Annotated Bibliography

Davidson, Cathy. “Project Classroom Makeover.” The New Humanities Reader. Ed. Richard E.

Miller and Kurt Spellmeyer. Cengage Learning, 2015, 2012, 2009. 48-68. Print.

"Project Classroom Makeover" is centered on the idea of a new way of learning. Rather than the conventional strategy in which people study to become experts, Davidson introduces crowd sourcing in which one receives information from the collection of opinions rather than expertise. She proposes an experiment conducted at Duke University in which students were granted iPods in order to connect with one another by themselves.

"Easton '09, Rutherford '12 Win Marshall Scholarship." The Daily Princetonian Easton 09 Rutherford           12 Win Marshall Scholarship Comments. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Oct. 2016.

         Essentially, the author focuses on the idea of the recruitment of students for colleges. Each student discussed had their own story to how they got the recruitment. It shows how everyone got their own path in life and it shows how much it takes for them to achieve where they got. It puts the recruitment process in real life examples that we can all relate to.

 Engels, Frederick. "The Condition of the Working Class in England." Conditions of the Working-

        Class in England Index. N.p., n.d. Web. 20 Oct. 2016.

      The source focuses on the conditions of England in older times. The book was written based off of an England in the 1800s that was booming in  an industrial time. He goes into emphasis on how the social classes worked in England and immigration and basically mos topics that affect the economy in England. He mentions the city of Manchester at one point because of its amazing social structure since it is a city built with no government. Engel tries to be informational in his book and tries to give examples of daily life in England like how men live in London. 

Ho, Karen. Biographies of Hegemony. The New Humanities Reader. Ed. Richard E.

Miller and Kurt Spellmeyer. Cengage Learning, 2015, 2012, 2009. 165-186. Print.

             Karen Ho's essay highlights the effects of hegemony within Wall-Street and its effects on other institutions such as the Ivy's, as well as its effects on society as a whole and the people within the institutions themselves. Emphasizing the ideology of conformity, and stigma building through propagated means, Ho truly provides insight into an "elite" society, created and cemented within our economic and educational system, as well as highlighting its flaws. Karen Ho achieves this by utilizing real life experience, as well as interpersonal connections with Wall-Street brokers, to truly emphasize the fact that they set their own standards, and have created a status quo.

Johnson, Steven. “The Myth of the Ant Queen.” The New Humanities Reader. Ed. Richard E. 

Miller and Kurt Spellmeyer. Cengage Learning, 2015, 2012, 2009. 193-207. Print.

"The Myth of the Ant Queen" centers on the concept of communities created without a formal leader. This system is known as a self-organizing system; a system where there are no pacemakers to control to the social movements of the society. The individuals of the society are all independent and somehow form social patterns that can be explained through geometry just through nature.