Wakeing Ned Devine Flim Screening
The film Waking Ned Divine directly addresses the individuals role in the welfare of the community, one of the topics presented in the honors What Is the Good Life?
The movie “Waking Ned Divine” is set in the small Irish town of Tullymore. The main character, Jackie O’Shea, learns that a member of his small community wins the Irish national lottery. Jackie is anxious to learn who the winner is so he can pretend to be close friends with them in order to mooch money from them. In order to learn the identity of the winner, Jackie plans a chicken dinner party and invites everyone in the town.......
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Harn Museum of Art Tour
Constitution Week: Party Polarization
To celebrate constitution week, guest speakers were invited to speak about a politically relevant topic and relate it to the constitution. Donna Waller spoke about party polarization and how it relates to the constitution. The constitution was also covered in the Governing a good life section of the honors What Is The Good Life course.
Political polarization is when an individual’s stance on a given issue is more likely to be strictly defined by their identification with a particular political party. Polarization with regards to political parties is similar. Party polarization is when two parties become ideologically controlled, meaning that they often take the opposite stance on.......
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Religion and Globalization in South Asia
This event discussed the impact of religion and globalization in southern Asia. The speaker for the event was Dr. Deepa Nair. Dr. Nair is Assistant professor of history at UCF. She was born in India and holds a PhD in history that she received from the National University of Singapore.
Dr. Nair’s presentation focused on introducing us to the variety of religions that are seen in southern Asia. Home to 1.6 billion people, south Asia is culturally and religiously diverse with 62% of the population being Hindu, 31% being Muslim, 1.8% being Buddhist, 1% being Christian, and 4.2% having other......
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Pre-Law Transfer Event
This event was for transfer students who are looking to transfer into UF and to pursue a field in law. The meeting was conducted by the UF law advisor, Ms. Rebecca Sandbach, in Farrior Hall on the UF campus. During the event Ms. Sandbach covered an array of information that is useful to pre-law students. She gave.....
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Gubernatorial Debate
Gainesville Orchestra
"Got Beethoven"
U.S House District 3 Fourm
Ebola Discussion Panel
he good life tour of the Harn Museum of Art covered a variety of works from different artists, each work representing one or more characteristics of a good life.
The first piece of art that was covered on the tour was “Old Man’s Cloth”, a piece displayed in the contemporary collection. From a distance the artwork appeared to be a piece of fabric, like a carpet or a drape, but upon further inspection I noticed that it was not made of fabric at all. It was actually made from discarded labels and other items that one would.....
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The Gubernatorial debate took was between Republican Governor Rick Scott and the Democratic challenger Charlie Christ.
The Debate got off to a bumpy start when Rick Scott refused to come onto the stage. Governor Scott claimed that Charlie Christ violated the rules of the debate by bringing with him a personal fan and Governor Scott didn’t want to participate because there wasn’t.....
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The “Got Beethoven” concern by the Gainesville Orchestra was a very interesting experience.
I was very surprised at the number of people that attended the performance. The entire event was sold out and people where actually turned away at the door due to a lack of available seating. I was surprised that a local orchestra would be popular enough to sell out. After the performance started I realized.....
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On October 8, 2014 there was an open forum/debate between the republican and democrat candidates for the district three seat in the federal House of Representatives. The republican candidate running for reelection was Ted Yoho and the challenging Democrat was Marihelen wheeler.
The debate was set up so that the audience was able to ask a general question then each candidate would give their best answer to the.....
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I attended this Discussion panel because, at the time of this event, I was working on a paper in international relations where I advise the CDC on how to help prevent the spread of Ebola in West
The first speaker, Dr. Paul Psychas M.D, presented general information about Ebola so that .....
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44th Annual Model U.S Senate
During my spring 2015 semester I had the privilege or representing Santa Fe College at the 44th annual model U.S senate at Stetson University. While at the model senate I was assigned to portray senator Gary Peters, a democrat from the state of …
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