LIL 120 A – Fall 2024 Professor Cripps 2 – Offer 2 Specific Details from the chapter. For each ID/quote add 3-8 sentences of your own explanation. This chapter of the book talks a lot about the condemnation of the Church over the Pope’s impious nature behind closed doors. The Pope in the spotlight throughout this chapter is Baldassare Cossa, or John XXII, and I think that was because of his unusual way of ruling. I mean popes before Cossa also ruled impiously, but they were more sneaky about it, whereas Cossa seemed to not care, and rather did not hide his impious nature at all. “Cossa’s gifts were not…

 LIL 120 A – Fall 2024 Professor Cripps 2 – Offer 2 Specific Details from the chapter. For each ID/quote add 3-8 sentences of your own explanation. “Hence, at the start of Lapo’s imaginary conversation, a character called Angelo…what can be more alien to religion than the curia?” (pg. 139, para. 2, sentence 6&7). When Greenblatt describes the character Angelo asking this rhetorical question, he is emphasizing the idea that the Church’s bureaucracy and political power had become disconnected from the spiritual ideals and values of religion. In other words, the curia—representing the Church’s leadership and its often corrupt and self-serving nature—was seen as hypocritical and fundamentally at odds with…

Beyond Class Activity: Academic On October 10th I was part of an all female crew that interviewed 2-time Oscar nominee Rick Goldsmith. Rick was at UNE for a screening of his new film Stripped For Parts: American Journalism On the Brink. I was Assistant Director, there were two girls from communications class were the camera women, Emily Hedgard was the interviewer, and there was a girl running audio. The interview went really well, but halfway through the monitor for camera A died on us and we had to take extra time between the interview breaks to change it. Other than that everything ran pretty successfully and everyone had fun. Though…

Beyond Class Activity: Extracurricular On September 21st, I traveled with my Tennis Club to Brandeis University for a match. This was my first collegiate level match, and I played mixed doubles-girl and boy team vs girl and boy team-for the first time, with Scott, the President of our club. It was really cool experience, although I didn’t particularly enjoy the ball being served to me by a guy twice my size and 3 years older than me. His serves felt like they were coming at me at 45 mph, and so I just stuck my racket out and hoped the ball hit it half of the time. Everyone but Maddie,…

Beyond Class Activity: Other On September 15th, I went with my sister and some friends to McDougal Orchards in Springvale, ME, as a way to take a break from our responsibilities of life and to continue our tradition of apple picking in the fall season. It was this cozy little farm in the countryside of Springvale, with a corn maze, pumpkin patches, multitudinous apple trees and kinds, and a cafe-housing their infamous apple cider donuts. We picked a three kinds of apples-honey crisp, cortland, mackintosh-filling up an entire bag. (I still have 3 of them left in my fridge). It was a nice, relaxing day away from campus and schoolwork.

 LIL 120 A – Fall 2024 Professor Cripps 2 – Offer 2 Specific Details from the chapter. For each ID/quote add 3-8 sentences of your own explanation. “But the way Poggio fashioned letters showed more than just unusual skill in graphic design; it signaled a creative response to powerful cultural currents stirring in Florence and throughout Italy.” (pg. 116, para. 2, sentence 2). Throughout this chapter we see that Florence seems to be ahead of its time in resurfacing classical ideas and more epicurious ways, while still living a devoted Christian lifestyle. Then Poggio emerges with handwriting that allows readers to fully be able to decipher texts, which allows further…

 LIL 120 A – Fall 2024 Professor Cripps 2 – Offer 2 Specific Details from the chapter. For each ID/quote add 3-8 sentences of your own explanation. Pages 91-93: Hypatia (huh-pa-tee-uh). Greenblatt talks about how Hypatia was revered amongst society as a highly intellectual and successful woman. Men would seek her out to gain her approval over their writings and findings, scientific or philosophical. They agreed with her, worshiped her. Then when Christianity was born, and Hypatia sided with Orestes’ (aw-reh-stays) refusal to expel the city’s jewish population, she was branded a witch, after rumors that her passion and pursuit of knowledge in a more intellectual way was sinister for…

LIL 120 A – Fall 2024 Professor Cripps 2 – Offer 2 Specific Details from the chapter. For each, ID/quote add 3-8 sentences of your own explanation. Page 74, paragraph 3 – Epicurus’s message on the creation of the world… Epicurus is one of the first noted philosophers to write on the account of the universe and the way of human life, by challenging the notion that tiny particles–atoms–are the elements of our reality. To Epicurus, the key idea relevant to creation is the “swerve”, which is the unpredictable deviation of these atoms. Without the swerve, atoms would fall in straight lines and nothing would ever interact, making the creation…

Major: Communications  Specific career(s): Producer/Director for entertainment, Sports Broadcaster, or potentially Public Relations or Art Director Median wage for communications on a broad scale: $60,000 Number of people employed for Communications: 3,007,870 Producers and Directors:  Producers handle the business and financial aspects of a production, including raising funds, hiring key staff, setting the budget, and ensuring the project is completed on time. On larger productions, multiple producers may share responsibilities, such as an executive producer overseeing the whole project and a line producer managing daily operations. Directors make the creative decisions, from casting to rehearsals, and work with crew members to bring the vision to life. They collaborate with set…

 LIL 120 A – Fall 2024 Professor Cripps 2 – Offer 2 Specific Details from the chapter. For each, ID/quote add 3-8 sentences of your own explanation. 1 – Make 1 Connection to Self, to World, or to Text – or Extended by offering a little detail about something mentioned in the text (some light research needed to Extend) Connection to World: Paragraph 2, page 25, “‘He all be compelled to read.’…achievements of ancient thought”.  I think this quote really emphasizes the timeless importance of reading and learning from the past. This idea is highly relevant to the modern day, as it underscores how reading not only preserves knowledge but…