Self-study
Laurie: Support In a democracy, public art should bring people together either by expressing a consensus on a subject or by helping people to reconcile their differences and to recognize that no single opinion is definitive. █████ ████████████ ██████ ███ ███████ ████ █████████ ██ ███ ██████ ██ ███ █████
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Speaker 1 Summary
Laurie concludes that contemporary public art has failed to achieve its purpose. Its purpose in a democracy is to express a consensus on a subject or to help people reconcile their differences. Contemporary public art only creates bitterness among people.
Speaker 2 Summary
Elsa has a different take on what public art should do. She thinks it should emphasize radically different opinions. Elsa asserts that it’s impossible for art to either express a consensus on a subject or to help people to reconcile their differences.
Objective
We’re looking for a point of disagreement. The speakers disagree on what public art should do. Laurie thinks it should help bring people together. Elsa thinks it should emphasize different opinions.
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Neither speaker has an opinion. They don’t discuss different types of public art or what’s most common in a democracy.
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whether it is ████████ ██ █ █████████ ██ ██████ ██████ ███ ████ ██████ ████ █████████ █████████ ████████ ███ █████ ███ ███████
Neither speaker has an opinion. Although both speakers discuss whether art can bring people together, they don’t discuss whether people with different opinion can enjoy or support public art. Enjoyment of art is different from art’s ability to bring people together.
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This is a point of disagreement. Laurie thinks public art should bring people together. Elsa thinks public art should emphasize radically different opinions, and that it’s impossible for public art to bring people together.
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whether contemporary public ███ ███████ ████ ████████
Elsa has no opinion on this. She doesn’t discuss whether public art creates acrimony or other feelings.
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whether it is ████ ███ ████████████ ██████ ███ ██ ████ ███████ █ █████████ ██ █ ███████
Laurie doesn’t have an opinion. She says public art should help bring people together by expressing a consensus or helping people to see that no opinion is definitive. But this isn’t the same as helping people to achieve a consensus.