Power and Responsibility
Introduction: Power and Responsibility 8.6: Tim O’Brien, “The Things They Carried” 8.16: Langston Hughes, “Democracy” 8.25: Abraham Lincoln, “Second Inaugural Address, (March 4, 1865)” In addition to the above texts, please, utilize the Library resources or the Internet search to read the following: Raymond Carver, “Cathedral” Linda Pastan, “Ethics” John F. Kennedy, “Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961” Martin Luther King, Jr. “I Have a Dream” Consider the examples of leadership you have read about in this module, from the prominent public and nationwide leadership of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Abraham Lincoln to the challenges of personal leadership experienced by Robert in Carver’s “Cathedral” or Lt. Jimmy Cross in O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried.” Now imagine you’ve been asked to host a leadership workshop for your workplace, division, or community group. How would you use the examples of leadership shown in this chapter to teach your audience or to illustrate key points of your presentation? What other examples–whether modern or historical, real or imagined–would you use? How would those examples further emphasize what you teach your audience?