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What I have done if I was in the situation of Ann Patchett? Ann Patchett, during her speech at Clemson University, spent a considerable amount of time defending herself against the ideological attacks throwed to her book and the enormous religious bias that the people had and tried to impose to the young students who invited her to a talk.Her book, as any other non fiction book always sparks the attention and the unnecessary bursts of intolerance within the christian religious community in the US. A little bit of context is needed to understand why this phenomenon is becoming more common in the private schools of the US

What if...

What if...?       Today I was wondering about a question that almost everybody ask in their free time, an hypothetical conundrum of sorts that assaults the mind of the vague, the unprepared, and mostly the everyday people. Where were I could be if something in the past would have changed for some reason?       The real reason was related to a series of thought provoking questions and activities throw around in a classroom full of people that, like me, were pondering the enormous possibilities and the "What ifs" that this question question posits.       Imagine that, for example, my grandmother never read the “Ancient Civilizations” books that I relish, in my childhood -and partly were responsible for my inclination towards anthropology as a major and, maybe, a career-, what could be of that boy that crave to know more of cultures long gone? And, more importantly, What if I had never pursue this choice and instead incline towards what ...