2-1 B: Quotes about Peace

Choose ONE of the following quotes.  Agree or disagree with the quote, clearly explaining the reason for your position.  Support your reasoning by explaining 1-2 specific examples that support your views.  These examples may come from your life, history, society, literature, movies, TV, etc.  Include the quote as the first sentence in your post so that everyone knows which quote you chose.

1. “Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.” - William Hazlitt

2. “If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

3. “If you want peace, work for justice.” - Pope Paul VI

4. “Only a peace between equals can last.  Only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common participation in a common benefit.” - Woodrow Wilson

Reminder 1: DO NOT repeat your classmates’ ideas or examples, but DO discuss your ideas in relation to theirs.  Make sure you read your classmates’ responses carefully before posting your own!

Reminder 2: Your response must include at least 2 full paragraphs of developed and well-supported analysis!

All responses are due by 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday, December 7^th.

2-1 A: Quotes about War

Choose ONE of the following quotes.  Agree or disagree with the quote, clearly explaining the reason for your position.  Support your reasoning by explaining 1-2 specific examples that support your views.  These examples may come from your life, history, society, literature, movies, TV, etc.  Include the quote as the first sentence in your post so that everyone knows which quote you chose.

1. “One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose a war.” - Agatha Christie

2. “Laws are silent in time of war.” – Cicero

3. “The Civil War is not ended; I question whether any serious civil war ever does end.” - T.S. Eliot (Note: Eliot lived from 1888 to 1965, well after the Civil War)

4. “War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things . . . The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless he is made and kept so by the exertions of better men than he.” - John Stuart Mill

Reminder 1: DO NOT repeat your classmates’ ideas or examples, but DO discuss your ideas in relation to theirs.  Make sure you read your classmates’ responses carefully before posting your own!

Reminder 2: Your response must include at least 2 full paragraphs of developed and well-supported analysis!

All responses are due by 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday, December 7^th.

1-5 B: Putting your best self forward

Choose ONE of the following quotes.  Agree or disagree with the quote, clearly explaining the reason for your position.  Support your reasoning by explaining 1-2 specific examples that support your views.  These examples may come from your life, society, literature, movies, TV, history, science, etc.  Include the quote as the first sentence in your post so that everyone knows which quote you chose.

1. “You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” – Henry Ford

2. “When people talk, listen completely.  Most people never listen.” Ernest Hemingway

3. “Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly I can!’  Then get busy and find out how to do it.” – Theodore Roosevelt

4. “Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.” – W.B. Yeats

Reminder: DO NOT repeat your classmates’ ideas or examples, but DO discuss your ideas in relation to theirs.  Make sure you read your classmates’ responses carefully before posting your own!

All responses are due by 4:00 p.m. on Thursday, November 11^th.

1-5 A: Hope and Laughter

Choose ONE of the following quotes.  Agree or disagree with the quote, clearly explaining the reason for your position.  Support your reasoning by explaining 1-2 specific examples that support your views.  These examples may come from your life, society, literature, movies, TV, history, science, etc.  Include the quote as the first sentence in your post so that everyone knows which quote you chose.

1. “To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

2. “Laughter is by definition healthy.” – Doris Lessing

3. “The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.” – Mark Twain

4. “It is impossible to go through life without trust; That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.” – Graham Greene

Reminder: DO NOT repeat your classmates’ ideas or examples, but DO discuss your ideas in relation to theirs.  Make sure you read your classmates’ responses carefully before posting your own!

All responses are due by 4:00 p.m. on Thursday, November 11^th.