富二代视频app

Before You Begin Your Essay...

Like the Honor Scholar Program itself, these essays address a variety of topics and represent different kinds of opportunities for thought. The topics may touch on sensitive issues; they may challenge you to think in ways to which you are not accustomed. Because creativity and analytical ability are part of the essence of our program, we think that you will find these essays both challenging and rewarding to consider and write about.

Read all the prompts carefully, think about them, and then choose one for your essay. Remember鈥攖here are no right answers here鈥攖hink of this challenge as an opportunity for you to explore interesting issues and build a case for your point of view. The Honor Scholar Program takes the essays seriously, and we worked hard to generate questions at once diverse and engaging.

Because the Honor Scholar program also takes you and your ideas very seriously鈥攂oth now and after you arrive鈥攁t least two faculty members will carefully read your essay. You should be aware that the essay and the interview that may follow are the most important factors in admission for the Honor Scholar Program. The Honor Scholar Program does not simply look at your test scores and GPA to gauge admission. We believe that the intellectual curiosity, engagement, and interest we want in our students manifest more clearly in written work (the essay) and personal interaction (the interview) than in SAT or ACT scores. So, take the essay seriously and use this opportunity to show us what you can do!

Your Essay Response.聽Choosing one prompt below, respond in an essay of about聽500 words. Remember, this is a聽soft聽word limit.聽聽

• Please聽double space聽your text and聽include your name and mailing address聽at the top of your essay.
• Save and title your response as your last name, first name (e.g., Einstein, Albert) in either a Word or PDF file.聽

Prompt Option 1: Human or Machine?

In October 2016, physicist Stephen Hawking said, "Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.鈥� Since then, AI has seen major breakthroughs. In October 2024, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to two researchers (John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton) for their contributions to the machine learning that laid the foundations for Artificial Intelligence.

With this context in mind, how does human intelligence differ from artificial intelligence (if it does)? And, do you agree with Prof. Hawking that we might now have reached the last big event in human history? How might we avoid the risks associated with AI?

Prompt Option 2: Health, Responsibility, and Community

聽Public health scientist Thomas Oliver wrote in 2006:

鈥淸p]ublic health commonly involves governmental action to produce outcomes鈥� injury and disease prevention or health promotion鈥攖hat individuals are unlikely or unable to produce by themselves...[a] political community stresses a shared bond among members: organized society safeguards the common goods of health, welfare, and security, while members subordinate themselves to the welfare of the community as a whole. Public health can be achieved only through collective action, not through individual endeavor.鈥澛�

聽This perspective may be widely accepted in public health, but it 鈥渞uns counter to a fundamental emphasis on property rights, economic individualism, and competition in American political culture鈥� as Oliver observes.

Considering recent global health crises such as COVID, Ebola, Zika, obesity, and others that threaten us, what should the role of government or international organizations be in the regulation and promotion of individual and/or the public鈥檚 health?聽

Reference:聽 Oliver, T. (2006).聽Annual Review of Public Health.聽27, 195-233. doi: 10.1146/annurev.publhealth.25.101802.123126

Prompt Option 3: The Writer's Task

鈥淎rt is the antidote that can call us back from the edge of numbness, restoring the ability to feel for another. By virtue of that power, it is political, regardless of content.鈥�
聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 鈥撯�揃arbara Kingsolver, DPU 鈥�77, in 鈥淛abberwocky,鈥澛�High Tide in Tucson: Essays聽From Now Or Never聽(Harper Perennial, 1995), p. 232.聽

鈥淎s writers, our services are needed as human beings. . . . I don鈥檛 want to write anything that is consolation. I don鈥檛 want to console. I want us to feel just a tiny fraction, a tiny fraction more than we do in our deeply comfortable American lives despite all the pain and suffering. . . . I want us to feel uncomfortable and be disoriented.鈥�
聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 鈥撯�揕ena Khalaf Tuffaha, 20 Nov. 2024, on accepting the 2024 National Book Award for her fourth book of poetry:聽Something Like Living

What do you see as the writer鈥檚 task? Ca. 1579, in聽The Defence of Poesy,聽Sir Philip Sidney argued that a writer鈥檚 task is to move an audience. Quoting Virgil鈥檚聽Aeneid聽(6.129), Sidney explains, 鈥渢o be moved to do that which we know, or to be moved with desire to know,聽hoc opus, hic labor est聽(鈥淭his is the task, this is the work to be done鈥�). Would a writer鈥檚 role, as you define it, support or contradict Sidney鈥檚 belief that writers should inspire readers to take action in the world?聽 How does your own view either support, qualify, or refute the views expressed above by two contemporary writers, a novelist and a poet respectively?

Prompt Option 4: Books Outside A Flooded Home, New Orleans

What does this image say to you?聽 You may take any approach or perspective you like in responding to the photograph.聽 That is, you could tell a story based on the photo, look at it as a piece of art, or comment on the economic, political, social, or environmental meanings it might convey.

Photograph by Chris Jordan,In Katrina鈥檚 Wake. Princeton Architectural Press, 2006 (posted with permission of author).聽