Soc. and Psych.

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December 2009

Homework
-Review Notes Nightly

Long Term Assignments
-Mid Term Examination - December 09
-Mental Illness Movie Analysis - December 16th
-Research Papers - December 21
-Final Examination - January 07
-Make Up Examination - January 08
-Tuesday's With Morrie - January 12

Tuesdays with Morrie - The Assignment
-Using APA Style please complete the following:
   *Title Page
   *Synopsis (Remember Block Style)
   *Answer the Following Questions in the Body of the Paper:

1. Who do you think got more out of their Tuesday meetings, Mitch   or     
Morrie? In what ways? How do you think each would answer this question? 

2. Discuss Morrie's criticisms of Mitch throughout the book. Do you think 
Morrie should have been tougher on him? Easier? 

3. Do you think Mitch would have listened if Morrie hadn't been dying? Does 
impending death automatically make one's voice able to penetrate where it 
couldn't before? 

4. Does this book make Morrie's death a public event? If so, how is it 
similar to other public deaths we've experienced as a society? How is it 
different? 

5. Morrie referred to himself as a bridge, a person who is in between life 
and death, which makes him useful to others as a tool to understand both. 
Talk about other literary, historical, political or religious figures who 
have also served this purpose. 

6. Morrie told Mitch about the "tension of opposites."Talk about this as a 
metaphor for the book and for society. 

7. Mitch made a list of topics about which he wanted Morrie's insight and 
clarity. In what ways would your list be the same or different? 

8. Morrie said: "If you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go 
back. You want to go forward."Is this true in your experience? 

9. Was Morrie judging people who choose not to have kids with his 
statement: "If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for 
another human being, and to learn how to love and bond in the deepest way, 
then you should have children." Whether or not he was, do you agree? 
 
*Please follow format provided in Class.



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