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The quiz question for my Introduction to the Humanities II class today was: what is your favorite word. You may wish to describe why you made that choice.

Since the new semester has started and I promised to post my class quizzes here I have some to catch up on. All four of my classes shared the same first quiz which was: What are the ten commandments? Some described what the phrase refers to but the task was to write as many of them as you remembered before looking them up to satisfy your curiosity. For those interested in my favorites they are posted here: http://wsjamison.uaa.alaska.edu/Favcmds.htm and for my set of correct answers and comments on them I have a page posted here: http://wsjamison.uaa.alaska.edu/cmdstats.htm For my Introduction to Philosophy classes the second quiz was: Imagine Jesus arrives at your door. You know it is him and that he is God. He tells you to sell all you have, give the money to the poor, and come follow him. Question: do you go with him or do you refuse, argue, or what? The third question for my Introduction to Philosophy courses is (or will be) do you have a soul? If so, what is it?

Grades are Posted

The deadline is here and I have posted grades based on what papers I have in my records. If you check your grade and find it not what you expected email me and ask. It could be something you sent me got lost in cyber space.

Regarding my classes for Fall 2012: Another semester is over! And I have some last minute points to award. Actually, I have quite a lot of papers still to grade. Just now I at least tried to reply to each still in my inbox so you know what I received but it will be days before I can get through everything. Hopefully you will all have your responses by Wednesday. Remember if you still have work outstanding to get things to me before Sunday night at midnight. Please have a good holiday season. See you next semester.

Tuesday the quiz question for my Intro to Philosophy sections was which of the three philosophers I introduced today was your favorite? Quine, Rorty, or Dennett (or Badiou)? Last Thursday's question was which movie do you want to see on the final session? So far Monty Python Meaning of Life has the most votes. Several for Iris (but there have been some negative votes against Iris).

Monday evening the quiz question for Intro to Humanities II is: What did you think of the TED talk presentation on using computer gaming to solve the world problems?