Thanksgiving Special: Debate
Come on you two lovebirds, enter the ring! Two entities enter: lovers of life and death. Only one will leave and continue on with the game. Who will it be?
11/30/13
Category: Head Thinker
11/24/13
Week Five: Head Thinker Challenge
The church bell is ringing, HouseAuthors! Time for your lively debate… on Death!
Since all of you are competing this week, we’re going to have two rounds to make sure we have a detailed, in-depth discussion on all of your texts! In the first round, you’ll be split into two teams of two where you’ll be tasked with using your partner’s writing to combat the opposing team. Now, there are five of you, so I’m going to grant Mr. Baudelaire a pass for this first round since he deals with Death on a very prominent level. Following that first debate, Mr. Baudelaire will choose one of the members of the winning team to debate in the second round. I will choose a winner from the results of that debate. Best of luck to you all!
11/19/13
11/12/13
Week Three: Head Thinker Challenge
Welcome to the halfway mark, HouseAuthors! After this debate, you’ll only have three more before we find out which one of you is the true Enlightened Author! As you’re all aware, the Ideal you shall be debating this week is: Modernity/Breaking With Tradition (Scientific Advancements).
Banned from this Debate due to lack of knowledge in given Ideal: Charles Baudelaire, Franz Kafka, Herman Melville, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, Christina Rossetti, Juana Inés de la Cruz, and Rabindranath Tagore. Oh my! What an interesting turn of events! Only one of you has taken it upon yourselves to discuss the scientific advancements you’ve all treasured and adored. We must still have a debate though, so here’s how it’s going to go down. Lu Xun, in order to successfully win this challenge, you will be asked tw questions pertaining to your views of science in your writings. If you manage to answer both of them, then you shall win! Fail to do so, and face immediate decapitation.
11/5/13
Week Two: Head Thinker Challenge
HouseAuthors, please enter the Challenge Tower to begin the Head Thinker Challenge. Your Ideal this week is: Female Equality/Societal Views of Women.
As was done last week, our expert team of literary researchers have determined which HouseAuthors are most capable of performing well in this challenge are: Charles Baudelaire, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, Christina Rossetti, Juana Inés de la Cruz, Rabindranath Tagore, and Virginia Woolf. Franz Kafka, Herman Melville, and Lu Xun are banned from competing this week. Furthermore, this debate shall be done in three stages. In the first round, three groups of two HouseAuthors will put forth a line from one of their texts that they feel best describes their attitudes towards women. I will judge their submissions and choose the winners from each pair. The winners of that round will move on to an instant elimination round, with each of the three remaining HouseAuthors voting to eliminate one of the other two competitors. There will be no tiebreaker, so some agreement must be reached before the challenge can continue. In the third and final round, the last two HouseAuthors will debate one another, and I will again choose a winner.
LET THE DEBATE BEGIN!!!
10/29/13
Week One: Head Thinker Challenge – Results
I’m afraid our competing HouseAuthors may have missed the mark on the Ideal they were supposed to debate upon… Social Mobility is a wonderful thing! There’s nothing wrong with having a drive set to working your way up the career ladder, and frankly, I’m a bit insulted that all three HouseAuthors believe that only sadness and death can come from it. If I could, I would refuse to grant one of them the title of Head Thinker and instead decapitate all three of them, but our producers insist upon following the rules.
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10/29/13
Week One: Head Thinker Challenge – Debate
HouseAuthors, please enter the Challenge Tower to begin the Head Thinker Challenge. Your Ideal this week is: Predestination & Social Mobility. But first a twist!
Our team of literary researchers have analyzed your writings and have determined that only Herman Melville, Leo Tolstoy, and Franz Kafka deem this esteemed Enlightenment Ideal to be worthy of discussion within their texts. As such, it would be pointless and unentertaining for our viewers to endure the ordeal of sitting through the seven other HouseAuthors debating a topic they clearly don’t care about! Therefore, only Mr.’s Melville, Tolstoy, and Kafka will be eligible to compete in today’s challenge. We’re sorry for this inconvenience, but our logic does seem reasonable, no?
LET THE DEBATE BEGIN!!!