Topic: blog 5

Order Description The Last Hunger Season ( Roger Thurow ) The Life you Can Save : acting now to End World Poverty (Peter Singer) Three Famines: Starvation and Politics ( Thomas Keneally ) IAH 206 WHFS FALL 2015 BLOG #5 – Thurow’s The Last Hunger Season Due Saturday evening, Nov. 21, 11:59 p.m. Insert in the drop box for Blog #5 on D2L. This blog assignment bears a family resemblance to the exercise you did in discussion section. You are to make some connection between something from the Thurow book and one of the following authors that we have read earlier [Sen, Thompson, HGP, Banerjee/Duflo, Singer, Moyo, or Chilton/Rose]. But there are some differences: (a) Your task is to make some connection between something that happens in or is described or explained in the Thurow book with some idea, theme or insight from one of the earlier authors. It does not need to be specifically about the operations of the One Acre Fund (as it was in the recitation assignment); I want you to be taking in the book as a whole and judging what would be most interesting to discuss. (b) This is a (short) essay, where you should construct a thesis and argue for it, and then consider and respond to an objection. (c) Also, note that you will have read farther in the Thurow book (through chapter 4) by the time the assignments is due, so you should be looking at that whole section of the book in thinking about what to write about. Structure: Your entry should be structured as follows: (1) State your thesis (the claim you are going to argue for). Note that this could be EITHER (a) the claim that there is this interesting connection between what is said in The Last Hunger Season and what is said by one of our earlier authors, OR (b) some interesting claim about The Last Hunger Season or the situation it depicts (and then the rest of your essay will show how there is the “connection” you need to be writing about). (2) Explain and argue for that thesis. (3) Describe as carefully as you can what you take to be the most significant objection you can think of to the claims you have just made, (4) Give the best response you can think of to that objection. Let me emphasize that there isn’t some one connection that you are supposed to find; there are a lot of possible connections, so you have a lot of choice. But you should be looking for something interesting, based on having done all the reading and thinking about it.