My take home exam

From: Michael Emerson

To: Valerie Lewis, Bob Brenneman, Maria Diaz, David Hartman, Carl Neblett, Jennifer Yonkowski, Anjun Ganguly, Roberto Rivera

Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 20:06:36 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Exam 1

Here it is:

Using the meterials from class, discuss the development of the concept "race" from its inception to now, finishing with the ideology of color blindness. In your essay, be sure to consider if and where prejudice is important in the development of race.

*It is cruel, yes, but you cannot exceed 5 typed, double-spaced pages in responding to this question. Use 1 in margins. Point size can be 11 or 12.

Due: Next Wednesday, unless leading the class



Equivalent question:


I can't decide what is worse when writing a paper.
1. Having too little to say (so having to use all the undergrad antics of changing margins to 1.2" and font to Courier New to stretch 12 pages out to 15), or
2. Having too much to say (like this ridiculously large question that must be shrunk into a ridiculously small number of pages)

Ah, and your deep thinking question for the day: which of those is worse in life?