Memory Papers Due

You turn in the final version of your Memory essay.

Then we discuss the next assignment -- Summary/Response.

Articles to choose from:Link to "How David Beats Goliath" by Malcolm Gladwell. (How can underdogs win?)

Link to "Hellhole" by Atul Gawande. (Is solitary confinement torture?)
Link to "Troublemakers" by Malcolm Gladwell. (Pit bulls and profiling.)
Link to "Most Likely to Succeed" by Malcolm Gladwell. (How do you hire a 'winner'?)
Link to "What Helen Keller Saw" by Cynthia Ozick. ( Controversy in Helen Keller's lifetime.)
Link to "The Itch" by Atul Gawande. ( The neuroscience of itching. Haunting hook.)
Link to "Offensive Play" by Malcom Gladwell. (How similar are football and dogfighting?)
Link to "Personality Plus" by Malcom Gladwell. (How useful are employers' personality tests?)

For tomorrow, you must look at these articles and make a first choice and second choice. Tomorrow we'll find out which are the most popular and choose accordingly, so that each article has at least two people writing about it.