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Structuring Questions for Class 2

Posted on February 4, 2019 by Julie Fuller

“Urban Colossus,” Edward Glaeser

  1. When was article written? What has changed in NYC since then? (I realize that you were 6 or 7 at the time.)
  2. Why has NYC been a magnet for immigrants? What factors both attracted them and caused them to stay? Some of you are immigrants, so what are your reasons for coming here? Your parents’ reasons?
  3. What is economic “agglomeration”?

An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore.

  1. What is the central thesis (the main idea, the “point”) of the film in one sentence?
  2. When was film released? What has changed since then? (again, I realize that you were 6 or 7 at the time.)
  3. In An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore states that there is a moral imperative to act to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming. Gore suggests that the moral imperative derives from a duty to leave to future generations a planet as inhabitable as the one we inherited from our ancestors. What is the exact nature of this obligation?

Professor Doug Muzzio’s bio

Posted on January 23, 2019 by Julie Fuller

A specialist in American public opinion, voting behavior and city politics, Doug Muzzio has had extensive political, governmental, and media experience. He is a member (and founder and former director) of the Baruch College Survey Research Unit at Baruch College’s School of Public Affairs

He hosted public affairs program, “City Talk,” on CUNY-TV for sixteen years (2001-2017), which was nominated for an Emmy award in February 2005. Muzzio has been the political analyst and on-air commentator for WABC-TV and has done polling and political analysis for ABC News, Reuters, the Associated Press, the New York Daily News, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, NY1 and other news organizations for more than three decades. He is a frequent news source on local, state, and national issues.

His governmental experience includes: thrice-elected trustee of the Pequannock Township, New Jersey, Board of Education (1992-95, 1995-1998, 2013- 2017); chief-of-staff to New York City Councilmember At Large Antonio Olivieri; consultant to the New York City Charter Revision Commission (1988-1989); research director for the 1989 Dinkins mayoral campaign; consultant to City agencies and not-for-profit organizations. He has actively consulted with New York City and state agencies and city and national nonprofits. From 1998-2001, he developed and delivered cultural diversity training programs for the New York City Police Department. In 2010, he prepared reports and testified on the structure of New York City governmental structure for the New York City Charter revision commission. In 2017, he was a member of the New York City Bar Association task force on the New York State Constitution.

He is writing a book, Silent City: The Reel American City Before Movies Talked on the images of the U.S. city in silent movies.

ITF Julie Fuller’s bio

Posted on January 23, 2019 by Julie Fuller

Julie Fuller (BA, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA / MA, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA) is a PhD Candidate in English at the Graduate Center, where she is working on a dissertation about the Sportswoman and athleticized female bodies in Victorian literature and culture. Beyond Victorian sports and physical education, her research interests include theory of the novel, non-canonical women writers, gender studies, and digital scholarship.

Julie has worked with Macaulay Honors Seminar 1-4 classes as an Instructional Technology Fellow at Baruch College for the past three years. Previous to that she served as a Writing Across the Curriculum Fellow at Baruch College as well as York College.

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