Midterm Advice: Your answer isn't a paper that anyone is going to hold you to for an opinion so pick something and defend it - its obviously one of those "no right answer" questions, your prof just wants to know that you know enough about the theories to make some kind of judgement. Also explaining your biases at the outset will show that you understand them and will look better than not addressing them.

I was going to look at my recent 504 midterm questions to show an equally bad question, but they were all rather straightforward, if hard and complex (What concepts from structuration theory are useful in understanding the formation and development of American public libraries? For each concept you choose, explain it very succinctly and indicate how it applies. - I barely understand structuration theory right now and I wrote 900 words on this question) I'd much rather argue about what thought system does a better job at answering questions of evil than explain the provenace of online course repositories. But midterms suck, regardless and I'm crabby because I can't seem to install AIM on this machine.

Lauren: Good luck with the wedding!