This artifact was excerpted from a paper titled “Feminism and the Enlightenment,” written for HUMN 541, Enlightenment and the Modern World. It came from the beginning of the paper. Feminist thought hearkens back to the early fifteenth century, “when, by invoking Lady Reason, Christine de Pizan first challenged French male writers who demeaned women in print” (Offen 34). By the seventeenth century, women and some men criticized how women were not treated as equals. The cleric

Artifact 2 is from HUMN 530, the Renaissance, and is called “Humanism in the Renaissance.” It is a good example of my early writing and is from the middle of my paper. In the paper, I discuss different Renaissance figures and how they contributed to the Humanist movement. Vittoria Colonna is one of these, and I highlight her in the artifact. Vittoria Colonna (1492-1547) is considered a Renaissance woman because “Burkhardt the famous 19th century Swiss historian . . . says th

Artifact 3 is from HUMN 551, Evolution of Life and Intelligence, and is called “Ethics and Emergent Technologies.” The excerpt is from the beginning of my paper and covers the ethics of AI. In addition to AI, I examine two other emergent technologies; genomics (the study of a person’s genes) and nanotechnology (the study of really tiny objects). I also discuss the ethics surrounding these technologies. Artificial Intelligence (AI) takes many forms, all designed to make jobs

Artifact 4 is from HUMN 561, Society, Class, and Wealth, and is called “Social Contract Theory in the Declaration of Independence.” This excerpt is from the middle of my paper, which I began with discussing the influence that Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jaques Rousseau had on Thomas Jefferson, the main writer of the Declaration. I concluded with the assertion that Jefferson was mainly influenced by Locke, and that the separation of the United States and Great Britain

Artifact 5 is from HUMN 571, Individuals, Society, and the Spirit, and is called “Reading and Reflection.” The excerpt is from the beginning of the paper. It is a reflection paper about the readings of HUMN 571, which included Max Weber’s Essays in Sociology, William James’s Varieties of Religious Experience, Emile Durkheim’s Elementary Forms of Religious Life, Margaret Mead’s Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies, and Bellah, et al’s book Habits of the Heart: Indi