This essay asks you to practice one of the most useful critical thinking techniques in the world,
both academic and non-academic. For this assignment, you will take the ideas and concepts
from one of our course readings and apply them to something of your choice, showing how the
arguments and definitions made by an author in one context are relevant in another.
You have some options:
1. Examine how someone’s individual beliefs or behavior change in response to authority
or a situation. (Use ideas from Milgram’s and Zimbardo’s essays.)
2. Examine how human interaction in an example of your choice aligns with the gifteconomy or the exchange-economy.
3. Find an example of a forgiveness journey and apply ideas from the class readings to it