Please pick three (3) of the quotes provided in this same folder. Then for each quote, answer all of the following:
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What is the full name of the author and text that this quote is from?
1 sentence
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What does this quote mean in your own words? If it is a quote where an author is presenting an argument, then explain the author’s position, reasons, and also how this argument fits into the larger purpose of the work. If it is an excerpt from a fictional work, then explain who is speaking and what is taking place, within the context of the larger story.
As part of your explanation, do some close reading of at least a few words within the quote and explain why those words are important.
1 full paragraph (at least 100 words)
2 points
How does this quote connect to something covered in the corresponding class session? Refer to something specific that came up during the class presentation and/or class discussion on this author. It is recommended to see if the quote connects to a controversial issue we have discussed during that class.
1 full paragraph (at least 100 words)
2 points
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1 sentence +
2 paragraphs
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IMPORTANT NOTE:
This is not a research paper. It is inappropriate to use secondary sources (commentaries, etc.) from the internet or other places. Your writing should be based on your own personal experience and your own interpretation of the text. Using material from other sources or persons without acknowledgment constitutes plagiarism and will result in getting an “F” on this paper.
1. “…I would not do it for a child, were I a mother,
Not for a husband either. Let them lie, putrefied, dead;
I would not defy the city at such cost for their sake.
What law can I claim on my side for this choice?
I may have another husband if the first should die
And get another child from a new man if I’m a widow.
But my mother and my father lie in the land of death,
And there is no ground to grow a brother for me now….”
2. On closer inspection, I find further difficulties. Not merely in this stranger in general unworthy of my love; I must honestly confess that he has more claim to my hostility and even my hatred. He seemd to not have the least trace of love for me and shows me not the slightest consideration. If it will do him any good he has no hesistation in injuring me, nor does he ask himself whether the amount of advantage he gains bears any proportion ot the extzent of the harm he does to me…. If he behaves differently, if he shows me consideration and forbearance as a stranger, I am ready to treat him in the same way, in any case and quite apart from any precept. Indeed, if this grandiose commandment had run ‘Love thy neighbour as thy neighbour loves thee,’ I should not take exception to it.
3. But not only has the bourgeoisie forged the weapons that bring death to itself; it has also called into existence the men who are to wield those weapons—the modern working class—the proletarians.
In proportion as the bourgeoisie, i.e., capital, is developed, in the same proportion is the proletariat, the modern working class, developed—a class of labourers, who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labour increases capital. These labourers, who must sell themselves piece-meal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce, and are consequently exposed to all the vicissitudes of competition, to all the fluctuations of the market.
4. But though this is a state of liberty, it isn’t a state of licence in which there are no constraints on how people behave. A man in that state is absolutely free to dispose of himself or his possessions, but he isn’t at liberty to destroy himself, or even to destroy any created thing in his possession unless something nobler than its mere preservation is at stake. The state of nature is governed by a law that creates obligations for everyone. And reason, which is that law, teaches anyone who takes the trouble to consult it, that because we are all equal and independent, no-one ought to harm anyone else in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.
5. It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent upon each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us.
6. And God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. They shall rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the cattle, the whole earth, and all the creeping things that creep on earth.” And God created man in His image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. God blessed them and God said to them, “Be fertile and increase, fill the earth and master it; and rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, and all the living things that creep on earth.”
7. Let us reflect in another way, and we shall see that there is great reason to hope that death is a good, for one of two things: – either death is a state of nothingness and utter unconsciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if you suppose that there is no consciousness, but a sleep like the sleep of him who is undisturbed even by the sight of dreams, death will be an unspeakable gain.… But if death is the journey to another place, and there, as men say, all the dead are, what good, O my friends and judges, can be greater than this? If indeed when the pilgrim arrives in the world below, he is delivered from the professors of justice in this world, and finds the true judges who are said to give judgment there, Minos and Rhadamanthus and Aeacus and Triptolemus, and other sons of God who were righteous in their own life, that pilgrimage will be worth making. What would not a man give if he might converse with Orpheus and Musaeus and Hesiod and Homer?
8. And therefore I am come amongst you at this time, not as for my recreation or sport, but being resolved, in the midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all; to lay down, for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honor and my blood, even the dust. I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart of a king, and of a king of England, too; and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any prince of Europe, should dare to invade the borders of my realms: to which, rather than any dishonor should grow by me, I myself will take up arms; I myself will be your general, judge, and rewarder of every one of your virtues in the field.
9. “I understand from your words and the look in your eyes,”
that shadow of magnificence answered me,
“your soul is sunken in that cowardice
that bears down many men, turning their course
and resolution by imagined perils,
as his own shadow turns the frightened horse.
To free you of this dread I will tell you all
of why I came to you and what I heard
when first I pitied you. I was a soul
among the souls of Limbo, when a Lady
so blessed and so beautiful, I prayed her
to order and command my will, called to me.
10. If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.
You all do know this mantle….
Look, in this place ran Cassius’ dagger through;
See what a rent the envious Casca made;
Through this the well-beloved Brutus stabb’d;
And as he pluck’d his cursed steel away,
Mark how the blood of Caesar follow’d it,
As rushing out of doors, to be resolved
If Brutus so unkindly knock’d, or no;
For Brutus, as you know, was Caesar’s angel.
Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him!
This was the most unkindest cut of all….
11. The passers-by hurled abuse at him: ‘Aha!’ they cried, wagging their heads, ‘you would pull the temple down, would you, and build it in three days? Come down from the cross and save yourself!’ So too the chief priests and the doctors of the law jested with one another: ‘He saved others,’ they said, ‘but he cannot save himself. Let the Messiah, the king of Israel, come down now from the cross. If we see that, we shall believe.’ Even those who were crucified with him taunted him.
At midday darkness fell over the whole land, which lasted till three in the afternoon; and at three Jesus cried aloud, ‘Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?’, which means, ‘My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?’
12. Lastly, if it universally appears, by experiments and astronomical observations, that all bodies about the earth gravitate towards the earth … and, all the planets one towards another; and the comets in like manner towards- the sun; we must, in consequence of this rule, universally allow that all bodies whatsoever are endowed with a principle of mutual gravitation.
For the argument from the appearances concludes with more force for the universal gravitation of all bodies than for their impenetrability; of which, among those in the celestial regions, we have no experiments, nor any manner of observation.
