1st/2nd AP LANG/ENG 1101
HW DUE WED. 10/21:Complete JOURNAL #6 (JOURNALS section of binder):
1) Choose TWO (2) of the FOUR (4) quotes on the sheet given to you in class today from [General and] President Dwight D. Eisenhower (and copied below):
- --A COUPLE SUCCESSFUL APPROACHES TO CONSIDER FOR THESE QUOTES:
- compare the two quotes and their 'take' on war
- research the DATE of each quote and Eisenhower's varying perspective,
- DEFEND/CHALLENGE/QUALIFY each one, etc.
"When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war."
"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its stupidity. War settles nothing."
"Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion."
"If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They’ll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government."
***AS ALWAYS RE: JOURNAL RESPONSES..."I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its stupidity. War settles nothing."
"Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion."
"If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They’ll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government."
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--HAVE A HARD COPY WITH YOU TOMORROW, PLEASE
--min. 150-200 words per journal response, please
--PUT YOUR BEST INTO THESE DISCUSSION-BASED ASSIGNMENTS for quality discussion in class tomorrow
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