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Concept
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Work of Art / S.T.A.R
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Essential & Deepening Questions
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River of Wisdom
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Migration / Journey
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'Scenes along the River at Qingming Festival'
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Who am I? What am I doing? Where
am I going? Why?
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Sustainability.....MLK Question "What Are You Doing For Others?" http://www.epa.gov/
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Balance -
Economy / Environment / Quality of Life - in art, in math, in persuasive writing
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Davinci - Deluge Over a City 1517
da Vinci Timeline of all of his art
Vivaldi - The Four Seasons
Camille Saint-Saens - Carnival of the Animals
Peter & The Wolf (Yellowstone Park)
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How am I connected to the world....
to other people - past, present and future, and to the Earth and beyond? Chief
Seattle's Letter - "Will you teach your children what we have taught our children? That the earth
is our mother? What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth. This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood
that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does
to himself"
2 x 2 Cost/Benefit Reasoning Global Climate Change & Inaction
China: Selling Solar Panels Too Cheap?
Bill McKibben - Deep Economy
The Conversion of a Climate Change Skeptic
Gaia Theory - Connectedness & Balance
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Singularity
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Can a Robot have a conscience?
Exponential, nanotechnology, A.I.,
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Shackleton & Lewis & Clark
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Discovery
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Solar System, navigation
Holst - The Planets
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Democracy
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Bernstein - Freedom Concert
The Apotheosis of George Washington
Bernstein, modifies Shakespeare (Polonious) and
Beethoven (Joy to Freedom)
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The End of History?
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/
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Lincoln & Darwin
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Heros - Creators & Designers
of the Modern World
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Sun Yat-sen
Chinese Heros
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Walls, Bridges, Ladders & Stairs
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High Quality Human Relationships
Robert Frost 'Mending Wall' http://writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/frost-mending.html
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Great Wall of China, Berlin Wall,
Israili Wall, Mexican Wall, King Kong Wall
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How might we usefully understand and
improve our relationships with each other?
Consider Covey - investments.....build
& repair bridges.....make 'investments'......
Kong Wall description on the
boat & 'Story' at beginning of the Broadway Opening......ending - cause / effect - What killed the beast?
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Civilizations
Who put the Civil in Civilization?
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The earliest Civilizations - Mesopotamia,
Egypt, India & China
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What are the key features of civilization?
How
are the earliest civilizations similar and different?
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Sound Advice
Sound Advice
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In Western Thought - Socrates,
Christ, Judaism, Mohammed, Joseph Smith
In the East - Confucius, Buddha, Taoism,
Hinduism
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How should we live our lives?
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The Strength of Diversity
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Baseline Essays
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Time & Space
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Health & Safety
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Community & Quality of Life
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Imagination / Innovation
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Appolo 13
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How are You Smart? Intelligence as 'Seeing the Light!'
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Intelligence
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Triangles of Trade
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People
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The Builders, 1950 by Fernand Leger
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Why build these cities glorious, if man unbuilded goes? In vain we build the world, unless the builder grows.
--Edwin Markham Treat humanity, whether in your own person or in
the person of another, always as an end and never as a means. --Immanuel Kant
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Noticing Deeply, sometimes too deeply
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Find Jackson Pollock's Signature
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Famous People/ Americans / Famous Georgians
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Thinking & Reason
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The Thinker by Rodin 1900 & Pensiero
'The Thoughtful One' by Michelangelo 1534
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Inductive & Deductive Reasoning
- http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/dedind.php
Fiction / Non-Fiction
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Famous Sayings, Parables, Aphorisms
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