Science and Technology

Question

Answer both of the following questions:

What is the most important lesson this course has taught you about science or technology? Which specific ideas or arguments from the authors we have read have taught you this lesson? Exactly why do you consider this lesson an important one?

Use examples from one or more of our assigned readings to document the extent to which you have used your work in this course “to think critically about contemporary technology issues….and to learn to accept the social responsibilities of educated citizens in a global technological society” (p. xiv).

Please ensure that your answer are well-organized, make specific reference to relevant ideas from our course readings, and addresses each aspect of the assigned questions. 

Question

Discuss the circumstances under which the “Quarantine Speech” was given.  How doe FDR’s speech disrupt the isolation that America had been following since WWI?  What do you think Roosevelt was trying to accomplish with this Speech?