Copyright (c) 2009 All rights reserved. http://works.bepress.com/smarx Recent documents in Steven Marx en-us Sun, 31 May 2009 12:05:53 PDT 3600 http://works.bepress.com/smarx/13 http://works.bepress.com/smarx/13 Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:21:52 PST Steven Marx Articles http://works.bepress.com/smarx/12 http://works.bepress.com/smarx/12 Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:14:29 PST Steven Marx Articles http://works.bepress.com/smarx/11 http://works.bepress.com/smarx/11 Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:14:25 PST Steven Marx Articles http://works.bepress.com/smarx/9 http://works.bepress.com/smarx/9 Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:14:17 PST Steven Marx Articles http://works.bepress.com/smarx/8 http://works.bepress.com/smarx/8 Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:14:13 PST Steven Marx Articles http://works.bepress.com/smarx/10 http://works.bepress.com/smarx/10 Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:12:47 PST Steven Marx Articles http://works.bepress.com/smarx/7 http://works.bepress.com/smarx/7 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:20:00 PDT An essential element of Ecocomposition is local knowledge-engagement with one's own particular place and time. Preparation for Ecocomposition requires teachers to be interested in their surroundings--the academic institution as not an ivory tower, but rather a physical, economic and political entity in history, situated on the land and in the community. This paper describes two first-year writing courses, "Exposition: Writing About Place," and "Reasoning and Argumentation: Issues of Sustainability with special reference to the Cal Poly Campus," that combine students' skill development in analysis, exposition and persuasion with learning about the physical and educational dimensions of their university. Steven Marx Curriculum and Research http://works.bepress.com/smarx/6 http://works.bepress.com/smarx/6 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:37:29 PDT Steven Marx Articles http://works.bepress.com/smarx/5 http://works.bepress.com/smarx/5 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:37:25 PDT Steven Marx Articles http://works.bepress.com/smarx/4 http://works.bepress.com/smarx/4 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:55:18 PST The question of war or peace troubled sixteenth and seventeenth century Europe as much as it troubles our own time. Organized violence-the systematic infliction of irrevocable harm upon one group of human beings by another-was the activity by which the modern nation-state originated, defined itself, rose and fell. During those centuries, most Europeans affirmed, or at least accepted war as the final arbiter of what happened in history. But a significant minority, whether because of inner illumination, abstract reasoning, or the outcome of experience, disputed the primacy of war, maintaining that organized violence was intrinsically evil and that its purposed benefits rarely outweighed its costs. This debate between war and peace influenced the policies of princes, the exhortations of divines, and the speculations of philosophers as well as the daily thoughts of citizens. It also shaped the imaginative productions of artists and writers throughout the early modern period. Steven Marx Articles