{"id":276,"date":"2016-03-08T14:42:52","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T21:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span280\/?p=276"},"modified":"2016-03-08T14:47:36","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T21:47:36","slug":"midterm-final-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span280\/2016\/03\/08\/midterm-final-version\/","title":{"rendered":"Midterm (final version)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span280\/files\/2016\/03\/keep-calm-exam.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-277\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span280\/files\/2016\/03\/keep-calm-exam-150x150.png\" alt=\"keep-calm-exam\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-277\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>March 8, 2016. 2-3:30pm<\/p>\n<p>Together, you are to collectively produce a document (in <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/17LR01qlSqMV8BLUTBoZ3CH_eyAfjcJPPOn3-05PlqGE\/edit?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\">this Google Doc<\/a>) in response to the following prompt:<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are the main obstacles to revolution, or dangers inherent in trying to organize one?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You may wish to think of this in terms of practical advice to would-be revolutionaries. Imagine yourselves as consultants to the revolution!<\/p>\n<p>You must make sure you respond with specific reference to the full range of texts we have read and discussed in class.<\/p>\n<p>Ensure also that the document you produce is well-structured, organized, and coherent. It should have a beginning, a middle, and an end, and a coherent thesis, which may (and probably should) of course be broken down into discrete but complementary elements.<\/p>\n<p>It is up to you to figure out how to organize yourselves and assign responsibilities and roles to tackle this task. The result will be viewed and assessed as a collective project, and if it is judged unsatisfactory, then everyone will be involved in rewriting and revising (and\/or redoing) it until it is satisfactory.<\/p>\n<p>Though I am giving no hard guidelines on length, I am expecting a substantial document. I think you should probably aim for ten pages (double spaced).<\/p>\n<p>To complete this task in the time allowed, you may use whatever resources you deem necessary: books, notes, the Internet, whatever. You are free (indeed, encouraged) to talk to each other as you work together.<\/p>\n<p><em>Good luck!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 8, 2016. 2-3:30pm Together, you are to collectively produce a document (in this Google Doc) in response to the following prompt: What are the main obstacles to revolution, or dangers inherent in trying to organize one? You may wish to think of this in terms of practical advice to would-be revolutionaries. Imagine yourselves as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[939],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span280\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span280\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span280\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span280\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span280\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span280\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span280\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions\/279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span280\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span280\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span280\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}