Your critical review should be 5-7 pages double-spaced, 12 point font. At minimum, it should include the following features: Identify and succinctly explain the authors’ main points, arguments, or theses. Elaborate on how the authors support the presented theses. You do not need to be exhaustive, just illustrative: give us a couple examples of the supporting points or evidence. How do the readings advance our analysis of abolitionism? For the films, do not explain the plots. Instead, identify how the course themes show up in the film; or how the film informs our investigation of the core concepts of the course. Use the study questions to prompt your analysis. Connect the materials to themes central to our course, specifically to the primary question about how we should frame abolitionism analytically. How does this week’s material help elaborate or deepen our understanding of course themes? What questions does this week’s material raise for you? These can be questions of expansion, clarification, or connection. Do not simply summarize the topics covered in a reading or the plot of a film. Make connections between the course materials, and to other materials that you are studying in other courses, or to events in the world. Draw upon your own and your classmates’ discussion of the materials on the Discussion Boards. You may also find it useful to compare the material in the week that you choose to another week’s material.
Write a critical review on “How to Change Your Mind” by Michael Pollan. References must also be made to “Medication Madness” by Peter Breggins but the main book is “How To Change Your Mind.”
