Essays / Prompt for "Examsmanship and the Liberal Arts" by Perry [9]

My English 100 teacher gave us an assignment to write an essay using this prompt from "Examsmanship and the Liberal Arts" by William G. Perry Jr.

Here is the prompt: Assume that you have been asked, as a student representative, to write a paper for the faculty senate of your college or university in response to the following claim, made by William G. Perry:

If a liberal education should teach students "how to think," not only in fields outside their own-that is , to understand "how the other fellow orders knowledge," then bulling, even in its purest form, expresses an important part of what a pluralist university holds dear. . . (32)

I'm having trouble understanding the prompt and thus having trouble writing my essay. My essay is due Sept. 8th, 2009, if anyone could help me with understanding this before then, I would be extremely thankful.

Research Papers / Stuck on ideas for Research Paper (argumentative research topic) 100 class [6]

I'm stuck on ideas for a research paper for my English 100 Class. My teacher doesn't want a history research topic, he wants an argumentative research topic. The research paper has to be 2000-2500 words long. I'm not much into politics, so a lot of the ideas on the internet are hard for me to write on. I really like literature, especially C.S. Lewis. Basically what I need are some good ideas for a 2000-2500 word argumentative research paper, that have a lot of information to back them up, because obviously the essay is really long. Any ideas?