HCC ENGL1301 Week 6 Discussion Latest 2018 February

ENGL1301 Composition 1

Week 6 Discussion

Part 1 Read the Composition #2 Assignment and view the PowerPoint lesson. Choose one of the possible topics to agree or disagree with and read the corresponding article in the link. Write one paragraph summarizing the article and one paragraph explaining why you agree or disagree with the author. These articles are not from the HCC library, but you can use them as a third source in your paper.

Technology has an overall negative effect on American society.

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/as-technology-gets-better-will-society-get-worse (Links to an external site.)

Sports have an overall negative effect on American society.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/quora/does-society-place-too-mu_b_1569299.html (Links to an external site.)

The drinking age in the United States should be lowered to 18.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/2003/05/04/let-my-teenager-drink/b760aa1a-368c-4a6a-899c-7cad7a3fff40/?utm_term=.03ed2585b228 (Links to an external site.)

Our national security is more important than our privacy.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/02/heartland-monitor-privacy-security/459657/ (Links to an external site.)

It is unethical to eat meat.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/06/magazine/the-ethicist-contest-winner-give-thanks-for-meat.html (Links to an external site.)

Money can’t buy happiness.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/can-money-buy-happiness-heres-what-science-has-to-say-1415569538 (Links to an external site.)

Part 2 Respond to at least two of your classmate's postings, ideally someone who chose the same topic as you. Write in complete sentences.