Write on anny of the following essay

1. How acts of dissent reveal the workings of authority; and 2. How acts of dissent are shaped by the framework within which they occur. Text chosen: Henry David Thoreau, “Resistance to Civil
Government”

Your response should center and touch on the following questions: What does this political philosophy or social movement reveal about the authority against which it dissents? How does this
philosophy or movement choose to dissent? “How” meaning: what rhetorical strategies or logic do they use to put authority in check (as one does in chess)? How do their proposed programs, theories
or practices draw on or dialogue with the framework even as they attempt to go against it? In what ways does the framework seem to delimit this act of dissent, either with respect to its thinking
or the ideal realization of its desires. Overall, what does this text teach us about how frameworks—and systems of authority within them— function?

Question 2 (30 points):
Choose a text from among the following unit 2 texts: Tillie Olsen’s “I Stand Here Ironing”; a selection from Studs Terkel’s Working; and Jennie Livingston’s Paris is Burning. Analyze your chosen
text in terms of how it illustrates the relationship and tension between what Michel de Certeau calls “tactics” and what he calls “strategies.” For strategies, pay close attention to how power
operates through: (acting on) space and time, visibility, and interpretation and knowledge production. For tactics, pay close attention to any acts of undermining that line up the kinds of actions
de Certeau sees as tactics.
How does this text reveal something about the way institutions of power claim authority and control over people and places? How do the practices of everyday life oppose or undermine these
institutions, perhaps revealing their claim on authority to be contingent? What does focusing on the themes of space and time, visibility, or knowledge and interpretation as they appear in this
text help us to understand about how ordinary people are disciplined by power? On the other hand, how do these characters/people exercise power in spite of oppressive structures without necessarily
overthrowing those structures or calling for revolution? Overall, what does this text teach us about how the dynamics of power operate in everyday life?
Question 3 (30 points):
Choose either James Baldwin’s Another Country or Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer and discuss your choice in terms of how it could be seen as a creative act of dissent based on Baldwin’s theory from
“Mass Culture and the Creative Artist” and Raymond Williams’ theory from The Long Revolution.
Describe the criteria that Baldwin and Williams provide for understanding a creative act as a form of dissent. How do they distinguish artistic practices from other forms of communication? Using
these established criteria, explain how either the novel or film presents an alternative, dissenting, and potentially “disturbing” way of describing “reality.” How does this creative act disrupt a
prevailing or dominant cultural fantasy about: the relationship between desire or pleasure and gender, race, sexuality, sexual orientation; borders; migrant labor; the functioning of the global
economy; nationality; consumption practices and labor; technology? How does this creative act shift how we describe our felt experience of the world and, in turn, how we see “reality,” what we
understand our reality to be?