Zetetic+Ziven

Guiding Question: What divides a group of people?

People are divided when something new and different affects them. Some people embrace new, different things, while others attack change. Throughout history, there have been people who are different, who look in the opposite direction of their peers, people that look towards the new, instead of the old. These people are the opposition to societal conformity, the status quo, and to group thinking.

Possible texts to be used: Jefferson’s “Query 17”—Jefferson is trying to change the status quo of colonial society. He helped to divide colonial society into Loyalists and Revolutionaries. //The Villa////ge//—bickering between the Village Elders' over whether to keep The Village's status quo and lose Lucius or to break it and save Lucius. //The Crucible—//Proctor, Giles, et cetera, all are attacked by the theocracy of Salem. By the end of the book, their efforts help break theocracy in Salem. //Anthem—//the protagonist breaks away from conformist society, and makes his own society.

I color coded my citations in the hope that it would be more easy to identify who wrote what.

Personal Philosophy: There are people who do things and there are people who wait for someone else to do them. The greatest goal a man can achieve is to be someone who challenges the status quo, who is unique, who takes action. I am. I think. I will. I celebrate myself, and sing myself. And what I assume you shall assume, for every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. They will be forgotten and their rights disregarded. The shackles, which shall not be knocked off at the conclusion of this war, will remain on us long, will be made heavier and heavier, till our rights shall revive or expire in a convulsion.

Let us not forget it was of hope of something good and right. Let us too give this experiment fair play and get rid of, while we may, of those tyrannical laws. Tomorrow morning. Not before. **// Seize the day, //** trusting as little as possible in the next. Yes, I have risked; I hope I am always able to risk //everything// for the just and right cause.
 * One has attained to mastery when one neither goes wrong //nor hesitates// in the performance. **

(Please only watch from 4:05 til 6:43.) media type="youtube" key="DeBxmZtWghM" height="344" width="425" Let you fear nothing. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. For the battle they lost can never be lost. For that which they died to save can never perish. Through all the darkness, through all the shame which men are capable, the spirit of man will remain on this earth. There is another judgment waits us all.

My long-crushed spirit rose, cowardice departed, bold defiance took its place; and I now resolved that, however long I might remain a slave in form, the day passed forever when I could be a slave in fact. I ducked down and ran for the river. I made a decision of the heart.

And the day will come when I shall break the chains of the earth, and raze the cities of the enslaved.

And it will become as the heart of the earth, lost and hidden at first, but beating, beating louder each day.

Works Cited

"Carmina (Horatius)/Liber I/Carmen XI -." //Wikisource//. Web. 05 Dec. 2009. <[|http://la.wikisource.org/wiki/Carmina_(Horatius)/Liber_I/Carmen_XI]>.

"Franklin D. Roosevelt: First Inaugural Address. U.S. Inaugural Addresses. 1989." //Bartleby.com: Great Books Online -- Quotes, Poems, Novels, Classics and hundreds more//. Web. 05 Dec. 2009. . Frederick Douglass. //Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave//. Austin, TX: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1845. Print.

Hemingway, Ernest. //A Farewell to Arms//. New York: Scribner, 1929. Print. Miller, Arthur. //The Crucible (Penguin Classics)//. New York: Penguin Classics, 2003. Print.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm. //Daybreak thoughts on the prejudices of morality//. Cambridge, U.K: Cambridge UP, 1997. Print. "Notes on the State of Virginia." //University// //of Virginia Library//. Web. 02 Dec. 2009. <[]>.

Rand, Ayn. //Anthem//. New York: Signet, 1996. Print.

// The Village //. Dir. M. Night Shyamalan. Perf. Bryce Howard and Joaquin Phoenix. Touchstone Pictures, 2004. //Youtube//. Google, 23 July 2008. Web. 4 Dec. 2009. <[]>.

Whitman, Walt. //Leaves of Grass (Bantam Classics)//. New York: Bantam Classics, 1983. Print.