Panel Schedule

Team--- Thursday 2/7 -- 7:30 am -- Hally; Monday 2/11 -- 12:15 pm -- Emma; Monday 2/11 -- 3:15 pm -- Caleb; Tuesday 2/12 -- 12:15 pm -- Crispin; Tuesday 2/12 -- 3:15 pm -- Esten; Wednesday 2/13 -- 3:15 pm Nick; Thursday 2/14 -- 7:30 am -- Davi; Thursday 2/14 -- 12:00 -- Isaac; Friday 2/15 -- 12:15 pm -- Calvin; TBD -- Clara

Esten's Thesis

An individual who strays from expected norms of a society, provides himself with the possibility of becoming more personally enlightened. 

Crispin's thesis right on time!

An individual's perceived ideals of a society, and of the beliefs of the others within the society, create the individual's perceptions of how to live within that society.

I'm sorry this is so late. I could blame college, but it was really just me having a hard time getting my ideas together. Sorry.

Premise:
          Societies are built on stereotypes because members of society organize and stereotype in order to deal with the information they constantly receive. Assigning value and meaning to each other is how people organize their experiences enough to be functional members of society. Ironically, it is stereotypes that can ultimately be most destructive to a society. (ex: Nazism)

where I'm going:
          Rebellion is what happens when a prevalent societal stereotype becomes so harmful- and possibly inaccurate- that individuals within that society throw it off. By rebelling, they are recreating their society and recreating the way members of that society think about and organize their world.

working thesis:
Rebellion recreates society by changing how individuals organize their experiences and assign value to one another.

enough causality?

Nick's Thesis

A government that wishes to avoid rebellion must encourage each citizen to share his belief, and only create laws that balance the contrasting mindsets.

I think that a law becomes futile if it directly conflicts with someone's belief. It is impossible to force a belief upon someone, and they will not adhere to a law that forces a certain belief upon them. Governments have a duty to ensure all citizens are safe, but beyond that all legislation must have knowing consent from the citizens or it will lead to conflict. Do I get that across in the thesis?

I haven't found a way to fully express my ideas, but I've reached the point that I'm only going in circles with this.  Those ideas- that individualism is isolating, meaningless (doesn't matter if one person reaches greatness- can't be shared), prevents discourse, and is the basis of the most extreme evils.

So, this is what I've got: Progress, society's pursuing of an empathetic and evolving existence, is reached when it becomes a shared goal, and individualism is abandoned for the greater good.  

Isaac's thesis (FIRST draft)

I apologize for it being messy.  I have to apply to college tonight.

Citizens of any community must not create individuality - their wealth, work, and happiness - through self-interest, but instead individuality must be rooted in a positive desire to better the community and people of which they are a part.