Philip Meyer’s “If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Stranger, Would You?”

The article which is”If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Stranger, Would You? Probably”, Philip Meyer writes about Stanley Milgram who is a social psychologist. He is a Jewish who was influenced by Nazis. So he wanted to prove that Germans were different by scientific experimentation. He gave providence that Germans are different because they obeyed Hitler and did his work. So Milgram improved a laboratory experiment to measure submission level of Americans and Germans. So with the results he could decide that Germans are more obedient. He was motivated to find the truth in his hypothesis because of his Jewish Background

Philip K. Dick’s Future is Now

This article demonstrates that long after the writer’s death, Hollywood embracing his dark world.

He is well known as madness in his work, and he had strong opinions on empathy, which he believed its act of kindness.

He said he like to build universes that do fall apart. When I was reading his book, I thought of him as independent author who is very individualistic.

I learned that everybody has a darkest spot but how to treat it is very important step, which I believe that Dick failed to do so.

Blows Against the Empire

 This article was basically about Dick’s life. Philip K. Dick was very well known author, his popular books were created into movies and his unique character has been well known. When I first read his books, I thought he had a very strong voice in political view and especially the government’s view.

He might be seemed as an anti-government, but he certainly wanted to spread the idea of true leaders in this country.

Elements of Plot article

There are several elements; plot, character, setting, point of view, style, tone, language, theme, symbolism, allegory, and image.

I thought the elements of fiction would be little bit limited in its characteristic way.

I found out that I had few misunderstanding on the definition of symbolism, allegory, and image. And it helped me to learn exact true meanings of each category.

David Sedaris’ Tricked essay

He set up the idea of the power of the media, he made an example in his neighbors gossip.

He wanted to find out what had been discovered during waiting someone.

Basically, this fiction shows the meaningful moment in the author’s teenage life and he wanted to share with the readers about his experience.

His teenage life was lonely but exciting at the same time, he had good friends and family. It made me to remembering my teenage life.

Modern Love column

Modern love symbolizes the dilemma the writer has faced in her life and it helps if the situations a contemporary edge. I learned that the writers should be emotionally honest and the story be freshly and compellingly told.

Even though I assumed the writers are quite honest and emotional, I could not wonder, is it really true and is it really the author’s intention?

This essay made me think that the writers’ potentials and requirements.

Response to the Challenge of Cultural Relativism

The U.S. is known as a multiracial nation with various cultural values. In this story, I learned about the moral code and found out that each culture has a different moral code and value.

I did not understand what cultural relativism meant. Cultural relativism is in essence an approach to the question of the nature and role of values in culture.

I realized that it also characterizes the way most individuals feel about their own culture.

Therefore, people should treat and respect each other’s cultural value like they do for their own cultural value.

 

Response to Two Accounts of the Boston Massacre

The story was about Boston Massacre that happened between soldiers and mobs. Violation brought more violation and hatred brought more hatred. As the author of this story say, this massacre was a horrible revolution. The soldiers could have tried and persuaded pigeons in a more gentle way. If they had done like this, peace would have been continued.

Mob tried to fight as long as they could. It was really a terrible incident and I could not understand why they had fought and hated each other so much. Killing people was not the right way to resolve any problem.

 

Response to composing and revising in the Hacker Handbook

The Hacker handbook made me to realize the importance of the writing skills, such as grammar and different formats of writing. Writing an essay is like creating a great work from nothing. I personally do not like any complication on writing, because I used to think it would be obviously boring. But after reading this story I found out the charm of the writing. There are various ways and formats for writing. I want to find out more about writing skills.

Response to the Cosmic Calendar by Carl Sagan

The author of this story Carl Sagon was well known astronomer. Through his famous work, the cosmic calendar, we could learn about the dates, stars, milky way galaxy, surfaces, and even an estimate of the time called the Big Bang. I couldn’t imagine that living on the other planet other than the earth. The construction of this calender was humbling. However, his observation had made today’s cycle of the world, such as looking up on the space to predict the weather and look up the calender to estimate the time.