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Outcome 5: Contributing Knowledge

"Students will be able to draw conclusions based on analysis and interpretation of primary evidence and place that work in conversation with other source materials."

With the main topics discussed this semester, I tried focusing on aspects of a conversation that were not focused on in the assigned readings but seemed relevant to me. In Paper 2 I addressed the conversation of driverless cars, but through the concept of "rhetoric of inevitability" expanded the scope of the topic to include personal cars and transport as a whole. I proposed that while the technology of driverless cars in itself is promising, its being implemented onto personal vehicles would not meaningfully improve many of the problems its proponents say it will.

In Paper 3, I tried broadening the scope of the discussion by involving two topics which might not be considered to exist within that of modern slavery but I believed to be relevant to understanding its context. Neocolonialism is one which I saw acknowledged within the discussion of modern slavery, but not given much focus in texts broadly discussing the entire concept. On the other hand, prison labor in the modern U.S. and the proposal of prison reform are conversations in which I did not see much interaction with that of modern slavery, despite the many comparisons to it with historical slavery; it was surprising to me that Bales' text only seemed to question the ethics of prison labor when it was outside the United States' judicial system. Because of this, I thought it was a meaningful contribution to try interpreting the entirety of modern slavery while highlighting the relevance of these two somewhat-separate topics.

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