Erin Potts Professor Shelley PHI 300 October 21, 2012 Assignment #2

1. Find at least one item on the internet or in the mass media (a newspaper or magazine article or a television program) that seems to be used on a worldview contrary to the one you yourself hold. Explain your answer.
2. Find at least one item on the internet or in the mass media that reflects a typically American point of view you happen to share, and explain what makes it typically American. (This is not as easy to do as it sounds. Recalling the content of the box on E. M. Forsters novel may help prod your memory.
3. Describe a situation in which you changed your mind on some more or less fundamental belief, and explain what convinced you to do so.