College Of Staten Island

Main Ideas Worksheet (part 1)

Practice questions on main idea in communications

Midterm Review of Readings

Getting Dirty - WE ARE OUTSIDE A HOUSE, LOOKING IN THE WINDOW, and this is what we see: a young man, apparently nude and half-crazed with anxiety, lunging toward the glass. "Gail !" he screams, as he throws the window open and leans outside, over a flowerbox full of geraniums: "The most important shower of my life, and you switch deodorant soap!"

Visual culture - Viewers Make Meaning

The revivalist doctrines of salvation, perfectionism, and disinterested benevolence led many evangelical reformers to believe that slavery was the most God-defying of all sins and the most terrible blight on the moral virtue of the United States. While white interest in and commitment to abolition had existed for several decades, organized antislavery advocacy had been largely restricted to models of gradual emancipation (seen in several northern states following the American Revolution) and con...

Founding a Nation, 1776 - 1789, framing the Constitution

Think of the world you will be living in the rest of your life. Actually, you are already living in it. Groups making demands, sometimes peacefully, sometimes violently but almost always disturbingly. Politicians making promises of a brave new world, or at least one from which the troubles of the day are banished. Mass murders in Africa and the Middle East. The clash of religions. Debates over climate change and threats to the environment, balanced against economic growth. What are you to make o...

Frederick Douglass escaped from slavery in 1838 and made his way to New England. By 1841, Douglass was relating his experiences at abolitionist meetings throughout the eastern states. Douglass’s book, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845), forced him to flee to England as he had revealed his place of escape. However, liberal friends purchased Douglass’s freedom, and he was able to return to Rochester and start his abolitionist newspaper, the North Star. Active in the freedom...

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