HCC ENGL1301 Week 7 Discussion Latest 2018 February

ENGL1301 Composition 1

Week 7 Discussion

Part 1 Choose a different topic 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. After this week, you should decide which topic you want to write about for Composition #2.

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.