Week 11: Las Vegas, Nevada – Sin City

The Flamingo, Las Vegas

WEEK 11: Las Vegas, Nevada – Sin City
Tue 4.2/Thu 4.4
NO CLASS: SPRING BREAK

Upcoming:

WEEK 12: Chicago, Illinois – The Windy City
Tue 4.9/Thu 4.11
READ: EVICT—Ch. 24: Can’t Win for Losing - Epilogue: Home and Hope
CLASS: Multimedia presentations; Library research session (Details TBA)
DUE: ARISTOTELIAN APPEALS

City News 3.27

• NEW YORK CITY: Hudson Yards, the largest privately-financed development in American history, opens to the public (CBS News)
• PHILADELPHIA: Nation's first video gaming arena coming to city (Philadelphia Inquirer) 
• SAN JOSE: Avenues, elite NYC private school opening SJ campus (San Jose Mercury)
• CHICAGO: Backlash as prosecutors drop all charges against actor Jesse Smollett (Associated Press) 
• INDIANAPOLIS: Two elephants die at Indianapolis Zoo within days of one another (HuffPost)

 

Week 10: San Jose, California – The Capital of Silicon Valley

SAP Center

WEEK 10: San Jose, California – The Capital of Silicon Valley

Tue 3.26/Thu 3.28           

READ: EVICT—Ch. 20: Nobody Wants the North Side - Ch. 23: The Serenity Club

CLASS: Reading Discussion; Multimedia presentations; Lecture—“Understanding Aristotle’s Modes of Persuasion”

DUE: REFLECTION 4

Upcoming:

WEEK 11: Las Vegas, Nevada – Sin City
Tue 4.2/Thu 4.4
NO CLASS: SPRING BREAK

Reflection 4: #calexit—Life in the Independent Republic of California

For many, an independent nation of California has long been a dream. That dream inched a little closer to reality with the election of Donald Trump in 2016. Trump’s consistently antagonistic relationship with our state helped spur the “Yes California Independence Campaign,” commonly also known as “#calexit.” Though organizers eventually halted the initiative prior to the 2018 election (they later returned with a new plan), it was the first organized effort for the state to secede from the United States. How would you feel about California leaving the Union to become an independent nation? Can you envision switching your citizenship from American to Californian?  What would we gain (and what would we lose) if a Republic of California came to be? Likewise, how would you feel about living in the state of Santa Clara or Riverside or Humboldt? Which counties (and cities) would be winners and losers if counties became Californian states? Though it is not likely to happen anytime soon, if ever, speculate what life would be like as a citizen of the Republic of California?

Cite at least two of the following in your reflection:

• "Secession 2020? Sigh. Here’s Why it Shouldn’t happen Even if It Makes the Ballot" (Sacramento Bee)
  
  
  Read more here: https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/california-forum/article209845689.html#storylink=cpy
• "The Case for California Succession" (AlterNet) 
• "An independent California Isn't That Wacky of an Idea" (Salon.com)
• "California Will be Even More Incredible if We Secede" (Sacramento Bee) 
• "California Really Has What It Takes to Secede" (Foreign Policy)
• "Should California Secede? How the State is Politically Out of Step with the Rest of the Country" (Los Angeles Times)

 Required:

• MLA Style
• 500 words
• Works cited 

Due: Thu 2.28