Laura Perry

Dan Anderson

ENGL 102

July 20, 2010

Globalizing the U.S. economy, the price of expansion, and who foots the bill

     Hold a conversation with the average American about economic politics as a global entity, and ask them how they feel about free trade.  What free trade means, and what it means to them and their livelihood.  Ask them about outsourcing.  Their jobs.  Their economy.  Ask them who it benefits and is it a good thing.  Is the world better off because of it, and who all benefits from it.  The answers to these questions become less clear cut than the emotions many Americans thoughtlessly put behind these practices and initiatives. 

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Sean Rogers

Dan Anderson

ENGL102.001

Research Essay

July 20, 2010

Food Science and Health

Lauren Rackley

Professor Anderson

English 102

July 12, 2010

The Ever-Changing Notion of American Beauty: From Too Thin to Not Thin Enough

Katherine Newton (Katie)

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Dan Anderson

Engl 102.001

Essay #3:

20 July 2010

Boy or Girl?

No Longer a 50/50 Chance…

Adam Turner

English 102

Dan Anderson

July 20, 2010

Music Piracy

So, just for clarification, so I don't acquire an absence, today was the last day of class, and the only thing left to do for class at all is to submit the final research essay by midnight tomorrow?
 

A captive, according to the Merriam Webster’s dictionary, is one who is “taken and held as or as if a prisoner of war.” The word that stands out most upon reading these words, is ‘prisoner.’  According to the same source, a prisoner is one who is “deprived of liberty and kept under involuntary restraint, confinement, or custody.” Based on both of these explanations, one can conclude that living in captivity is sheer deprivation of free will.  This is used most often as a punishment for humans, for those who have committed a crime, fought behind enemy lines, or for some other wrongdoing.  If our own species considers this denial of freedom as one of the highest forms of suffering, why do we impose this on the seemingly innocent, our environment?  Did fellow mammals such as whales do something to deserve life imprisonment and forced labor?