Reading response #1 [chapter one]

Exercise one!

a. After many experiments, scientists have suggested that there are dangerous levels of chemical X in the Ohio groundwater.

b. With everyone's thoughts and beliefs today, how can they not believe that history is driven by material forces?

c. I've heard that Proponents of Freudian psychology question standard notions of "rationality."

d. According to a few of my professors, male students often dominate class discussions.

e. Even though i think the movie was about friendship, my friends believe it's about the problems of romantic relationships.

f. Templates like the ones in this book can be very helpful, but many professors don't like students using them because they believe that they will stifle our creativity.


Exercise two!

If there was an idea custom-made for a Jay Leno monologue, this was it: in reality, men and women are not equal, no matter what people think. Isn't that like saying black and white people are not the same and don't have the same rights? Whatever happened to equality, not based on sex, race, gender, or religion?
I happen to sympathize with these sexists, though, perhaps because I'm pretty girly myself, and expect a man to do all the hard work for me. It's not that I can't do it, I'm just too lazy to do it.