How We Can Create Meaningful Change in the Modern World

Please pick one of the prompts below to write a humanities essay. Using the materials I send you only, NO OUTSIDE SOURCES

5 full pages – you must cite texts/quotes from the readings to support your points….. As you see in the Prompts, you must use three authors to write this essay. I will post lecture slides for you later.

Your response should have a thesis and draw on specific references from the relevant texts.

Write an essay on one the following prompts:

1. How should we use the traditions that have been handed to us, and why?

In your response, think broadly about what tradition includes – history, art, literature, religion, social values, etc. – and use three of the following: Césaire, lorde, King, Malcolm X, and Butler.

2. What role, if any, should religion or spirituality play in the modern world, and why?

Use three of the following authors to respond to this question: Césaire, lorde, King, Malcolm X, and Butler.

3. How can we create meaningful change in the modern world?

Use three of the following authors to respond to this question: Césaire, lorde, King, Malcolm X, and Butler.