National Public Radio
Can a bad diet make you go blind? Researchers in the U.K. say a 14-year-old boy has suffered permanent vision loss after years of eating Pringles potato chips, French fries, white bread and some processed pork products. Turns out the boy's highly limited daily diet — lacking in healthy foods, vitamins and minerals — had led to a rare case of optic neuropathy.
Hong Kong
Protesters react after police fired teargas near government headquarters. Thousands of pro-democracy protesters defied a police ban on rallying in Hong Kong, the day after several leading activists and lawmakers were arrested in a sweeping crackdown.
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South Africa’s Ndlovu Youth Choir isn’t hiding its love for Ed Sheeran’s “Shape of You.” Check out the group’s version of his chart-topper, along with flutist Wouter Kellerman.
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Due for everyone by the close of class today: Yesterday's text-based responses the article "The Fourth Estate as the Final Check". Thank you to all of those who already turned this in.
Due: Thursday, September 12 signed criteria sheet homework grade
In class: Proust Questionnaire.
If you have turned in all the paperwork, you will be collecting your chromebook today.
In the meantime, begin completing the Proust Questionaire. I hope that this will be the last item we complete on hard copy. (class handout/ copy below).
I would like to try something a bit more creative in the getting-to-know-you category. Below you will see The Proust Questionnaire.
Please, take your time. Your responses should be fluid and grammatically correct. However, they may be witty and imaginative. Tasty bits might be shared on the blog. Please complete on a separate sheet of paper, making sure your responses can stand independently, so that anyone may infer the question. Thank you.
The Proust Questionnaire
Marcel Proust 10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French noelist, critic and essayist best known for his monumental À la Recherche du Temps Perdu (In Search of Lost Time- earlier translated as Remembrance of Things Past). It was published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927. In the back pages of Vanity Fair magazine each month, readers find The Proust Questionnaire, a series of questions posed to famous subjects about their lives, thoughts, values and experience. As a way of getting to know you, and by extension each other, please read and respond to the following questions. They are from a party game the young Proust played at the age of 13. As with this writer, the questions give insight into character and life beliefs. Take your time and reflect. These should not be extended responses, but make them full sentences. Humor and wit are welcomed.
1. What is your idea of perfect happiness?
2. What is your greatest fear?
3. What is your greatest extravagance?
4. What is your current state of mind?
5. What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
6. On what occasion do you lie?
7. What do you dislike most about your appearance?
8. What is the quality you most like in a woman? Man?
9. Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
10. When and where were you happiest?
11. Which talent would you most like to have?
12. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
13. What do you consider your greatest achievement?
14. What is your most treasured possession?
15. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
16. What do you most value in your friends?
17. What historical figure do you most identify with?
18. What is your favorite hero of fiction?
19. What is it that you most dislike?
20. How would you like to die?
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