As it says in the instructions, agree, disagree, or agree with qualifications with one of the following quotations. You must quote the quotation within the text of the essay–preferably integrating it well into your own writing. Make sure to type your A-number at the top of the essay before you begin.

Here are the quotations:

Women must enjoy the rights to participate fully in the social and political lives of their countries if we want freedom and democracy to thrive and endure. –Anna Quindlen

The focus ought to be on the root causes of the problem, not the symptoms. The hungry don’t need a technological quick fix. They need basic social change –Anuradha Mittal

There is freedom to and freedom from. But how much of the first should you have to give up in order to assure the second? –Margaret Atwood

Sometimes I wish everyone could have parents from different countries or ethnic groups so they would be forced to cross boundaries, to believe in mixtures, every day of their lives.   Because this is what the world calls us to do. WAKE UP! –Naomi Shibhab Nye

Cheap energy has led Americans to sprawl endlessly out.  We rattle around enormous houses and enormous suburbs, distant from each other in every sense of the word.   –Bill McKibben

Although there have always been those in society who resist change, the intensity of the attacks against GM crops from some quarters is unprecedented and, in certain cases, even surprising, given the potential environmental benefits that such technology can bring by reducing the use

of pesticides.  â€“Norman E. Borlaug

Bullets and bombs are not the only tools of war. Words, too, play their part. –Robin Tolmach Lakoff