Responding to "Our Loss of Wisdom" by Barry Schwartz

Answer one of the following questions in paragraph form:

1. How do you feel towards the lecture and why do you feel this way?

2. Does the lecture confront or confirm your personal beliefs? Explain.

3. Write about something important you learned from the lecture.

4. What stayed in your mind after the lecture was over? Why do you think that happened?

5. What made the lecture effective (or ineffective) in your opinion?

Write between 100 and 150 words. Provide a word count, please.

If you would like to read some published narrative essays from last year's class, visit these links.

Powerful Blood Ties Rosemary recounts the tale of her brother's death on Christmas eve.

Home, Sweet Home Rita's terrifying experience of the Kobe earthquake in 1995 leads her to a new appreciation of home.

Remembering the Folly Maryann remembers a fateful meeting with a good friend and regrets her actions that day.

The Railroad Man: A New Journey Marc writes of the death of the "backbone of his life," his father.

Disguised Donors In the aftermath of monsoon floods, Jatinder discovers that not all is what it seems on first glance.