- José Ortega y Gasset

  11. All the grown-ups were once children although few of them remember it. -- Antoine de Saint Exupery

  12. Hang onto your dreams For if dreams die Life's a broken-winged bird That will not fly -- Langston Hughes

  13. Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. -- Guastave Flaubert

  14. Your Assignment • Respond to the quotations. • Research one of the individuals quoted in US 2. • Take notes in Microsoft Word.* • Create a PowerPoint Presentation.* • You must document your sources!* *Copy hyperlinks in notes. Insert hyperlinks in PowerPoint. Undocumented information is invalid.

  15. Your Assignment (continued) • Essay response in Microsoft Word. One page. Your opinions. • Notes may be cut and pasted but must be documented! Factual information. • PowerPoint presentation is eight-page (minimum), documented, factual information.

  16. Your Assignment (continued) • Create a folder. • Name it: US 2 • Name your documents: • response.doc • notes.doc • research.ppt Put all documents in the folder titled: US 2

  17. Your Assignment (continued) • Due Thursday (at end of class). • If you finish early research other individuals from US 2 and make secondary presentations. • On Friday we will have a brief discussion followed by a PowerPoint Open House. (Tour your classmates’ presentations.)

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