A collection of readings, images, video, audio, and teaching materials for the Kingsborough Community College College Now Humanities 100 Course.

This book was prepared for Project Gutenberg by Judith Boss and David Widger, last editin in March 2018. This edition has been made for Jason Nielsen's Intro to Literary Study at Queens College, Spring 2019.

The Heroic Slave is written by well-known author, publisher, and civil-rights activist, Frederick Douglass. The novella is Douglass' only published work of fiction, although the story borrows from the 1841 slave revolt aboard the brig Creole.
The work first appeared in 1852 as part of the anthology Autographs for Freedom, published by John P. Jewett and Co., in Boston, for the Rochester Ladies' Anti Slavery Society.This edition includes the full text of The Heroic Slave along with several documents to provide context for readers.

Python is an extremely readable and versatile programming language. Written in a relatively straightforward style with immediate feedback on errors, Python offers simplicity and versatility, in terms of extensibility and supported paradigms.

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is the autobiography of Harriet A. Jacobs, published in 1861 under the pen name Linda Brent. Well-known abolitionist Lydia Maria Child was invited by the publisher to write an introduction. Jacobs describes her life as a slave and how she gained freedom for herself and for her children.

This CUNY Student Edition of is intended to provide a free-to-use, reliable text for students and instructors. It is published under a Creative Commons license which allows almost unlimited free-use. The text is based on first edition, published in three volumes in 1847. CUNY Student editions are created and maintained by a community of student-scholars. Join them on GitHub: https://github.com/CUNY-Student-Editions

A copy of Leaves of Grass released by and found in Project Gutenberg.

The Letters of Jane Austen: Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne

Louisa May Alcott's classic story of the March sisters was originally published in 1868 and 1869 by Roberts Brothers, Boston. This text was prepared for Project Gutenberg in 2008 with last updates in 2010.

This course uses abstract representation (the production and interpretation of information using mathematical models such as formulas, graphs, tables, and schematics) and empirical analysis (the use of statistical inference, e.g., statistical modeling through sampling of populations or phenomena) to analyze data and draw statistically valid conclusions from that data.

You will find that Statistics is not like the traditional math courses you have taken previously. Statistics is a science – the science of obtaining and interpreting data and numbers. You should approach this course as you do a science course instead of a math course. Analyzing and interpreting data is a skill. We will look at three distinct areas of statistics: producing data, analyzing data, and making inferences from data. Even though we will study all three areas, the emphasis will be on data analysis and inferential statistics.

Una de las novelas cl‡sicas del romanticismo latinoamericano, Mar’a del colombiano Jorge Isaacs fue publicada en 1867. El intenso relato de amor entre Efra’n y Mar’a, enmarcado en la belleza y tenacidad del paisaje local, integra modelos estŽticos europeos a la realidad americana.

This course book is designed to foster an understanding of the various contexts in which music is heard. Examples drawn from diverse historical and geographical repertoires will cultivate an awareness of stylistic similarities and differences. Students develop skills as active listeners, learning the vocabulary necessary to describe this experience both verbally and in writing. The purpose of the course is to introduce students to preeminent classical composers, performers, genres and styles, and their historical context.

Frederick Douglass (1818Ð1895) was an abolitionist, orator, writer, and politician. He escaped from slavery in Maryland to became a national leader of the abolitionist movement. This, his first autobiography, details his life until his entrance on the national stage. It remains the most famous slave narrative.

This course will discuss the history of the development of the atomic bomb. Number of scientific breakthroughs in atomic and nuclear physics during 19-th and the first part of 20-th centuries led to possibility of the making of the atomic bomb. We also discuss the political context in which the bomb was developed, and personal stories of the leading scientist involved and corresponding moral issues arising from the development and use of the bomb. There is no development in modern history that has had more impact on man’s scientific, political, and moral consciousness than the making of the atomic bomb and its use against the Japanese at the end of WWII. It is a singularity of such power that its ultimate consequences for humanity are still beyond our perception. This course attempts to tell the story primarily from the point of view of the history of the science involved. Also the students will see the need for the integrated perspective in order to understand how science, political history, ethical values and personal motivations are interconnected in this story. To understand this story is to understand the complexities and responsibilities that have accompanied the emergence of modern society.

In a SERIES of FAMILIAR LETTERS from a beautiful young DAMSEL to her PARENTS. Now first published in order to cultivate the principles of VIRTUE and RELIGION in the minds of the YOUTH of BOTH SEXES. A narrative which has its foundation in TRUTH and NATURE; and at the same time that it agreeably entertains, by a VARIETY of curious and affecting INCIDENTS, is entirely diverted of all the those images, which, in too many pieces calculated for amuseument only, tend to inflame the minds they should instruct. First published London (U. K.), 1741.

Jane Austen's 1813 romantic novel prepared for Project Gutenberg in 2008 by Anonymous volunteers and Daniel Widger and last updated in 2018.