Extra Credit 6th Six weeks

 

Must be turned in by June 2 and  uploaded to Turn It In by the 3rd. 

 

Pick one of the following quotes and analyze the author's thoughts. What are they trying to say? How does it compare to your thoughts on war. Would Weisel have agreed with you? Is there a character in Night that would have agreed with you?--Minimum 1 page.

 

 

-->John Stuart Mill:

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. 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 chanceof being free unless made or kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

 

John Adams:

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.

 

Dorothy Thompson:

They have not wanted Peace at all; they have wanted to be spared war -- as though the absence of war was the same as peace.

 

 

OR

 

Select a war protest song (I suggest you try the late 60’s--early 70’s; many of today’s band are covering these songs); what are the lyrics trying to accomplish? What do you think of their ideas: do you agree or disagree? Why? Did their protest fit their time only, or is it still applicable today? –Include the lyrics; analysis must be at least one page long.

 

OR
 

Write a poem, rap or song expressing your thoughts on war.—20 lines, counting refrain only once. Must be in presentation form
 

OR 

Make a collage that illustrates your thoughts on war.—this collage must have an apparent message.

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