Week 3 Preparation Read this short overview of the "American Dream" Read Chapter 8, Stratification and Social Mobility in the US, in your text.  Your assignment must be informed by information from the chapter. No outside/web sources, please. Attend the Week 3 Keiser Live! session or view the recording. Watch this video on Social Mobility and the American Dream Review the Purdue OWL for instructions and examples of formatting in text citations and references.  In-text citations go in the paragraph and the reference list is located after the Word Count at the end of your paper. Assignment Often the argument is made that people can be economically successful/secure in the US if they "just work hard enough."  From what you learned in the chapter and the American Dream video, how realistic is this belief?   If someone made a comment about the poor being poor because they don't work hard enough, what would you tell her/him from the chapter and the video to give provide a more accurate understanding about success, poverty, and mobility?

Keep a weekly informal journal of your textbook readings and film screenings for the second half of the course, which will help reinforce the material and prepare you for the Final Exam. You may use any format: digital or write on lined paper (you will need to photograph or scan and then upload handwritten journal entries).The journal entries should cover each of the instructional weeks of class—at least 5 pages—by the Final Exam. What should you write about? Note some of the most significant things that you learned in the assigned reading for each week, and most importantly, the key elements of the content and/or techniques of the film(s) streamed. Don't worry about margins, font size or formatting. Whatever works for you, works for me.Label your journal entries WEEK 7, WEEK 8, WEEK 9, WEEK 10 and WEEK 11.Write a minimum of one page each week (8 points/week; 40 points total for the second half of the course).Screenshots of my lecture slides and/or PDFs as Journal pages are unacceptable and will result in 0 points for that week.Write about, question or connect to other ideas/experiences you have. The journal is a way of recording and deepening your thoughts while reading/streaming films.Sample Reading/Film Screening Journal: https://deanza.instructure.com/courses/15320/pages...Materials Week7-Week 11: https://deanza.instructure.com/courses/15320/modul...

Choose one prompt to answer in one paragraph consisting of five complete sentences. Cite from a poem or poems directly. Cite the poet's last name and lines when referencing each sonnet, as follows: (Petrarch, lines), or (Shakespeare, lines)1. Are Sonnets 116 and 130, written by Shakespeare, utilizing and focusing more on Humanist concepts, such as Platonism and Neo-Platonism through the semblance of courtly love, or do they mostly promote Individualism through his lyrics as he declares that "If this be error and upon me prov'd, I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd"? Do you think Shakespeare is writing to a lover, or to only a friend? Justify your answer. How do these different philosophies impact the notion of the Renaissance's establishment of a "rebirth" of the culture based on your interpretation?2. Define the Neo-Platonic idea of the immutable nature of love and time in contrast to the notion of kairos in Petrarch's sonnets. The term comes from the Greek for “right time,” “opportunity,” or “season.” Modern Greek also defines kairos as “weather.” Is Petrarch consumed with this notion of kairos, or does he truly transcend his mortal fears regarding the transitory nature of time? Does he truly reflect Socrates' notion of the active and contemplative life? Is his love for Laura an allusion to this notion of the vital nature of living a contemplative life? How does her unattainable beauty beckon his action to transcend mortality?3. Define the notion of Petrarchan idealism through his love for Laura. Compare and contrast his tone in developing the nature of the quintessential love sonnet with that of Shakespeare's notion of the ideal love sonnet. Which poet's style best adheres to the classical aspects of Renaissance philosophy from your perspective and why?4. How can Petrarch be interpreted as a skeptic, except that he holds onto mere religious beliefs based on his love for Laura as he wavers between fear and hope throughout the poems. Can it be interpreted that he overpowers skepticism by refuting stoic determinism? Does his emphasis on gnosis demean the power of confession as he places the burdens on himself, due to his Socratic focus on the self-examined life to such an extent? Can Petrarch's fears be interpreted as ones that overpower his hopes and lend to future skeptical philosophies found later in the Enlightenment? Why or why not? Take a stance on how you interpret his poems in a claim as you answer the prompt.