English 1C
Essay 1 How to Think, Backfire Effect, and “Unfollow”
Essay 2
One. David Brooks sandwich essay
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”
Two. David Benatar’s case against procreation
Three. David Benatar’s “The Case for Not Being Born”
Four. UBI
Five. Empathy
Essay 3
One. Vaccines
Two. Against Democracy
Three. 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"
Four. “Winter Dreams” and Dombeck’s Emptiness
Five. “The Other Woman” by Sherwood Anderson
Essay 4
One. Five. What Facebook Did to American Democracy
How Teens in Balkans Are Duping Trump Supporters with Fake News
Social Media Is Making Democracy Less Democratic
Economist: Social Media Nemesis to Democracy
Two. The Great White Way and Get Out, Kleptocracy
Three. Ursula Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” and John Oliver video about child labor for clothing.
Four. “Speaking Ill of Hugh Hefner” or compare to John Cheever’s “The Swimmer”
Five. “Choosing School for My Daughter in a Segregated City”
Three. Essay 5: The Sunshine State
Dwight Garner review is helpful
Blood at the Root and this NYT review
Rules for Writers
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