Honestly, Dr. Cain Hope Felder's presentation was one of the most boring and ineffective lectures that were given during the freshman seminar lecture periods. He did not use a visual aid which is very important when attempting to keep the attention of college students who have other interests that do not include listening to an hour long lecture whose message is not clearly translated to its audience. Furthermore, he was extremely hard to understand both verbally and intellectually. Maybe my inability to verbally understand him came from my inattentiveness, but it was a challenge to stay awake. Kuddos to who ever did understand the meaning behind the lecture. The parts of the lecture that I did pay attention to seemed like a promotion for his book The Journal of Religious Thought. This lecture should definitely be improved if he is going to continue to give lectures in the freshman seminar class.
On a more positive note, I was able to leave this class period with a slightly greater understanding of how religion can have an affect on a person's understanding of where and who they have derived from. This further assists the thesis that constantly arrises within numerous freshman seminar lectures stating that life derived from Africa. Arguments for and against the idea that all life began in Africa can be given through the evaluation of the religious aspects. Religion is an aspect of knowledge that constantly biased and can actually interrupt the ability to reach a consensus about one's origins. This has been witnessed for years as scientists have attempted to reach a conclusion about the origin of the human species so the same reactions should be expected when we attempt to discover the effect of the African diaspera on the lives of all of earth's inhabitants.
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