APELC Class Notes

Period 4, you completed the timed-writing as your colleagues did yesterday. Here’re links to the stories we discussed in class: “Rapelay virtual rape game banned by Amazon” and “Baby-faced boy Alfie Patten is father at 13″. Talk these over with your folks. Consider, what are the limits of taste and propriety? How do we define these limits? What’s good for kids? Who’s responsible for whom? And, attached to all these questions, is another, and it’s perhaps the most important, simply, why?

I look forward to Tony’s paper on relativism; I hope it’ll shed some light on these problems we wrestle with e’er day.

All APELCers, final comparison and contrast drafts are due Monday, when we’ll meet in the liberry for research.

SOCIAL MEDIA. I mentioned three sites I find interesting links to articles and other texts that I broach in class. They are: Digg.com, Fark.com, and Reddit.com. You’ll notice that many members are generally left-leaning and anti-theistic (in a cliched, parroting, and non-critical kind of way), but there’s usually something neat for everyone.

Have a fine weekend.

February 13, 2009 | Filed Under AP Language

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