Question.237 - Write a two-paragraph discussion post: In the first paragraph, discuss what you are going to school for, where you are?academically?at this moment, and where you are trying to go. Give us a sense of?what you find intellectually satisfying?about the discipline you are studying, what draws you to it, and what the challenges are. Keep the focus on the?intellectual?challenges and rewards of this program. When you have a hard problem to solve, how do you go about solving it? What kinds of brainpower does it take? (We have already talked about our lives outside of school in the intro discussion post, and what keeps you busy outside of school. In this post, keep the focus on the?intellectual?aspect of your program of study.) In the second paragraph, speculate about how studying the humanities might carry you closer to your goal, besides just checking a box. In this paragraph,?quote?some short text from the article?What Good are the Humanities??(Links to an external site.)?and?explain in your own words?what you take the quotation to mean, and how it helps to make your point. Be sure to put your quotation in "quotation marks" In other words, make a connection between the article, and the?intellectual challenges and rewards?you discussed in the first paragraph. Read carefully, and be sure you are quoting a reason?for?studying the humanities, not against it. In particular, you should NOT quote this line: "Our proper concern, surely, is with the world we live in, and our most worthwhile subjects are the issuespolitical, social, economic, scientificthat animate that world." This is what the anti-humanities critic might say, and the author goes on to refute this critic. Even if you fervently and passionately believe that humanities is a waste of your time and perhaps you are correct, only you can say for sure your task in this discussion post is to propose some way that humanities just might help you on your path to success in life, if you give it a chance.

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