Proposals for Art, Thinking Social Change

Deborah Levine March 1, 2012

Mid-term power point

Floating Garbage

Both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans now contain large mats of floating garbage, deposited there by currents. While we may think that recycling plastic is the answer to this problem, too much of it is not recycled and, because it floats, it is washed away and when it reaches the ocean it ends up deposited in these locations. I would like to discuss in this presentation the following:

1. How the garbage got here

2. What can and cannot be done about it

3. What is being done about it.

Final paper

My knowledge of philosophy is abysmal, given that I present myself as the product of a good liberal arts education. I would like to remedy this by writing a paper that is a summary of the history of philosophy in eight pages. To begin, I will read Will Durant’s Story of Philosophy and will then supplement it as needed. This will benefit me greatly so I hope it is acceptable, ridiculous as it seems to present so broad a topic in such a short paper.