November 2013 archive

My group chose healthy foods as our topic because obesity is a huge problem in the world today. If more people knew about the benefits of eating healthy, this might not be such a big problem. The articles that we chose all applied to our topic because they all discussed the benefits of having a …

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Our group chose cloning as our New York Times project topic because it is a scientific innovation which intrigues the human race.  With the ability to clone comes the ability to play “God” and recreate structures of living organisms to further scientific knowledge. The ethics of cloning is covered in “The Wisdom of Repugnance” as …

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Hey so my groups NYT project was based on food because we all love food and we wanted to do anything that had to do with food because it is the one thing that brings everyone together. It is also is a way to see the differences between culture and people. The articles related to …

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To be honest, we chose cloning as our topic for the NY Times project because the first thing we saw was Dolly The Sheep (the first successful clone of a sheep). That’s not to say that the topic wasn’t an interesting one because it was without a doubt a very intriguing topic. If it hadn’t …

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When you are working as a group, it is important to consider the opinions of your peers. In my group, fashion was chosen without my awful viewpoint about it. However, I understand the fundamentals of social dynamics and so decided to avoid avoid argumentation and simply comply.  Consequently, I learned that fashion is all around us …

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I enjoyed the New York Times project because it was really interesting to learn about different topics that the groups presented. My group chose fashion as our topic because we really wanted to explore the different views of fashion all over the world especially in New York City. We also assumed that this topic would …

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