Who was the youngest president?A. Barack ObamaB. Ulysses S. GrantC. Bill ClintonD. John F. KennedyE. Theodore Roosevelt

47 years, 5 months, 16 days

46 years, 10 months, 5 days

46 years, 5 months, 1 days

43 years, 7 months, 22 days

42 years, 10 months, 18 days

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Free write—write without picking up your pen or pencil until I say stop. Do not worry about grammar, spelling, or sounding silly. Start with the prompt and go where your mind takes you.

Prompt: Consider the following passage: “Tim Tully already has [a

drug] in the works. If marketed, the drug could be used within twenty-four hours of a trauma, and it would delete your memory of the trauma, along with whatever else happened that day. Such a drug could be used for survivors of terrible events, terrorist bombings, plane crashes, vicious personal attacks” (Slater 220).

Should we allow Tully and other pharmaceutical companies to continue to pursue such a drug?

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Choose the best one and discuss

If we knew we could live to see our children’s children’s children’s children, would we say yes? And in saying yes, would we not lose what it means to be human, birth and death giving our lives some shape? Stay immortal forever?

“Kandel’s little red pill and wonder if soon we will be able to undo not only aging, but death itself, would we want it?” (Slater 221).

Do you believe this idea is going too far, where humans are finding ways to go further than just where a regular human has been?

“He had touched the tissue of memory, which was not spiritual or mythical in its essence. Memory was flesh” (Slater ).

Can memory really be considered flesh?

“No science, in any field, has yet to deliver us from our own flesh” (Slater 222).

Do you think science will learn about our brain 100 percent?

“Memory makes us who we are. Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it. Memory is narrative giving continuity and meaning to our existence” (Slater 216).

Do you really think our memories make us who we are and if we lose some of our memory we will repeat our past or do something similar to it?

Due Thursday, April 23 at 11:55 p.m.:

Post to the weekly discussion on Moodle

Due Sunday, April 26 at 11:55 p.m.:

Rough draft of Essay #4 is due to Turnitin

Respond to at least two students in the Moodle discussion

Due Tuesday, April 28 at the beginning of class:

Read “Chipped” (Chapter 10 of Opening Skinner’s Box) and come to class prepared to discuss and complete the Metacognitive Reading Log

Due Tuesday, April 28 at 11:55 p.m.:

Two peer reviews are due to Turnitin