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Honors College_Honors 112 Class "Screw This Virus"_Essay, Patrick Fleming

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Essay by University of Maine student Patrick Fleming for HON 112, featuring COVID-19.

Honors College_Honors 112 Class "Screw This Virus"_Alternate Final Exam Prompt, Sharon S. Tisher, Melissa Landenheim

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Email thread featuring messages from Melissa Ladenheim, Associate Dean, Honors College, University of Maine to the Provost Office and from Dr. Ladenheim to Sharon S. Tisher, Lecturer, School of Economics and Honors College, University of Maine regarding one optional prompt for Tisher's take home exam in the two Honors 112 classes that incorporated COVID-19.

Honors College_Honors 112 Class "Screw This Virus"_Examination & Essay Responses, Katie Quirk, Melissa Ladenheim

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Honors 112 Final Essay Exam questions and excerpts from student's responses for a class taught by Katie Quirk, Lecturer, Honors College and College of Education, University of Maine.

Also, includes email thread featuring messages from Melissa Ladenheim, Associate Dean, Honors College, University of Maine to the Provost Office and from Dr. Ladenheim to Professor Quirk regarding the course material.

The Tower Of London Becoming A Tourist Attraction In The 19th Century, Catherine Mcdonald

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Underfunded and decaying, the Tower of London’s outlook at the beginning at the 19^th century was bleak. Then used as a military garrison, its former glory as a palace and prison was mostly forgotten. The Tower of London was transformed into a tourist attraction in the Victorian Age because of the rise of the middle class and the changing values that they had. The middle class valued education and wanted to use their leisure time to further their knowledge. History in particular interested them. Popular culture reflected this change in attitude about a subject previously not looked to for …

Teaching Literature In America: Demonstrating Relevance In The Early Cold War 1945-1963, Jennifer Chalmers

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This historical research focuses on how literature was taught in American high schools in the early Cold War period (1945-1963) and why it was taught that way. It aims to discover how the Cold War culture of conformity impacted secondary literature education. What were literature teachers’ concerns? What was the historical context of these concerns, and how did they affect methods in the classroom and rhetoric in academic journals? Finally, how did methodology and rhetoric change over time? Research involved gaining familiarity with Early Cold War culture, politics, and events through secondary sources; narrowing to U.S. education in the early …

Humanizing The Humanities: A Historical, Cultural, And Philosophical Examination Of The Disintegration Of Humanities Higher Education, Nicholas Moore

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This essay is an examination of the multifaceted reasons humanities education in American colleges is losing standing and funding. Historical, cultural, and philosophical perspectives are used to analyze the grounds that have justified the decreasing levels of support for humanities education. Historically, there is no longer any external justification provided, as there was when Sputnik was launched and the Cold War was endured. Culturally, the high culture model of ascension through the accrual of cultural signifiers is no longer the dominant form of raising one’s status, as it was when the humanities could be justified as cultural initiation. Philosophically, market-based …