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DEESE, SPRING 2021
SECOND MIDTERM
SS 103 5-TO-7 PAGES DOUBLE-SPACED; 12 POINT FONT; ONE INCH MARGINSSINCE AT LEAST THE TIME OF PLATO, THE DIALOGUE HAS BEEN A USEFUL GENRE ···
PHILOSOPHICAL DIALOGUE: DUE FRIDAY, APRIL 2nd (submit as Word Doc via Blackboard by 5PM EST) SS 103
5-TO-7 PAGES DOUBLE-SPACED; 12 POINT FONT; ONE INCH MARGINS
SINCE AT LEAST THE TIME OF PLATO, THE DIALOGUE HAS BEEN A USEFUL GENRE FOR EXPLORING AND ASSESSING IDEAS. CHOOSE ONE OF THE FOLLOWING TOPICS AND WRITE A PHILOSOPHICAL DIALOGUE IN WHICH EACH FIGURE FORCEFULLY ARGUES THEIR POSITION.
BE SURE TO USE A MINIMUM OF THREE CITED QUOTATIONS BY EACH FIGURE (using MLA format). WRITE THESE CITED QUOTES IN BOLDFACE IN YOUR DIALOGUE. WHILE THE ASSIGNMENT WILL NATURALLY REQUIRE YOU TO INVENT MOST OF THE DIALOGUE INVOLVED, YOU SHOULD HAVE EACH FIGURE EXPRESS VIEWS OR DESCRIBE EXPERIENCES THAT ARE CONSISTENT WITH THEIR DOCUMENTED WORDS AND ACTIONS.
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Write a dialogue between Plato and Aristotle debating the merits of the graphic novel DEMOCRACY SS 103
both as art and as a portrayal of how Athenian democracy was born.
- Write a dialogue between Machiavelli and Shakespeare’s Richard III concerning who knows more about getting and keeping power in a monarchy.
- Write a dialogue between Portia from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and Margaret from Shakespeare’s Richard III on how women are impacted by tyranny, and how they can respond.
- Write a dialogue between Francis Bacon and Galileo about who deserves more credit for starting the scientific revolution in the 1600s.
- Write a dialogue between Mary Wollstonecraft, Olaudah Equiano, and Thomas Jefferson on what mustbe included in the founding document of a democratic republic.