world-wide electronic group
Creative Writing for the Non-Creative
Always want to be a poet, but can't quite set the words to paper? Write that Great American Novel? Your memoirs? This class will help you get started. We'll use some unique techniques and prompts to generate material and get you writing--whether you are creative or not. You'll be amazed at what you -- yes, YOU! -- will come up with. There's no painful dredging of memories here or journaling. (Unless you want to. But it's not required for the class). We'll be creating actual poems and short pieces based on observation, word play, etc. Did I mention that you'll actually have FUN writing?
About the class:
This class will be offered online. Student will be expected to read and comment upon one another's writing each week of the class and to participate in discussion. Given the techniques we are using, there wont' be any "critique" per se. We'll talk about the process of writing and what further ideas for poems and stories these prompts generate.
There will be one to two writing prompts for you to respond to each week and it's based on about two - three hours per week (the same that you'd spend in class). You certainly can write and contribute more if you like. If there is sufficient interest, we'll schedule live chat times. Otherwise, the class will be generated through a bulletin board for posting.
There will be no texts for this class beyond the prompts. However, students may share information about books and articles of use and interest to them
About the instructor:
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Loneliness, Depression, Anxiety, and Death: Our Existential Predicament
LONELINESS, DEPRESSION, ANXIETY, AND DEATH:
OUR EXISTENTIAL PREDICAMENT
Have you noticed a loneliness that cannot be solved by love?
Are you sometimes aware of a depression not caused by circumstances?
Do you have free-floating existential anxiety?
Is your 'fear of death' out of proportion to the actual threat?
These 4 and 7 other similar phenomena will be explored in this electronic group.
Our method of exploration is looking deeply into ourselves.
This cyber-seminar will take place by means of an already-established Yahoo Group
called The Existential Freedom Group.
Each month, beginning as soon as 10 people have the book and are ready to discuss it,
we will read and discuss one chapter from a book called:
Our Existential Predicament:
Loneliness, Depression, Anxiety, and Death.
Over 50 pages from this book can be read on the Internet.
Just click the title above.
Students and faculty at the University of Minnesota
will find this book in Wilson Library.
And the publisher—Existential Books—offers to donate this book
to any public or academic library that will agree to put it on the shelves.
(Here are the details about this offer of free books for libraries.)
Readers who would prefer to own a copy
should buy it directly from the publisher.
A comprehensive course description will appear if you click those words.
Locations
Advancing the Right-to-Die: A World-Wide Electronic Discussion Group
Since this is the Experimental College of the Twin Cities,
as an experiment, we will try an on-line class.
This electronic seminar joins individuals sitting at their computers.
Participants can join the discussion any time or the day or night.
This cyber-seminar has now been adopted
by a Facebook Group called The Right to Die with Dignity.
This group already has over 1,000 members.
Our discussions will take place by means of its Discussion Board.
We will proceed with the ten announced themes listed below,
beginning a new discussion each month:
The One-Month-less Club:
Live Well Now, Omit the Last Month .
Four Differences between Irrational Suicide and Voluntary Death .
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Creating a World Peace Force
Creating a World Peace Force
NAME OF FACILITATOR:
James Park
E-MAIL ADDRESS:
PARKx032@UMN.EDU
PHONE:
612-871-7275
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Even a movement requiring 100 years for completion
must begin with year one.
How many of the 7 billion people living on the Earth
would favor giving up their national armed forces
if there were a World Peace Force
to maintain world law-and-order?
Today probably less than 5% would agree to disarm.
But if each year this percentage
could be increased by 1 percentage point,
then about 100 years from now,
the World Peace Force would be fully operational.
Local police forces would still be required
to enforce all local, state, and national laws.
But the World Peace Force would prevent genocide
and keep all conflicts between nations non-violent.
This seminar will take place by means of a Facebook Page
of the same name: CREATING A WORLD PEACE FORCE.
On the Discussion Board of this Facebook Page,
we will present and discuss one theme per month.
Here are the scheduled discussions for the first year:
Blessed Are the Peacemakers
September 2011
World without War
October 2011
World Peace Force—100 Years for Transition
November 2011
The Meaning of Complete World Disarmament
December 2011
WHAT WOULD THE WORLD PEACE FORCE DO?
Disarm the Planet Earth—One Nation at a Time
January 2012
WHAT WOULD THE WORLD PEACE FORCE DO?
Eliminate all Weapons of Mass Death
February 2012
WHAT WOULD THE WORLD PEACE FORCE DO?
End all Military Dictatorships
March 2012
WHAT WOULD THE WORLD PEACE FORCE DO?
When National Governments Collapse
April 2012
WHAT WOULD THE WORLD PEACE FORCE DO?
Separate the Arabs and Jews in Palestine
May 2012
WHAT WOULD THE WORLD PEACE FORCE DO?
Separate Warring Factions in Iraq
June 2012
WHAT WOULD THE WORLD PEACE FORCE DO?
Disarm All Sides in Afghanistan
July 2012
Religious Prisons to Rehabilitate Islamic Terrorists
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