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				<title>James Wu wrote a new blog post Final exam essay now available on Blackboard in the group Prof. James Wu_BMCC_Spring2020_English101-Section0815</title>
				<link>https://openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu/prof-james-wu_bmcc_spring2020_english101-section0815/?p=230</link>
				<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2020 13:19:19 -0400</pubDate>

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				<title>James Wu wrote a new blog post Article on meat supply disruption in the group Prof. James Wu_BMCC_Spring2020_English101-Section0815</title>
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				<title>James Wu wrote a new blog post Articles on meat packing industry in coronavirus pandemic, related to &#034;Omnivore&#039;s Dilemma&#034; and &#034;Consider the Lobster.&#034; in the group Prof. James Wu_BMCC_Spring2020_English101-Section0815</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2020 17:36:55 -0400</pubDate>

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<p>And here&#8217;s an new article from April 28th.</p>
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				<title>James Wu wrote a new blog post Possible argument for thesis supporting eating meat. in the group Prof. James Wu_BMCC_Spring2020_English101-Section0815</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2020 14:28:06 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Please post your thesis and argument on your personal food choices.  You can do this briefly on the blog.  The purpose is to make a rational argument for yourself in the present.  Of course, in the future, you ma [&hellip;]</p>
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				<title>James Wu wrote a new blog post Thesis 1, 2, and 3. in the group Prof. James Wu_BMCC_Spring2020_English101-Section0815</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2020 13:07:41 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> 	 Pollen&#8217;s thesis regarding what he calls the &#8220;omnivore&#8217;s dilemma.&#8221;<br />
 	  Wallace&#8217;s thesis in &#8220;Consider the Lobster.&#8221;<br />
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				<title>James Wu wrote a new blog post Consider the lobster. in the group Prof. James Wu_BMCC_Spring2020_English101-Section0815</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2020 16:28:06 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Write a short reflection on the reading.  What is the author&#8217;s thesis?  What is your thesis on the matter?</p>
<p>Do you think about the cruelty to animals that you eat or do not eat?</p>
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				<title>James Wu wrote a new blog post Consider the lobster:  Videos of cooking live lobsters in the group Prof. James Wu_BMCC_Spring2020_English101-Section0815</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2020 16:25:21 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>These videos may be upsetting, so don&#8217;t watch them if you don&#8217;t want to.</p>
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				<title>James Wu wrote a new blog post Vocab for Pollan in the group Prof. James Wu_BMCC_Spring2020_English101-Section0815</title>
				<link>https://openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu/prof-james-wu_bmcc_spring2020_english101-section0815/?p=214</link>
				<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2020 12:31:50 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> 	Dilemma —<br />
a dilemma is when a difficult choice has to be made between at least two possibilities,<br />
usually equally undesirable possibilities<br />
 	Omnivore —<br />
a person or animal that can eat both plants and ani [&hellip;]</p>
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				<title>James Wu wrote a new blog post Here&#039;s a &#034;multi-modal text.&#034; in the group Prof. James Wu_BMCC_Spring2020_English101-Section0815</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2020 12:06:53 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This &#8220;text&#8221; presents information on the infection rate of the corona-virus in the different states of the U.S.  It does not show the total number of cases in each state.</p>
<p>Take a look and ask yourself:  what do w [&hellip;]</p>
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				<title>James Wu wrote a new blog post Article on how countries can prevent spread of pandemic and other articles from media worth reading in the group Prof. James Wu_BMCC_Spring2020_English101-Section0815</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2020 11:46:57 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is an interesting article on successful strategies for countries to control the corona virus spread.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Here is an article on a person who wrote a blog from Wuhan in China.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>And here&#8217;s an article o [&hellip;]</p>
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				<title>James Wu wrote a new blog post First reflections on Pollan&#039;s concept of Omnivore&#039;s Dilemma in the group Prof. James Wu_BMCC_Spring2020_English101-Section0815</title>
				<link>https://openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu/prof-james-wu_bmcc_spring2020_english101-section0815/?p=206</link>
				<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2020 12:58:34 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What is the concept of the &#8220;omnivore&#8217;s dilemma&#8221;?  Look at the definitions of the words.  What is the hard choice?</p>
<p>What are the economic conditions that Pollan&#8217;s argument takes for granted?  How has modern te [&hellip;]</p>
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				<title>Peter Kraljic Jr. joined the group Prof. James Wu_BMCC_Spring2020_English101-Section0815</title>
				<link>https://openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu/activity/p/13803/</link>
				<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2020 13:30:18 -0400</pubDate>

				
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				<title>James Wu wrote a new blog post Wilentz says that the abolition of slavery was NOT inevitable. in the group Prof. James Wu_BMCC_Spring2020_English101-Section0815</title>
				<link>https://openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu/prof-james-wu_bmcc_spring2020_english101-section0815/?p=203</link>
				<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2020 21:13:51 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Against slavery’s millennia, the struggle to abolish it came abruptly. By the end of the succeeding century, against slavery’s immense and unyielding power, it had largely succeeded. As a spiritual as wel [&hellip;]</p>
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				<title>James Wu wrote a new blog post Readings and links on Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln for research review in the group Prof. James Wu_BMCC_Spring2020_English101-Section0815</title>
				<link>https://openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu/prof-james-wu_bmcc_spring2020_english101-section0815/?p=196</link>
				<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2020 21:30:56 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Douglass, Frederick.  &#8220;Learning to Read and Write.&#8221;</p>
<p>Douglass, Frederick.  &#8220;Secession and War,&#8221; in which he recounts advising President Lincoln during the war on recruiting for the African-American b [&hellip;]</p>
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				<title>James Wu wrote a new blog post Link to Wilentz&#039;s article. in the group Prof. James Wu_BMCC_Spring2020_English101-Section0815</title>
				<link>https://openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu/prof-james-wu_bmcc_spring2020_english101-section0815/?p=191</link>
				<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2020 14:20:30 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here&#8217;s another link to Wilentz.</p>
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				<title>James Wu wrote a new blog post Video:  What is a virus?  Virus distinguished from bacteria. in the group Prof. James Wu_BMCC_Spring2020_English101-Section0815</title>
				<link>https://openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu/prof-james-wu_bmcc_spring2020_english101-section0815/?p=189</link>
				<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2020 12:48:45 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This may be useful.  Knowledge is power.</p>
<p>Please reflect upon this information.  Does it change your thought process on the current health crisis?  What other sources of information can you pu [&hellip;]</p>
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				<title>James Wu wrote a new blog post Frederick Douglass.  Please reflect on and comment, in relation to Hannah-Jones and Wilentz. in the group Prof. James Wu_BMCC_Spring2020_English101-Section0815</title>
				<link>https://openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu/prof-james-wu_bmcc_spring2020_english101-section0815/?p=187</link>
				<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2020 12:50:41 -0400</pubDate>

				
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				<title>James Wu wrote a new blog post A student writes about Lincoln, Hannah-Jones, and Professor Medford&#039;s lecture in the group Prof. James Wu_BMCC_Spring2020_English101-Section0815</title>
				<link>https://openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu/prof-james-wu_bmcc_spring2020_english101-section0815/?p=185</link>
				<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2020 21:52:34 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;After viewing (Professor Medford&#8217;s lecture on video), it didn’t really change my viewing of Wilentz but it did make me look more closely into Hannah Jones’ writing in the “The 1619 Project”. In her writing [&hellip;]</p>
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				<title>James Wu wrote a new blog post On writing. in the group Prof. James Wu_BMCC_Spring2020_English101-Section0815</title>
				<link>https://openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu/prof-james-wu_bmcc_spring2020_english101-section0815/?p=183</link>
				<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2020 13:14:15 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wrote this email to a Scott M., in our class.  But it applies to all of us, including myself.<br />
On your posts.  Try to review and edit one of your posts.  You do have something to say, and you say it.  Gre [&hellip;]</p>
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				<title>James Wu wrote a new blog post Professor Edna Greene Medford, &#034;Abraham Lincoln and Emancipation&#034; in the group Prof. James Wu_BMCC_Spring2020_English101-Section0815</title>
				<link>https://openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu/prof-james-wu_bmcc_spring2020_english101-section0815/?p=181</link>
				<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2020 23:28:31 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Super informative lecture.  Please view and discuss in your reflection.  What did you learn that you didn&#8217;t know before?  How does this change your thinking on Hannah-Jones and Wilentz?</p>
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				<title>James Wu wrote a new blog post The main disagreement between Hannah-Jones and Wilentz in the group Prof. James Wu_BMCC_Spring2020_English101-Section0815</title>
				<link>https://openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu/prof-james-wu_bmcc_spring2020_english101-section0815/?p=179</link>
				<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2020 21:59:12 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hannah-Jones and Wilentz</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Hannah-Jones, p 18.</p>
<p>“Yet in making the argument against Britain’s tyranny, one of the colonists’ favorite rhetorical devices was to claim that they were the slaves — to Britain. [&hellip;]</p>
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				<title>James Wu wrote a new blog post What genre would you call this article on the viral epidemic? in the group Prof. James Wu_BMCC_Spring2020_English101-Section0815</title>
				<link>https://openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu/prof-james-wu_bmcc_spring2020_english101-section0815/?p=176</link>
				<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2020 01:32:08 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s a more creative genre, but as far as I know, the facts of the scenario are a possible case.  Feel free to comment.</p>
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				<title>James Wu wrote a new blog post Excellent source of information on health crisis. in the group Prof. James Wu_BMCC_Spring2020_English101-Section0815</title>
				<link>https://openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu/prof-james-wu_bmcc_spring2020_english101-section0815/?p=172</link>
				<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2020 16:59:45 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This person is a PhD in nursing, I believe, retired in north of England.</p>
<p>He posts a video daily.</p>
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				<title>Malikye Wright wrote a new blog post Here&#039;s a podcast from a guy named Daniel with a different perspective on Covid-19. in the group Prof. James Wu_BMCC_Spring2020_English101-Section0815</title>
				<link>https://openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu/prof-james-wu_bmcc_spring2020_english101-section0815/?p=169</link>
				<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2020 14:41:47 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do any of you agree on his views on this current situation? I recommend watching a few more of his videos to get an idea of how this effected china and his family.</p>
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				<title>Malikye Wright wrote a new blog post Bill Gates Ted Talk on how we aren&#039;t ready for the next outbreak. in the group Prof. James Wu_BMCC_Spring2020_English101-Section0815</title>
				<link>https://openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu/prof-james-wu_bmcc_spring2020_english101-section0815/?p=167</link>
				<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2020 14:34:07 -0400</pubDate>

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				<title>Malikye Wright joined the group Prof. James Wu_BMCC_Spring2020_English101-Section0815</title>
				<link>https://openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu/activity/p/11654/</link>
				<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2020 14:27:57 -0400</pubDate>

				
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				<title>Nadia joined the group Prof. James Wu_BMCC_Spring2020_English101-Section0815</title>
				<link>https://openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu/activity/p/11638/</link>
				<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2020 12:21:18 -0400</pubDate>

				
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				<title>James Wu wrote a new blog post &#034;Selma&#034; (2014) in the group Prof. James Wu_BMCC_Spring2020_English101-Section0815</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2020 02:40:32 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Although the Civil Rights Act of 1964 legally desegregated the South, discrimination was still rampant in certain areas, making it very difficult for blacks to register to vote. In 1965, an Alabama city became [&hellip;]</p>
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				<title>James Wu wrote a new blog post &#034;I’m 26. Coronavirus Sent Me to the Hospital.&#034; in the group Prof. James Wu_BMCC_Spring2020_English101-Section0815</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2020 02:22:29 -0400</pubDate>

				
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				<title>James Wu wrote a new blog post Research as Inquiry.  Research review paper. Please read carefully, and check out the articles linked. in the group Prof. James Wu_BMCC_Spring2020_English101-Section0815</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2020 21:05:48 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Total word count 2o00-2500 words.  Due April 7, before your spring break.     Note however due to emergency circumstances of this semester, I will grade accordingly and give you as much credit as possible for all [&hellip;]</p>
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				<title>James Wu wrote a new blog post What is a virus?  New article on novel corona virus-19 in the group Prof. James Wu_BMCC_Spring2020_English101-Section0815</title>
				<link>https://openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu/prof-james-wu_bmcc_spring2020_english101-section0815/?p=153</link>
				<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2020 16:49:25 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This article was published today on the Washington Post website.  An excellent introduction on how viruses work.</p>
<p>Feel free to comment using best practices for online writing.  What is a virus?</p>
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				<title>James Wu wrote a new blog post An excellent article on Novel Corona Virus 19 for BMCC 8am class in the group Prof. James Wu_BMCC_Spring2020_English101-Section0815</title>
				<link>https://openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu/prof-james-wu_bmcc_spring2020_english101-section0815/?p=151</link>
				<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2020 13:20:20 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For those of you interested in the ongoing health crisis, it’s absolutely necessary to understand the biology of the virus.</p>
<p>Feel free to comment and reflect, perhaps on language that clarifies and states p [&hellip;]</p>
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				<title>James Wu wrote a new blog post Vanessa R. writes: in the group Prof. James Wu_BMCC_Spring2020_English101-Section0815</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2020 21:07:52 -0400</pubDate>

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<p>We definitely have the power as a human to make history, if there wasn&#8217;t no human in this world it wouldn&#8217;t be a world because us humans make everything in this world, we make conversation and we know what [&hellip;]</p>
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				<title>James Wu wrote a new blog post Reflections on the current epidemic in the group Prof. James Wu_BMCC_Spring2020_English101-Section0815</title>
				<link>https://openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu/prof-james-wu_bmcc_spring2020_english101-section0815/?p=147</link>
				<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2020 15:59:08 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Post your reflections on the current health epidemic.  Please use best practices for writing on line.  Fact check conspiracy theories.  Evaluate news sources.  Take the time to read and understand scientific inf [&hellip;]</p>
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				<title>James Wu wrote a new blog post Selines A.&#039;s comment on Hannah Jones.  Comment, politely and use best practices writing style and method. in the group Prof. James Wu_BMCC_Spring2020_English101-Section0815</title>
				<link>https://openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu/prof-james-wu_bmcc_spring2020_english101-section0815/?p=141</link>
				<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:46:43 -0400</pubDate>

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<p>Hannah Jones Reflection (by Selines A.)</p>
<p>Question 6:</p>
<p>Based on the Hannah-Jones, back in the 1940s, Mississippi was an apartheid state and defeated majority of the black population through horrific [&hellip;]</p>
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				<title>James Wu wrote a new blog post This OpenLab site, specifically this &#034;Posts&#034; section will be the main space for the online course. in the group Prof. James Wu_BMCC_Spring2020_English101-Section0815</title>
				<link>https://openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu/prof-james-wu_bmcc_spring2020_english101-section0815/?p=135</link>
				<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:38:25 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We will focus our writing on learning how to write more effectively online.</p>
<p>For participation and &#8220;attendance&#8221; please post at least 2 comments/new posts per week.</p>
<p>You can respond to any of the previous [&hellip;]</p>
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				<title>James Wu wrote a new blog post Zoom meeting 9am, today, Thursday the 19th in the group Prof. James Wu_BMCC_Spring2020_English101-Section0815</title>
				<link>https://openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu/prof-james-wu_bmcc_spring2020_english101-section0815/?p=131</link>
				<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2020 12:32:30 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Please go to:</p>
<p>and navigate.  I have tried to make this open without password.  You may need to join Zoom bmcc with your bmcc email address.  If it does&#8217;t work, please read this blog posting site as we will do mo [&hellip;]</p>
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				<title>James Wu wrote a new blog post Historical context of Hannah-Jones and Wilentz. in the group Prof. James Wu_BMCC_Spring2020_English101-Section0815</title>
				<link>https://openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu/prof-james-wu_bmcc_spring2020_english101-section0815/?p=128</link>
				<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2020 16:08:02 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The larger historical picture.</p>
<p>We can see 3 periods of American history in the context of racism.</p>
<p> 	 The 1776 period, the  1st founding.  Here, the founders of the USA, breaking away from the En [&hellip;]</p>
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				<title>James Wu wrote a new blog post On Wilentz. in the group Prof. James Wu_BMCC_Spring2020_English101-Section0815</title>
				<link>https://openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu/prof-james-wu_bmcc_spring2020_english101-section0815/?p=124</link>
				<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2020 15:59:50 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What do you think about Wilentz’s concept of “relentless unforeseen,”  that we do not know what our actions will lead to, and that throughout the 1776 period and the 1865 period, people white and black did not kn [&hellip;]</p>
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				<title>James Wu wrote a new blog post We are going to try to have the discussion on this blog. in the group Prof. James Wu_BMCC_Spring2020_English101-Section0815</title>
				<link>https://openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu/prof-james-wu_bmcc_spring2020_english101-section0815/?p=122</link>
				<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2020 15:55:03 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes, I will have new readings each week and we will be doing short reflections on them.</p>
<p>You should check this blog throughout the week, as I respond to your questions and reflections.</p>
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				<title>Shaina Guinansaca joined the group Prof. James Wu_BMCC_Spring2020_English101-Section0815</title>
				<link>https://openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu/activity/p/10485/</link>
				<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2020 15:36:22 -0400</pubDate>

				
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				<title>James Wu wrote a new blog post Live on blog now in the group Prof. James Wu_BMCC_Spring2020_English101-Section0815</title>
				<link>https://openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu/prof-james-wu_bmcc_spring2020_english101-section0815/?p=116</link>
				<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2020 15:29:49 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good morning.</p>
<p>As I understand things, we are having this class now online.  So starting Thursday, I would like to have one reflection per class day, Tues and Thursday.  You can get it in by the afternoon, t [&hellip;]</p>
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				<title>Jean Muy joined the group Prof. James Wu_BMCC_Spring2020_English101-Section0815</title>
				<link>https://openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu/activity/p/10330/</link>
				<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2020 19:46:23 -0400</pubDate>

				
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				<title>Julner Celestin joined the group Prof. James Wu_BMCC_Spring2020_English101-Section0815</title>
				<link>https://openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu/activity/p/10288/</link>
				<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2020 17:20:20 -0400</pubDate>

				
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				<title>James Wu wrote a new blog post I will be live on this blog on Tuesday 11:30-12:30 (office hour) in the group Prof. James Wu_BMCC_Spring2020_English101-Section0815</title>
				<link>https://openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu/prof-james-wu_bmcc_spring2020_english101-section0815/?p=114</link>
				<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2020 20:08:31 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Please post or comment or email me at <a href="mailto:jwu@bmcc.cuny.edu" rel="nofollow ugc">jwu@bmcc.cuny.edu</a> and I will respond.  Please be patient and write your comments efficiently for this type and genre of writing.  Also be respectful of other students.</p>
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				<title>James Wu wrote a new blog post Comments on Wilentz (first 19 paragraphs). Write a reflection, 400-600 words, on Wilentz in relation to Hannah-Jones. in the group Prof. James Wu_BMCC_Spring2020_English101-Section0815</title>
				<link>https://openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu/prof-james-wu_bmcc_spring2020_english101-section0815/?p=110</link>
				<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2020 17:33:04 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> 	Was abolition of slavery inevitable according to Wilentz?  “Inevitable”–means it had to happen and could not have not happened.   What does he mean by “relentless unforeseen?”  Does this agree or disagree with [&hellip;]</p>
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				<title>Giselle Alexander started the topic My thoughts on &#034;After All, didnt American Invent Slavery&#034; in the forum Prof. James Wu_BMCC_Spring2020_English101-Section0815</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2020 01:42:22 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>My thoughts on this article:</strong> Though Lindsay makes a point about &#8221; America not starting slavery&#8221; and how slavery was something that been going on for 9,000+ years, I feel like Lindsay is not taking into account the impact African Slave trade had, however, I could be wrong. This is also me not saying that the people that were non-black was not as&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-9741"><a href="https://openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu/groups/prof-james-wu_bmcc_spring2020_english101-section0815/forum/topic/my-thoughts-on-after-all-didnt-american-invent-slavery/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>James Wu wrote a new blog post Yes, post your reflections here. in the group Prof. James Wu_BMCC_Spring2020_English101-Section0815</title>
				<link>https://openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu/prof-james-wu_bmcc_spring2020_english101-section0815/?p=107</link>
				<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:59:41 -0400</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Post your reflections on Hannah-Jones, Magness, Lindsay, now.  You can use &#8220;Leave comment here.&#8221;  By Tuesday morning, review the other students&#8217; posts and make a comment or two.  Please be respectful and lo [&hellip;]</p>
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				<title>Sina pahari joined the group Prof. James Wu_BMCC_Spring2020_English101-Section0815</title>
				<link>https://openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu/activity/p/9576/</link>
				<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2020 22:42:51 -0400</pubDate>

				
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				<title>Giselle Alexander joined the group Prof. James Wu_BMCC_Spring2020_English101-Section0815</title>
				<link>https://openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu/activity/p/9567/</link>
				<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2020 21:39:46 -0400</pubDate>

				
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