Antiquity
The little creature Socrates compares himself to
What is a gadfly
This thinker describes how humans, when left to themselves, are naturally evil.
Who is Hobbes?
This is the term thrown around in reference to "founding stock Americans." You must explain the term
What is White, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant
I have compared these two speeches to each other explicitly.
What is Pericles Funeral Oration and Gettysburg Address?
Name the war that Pericles' Funeral Oration is responding to as well as who won.
What is the Peleponnesian War and Sparta?
Reference 3 ideas/concepts the Founding fathers took from Locke.
"appeal to heaven"
"consent of the majority"
"we hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal."
The Seneca Falls Convention mirrors this document
What is the declaration of independence
Number of articles in the Bill of Rights Draft we saw at the NYPL
What is 12?
The person who said this quote
"... you're country is to be honored more than your mother, your father, and all your ancestors."
Who is socrates?
List 3 rhetorical strategies used by Douglass in his "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July."
Acceptable answers include:
1. The term "fellow-citizens"
2. Raising up (even falsely) the founding fathers, to push down his contemporaries who support slavery
3. Defining himself to be a true American
"One feature of a free society is surely the freedom of individuals to advocate and propagandize openly for a radical change in the structure of society-- so long as the advocacy is restricted to persuasion and does not include force or other forms of coercion."
Who is Friedman
The reason Wall St. is called Wall St.
What is the Dutch built the wooden plank wall in the 1640s to protect their land from Native Americans, pirates, and, most importantly, the British.
List the 3 good forms of the Aristotle government, and their malignant counterparts.
What is
Kingship-Dictatorship
Aristocracy-Oligarchy
Polity-Democracy
Reference this famous quote from Rousseau which I read to you ( I will also accept any other famous quotes form him)
What is
"Man is born Free and everywhere else he is in chains."
List 4 figures King references in his speech.
I will accept--
Who is
Apostle Paul
Elijah Muhammad
Augustine
Thomas Aquinas
Jesus
Thomas Jefferson
We have had 4 thinkers who are strongly affliated with Columbia (i.e. they have taught or gotten a degree from here). I will accept 3/4
Who is John Dewey, Milton Friedman, Mortimer J. Adler, and Randolph Bourne.
Explain to me, as if I am 5 years old, Aristotle's Master-slave theory as it relates to the body and the intellect. (Use examples)
I will be the judge
--19th amendment
--15th amendment
--24th amendment
--26th amendment
The name of the author of the other reading on Immigration and Citizenship
Who is Saum Song Bo?
This Revolutionary War hero is buried in a foreign country, where an American flag flies over his grave (think about our Fraunces tavern tour).
Who is Marquis de Lafayette