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Write a 300- 500 word response to each of the following questions 1 & 2.

Question 1. Describe a topic, activity, idea, or concept you find so engaging that it makes you lose all track of time. Why does it captivate you? What or who do you turn to when you want to learn more?

Question 2. In the introduction to his book The Lies that Bind: Rethinking Identity the philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah states:

• "There's no dispensing with identities, but we need to understand them better if we can hope to reconfigure them, and free ourselves from mistakes about them that are often a couple of hundred years old. Much of what is dangerous about them has to do with the way identities-religion, nation, race, class, and culture-divide us and set us against one another. They can be the enemies of human solidarity, the sources of war, horsemen of a score of apocalypses from apartheid to genocide. Yet these errors are also central to the way identities unite us today. We need to reform them because, at their best, they make it possible for groups, large and small, to do things together. They are the lies that bind."

• In a well-developed essay address the following questions: What do you think Appiah means by the "lies that bind" and how would you relate this to ways you think about identity?