The Two Big Questions
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The Two Big Questions
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• The life of Thomas Jefferson poses two key philosophical questions…– What does the most important phrase in our
Declaration of Independence actually mean?– Does it matter if a person with significant historical
importance has terrible aspects to their character?• This is the question we will be focusing on!!!
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Thomas Jefferson
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The Good • Founding Father• Wrote the Declaration
of Independence• Considered a Top 5
President by may historians
• Founded the University of Virginia
The Bad• Owned slaves• Had children out of
wedlock with slaves• Called for extremely
bloody violence in French Revolution
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Andrew Jackson
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The Good• One of most democratic
Presidents• American people had some
of the most liberty in history
• Encouraged continued expansion of the United States
The Bad• Indian Removal Act of 1830
– Led to the Trail of Tears- 16,000 Cherokees forcefully removed from Southeast to present-day OK
• Leader during the deaths of thousands of Native Americans
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John F. Kennedy
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The Good• War hero• Strong leadership during
Cuban Missile Crisis• Created the Peace Corps• Advocate of civil rights-
helped MLK• NASA grew• Made Presidency and White
House a more personable thing
The Bad• Allegedly had weekly (near
daily) affairs• Support various overthrows
of elected foreign governments
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Robert Oppenheimer, President Harry Truman, Crew Members of the Enola Gay
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The Good• Demonstrated the
advancement of American technology
• Protected the United States• Essentially ended World
War II• Helped establish the U.S. as
a superpower
• Affected and killed hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians (men, women, and children)
• http://www.atomicarchive.com/Docs/MED/med_chp10.shtml
• Changed the landscape of future conflicts
• Key part of fear in the Cold War
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Phil Knight
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The Good• Provides high quality shoes
to people around the world• http://
nikeinc.com/pages/the-nike-foundation
• Charity for multiple poverty organizations
• Donates millions to various causes annually
The Bad• 43 factories and 160,000
workers in Indonesia alone. • Make a mere $1.25 a day• http://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5uYCWVfuPQ
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Steve Jobs
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The Good• Donated tens of millions to
charity- $50 million to hospitals in CA
• Donated millions more to HIV research
• Brought amazing technology to the world
• Changed the way we live our lives
The Bad• Known to be a strict authoritarian
leader- Apple private security known to search people’s homes
• Self-document awful sweatshops in Asia- “Despite summer temperatures hitting 35 degrees, with 90 per cent humidity, there is no air-conditioning. Workers say some dormitories house more than 40 people and are infested with ants and cockroaches, with the noise and stench making it difficult to sleep.”