Read as much of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense as you have time for and Jon Katz’s “The Age of Paine by Jon Katz”. In a minimum of 500 words respond to the following prompts:
1. What was so revolutionary about Common-Sense when it was first written in 1775?
2. What is still revolutionary about the work globally today in relation to the United Nations’ “Universal Declaration of Human Rights”? — http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/
3. How did Leporello in “Don Giovanni” deal with the inequities of his lower-class, servant’s position in this late eighteenth century setting?
4. What more opportunities are there for us Americans in the twenty-first century to balance access to equal rights?
