Independence:
The following quotes
illustrate the topic's ambiguity. Use these to establish the scope of your
topic--to begin to specify the subtopics that verbalize various differing
opinions on the same issue--to begin to develop a guide to your reading.
"So live that you can look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell." Anon.
"The only
point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go."
Humphrey Bogart
"No one can
build his security upon the nobleness of another person."
Willa Cather
"Can
anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"[I am] lord
of myself, accountable to none." Benjamin Franklin"
"If money is
your hope for independence, you will never have it."
Henry Ford
"It is easy
to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't
got athing--that's the Lord's test." Mahalia Jackson
"I do desire
we may be better strangers." William Shakespeare
How happy is he born
and taught,
That serveth not
another's will;
Whose armour is
his honest thought,
And simple truth
his utmost skill."
from The Character of a Happy Life by Sir Henry Wotton
_ _ _ Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Self-Reliance." Essays and Lectures. Ed.Joel Porte.
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"First Amendment Agree or Disagree Question." The College Board English Language Advanced Placement Examination. 1990.
Fraser, Antonia. The Warrior Queens. New York: Random
House, Inc., 1988.
Golding, William. Lord of the Flies.
Jefferson, Thomas. "The Declaration of Independence." Writing About the World. Vol. 1. Ed. Susan McCleod. Orlando, FL: Harcourt, Brace,
Jovanovich, 1991. Pages 96-104.
Lewis, David. W. E. B. DuBois: Biography of a Race. New York: Henry, Holt,
and Co., 1993.
McCourt, Frank. Angela's Ashes. New York: Scribner, 1996.
McPhearson, James M. Marching Towards Freedom.
Paine, Thomas. Common Sense. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1994.
Parkman, Francis. The Oregon Trail. Philadelphia: The John C. Winston
Company, 1931.
Puller, Lewis B. Fortunate Son. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1991.
Thoreau, Henry David. Walden and Civil Disobedience. New York:
New American Library, 1980.
Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Wills, Garry. Certain Trumpets: The Call of Leaders. New York: Simon and
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