1776

[Mrs. Mendoza]

Please post one of your entries from your dialectic journal that you feel is your strongest or most interesting in terms of insights, questions, connections or tensions. Please feel free to respond constructively to other student's posts. Due Monday, October 24.

[Jackie]

Note Taking
"Most men of poverty would rather protect the possibility of being rich than surrender to reality"

Note Making
Does this later become our modern, indirect, description of ambition? Is ambition not the desire for what we don’t yet have but desperately want? In today’s society ambition isn’t frowned upon, on the contrary, its admirable to want to better ones life. Yet, what it all boils down to is the quote above; we are simply desperately running away from a cruel reality in the hopes of never having to surrender. I connected this to an Emiliano Zapata quote “I would rather die standing than live on my knees” in my mind the quote above says I would rather die thinking I could have been rich than live accepting the fact that I am poor.

[Emerald]

Note Taking:
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary saftey deserve neither liberty nor saftey." Benjamin Franklin

Note Making:
Franklins quote means to me that if your willing to give up something so important to temporarily have something less signifigant you are not worthy of having either things in your life. Although as my mind wandered i began thinking of a similar quote that popped into my head when i heard those words was "an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind..." To me, one must give to recieve and you must pay when you take. Therefore when you take saftey you must give something but you shouldnt ever give up your liberty. I wonder, what is Benjamin Franklin's or any other Founding Fathers definition of "liberty" is? Does the definition of "liberty" vary between the Founding Fathers or is it basicly the same for all of them?