Write brief essays on the three questions (roughly 3-4 paragraphs) that address the questions that are posed about these texts. Be sure to thoroughly analyze the texts by addressing specific moments/quotes while you answer the questions about the underlying themes that these authors are trying to express.
1. How do the principles of Benjamin Franklin, as expressed in the readings of this term (Autobiography and The Way to Wealth) connect to the ideals of the farmer, as expressed by Paul Harvey’s words in “So God Made a Farmer”?
2. Discuss one reading/film that deal with the dangers/drawbacks of work. Discuss how either the Wagner Act or the Fair Labor Standards Act spoke to the conditions described in this reading/film.
3. Some texts express the desperation felt by workers who find themselves outside the working world. The poems “The Mill” and “What Work Is” touch on this theme in different ways. Compare and contrast how the workers in these poems deal with the prospect of not having work.
