Jeffersons Declaration of Independence Passage Identification and Essay Response Part I:Passage identification Directions:Choose four (4) of the following

Jeffersons Declaration of Independence Passage Identification and Essay Response Part I:Passage identification

Directions:Choose four (4) of the following passages. For each passage you select, in 4-5 sentences, explain or analyze the significance of the passage in the larger context.In other words, lay bare the importance of that passage.

1, Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence. “He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.”

2, Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. “It’s the bags over the heads that are the worst, worse than the faces themselves would be. It makes the men like dolls on which the faces have not yet been painted; like scarecrows, which in a way is what they are, since they are meant to scare. Or as if their heads are sacks, stuffed with some undifferentiated material, like flour or dough. It’s the obvious heaviness of the heads, their vacancy, the way gravity pulls them down and there’s no life anymore to hold them up. The heads are zeros.”

3, Chapter 3 of Butler’s Undoing Gender. “So Brenda grew up as a girl, and was monitored often, given over on a periodic basis to John Money’s Gender Identity Institute for the purposes of fostering adaptation to being a girl. Then between the ages of eight and nine, Brenda found herself developing the desire to buy a toy machine gun. Between the ages of nine and eleven, she started to make the realization that she was not a girl. This realization seems to coincide with the desire to buy certain kinds of toys: more guns, apparently, and some trucks.”

4, Yoo’s “With All Necessary and Appropriate Force.” “Official Washington has been struck by a paroxysm of leaking. It involves classified memos analyzing how the Geneva Convention, the 1994 Torture Convention and a federal law banning torture apply to captured Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters.”

5, Chapter XV (15) of Machiavelli’s The Prince. “This will soon make him odious to his subjects, and becoming poor he will be little valued by any one; thus, with his liberality, having offended many and rewarded few, he is affected by the very first trouble and imperilled by whatever may be the first danger; recognizing this himself, and wishing to draw back from it, he runs at once into the reproach of being miserly.”

6, King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” “You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue.”

Part II:Essay response

Directions: Choose one of the passages above. Explain, how do you think this passage/text will affect you? Has it changed the way you see American society or your place in it?

Your response should be between 350 and 500 words. Please use your own word to aviod plagiarism.