COR 100

In December of 2019, a new respiratory illness known as COVID-19, caused by a novel coronavirus was first detected in central China. Within the first five weeks of the outbreak, tens of thousands of people were infected and more than a thousand died. The outbreak has been categorized as a public health emergency by the World Health Organization. Not surprisingly, the virus has been having economic impacts throughout the world. Major companies like Apple, Starbucks, and McDonalds closed stores in...

Notes On The State Of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson wrote Notes on the State of Virginia, in reply to a series of questions from French diplomat François Barbé-Marbois. The work touches many facets of Virginia, from its geography to its flora to its political economy. In Query XIX below, Jefferson was responding to a question about “the present state of manufactures, commerce, interior and exterior trade” in Virginia.

COR 100 Final Exam review topics with summaries

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...

Poem by Langston Hughes - Let America Be America Again

Is it upon mature consideration we adopt the idea, that nature is thus partial in her distributions? Is it indeed a fact, that she hath yielded to one half of the human species so unquestionable a mental superiority? I know that to both sexes elevated understandings, and the reverse, are common. But, suffer me to ask, in what the minds of females are so notoriously deficient, or unequal. May not the intellectual powers be ranged under these four heads— imagination, reason, memory and judgment.