Assignment:
LIST A
Banksy (graffiti artist)
Philip Glass (composer, minimalism)
Joseph Campbell (mythologist)
Carl Sagan (astrophysicist, cosmologist
LIST B
Hal Cone (theologian, Black liberation theology)
Limor Fried (electrical engineer, aka Lady Ada, open-source hardware)
Jane Goodall (primatologist)
Ai Weiwei (artist, cultural critic)
Review the list of names provided in the University of Phoenix: Creative Genius List.
Select two individuals who were famous for their creative ideas (one from each column).
Researchthier biographies in the University Library and/or respected sites on the Internet.
Create a 700-1,050- word paper to include the following:
Information about each of the thinker's unique contributions to society
The problems or issues that their ideas sought to solve
Each thinkers' personal/social/political environments and how you think these factors contributed to their creativity
The creative process of each thinker, including obstacles they faced, and a comparison to Ruggerio's creative process (refer to chapter ofThe Art of Thinking)
Critique a failure of the individual: could they have done something differently? What was the effect or result of the failure?