Here is essay D

Colleges and Universities A-Z Barnard College
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<p>here’s D, please read A-C first so you read them in the order Barnard will. Haha, thank you, I’m a little nuerotic about this… I love Barnard way too much…</p>

<p>D. If you could plan and lead a seminar on any subject, what topic would you chose and why?</p>

<pre><code>Course title: Camelot: The Importance of the Kennedys in the American Story

Instructor: Elizabeth W. Nicholas

“The lines Jack loved to hear were: ‘Don’t let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment that was Camelot’… There’ll be great presidents again…. But there’ll never be another Camelot…This was Camelot. Let’s not forget.”-Jacqueline Kennedy, December 1963

Purpose: This course will seek to explain why Camelot has become such an important construct of American history, and how various members of the Kennedy family have left their indelible marks on the collective American soul. Finally, the course will ask students how legend and the lives of the Kennedys can be used to create a more engaged and compassionate society.
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<p>The course will be taught in five sections, with each section structured around questions:
Section One: Why did John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy represent hope to so many people? Was it their policies? Their youth? Their phraseology? What sort of cultural vacuums existed in the late 1950s and 1960s that JFK and RFK could fill?
Section Two: What did the assassinations of JFK and RFK do to the spirit of America? What did the assassinations do to people on an individual level, and what did they do to the American political system and the ways in which politicians conducted campaigns and constructed platforms?
Section Three: How did the process in which America mourned JFK’s assassination (mass media coverage, Jackie’s stoicism, John-John’s salute, numerous retrospectives, the creation of the Camelot analogy) reshape American values, and what evidence have we seen of this in the 37 years since the assassination?
Section Four: How did the life, behavior, and mythology of Jackie Kennedy Onassis alter societal expectations of women, and women’s expectations of themselves? Would this have been different if Jackie had never married Aristotle Onassis?
Section Five: What can we do with the “Camelot” construct to foster civic engagement? Why does the American public need to believe that there was a Camelot, whether there really was one or not? How have the misfortunes, values, work and tragedies of other Kennedys such as John Jr. and Edward affected their family’s legend? Can the hope that Camelot embodied ever be replicated in the American political system, and if so, what would that take?</p>

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<p>gah, I just realized I posted B twice on the other post instead of C, here is C: </p>

<p>My International Relations course this semester began with my professor asking all of his students a simple question—Why war? One night in late October, as I sat in my dorm room reading differing interpretations of the causes of civil unrest in Lithuania during the twilight of the Soviet Union, I turned to a page with a photograph of a Lithuanian man with a rifle shoved up against his stomach by a Soviet soldier, and an expression of utter and unabated terror on his face. In his expression, I saw ashen children dead on the streets of Nagasaki, Vietnamese feet sticking out of rice paddies, firefighters running into the World Trade Center never to come out again, and the question ‘Why war?’ became an insufficiently concluded probe in my mind. As I stared angrily out my window, I thought, “Once we know why there is war, is it not our obligation to prevent war?” The Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations’ in New York City seeks both to understand the causes of war and to prevent it. If I could work for any organization or company, it would be the Center for Preventive Action because I believe that if we understand the causes of war then we understand the depravity of it, and in consequence we must feel urgently compelled to find alternatives to violent conflict. The center does research, writes articles and advises cabinet members, the President, the UN and many foreign officials on appropriate policy courses to take to reduce the likelihood of budding conflict. My political experience thus far has been on the domestic level, but if I am accepted to Barnard, I would like to work for the Center for Preventive Action, for their mission is at the heart of why I am a political science major—I believe that we can both understand the past and use that knowledge to alter the future to the benefit of humanity and the maintenance of peace worldwide.</p>

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<p>Ohh I like Essay C and your idea in Essay D but is it supposed to be in paragraph form? And more clearly define why you would want to teach about the Kennedys..</p>