Honors Theme
Other than beauty, another theme I have noticed through out the readings is opinion. Opinion is very broad, but basically, the things we were read were based on opinions. In the piece about Calliagnosia it was a battle to enforce calli or limit it for the public. The whole story was different peoples opinions and how it would hurt or harm society. The piece about sports and manliness was conveying the opinions of how people feel about women in connection to sports, and how men should be expected to act. The video about fractals was an opinion on how cool, interesting, and helpful math can be for everyone and everything. Vonnegut’s speeches were his opinions and how he decided to interpret and explain things to others. He was very pessimistic but that’s the opinion he chose to have.
It wasn’t just the readings that conveyed certain opinions though. By reading these, we all formed our own opinions and brought to the table what we got out of them. Not everybody came with the same opinion or left with the same one. Depending on how we look at each of the readings and the message being presented we came away with different ideas. This is what keeps the conversation going and challenges the views being expressed. If we all took the same exact things for each of the readings each week and formed the same opinion, what kind of discussion would that be? Rather short and lacking in content. The opinions presented and the opinions we form really shape the class.