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Tuesday, October 19, 2010
"Greater Good"
My current thesis is "An effective leader acts towards the greater good of the community".
"Greater good" is, obviously, very extremely vague and needs to be fixed.
Is this really arguable? How else is effective defined in this context if not as a person acting to make the community better?
An oppositional thesis might be more interesting and effective - consider "an effective leader acts in his own best interest before he considers the community". We can talk about this in class tomorrow.
3 comments:
The use of "acts" is rather vague as well. Perhaps the thesis "An effective leader sacrifices themselves to benefit/further/protect their community."
maybe use common good? if you really cant think of anything else. i think thats a vocab word i used. i like marks idea though
Is this really arguable? How else is effective defined in this context if not as a person acting to make the community better?
An oppositional thesis might be more interesting and effective - consider "an effective leader acts in his own best interest before he considers the community". We can talk about this in class tomorrow.
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