a. Pericles’ Funeral Oration (Thucydides)

b. The Second Fall of Rome (Michael Lind)

c. from Who Put the West in Western Civilization? (Robert
Royal)

2. Give specific examples and explain how traditions are
good things and in what ways they might be considered negative or detrimental
to a society.

3. Explain whether or not it is a good practice to question
traditions.

4. Provide examples about some potentially positive and
negative social issues that could come from questioning tradition.

5. Pick 1-2 traditions that we have in the U.S. that we share
as a collective society; research the history (tradition) behind each tradition
and thoroughly explain in your posting.

6. Identify two traditions in US society that you feel we’ve
lost during the last 100 years or so.

7. Explain how and why we’ve lost these traditions.

8. Discuss whether or not these losses are good or bad for
us as a society.