Argumentative essay 1300-1400 words. 12 point Times New Roman font, double-spaced, 1 inch margins on all sides. Number your pages. Prompt: Most of the authors represented in this chapter believe that our society is undergoing significant changes. Many of them warn that these changes are putting our societies or political systems at risk. But some also suggest that we ahve new opportunities to realize our democratic ideas, pershaps more fully than we have in the past. Almost all of the readings contain at least an implicit call to action. What do you think about the kinds of changes these authors describe? Which of the threats and/pr opportunities that they describe seem most significant to you? How should we respond to them? Whatever position you take, consider the role of local communitites and/or relatively small groups of like-minded individuals in responding to these threats/opportunities. For sources, you must use at least three readings from chapter three including either the Ehlshtain or Eck articles. Following are the articles from chapter three: (need three articles) 1. Second Treatise Of Government by John Locke 2. The Declaration of independence 3. A Call To Civil Society 4. Citizenship and inequality by Evelyn N. Glenn 5. `The Caging Of America`-Excerpts by Adam Gopnik 6. `The New Jim Crow`-Excerpts by michelle Alexander 7. The Perpetuation Of Our Political Institutions by Abraham Lincoln 8. Letter From Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr. 9. Epilogue (OR I, TOO, SING AMERICA) by Langston Hughes 10. American Religious Pluralism: Civic And Theological Discourse by Diana L. Eck 11. Power Steer by Michael Pollan 12. Serving in Florida by Barbara Ehrenreich

Argumentative essay 1300-1400 words. 12 point Times New Roman font, double-spaced, 1 inch margins on all sides. Number your pages.


Prompt: Most of the authors represented in this chapter believe that our society is undergoing significant changes. Many of them warn that these changes are putting our societies or political systems at risk. But some also suggest that we ahve new opportunities to realize our democratic ideas, pershaps more fully than we have in the past. Almost all of the readings contain at least an implicit call to action. What do you think about the kinds of changes these authors describe? Which of the threats and/pr opportunities that they describe seem most significant to you? How should we respond to them? Whatever position you take, consider the role of local communitites and/or relatively small groups of like-minded individuals in responding to these threats/opportunities. For sources, you must use at least three readings from chapter three including either the Ehlshtain or Eck articles.



Following are the articles from chapter three:
(need three articles)
1. Second Treatise Of Government by John Locke
2. The Declaration of independence
3. A Call To Civil Society
4. Citizenship and inequality by Evelyn N. Glenn
5. `The Caging Of America`-Excerpts by Adam Gopnik
6. `The New Jim Crow`-Excerpts by michelle Alexander
7. The Perpetuation Of Our Political Institutions by Abraham Lincoln
8. Letter From Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr.
9. Epilogue (OR I, TOO, SING AMERICA) by Langston Hughes
10. American Religious Pluralism: Civic And Theological Discourse by Diana L. Eck
11. Power Steer by Michael Pollan
12. Serving in Florida by Barbara Ehrenreich