English 1C
Essay 1 How to Think, Backfire Effect, and “Unfollow”
Essay 2 So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed
Essay 3
One. UBI
Two. Vaccines
Three. Against Democracy
Four. Genetic Modification and film Gattaca. See “Case Against Human Gene Editing”; Pro and Con
More pros and cons from Business Insider
"Building Baby from the Genes Up"
Essay 4
One. “Winter Dreams” by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Dombeck’s Emptiness
Two. Why It Pays to be a Jerk and “Emptiness”; The Bet, Omelas, child labor, The Other Women, Greenleaf
Three. Consider the real reason for educational inequality is not a lack of tests, a smokescreen to the real problem, but the privileges of the top economic tier discussed in David Brooks' essay "How We Are Ruining America."
Slate critique of Brooks' essay.
Slate's Osita Nwanevu writes "David Brooks Almost Gets It" as a response to Brooks' infamous essay.
“It’s Not the Fault of the Sandwich Shop: Readers Debate”
David Brooks Slammed for Sandwich Shop Elitism
“The Real Problem with David Brooks’ Sandwich Column”
Four. Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?
Five. “Case for Not Being Born”
Five. Immigrant Debate; wages, and Vice Video: Sweet Home Alabama
Five. Confederate flag.
Jamelle Bouie’s essay “White Americans Have to Make a Choice,” on Confederacy and “I Used to Lead Tours at a Plantation”
Dickerson’s “The Great White Way,” Coates’ essay on reparations and kleptocracy and Get Out
Addressing Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me, Jamelle Bouie’s “White Americans Have to Make a Choice,” Aisha Harris’ “Spring Time for the Confederacy,”, Margaret Biser’s “I Used to Lead Tours at a Plantation,” John Oliver’s Confederacy commentary, Coates’ “Why Do So Few Blacks Study the Civil War?”, and the film Get Out, support, refute, or complicate the argument that racism is not a faint echo of the past but is an ongoing assault on black people evidenced by a continued enabling of Confederate sympathizers and “The New Jim Crow.”
Compare “The Case for Reparations” with Netflix documentary The Thirteenth
“What This Cruel War Was Over” Coates
“Why There Are No Nazi Statues in Germany”
“How Other Countries Have Dealt with Monuments”
How becoming a Nazi shows failure of critical thinking:
Essay 5: Man’s Search for Meaning
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