Centesimus Annus, Chapter 4

The fourth Chapter of Centesimus Annus is quite famous, and deservedly so.  Read chapter 4 of CA (pars. 30-43).  Summarize it in 300 words, and post your summary here.

Centesimus Annus, Chapter 3: The Year 1989

The third Chapter of Centesimus Annus is about a tremendously important year.  On May 2, twenty four years ago (from the day when I am writing this), the Iron Curtain began to crack.  Go here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989) and look for events on

• May 2 (Hungary), May 17-June 4 (China), June 4 (Poland), July 10 (Siberia).
• August 15 (South Africa), August 19 (Poland), August 19-23 (Hungary), August 21 (Czechoslovakia), August 23 (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania), August 24 (Poland).
• September 30 (Czechoslovakia), October 9, 18, and 31 (East Germany), October 18 and 23 (Hungary).
• October 3 and November 1 (GDR and Czechoslovakia), November 7 (US and East Germany), November 9 (Germany), November 10 (Bulgaria), November 15 (Brazil), November 15 (Poland), November 16 (El Salvador and South Africa), November 17 Czechoslovakia).
• December 1 (Vatican and GDR), December 3 (GDR and Malta), December 7 (Czechoslovakia and Lithuania), December 10 (Czechoslovakia and Mongolia), December 14 (Chile), December 17, 21, 22, 23, 25 (Romania), December 29 (Czechoslovakia).

Then also look for what happened on December 26, 1991.

After doing that, look at chapter 3 of CA (pars. 22-29).  Summarize it in 300 words, and post your summary here.

Week 6 Spring

For this week, pick the chapters from this book (The Essential Drucker) that you would like to read with the class.  Pick as many or as few as you would like.  Perhaps picking 5 chapters is a reasonable number.

What chapters look like the will be useful in your life?  What chapters seem to resonate with your life today?  You might want to ask your parents or other people to look through the Table of Contents and help you pick the most valuable chapters.

As a class, we'll pick the chapters that we'll read.  I'll schedule the reading so that its reasonable.  We'll take as long as we need.  I imagine we might end up reading 10 chapters altogether.

When you have picked them, post your choices as a comment here.  Try to explain your choices: why those chapters?

Week 5 Spring

Go to http://news.google.com and click on "Business" on the left side of the screen.  Once more, click on something that seems related to Economic Recovery: something that has to do with employment, wages, consumer confidence, etc.

Then write about it.  Don't use a story that has been used by someone else.  

• 100 words minimum, 200 words maximum. 

• Be clear, concise, concrete, and complete. 

• Put the URL (web link) of the news story on the post.

Put your write-up as a "comment" to this post (so that it's well organized and everyone can see it) before Monday, February 18, 11:59pm.  Then you're done!

Week 4 Spring

Go to http://news.google.com and click on "Business" on the left side of the screen.  Once more, click on something that seems related to the Financial Market: something that has to do with banks, stocks, bonds, lending, depositing, interest rates, etc.

Then write about it.  Don't use a story that has been used by someone else.  

• 100 words minimum, 200 words maximum. 

• Be clear, concise, concrete, and complete. 

• Put the URL (web link) of the news story on the post.

Put your write-up as a "comment" to this post (so that it's well organized and everyone can see it) before Monday, February 11, 11:59pm.  Then you're done!

Week 3 Spring

Go to http://news.google.com and click on "Business" on the left side of the screen.  Click on something that seems related to the Financial Market: something that has to do with banks, stocks, bonds, lending, depositing, interest rates, etc.

Then write about it.  Don't use a story that has been used by someone else.  

• 100 words minimum, 200 words maximum. 

• Be clear, concise, concrete, and complete. 

• Put the URL (web link) of the news story on the post.

Put your write-up as a "comment" to this post (so that it's well organized and everyone can see it) before Monday, February 4, 11:59pm.  Then you're done!

Week 2 Spring

Go to http://news.google.com and click on "Business" on the left side of the screen.  Click on something that seems related to Supply or Demand.  That is, look for an article that a) specifically deals with some product or service b) that has experienced a change in producers' ability to produce or buyers' willingness to purchase.  Make a note if there has been a change in the price.

Then write about it.  Don't use a story that has been used by someone else.  

• 100 words minimum, 200 words maximum. 

• Be clear, concise, concrete, and complete. 

• Put the URL (web link) of the news story on the post.

Put your write-up as a "comment" to this post (so that it's well organized and everyone can see it) before Monday, January 28, 11:59pm.  Then you're done!

Week 1 Spring

Go to http://news.google.com and search for “economy”.  Click on something that seems interesting to you and write about it.  Don't use a story that has been used by someone else.  

• 100 words minimum, 200 words maximum. 

• Be clear, concise, concrete, and complete. 

• Put the URL (web link) of the news story on the post.

Put your write-up as a "comment" to this post (so that it's well organized and everyone can see it) before Monday, January 21, 11:59pm.  Then you're done!