Discussion

Discuss the contemeperary problems raised in each of the three following eassays
1. Nicholas Carr, “Is google making us stupid?”.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/306868/
2. James McBIDE ,”Hip-hop planet”
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2007/04/hip-hop-planet/mcbride-text
3. Joseph Epstein, “The perpetual adolescent”.
http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-215_162-605169.html

Do them separately
(700 words)

Question 2:
Discuss the relevance of the book, “The man who mistook his wife for a hat”, by Oliver Sacks. Be very specific, don’t just summarize, but analyze.
http://www.arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/wife-hat.pdf

What is the book mainly talking about?
Pick one thing that interests you.
(350 words)

Question 3:
Discuss the “journey” taken in Sherman Alexie’s “The joy of reading and writing: superman and me” and Alice Walker’s “Beauty: when the other dancer is the self”.
http://whisperdownthewritealley.wordpress.com/2010/06/22/sherman-alexies-the-joys-of-reading-writing-superman-me/
http://public.wsu.edu/~hughesc/alice-walker.htm
(450 words)
Question 4:
What is the effectiveness of using such unconventional ideas or characters as in Jonathan Swift’s “A modest proposal”, and Kafka’s “the metamorphosis”
http://art-bin.com/art/omodest.html
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/5200/5200-h/5200-h.htm
(500 words)