12 Aug National Museum of American History
Subject to the note above, for this assignment, students will want to read and reference the following article.
- What Truth Looks Like, Bryan Appleyard, New Statesmen, 2018
In the article by Bryan Appleyard, the author examines Derek Parfit’s use of photography to explore morality. For this assignment, you will emulate Parfit’s search for morality through photography and the portrayal of images. Find or create an image, or two, and compose an essay of no less than 600 words in which you connect the assigned course readings on values, with an individual acting as an agent of moral change. Be certain to help your reader understand how your image captures this week’s lesson on individuals as agents of moral change. Be certain to share your image(s) on your assignment post.
ALL the references below are to be used for in-text citation inside the assignment as well as APA format for the references
- On the Nature of Citizenship, Andrew Oldenquist, Educational Leadership
- What Makes Us Moral, Jeffrey Kluger, Tiffany Sharples, Alexandra Silver, Time Magazine, 2007
- How We Learned to Put our Fate in One Another’s Hands, Michael Tomasello, Scientific American, 2018
- Why We Must Judge Roger Berkowitz
You can create your own photographs or find images from noted museums.
- National Museum of American History
- Welcome to the National Museum of American History, National Museum of American History, 2012
- Online Exhibitions, National Museum of American History
- Smithsonian Institute
- Exhibits Online, Smithsonian
- National Museum of African-American History & Culture
- Inside the National Museum of African American History and Culture, CBS This Morning, 2016
- Online Exhibitions, National Museum of African-American History & Culture
- Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
- The Collection, Museum of Modern Art
- American Jewish Historical Society (you will need to scroll to find the current exhibition)
- Exhibitions, American Jewish Historical Society
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Exhibitions, National Museum of the American Indian
- National Civil Rights Museum
- EXHIBITIONS, National Civil Rights Museum
- Japanese American National Museum
- Collections & Research, Japanese American National Museum
