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Mood

3/16/2020

 
Was that it? Was that the Jupiter show?
It kinda wasn't quite what I'd hoped for you know..."
And pulling away she stands up slow
And round her the night turns
Round her the night turns...

Emailed about HIS-OL Tests - HIS-DOL Classes Updated!

3/16/2020

 
People who had trouble completing exams Tests 1-4 have been emailed.

Students emails had to be cross referenced to gradebooks and then to tests
(don't ask, its a bad canvas waaaay of doing things)


but this means the HIS-DOL classes are ready for the post-coronavirus situation.

HIS 101-DOL2

3/16/2020

 
Quiz 03,04, 05,06 due dates all updated.

Quiz 03 - extended from yesterday to 12April.

Quiz 4 should be available from today.

Quiz 05, 06 will be available to take the day after Test 2 is due.

gradebook grades changed from points to percentage to make it more understandable for the student

Accommodation time given to all quizzes for all students (now timer is 15m)

Right answer review - suspended for now until after test is due.

All quizzes dates, times, visibility, due dates and preview conducted.

Tests stay the same.  they are available for thursday -> sunday (due date).  if you have a scheduling conflict with the due date let me know BEFORE due date.  As soon as you know.


Reminder - lowest quiz grade and lowest test grade dropped.  this means the canvas grade will be LOWER than the grade in my gradebook (about 3 points on average)




Calendar Updated

Office hours page updated.

HIS 101-DOL1

3/16/2020

 
Quiz 03,04, 05,06 due dates all updated.

Quiz 03 - extended from yesterday to 12April.

Quiz 4 should be available from today.

Quiz 05, 06 will be available to take the day after Test 2 is due.

gradebook grades changed from points to percentage to make it more understandable for the student

Accommodation time given to all quizzes for all students (now timer is 15m)

Right answer review - suspended for now until after test is due.

All quizzes dates, times, visibility, due dates and preview conducted.

Tests stay the same.  they are available for thursday -> sunday (due date).  if you have a scheduling conflict with the due date let me know BEFORE due date.  As soon as you know.


Reminder - lowest quiz grade and lowest test grade dropped.  this means the canvas grade will be LOWER than the grade in my gradebook (about 3 points on average)




Calendar Updated

Office hours page updated.

Every % of Unemployment 40,000 ppl die early

3/16/2020

 
Scene from the Big Short.  Why Capitalism + Disaster = Personal Catastrophe.
This is what we are looking at.
This is what I want you to understand,  
The effects are compounded - they lead down the road - they affect everything


The economy is crashing.
Hourly workers are going to loose their jobs
if the govt doesnt help (see French Revolution 102!) ppl will lose thier homes
Suicides will go up
homicides will go up
homelessness will rise
children will drop out of school and never recover that education
women will be physically and sexually abused at higher rates 
minorities will end up in jail for longer sentences
banks will foreclose on houses and credit cards
racism and misogyny goes up and fascism becomes more appealing (102!)

3% of 150 million people is 4.5 million ppl could die at the current rates of infection in europe.  there arent enough ventilators in the country, hospital beds, nursing aids to take care of the elderly (who die at 15% not 2-3% - which is the average)

Be Safe out there.  And Dont Dance over your good fortune.

Achilles Last Stand......

3/16/2020

 

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albion_(Blake) for some of the references to William Blake's Poetry

see also one of the Best William Blake References in Movies. 

"William Blake!"
"William Blake? What do you mean William Blake?"
​"I mean William Blake"

Dinner

3/16/2020

 
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Mood:

3/16/2020

 
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Mood: Chainsmokers - Paris

3/16/2020

 
If We go Down
We Go Down Together.

Important to Note: Girl in Bikini on Caribbean Beach is NOT Staying in Paris.  Below is Paris

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HIS 101_DOL Update

3/16/2020

 
Quiz 03,04, 05,06 due dates all updated.

Quiz 03 - extended from yesterday to 12April.

Quiz 4 should be available from today.

Quiz 05, 06 will be available to take the day after Test 2 is due.

gradebook grades changed from points to percentage to make it more understandable for the student

Accommodation time given to all quizzes for all students (now timer is 15m)

Right answer review - suspended for now until after test is due.

All quizzes dates, times, visibility, due dates and preview conducted.

Tests stay the same.  they are available for thursday -> sunday (due date).  if you have a scheduling conflict with the due date let me know BEFORE due date.  As soon as you know.


Reminder - lowest quiz grade and lowest test grade dropped.  this means the canvas grade will be LOWER than the grade in my gradebook (about 3 points on average)




Calendar Updated

Office hours page updated.

HIS 101_DOL, DOL1, DOL2

3/16/2020

 
All test Study Guides are now available for the rest of the semester​

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HIS 101-Onlines Only

3/16/2020

 
Updated Office Hours


Office Hours:


Cancelled due to Plague.


Be Safe.


Camden County College Classes Closed for Foreseeable future.  Offices remain open to register for classes for summer and fall semesters.




Little Patience

3/16/2020

 

HIS DOL, DOL1, DOL2

3/16/2020

 
Updated Calendar Dates


​​All Quizzes and Tests are due by 11.59.00pm of the due date.  All tests and quizzes will be available to take ("go live") day after previous assignments are due.
 
Due Dates:
 
 
2/9 - quiz 00 (syllabus)
 
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2/16 - quiz 1 (chapter 1)
 
2/23 - quiz 2 (chapter 2)
 
3/8 - test 1, test 2, test 3, test 4
 
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4/12 - quiz 3
 
4/12 - quiz 4
 
4/12 - test 5, test 6, test 7
 
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5/10  - quiz 5
 
5/10  - quiz 6
 
5/10 - test, 8, test 9, test 10, test 11
 

Mood

3/16/2020

 
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Ive been trying but man its hard.

3/16/2020

 
update:

Ive gotten started but man its hard.
terrible news everywhere
ignorant ppl not knowing whats happening.


I'm trying guys.  buts its slow.
every 10 minutes something new happens and its worse.

​

To do List in Action

3/16/2020

 
ok,

check this site for status updates as I go along.

Starting with:

HIS 101-OL
HIS 101-OL1
HIS 101-OL2

theres about 40 items to do for those classes to get them updated for the rest of the semester due to the corona virus.  


this involves updating the calendars
contacting students about test 1
maintenance on all quizzes, tests, study guides videos.


this should be a few hours.

100,000 ppl from disney world now heading home

3/16/2020

 
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dow jones down 10%
nasdaq down 8.6%

europe down 4-7%

100,000 people in #disneyworld are now heading home after crowding together without any testing, penned in for fireworks, shaking hands of cast members, and in general creating a plague outbreak.


​good luck people.

Whats on the To Do List Today.

3/16/2020

 
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Update For Students

2/24/2020

 

Please go to Canvas for most up to date
Documents
and videos

for the timebeing.


my.camdencc.edu

18 hours of work today

2/3/2020

 
remember future teachers:

those that can Do
​those that can't - dont teach because theres too much to do.
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New 101 Videos Up.

2/3/2020

 
5 new 101 videos are now up.  go HERE to check them out
they also appear on the Canvas class site which can be accessed by going to 
my.camdencc.edu

Title Card; Made in Canva

2/3/2020

 
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its a long way to tipperary

1/31/2020

 
with #brexit comes a United Ireland for the first time in 500 years.
the one shining good hope out of the brexit mess.

Awaiting #Brexit Countdown Clock to Brexit

1/31/2020

 
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watching the countdown to Brexit and the beginning of the end of the World War II (and certainly post 1991) liberal political order.

from here on in it will be something different - can it be put back together once the Boomers die out?  IDK.  but all it took was for the generation who made the political alliances to die out for the entire system to turn to quicksand.

​will europe break up
more wars in more places
civil wars in places that havent know it
wars of conquest once thought impossible
nationalism
racism

will it be the 19th century again?  the 17th?

Will anyone try to tame capitalism before it breaks more societies?   IDK
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    Christopher Gennari, Ph.D is a Full Professor of History at Camden County College.
     
    He received his doctorate in History from State University of New York at Stony Brook in 2010. 

    His Dissertation is titled "Invasion, Insurgency and Intervention: Sweden's Wars in Poland, Prussia and Denmark 1654-1658."  And was the first english language monograph on the topic of Charles X and Sweden's military actions from 1654-1660.

    The dissertation analyses Sweden's wars during the Second Northern War in which it won the initial war, fought a religiously inspired insurgency against their occupation, and then had to cope with the intervention of other states.

    He has published articles on the use of technology in archival research, the Construction of the Suffolk County Vietnam Veterans Memorial and several book reviews for academic journals.  

    He has presented papers at the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study Conferences on Swedish Counterinsurgency during the Second Northern War and on Swedish “Soft Power” during the reign of Charles X Gustav.  

    He has also presented papers on Soft Power in Game of Thrones at the MAPACA conference, and given a guest lecture on Sweden’s invasion of Poland in 1655 at NYMAS.  

    Recently he participated in a NEH Grant with the Community College of Philadelphia and the East-West Center – to bring more Asian Studies to Community Colleges.    





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