How do the ideas of Mary Wollstonecraft and Frederick Douglass, concerning equality, apply to other realms of inequality?

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The Final Essay may not be submitted after the due date and time. There are no exceptions to this policy.

Final Essay Criteria:
• Essay #3 is a rough draft of the Final Essay
• Must be 1,800 words
• Must have at least two primary sources and three secondary, academic sources used internally and present in the works cited page
o Failure to have internal citations and/or a works cited page will result in low essay grade
o Note: Any essay from A World of Ideas that was not on the scheduled class readings is eligible for being a secondary academic source.
o The following essays from A World of Ideas are acceptable for primary sources:
 Gardner “A Rounded Version: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences”
 Lao-Tzu “Thoughts From the Tao-Te Ching”
 Machiavelli “Qualities of the Prince”
 Jefferson “Declaration of Independence”
 Emerson “Politics”
 Wollstonecraft “Of the Pernicious Effects Which Arise From the Unnatural Distinctions Established in Society”
 Douglass “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave”
 Friedmans “Created Equal”
 Reich “Why The Rich are Getting Richer and the Poor, Poorer”
 Aristotle “The Aim of Man”
 Thoreau “Civil Disobedience”
 Gilligan “Concepts of Self and Morality”
• Note: These are also the readings for your Journals. However, each chapter, from A World of Ideas, we have covered requires one extra journal entry, from any essay not covered in class, included in your Final Journal, for your Final Journal grade.
o These are the chapters that require an extra journal:
 Government
 Culture
 Wealth
 Mind
 Ethics

Possible Essay topics:
• Note: These are possible topics. You may choose any topic you wish, as long as it fits the essay criteria for kind and number of sources.
• An easy way to come up with a topic is to look at current events and the news. For example, apply something going on in our modern world to the texts we have read.
o Relate the concepts from a World of Ideas to:
 Government, education, politics, society, and/or culture
o How can our current education systems benefit from using ideas we have used in class?
o Taking a modern or historical leader, explain how their leadership style fits the texts from the Government chapter.
o Can business leaders or cultural influencers relate to the concepts from the government chapter?
• Apply any of the government concepts to a modern government or policy.
• How do the ideas of Wollstonecraft and Douglass, concerning equality, apply to other realms of inequality?
• Explore equal rights and how equality should be expressed in our modern world.
• How is education related to the culture and wealth chapters?
• What possible course of action would create wealth in our modern world?
• How can people succeed in our modern world?
o Does education, mindset, or ethics, play a role?
• Are morals still relevant in our modern society? Is immoral behavior seen as a positive? Explain.
• Is Civil Disobedience a concept that can be used effectively? Explain.
o Has Civil Disobedience always worked to create change?
• Look to culture and fiction. Can you relate any concepts we have studied to fictional characters? This would be a good introduction to literature studies.