5. Why did the San Carlos Apache people not respond to the letters send by the forest service requesting input about putting additional telescopes on Mount Graham?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are two problems that Jensen identifies with violence?

2. What two options does Jensen offer for the time when civilization finally collapses?

3. Briefly describe the parable of the box.

4. How does Jensen critique his writing in the chapter "Coercion?"

5. How does Cleve Backster come to be experimenting on plants?

6. How did Jensen learn not to place his beehives in an aesthetic manner?

7. How does food exemplify the difficulty of withdrawing oneself from the current economy?

8. What does Jensen say is the real lesson of Jesus?

9. Under what circumstances did the plants become attuned to the brine shrimp?

10. How does Dr. Judith Herman describe atrocities?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In his research with plants, Cleve Backster discovers that plants are affected by certain stimuli. What, in your opinion, does the outcome of this research mean? Why is it significant? Why was it so important to Jensen that he be able to witness a response from a plant instead of just taking Backster's word that it had happened?

Essay Topic 2

Jensen refers in his chapter "Seeking a Third Way" to an incident when he spoke out against a woman who disciplined her child. Do you think that Jensen acted correctly? Should others do the same? Was the mother wrong? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Jensen's relationship with his father. How did this relationship impact Jensen's life? How did it change when Jensen became and adult?

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