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Where to Find the Group Readings

Assignment: Divide up the texts below so that each person in your group has one
text to read. Discuss in a group by summarizing the textWhat did the author
say?and comment on itIs it true? The reading section should be about thirtyfifty pages in length.
Readings:
Platos Socrates Apology available at http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/apology.html
Martin Luther King Juniors Letter from Birmingham Jail available at
http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html or
http://www.uscrossier.org/pullias/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/king.pdf and in
his book, Why We Cant Wait, available for purchase in bookstores.
Benjamin Franklins The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, (Chapters 1-6, 9)
available at http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/148/pg148.html or
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20203/20203-h/20203-h.htm
Jeffersons Declaration of Independence available at
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html
Lincolns Gettysburg Address available at
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/gettyb.asp
Hutchins The Great Conversation available at
http://www.britannica.com/blogs/wp-content/pdf/The_Great_Conversation.pdf
An overview of the Zimbardo prison experiment available at
http://www.prisonexp.org/
Frederick Douglass Narrative of an American Slave (Ch 1, 6-7, 11) available at
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/23/23-h/23-h.htm#2HCH0006
Stories from The Forgiveness Project at http://theforgivenessproject.com/stories/
Texts available for purchase in bookstores:
Corrie ten Booms The Hiding Place (Ch 15)
Immacule Ilibagizas Left to Tell (Ch 24)
George Orwells Animal Farm
Elie Wiesels Night ISBN-13: 978-0374500016
Jason McLennans The Philosophy of Sustainable Design

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