New Site

We're making a change to the way that we release work for our classes. The main lessons (the things that we'll do in class each day) will now be found at the site "Optimal Beneficial Moreover Detrimental: Classroom." We're keeping this site, with a slightly different name, in order to release a reading a day for students to practice their reading at home. Each post will contain a link to a reading, along with a list of assignments that can be completed for that reading.

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

16.1. Essay Topic: On Power

We read Tunes For Bears to Dance To over the Christmas break, and I was thinking that this book was a good opportunity to think about power. So, consider the following quotation. The first sentence is one of the most famous in English; the second sentence is almost always left out.

 "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men." - Lord Acton, British historian

 Do you think that this is true or not? Either way, make sure to think about examples to make your arguments. 

 Write me an explanatory essay that communicates your thoughts on this. Take 30 minutes; we'll probably then have to talk about it - this is a tough concept.

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