Writing Analytically (Interpretatio/Implication)

4. In the female brain, there are more connections between the right hemisphere (emotions, spatial reasoning) and the left hemisphere (verbal facility). In the male brain, these two hemispheres remain more separate.

¨ This could be a reason young girls develop faster that young boys in the earlier stages of life. This could also be used as a support for a feminist argument that women are more capable of effectively communicating their thoughts than men are. They are more likely to relate what they say to how they think and also use speaking as a way of facilitating an effective thought process.

6. Neuroscientists tell us that the frontal cortex of the brain, the part that is responsible for judgment and especially for impulse control, is not fully developed in humans until roughly the age of twenty-one. What are the implications of this observation relative to observation 5?

¨ Until young adults reach the age of twenty-one, they cannot biologically be held responsible for their own actions or poor judgment. This could be why the drinking age is twenty-one years old. However, if juveniles under eighteen are now being tried and convicted as adults, there is no chance for teens to even realize the extent of their crimes before they have to pay for them in prison.

8. Shopping malls and grocery stores rarely have clocks.

¨ Corporations continue to perpetuate the idea that all people love to shop. If there are no clocks in grocery stores or shopping malls than the people in them are not aware of time passing as they spend massive amounts of money. Thus, corporations gain financially from something as simple as removing the clocks from their businesses. Although it seems harmless act could prove to be a disadvantage to consumers.