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• Read Asking the Right Questions by M. Neil Browne and Stuart M. Keeley, Chapter 5: What Are the Value and Descriptive Assumptions?
• Define the term value assumptions.
• Define the term value priorities.
• Define the term descriptive assumptions.

Submit these definitions with your Lesson Assignment document.

• Read the article Life of the Closed Mind, by Anna Quindlen .
• Your paper should be a minimum of 500 words
• It must address the following:
  • What are her value assumptions?
  • What are her value priorities in this writing?
  • What is her perspective on openness of thought and attitude?
  • What is important to her?
  • What must be true, from the author's perspective, about how the world is in order for her to have written this article in the way she has?
  • Identify the value assumptions the author holds:
  • Identify the descriptive assumptions the author demonstrates in this writing:
  • 

A Quindlen, Anna. "Life of the Closed Mind." Newsweek 30 May 2005: 82. [835words] glorious morning for a my mind. I changed my mind'." When commencement, the sky a is the last time you can honestly blue tent cut with wisps of remember a public dialogue, or even a clouds over the Columbia University private conversation, that followed campus. From time to time a plane that useful course? To shy away from bisected the air above, an accidental rigorous intellectual engagement is not eavesdropper on the passage of time new for undergraduates: in 1998 a and the celebration of joy. Clear study done by an anthropologist at weather, low-flying jets: it's what Grinnell College reported the most some New Yorkers still can't help common discussion model among thinking of as a 9/11 day. students was stating what they were All over America graduating seniors certain they already believed, not are being reminded of what they - and learning what they did notor exploring the views of those with their parents - can scarcely forget. whom they disagreed. Eighty-four Most of them left home and arrived on campus in September 2001. But that percent of the first-year class believed knowledge is particularly sharp here in that one of the paramount values of interrogators in the Guantanamo Bay New York. Some students chose to the college was to make sure all its detention center, conspiracy theorists leave afterward, to migrate to the quiet members felt comfortable. Exploring went wild: the magazine was a liberal college towns so many of their high- new ideas, encountering people with hotbed of hatred for the military, the school classmates had chosen in the different values, learning a new magazine was set up by the Pentagon first place. But most stuck. After all, if discipline's way of thinking and to mask the administration's own they were scared off by what had having someone point out a flaw in malfeasance. No one believes in befallen the Trade Center, then it one's argument these can be mistakes anymore, in the reporter who meant the terrorists had won. uncomfortable experiences," Carol mistakenly believed a source was Trosset noted in her findings. trustworthy, the editors who trusted Four years have passed, and it occurs to me, surveying the Columbia But what was once the comfort level the reporter's skill and judgment. Mistakes are an inevitable byproduct undergraduates, their blue gowns of 18-year-olds has now become the mimicking the blue sky, that the guiding principle of a nation, with of work done by human beings under terrorists did win. Since September 11 ease to be found only among the like- deadline pressure. But today, human we've become more like them. The minded. Today's graduates have also error in so many arenas has been essence of the way zealots think about learned that having strongly held supplanted by the ubiquitous suggestion of sinister forces. the world is polar: good and evil, holy beliefs means expressing contempt for those of others, particularly if you are and profane, them and us. "At times it So the young men and women who can seem like your day-to-day life is a cable-TV talk-show host and can began their college years in the an exercise in choosing sides," Lee interrupt incessantly or extravagantly shadow of September 11 graduate in Bollinger, the president of Columbia, mime disparagement. (Note to the its shadow as well. The intolerant, the said in his commencement address. In class of 2005: bad manners are bad monomaniacal, the zealots driven by the years since the class of 2005 manners, whether at the dinner table religious certainty engineered the entered college, America has become or on-camera.) Politicians and pundits worst attack on American soil, and the are now no better than corner men in result has been intolerance, a country that sets its young people the terrible example of closed minds. The an ideological prizefight. monomania and zealotry driven by terrorists wanted to kill infidels. We It's no wonder, after the conspiracy religious certainty. President Bollinger only aim to silence them. cited the contempt of Oliver Wendell that took place right under our noses President Bollinger, who has recently came to fruition on September 11, that Holmes Jr., the legendary Supreme we have become a nation of Court justice, for the man who knows navigated a pitched battle about that he knows." If Holmes lived today, academic freedom and civil classroom conspiracy theorists. But everything of course, he would be either lionized discourse on his own campus, now is a conspiracy: a rightwing described intellectual inquiry thus: conspiracy, a Clinton conspiracy, or demonized. And he would find, above all a media conspiracy. When much to his sorrow, that America had "To learn to ask: 'Is that true? Maybe NEWSWEEK retracted its story in been hijacked by those who cannot tell there's something to what she just which an unnamed source claimed an the difference between opponents and said. Let me think about it. That's investigation had enemies, between disagreement and turned up interesting. Maybe I should change desecration of the Qur'an by heresy, between discussion and destruction. A Quindlen, Anna. "Life of the Closed Mind." Newsweek 30 May 2005: 82. [835words] glorious morning for a my mind. I changed my mind'." When commencement, the sky a is the last time you can honestly blue tent cut with wisps of remember a public dialogue, or even a clouds over the Columbia University private conversation, that followed campus. From time to time a plane that useful course? To shy away from bisected the air above, an accidental rigorous intellectual engagement is not eavesdropper on the passage of time new for undergraduates: in 1998 a and the celebration of joy. Clear study done by an anthropologist at weather, low-flying jets: it's what Grinnell College reported the most some New Yorkers still can't help common discussion model among thinking of as a 9/11 day. students was stating what they were All over America graduating seniors certain they already believed, not are being reminded of what they - and learning what they did notor exploring the views of those with their parents - can scarcely forget. whom they disagreed. Eighty-four Most of them left home and arrived on campus in September 2001. But that percent of the first-year class believed knowledge is particularly sharp here in that one of the paramount values of interrogators in the Guantanamo Bay New York. Some students chose to the college was to make sure all its detention center, conspiracy theorists leave afterward, to migrate to the quiet members felt comfortable. Exploring went wild: the magazine was a liberal college towns so many of their high- new ideas, encountering people with hotbed of hatred for the military, the school classmates had chosen in the different values, learning a new magazine was set up by the Pentagon first place. But most stuck. After all, if discipline's way of thinking and to mask the administration's own they were scared off by what had having someone point out a flaw in malfeasance. No one believes in befallen the Trade Center, then it one's argument these can be mistakes anymore, in the reporter who meant the terrorists had won. uncomfortable experiences," Carol mistakenly believed a source was Trosset noted in her findings. trustworthy, the editors who trusted Four years have passed, and it occurs to me, surveying the Columbia But what was once the comfort level the reporter's skill and judgment. Mistakes are an inevitable byproduct undergraduates, their blue gowns of 18-year-olds has now become the mimicking the blue sky, that the guiding principle of a nation, with of work done by human beings under terrorists did win. Since September 11 ease to be found only among the like- deadline pressure. But today, human we've become more like them. The minded. Today's graduates have also error in so many arenas has been essence of the way zealots think about learned that having strongly held supplanted by the ubiquitous suggestion of sinister forces. the world is polar: good and evil, holy beliefs means expressing contempt for those of others, particularly if you are and profane, them and us. "At times it So the young men and women who can seem like your day-to-day life is a cable-TV talk-show host and can began their college years in the an exercise in choosing sides," Lee interrupt incessantly or extravagantly shadow of September 11 graduate in Bollinger, the president of Columbia, mime disparagement. (Note to the its shadow as well. The intolerant, the said in his commencement address. In class of 2005: bad manners are bad monomaniacal, the zealots driven by the years since the class of 2005 manners, whether at the dinner table religious certainty engineered the entered college, America has become or on-camera.) Politicians and pundits worst attack on American soil, and the are now no better than corner men in result has been intolerance, a country that sets its young people the terrible example of closed minds. The an ideological prizefight. monomania and zealotry driven by terrorists wanted to kill infidels. We It's no wonder, after the conspiracy religious certainty. President Bollinger only aim to silence them. cited the contempt of Oliver Wendell that took place right under our noses President Bollinger, who has recently came to fruition on September 11, that Holmes Jr., the legendary Supreme we have become a nation of Court justice, for the man who knows navigated a pitched battle about that he knows." If Holmes lived today, academic freedom and civil classroom conspiracy theorists. But everything of course, he would be either lionized discourse on his own campus, now is a conspiracy: a rightwing described intellectual inquiry thus: conspiracy, a Clinton conspiracy, or demonized. And he would find, above all a media conspiracy. When much to his sorrow, that America had "To learn to ask: 'Is that true? Maybe NEWSWEEK retracted its story in been hijacked by those who cannot tell there's something to what she just which an unnamed source claimed an the difference between opponents and said. Let me think about it. That's investigation had enemies, between disagreement and turned up interesting. Maybe I should change desecration of the Qur'an by heresy, between discussion and destruction