Optional Work for Next Week

First, let me state the obvious: you should be working on your final projects. Having a draft (and research) started sooner rather than later will make your life easier. That being said, there are no required assignments for next week. There are two optional assignments instead.

#1) If you post a page or (at most) two from your final projects, I'll comment them as promptly as I can. If lots of you post material my comments may be on the short side, but I'll post them.

#2) If you want to do one more blog post for a grade, here are two prompts. As always, you should have a single coherent arguments, and display detailed knowledge of the text.

a) We talked some last class about human vs. Oankali morality; here's a related question. From your point of view, is Akin's project for a human Akjai, including the colonization of Mars, ultimately moral or immoral? One thing you might do here is establish whether you agree with Oankali morality, the human morality of the book, or something else entirely.

b) Using at least one source (probably a scientific one, and in any case not random junk from the internet - use a book or journal), make an initial attempt to address the question: "Is Butler's depiction of the "human contradition" representative of how human nature is in the real world?