Please write a well-organized, coherent 800-word essay on one of the following topics. The essay should include specific examples from your own experience. Your opening paragraph should make clear what you plan to discuss, and your body paragraphs should develop the ideas that you set out in the introduction. You should end with a conclusion that ties the essay together.
Your essay will be graded holistically, according to the complexity and focus of your claim, the relevance and analysis of your support, the logical organization of your essay, the clarity of your paragraphs, and your attention to the conventions of Standard American English.
Topics to choose from:
1. Kaczynski believes that the Industrial Revolution was the font of human enslavement. “The system does not and cannot exist to satisfy human needs,” he wrote. “Instead, it is human behavior that has to be modified to fit the needs of the system… The only way out is to destroy the fruits of industrialization, to promote the return of “WILD nature, in spite of the potentially negative consequences of doing so”, he wrote.
The Harvard psychological study, in which he participated for 3 years, aimed at psychic deconstruction by humiliating undergraduates and thereby causing them to experience severe stress. Do you find any connection between the effects of this study and Kaczynski’s anti-technological fixation?
2. Can the Laws of War and the Rules of Engagement stablished at the Hague and the Geneva conventions keep up with the increasing technological militarization of the battlefield?