Write a 3-5 page argumentative essay in response to one author from this unit. In this response, you must also interact with one author from our last unit.
In other words, you must respond to one of the following essays from this unit:
1. Caroline Bird, "College is a Waste of Time and Money"
2. Brent Staples, "Why Colleges Shower Their Students with A's"
3. Nicholas Carr, "Is Google Making Us Stupid?"
4. Francis FitzGerald, "Rewriting American History"
5. H. Bruce Franklin, "From Realism to Virtual Reality: Images of America's Wars"
6. Jane Tompkins, "'Indians': Textualism, Morality, and the Problem of History"
Furthermore, although your main interlocutor will be an author from this unit, your argument must also engage with one of the following essays from our last unit:
1. Plato, "The Allegory of the Cave"
2. Jean-Paul Sartre, "Existentialism"
3. Jacob Bronowksi, "The Nature of Scientific Reasoning"
4. Michel Foucault, Preface to The Order of Things
5. Steven Weinberg, "Without God"
6. Wendell Berry, "God, Science, and Imagination"
7. Stephen Hawking, "Is Everything Determined?"
8. Friedrich Nietzsche, "On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense"