Unit 1: What is the right thing to do?
Who is the thinker that believes all decisions should be rooted in what the outcome will be?
Intro, Counterclaim, Supporting Claim (x2), Conclusion
Language that has meaning beyond the literal meaning; also known as “figures of speech.
Figurative language
How is Malcolm's Father killed?
Black Legion murdered him and left him under a train
Credibility, Emotion, and Logic or reasoning
“Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end."
Who is the writer of this quote?
Immanuel Kant
What makes some one a revolutionary?
Injustice, Going against injustice, evoking change.
What is a symbol?
Person, place, or thing that represents something beyond itself, most often something concrete or tangible that represents an abstract idea.
What are two following characters considered? Ella and Shorty
FOIL characters
Define credibility
the quality of being trusted and believed in
The trolley dilemma allows us to think through the consequences of an action and consider whether its moral value is determined solely by its outcome or by its means.
What term makes it just to kill the one person to save the five?
Consequentialism
Why is Socrates the wisest?
Because he admits he knows nothing at all
What is the essential question about Identity?
Is Identity fixed or malleable?
What is a major symbol throughout the text? What are motifs that they represent?
The conk or the gun. Assimilation or violence.
"Disneyland... The happiest place on earth."
This is an example of which rhetorical appeal?
Pathos
“The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure.”
what is the philosophical term for this quote?
Utilitarianism
What is Socrates charged with?
(1) Corrupting the youth
(2) failing to recognize the gods acknowledged by the state.
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
What is the rhyme scheme of this poem?
ABA
I would sit goggle-eyed at my father jumping and shouting as he preached, with the congregation jumping and shouting behind him, their souls and bodies devoted to singing and praying. Even at that young age, I just couldn't believe in the Christian concept of Jesus as someone divine. And no religious person, until I was a man in my twenties—and then in prison—could tell me anything. I had very little respect for most people who represented religion. (1.13)
What theme is this most likely aligned with
Religion
"Make America Great Again" is an emotional to what?
The past or American past.
What did Harvey Milk fight for?
LGBTQ rights in San Fransisco
Any day now you will have the ability to feed the name
Of anyone into an engine & your long lost half brother
As well as whoever else possesses a version of his name
This is an example of?
Metaphor
Every instinct of the ghetto jungle streets, every hustling fox and criminal wolf instinct in me, which would have scoffed at and rejected anything else, was struck numb. It was as though all of that life merely was back there, without any remaining effect, or influence. (10.106)
What is the theme behind this quote?
Transformation
All seniors are bad drivers. Mr. Jones is 70 years old and you won't let him drive your car because you think he is an unsafe driver.
This is an example of?
Logic