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Turkle Response 2/26/20
To what extent do you agree with Sherry Turkle’s argument in “The Empathy Diaries”? On what points do you disagree? Is there another side to this she isn’t seeing? What is your counterargument to some of Turkle’s ideas?You may use your personal experience and observation with the internet and social media to address these questions.
“Unfollowed” Questions 2/19/20
Gladwell Response 2/17
I agree with Gladwell to an extent, obviously CTE is a real thing that has serious effects on people who have it, and is also a real concern for people playing high impact sports. Where I start to disagree is Gladwell’s solution, where he asks Penn Students to boycott football games and that the school …
Gladwell Questions 2/3/20
Using some of the “They Say / I Say” Techniques we practiced with Appiah’s essay last week, write a summary of his argument in a few sentences.
Cosmopolitanism: Discussion
“The challenge, then, is to take to minds and hearts formed over the long millennia of living and local troops and equip them with ideas and institutions that will allow us to live together as the global tribe we have become” Appiah’s problem with globalization is that it is too broad of a term, and …
1/15/20
“Changing Your Mind” Questions
