Category: Humanities : Humanities

The most famous line from the Ephebic Oath is “I shall not leave my city any less but rather greater than I found it.” However, the Ephebic Oath also states, “I…shall resist anyone who destroys the laws or disobeys them.”

In his “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote the following: “An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.”

Considering Dr. King’s statement, should Townsend Harris students swear to “resist anyone who…disobeys [the law]”?

Develop and support a perspective on the above question. Use the two resources below to help you develop your response.

The Resources:
Resource 1: “The Rebellion has begun” by Greta Thunberg (you can also access at https://tinyurl.com/thhsresource1)

Resource 2: “Rule of Law” a video produced by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (you can also access at https://tinyurl.com/thhsresource2)

What were the political and religious causes of The Protestant Reformation? What was Martin Luther’s role, and how did the German princes help his cause? What did the Reformation do to the political and religious landscape of Europe? Who were the other main actors and what were their roles? Use specific names, places, documents, etc.

Summarize what happens in the passage in your own words, then conduct an analysis of the rhetorical strategies that the speakers employ to achieve a particular aim in that section of the dialogue. Make sure to provide specific textual evidence from the passage to support your argument. As you develop your ideas and claims, consider the following questions: How does the speaker craft their message to engage and persuade their interlocutor(s)? Does the speaker make appeals to ethos, logos, and pathos? If so, how and to what ends? If Plato employs an analogy, allegory, myth, or other figurative device in your passage, what conceptual work does that figure accomplish? How does this passage relate to Plato’s larger worldbuilding project in the dialogue, either in defining the way the world currently is or in articulating the way an idealized world might be?
For the purposes of this assignment, you will treat Grube’s translation of Plato’s Republic as the primary source.
Consider:
Not what the text means but HOW the text creates meaning (and/or persuades its audience thorough rhetorical choices
Rhetorical devices/choices and their impacts on the audience: what specific device/choice is used? What appeals does the device/choice create. How does it contribute to the main argument/message and impact the audience?
Types of choices: diction, syntax, tone, characterization, dialogue, structure, figurative language (simile, metaphor, hyperbole), etc.
The passage:
No, by god, I don’t think myself that these stories are fit to be told. Indeed, if we want the guardians of our city to think that it’s shameful to be easily provoked into hating another, we mustn’t allow any stories about gods warring, fighting, or plotting against one another, for they aren’t true. The battles of gods and giants, and all the various stories of the gods hating their families or friends, should neither be told nor even woven in embroideries. If We’re to persuade our people that no citizen has ever hated another and that it’s impious to do so, then that’s what should be told to children from the beginning by old men and women; and as these children grow older, poets should be compelled to tell them the same sort of thing. We won’t admit stories into our city—whether allegorical or not—about Hera being chained by her son, nor about Hephaestus being hurled from heaven by his father when he tried to help his mother, who was being beaten, nor about the battle of the gods in Homer. The young can’t distinguish what is allegorical from what isn’t, and the opinions they absorb at that age are hard to erase and apt to become unalterable. For these reasons, then, we should probably take the utmost care to insure that the first stories they hear about virtue are the best ones for them to hear.
That’s reasonable. But if someone asked us what stories these are, what should we say?
You and I, Adeimantus, aren’t poets, but we are founding a city. And it’s appropriate for the founders to know the patterns on which poets must base their stories and from which they mustn’t deviate. But we aren’t actually going to compose their poems for them.
All right. But what precisely are the patterns for theology or stories about the gods?
Something like this: Whether in epic, lyric, or tragedy, a god must always be represented as he is.
Indeed, he must.
(Plato, Republic Book II 378b-379a)

This assignment evaluates your ability to (1) build an informed and sophisticated argument around texts assigned in the course; (2) locate, interpret, and analyze relevant textual evidence; and (3) track how differently situated authors have approached scientific and/or philosophical problems. Whereas the excursus required you to paraphrase the ideas of one author, the first essay asks you to assess critically the convergence and divergence between the views of two authors.
Your task is to write an essay that makes an original argument by advancing a series of related and substantiated claims in response to one of two prompts:
How do Haraway and Darwin differently elaborate theories of biological change?
How do Hobbes and Cronon differently present nature as a construction?
The essay must range between 1,500 and 1,800 words, divided into coherent paragraphs. Any submission below the lower limit or above the upper limit will not be graded. You are welcome, but not obligated, to consult peer-reviewed scholarship beyond your primary source; you must, however, cite any source you consult. The essay ought to follow the formatting and citation guidelines indicated in the syllabus.

Margery Kempe mystical experiences and why she shouldn’t have went on a pilgrimage and stayed home with her 14 children. I

Please read my instruction paper and there is a instructions for this homework. please read it, too. The materials and all files are in the essay2zip file.