Splash Biography
DAVID ROONEY, Cornell student
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Major: ILR College/Employer: Cornell Year of Graduation: 2018 |
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Brief Biographical Sketch:
Male Cornell Sophomore; born in Ireland, live in LI, NY last few years Past Classes(Clicking a class title will bring you to the course's section of the corresponding course catalog)H370: Species-ism? in Splash Spring 17 (Apr. 29, 2017)
Why do humans love some animals but eat other ones? Is it moral to consume animal products? Can we consider Specie-ism an ism on the plane of racism or sexism? This course hopes to cover the most groundbreaking question in philosophy since Plato- the question of what it means to be human in the world and how that line we draw around ourselves affects us.
H76: Species-ism? in Splash Spring 2015 (Apr. 18, 2015)
Why do humans love some animals but eat other ones? Is it moral to consume animal products? Can we consider Specie-ism an ism on the plane of racism or sexism? This course hopes to cover the most groundbreaking question in philosophy since Plato- the question of what it means to be human in the world and how that line we draw around ourselves affects us.
H79: Reagan's War- the Rise of the Prison State in Splash Spring 2015 (Apr. 18, 2015)
We'll examine the development of the industrial prison complex through the War on Drugs to the modern age of hyper incarceration to understand the way the prison system has become the new means of racial segregation. We will also examine the way the racialized imprisonment has infected modern culture and society, even shaping unconscious bias of what criminality is
H23: Species-ism? in Splash Fall 2014 (Oct. 18, 2014)
Why do humans love some animals but eat other ones? Is it moral to consume animal products? Can we consider Specie-ism an ism on the plane of racism or sexism? This course hopes to cover the most groundbreaking question in philosophy since Plato- the question of what it means to be human in the world and how that line we draw around ourselves affects us.
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