Compare and contrast how Plato’s conception of the Humanities and Schmidt and Busl’s conceptions of the Humanities may reveal different épistémès.

Please write an essay for question 5.

THREE of the following questions will appear on the test (drawn randomly from a test question pool of all seven questions). Answer ONE question in a formal essay (citations not necessary). Please draw on readings, films, lectures, and class discussions as appropriate. The purpose of the essay is to demonstrate your awareness of the material and ideas studied so far this term and to demonstrate your ability to think critically about that material and those ideas. (Approximate length 1200 words)
1. Compare Plato’s view of censorship in The Republic with Egoyan’s view of history and memory in Ararat.
2. Compare Tagore’s view of music-makers in “The Music-Maker” with Girard’s view of music-makers in The Red Violin.
3. Compare the understanding of religion of the 16th-century French crowd according to Natalie Zemon Davis with the understanding of religion depicted in Eliot’s The Waste Land and Murnau’s Nosferatu.
4. Compare problem-based education according to Freire with the practices of close-reading as studied and undertaken in class.
5. Compare how Plato’s conception of the Humanities and Schmidt and Busl’s conceptions of the Humanities may reveal different épistémès.
6. Compare Tagore’s suggestion that “of all creatures, man lives in an endless future” with Eliot’s claim that “April is the cruellest month.”
7. Compare Thompson’s argument about the changes in ”time” and “work-discipline” with any of the changing ideas about the Humanities discussed in our course readings.

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