Humanities teach students to think. Where would we be without them? Post in Guardian By Francine Prose . Posted 12/05/2017. Assessed 5/12/2019 The article tells us about humanities. Humanities are academic disciplines that learn aspects of human society and culture. The author pointed out that there is a plan to eliminate several of the college’s well-regarded departments. He gives a lot of examples of protest against the decision. Francine Prose tried to explain how important humanity is. Although there is a decrease of studying humanities, these sciences make people to be creative, to learn foreign nation and culture, to know yourself. First of all, people who learn humanities are more creative than techies. Such person is able to solve the problem in a completely new way. He adds just one original detail or absolutely change the concept of decision making. In communication creativity helps to overcome barriers and stereotypes. The humanity shows that t...
Essay 1 ( Article in Guardian ) By Oliver Milman. Posted 23.09.2019 Assessed 1.12.2019 I have chosen an article called “Greta Thunberg condemns world leaders in emotional speech at UN” The first reason for my choice is Greta Thunberg. She is really extraordinary child, who has a drive to talk about the environment issue. I wondered how this little kid worried about serious climate problems. Nowadays people can’t imagine their lives without plastic, because we use it probably every day. It makes our life convenient but we have to think about consequences. In comparison with enviroment in 50's, nature used to be in rather good conditions. In the article Greta Thunberg emphasizes that modern people think only about money, they don’t bother about ecosystems at all. There is a climate crisis; it leads to disastrous heat waves, flooding, droughts etc. The author points out that the activist has raised really important issue. As for me a br...